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39,692,701 | Several parts of Scotland have experienced April snow showers as an icy blast blew in from the north.
The Highlands, Aberdeenshire coast and Shetland were among areas where snow fell overnight and into Monday.
The Met Office later issued a yellow warning for between 22:00 on Monday and 09:00 on Tuesday.
It said wintry showers could hit almost anywhere in the UK as the Arctic air began to move further south.
Spokesman Grahame Madge said: "As we go over the next 36 hours, those wintry showers will become quite frequent.
"There's a possibility of wintry showers just about anywhere in the UK but more likely is that people anywhere, really, could see hail."
"In the south, it's possible that people could see sleety rain or hail for some time but we're not likely to see any accumulation or settling.
"The more at-risk areas for seeing snow are obviously the northern hills.
"But, generally, what we'll see in those very showery conditions is that when it starts to rain, it'll drop the temperature maybe enough to trigger the development of sleet or even the odd snow shower for a time."
Mr Madge said the colder weather will also bring plummeting temperatures at night.
The BBC Scotland Weather team said on Twitter: "Based on records from 1981 to 2010 the UK average is for 2.3 days of snow in April."
They added: "Snow is more likely at the beginning of April than the end, however, there have been a number of notable snow events this late on in the UK." | All pictures from BBC Weather Watchers. |
34,703,375 | The tweet came in response to a Twitter user reporting a "rape" at Goodison Park, referencing Everton's 6-2 win over Sunderland on Sunday.
The tweeted reply has since been deleted and the force has apologised.
Merseyside Police said the civilian member of staff responsible had left its employment.
A spokesman said the person was "due to leave the force but decided to go early" after talks.
Following the incident, Jo Wood, from the Merseyside Rape and Sexual Abuse centre, said: "I think it's a real shame. We work closely with Merseyside Police and we've come a long way.
"Something like this could set us back years and sends out completely the wrong message.
"Clearly this individual is not aware of the impact of what they did." | Merseyside Police say a member of staff who tweeted a "rape joke" on the force's official account has left the force "by mutual consent". |
40,209,091 | He had been challenged by former Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones, who came third after the Conservatives.
Elsewhere Plaid's Hywel Williams narrowly retained Arfon by less than 100 votes and colleague Liz Saville Roberts held Dwyfor Meirionnydd.
The Tories' Guto Bebb held on to Aberconwy.
Mr Owen, who had his biggest majority since he was first elected in 2001, said: "I think there's been a miscalculation by the prime minister and she's misread the mood of the country and the mood was reflected here on Anglesey by people who wanted to talk about the issues of health, education, the economy and various other things."
He said a number of young people had registered with Labour for the first time wanting to help with their campaign.
"One of the things I'm going to do as the MP now is to get a youth forum and crystallise that enthusiasm... so young people's voices get heard loud and clear in Westminster," he said.
Speaking about his Arfon win by a small majority, Hywel Williams said: "That's what happens when you have a presidential election run by both large parties on a May versus Corbyn basis. The third party gets squeezed.
"What's significant about this seat is that we won, with a small majority but our vote remains stable."
Mr Bebb said he was relieved to hold Aberconwy, with a 635 majority over Labour.
"I'll be perfectly frank, I never thought we were going to have the 10% lead that YouGov predicted at the start of this campaign," he said, "but I also never expected to be looking at such a tight results in Aberconwy and losses in other parts of Wales so it's really a disappointing night for the Conservatives in Wales."
He said it was premature to talk about mistakes but said something quite complex and interesting had happened.
"I think there's something more fundamental going on," he added. | Labour's Albert Owen has held Ynys Mon, which had been the most marginal seat in north west Wales. |
15,991,392 | Such is the interest in those speedy sub-atomic particles that developments in the search for the elusive Higgs boson - usually covered at every twist and turn by journalists - have been all-but eclipsed.
Earlier this month, physicists announced results of a combined search for the Higgs by the Atlas and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Their analysis, presented at a meeting in Paris, shows that physicists have now covered a large chunk of the search area in detail, ruling out a broad part of the mass range where the boson could be lurking.
An even more important milestone in the Higgs hunt beckons in December.
The Higgs explains why other particles have mass, making it crucial to our understanding of the Universe. But it has never been observed by experiments.
Researchers have now excluded the possibility that the Higgs (in its conventional form) will be found between the masses of 141 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) and 476 GeV.
Finding the Higgs boson at a mass of 476 GeV or more is considered highly unlikely.
This means that physicists are now focussing their hunt on the remaining "low mass" range - a small window between 114 GeV and 141 GeV.
Within that window, there is an intriguing "excess" in observations - a Higgs hint, perhaps - that stands out at 120 GeV.
But as fluctuations go, this one is relatively weak - at around the two-sigma level of certainty.
This roughly equates to a one in 22 chance that the observation is down to chance. A five sigma level is needed for a formal discovery.
There is also a broader "excess" above that mass. And it must be stressed that such hints may come and go.
But there is an even more intriguing possibility: that the boson may not exist at all, at least in its simplest form.
This is the version of the Higgs that conforms to the Standard Model, the framework drawn up to explain how the known particles - from the quarks to the W and Z bosons to the neutrinos - interact.
In this "zoo" of particles, the Higgs remains hidden in the long grass of its enclosure, invisible to the prying eyes of visitors.
The search by the LHC has already moved on from the data presented earlier this month.
Teams of scientists at the facility on the Franco-Swiss border have been busy analysing a whopping five inverse femtobarns of data collected by the LHC's experiments up to October this year.
The Atlas and CMS collaborations will present independent analyses of this data set at a seminar in Geneva on 13 December. The respective teams have not had the time to combine their results, as they did for the Paris seminar.
They might see completely different things.
Or, more promisingly, they could both see a fluctuation at around the same mass - as they did when researchers presented findings at the Europhysics meeting in Grenoble, France, in July.
"If you look at the data, it's about five times as much as was presented at the summer conferences," said Dr James Gillies, director of communications at Cern (the Geneva-based organisation that operates the LHC).
"It's possible to exclude much more of the available range for the Higgs.
"It's possible - but I think extraordinarily unlikely - to exclude the Higgs definitively. It's possible that there will be signs something is there.
"But what's not possible is to give a definitive discovery announcement, on the status of the analysis, given the time they've had."
Either way, scientists are waiting with bated breath for the December seminar, which will - at the very least - mark the beginning of the end for the Higgs race.
"We are pushing very hard to present preliminary results on the entire statistics," said Dr Guido Tonelli, spokesperson for the CMS collaboration.
He told BBC News that with five inverse femtobarns of data, the researchers will have sufficient sensitivity that "if there is something, we should see first hints. If there is nothing we should see no excess".
"It is the first yes or no. It will very likely not be conclusive - to be really sure at the highest confidence level, we might need to combine the data [from Atlas and CMS] again and collect additional data next year.
"But we are entering a phase where it will be very interesting - this I know."
The rumour mill is already churning vigorously, and is likely to enter overdrive as the December seminar approaches.
The blogger known as Jester recently proffered a Soviet-inspired analogy: "An uneasy rumour is starting among the working class and the lower-ranked party officials.
"Is the first secretary dead? Or on life support? Or, if he's all right, why he's not showing in public?"
A definitive statement about the Higgs is likely to come next year.
The suggestion that particle physicists have been chasing a chimera for decades is one that some will not want to contemplate. But others regard as a more exciting possibility.
A no-show would open up a new era of activity in particle physics - one focussed on finding an alternative theory to patch up the hole in the Standard Model left by the excision of the Higgs.
Indeed, there is already a substantial body of work on alternatives to the Standard Model Higgs.
As Prof Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director-general of Cern, says, either scenario would represent "a tremendous discovery".
And one particle physicist speaking at the Europhysics conference this year summed it up thus: "God forbid that all we find at the LHC is the Standard Model Higgs and no new physics."
[email protected] | In recent months, news headlines have been dominated by one story from the world of particle physics - those befuddling faster-than-light neutrinos. |
39,282,561 | The Cameroonian, who has been in power since 1988, faces Madagascar FA head Ahmad in the vote in Addis Ababa.
Manuel Nascimento is one of just two men to publicly back Hayatou, with the Comoros FA also offering its support.
If Hayatou loses, I will quit football
"If Hayatou loses, I will quit football," Nascimento said.
Last year, Nascimento oversaw one of the most remarkable qualifications in Africa Cup of Nations history as rank outsiders Guinea-Bissau qualified for the tournament for the first time.
They had never come close to qualification prior to that but duly recorded both their first point and first goals at the tournament in Gabon.
So why is a president, in the midst of such a high, so prepared to put himself on the line?
"Because I can guarantee there will only be a daily jumble in the institution (if Ahmad wins)," he told BBC Sport.
"There is no one among us who can lead Caf better than Hayatou right now. You cannot compare the value that exists in this man as a leader with any other person in (African) football.
"You cannot have a gentleman with the character, dignity and value of Hayatou and just say one day that you are going to humiliate him - that he is not entitled to rule Caf any more."
"I do not agree with that. We should not be ungrateful."
Nascimento, who also works in politics in his homeland, says he is among several African football leaders who convinced Hayatou not to step down this year.
The 70-year-old had previously said that this would be his last term in office, only to later have a change of heart.
"We have to protect our leader so that after this election, President Hayatou will say 'look, it's time for me to get rest - I did something good.' Many times he tried to do it, but we said - 'No, Caf will die if you quit,'" added Nascimento.
Tunde Adelakun, who worked on a biography of Hayatou in recent years, says the son of a local ruler had once been looking forward to stepping away from Caf.
"When I was writing his biography, we always thought that 2017 was going to be his final hurrah," the Nigerian told BBC Sport.
"He told me he wanted to retire, return home to northern Cameroon, to Garoua, and do what his father bequeathed to him - the rulership of his town. He really was passionate about it and felt he hadn't had enough time over the last 20 years to do enough of that. It's the only place he can be totally relaxed.
"People around him (appear to) have made the decision for him to stand - so whether they are looking after his interests or their own, since their livelihoods depend on him, becomes an issue."
Hayatou hails from a political family, with his brother having once served as Prime Minister of Cameroon.
His father was also a local ruler - known locally as a 'lamido' - with the hope being that Issa would one day follow the family business.
Instead, the former athlete has established a political legacy of his own in African football administration - becoming the longest-serving ruler in Caf's history.
On Thursday, he has the chance to extend his 29-year reign into a fourth decade.
Whoever wins the vote will serve a four-year term. | The president of Guinea-Bissau's football federation has said he will quit football if incumbent Issa Hayatou loses Thursday's Confederation of African Football (Caf) presidential elections. |
37,140,236 | The Pars had a huge let-off in the 12th minute when Lyle's free-kick hit both posts before David Hutton cleared.
Andy Dowie's header at the far post was converted by Lyle for his third goal in as many games.
Dunfermline were reduced to 10 men in the 62nd minute for Jason Talbot's two-footed tackle on Kyle Jacobs.
Match ends, Dunfermline Athletic 0, Queen of the South 1.
Second Half ends, Dunfermline Athletic 0, Queen of the South 1.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Jamie Hamill.
Attempt saved. Lewis Martin (Dunfermline Athletic) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Gavin Reilly (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andy Dowie (Queen of the South).
Attempt blocked. Gavin Reilly (Dunfermline Athletic) header from very close range is blocked.
Attempt saved. Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Callum Tapping replaces Mark Millar.
Attempt missed. Ben Richards-Everton (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Andy Dowie (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gavin Reilly (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Andy Dowie (Queen of the South).
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Andrew Geggan.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Ryan Williamson.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Steven Rigg replaces Lyndon Dykes because of an injury.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Lewis Spence replaces Rhys McCabe.
Attempt saved. Dale Hilson (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Ben Richards-Everton.
Attempt blocked. Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gavin Reilly (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South).
Lee Ashcroft (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Paul McMullan (Dunfermline Athletic).
Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Dale Hilson replaces Derek Lyle.
Attempt missed. Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Lewis Martin replaces Michael Moffat.
Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Foul by Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic).
Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul McMullan (Dunfermline Athletic).
Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Rhys McCabe (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic) header from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high.
Michael Paton (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South).
Attempt missed. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Lee Ashcroft. | Derek Lyle's 100th goal for Queen of the South maintained their unbeaten start to the Scottish Championship by winning away to Dunfermline Athletic. |
37,334,314 | He was driving a blue coloured Ford Fiesta southbound near the Raith Interchange when it happened at 23:05 on Saturday.
Police said the car apparently went out of control causing it to cross the central reservation, hit a lamppost and overturn before coming to rest on the opposite carriageway.
The man was taken to Monklands Hospital where he died a short time later. | A 21-year-old man has died following a road crash on the M74 near Bothwell. |
31,984,027 | David Cameron has said strikes should not be lawful unless a minimum number of union members vote in a ballot.
Plans for a "turnout threshold" will be in the party's election manifesto.
But Unite boss Len McCluskey said this would "oppress the people and remove their freedoms". He added: "Can we respect it? It ain't going to happen."
Under current law, a strike can take place if it is backed by a simple majority of those balloted.
But Conservative MPs have questioned the legitimacy of industrial action where fewer than half of total eligible members support it in a vote.
London Mayor Boris Johnson has called for strikes to be banned unless 50% of staff in a workplace take part in a ballot.
Although Mr Cameron has not specified a figure, he has said it is "time to legislate" to stop "damaging" strikes in "core" public services affecting health, transport, fire services or schools and the manifesto is expected to include proposals for a 40% threshold.
But in a speech to union lawyers in London, Mr McCluskey said the right to strike was "hanging by a thread" and had to be vigorously defended.
"Should there be a Conservative majority in May, there will be a new attack on trade union rights and democracy.
"The bar for a strike ballot will be raised to a level which hardly any MPs would get over in their own constituencies, by a government which has refused our requests to use modern, more effective balloting methods.
"When the law is misguided, when it oppresses the people and removes their freedoms, can we respect it?
"I am not really posing the question. I'm giving you the answer. It ain't going to happen."
Unions have pointed out that only 15 of 303 Conservative MPs elected to Parliament in 2010 received more than 40% of the vote.
Mr McCluskey, whose union is Labour's largest financial backer, said the time had come to ask whether unions could stay within the law any longer while continuing to mount a "decent defence" against abuse of workplace rights.
Such are Unite's concerns, he claimed, that the union's executive is recommending to members that the words "so far as may be lawful" are removed from its constitution.
"This proposed change in the constitution of the biggest union on these isles marks the sorry place we have reached in our national democracy. These words will go not because we are anarchists, not because we are suddenly planning a bank robbery.
"But because we have to ask ourselves the question, can we any longer make that commitment to, under any and all circumstances, stick within the law as it stands?
"Unite remains determined to operate ever more effectively within the law, even when that law is an ass and ill-serves our people.
"But restricting the right to strike, attacking the capacity for trade unions to organise and conduct our own business in line with our own rules, belong to last century's consensus."
The Lib Dems have blocked any moves to change the law to make it harder to strike.
Speaking in Parliament last July, Mr Cameron said "the time has come to look at setting thresholds in strike ballots", citing the example of a walkout by a teaching union which he said had the support of fewer than 30% of its members in a ballot.
"It is time to legislate and it will be in the Conservative manifesto." | The head of the Unite union has said he will not "respect" any law passed by a future Conservative government tightening the rules on strike ballots. |
38,464,800 | A spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said it was "not appropriate" to attack the make-up of a democratically-elected government of an ally.
Mr Kerry has also warned Israeli policy makes a two-state solution less likely.
Tory MP Crispin Blunt said he was unsure about the UK's intervention as Mr Kerry had been "on the money".
Mr Blunt, chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee, said on its current path Israel could not stay "democratic and Jewish".
The dispute follows a US decision not to veto a UN Security Council motion criticising Israel's policy of building settlements on land occupied since 1967.
The UK voted for the resolution, and Mrs May's spokesman agreed with Mr Kerry that "the only way to a lasting peace in the Middle East is through a two-state solution".
But he said the settlements were "far from the only problem", citing the ever-present threat of terrorism that the Israeli people had had to live with.
The spokesman added: "We do not, therefore, believe that the way to negotiate peace is by focusing on only one issue, in this case the construction of settlements, when clearly the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is so deeply complex.
"And we do not believe that it is appropriate to attack the composition of the democratically-elected government of an ally."
The US state department said it was "surprised" by the UK's response.
A spokesman said Mr Kerry's remarks were "in line with the UK's own longstanding policy and its vote at the United Nations last week", adding that the US stance had been welcomed by Germany, France, Canada, Turkey as well as a number of Gulf nations.
President-elect Donald Trump, who will take office next month, has been critical of the current administration's Middle East policy, tweeting earlier this week that Israel had been treated with "disdain" by the US in recent years.
The UK is hoping to build a strong relationship with the new Republican administration.
Earlier this week, the UK's ambassador to Washington Sir Kim Darroch suggested Mrs May and Mr Trump would aim to "build on the legacy" of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, who were close allies in international affairs during the 1980s and developed a strong personal friendship.
But Mr Blunt defended Mr Kerry's efforts over the past four years at brokering a lasting peace in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict and suggested Downing Street had been making a "narrow point".
"I have absolutely no idea what was behind Number 10 briefing in the way that they did," he told BBC Radio 4's World At One.
"My only concern is it would seem to indicate that there might be something wrong with John Kerry's analysis in their view. In my judgment there isn't, it was an extremely fine speech.
"On the substance, and finding a long-term solution that's in the interests of the people of Israel and peace for her Arab neighbours and a solution that beings justice for the Palestinians and security for the Israelis, Kerry's analysis is very hard to gainsay."
A row broke out between the US administration and Israel after the vote at the UN Security Council last Friday, as Mr Netanyahu accused Washington of complicity in drawing up the resolution.
In a speech on Wednesday, Mr Kerry said Mr Netanyahu's "public support" for a two-state solution, including the creation of an independent state of Palestine, did not reflect the views of the most extreme members of his government.
"His current coalition is the most right-wing in Israeli history with an agenda driven by the most extreme elements," he said.
"The result is that policies of this government, which the prime minister himself just described as more committed to settlements than any in Israel's history, are leading in the opposite direction [from a two-state solution]. They are leading towards one state."
Mr Netanyahu said the comments "paid lip service to the unremitting Palestinian campaign of terrorism" against Israel. | Downing Street has criticised US Secretary of State John Kerry for calling the Netanyahu government the "most right-wing in Israel's history". |
11,582,935 | The state is one of the poorest in the country and over the years has acquired a reputation for lawlessness, caste-based violence and corruption.
But the menace - in the form of rhesus monkeys - is indeed the main issue for 10,000 voters in the village of Chainpur.
They say that about 500 monkeys - in several groups - have made their life hell over the past three years.
The monkeys trample their seasonal crops, break mud roof tiles and steal grain from stores and meals from kitchens.
The problem has become so acute that farmers have to stand guard around the clock to protect their crops in shifts.
"We've become paupers over the last three years and have to fight against monkeys for our survival," said Madan Mohan Jha, a farmer in his 60s.
The villagers are frustrated because the Wildlife Act prohibits them from killing monkeys, while state government officials are unable or unwilling to shoo them away.
They say that they have no choice but to arm themselves with sling shots and sticks to keep the marauding monkeys out.
Although the Chainpur constituency is the worst affected by the problem, surrounding villages like Teghra, Dholi, Parri, Bangaon and Mohanpur have also been hit by the monkey menace.
In all it is estimated that more than 50,000 people in two assembly constituencies of the Saharsha area are affected.
The villagers say that they have been protesting for the past three years to get the problem resolved - demonstrators have blocked roads and held protest marches.
They have even have formed the Free Monkey Campaign Committee (Bandar Mukti Abhiyan Samiti) to co-ordinate their protests.
Saharsha legislator Sanjiv Jha has raised the issue twice in the state assembly - but because monkeys are not such a problem in other parts of the state so far he has succeeded only in earning the derisive epithet "bandar haka" (one who shoos away monkeys) from other representatives.
But it is no laughing matter for Chainpur villagers, who have now coined slogans to air their single most important grievance loud and clear.
"Shoo away monkeys and get our vote… Only he who scares away monkeys gets our vote," they chant.
The villagers are hoping that at least one of the main election candidates could visit their village and promise to address the problem in return for their votes.
So far few politicians have given them much attention, with the exception of independent candidate Kishore Kumar Munna.
"I'll personally visit the village and chalk out a plan along with them to shoo away the monkeys. Yes, the monkeys have really become an issue in their lives and I'll address this problem," he told the BBC.
Saharsha goes to the polls on Thursday as part of the first phase of six rounds of elections. | The issue of rampaging monkeys may seem a curious priority for voters taking part in state elections on Thursday in India's eastern state of Bihar. |
36,480,071 | The Education Select Committee heard how the brevity of initial teacher training in England meant continuous professional development was vital.
But much of it focused on new regulatory requirements and curriculum shifts, rather than subject areas.
Ministers are changing teacher training to have more based in schools.
Professor Jane Courtney of the Deans of Education Network at the higher education think tank, Million+, said the biggest problem was in primary schools.
Whereas at secondary level, teachers were trained in one or two subject specific areas, at primary they were trained to cover 16 to 17 curriculum areas, she said.
"If we look at some of these areas we could be sending people out with as little as three hours taught input in a subject like PE.
"What primary schools have to do - they know their staff are undertrained - is provide CPD (continuous professional developments) for PE or provide coaches.
"Children are getting fragmented education with a little bit of coaching from this person and a little bit from someone else."
This led to a lack of progression and a lack of consistency, she said.
Andy Mitchell, Design and Technology Association assistant chief executive, said four hours' worth of training for design and technology for primary school teachers was not unusual, and said schools were not keeping up with recent developments in the subjects required by the new national curriculum.
"Stuff in the new GCSEs - the vast majority of design and technology teachers know nothing about," he said.
"The reason why it is worse now and it was never quite like that before is because we will not be able to rely on large centres of research and development - Keele, Loughborough, Nottingham-Trent, Exeter - all of these have withdrawn from initial teacher training education [for design and technology]."
This meant that staff who used to "rub shoulders" with academics at the forefront of research were no longer involved in teacher training, he said.
Robin Bevan, head teacher of Southend Boys School, said nearly all CPD currently being provided was based on keeping staff up to date with regulatory changes, statutory frameworks, curriculum changes or Ofsted requirements.
Very little focused on professional expertise or subject knowledge, which was what was needed, he said.
Prof Courtney said the need for highly trained primary school teachers should not be underestimated.
She said: "You can train somebody to rewire a plug.
"It's not quite so easy to train someone how to teach the concept of probability and what that looks like at age five to 18, and unpack it all.
"There's an assumption that because we are teaching children age five or six, that you don't need that much knowledge and of course you do to be able to tackle misconception upon misconception."
The Department for Education said in a statement: "Primary teachers have always taught a range of subjects and are not expected to be subject specialists.
"Providing the best possible training is at the heart of the government's drive to improve teaching standards, ensuring that all children, regardless of background, have the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
"Our review of initial teacher training (ITT) will ensure that trainee teachers can demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge across different subjects, and we have committed to go further by replacing qualified teacher status (QTS) with a new, stronger accreditation system to raise the bar for new teachers." | Some teachers are beginning their careers in primary schools with as little as a few hours training in some subject areas, MPs have heard. |
34,581,801 | Content providers regularly update the lists of sites they want blocked and the latest one includes popular file-sharing index Demonoid.
The list was started in 2012 when ISPs were forced to block access to the Pirate Bay.
At least 23 new URLs are on the latest list being sent to the main UK ISPs.
Content providers must apply for a court order to block individual sites such as Pirate Bay but, after that, they can add URLs that link to that particular site without any formal order.
The sites they choose link to pirated software including music, films, TV shows and e-books.
Content providers say that they carefully target sites whose sole purpose is to make money from other people's content.
In response to the latest requests, BT told the BBC: "BT will only block access to websites engaged in copyright or trademark infringement when ordered by a court to do so. The list of websites that BT has been ordered to block access to can be found here."
The list includes content from the Football Association, the Motion Picture Association of America and even some watchmakers - such as Cartier and Montblanc - who have requested that counterfeit sites be shut down.
But by far the largest number of requests comes from members of the BPI, which represents UK music labels.
"The recent expansions show that copyright holders remain concerned about people circumventing blockades, which is a common practice among users," said Ernesto Van der Sar, editor of technology news website TorrentFreak.
"New unblocking opportunities continue to appear so this is the only way to ensure that the efficacy of existing court orders isn't further diminished. It's a never-ending game of whack-a-mole."
How effective such blocks are remains open to debate.
A study conducted in May, by US universities Carnegie Mellon and Wellesley College, found that blocking the Pirate Bay had little impact on the rise in legal channels - instead people just turned to other piracy sites, Pirate Bay mirror sites or virtual private networks that allowed them to circumvent the block.
But, on the other hand, researchers found that bulk blocking - where multiple sites are shut down - was much more effective. Following such blocks in 2013, use of legitimate sites such as Netflix rose by around 12%, they found. | UK internet service providers have been asked to block access to dozens of URLs that are suspected of linking to pirated content. |
37,087,707 | Hitchon threw a new British record of 74.54m on her final attempt to climb from fifth to third.
World champion Wlodarczyk, 31, threw 82.29m to break her own world record of 81.08m, while China's Zhang Wenxiu took the silver medal with 76.75m.
"I am over the moon," said Hitchon, 25. "I can't believe it."
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Burnley's Hitchon, who finished fourth at the World Championships in Beijing last year, was in the bronze-medal position until the fourth round but fifth before her final throw.
When Moldova's Zalina Marghieva and Germany's Betty Heidler failed to improve, Hitchon took full advantage.
"You never know in hammer," added Hitchon, who was a ballet dancer for 10 years until the age of 14.
"The girls are all throwing really well. I didn't expect that I would hold third, I just wanted to throw further.
"It was just incredible to see the number three there and a national record, I couldn't be happier."
Michael Johnson, American four-time Olympic gold medallist:
"What you want to see is competition between the athletes and athletes responding to great competition.
"That's what Sophie did. It was really entertaining for fans to see that. It is what I think sport and athletics should be about."
Denise Lewis, British Olympic heptathlon gold medallist:
"Through the seasons, Sophie has been grafting, trying to iron out those chinks in the armour to make sure she was ready for this competition.
"It is simply, simply fantastic what she has achieved here. We love the big stars of the sport but what I love is when someone surprises us and delivers on the big occasion."
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Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Sophie Hitchon became the first British woman to win an Olympic hammer medal by taking bronze, as Pole Anita Wlodarczyk set a new world record to claim gold. |
38,945,282 | Chairman King also claimed Warburton had previously told him he was using the Ibrox outfit as a "stepping-stone".
And he insisted Warburton "did not respond well" to questions over his transfer policy.
Rangers said on Friday Warburton had resigned, but he insisted he had not.
Despite the disappointment of the team's performances this season and Warburton's dramatic departure, King insists the club's "bigger project remains firmly on track".
Under-20s coach Graeme Murty will take charge of Rangers' first team against Greenock Morton in Sunday's Scottish Cup fifth-round tie.
In a lengthy statement, South Africa-based businessman King indicated the club has already benefitted from around £18m of the £30m he had promised would be invested.
And he added that more than that amount may be needed to make Rangers competitive at the top of Scottish football.
Former Brentford manager Warburton and assistant David Weir - a former Rangers captain - were appointed at the beginning of last season and led the club to Scottish Championship title success and victory in the Challenge Cup final.
Rangers also beat Celtic on penalties in the Scottish Cup semi-final last season but lost the final to Hibernian.
"The season was an unqualified success and the management team was rewarded with a vastly improved contract," said King.
However, last week's 1-1 draw with Ross County left third-placed Rangers 27 points behind Premiership leaders Celtic.
King highlighted Rangers' aim to qualify for European competition at the end of the current campaign, saying: "Our realistic expectation was to come second.
"This season, we did not stick to our plan of signing five or six players because the manager appealed to the board for additional signings. Despite the concern about departing from our plan of prudent phased investment, the board backed the manager's request for accelerated investment.
"This placed us significantly above the football resources available to our competitors (other than Celtic) and was expected to ensure that we finished a strong second in the league and had a squad that could be added to, close season, to make a strong impact in the Europa League qualifiers.
"While I still believe that we can finish a strong second, I am stating the obvious to admit that we are not where we anticipated we would be at this stage of the season and we have not repeated the success that we had with our signings from the previous season.
"Despite the relative disappointment of this season so far, the bigger project remains firmly on track and we will take whatever corrective measures are necessary."
Warburton signed 15 players across the two transfer windows for this season.
King says he told Warburton he wished to review their signing policy and "it is clear from subsequent media comments that the manager did not respond well to the board reviewing his recruitment activity".
"I was informally approached to ask if the club would waive compensation if the management team was to leave, " said King.
"I was alert to a conversation that Mark Warburton had with me after joining the club in which he advised me that his long-term ambition was to manage in the EPL and he viewed Rangers as a stepping-stone to achieve this.
"I was therefore not surprised when the management team's agent approached the club's managing director, Stewart Robertson, to request a meeting which was held in Glasgow on Monday this week.
"The outcome of this meeting was that the agent subsequently offered that Mark, David and Frank would resign with immediate effect without compensation as long as the club, in turn, agreed to waive compensation from any new club that they signed for.
"After discussion, the board accepted this offer and employment was immediately terminated.
"While we were dealing with the admin and press releases relating to the resignation, the agent again contacted us and asked to defer the resignation until the management had secured a new club.
"I assume that the new deal had somehow collapsed at the last minute. The board met to consider this request but resolved to hold them to the original agreement.
"We are now in the process of reviewing the best interim and long-term solution for ensuring that a modern and robust footballing structure is put in place that will continue with and entrench the footballing philosophy that we have in place." | Dave King says Mark Warburton's "employment" was "terminated" after the Englishman's agent asked Rangers to waive their right to compensation if a club made an approach for the manager. |
34,647,704 | Judge James Orenstein was hearing a US government request to make it retrieve information from a locked iPhone seized by law enforcement officers.
On Monday, the judge expressed doubt that he had the authority to do so.
Apple has agreed to similar requests previously but is now refusing, saying it would erode customers' trust.
Referring to the US Department of Justice's request for him to order Apple to help it unlock the phone, the judge said: "What you're asking [Apple] to do is do work for you."
And he compared the request to a hypothetical one in which the government was asking him to order a drug company to take part in an execution against its conscientious objection.
He asked the department's lawyer, Saritha Komatireddy, whether or not he would have the legal authority to do so.
Ms Komatireddy asked to respond in writing, adding that the hypothetical was "somewhat inflammatory".
"Purposefully so," the judge responded.
Apple has argued that the order the government is seeking would be burdensome, in part because of the erosion of its customers' trust.
The company also said it lacked the technical ability to unlock phones running its newer operating systems, iOS8 and iOS9, though the phone at issue in the case runs an older system.
Ms Komatireddy questioned whether unlocking the phone would really be a burden for Apple, noting the company "has been doing this for years without any objection".
The judge pressed Apple's lawyer, Marc Zwillinger, to explain the company's change of heart.
Mr Zwillinger said the company had become more concerned about customer data in light of recent high-profile data breaches.
"Right now, Apple is aware that customer data is under siege from a variety of different directions," he said.
The judge asked both sides to submit additional letters addressing his questions to the court by Wednesday and said he would rule as soon as he could.
Ms Komatireddy said at the hearing that the US Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI were taking part in the underlying investigation, which is not public. | Ordering Apple to access data against its will would be akin to making a reluctant drug company carry out a lethal injection, a US judge has said. |
33,994,483 | The train is believed to have gone missing near what is now the Polish city of Wroclaw as Soviet forces approached in 1945.
A law firm in south-west Poland says it has been contacted by two men who have discovered the armoured train.
Polish media say the men want 10% of the value of the train's contents.
Local news websites said the apparent find matched reports in local folklore of a train carrying gold and gems that went missing at the end of World War Two near Ksiaz castle.
The claim was made to a law office in Walbrzych, 3km (2 miles) from Ksiaz castle.
"Lawyers, the army, the police and the fire brigade are dealing with this," Marika Tokarska, an official at the Walbrzych district council, told Reuters.
"The area has never been excavated before and we don't know what we might find."
Two news websites in Walbrzych said the train that was found had guns on turrets along its side. One website, walbrzych24.com, said (in Polish) that one of the men was Polish and the other German.
They were liaising with officials in the city, who have since formed an emergency committee led by the mayor to investigate the claims, the website says.
Another site, Wiadomosci Walbrzyskie, said (in Polish) the train was 150m long and may have up to 300 tonnes of gold on board.
Joanna Lamparska, a historian who focuses on the Walbrzych area, told Radio Wroclaw the train was rumoured to have disappeared into a tunnel, and that it had gold and "hazardous materials" on board.
Previous searches for the train in the same area had proved fruitless, Radio Wroclaw said. | Two people in Poland say they may have found a Nazi train rumoured to be full of gold, gems and guns that disappeared in World War Two, Polish media say. |
31,137,457 | Counsel for the PSNI said inquiries related to Winston "Winkie" Rea involve a series of incidents.
He said they spanned a period of more than 20 years.
Mr Rea is among dozens of loyalists and republicans who provided testimonies to Boston College's Belfast Project.
Last month he secured a temporary injunction as police were set to fly out to collect tapes from his interviews.
The interviews were given to researchers compiling an oral history of the Northern Ireland Troubles, on the understanding that tapes would not be made public until after their deaths.
However, in 2013 detectives investigating the 1972 abduction and murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville secured the transcripts of former IRA woman Dolours Price's account.
The material was handed over following court battles on both sides of the Atlantic.
Mr Rea, a former prisoner and son-in-law of the late UVF leader Gusty Spence, is now seeking to judicially review the Public Prosecution Service's attempts to obtain his interviews.
He claims that a subpoena for the material is unlawful and lacking in any specifics about why it is being sought.
But in the High Court on Wednesday, a lawyer for the chief constable rejected claims that the police were involved in a "fishing exercise".
He told a judge that a letter was sent to the US authorities last September outlining a request for assistance.
"It sets out the identity of the person subject to criminal investigation, that's the applicant in this case," he said.
"It sets out the offences which the PSNI are actively investigating in respect of this matter."
No specific incidents were referred to in court, and Mr Rea has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
However, the lawyer said there was "highly specific information in respect of the potential alleged involvement of the applicant in a series of incidents from the 1970s through to the late 1990s".
He added: "You will see there are matters of the utmost gravity."
Adding that police have a obligation to carry out effective investigations under human rights legislation, the barrister argued that the judicial review application should be heard urgently.
A lawyer for Mr Rea said the alleged incidents were "historic crimes".
He said the information had only been supplied last week.
He told the court: "We are trying to take instructions from the applicant. He has health difficulties."
Following submissions, however, the judge fixed the case for a further hearing on Friday. | A former loyalist prisoner trying to stop police obtaining interviews he gave to a US university project is being investigated over offences of "the utmost gravity" a court has heard. |
20,759,537 | "The Sunderland factory is very competitive," said Nissan's chief performance officer Colin Dodge.
The Infiniti model was penned by Nissan's design team in London and engineered at its technical centre in Bedfordshire.
Their brief was to appeal to buyers in Europe, where the marque's sales are weak.
Business Secretary Vince Cable visited the Sunderland plant on Wednesday for the investment announcement.
"Today's news is a strong endorsement of the quality of Britain's car industry, which is creating jobs, taking on apprentices and contributing to building a stronger economy," he said.
"The auto sector is living up to being one of the great success stories of our industrial strategy and a testimony to government and private sector working together in close partnership."
'Pivotal car'
Mr Dodge said it was too early to be specific about how many jobs would be created as a result of the fresh investment.
It was suggested, however, that it could be about 280 directly at the factory, with a further 700 or so created with suppliers.
However, to make space for the Infiniti, a previously announced investment of £127m to build a hatchback, involving some 125 jobs, will now be moved from Sunderland to another Nissan factory in Europe, for instance in Spain or Russia, an Infiniti spokesman said.
The Infiniti investment will be made during the next two years and the new Infiniti will start rolling off the assembly line in 2015, Mr Dodge said.
Nissan said it would produce up to 60,000 Infiniti cars per year.
The new car has not yet been named, beyond an announcement that it will be called something starting with Q followed by a digit and ending with 0, but it will be based on the Ethera concept vehicle that was displayed at the Geneva motor show in 2011.
"It is a pivotal car for Europe," Mr Dodge said.
Infiniti has made little headway since it was first launched in Europe in 2008 with a series of large, thirsty cars with powerful V6 and V8 petrol engines.
"The Infiniti brand has been very American-centric for years," Mr Dodge said, "but the new, smaller model is the size of car for Europe rather than for the US."
Infiniti has set itself an ambitious sales target in Europe of 100,000 cars by 2016, compared with 16,700 cars sold in 2011.
Between a third and half the sales of the new Infiniti are expected to come in Europe, said Mr Dodge.
The car will be the first Infiniti to be offered with a diesel engine, an option seen as crucial to win over European drivers, Mr Dodge said, though he declined to reveal further details about the engine options for the car.
The Ethera concept was a petrol-electric hybrid with a 2.5-litre four-cylinder engine. Nissan is developing engines jointly with Mercedes-owner Daimler, it works closely with alliance partner Renault, and in March this year it unveiled a high performance petrol-electric hybrid model, the Emergenc-e, that will use a three-cylinder petrol engine made by Hethel, Norfolk-based Lotus.
Sunderland was awarded the model thanks to its reputation for efficiency, both in terms of quality and cost as well as ability to deliver, said Mr Dodge, who worked at the plant from 1984 until 2007 before he was promoted and moved to the Nissan headquarters in Japan.
Nissan used to claim that its Sunderland plant, which currently employs more than 6,000 people, was the most efficient car factory in Europe, though these days it tends not to mention this.
"But it is," said Mr Dodge. "We just don't keep chest-beating about it year in, year out."
Nissan said Sunderland is on schedule to become the first car factory in the UK to have produced more than 500,000 cars in one calendar year. "Even during British Leyland times, they didn't do that," said Mr Bolt.
The decision to produce the new Infiniti outside Japan was based on a number of factors.
"Historically, we've made Infiniti in Japan," said Mr Dodge, though in recent years, he explained, the yen has been very strong, thus making it difficult to make money from cars exported from Japan.
In response, the carmaker is shifting production to the UK, the US and China.
It is "heartbreaking" for Nissan's Japanese staff to see production moved out of the country, Mr Dodge said.
"They can make cars as well as anybody," he said, "but they're at a significant disadvantage when compared with rivals selling cars in dollars, euros or pounds."
But the strong yen is not the only reason why Nissan makes ever more cars abroad.
Investment and production in growth markets around the world would probably continue even if the yen was to fall in value, as it is expected to do under the country's next prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
"If you've got a manufacturing base and a supply base set up, it is best to produce and sell in one currency," said Mr Dodge. | Nissan says it is investing £250m in Sunderland to make a small luxury car, creating "hundreds of jobs" in the UK. |
39,829,048 | Celtic had said they were "very disappointed" over "potentially" being allocated 700 tickets fewer than Aberdeen for the match on 27 May.
But the SFA said one reason for this is because of the number of seats in the club's "preferred" East Stand.
The SFA added that ticket allocation had been handled in "full consultation" with both clubs.
The Premiership champions had issued a statement on their website saying they were unable to secure a 50-50 split at Hampden.
"Clearly we are very disappointed that our attempts to ensure an equitable allocation of tickets have been unsuccessful," Celtic said.
"We have tried everything to ensure that this could be achieved."
Celtic said they suggested a number of proposals to the SFA that would "maximise the ticket allocation for our fans" including "reviewing the segregation arrangements", a "reconfiguration of the upper south stand" and "the creation of a neutral area to best accommodate supporters through the 'football family'", but that these were not accepted.
In response, the SFA said: "The allocation of tickets has been handled in full consultation with both participating clubs and the available seating at Hampden Park will be split on a 50-50 basis, as has been standard practice in previous cup finals where a sell-out crowd is anticipated.
"It should also be noted that one of the reasons Celtic will potentially receive fewer tickets than Aberdeen is that the East Stand, Celtic's preferred stand for Scottish Cup matches at the national stadium, contains fewer seats than the West Stand.
"In addition, the "football family", made up of Scottish FA members, commercial partners, other recognised football organisations and staff, have the right to buy match tickets for the final.
"This has impacted on the number of tickets the clubs will receive to sell to their supporters with demand for tickets in the Celtic areas outweighing that of the Aberdeen areas."
Celtic, who won the League Cup by beating the Dons in November's final at Hampden, are trying to win their first domestic treble since 2001.
A club spokesperson added in their statement: "With Celtic supporters attending matches at Hampden in such huge numbers across this season, an equal split in allocations is the least that we would have expected for such a prestigious and important match.
"The initial split of tickets means we will receive slightly less tickets than we did for the recent semi-final tie [against Rangers]. As it is a cup final there are a number of contractual rights which the club is tied to and these have to be fulfilled which naturally impacts on wider availability.
"We understand the significance of the match and this has again intensified demand for tickets and it is clear that we simply will not have anywhere near enough to accommodate the demand we are currently experiencing." | The Scottish FA has defended itself following criticism from Celtic over Scottish Cup final ticket allocations. |
36,530,728 | Umpires Nick Cook and Neil Bainton inspected the ground several times before finally calling the game off early in the afternoon at 14:15 BST.
Leicestershire, who have now lost two matches in a row to the weather, are still looking for their first win.
Worcestershire move up to second in the North Group after taking one point.
"It's desperately frustrating," Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester. "At one stage, we thought we might some sort of game, maybe a 20-over match but that last huge downpour sadly put paid to that."
"We've had two wash-outs in a row," said Leicestershire's elite performance director Andrew McDonald: "It is one of those uncontrollable thing. We are playing an outdoor sport and when it rains, you can't play." | Worcestershire's One-Day Cup group game against Leicestershire at New Road was abandoned without a ball bowled after heavy rain left the outfield saturated. |
38,742,548 | The company, bought from Tata by investment fund Greybull, said it was on track to deliver sustainable growth.
The Scunthorpe-based business said deals had been struck to supply steel for the construction of Hinkley Point nuclear power station and rails for the Algerian and Italian train networks.
A 3% pay sacrifice made by staff after the sale is planned to be returned.
Tata announced the sale of its plant in April, with the move safeguarding more than 4,000 jobs.
For the deal to be sealed, workers were asked to accept a pay cut and less generous pension arrangements.
Roland Junck, British Steel's executive chairman, said: "I'm pleased to report that after our first seven months of trading, we are building on our promising start to life as British Steel.
"We're already making good progress with significant contract awards from both new and existing customers across the globe."
The return of the 3% salary sacrifice is expected to be implemented for employees in June.
British Steel also has sites in Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Teesside. | British Steel ended 2016 in profit after securing a series of "significant" contracts. |
31,130,750 | A report commissioned by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said the authority was "not fit for purpose".
Council leader Paul Lakin has resigned and the council cabinet will also quit.
An earlier inquiry found 1,400 children were abused by gangs of men, mainly of Pakistani origin, from 1997 to 2013.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the latest report, by Louise Casey, the director-general for troubled families at the Communities Department, identified "a number of potentially criminal matters".
Files passed to the NCA relate to one former and one existing councillor arising from the inquiry, Ms Casey's spokesperson said.
Investigators found the council had a "deep-rooted" culture of cover-ups and silencing whistleblowers, Ms Casey said.
It also found the child sexual exploitation (CSE) team was poorly directed, suffered from excessive case loads, and did not share information between agencies.
Ms Casey said: "This inspection revealed past and present failures to accept, understand and combat the issue of child sexual exploitation, resulting in a lack of support for victims and insufficient action against known perpetrators."
A spokesman for the NCA said it would "examine a number of potentially criminal matters identified during a recent inspection of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council."
Mr Pickles said he planned to give control of the council to a team of five commissioners, including an overall lead and one tasked specifically with looking at children's services.
1,400
children were abused, 1997-2013
5 resignations, including South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright and Council leaders Roger Stone and Paul Lakin
5 reports published since August 2014
10 South Yorkshire Police officers under investigation by the IPCC
7,000 documents reviewed for Louise Casey Report
They would "provide new leadership" and take over the roles of the "wholly dysfunctional cabinet," he said.
The council has 14 days to respond to his "wholly exceptional" proposals, Mr Pickles said.
He also plans to impose early elections in 2016.
The elections would give people a chance to "renew the membership of their council and elect those they have confidence in", he explained.
He said he hoped control would be returned to Rotherham Council as "rapidly as possible".
In a statement the council said it needed "time to understand and respond to the detailed report".
It said: "We recognise the need for a fresh start that is so clearly identified in the report, but also appreciate that we need to continue to deliver services to the people of Rotherham, and ensure business continuity.
"We should not forget that the publication of this report will re-open old wounds for the victims and survivors of CSE.
"We will continue to put in place the help and support they need at this difficult time, including our dedicated helpline."
Ms Casey was asked by Mr Pickles to inspect the council in the wake of the Jay Report in August 2014.
A victim's story
"You could tell with my appearance. I went to five-and-a-half stone and different coloured hair. I was a totally different person.
"Obviously, there were warning signs there. I wasn't going to school, I wasn't going home so there's no way that they couldn't have realised that something was wrong.
"A worker got involved with me. She was trying to tell people what was happening but nobody would listen.
"There were various authorities that knew what was going off and decided to ignore it. I had a child protection officer, she ignored it, someone from social services, they ignored it.
"There were various meetings about me, which were saying if there was anybody found to be dead it'd be me."
The inspection team reviewed about 7,000 documents, looked in detail at case files and met more than 200 people, including current and former staff, council members, partners, victims and parents.
According to the report, child abusers in Rotherham are identified but "little or no action is taken to stop or even disrupt their activities".
Rotherham Council demonstrated a "resolute denial" of the child abuse that was taking place, the report found.
Ms Casey said the local authority was "repeatedly told" by its own youth service what was happening.
It chose, she said "not only to not act, but to close that service down."
Attitudes within the council include dismissal of Prof Jay's findings, denial of knowledge of the "scale and scope" of CSE, blaming others and denial that CSE remains a serious problem in present-day Rotherham.
The council also had an "excessive deference" to South Yorkshire Police, preventing the use of council powers to tackle perpetrators, and a lack of scrutiny over the police's actions.
Investigators were told that former council leader Roger Stone had been "a bully".
"What Stone said, went," a senior officer told the investigation. "Everyone was terrified of Stone."
A councillor said: "He is a bully, in my opinion. In Labour group he would impress himself on people, male or female. A lot of women have felt a sense of suppression and macho culture."
Mr Stone declined to be interviewed by investigators but sent a statement instead.
Michael Buchanan, BBC Social Affairs Correspondent
In the days after the Alexis Jay report was published, Rotherham council promised much - they'd learn lessons, they'd support victims, they'd change. It hasn't happened.
Behind closed doors, they've poured scorn on the Jay report, still fear being called racist rather than acknowledge problems with Pakistani heritage men and most damningly of all are still failing to protect vulnerable children.
Faced with such appalling incompetence, the government have acted in the only way they could.
Changing the culture and practices of the council won't happen overnight but it's necessary.
The people of Rotherham - in particular the children at continuing risk of sexual abuse - deserve nothing else.
Ms Casey's report is the latest in a series of investigations following the publication of the Jay Report in August 2014.
Prof Alexis Jay found an estimated 1,400 children had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.
Children as young as 11 were raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other cities in England, beaten and intimidated.
Staff at the council did not report issues for fear of appearing racist, Ms Casey's report found.
But the investigators said that by failing to take action against the abusers of Pakistani heritage, the council had "inadvertently fuelled the far right and allowed racial tensions to grow".
The report added the lack of action had done a great disservice to the Pakistani community.
Two investigations by Commons committees have been launched since the Jay Report was published and a number of high-profile figures have resigned including Shaun Wright, South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner, who had been a councillor in the town and responsible for children's services.
Roger Stone, the chief executive Martin Kimber and the council's director of children's services Joyce Thacker also quit.
Mr Wright also refused to be interviewed for Ms Casey's report and sent a statement saying he had been unaware of the extent of the abuse.
The National Crime Agency has taken over the investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham and is in the preliminary stage of its inquiry.
Last month, Ofsted admitted to the Communities and Local Government Committee that its inspections of children's services in the town had been "not good enough".
Inspectors from the regulator failed to spot the extent of child sexual exploitation in the town over several years, rating the council as adequate.
Meanwhile, police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating 10 South Yorkshire Police officers over their handling of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham. | Government commissioners have been lined up to intervene at Rotherham Council where a culture of "complete denial" over child sexual exploitation in the town was exposed. |
34,513,090 | The cash has been offered for information that leads to Paul Massey's killer being convicted.
Massey, 55, a security boss, was found dead with gunshot wounds outside his Salford home on 26 July.
On BBC Crimewatch, Det Ch Insp Howard Millington said the suspect was seen carrying a weapon "similar to a sub machine gun" towards Massey's address.
Massey, a father-of-five, had managed to call emergency services from his driveway before he died.
"[The suspect] is described as a slim, white male wearing a fisherman style hat, a green long-sleeve top, some form of face covering and dark combat trousers tucked into lace-up boots, said Det Ch Insp Millington, of Greater Manchester Police.
"He was carrying a small black gun, similar to a sub machine gun, toward's Paul's address.
"The offender fired a series of shots at Paul and left the same way he came. That was the last sighting of him."
In July, police said several eyewitnesses saw the gunman approach Massey at about 19:30 BST as he got out of his silver BMW at his home in Manchester Road, Clifton.
Det Ch Insp Millington said a man carrying a torch and an Uzi-style sub machine gun had been seen in the area two days before.
Massey, who was barely 5ft (1.52m) tall, was dubbed Mr Big by the late Salford councillor Joe Burrows at a town hall meeting to discuss civil disturbances in 1992.
He was jailed in 1999 for 14 years, after he stabbed a man in the groin outside a club in Manchester, severing an artery.
Following release from Frankland Prison in County Durham, he was involved in the security business and is believed to have invested in property.
But he was arrested with five others in December 2011 as part of a police inquiry into a Salford-based security company.
Massey claimed officers were conducting a "witch-hunt" against him and denied any wrongdoing.
The following year, he unsuccessfully stood to be Salford mayor.
But, he was still under investigation earlier this year by police in connection with money laundering allegations. | Detectives investigating the murder of a criminal, once branded "Mr Big", have offered a £50,000 reward in the case. |
13,126,442 | The tanker came to rest on its side in a field, on the B743 near Strathaven, just before 0630 BST.
The driver was treated for shock and minor injuries and the road is expected to remain closed for some time.
A 200m-radius hazard zone was put in place and two homes were evacuated while the tanker was made safe.
Strathclyde Fire and Rescue said about 150 litres of gas oil had escaped from six relief valves on top of the tanker.
It has sought advice from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency about possible contamination.
The fire service said the vehicle had now been "stabilised" and gas oil was "being decanted by the relief fuel and decanting vehicle now on site".
Officers will remain on scene until the vehicle is righted and taken away.
The accident has caused long tailbacks in both directions on the A71 through Strathaven.
Local diversions have been set up but there are also delays in the area due to roadworks. | Emergency services have "stabilised" a tanker which overturned during a delivery in South Lanarkshire, spilling some of its 35,000 litres of gas oil. |
33,991,635 | Sir Cliff Richard is due to sing at the Mass at St Mary's RC Church in Woolton.
TV stars Paul O'Grady, Jimmy Tarbuck and Christopher Biggins will join her sons Robert and Ben in giving readings.
Her family have asked fans to line a two-mile stretch of the funeral cortege route along Woolton Road but not gather outside the church itself.
The funeral begins at 13:00 BST.
The funeral cortege will start at the junction of Woolton Road and Church Road North, and will travel to the junction with Blackwood Avenue before continuing to the church.
The family said the public would not be able to access the church grounds and asked people not to travel to Woolton village as "as this may compromise the funeral party and invited guests from attending".
The church is where Black and husband Bobby Willis had their marriage blessed in 1969, following a register office wedding earlier that year.
The singer and TV star died after suffering a stroke earlier this month at the age of 72.
After a hymn and greeting by the Right Reverend Thomas Williams, Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool, Sir Cliff will deliver opening words and perform the song Faithful One.
Her son Robert Willis will read Henry Scott-Holland's poem Death Is Nothing At All, while Ben Willis will read a passage by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
Black's hit Anyone Who Had A Heart will play during Holy Communion, while The Long And Winding Road by her friends The Beatles has been chosen as the recessional music.
Biggins will deliver a Bible reading from the Book of Wisdom, Tarbuck will read the Prayers of the Faithful and O'Grady will give a closing tribute.
Black grew up in Liverpool and found fame on stage after singing in clubs including the famous Cavern in the early 1960s.
She went on to become a TV favourite, hosting the hit Saturday night shows Blind Date and Surprise Surprise from the mid-1980s to early 2000s.
Fans have been asked to make donations in her name to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. An online donation page has been set up.
After the service, Black's body will be laid to rest at a private ceremony in Allerton Cemetery, where her parents are buried.
Black died of a stroke after falling over at her Spanish home on 1 August.
An album of the star's greatest hits re-entered the UK top 40 after her death, and is continuing to climb the chart.
It is likely to be in the top three when the next chart is announced on Friday, according to the Official Chart Company, and could be number one. | Family, friends and fans are to pay their final respects to entertainer Cilla Black when her funeral takes place in Liverpool later. |
36,127,900 | South Central Ambulance Service said the driver hit the animal then the tree on the A33 near Micheldever at about 06:30 BST.
A spokesman said she was found dead at the scene and her next of kin had been informed.
The carriageway is closed in both directions near its junction with Winchester Road while officers investigate. | A woman has died after her car crashed into a deer and a tree in Hampshire. |
36,847,382 | It smashed into the lunar surface about 3.8 billion years ago, forming Mare Imbrium - the feature also known as the right eye of the "Man in the Moon".
Scientists say the asteroid was three times bigger than previously estimated and debris from the collision would have rained down on the Earth.
The research is published in the journal Nature.
The asteroid was so big it could be classified as a protoplanet - a space rock with the potential to become a fully formed world.
Lead author Prof Peter Schultz, a planetary geologist from Brown University in the United States, said: "One implication of this work is that the asteroids may not have been these small chunks flying around - there may have been many more of these very large protoplanets.
"It would have been a catastrophic period of time."
The Imbrium crater measures more than 1,200km (750 miles) across. Until now, scientists used computer models to estimate the size of the asteroid that led to its formation.
But for the new assessment of the collision, Prof Schultz recreated the smash in the lab.
Using a three-storey-high, hyper-velocity gun, his team fired small spheres of metal travelling at more than 22,000km per hour (13,000mph) into a curved aluminium plate.
"We film it with high-speed cameras: things that go up to one million frames a second," Prof Schultz told BBC World Service's Science in Action programme.
By analysing the slowed-down footage and the pattern of debris, the researchers were able to calculate the size of the asteroid that crashed into the Moon.
"We know there were big asteroids, but we have increased the size significantly," explained Prof Schultz.
"The previous estimate for the Imbrium asteroid was in the order of 80km, and we've increased that by a factor of three."
The researchers say it would have been travelling at more than 70,000km per hour (40,000mph), hitting the lunar surface at an angle of about 30 degrees.
The colossal high-speed impact not only left a giant dent in the near-side of the Moon, it also would have sent billions of tonnes of debris hurtling towards the Earth.
Prof Schultz explained: "At that time, the Moon would have been much closer (to the Earth), only half of its present distance, if even that.
"So anything coming off the Moon would have covered us in lunar debris."
But in this period of the Solar System's turbulent history - aptly known as the Late Heavy Bombardment - asteroid collisions would have been commonplace.
"This was a time when Jupiter and Saturn were changing their position in the Solar System," said Prof Schultz,
"And as a result it stirred the pot, so to speak. It sent asteroids between Jupiter and Mars into chaos - and they sent material into the inner Solar System, colliding into the inner planets.
"And what this study says is some of these asteroids were humungous."
The researchers now plan to use the same method to re-analyse other huge craters scattered across the Solar System. They believe we may have under-estimated just how cataclysmic these past bombardments were.
Follow Rebecca on Twitter: @BBCMorelle | One of the Moon's biggest craters was created by an asteroid more than 250km (150 miles) across, a study suggests. |
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Sharapova, 28, revealed on Monday that she tested positive for the banned substance meldonium in January.
A number of sponsors have already distanced themselves from the Russian.
Pound cannot understand how Sharapova found herself in this situation, given the high stakes involved, both professionally and financially.
"Running a $30m business depends on you staying eligible to play tennis," he told BBC Sport.
Sharapova has been the highest-earning female athlete in the world in each of the past 11 years, according to the Forbes list.
However, sportswear giant Nike has suspended its relationship with the five-time Grand Slam winner, while watch manufacturer Tag Heuer has cut its ties.
German carmaker Porsche said it was "postponing planned activities" with Sharapova until the situation became clearer.
Sharapova says she has taken meldonium since 2006 for health reasons.
However, it became a banned substance on 1 January after Wada deemed it had performance-enhancing properties.
Pound, who was head of Wada from 1999 to 2007, said Sharapova had made a "big mistake" and "should have known" the consequences of using it.
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"Anytime there is a change to the list, notice is given on 30 September prior to the change," he said.
"You have October, November, December to get off what you are doing.
"All the tennis players were given notification of it and she has a medical team somewhere. That is reckless beyond description."
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Meldonium could have a positive effect on stamina and endurance because it has the ability to increase oxygen movement to muscles.
Pound said it was eventually added to the banned list because a lot of people began taking it for performance-enhancing reasons.
He added that most of the drugs of choice for dopers were "built for therapeutic reasons", like EPO, but that they all had side-effects that could be put to use by those seeking to gain an advantage over their rivals.
Grindeks, the Latvian company that manufactures meldonium, said a typical course of treatment should only run to a few weeks.
"Depending on the patient's health condition, treatment course of meldonium preparations may vary from four to six weeks," its statement read.
"Treatment can be repeated twice or thrice a year. Only physicians can follow and evaluate patient's health condition and state whether the patient should use meldonium for a longer period of time."
In response, Sharapova's lawyer, John Haggerty, said she had not been taking the drug every day for 10 years.
"That's simply not the case," he said, adding that she took meldonium "in accordance with the recommendations of her doctor".
The International Tennis Federation said Sharapova will be provisionally suspended from 12 March.
She faces up to a four-year ban, but Pound, 73, says suspensions can be reduced if "there is absolutely zero fault on the part of the athlete".
He said it was the ITF's responsibility to "propose" any ban and warned that Wada could appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for an increase if it did not think the punishment was sufficient.
Sharapova's announcement, made at a hotel in Los Angeles on Monday, has polarised opinions.
World number one Serena Williams, who had beaten Sharapova at the Australian Open on 26 January before she tested positive, said the Russian has shown "a lot of courage" for accepting responsibility.
However, British sprinter Jeanette Kwakye, who was a 100m finalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, criticised Sharapova and felt her high public profile might mean she escapes with a light sentence.
"What we have in Maria Sharapova is a media darling," said Kwakye.
"She knows how to work the world of media, she knows how to spin and put things in her favour by breaking her own news.
"For somebody like her, it may be a lenient slap on the wrist." | Maria Sharapova's failed drugs test was "reckless beyond description", according to former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound. |
40,248,101 | The 27-year-old left-back made 29 appearances for Torquay last season in his second spell with the Gulls.
Rowe-Turner previously had spells in the National League with Luton Town and Kidderminster Harriers.
The Leicester City youth product is the third defender signed by Chester this summer following the arrivals of Andy Halls and John McCombe.
They will help plug the gap left by star youngster Sam Hughes' six-figure departure to 2016 Premier League champions Leicester City this week, on a three-year deal.
Midfielder Paul Turnbull and strikers Harry White, Nyal Bell and Ross Hannah have also signed for the Bumpers Lane club, taking the number of new signings to seven. | Chester have signed defender Lathaniel Rowe-Turner from Torquay United on a one-year deal. |
35,998,395 | Chris Masters, 44, was "a picture of health" before he was taken ill while on holiday with wife Yvonne last month.
When he was fit to fly, his insurers said his local NHS did not have a bed.
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust (SATH) said it had been "very busy recently" but had now found a bed for Mr Masters.
More on Chris' story and other news from Shropshire
Mr Masters' family was "desperate" to have him home and suggested he was sent to an intensive therapy unit near his parents' home in Birmingham or anywhere in the UK.
But Mrs Masters said their insurer, MAPFRE Assistance, told her "hospitals outside a patient's catchment area would not consider accepting a patient unless under extreme circumstances."
MAPFRE said its medical team had received information that confirmed Mr Masters was fit to fly and it was working on bed admission in the UK.
Debbie Kadum, chief operating officer at SATH, said: "Our hospitals have been very busy recently and we would like to apologise to this gentleman's family for the delays they have faced in repatriating him.
"We have identified a bed for this gentleman and understand that the repatriation team and hospital staff in Thailand are aiming for him to be transferred to one of our intensive therapy units once a flight is available." | A British tourist recovering after a heart attack in Thailand claimed there was no hospital bed for him to be transferred to back home. |
36,562,685 | The fragile piece of wood is all that remains of the Nanteos Cup, a wooden chalice named after the mansion in Aberystwyth where it was once kept.
Some believe it was the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper and that it has healing powers.
It was stolen in 2014 before being returned to its owners a year later.
It has now been donated to the library in Aberystwyth where thousands of people are expected to view it over the coming months.
Pedr ap Llwyd, director of collections and public programmes, said visitors would finally be able to view the "mysterious object".
"This is truly a remarkable object and a very interesting addition to the national collections."
The cup is claimed to have been brought to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea after the death of Christ and then taken to Nanteos Mansion by seven monks from Strata Florida, Ceredigion, during the reign of Henry Vlll.
The house was then owned by the Powell family and, after the monks died, they took possession of it for centuries.
Legend says the cup, made of olive wood or wych elm, is sacred.
Owner Margaret Powell kept the chalice locked in a cupboard in a library and the sick travelled to Nanteos to drink from it.
However, some experts have said it was made 1,400 years after the crucifixion.
It originally measured approximately 12cm by 12cm (4.7in by 4.7in) but now measures 10cm by 8.5cm (3.9in by 3.3in) and is held together by wire staples and kept in a blue velvet bag.
After many years it left Nanteos Mansion and came into the ownership of the Steadman family in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, who kept it in a bank vault in Wales.
In 2014, it was loaned to a seriously ill woman because of its supposed healing properties, but burglars stole it while the woman was in hospital.
After police appeals and a reward being offered, it was returned to its owners. | A religious relic which, claimed by some to be the Holy Grail, is to go on permanent display at the National Library of Wales. |
32,934,209 | Colin Wood, 64, from Barry, in the Vale of Glamorgan, was found guilty of eight offences of indecency and two further serious sexual offences.
Wood, of Somerset Road, was arrested after a naked picture of his victim was found in his bedside cabinet.
He denied any form of sexual misconduct but was found guilty after the victim gave evidence at Exeter Crown Court.
His victim told the jury how the abuse had blighted his childhood and cast a shadow over his life.
Wood was living in Braunton, north Devon, when he carried out the most serious sexual assaults on the boy, who was a teenager by that time.
He had been grooming the victim for sex for several years, during which he abused the child on a regular basis and ensured his silence by threats of violence.
He also took naked pictures of the boy, one of which was found by a witness in his bedside cabinet many years later.
In sentencing him, Judge Francis Gilbert QC told Wood he had "groomed the boy over a number of years and used him for his own perverted sexual gratification".
Wood was jailed after being told by the judge his crimes would now be categorised as male rape.
The victim said he had been too frightened to tell anyone about the abuse at the time but started to reveal his ordeal while at university and only went to the police two years ago.
The victim, now an adult, told the jury the abuse was "repulsive" and made him feel frightened, worthless and ashamed.
Wood told the court he had never had any sexual contact with the victim. He said the allegations were all invented and were nonsense. | A "perverted" man has been jailed for 22 years for abusing a boy he groomed for sex in the 1970s. |
34,162,388 | Stephen Longfellow, from Leeds, was last seen on 30 August when he spoke with walkers in Llanfihangel y Pennant, Gwynedd.
Police later found his car near the Tryfan mountain.
The body, found on Friday by Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue, was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor to be formally identified.
The coroner has been informed.
Chris Lloyd from the mountain rescue team said he believed the man had fallen "quite some distance". | Emergency services searching for a missing 64-year-old man in Snowdonia have found a body. |
34,925,697 | Second-tier sides have been previously been restricted to a 40% limit.
Relevant income is defined by the RFL operational rules under 19 different categories, including BBC TV fees, gate receipts and other profits.
The decision was brought forward to the October meeting to help clubs plan for the forthcoming season.
"The RFL Board agreed that the Championship salary cap for 2016 will be increased," chief operating officer Ralph Rimmer said.
"We have listened to and worked hard with all Championship clubs to ensure that the changes we have made are proportionate, sustainable and also give them a better chance to compete."
Full details will be released in time for the RFL's December meeting. | Championship sides will be allowed to spend 50% of their 'relevant income' on player salaries from 2016 onwards, the Rugby Football League has confirmed. |
19,902,778 | The service, run by Marie Stopes, will operate in the centre of Belfast from 18 October.
It says it will provide terminations within Northern Ireland's current legal framework - abortions are not illegal but are very strictly controlled.
An anti-abortion group has called for the clinic to be shut down, but Abortion Rights welcomed its opening.
Northern Ireland, unlike the rest of the UK, is not covered by an Abortion Act.
Abortions can be carried out only to preserve the life of the mother or if continuing the pregnancy would have other serious, permanent physical or mental health effects.
There is strict assessment regarding any impact on mental well-being and the woman must consult with two clinicians.
I travelled to Scotland to terminate my first and so far only pregnancy in 2006. I was 26. My pregnancy was terminated at 11 weeks.
I am still angry that despite living in the UK, I did not have the same access to a termination as women in Scotland, Wales or England.
An already upsetting and difficult situation was made so much harder, so much more traumatic, by having to make travel arrangements and lie to friends and colleagues about my "trip to Scotland".
I find it immensely sad that the issue of abortion is still too taboo for many women to feel able to speak up about their experiences.
I wonder how many other women in Northern Ireland feel similarly today but are staying silent?
Anonymous, County Londonderry
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The Marie Stopes clinic says it will carry out medical, not surgical, procedures only up to nine weeks gestation and only within the existing legal framework.
It says that the health professionals in the clinic will be from Northern Ireland and that they will make the assessments, although the views of the woman's own GP will be taken into consideration.
The clinic's services will also be available to women from the Republic of Ireland, if they meet the legal criteria in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots said: "I note that Marie Stopes International state very clearly that they will work within the law.
"An operation in Northern Ireland for the termination of a pregnancy may not result in criminal liability when it is necessary to preserve the life of the woman or there is a risk of real and serious adverse effect on her physical or mental health, which is either long term or permanent.
"This condition applies no less strongly before nine weeks than longer into the pregnancy."
Only 1% of abortions in England and Wales are carried out because the child might be born with a serious disability.
The former Progressive Unionist Party leader, Dawn Purvis, who is the centre's programme director, said the Belfast clinic would be "providing early medical abortion within the law as it exists in Northern Ireland".
By Branwen JeffreysHealth correspondent, BBC News
Unlike the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland does not have an Abortion Act. Instead an 1861 law makes it a criminal offence to procure a miscarriage.
In 1945 an exception was added that abortion could be permitted to preserve the life of the mother.
Despite the fact that between 30 and 40 medical terminations are carried out by the NHS in Northern Ireland every year, the exact circumstances in which is it is allowed remain vague.
Revised official guidelines initially drafted in in 2010 have still not been completed and published.
Sections on counselling and conscientious objection were withdrawn for rewriting. The Family Planning Association has been granted leave to seek a judicial review of the Department of Health's decision not to publish information on terminations.
Ms Purvis said the clinic would also provide advice and treatment for sexually transmitted disease and reproductive health, but it was prepared for any possible controversy.
"Our clients' needs are of paramount importance to us and how they access our services in a safe and secure route," she said.
"We will be focusing on this and will obviously carry out a risk assessment of our needs and our security and we'll have to revise those as time goes on.
"But we would hope that any client who comes to us can do so and access those services freely, safely and can come to a centre that will be supportive and non-judgemental."
Ms Purvis said the regulatory body, the RQIA, had been informed of and consulted on plans for the centre.
But Bernie Smyth, of the anti-abortion group Precious Life, told the BBC members wanted the centre shut before its scheduled opening.
However, the clinic has been hailed as "groundbreaking" by Darinka Aleksic, of the Abortion Rights group, who said women in Northern Ireland were "treated like second-class citizens when it comes to abortion".
"Having to travel [to the rest of the UK] or further abroad to access safe, legal abortion exacts a huge financial and emotional cost," she said.
"Over 50,000 women have had to make this journey over the past 40 years and it is an injustice that must not be allowed to continue.
"The opening of this centre will not solve all these problems and the fight for Northern Irish women to have the same rights as women in England, Scotland and Wales has a long way to go. But this is a real step forward."
MLA Jim Allister said he believed that Marie Stopes was attempting to extend the availability of abortion.
Mr Allister agreed the group was pro-choice, "except for the unborn child, who has no choice, in their view, and who should be put to death, because that's what abortion is".
A Department of Health spokesperson said it would be a "matter for the RQIA" to determine if the clinic needed to be "registered for regulation and inspection by RQIA".
"The department would encourage anyone who has concerns or is seeking advice or treatment regarding any of these areas to contact their GP, local family planning clinic or genito urinary medicine clinic," the spokesperson said.
In August, Mr Poots told the Stormont Assembly that between 2006 and this year 262 pregnancy terminations had taken place.
The strict rules on abortion in Northern Ireland do not prevent women from travelling to the rest of the UK for the procedure.
A 24-week limit for abortion applies in England, Wales and Scotland, where abortions are allowed under certain conditions, including that continuing with the pregnancy would involve a greater risk to the physical or mental health of the woman, or her existing children, than having a termination. The permission of two doctors - or one in an emergency - is also needed.
Abortions after 24 weeks are allowed in Britain but only in extreme circumstances - if there is grave risk to the life of the woman, evidence of severe foetal abnormality, or risk of grave physical and mental injury to the woman.
Figures for 2011, show that just over 1,000 women travelled to England and Wales for terminations.
No figures are available for the Northern Ireland women who availed of so called "back-street abortions" or who procured abortion-inducing medication online. | The first private clinic to offer abortions to women in Northern Ireland is due to open next week. |
39,909,168 | The Saints, who are waiting for coach Justin Holbrook's visa to be approved, are seventh in Super League and were thrashed 53-10 by Cas in the cup.
Wilkin told BBC Sport: "It does not get much worse than we are at the moment.
"Self-belief disappears and you are in that negative spiral and we can't get out of it at the moment."
Wilkin joined the club in 2002 from Hull KR and has won seven titles, including the treble in 2006 and the Grand Final in 2014.
But the Saints have only won five of their 13 Super League matches this season and are now out of the Challenge Cup at the fifth-round stage.
And Wilkin admits that incoming boss Holbrook has a tough job on his hands.
"We need some self-reflection and we have some hard work to do," continued Wilkin. "It's a big job, it's a huge job.
"Confidence has gone. We need something to break that. We were hoping a big performance would do that, but that was not the case.
"Congratulations to Cas, they have been exceptional all year and really set the standard.
"They have played an exciting brand of rugby and throw the ball around." | St Helens captain Jon Wilkin believes Saturday's Challenge Cup quarter-final thrashing by Castleford is the lowest point in his 15 years at the club. |
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The League One side beat the seven-times FA Cup winners 3-2 with striker Matt Smith scoring twice.
Rodgers said: "I was bitterly disappointed with the young players as they had a chance to compete for a club that has to challenge for trophies.
"We lost our concentration and only had spells in the last 35 minutes when we were at the right level."
He added: "The intensity of our game was nowhere near where it should be at the beginning. We gave the ball away too easily and were not strong enough physically.
"Congratulations to Oldham, though."
With Steven Gerrard on the substitutes bench, Liverpool were captained by Luis Suarez and Rodgers picked Daniel Sturridge, Fabio Borini and Raheem Sterling in attack ahead of midfielders Joe Allen and Jordan Henderson.
But former non-league striker Smith, 23, and fellow forward Robbie Simpson gave centre-backs Sebastian Coates and Martin Skrtel an uncomfortable afternoon.
Oldham are currently 19th in League One, just a point above the relegation zone, and their third-round win against Nottingham Forest was their only victory in their last nine games.
Smith scored either side of Luis Suarez's equaliser, with Reece Wabara heading another after half-time to put Paul Dickov's side 3-1 up.
And they defended resolutely as Liverpool fought back to score via a Joe Allen volley with 12 minutes remaining.
The defeat means that Liverpool's only chance of silverware in Rodgers's debut season is in the Europa League, with the Reds facing Russian side Zenit St Petersburg on 14 February.
"Matt Smith is a good player but we have played against that type before," added Rodgers.
"The FA Cup was a competition we wanted to have a go at and there is no excuse, we put out a strong team capable of winning the game but we didn't.
"There is no excuse. You have to take it on the chin, but there has been plenty of warnings throughout the weekend if your application is not right you can get found out." | Manager Brendan Rodgers was upset with Liverpool's young players after a shock FA Cup fourth-round defeat by Oldham. |
37,964,645 | But you would be wrong, at least according to the man himself.
As far as Murray is concerned, the next "big goal" lies Down Under.
Winning January's Australian Open is now the top target for a man who has lifted most of the sport's other major prizes, winning his second Wimbledon and retaining his Olympic title in 2016 alone.
"The Australian Open is obviously the next big goal that comes along," said Murray.
"It's less than three months away now. Obviously we've got a break between now and then, so I'll have some time off, but I've been in the final there five times. I'd love to win there.
"It's a tournament I've really enjoyed playing at. I love the conditions. I love Australia. I love playing in Melbourne.
"I've been close, but it's just not quite happened for me, so it's a big goal and I'll be working towards that in December when I'm over in Miami training."
Before the long flight to Melbourne, however, Murray could cap the best season of his life by winning the World Tour Finals, something he's never done, thereby clinching another career milestone: the year-end world number one spot.
Neither of those two achievements seem uppermost in his thoughts at the moment, despite the fact he concedes the event at London's 02 arena is huge for exactly those reasons.
"I never expected to finish the year at number one, so I'm not putting any added pressure on myself this week to do it," said the two-time Wimbledon champion.
"The last few months have been the best of my career. I want to keep that going this week if possible, but if not then I just want to play well."
The chances of that are significantly improved by Murray's status as tennis's new top dog.
He boasts 19 straight wins and four titles in a row, which has helped him get there, but the Scot is phlegmatic about the effect finally reaching world number one has had on him.
"I feel the same, I don't feel different," he said. "I mean, it's just how it is. I don't feel much different to how I felt last week.
"I think maybe when you step on the court or are playing matches then maybe you have a little extra edge, a little more confidence maybe than in the past, but this week I've not felt any different really."
One thing is different about the boy from Dunblane these days. Modes of transport.
As we walked from the TV compound in the back of the O2 Arena back round to the players' lounge and the main court, I reminded Murray that, when he broke into the top 100 as a youngster, he sent his mother a simple text message: "We did it, Mum."
There was a serious upgrade after he became world number one. He and Judy celebrated the achievement with a glass of champagne aboard a private jet from Paris to London.
"It was the only way to get back that night to be at home with the family, so I managed to get out of Paris nice and quickly which was good," he explained.
He'll see plenty of young daughter Sophia and wife Kim this week instead of staying in a central London hotel as he has in previous years.
Murray is commuting into the World Tour Finals from his home in Surrey.
Time with the family has helped him put tennis into perspective. It's also brought out the very best in him and his game. That could be underlined come next weekend.
If he at least matches Novak Djokovic's progress at the O2, a truly spectacular season will finish with Murray's status as this year's best player made official as the year-end world number one. | You might think winning the ATP World Tour Finals and finishing a remarkable season as the year-end world number one dominate Andy Murray's thoughts in London at the moment. |
34,076,755 | One-time leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell, will take his seat alongside party colleague Sir Malcolm Bruce.
Former Labour chancellor and head of the pro-Union Better Together campaign, Alistair Darling, will also be entering the House of Lords.
Entrepreneur Michelle Mone has also become one of the 45 new members.
In all, Prime Minister David Cameron handed out peerages to 26 Conservatives, including former foreign secretary William Hague.
Also on the Tory leader's list was Ms Mone whom he recently appointed to carry out a review into how best to encourage start-ups in areas of high unemployment.
Labour nominated two women and six men, including Mr Darling.
Sir Menzies and Sir Malcolm are among the seven Lib Dem MPs who were nominated by their party.
Former Lib Dem ministers Vince Cable and Danny Alexander, who both lost their seats at the general election, are thought to have turned down the chance to enter the Lords. | Three former Scottish MPs and the Scottish founder of lingerie firm Ultimo are to be made life peers. |
34,232,429 | About 50,000 music fans are attending the annual festival at Robin Hill Country Park, with a theme of "Summer of Love".
Headliners at this year's event include Duran Duran, The Chemical Brothers and Missy Elliott.
The festival is also marking the 20th anniversary of organiser Rob da Bank's Sunday Best club, from which Bestival eventually developed.
Pop legends Duran Duran topped Friday's billing in front of a sell-out crowd on the day their 14th studio album, Paper Gods, was released.
Known for its eccentric events, attractions at this year's Bestival include a fake wedding ceremony hosted in an inflatable chapel, which couples pay £45 to take part in.
Simeon, the church's appointed choirboy, said: "There comes a time in your life when you feel you need to share your love in a giant rubber church.
"We dress people up in whatever they want to wear, get the congregation in, get the DJ playing and everyone goes nuts." | The twelfth Bestival is taking place on the Isle of Wight. |
36,176,772 | A few rows back three Nobel laureates are chatting with Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein. Ahead is North Korea.
It's definitely one of the more curious assignments I've been asked to do.
Journalists will find any way they can to get a glimpse inside the DPRK. Hence I am hanging on the coat tails of this unique delegation comprising an Israeli, a Briton, a Norwegian and a tall European prince.
They have been invited to meet students at Kim Il-Sung University to talk about medicine, economics and biology.
The academics' visit to North Korea has been organised by the Vienna-based International Peace Foundation (IPF).
Those taking part are:
Nobel laureate for economics Prof Finn Kydland from Norway, who works at the University of California in Santa Barbara
Nobel laureate for medicine Sir Richard Roberts from the UK, who is based at New England Biolabs in Ipswich, Massachusetts
Nobel laureate for chemistry Prof Aaron Ciechanover from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa
Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein, who chairs the IPF's advisory board
IPF chairman Uwe Morawetz, who has visited North Korea six times in the past two years
I am hoping for any chance to see North Korea "off script". That may be optimistic.
The last time I visited, 12 years ago, every step of my trip was tightly choreographed and minutely controlled.
Everywhere I went our minder double-act, Mr Kim and Mrs Kim, were constantly at my shoulder. We stayed in an austere glass tower on an island in the middle of the Nam River.
Early one morning I tried to sneak out to see a bit of Pyongyang street life. It was winter and there was ice on the river.
I made it to the bridge when a soldier jumped out of the bushes and ordered me to turn around.
Since that trip some things have changed in North Korea although many have not.
The Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il is dead, replaced by his corpulent and unpredictable son Kim Jong-un. Next week the first Worker's Party Congress to be held in over three decades the younger Kim will be proclaimed supreme leader - as his father and grandfather were before him.
Young Mr Kim now has a few nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, although not nuclear weapons on ballistic missiles, not yet.
Back in 2003 mobile phones were still banned for all but the top party and military elite.
I had to leave mine behind in China or risk having it confiscated. Now, I'm told, many have cell phones, and this trip I am bringing mine with me.
But there is no internet in North Korea. The country is still one of the most impoverished and isolated in the world. There is one state TV channel and one state radio station.
The three Nobel laureates I am travelling with are hoping to chip away a tiny bit at that isolation, to meet North Korean university students, to establish a dialogue.
It is a noble aim. As Churchill famously said, "Jaw jaw is always better than war war."
But many have tried to engage with North Korea. China, Russia, the US, South Korea and Japan have all been trying for decades. Now even China, North Korea's closest ally, is fed up.
Last month President Xi Jinping agreed to tighten economic sanctions against the North in response to its latest nuclear test.
If Pyongyang is trying to reach out to the world it has a very strange way of showing it. | I'm sitting on a plane - the mountains of north-east China are slipping through the mist below us. |
38,515,915 | 5 January 2017 Last updated at 12:18 GMT
A project called Growing Up Digital spent a year looking into how children use the internet and whether you feel you know enough about the websites and apps you use.
It's been done by the Children's Commissioner for England, whose job it is to understand what children think about the things that affect them.
Her report found that kids are left to learn about the internet on their own and that it's not always easy to understand what happens to photos and information sent on social media. She also thinks that the rules you sign up to when you use apps are far too complicated to be understood.
The report says schools should give lessons to pupils on how to use social media, apps and websites safely, and teach them what their rights are. You've been telling Newsround what you think about this idea. | Social media is everywhere but do you think you know enough about who can see and use the images and information you send or upload? |
35,517,054 | Overnight leader Willett, 28, putted in from 15 feet to card a final-round 69 and win his fourth European Tour title.
Sullivan went round in 68 and had to settle for joint second along with Rafa Cabrera-Bello of Spain.
Defending champion Rory McIlroy hit eight birdies in a round of 65 and tied for sixth, four shots off the top.
Willett, who lost his overnight advantage when he bogeyed the second, went three clear after three birdies in four holes from the fourth.
A bogey on the ninth and 14th allowed the chasing pack to close the gap but Willett held his nerve to secure victory in a tense finale.
The win will lift him from 20th in the world rankings to a provisional career-high of 12th depending on the result of the Phoenix Open.
Willett moved third in the Ryder Cup standings and also took a step closer to qualifying for the British Olympic team.
"I'm just ecstatic," Willett said. "You can't buy that feeling, coming down the back nine, the last three holes, in contention in a golf tournament.
"You can't pay for that experience, you've got to earn it.
"You'd love to win by five or six every time, but when you win in that fashion it does feel that little bit extra special.
"It means when the pressure is on I can produce the goods." | England's Danny Willett birdied the final hole to win the Dubai Desert Classic by one shot from compatriot Andy Sullivan. |
39,694,563 | Nationwide's study of 2,000 over-18s found more than one in 10 did not think of themselves as fully fledged grown-ups until they reached the age of 27.
Lisa Daisy, 34, told the BBC: "Even after a career, two children and being together with my partner for 10 years, it still took being married to make me feel grown up."
But 42-year-old Carole Lutringer said she felt like an adult when she was very young.
"I had to cook from an early age, because my mother worked as a head teacher," she said.
"My mother came back home late, and my father was pretty useless in the kitchen.
"I had to be autonomous from really early on, and that's probably what made me feel grown up earlier than most of my peers."
Sana Khalid Khan also had adulthood thrust upon her.
She said it had been the death of her father that had made her grow up, at the age of 17.
"Being the eldest sibling and child, a lot of responsibility was poured on my shoulders," she wrote on the BBC Family and Education News Facebook page.
Join the conversation at the BBC Family and Education News Facebook page.
Some people came to the realisation of adulthood in more prosaic fashion.
Londoner Sam Nichols said a saucepan had made her realise how grown up she had become.
"I got excited about buying a new saucepan," she said.
"If that doesn't scream 'adulting', I don't know whatever will."
Nationwide study
Of those 2,000 people asked did feel they were adults, the transition happened for half in their 20s, while a fifth said it happened in their 30s.
One in 20 respondents felt they had not grown up until their 40s.
Of those questioned, 55% said being an adult was dependent on major life events, for example having children, moving out of the parental home or getting married.
For others, such as Elaine Smith, in London, adulthood is merely a state of mind.
"I still don't feel grown up," she said.
"I can't believe I have full responsibilities of looking after a four-year-old. How did that happen?
"I'm 44 this year, so it may happen soon."
Commenting on Facebook, Sophie Caunter agreed.
"I'm 42," she said.
"I have an 11-year-old, a seven-month-old, a husband, and I still don't feel grown up."
Melinda Wilmot echoed her sentiments.
"I'm 58 and still waiting to grow up," she said.
"Growing up is overrated anyway," said Sophie.
By Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News Team | Many of the current generation of recent over-18s do not feel like an adult, according to a survey by building society Nationwide, and those commenting on the BBC News Facebook page seem to agree. |
34,215,685 | The 28-year-old is a popular sporting figure in his homeland, where acknowledgement of his outstanding ability as a rider is matched by an admiration for his dedication and humble down-to-earth nature.
These are some of the qualities which have helped him realise his long-held ambition of becoming Northern Ireland's first world champion in two-wheel motorsport since Joey Dunlop and Brian Reid claimed the Formula One and Formula Two world titles in 1986.
Since laying down a benchmark with a race win in the opening round of this year's World Superbike series at Phillip Island, the County Antrim man has set about rampaging through the record books, providing what could aptly be described as a motorsport masterclass.
Twelve wins from 22 starts this season - and a remarkable record of having stood on the podium in every race for the first 20 of them - tell the tale of the dominance he has enjoyed over his rivals.
Already renowned for his skill, astute racecraft, perseverance and ability to adapt his style to wet conditions, Rea's move to the official Kawasaki team has proved to be the catalyst which has catapulted him to this much-deserved success on the global stage.
For many years, the Isle of Man-based rider showed consistent loyalty to Honda, the manufacturer which helped mould his career in the early years through a rookies scholarship, and maximised the potential of their Supersport and Superbike machinery, taking occasional race wins in the process.
Maintaining those strong links with the Japanese motorsport giant failed however to yield the move which Rea hoped for - a switch to MotoGP, the premier class of world motorcycling.
Seventh and eighth place finishes while standing in for injured world champion Casey Stoner in the Repsol Honda team in 2012 enhanced his reputation but failed to lead to a more permanent arrangement to compete in the series.
Surely only the complex politics which surround the MotoGP paddock prevented him from testing himself against the very elite of the sport.
The young Jonathan Rea's successful participation in youth motocross demonstrated his ability on a motorcycle from an early age and marked him out as a potential star of the future.
After serving his apprenticeship on the circuits of Great Britain and Ireland, he achieved second position overall in the 2007 British Superbike series, followed by a similar placing in the World Supersport class the following year.
His best finish in World Superbikes prior to this season was third in the 2014 championship on board a Ten Kate Honda.
Throughout his distinguished career, the Ulsterman has demonstrated an unwavering gratitude to his sponsors and exhibited a profound appreciation of the collective efforts of the team gathered around him.
Like most of the sport's leading exponents, he has overcome his fair share of injury setbacks along the way, but a regular fitness regime in the form of cycling and hard graft at the gym have paid handsome dividends.
A respectful attitude to his opponents in an environment where egos can easily become inflated and rivalries rampant have been a hallmark of his approach, while his articulate, well-spoken manner has made him a firm favourite with the media.
The son of an accomplished road racer, the Ballyclare man has regularly expressed his admiration for those who participate in the unforgiving discipline of racing on public roads and has displayed a willingness to pass on some of his knowledge to the next generation of potential motorcycling stars.
Boasting a substantial fan base, Rea has also won the Irish Motorcyclist of the Year award, in its various guises, on several occasions.
His supporters can now salute Northern Ireland's newest world champion. | Hailing from a country more used to celebrating the motorcycling feats of road racers who ply their trade between the hedges, Jonathan Rea has bucked the trend. |
30,028,472 | Their exchanges have been grabbing attention because they have been using some fairly non-technical and human language.
@ESA_Rosetta's job was to take the landing device @Philae2014 to the comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
One of their most retweeted moments was the touchdown.
They've even decided to mark it in different languages for fans all over the world.
Some of the chat is a bit geeky and scientific but the bits getting the most retweets are the Wall-E moments, when the crafts appear human.
The pair also have a star-studded group of fans.
The actor William Shatner, who made his name as Captain Kirk in Star Trek, has been in regular contact with the crafts.
Here is Newsbeat's favourite exchange between the two crafts.
It came just after the two detached from each other.
And being best mates, @ESA_Rosetta did just that and the image proved popular with followers.
It's been retweeted 5,700 times.
He's not the only one connected with the mission who is causing a Twitter storm.
This scientist in the team behind it has become a bit of a star for his love of rock music, tattoos and out-there shirt.
Dr Matt Taylor has had the image of the craft added to his impressive collection of body art.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | The two spacecraft at the centre of the Rosetta comet landing managed to find time to have an interstellar conversation on Twitter. |
35,820,138 | Michal Iwanowksi, 39, from Roath, Cardiff, used a rough map found in his great uncle's diary to follow the perilous route the brothers took through the forests of Russia to safety in Poland in 1945.
The epic four month journey saw Anatol and Wiktor Iwanowski flee the camp in Kaluga, elude an ambush which saw two fellow escapees recaptured and Anatol shot in the hand, and survive camping in minus 20 degrees Celsius as winter tightened its icy grip.
Battling fever caused by his untreated gunshot wound and without fresh water to drink, Anatol existed only on frozen berries and mushrooms, using just a makeshift compass and the stars to navigate.
The brothers were dependant on the cover of night for survival and could not risk being spotted by another living soul as the Russian people were starving and the prize for turning in a fugitive was 16kg (35 lbs) of flour.
But despite all odds they were able to rejoin their families in Wroclaw, Poland, as changed men and lived to tell their tale.
Michal, who moved to Wales 15 years ago, has said he regrets not asking his grandfather more about his escape during his lifetime.
But in the summer of 2013, nearly 70 years later, he felt compelled to retrace the brothers' steps, documenting the harsh landscapes through a modern fugitive's eyes, for his new book Clear of People.
The trip was made possible by an Arts Council of Wales grant and his book which is being crowd funded is due for publication with an accompanying exhibition this summer.
He said: "Unlike them I couldn't camp as the authorities require an address for each night before allowing you in the country and I was carrying heavy photographic equipment.
"I knew it was a pilgrimage I had to take. I felt I owed my grandfather and great uncle this because I never asked questions when I had the chance."
While the cities along the route may have changed drastically, the stark rural landscape between them remains almost untouched.
His photos capture a world far from the pressures of modern life, where the natural landscape dominates.
Michal said: "I walked for hours alone, hearing only the sound of my own footsteps, with my ears tuned in to the finest detail. I totally lost track of time and space."
The resulting photographs have already been exhibited at Ffotogallery in Cardiff, Sydney, Australia, and Barcelona, Spain.
"Making this project is my silent tribute to them and the other people who had to go through journeys like this so that our generation didn't," added Michal.
"But it's a timeless story about the human spirit rather than a nationalistic exercise.
"It's important for the times we live in as more and more people are on the move across the continents, uprooting their lives and fleeing from conflict zones.
"This body of work also pays a silent tribute to the past and present fugitive on their quest for safety."
Michal will be talking about his journey at Made Gallery in Roath on Saturday 19 March. | A photographer has recreated his grandfather and great uncle's daring 2,200km escape from a prisoner of war camp on camera. |
37,398,103 | Home strikers Graham Cummins, scorer of the game's only goal, and Chris Kane were the offenders against Hearts.
"It's not something I want, but it's quite ironic that it happens this week," Wright told BBC Scotland.
"If I think that the referee is spot on, the players will be fined. That's what we do here."
Hearts had Jamie Walker banned for diving against Celtic earlier in the season.
And last week Sam Nicholson won a penalty against Hamilton Accies and also successfully appealed against a booking for simulation received by Tony Watt.
Wright had said ahead of the arrival of the side sitting second in the Scottish Premiership that he would be working on his side "being disciplined in the final third" and that "certain teams and players go down too easily".
"We've won 1-0 and won 2-0 in the simulation stakes," he joked after the game against Hearts.
"I'll look at it. I've seen Graham Cummins, I've spoken to the referee about it.
"He said there is contact but he exaggerated the contact on him.
"We'll take it on the chin and the players will have to take it on the chin."
Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson had insisted before the game that his players won a higher share of awards because they were an attacking side.
"I'll stay quiet about this," he told BBC Scotland after the defeat by St Johnstone. "I don't like doing my talking in the media.
"It is up to other people to deal with their teams."
Neilson was ordered from the field of play during the second half at McDiarmid Park.
"I got sent to the stand for clapping a delivery into the box that I thought was really good," he insisted.
"The fourth official thought I was clapping sarcastically at the referee, so I think he's got his wires crossed a wee bit and saw something different to what happened.
"There was no swearing, there was no shouting, but's that's football - you'll have days when you clap a delivery and they'll pat you on the back and days when they'll put you to the stand.
"It was actually the fourth official - the referee had nothing to do with it." | St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright saw the irony in having two players booked for simulation against opponents he had accused of going down too easily. |
34,461,415 | Ms Pritzker will discuss recent measures approved by the US to mitigate the impact of the embargo.
Since the US and Cuba announced last year they were restoring relations, President Barack Obama has pushed for the restrictions to be scrapped.
But he faces opposition from the Republican majority in the US Congress.
Ms Pritzker is the most senior American official to visit Cuba since Secretary of State John Kerry reopened the embassy in Havana in July.
Shortly after landing in Havana, she visited the Special Enterprise Zone, an area developed near the Mariel port to encourage foreign investment.
On Wednesday, she is due to meet the Cuban trade and foreign ministers for discussions on the embargo.
The US announced in recent weeks a number of measures to encourage trade even with the embargo still in place.
American companies will no longer be breaking US law for setting up premises in Cuba, the US authorities announced.
But the Cuban government needs to lift some of its own bureaucratic and legal obstacles for the measures to work, says the BBC's Will Grant in Havana.
There may be some reluctance from the Cuban authorities to allow a faster pace of change while there are other issues pending, such as new civil aviation rules, ferry services between Florida and Cuba and greater internet access.
President Barack Obama met Cuban leader Raul Castro on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last week.
Mr Castro told the UN that normal relations would only be possible if the US abolished its trade embargo.
The first American economic sanctions against Cuba were imposed in 1960. | The United States Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker has arrived in Cuba for two days of talks focusing on the US embargo on the communist-run island. |
39,832,467 | Stenny could only draw 1-1 at home to Brechin City, whose point was enough to secure a promotion play-off place.
Peterhead finished second bottom, meaning a play-off semi-final against Montrose to retain their status.
Airdrieonians, who beat Queen's Park 3-2, clinched third place and the other promotion play-off place.
The Diamonds will host Alloa, who had already secured the runners-up spot, in the first leg of their Championship play-off semi-final on Wednesday.
On the same evening, Brechin will entertain Raith Rovers, who finished second bottom of the league above.
Stenny found themselves behind after only five minutes as Alan Trouten's penalty put Brechin ahead following Mason Robertson's foul on Ally Love.
Oliver Shaw equalised after 62 minutes, but a 1-1 draw was not enough to avoid a drop to League Two next season on a topsy turvy afternoon.
Peterhead recovered from 2-1 down to beat Alloa.
Iain Flannigan gave Alloa a 29th-minute lead with a low effort from 12 yards, but Rory McAllister equalised eight minutes after half-time.
Adam Martin restored Alloa's advantage on the hour mark.
But, with relegation looming, Peterhead levelled through Grant Anderson and Jordan Brown fired the winner from six yards with 10 minutes remaining.
In Airdrie, Dario Zanatta put Queen's Park ahead but Andy Ryan struck either side of half-time to give the home side the lead.
Kalvin Orsi's low effort drew the visitors level but less than a minute later Iain Russell converted Scott Stewart's pass for the winner.
Airdrieonians and Brechin picking up points ended East Fife's outside hopes of finishing in the top four.
In any case, the Fifers lost 2-1 away to Stranraer, Craig Malcolm and Amadou Kassarate scoring either side of Jason Kerr's equaliser.
Champions Livingston signed off with a 2-0 win over Albion Rovers, with Scott Pitman and Raffaele De Vita on target. | Stenhousemuir were relegated from Scottish League One after Peterhead, who started the day bottom, came from behind to beat Alloa Athletic 3-2. |
36,485,678 | Data from the university admissions body Ucas showed a drop in applications and places awarded to those from the most-deprived 20% of areas.
The figures showed 1,215 applicants from this group got a place in 2015, down from 1,305 the previous year.
The Scottish government said it was "committed to education based on ability to learn, not ability to pay".
A spokeswoman for the Scottish Conservatives said the "damning report" confirmed that the SNP "just isn't doing enough to close the attainment gap or increase opportunity among Scotland's least-privileged".
The Scottish government has placed a major focus on cutting the attainment gap between rich and poor, and increasing the number of Scots from the worst-off communities who make it to university.
However, while the number of successful applicants from the poorest areas fell across Scotland as a whole, there was an increase in Scots from the most-affluent communities going to university.
The Ucas data showed this figure rose from 4,605 to 4,685 over the period.
Of those looking to start a course in October 2015, a total of 1,935 of the applicants who met the June 2015 deadline were from the most-deprived communities, a drop of 60 from the previous year.
A Scottish government spokesman said the figures showed "a long-term improvement in the number of Scottish 18-year-olds from our most deprived areas applying to, and gaining a place at university, since 2010".
He added: "This government is clear that every child, whatever their background, should have an equal chance of attending university.
"Our actions to widen access have delivered progress but we recognise there is more to do."
The Scottish Conservatives have called for students to pay a charge of up to £6,000 after finishing their studies to boost investment in education.
The party's education spokeswoman Liz Smith said: "The Scottish Conservatives have been saying for quite some time that students from the most-deprived areas in Scotland are being let down by the SNP government."
A spokeswoman for Universities Scotland described the figures as being a "very useful but highly-detailed and complex data set that needs further examination".
She said: "The one factor that underpins all of the data for Scotland is that whoever you are and whatever your background, it is a lot more competitive to get into university in Scotland than it is in other parts of the UK, and that comes down to the limited availability of places here in Scotland." | The number of students from Scotland's poorest areas going to university has fallen, new figures have revealed. |
35,188,126 | He became a superstar at the age of sixteen, as lead singer of iconic 1960s rock band The Easybeats.
Their song, Friday On My Mind, became a global hit and was voted the best Australian song ever in a 2001 poll.
The group broke up after five years, but their music was later covered by David Bowie, INXS and many others.
Ordinary Australians as well as high profile figures in the music industry have been posting their memories of Wright on social media.
Battling drug and alcohol addiction, he underwent electric shock treatments and "deep sleep therapy" - medically induced comas - in the 1970s, that left him with long-term after-effects.
The Sydney private hospital that treated him was later the subject of a Royal Commission after dozens of patients died.
He passed away in hospital on Sunday night. | Australians are paying tribute to Steve Wright, widely regarded as Australia's first international pop star, after he died aged 68. |
38,025,227 | AirBnB, the site that lets you rent out your spare rooms, or indeed your entire home, to tourists, is one of Silicon Valley’s brightest start-ups - a great idea, executed effortlessly.
The next step is to reach for the holy grail of travel - making tourists feel like genuine locals.
Its new Trips service, announced on Thursday, will let local people offer their knowledge, experience, work or even just their social life - for a price.
To take just one example: anyone can visit Nelson Mandela’s prison cell. But with AirBnB Trips you’ll be able to get a guided tour from a man who was a prison warden tasked with keeping watch over the great leader.
“The whole idea is that you can immerse yourself in local communities,” Chesky tells the BBC.
"We bring places to life through the people who live there."
It won’t be a free-for-all, he insists - you can't just offer “Bob’s pub crawl” on a whim and expect to get accepted. Instead, AirBnB is taking a highly-curated approach to ensure that the experiences aren’t terrible (or dangerous, unless that’s what you’re after).
“We decided to curate,” he says.
"We review the host's credentials, we make sure they do some test experiences, so that we can be sure people will enjoy them. It is a much higher level of quality vetting than before.”
The process includes helping hosts design professional old-movie-style posters to advertise their experience, and to record nifty short trailer videos to share more information.
This approach is by some magnitude more costly and time-consuming than just letting hosts do it completely by themselves. But it’s a tactic that paid off in the early days of AirBnB when the company invested in helping hosts take better pictures of their rooms, a decision which saw bookings skyrocket.
Chesky says the process of launching Trips has been on the go for more than four years. At launch, there are 500 experiences spread across 12 cities - London, Miami, Nairobi, Havana, Florence, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Detroit and Seoul, Paris and Cape Town.
‘Any excuse to evict'
AirBnB has a lot of enemies, big and small.
While to hosts the firm represents significant extra cash in their pockets, for others AirBnB can mean there’s suddenly a rowdy hotel on their previously quiet street.
Furthermore, landlords across the world are deciding to put homes that would be available for long-term renting onto AirBnB instead, driving rents up and contributing to housing shortages.
“The problem with AirBnB has never been the individual renters that are renting out part of their home or their place when they’re on vacation,” says Nancy Hanna, a Los Angeles-based attorney who represents people on low-incomes facing eviction.
Incomes so low, in fact, that Hanna tells me she once accepted some nice fruit as payment from a client.
“We’re seeing more and more property owners dedicating their entire buildings to AirBnB,” she continues.
“They just find any excuse to evict a tenant. Sometimes it will just be made up.
"What they’re hoping is that the tenant won’t have the resources or the legal know-how in order to be able to answer [the complaint] in time and they’ll just be evicted."
Sometimes landlords don’t even go the official route, Hanna says, instead just choosing to casually make their tenants’ lives a misery.
“Maybe they’ll stop offering repair services. Maybe they’ll start harassing the tenant.”
Regulation frustration
Some cities are tackling this issue head on. In New York, in perhaps the most significant anti-AirBnB action put in place so far, legislators have made it illegal to advertise temporary accommodation for less than 30 days if you live in a “multi unit”, i.e, an apartment building.
Repeat offenders can be fined up to $7,500. AirBnB is fighting the law in court.
It’s certainly not the only city where AirBnB is under the legislative microscope. Earlier this year I reported on Proposition F, an attempt by lawmakers in San Francisco to limit AirBnB hosts to being able to sell their space for a maximum of 75 days a year.
AirBnB pumped $8m into campaigning against the proposition. It won, but not by a lot.
For Chesky, 2016 has become yet another year of holding firm in the face of overwhelming opposition in key markets.
There’s light at the end of the tunnel, he says. He just doesn’t know how long the tunnel is right now.
“There’s definitely an end in sight. I’ll give you the answer I gave in 2010 - a year or two!
“Eventually here’s what will happen, San Francisco and New York, those cities will decide what path they want to go on. They will decide their fate.
“But the people in those cities will travel to other cities and see how those cities have dealt with AirBnB.”
Chesky believes that sheer people power will be what ultimately wins it for AirBnB, and that cities that do embrace the platform will be shown to have benefitted overall.
Race relations
On AirBnB, both guests and hosts are rated after a stay. This level of accountability is what the site is built around, building confidence.
But this kind of personalisation, where it’s good practice to share your real name and a smiley selfie, has also given rise to racism. Several studies showed that black people routinely found it harder to book than white.
Last month, Chesky and his team sent out an email to all of its members, both hosts and guests. In it, they set out an ultimatum: if you’re a racist, clear off.
It asked people to sign a “Community Commitment”, a pledge to treat all people equally. Those who didn’t sign would no longer be able to use the service.
A lot of people chose to decline.
“I don’t even know the number of the top of my head, but it was a lot,” Chesky says.
"We made a decision that this is not a service for everybody. We said ‘take it somewhere else. Not AirBnB.
“We started this company with the belief people are fundamentally good. Mostly everyone is really good, but when you have 100 million people, there are some who don’t believe in what you believe in."
Those who do sign the pledge are kept an eye on - instances of racism are being monitored on the site. If a person routinely denies bookings for people with great ratings but who also happen to be, say, Asian - the system will know, and AirBnB’s staff can step in.
In hindsight
Racism on the platform was a surprise at first, Chesky said - and he wished the company had realised it sooner so it could have set those out community guidelines from the off.
It’s one of many minor regrets he has about how the company was run in the early days.
“[Fellow co-founders] Joe, Nate and I were in a three-bedroom apartment. We didn’t have access to any policy people, any lawyers. We were trying to do our research but we weren’t very good at it.
“What I learned was the more you avoid things, the worse they get. We were slow to engage with a number of cities. People assumed the worst.
"There is sometimes distrust of new things, and a little bit of a generation gap between some of the politicians.
“There has been at times a gap in information. But I do think government and technology are finding ways to work together."
Monetising charm
I don’t agree with Chesky when he says there’s light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to pumping money into lobbying.
The nature of our cities, AirBnB’s business, and trends in politics means Chesky will forever have an evolving task to keep AirBnB on the right side of public and official opinion.
So, in many respects, broadening out what the company does is a wise move. Becoming more than just a place to stay could bring extra benefits to the communities that feel hard done by right now. AirBnB is effectively trying to monetise local charm.
And for what it’s worth, and at the risk of sounding like I’ve been “spun”, Chesky and his co-founders don’t seem hell-bent on profit at all costs in the same way other disruptive Silicon Valley start-ups often appear.
Chesky is, as your mother might say, a man that seems to have been “well brought up”, in that I buy his sincerity when he talks about doing what he can to limit the negative consequences his venture is having on communities.
And his actions have at least partly backed that up. In San Francisco, AirBnB limited the amount of homes you could post on AirBnB to just one per person.
"We stand firmly against people evicting people in cities that need the housing to use AirBnB,” Chesky says.
"In San Francisco we removed all people that had multiple listings. Thousands of homes. We agreed to a registration process which caps people being able to rent their homes for 90 days. You would never evict somebody, as far as I can tell, to rent your home only 90 days a year."
Of course you say that if he really cared he’d simply stop AirBnB from operating in cities with housing shortages. But he sees a different, and perhaps valid, obligation.
"I do acknowledge that there’s been challenges, but I hope people see there’s a bigger picture too, that lots of people stay in their homes because [of being able to rent rooms on AirBnB].
"We’ve agreed to restrictions. We definitely want to be part of the solution."
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook | What started as literally an air bed on the floor in Brian Chesky's apartment has blossomed into a service that has more than three million locations listed around the world. |
37,152,572 | Carmarthenshire developer Enzo's Homes is in the process of buying the Penllergaer civic centre site.
Money from the sale will go to build new schools and modernise council buildings.
Council leader Rob Stewart said the scheme, if approved, would provide much-needed housing in the area.
Enzo Sauro, of Enzo's Homes, said the firm was working on the finer details of the planning application.
He added the company would also gift three pieces of land to the Penllergare Trust, which manages the adjoining Penllergare Valley Woods.
The three-storey Penllergaer civic centre building first opened in 1982 for the former Lliw Valley Borough Council.
Staff at the building have been relocated. | Plans to build 80 homes on the site of council offices in Swansea have moved a step closer after contracts were exchanged for the sale of the land. |
30,697,140 | 7 January 2015 Last updated at 06:34 GMT
The rubber-like blocks from Indonesia were first found in 2012 by a beachcomber in Newquay, Cornwall.
It's been a mystery to many but Jenny has found someone who knows more. | Over the past few years mystery rubber tablets engraved with 'Tjipetir' have been found washed up all around Europe. |
39,581,238 | The plans will see Northampton's Vulcan Works turned into an Institute for Creative Leather Technologies and Leather Conservation Centre.
The buildings between Guildhall Street, Fetter Street and Angel Street were central to the town's shoe trade.
Northampton Borough Council backed the scheme which could create 300 jobs.
Units for other creative industries will also be built, along with a new three-storey building on Angel Street.
It is hoped construction work will start later this year.
Rachel Garwood, director of the Institute, which is part of Northampton University, said: "It's really exciting to bring leather back to the centre of Northampton.
"It will invigorate Northampton, add to the cultural quarter and give the student a better experience."
Tim Hadland, council cabinet member for regeneration at the council, said: "This is a big step forward for the project, and although there is much work to do before we can get under way.
"Northampton is a hive of creativity and this centre will become a focus for that activity, generating real benefits for the businesses involved, and our town centre's vitality.
"Leather is part of our history but this project is really focused on our future by ensuring that our Cultural Quarter and creative industries continue to set us apart."
The Vulcan Works was built in 1875 for engineering company Mobbs & Co and was later turned into a leather warehouse.
The building has been largely empty since the late 1970s. | A £12.4m scheme to convert a Grade-II listed disused ironworks and several run-down buildings into a cultural hub has been given planning permission. |
40,844,423 | The death, which happened on Victoria Street, was reported to police shortly after 14:15 BST on Sunday.
A 45-year-old man, understood to be the victim's twin brother, was arrested at the scene.
Police have been given extra time to question him on suspicion of murder.
The MLA for Upper Bann, Carla Lockhart, described the man's death as "horrendous news".
"My thoughts are with those now mourning the loss of a loved one," she said.
"I have spoken with the police and been briefed about their lines of inquiry.
"I would encourage anyone who has any information to come forward." | Police have launched a murder investigation after the body of a 45-year-old man was found in a flat in Lurgan, County Armagh. |
39,369,565 | Ross Torrance, 29, wore a balaclava when he robbed Bearsden Services but his stubble was seen poking out underneath by the forecourt worker.
He was also seen removing the balaclava in a nearby street by an off-duty police officer who identified him.
Torrance admitted the robbery and was jailed for four years and eight months.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that the police officer had heard a panic alarm sounding at the Duntocher Road garage and saw the man ran off.
The officer watched as he removed the balaclava in Castlehill Road and noticed he had red hair and a pale complexion. He identified the robber as Torrance, who lived nearby.
Two meat cleavers and a balaclava were found during a search at Torrance's home in Dryburgh Road.
The stolen money was not recovered.
Torrance admitted robbing the petrol station of a quantity of money and threatening 47-year-old Margaret Stowell with two meat cleavers on 8 December last year.
Prosecutor Bill McVicar told the court that Ms Stowell was about close at 22:00 when she was confronted by Torrance.
Mr McVicar said: "He said: "'Do what yer telt and you won't get hurt,' and placed a bag on the counter and said: 'Put yer money in it.'
"The complainer walked past him and made her way to the tills. She began to feel for the panic button and tried to stall the accused by informing him that it took a few minutes to get into the till.
"She then asked him if he was sure he wanted to do this as there was not a lot of money in the till as it had been a quiet day.
"The only facial feature she could see from under the balaclava was ginger stubble."
The court heard that after giving Torrance £170 from the till she told him that was all he was getting and activated the panic alarm.
When Torrance walked out the shop she phoned the police.
Another customer entered the shop and found Ms Stowell in a distressed state.
Torrance has previous convictions for assault and disorderly conduct and was jailed for 30 months in 2012 for an assault involving the use of a machete.
Defence counsel Ronnie Renucci said: "The story of Mr Torrance's life is one of drink and drugs.
"When he committed this offence he was under the influence of Valium and alcohol.
"He realises he was stupid. He lives close to the petrol station. He feels distressed and embarrassed by his behaviour. He is genuinely remorseful for what the complainer went through."
Judge Lord Boyd told Torrance: "Those who work in the retail sector must have the protection of the courts." | A man who raided his local petrol station armed with two meat cleavers was caught after his ginger stubble was spotted, a court has heard. |
35,060,510 | Lamine Diack, Coe's predecessor, is being investigated by French officials, and the bidding process to host the 2021 World Championships is also under scrutiny.
Fifa has also faced widespread corruption allegations this year.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter is the subject of a Swiss criminal investigation, started alongside a US inquiry which has indicted several top executives. Blatter denies any wrongdoing.
Asked if athletics' scandal was bigger than Fifa's, Coe said: "I don't actually believe that."
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm not walking away from the seriousness I'm confronting but we are talking about a criminal investigation that is looking at a handful of people.
"That's of no comfort to me because I'm still having to do the things I'm doing now on an hourly basis to make changes."
The IAAF was implicated in an independent report by the World Anti-Doping Association, which examined allegations of doping, cover-ups and extortion in Russian athletics.
Russia's athletics federation has since been banned from competition until it complies with IAAF rules.
Diack is being investigated over allegations he took bribes to cover up positive drugs tests. He has yet to respond to the claims.
On Wednesday, the BBC learned French prosecutors were examining how the American city of Eugene was chosen as hosts for the 2021 World Championships.
Eugene is closely linked to sportswear giant Nike, for whom Lord Coe was an ambassador at the same time he was IAAF vice-president.
Coe, a former head of Fifa's ethics committee who took over as IAAF president in August, ended his 38-year paid ambassadorial role with Nike in November.
The decision to award the World Championships to Eugene was made without the usual bidding process, but Coe said: "That's not without precedence.
"We have selected cities before not within a bidding cycle. Eugene was not put forward by the IAAF. It was put forward by US track and field.
"My council decided that this was the best opportunity to get the World Championships into the United States." | IAAF president Lord Coe says the athletics corruption scandal is not "bigger" than that facing Fifa in football, with both governing bodies under criminal investigation. |
30,484,600 | Chris Logue, 33, from Lady Wallace Crescent, Lisburn, County Antrim, is accused of sexual assault on 23 November last year.
The incident is alleged to have happened at a solicitors' function in a hotel in Newcastle, County Down.
The court heard the woman solicitor had felt "humiliated".
She said she was pestered, manhandled and groped for 10 or 15 minutes.
She told Newtownards Magistrates Court that initially she had kept telling Mr Logue to stop and "respect my space" in a polite way.
She said she had been "giving him a bye ball as he had had too much to drink" but when he would not take no for an answer she used strong language to tell him to go away.
The woman claimed that both she and another female colleague at the table told Mr Logue to stop, and kept slapping his hands away.
The judge heard that at one stage, the woman's son who was working at the hotel identified himself to Mr Logue in the hope of embarrassing him into stopping.
He described Mr Logue's demeanour that evening as "arrogant and rowdy" and that when he moved to sit beside his mother, he saw her repeatedly pushing him away and telling him to stop.
Asked by a prosecution lawyer if he did anything about the alleged behaviour, the teenager told the court "yes I went over and put my hand on his shoulder and said 'that's my ma' thinking that he would be embarrassed and stop, but he "kept on doing it".
Under cross examination, it was suggested to the teenager that he could have gone to reception and reported the alleged behaviour to the manager.
However, he told the barrister that given it was a solicitors' function he "would have thought that they would have known what was right and what was wrong".
Later his mother said she had noticed Mr Logue earlier that evening as he was "intoxicated and loud" and that the first she had spoken to him was when he sat down beside her and made a derogatory comment about her salary.
She further claimed that Mr Logue also told her she was "very nice" and "suggested that he would like to 'enjoy me'".
The court heard that over the next 10 or 15 minutes, despite being told to stop and being forcibly pushed back, Mr Logue tried to hug her, touched her breast area, touched the top of her bottom, briefly "nuzzled" his face into her breast and at one stage, put his head in her lap.
She claimed that when he "tried to climb on top of me" she swore at him, but even then Mr Logue did not stop and at one stage he allegedly "lunged" at her from behind and received an elbow in the stomach.
Asked if that had any effect, she told the court "not particularly, despite my normal expectation".
She said she did not call the police to the hotel as it was not an emergency situation, she wanted to keep the reputation of County Down solicitors intact and that as he was drunk, it was possible Mr Logue would have caused a scene.
The woman solicitor claimed she did not report the alleged incident to police for another six days as she had anxiously considered the consequences of "putting my head above the parapet".
It was put to her that the defence case was that in those six days, she felt "annoyed and angry at the embarrassment" she had encountered, but that in no way was what happened an intimate sexual attack.
A defence lawyer suggested that she had misinterpreted Mr Logue's "loud and boisterous behaviour", but the woman solicitor refuted this, telling the lawyer she disagreed.
Describing Mr Logue's behaviour as that of an "eejit," the defence lawyer further suggested Mr Logue was "a nuisance and annoying but he wasn't a sexual predator".
The woman solicitor again responded that she disagreed. | A solicitor was allegedly "out of control" when he is alleged to have groped another solicitor, a court has heard. |
36,877,837 | Seven of those who died were teenagers; the youngest were just 14 years old.
More than 30 other people were injured, German police said.
Officials said Sonboly had set up a fake Facebook account in May and sent a message luring victims to a branch of McDonald's with the promise of free food.
German media reports have said those who died were all Munich residents. Many of them were from families with origins outside Germany.
Hussein Daitzik (or Huseyin Dayicik), a 17-year-old of Greek origin, was said to have been shot dead as he tried to protect his sister from the shots.
A Greek Muslim lawmaker has said the Daitzik family comes from the Muslim minority in Western Thrace, in northern Greece. German TV said Hussein was born and lived in Munich.
A New York Times reporter met the boy's father, Souleyman, outside one of the city's hospitals as he searched for his son. He told her Hussein and his sister had gone to the shopping mall together but had become separated after the shooting started.
His daughter managed to escape from the gunfire and was rescued by the emergency services and taken to hospital, suffering trauma. Hussein's death was confirmed later.
Guilliano Kollman, 18 or 19, reportedly died outside the McDonald's where the shooting started. "He was a funny guy, a normal guy. No-one had anything against him," one friend was quoted as saying.
Dijamant Zabergja, 20 or 21, the son of a police officer of Kosovo Albanian heritage, was also shot dead. His father, Naim, visited the scene on Saturday, carrying flowers and a photograph of his son.
The dead were also reported to include:
The BBC has not received authorisation to publish any pictures of those killed, other thanDijamant Zabergja. | Nine people were killed by David Ali Sonboly in Friday's attack in Munich, before the teenage gunman turned the weapon on himself. |
39,350,144 | Officers say they were called to Hamstead Road, in the Lozells area of the city at 01:10 GMT following reports of "gunshots" being fired and "disorder".
West Midlands Police said a man was found with "minor injuries".
The scene has been cordoned off while investigations are carried out. Police have urged anyone with information about the incident to contact them.
More stories from Birmingham and the Black Country here. | A man was dragged from his car and attacked in a street in Birmingham. |
23,595,519 | It is the latest move to stop the 33-year-old Bristol businessman being sent back to South Africa to face trial over his wife's death.
Mr Dewani is accused of plotting to kill 28-year-old Anni Dewani, who was shot in the head on the outskirts of Cape Town in November 2010.
He was told last month he will be extradited to South Africa for trial.
Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle ruled at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 24 July that he should be extradited and rejected his attempt to stay in the UK for further hospital treatment for mental health problems.
Judge Riddle had given the go-ahead to Mr Dewani's extradition in 2011.
He had to reconsider the position after two senior High Court judges - Sir John Thomas, president of the Queen's Bench Division, and Mr Justice Ouseley - allowed an appeal in March last year.
They were told Mr Dewani had depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The pair said it would be "unjust and oppressive" to remove him until he recovered but it was plainly in the interests of justice that he was extradited as soon as he was fit.
Mr Dewani's lawyers lodged an application at the High Court for the two judges to now certify that their ruling raised "a point of law of general public importance" for consideration by the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.
Mr Dewani is suspected of ordering the killing of his new wife Anni as they drove through the Gugulethu township in a taxi.
They were kidnapped at gunpoint.
Mr Dewani was released unharmed, but the next day the body of Mrs Dewani was found on the back seat of the car in Lingelethu West, with injuries to her head and chest.
Last year, South African Xolile Mngeni was convicted of premeditated murder for shooting Mrs Dewani.
Prosecutors claimed that he was a hit-man hired by Mr Dewani to kill his wife, something that Mr Dewani has consistently denied.
The couple's taxi driver Zola Tongo was jailed for 18 years after he admitted his part in the killing, and another accomplice, Mziwamadoda Qwabe, also pleaded guilty to murder and was handed a 25-year prison sentence. | Honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani's lawyers are to launch a bid to take his case to the Supreme Court. |
34,627,736 | Many employers will have to increase salaries when the new £7.20 an hour measure comes into effect next April.
Colin Neill of Hospitality Ulster said it would have major implications for hotels and restaurants.
He told the BBC's Inside Business programme there was a risk of more workers being paid "cash-in-hand".
Mr Neill said that while the hospitality industry was "in a much more difficult place than others", various sectors were looking at "how we're going to deal with this and, actually, how can you pass on the cost".
Announced by Chancellor George Osborne in the Budget, the National Living Wage will be paid to both full-time and part-time workers aged 25 and above.
Initially, it will be set at £7.20 an hour, with a target of it reaching more than £9 an hour by 2020.
Inside Business is on BBC Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle at 13:30 BST on Sunday, and is available to listen to afterwards on the BBC iPlayer. | The National Living Wage's introduction could mean an increase in black market payments to workers, a hospitality industry spokesman has said. |
35,512,785 | BBC Sport takes a closer look at what happened in the matches that did go ahead and one that maybe should have.
Leeds United chairman Massimo Cellino does not like the number 17.
The superstitious Italian believes the number brings bad luck and during his time as owner of Italian side Cagliari had all the number 17 seats replaced with 16b.
With that in mind, the front cover of the Leeds United programme today welcomed fans to home game number 16b of the season.
Sadly for Cellino and Leeds fans, renaming the fixture did not have the desired result as Forest recorded a 1-0 win thanks to Nelson Oliveira's header.
As if to rub salt in the wound you can probably guess what number the goalscorer was wearing - 17.
The Portuguese also scored against Leeds when the two teams met in December. Maybe Cellino has a point after all.
It was a slightly shortened fixture list in League One and Two with seven matches falling foul of the wet weather around the country.
One of those to go was the League One derby between Scunthorpe and Doncaster at Glanford Park.
Referee Mark Haywood made the decision to call the game off at 12:30 GMT but, as the picture above attests, it may have been a slightly premature call.
Iron chief executive James Rodwell said: "I'm livid about the whole thing. I don't think he needed to make that decision.
"If a game should be called off because there's some danger to the players safety then call it off. Today doesn't fall into that category."
It's been a big season for 22-year-old Tom Nichols.
He scored against Liverpool in the FA Cup for Exeter, earned himself a move to League One Peterborough and netted the winner on his debut for his new team against Chesterfield.
That's only part of the story though, as minutes after the striker registered his first goal for the club, he saw his team-mate Michael Smith dismissed for a second bookable offence.
Then, with 12 minutes to go, team-mate Ricardo Santos joined Smith in the dressing room after picking up his second yellow card of the match.
That prompted manager Graham Westley to replace Nichols with centre-half Gaby Zakuani and somehow Posh held out.
"I said to Tom at half-time it's fine that it's your debut, but you haven't done anything and I want to see something from you. It was good to see him produce something in the second half," boss Graham Westley told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
The League One side host Premier League strugglers West Brom in their FA Cup fourth round replay on Wednesday - but Nichols is ineligible.
Mansfield keeper Scott Shearer probably thought it was going to be one of those days when Kevin Ellison gave Morecambe the lead after just 58 seconds.
His mood was lifted by goals from Matty Blair and Krystian Pearce putting his side in front after 24 minutes - and thereafter the Scot came into his own.
First, the former Crawley and Rotherham man stopped Shaun Miller's 35th minute penalty after Ryan Tafazolli had fouled Andrew Fleming in the area.
Then, in the 85th minute Shearer repeated the trick when he kept Paul Mullin's spot-kick out after Jack Thomas was penalised for handball.
The Stags, who had boss Adam Murray sent to the stands, are up to fifth in League Two.
It was a day of mixed emotions for Sheffield Wednesday at Birmingham.
Attacking midfielder Kieran Lee was injured in the warm up, forcing Owls head coach Carlos Carvalhal to bring Vincent Sasso into the starting XI and move Sam Hutchinson from midfield to defence.
Less than 10 minutes into the game, Hutchinson collided heavily with Wednesday keeper Keiren Westwood and both players had to be substituted.
The injuries meant that there were 13 minutes of injury-time played at the end of the first half and it was after five of those that the hosts went in front thanks to Clayton Donaldson.
After such adversity it would perhaps have been understandable if the visitors had crumbled, but a Gary Hooper double gave the Championship play-off hopefuls an unlikely win. | It was a wet day for much of England, resulting in seven games being called off before a ball was kicked. |
32,132,489 | The 33-year-old recently led New Zealand to the World Cup final, which they lost to Australia on Sunday.
McCullum has signed a seven-game deal, which should make him available for half of the Bears' qualifying group games, as they aim to defend the trophy they won for the first time in August.
He is due to arrive at Edgbaston after New Zealand's short tour of England.
His first game is scheduled to be against Lancashire Lightning at Old Trafford on Friday, 26 June, followed by three chances for Warwickshire supporters to see McCullum in home games.
"Edgbaston is a fantastic ground to play at," said McCullum. "Hopefully, it will be rocking for the big Friday night matches. I'm really excited about becoming a Bear."
Bears director of cricket Dougie Brown said: "Brendon's dynamic performances in the World Cup have demonstrated once again exactly why he is one of the most feared batsmen in the game.
"Securing his availability for our last seven games has to make him one of the biggest overseas player signings in the competition's history.
"It was great to see bigger crowds at Edgbaston for our Friday night matches last season. Hopefully the opportunity to see one of the greatest limited-overs batsmen of the modern game will ensure we get even more fans to Edgbaston."
McCullum, who will be making his 10th move to a T20 team, will be taking up his third contract within county cricket in England and Wales.
He previously came over to play for Glamorgan in 2006 and Sussex, for whom he played limited-overs cricket only in 2010. | Champions Birmingham Bears have signed New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum for this summer's T20 Blast. |
32,209,998 | Alpha Home Care was responsible for 266 people in Powys and 78 people in Neath Port Talbot.
Both councils have axed the firm, which received two critical reports from Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW), and it is understood Swansea council is set to follow.
Alpha Home Care declined to comment.
Neath Port Talbot council has also terminated the contract of Alpha's sister company Bryce Care.
The most recent CSSIW report in February highlighted six breaches of care regulations.
In April 2014, Alpha Home Care was one of four companies awarded a contract to provide home care to vulnerable people in Powys.
Last September, another of those companies, Reach, ended its contract just before a scathing report was published into the care it delivered.
Although Alpha Care's service in Neath Port Talbot and Swansea was praised by CSSIW, Neath Port Talbot said they'd ended the contract because of concerns about the company's financial stability as a result of the Powys contract being terminated.
A Powys council spokesman said: "Senior care managers are already working closely with Alpha Home Care to transfer staff to the council and other providers to ensure consistency of service is maintained."
It said it was working hard to iron out any glitches that occur as a result of the transfer as quickly as possible.
Swansea council said it had not yet cancelled its contract and the situation was under review.
All three local authorities said the well-being and safety of clients was their top priority. | A firm responsible for providing home care for hundreds of people has had its contract cancelled by two councils, BBC Wales has learned. |
26,798,631 | Van Gaal, 62, will be replaced by Guus Hiddink as coach of the Netherlands after this summer's World Cup.
Spurs named Tim Sherwood, 45, as head coach on an 18-month deal in December.
Ex-Chelsea boss Gullit told BBC Radio 5 live: "I know for sure he was at Van Gaal's house, the chairman. I think it's a done deal, but you never know."
2012-2013: Andre Villas-Boas
2008-2012: Harry Redknapp
2007-2008: Juande Ramos
2004-2007: Martin Jol
June 2004-Nov 2004: Jacques Santini
Van Gaal, who has previously managed Ajax, Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar and Bayern Munich, said recently: "I've always said that I want to work in the Premier League, so there's a chance."
One proviso Van Gaal had made previously was that he was not prepared to combine two roles, but the end of his second spell as Netherlands coach this summer would allow him to pursue other jobs.
However, a Spurs source questioned the timing of a rumoured meeting between Levy and Van Gaal, intimating any such conversations might have been before Sherwood's appointment, adding: "We don't comment on speculation."
In his first managerial role, former Spurs midfielder Sherwood has presided over 10 wins, eight defeats and three draws in his 21 games in charge since taking over from Andre Villas-Boas in December, initially as interim boss.
But he accepts that with only a short-term contract, speculation will continue about his future.
He told the Independent: "Daniel wants the club to do well. He cares for the club. And I believe he wants me to do well. I would like [the contract] to be 10 years but I am realistic enough to know this is a dress rehearsal. I am untried.
"What I would say is there is no guarantee [about the alternatives]. Someone could win 19 trophies elsewhere and they might not fit at Tottenham. The club has to fit the manager and you don't know until you bring them in. But they have a better idea with me than anyone else."
Following the world record £85.3m sale of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid last August, Spurs spent £107m on seven new overseas players, recruitment overseen by technical director Franco Baldini, the former England assistant manager.
"They are all internationals, but it is like fixing a washing machine with someone's tool bag," Sherwood added. "Sometimes you might not have the right bit." | Ruud Gullit says Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has met with Louis van Gaal and claims it is a "done deal" that the Dutchman will take over as Spurs boss. |
35,614,762 | The victim, found with a head injury on Thursday in a play area in Rochdale, has not yet been formally identified.
But a Facebook post on Friday from Jalalia Jaamé Mosque said Koran reader Jalal Uddin "passed away last night".
A post-mortem examination of the victim, believed to be in his 40s or 50s, is due to take place later.
The mosque's social media post said: "It is with deep sadness we inform you that our dear Qari Jalal Uddin Saab passed away last night.
"The cause of his death is yet to be confirmed, we recommend that you do not speculate but rather wait for the facts to be established by the police."
Dobir Miah, chief officer for the Rochdale Council of Mosques, promised to "offer any assistance" to Greater Manchester Police.
"We would like to urge people to please remain calm and be reassured that everything possible is being done to find out what has happened," he said.
"Nothing has been said that suggests there is an immediate threat to people doing their day-to-day activities."
It is understood Mr Uddin was a qari (Koran reader) at Jalalia Jaamé Mosque.
Mr Uddin is believed to have been on his way home from a friend's house when he was assaulted between 20:40 and 20:55 GMT.
Assistant Chief Constable Rebekah Sutcliffe, who appealed for witnesses, said: "We were called last night just before 9pm to the Wardleworth play zone which is on South Street in Rochdale to a report of an injured man.
"What we have since been able to find out is that an Asian man aged between 40 and 50 has a head injury, we believe, as a result of being assaulted and we are treating that as a murder investigation.
"The investigation is at a really early stage and I must stress that. A man is in custody and has been arrested but at the moment we are keeping a completely open mind as to what the motive for this attack is."
She said that while detectives were looking at the possibility of the incident being racially motivated, "at the moment we just cannot say one way or the other". | Police investigating the death of a prominent member of a Greater Manchester mosque have arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of murder. |
20,321,741 | Savita Halappanavar's family said she asked several times for her pregnancy to be terminated because she had severe back pain and was miscarrying.
Her husband told the BBC that it was refused because there was a foetal heartbeat.
Ms Halappanavar's death, on 28 October, is the subject of two investigations.
An autopsy carried out two days after her death found she had died from septicaemia, according to the Irish Times.
Ms Halappanavar, who was 31 and originally from India, was a dentist.
Praveen Halappanavar said staff at University Hospital Galway told them Ireland was "a Catholic country".
When asked by the BBC if he thought his wife would still be alive if the termination had been allowed, Mr Halappanavar said: "Of course, no doubt about it."
He said Savita had been "on top of the world" before experiencing difficulties.
"It was her first baby, first pregnancy and you know she was on top of the world basically," he said.
"She was so happy and everything was going well, she was so excited.
"On the Saturday night everything changed, she started experiencing back pain so we called into the hospital, the university hospital."
He said she continued to experience pain and asked a consultant if she could be induced.
"They said unfortunately she can't because it's a Catholic country," Mr Halappanavar said.
"Savita said to her she is not Catholic, she is Hindu, and why impose the law on her.
"But she said 'I'm sorry, unfortunately it's a Catholic country' and it's the law that they can't abort when the foetus is live."
The baby's heartbeat stopped on the Wednesday.
"I got a call at about half twelve on the Wednesday night that Savita's heart rate had really gone up and that they had moved her to ICU," Mr Halappanavar said.
"Things just kept on getting worse and on Friday they told me that she was critically ill."
He said some of Savita's organs stopped functioning and she died on Sunday 28 October.
By Shane HarrisonBBC Ireland Correspondent
Abortion remains a divisive issue in the Republic of Ireland, but not as divisive as it once was.
But the country's abortion laws are a mess and have been for 20 years since what was called the 'X case'.
'X' was a suicidal pregnant 14-year-old school girl, the victim of a rape who was initially prevented from leaving the state to terminate her pregnancy.
The Irish Supreme Court ruled that the mother and child have an equal right to life but that the threat of suicide was grounds for an abortion.
However, no government has enacted legislation to give certainty to doctors as to when terminations can be carried out and under what circumstances.
Politicians privately admit this is due to a belief on their part that people in the Irish Republic don't want abortion in Ireland as long as there's a British solution to the country's abortion problem.
Pro-choice activists accuse successive governments of moral cowardice.
But the current Fine Gael-Labour coalition has said it will finally legislate on the matter.
University Hospital Galway is to carry out an internal investigation. It said it could not comment on individual cases but would be cooperating fully with the coroner's inquest into Ms Halappanavar's death.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the Galway Roscommon University Hospitals Group extended its sympathy to the husband, family and friends of Ms Halappanavar.
It said it was standard practice to review unexpected deaths in line with the Irish Health Service Executive's (HSE) National Incident Management Policy.
"Galway Roscommon University Hospitals Group wishes to emphasise that the facts of this tragic case have yet to be established; that is the purpose of the review," the statement said.
The HSE has launched a separate investigation.
Asked if the Irish government would carry out an external inquiry into the death, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny said: "It would be very appropriate that we don't rule anything out here, but there are two reports and investigations going on at the moment."
The group Precious Life, which campaigns against abortion, said its thoughts and prayers were with Ms Halappanavar's family.
In a statement, it said it hoped the investigations would "shed full light" on what had happened.
"Ireland's laws protecting unborn babies do not pose a threat to women's lives, according to the obstetricians and gynaecologists who care for women every day," they said.
Dr Muiris Houston, health analyst for The Irish Times, said that all of the circumstances surrounding the incident had not been revealed yet.
He described it as a "rare situation".
"It is deeply shocking, but I think as responsible people we have to remember that you do need to hear all sides of the story before you make any definitive comment," he said.
"I do believe we need to do that in this case."
About 2,000 protesters assembled outside the Irish parliament in Dublin on Wednesday evening to call for the Irish government to urgently reform the Republic's abortion laws.
A minute's silence was held in memory of Mrs Halappanavar.
A group of about 40 protesters also gathered outside the Irish embassy in London.
In Cork, a candlelight vigil was held at the city's opera house in memory of the dentist.
Abortion is illegal in the Republic except where there is a real and substantial risk to the life, as distinct from the health, of the mother.
The Irish government in January established a 14-member expert group to make recommendations based on a 2010 European Court of Human Rights judgment that the state failed to implement existing rights to lawful abortion where a mother's life was at risk.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health said that the group was due to report back to the Minister for Health, James Reilly, shortly.
"The minister will consider the group's report and subsequently submit it to government," the spokesperson said.
Mr Halappanavar is still in India after accompanying his wife's body there for her funeral. | The husband of a pregnant woman who died in an Irish hospital has said he has no doubt she would be alive if she had been allowed an abortion. |
38,005,141 | Now a group of musicians is helping bring a tune back to even the most battered of violins and sending them to children over 5,000 miles away.
Between breaks for recording soundtracks for iconic shows including Dr Who and Sherlock, four musicians from the BBC National Orchestra for Wales (NOW) are lovingly repairing hundreds of instruments to send to Patagonia in time for Christmas.
The two percussionists, one trumpeter and a cellist, were spurred to action after seeing children learning on toy instruments during the orchestra's first visit to Argentina's Welsh-speaking community last year.
The project is the brainchild of lead percussionist Chris Stock, who said a lot of the schools made their own, with children hitting makeshift bongos made from pipes and carrier bags.
"In the youth orchestra there weren't any timps," added trumpet player Rob Samuel, who was shocked by the lack of instruments.
"When we asked why, they said there weren't any timps in the whole of the Chubut Province area - they were playing on toy glockenspiels and things like that.
"That's like learning on a plastic trumpet."
What started as an idea during the orchestra's tour to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the arrival of a community of Welsh settlers in Patagonia, is now slowly becoming a reality for the team.
Folk harps - small harps with pedals - three pairs of timpani, a flute, clarinet, French horn, guitars, 200 violins, and even a bassoon, in all different states of repair have been dug out of cupboards and donated from across Wales.
Even the most battered fiddle is put to use, with the team breaking up the bodies of violins to use for parts. Others are sold to a local artist to raise cash to buy new instruments.
Cellist Rachel Ford said: "We are making use of anything that comes in.
"We will find a way of making it useful, but we don't want to send tatty stuff out to the students. We want to send them good instruments to learn on."
On Saturday the first instrument, a bright red violin, will be taken from Cardiff to Trevelin by former weather presenter Sian Lloyd.
Won at a raffle by Shelia Hobbs from Penarth, the violin has become the symbol of a project which the team hopes will bring music to thousands of young people both in Patagonia and Wales.
They hope the violin will be the first of hundreds of refurbished instruments to head across the waters for a new life - with others remaining in Wales to help children in cash-strapped schools.
Ms Hobbs, who won the violin at a festival in Cardiff and has been playing it as a folk performer, said knowing her violin was heading to such a project was a "marvellous way" to end her years with the instrument.
One school has asked for a piano, as there are none nearby, but the musicians are under no illusion they can fly one over.
Another is struggling to meet demand with 43 children waiting to learn the violin with just a handful to share between them.
Chris said the situation was hard to imagine when there were so many pianos in living rooms across Wales which are "never played".
"You're missing out on something, a whole part of your life," percussionist Phil Girling added, explaining it is hard for players to even buy reeds for clarinets in Patagonia.
"Not being able to experience that sort of thing in an early age is like not being able to access the internet or not being able to go to the library to get a book."
While the team have large ambitions, the reality of transporting such a large and precious load so far is starting to set in.
So far, six flight cases filled with all kinds of instruments have been donated - some from musicians' storerooms, others from music shops, while some have simply been pulled out of attics.
But flying all the instruments could cost about £1,300 - which would have to be funded out of the musicians' own pockets and the project has already hit delays.
The team are now hoping to ship the instruments out before Christmas but are waiting to get charity status to make sure there are no issues along the way.
They learned that lesson the hard way, when a case of harps donated from north Wales for the orchestra to take with them got stuck in customs for seven months last year. | In cupboards and attics across Wales hundreds of musical instruments lie gathering dust, silent for years after their last note was played. |
18,411,077 | Thousands of people thronged the streets as the torch relay made its way through the city, pausing on The Mound before being carried up the Royal Mile.
Earlier the flame was carried on St Andrews' West Sands Beach, recreating the opening scene of Chariots of Fire.
The 145-mile route also took in the
Wallace Monument
and
Stirling Castle
.
On its last full day in Scotland, the relay visited a number of other landmarks including the Falkirk Wheel, the Forth Road Bridge and the Old Course at St Andrews.
The flame was carried into Edinburgh Castle by Lesley Forrest, 55, who received a kidney transplant in 1996 and a year later started competing in the British Transplant Games with the Scotland team. She became a multiple medallist at both the British and World Transplant Games.
Scottish Secretary Michael Moore, who was at the castle to watch the cauldron being lit, said the public had given the relay an impressive reception throughout Scotland since its arrival at Stranraer on 7 June.
"It's been very staggering how many people turned out in rain and sun the length and breadth of the country. We have seen people embracing the torch and the Olympics and being part of it," he told the BBC.
The first of the day's 115 torchbearers in the centre of St Andrews was record-breaking Scottish long-distance cyclist Mark Beaumont.
Perthshire-born Beaumont cycled round the world between August 2007 and February 2008, travelling 18,296 miles in 194 days through 20 countries.
On Wednesday morning, he ran from the university - where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge once studied - through the city, and later took the torch on the Forth Road Bridge.
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At the
famous golf course
, the torch was carried by Louise Martin, chair of Sport Scotland, over a landmark for golf fans, the stone Swilcan Bridge.
It was originally built for shepherds but now spans the creek between the first and 18th fairways.
She said after carrying the torch: "It's quite surreal. I can't believe I've actually done it. It's churning inside, just the pleasure and what it meant to me."
Joseph Forrester, 13, led a group of children from Madras College across West Sands Beach beach in St Andrews to recreate the scene in the film Chariots of Fire - in which the beach doubles as Broadstairs in Kent.
After carrying the torch, Joseph, a member of Fife Athletics Club, said: "I was nervous because there were loads of people there, but I'm all right now.
"I'd love to compete in the Olympics one day."
Boccia medallist
Wednesday's route also took in Kinross, Alloa, Dunblane, Stirling, Falkirk and Dunfermline on the way to Edinburgh.
Torchbearers included John Legend - an American singer-songwriter who has won nine Grammys - and Scottish former ice dancer John Kerr.
The torch visited Stirling Castle, a symbol of Scottish independence with a long and turbulent history associated with great figures from Scotland's past such as Mary Queen of Scots and Sir William Wallace, who was the Guardian of Scotland.
The flame was carried up the cobbled street to the castle by Paul McIntyre, who has Becker Muscular Dystrophy.
The torch also visited the
Falkirk Wheel
, the world's first and only rotating boat lift, before travelling across the
Forth Road Bridge
and then taking in the picturesque
Hopetoun House
.
It was carried in Dunfermline by Andrew Slack, 22, from Linlithgow, who has severe learning difficulties as well as some physical and health problems.
He is a member of the No Limits Sports Club for children and young adults with special needs and won individual gold and team bronze in boccia at the Special Olympics in Leicester in 2009.
A total of 8,000 people are carrying the flame during its 8,000 mile, 70-day journey to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London on 27 July. | The Olympic cauldron has been lit at Edinburgh Castle at the end of a day which saw large crowds turn out to watch the flame. |
32,446,954 | The research looked at genetic editing techniques - which in theory can be used to snip out faulty bits of genetic material that would otherwise lead to serious inherited diseases.
This is the first time it is known to have been attempted on early human embryos. But the results suggest it can cause new, unintended genetic errors.
Experts are questioning whether the procedure - which, if taken further, could lead to genetic changes being passed on to future generations - has crossed ethical, moral and legal lines.
The study was published in the less well-known journal Protein and Cell, by a team of scientists from the Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou.
There are claims that more established journals such as Nature and Science rejected it on ethical grounds.
Researchers say they collected faulty human embryos incapable of leading to live births, from discarded stores at fertility clinics.
Using gene editing complexes they then tried to cut out and replace a gene responsible for a serious blood disorder.
But in many cases the procedure failed. And in some embryos, new genetic mutations, so-called off-target effects, arose in unexpected places.
Scientists suspect this was down to the gene editing technology working in places it was not intended to.
Researchers concluded these off-target effects "need to be investigated thoroughly" before any attempts to take the procedure to the clinic.
There have been strong reactions to this paper on several grounds.
Many focus on what would happen if embryos modified in this way were implanted in wombs and allowed to develop into live births.
This could mean dangerous, newly created genetic changes are passed on from one generation to the next.
And others argue the technology could be exploited to alter genes for cosmetic reasons.
Dr Yalda Jamshidi, at St George's University Hospital, said: "In theory, replacing the defective gene with a healthy one would be the ideal solution.
"Researchers have been working on developing techniques to accomplish this for many years.
"However, altering genes in human embryos can have unpredictable effects on future generations."
Others have questioned whether these techniques are even legal under current laws.
Prof Robin Lovell Badge, at the Crick Institute, says such procedures could be legal in the UK if granted a licence after careful consideration by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
But it would be illegal to then implant the embryos into a woman for further development.
Meanwhile in the US, it would not be possible to do this with federal funding. But finances from private companies and charities could be used in states that do not ban the procedure, he says.
As gene editing methods become simpler and more widely available, some scientists argue firm global governance is needed.
And they say regulations must make clear the difference between gene editing used in reproductive cells rather than cells that are not passed on.
Several trials are underway attempting to modify non-reproductive cells as an approach to treat cancer, for example.
But how international regulations would be enforced on technology that is easily accessible and developing at a fast pace, is unclear.
Some experts have gone even further, calling for a moratorium on further studies while science and society decide how far the technology should be allowed to go.
But despite the uproar, not everyone is against the research.
They argue that studies which bring us incrementally closer to eliminating life-limiting genetic diseases must be allowed to continue.
Prof Lovell Badge says he is fully supportive of research being carried out on early human embryos in laboratory settings - especially on embryos that are not required for reproduction and would otherwise be discarded.
If the techniques work, he says, there are many questions that could be asked about the role of specific genes in early human development.
And should the technology be proven safe and effective with further trials, the nature of the argument could change.
Prof Darren Griffin, at the University of Kent, argues if these obstacles are overcome, the next consideration is whether it crosses a moral boundary to apply it to patients.
"Equally, some will ask if the procedure is safe, do we have a moral imperative to make sure that we do it?" | A controversial Chinese study that reveals genes in human embryos have been modified for the first time has sparked fierce debate. |
40,000,760 | Arthur Collins, 24, is accused of 14 counts of grievous bodily harm with intent and one of throwing corrosive fluid on a person.
Twenty people were hurt when they were doused with a substance at the Mangle E8 club in Hackney on 17 April.
Mr Collins and a 21-year-old man are due on trial on 9 October.
Andre Phoenix of Clyde Road, Tottenham, is charged with seven counts of throwing a corrosive fluid with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
No pleas were entered when both men appeared via videolink at Wood Green Crown Court.
Confirming the date for their trial, Judge Peter Ader told the men "there will be other hearings, but you will be (attending) via videolink."
Mr Collins of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, who is also the father of Ms McCann's unborn child, only said the word "yes" when the judge spoke to him at the end of the hearing.
He and Mr Phoenix are next due to appear at the same court on 13 June. | The ex-boyfriend of reality TV star Ferne McCann is to face trial after being charged in connection with an acid attack at a London nightclub. |
28,404,164 | She will represent the Queen during a visit to the Mediterranean island on 20 and 21 September.
The trip has been planned to mark 50 years of Maltese independence.
The duchess will only spend one night away from home and Prince George, who will be one year old on Tuesday, will not go with her.
Earlier this year the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Australia and New Zealand with Prince George.
After the announcement of the duchess's solo trip, the official British Monarchy Twitter account tweeted: "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh lived in Malta when they were just married, while the duke was on naval service." | The Duchess of Cambridge will visit Malta later this year in her first official overseas trip without Prince William, Kensington Palace has said. |
34,385,872 | In the end, the man himself did not appear, but they stuck around anyway to witness a display of the kind of old-time socialist religion that was meant to have died out with the advent of Tony Blair.
Impromptu speeches by trade union leaders on the steps of the meeting house, to the distant sound of wild cheering and applause from the hall. Calls for unity and solidarity. Warnings about establishment conspiracies.
This was the kind of politics that you don't see on television any more.
And there was plenty of scorn for the media among those waiting to get in.
"When are you going to report something positive about Jeremy?," asked one woman on learning I worked for the BBC. She was quickly joined by others.
My protestations about impartiality cut little ice with them.
"The attacks on Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell over the past few weeks in the media are just the start of what's going to come," warned Fire Brigades Union leader Matt Wrack.
"They are lies!" cried a voice from the crowd.
Corbyn and McDonnell "represent a serious challenge to the establishment, in reality to the British ruling class" he told the crowd.
"MI5, Special Branch and the CIA are all watching this conference, and watching what is going on in the shadow cabinet, with the aim of undermining it."
Wrack's union is no longer affiliated to the Labour Party. Like many others at Monday night's event they walked away during the Blair years when the party abandoned their traditional brand of socialism.
They backed Jeremy Corbyn's leadership bid but "didn't expect to get very far".
Now, said Wrack, to the amazement of many people who had given up on politics, they had "the beginnings of a genuine mass political movement of the left for the first time in decades".
Katy Clark, who lost her North Ayrshire and Arran seat to the SNP in May, said she still couldn't believe John McDonnell was actually the shadow chancellor. She told a story about Jeremy Corbyn that cast him in a saintly light - he had donated his shoes to raise funds for the Palestinian solidarity campaign and cycled home in his socks.
Inside the hall, Ian Hodson, president of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union, was battling a faulty microphone as he rallied the crowd with the kind of speech that makes words like "barnstorming" and "firebrand" redundant.
"No factions, in-fighting or division!" he shouted, echoing the message of many speakers.
"The difference between a worker and a slave is the right to withdraw your labour," he said as he launched an attack on the government's Trade Union bill.
"We will fight. We will fight against these people who want to take our human rights, we will work with those people who believe in democracy. We will take the necessary action, which includes civil disobedience."
John McDonnell's speech was more measured, but no less clear in its message: The Labour Party was firmly on the side of the workers again. He repeated his call for non-violent direct action to defend trade union rights and fight cuts, praising disabled activists who had occupied the offices of fitness-to-work test company Atos.
He ended with a call for solidarity and was greeted by a standing ovation and a chorus of "the workers, united, will never be defeated".
McDonnell's left has spent so long on the margins of the Labour Party that they had given up hope of wielding real influence, let alone being elected to the leadership.
The Labour Representation Committee, which organised Monday night's event, was formed by McDonnell and a tiny group of supporters frustrated by Labour's direction under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Taking its name from a precursor of the Labour Party, set up by Kier Hardie in 1900, the idea had been to form a new party to represent the working classes and trade unionists in Parliament.
But it hadn't really worked, explained founding member Gordon Nordell to the crowd outside the Quaker Meeting House.
Instead of cheering crowds, the same "six, seven, eight, nine, ten" people turned up to meetings - and that was "no fun".
That has all changed now though. They can't quite believe it, but they have got their party back. | Crowds of Jeremy Corbyn worshippers were turned away from an overflowing anti-austerity rally at the Quaker Meeting House in Brighton on Monday night. |
38,803,529 | Michael Ryan was speaking at an event to highlight the importance of having an industrial strategy in Northern Ireland.
The manufacturing sector has been going through a difficult few years, with high-profile job losses.
Bombardier has been shedding jobs globally.
It is cutting about 20% of its Northern Ireland workforce over the next two years as part of global restructuring plans.
Earlier this month, Stormont's power-sharing institutions collapsed over the fall-out from a botched green energy scheme.
The political row over the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme, which is running £490m over-budget, led to a snap election being called on 2 March.
Mr Ryan said: "We need to keep working on the issues, expecting and knowing there will be a resolution at a political level.
"We need it as soon as we possibly can, and then we can find a way to work constructively together.
"In Northern Ireland, obviously we have had a few, very high-profile disappointments in recent years, with the closures of some companies. The rest of us, including Bombardier, have been challenged as well.
"We all do our risk planning at a macro-global level, at a national level and at a local level in Northern Ireland.
"We can't foresee all the risks, but we can try to mitigate what happens and look to the long term." | The manufacturing sector needs to see a swift political resolution at Stormont, says head of Bombardier in Northern Ireland. |
35,626,854 | Capt Brown also held the world record for flying the greatest number of different types of aircraft - 487.
During World War Two, Capt Brown, who was born in Leith in 1919, flew fighter aircraft and witnessed the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp.
The pilot, who had been appointed MBE, OBE and CBE, died at East Surrey Hospital after a short illness.
A statement released by his family said: "It is with deep regret that the passing of Captain Eric Melrose Brown CBE DSC AFC is announced.
"Eric was the most decorated pilot of the Fleet Air Arm in which service he was universally known as 'Winkle' on account of his diminutive stature.
"He also held three absolute Guinness World Records, including for the number of aircraft carrier deck landings and types of aeroplane flown."
Capt Brown was educated at Edinburgh's Royal High School, before studying at the University of Edinburgh, where he learned to fly.
He had caught the bug for flying at the age of eight when his father, a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during World War One, took him up in a bi-plane.
"There was no second seat, but I sat on his lap and he let me handle the stick," he told the BBC in 2014.
"It was exhilarating. You saw the earth from a completely different standpoint."
He retired from the Royal Navy in 1970 but became the director general of the British Helicopter Advisory Board and later the president of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1982.
Capt Brown wrote numerous books of his own and forewords for other authors on the theme of aviation, before and after his retirement.
In March 2015 a bronze bust of him was unveiled at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Somerset.
At his 97th birthday celebration in London on 27 January he was joined by more than 100 pilots, including the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir George Zambellas.
In 2014 , the war veteran was picked as the subject for the 3,000th edition of Desert Island Discs, during which he was described by presenter Kirsty Young as a "real life hero" and a "remarkable, dare-devil".
"When you read through his life story, it makes James Bond seem like a bit of a slacker," she said. | The Royal Navy's most decorated pilot, Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown, has died at the age of 97. |
33,802,453 | News of the impending barrier along Hungary's border with Serbia spread rapidly among the diverse groups of migrants travelling northwards through the Balkans, or still hesitating before setting out on the journey from northern Greece or western Turkey.
But the immediate effect seems to be the opposite of what the Fidesz government intended.
Before the announcement, 500 people a day were walking through the narrow bottleneck of woods close to the E75, the main Belgrade to Budapest motorway. Now the daily average is 1500.
The Dunaferr steel mill in Dunaujvaros in central Hungary has not seen so much media interest since communist times.
The city around it was a model Soviet settlement built after World War Two on the banks of the Danube, originally called Stalinvaros - Stalin-town.
Iron ore is still brought here on barges up the Danube, from Ukraine and Russia.
Forty-four inmates from the nearby Palhalmai jail, in grey prison uniforms and heavy, steel-capped boots stack giant girders, labouring under the watchful scrutiny of prison guards.
Despite the television cameras, many look glad to have a change from the boredom of prison life, showing off their physical strength, and stealing a wink at female reporters.
This will be the skeleton of the border fence. In another factory nearby, unseen by journalists, more inmates put together coils of of razor-wire - 'Nato wire' as it is known in Hungarian - for assembly down on the southern border.
It is 34C and the local Fidesz MP Denes Galambos, trapped in his business suit, looks more uncomfortable than most of the prisoners.
Hungary has no choice but to build this "temporary barrier", he says.
The main attraction of Hungary to most asylum seekers is that it belongs to the Schengen zone of border-free countries at the core of the EU.
Once here, there are no more border controls to reach Western Europe, with the exception of Britain and Ireland.
Using prisoners to build the barrier, and unemployed people and soldiers to fix it in place along the border, is the government's way of telling voters that it is trying to both protect them from migrant "hordes", and keep costs down.
Already estimated at €100m (£70m), Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that every penny spent on it hurts him.
"The real threat is not from the war zones, ladies and gentlemen, but from the heart of Africa," he said in his 25 July speech at Baile Tusnad in Romania.
The barrier is his contribution to protecting the European identity, he said, as well as the Hungarian one.
Originally planned for completion by November, Mr Orban now wants it finished by the end of August. That would require 6km a day.
An army officer overseeing construction at Morahalom, not authorised to speak on the record, said the coils of wire could be in place by then, but not the stanchions (fence posts), even at the current, frenetic rate.
Earth-moving machines have already carved a brown scar through the woods from Tiszasziget, a village on the border just south of Szeged, at one end of the border with Serbia, to Hercegszanto at the other end.
I asked government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs how effective he really expected the fence to be.
Surely determined asylum seekers will just go round your fence and enter Hungary over the 443km-long Romanian border, I said. Or across the 329km long border with Croatia?
"If necessary, we will build barriers there too," he said. Busy times beckon for the prisoners in Steelville. | Since Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced on 17 June that his government had decided to build a 175km-long (109 miles) steel barrier against illegal migrants, another 57,000 have entered the country. |
40,404,977 | Wallace helped the Lions win promotion from League One last season after signing on loan in January.
The 23-year-old joined Wolves from Portsmouth in May 2015, making 30 league appearances for the club.
Saville, 24, made 15 appearances for the Lions after joining on a three-month loan deal in October 2015.
He made his Football League debut for the club in March 2013 after joining on loan from Chelsea, before then signing for Wolves in August 2014.
Meanwhile, Wolves have opted not to take up the one-year option on the contract of defender Silvio, who will officially leave the club when his current deal expires at the end of June.
Injury-hit Silvio, 29, made only five appearances after joining Wolves last July from Atletico Madrid.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Millwall have signed midfielders Jed Wallace and George Saville from fellow Championship club Wolves, both for an undisclosed fee on three-year deals. |
39,016,354 | Non-league side Lincoln City, nicknamed the Imps, have beaten Premier League opponents Burnley 1-0 in the fifth round.
Here about five facts about this Imp-ressive victory...
They are Arsenal, Manchester City and Swansea City.
The 23-year-old centre-back signed from Dover.
They've reached the fifth round before, but the last time they did it was in 1902! | It's one of the biggest underdog stories in FA Cup history. |
37,581,910 | The attack took place in the western Tahoua region, Prime Minister Brigi Rafini told state TV.
Assailants targeted a military post near the camp, a local official told the Associated Press.
Northern and central Mali remain unstable nearly four years after France led a military intervention to drive out jihadists.
Niger battles terrorism threats on all fronts
Three soldiers were also injured in the attack, the local official said, and Prime Minister Rafini said the death toll could rise.
Last month, two refugees were killed when unidentified gunmen attacked a security post near Niger's Tabarey-barey camp, which also houses Malian refugees.
Niger's military is currently battling Boko Haram militants launching raids across the country's southern border from Nigeria as well as attempting to prevent violence spilling over from Mali to the west. | At least 20 soldiers have been killed in Niger in an attack on a camp for Malian refugees, officials say. |
34,559,234 | The army said the first incident, in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, saw an Israeli settler shoot dead a youth who attacked him.
In East Jerusalem, police reported that a Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces when he tried to stab a soldier at a checkpoint.
Violence between the two sides has recently spiralled.
There have been near-daily stabbings by Palestinians of Israelis this month.
Seven Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in the stabbings and some gun attacks. At least 39 Palestinians, including several of the attackers, have been killed in the growing unrest.
The upsurge in violence began last month when tensions at a flashpoint holy site in East Jerusalem revered by Jews and Muslims boiled over amid rumours Israel planned to relax long-standing rules to strengthen Jewish rights at the complex. Israel has repeatedly denied such claims.
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Friday on the upsurge of violence.
Opening the meeting, UN Assistant Secretary-General Taye-Brook Zerihoun welcomed repeated assurances by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the status quo at the flashpoint holy compound, known to Jews as Temple Mount and Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, would not change.
But he said that "reckless statements made by Palestinian and Israeli extremist elements reinforced by some mainstream voices as well" had created a different impression.
A second factor behind the recent escalation in violence was the "heavy handed approach by the Israeli security services", he said.
The Israeli deputy ambassador to the UN, David Roet, defended Israel's approach, saying it faced an enemy "willing to die in order to kill" and was "responding proportionately".
US President Barack Obama said he was "very concerned about the outbreak of violence" and urged leaders on both sides to "try to tamp down rhetoric that may feed violence or anger or misunderstanding".
There has been a spate of stabbings of Israelis - several of them fatal - by Palestinians since early October, and one apparent revenge stabbing by an Israeli. The attackers have struck in Jerusalem and central and northern Israel, and in the occupied West Bank. Israel has tightened security and its security forces have clashed with rioting Palestinians, leading to deaths on the Palestinian side. The violence has also spread to the border with Gaza.
After a period of relative quiet, violence between the two communities has spiralled since clashes erupted at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site in mid-September. It was fuelled by rumours among Palestinians that Israel was attempting to alter a long-standing religious arrangement governing the site. Israel repeatedly dismissed the rumours as incitement. Soon afterwards, two Israelis were shot dead by Palestinians in the West Bank and the stabbing attacks began. Both Israel and the Palestinian authorities have accused one another of doing nothing to protect each other's communities.
There have been two organised uprisings by Palestinians against Israeli occupation, in the 1980s and early 2000s. With peace talks moribund, some observers have questioned whether we are now seeing a third. The stabbing attacks seem to be opportunistic and although they have been praised by militant groups, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation.
What is driving the latest violence? | Two Palestinians who attempted to stab Jews in separate incidents have been killed, Israeli forces say. |
40,094,611 | The incident happened at Hoa Binh Province General Hospital, west of the capital, Hanoi, on Monday.
Eighteen people were being treated when some felt sick and breathless. Six patients died on Monday afternoon and another later that night.
Vietnamese authorities have launched a criminal investigation.
"I would like to apologise to families and the whole community; we are very surprised at this rare incident," hospital director Truong Quy Duong told state media.
The 18 patients were receiving routine dialysis, a process that cleans the blood and removes waste products - often by passing blood through a machine - for those whose kidneys have stopped working properly.
Le Tien Dung, whose wife is in intensive care, told AFP news agency that his wife had fallen ill during the treatment.
"She became itchy all over her body, she had a stomach ache and vomited," he said. "My biggest hope is that my wife will overcome this."
The remaining 10 patients have been transferred to another hospital in Hanoi and are reported to be in stable condition.
This is one of the worst medical incidents in Vietnam in recent years. Health authorities are trying to identify the cause and police in Hoa Binh have opened their own criminal investigation into suspected misuse of medicines.
On social media, many people have been shocked and disturbed. But in an apparent attempt to curb speculation, some early posts on Facebook were removed.
Patient safety in Vietnam's health care system - a mixture of government-funded and private facilities - has been in the spotlight in recent years.
In December, two people died at a Hanoi hospital due to anaesthesia procedures ahead of surgery. In 2013, three children died in Quang Tri after being given the wrong vaccinations.
State media said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam had visited the Hoa Binh hospital and called for "all available resources" to help the surviving patients.
Health ministry officials were at the hospital and must report findings by the end of Tuesday, it said. | Seven people have died and a woman is in intensive care after undergoing kidney dialysis treatment at a hospital in northern Vietnam. |
37,844,832 | The last time the prices/earnings ratio was so high was more than eight years ago, in March 2008.
Over the last three years, house prices have risen by 20%, while wages have risen by just 6%, the Nationwide said.
In the year to the end of October, prices went up by 4.6%, down from 5.3% in September.
They were unchanged during the month of October.
The average price of a UK house fell from £206,015 to £205,904, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis.
The Nationwide said the weakness of the market may still reflect the changes to stamp duty in April this year, when landlords were faced with tax rises.
Despite the fact that the house prices are so expensive relative to wages, low interest rates have made them more affordable.
"The steady decline in borrowing costs over the same period has helped to lessen the impact on affordability for home buyers," said Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist.
"Indeed, the typical mortgage payment expressed as a share of average take-home pay is little changed over the period, and is still in line with the long-run average."
Mr Gardner also pointed out price differences across the country, adding: "It is important to note that there is significant variation across the regions in terms of affordability.
"The cost of servicing the typical mortgage as a share of take-home pay is now above its 2007 peak in London and above its long-run average in the outer metropolitan and outer south-east regions.
"By contrast, housing appears far more affordable in northern England, Wales and Scotland."
Where can I afford to live? | The typical UK home now costs six times average annual earnings, even though house price inflation is slowing, according to the Nationwide. |
16,022,775 | The initiative by Forest Green Rovers is part of the Sustainability in Sport scheme set up by chairman Dale Vince.
Mr Vince, who also runs energy firm Ecotricity, said it was former Manchester United player Gary Neville's idea to launch the project.
The club said the 180 panels would generate about 10% of electricity used by the stadium.
The Blue Square Bet Premier club, based in Nailsworth, already spreads cow manure on its grass to create an organic pitch, and red meat was banned from the menu earlier this year.
Mr Vince said it was now looking at installing low energy LED floodlights, an electric robotic lawn mower and possibly an electric minibus for the team.
He said: "On the whole the fans have been very supportive. The fans are up for this eco adventure that we're on and it's good fun."
Sustainability in Sport, which was launched by Mr Vince and Gary Neville in May, is a not-for-profit foundation which aims to help sporting clubs and organisations in the UK to lower their carbon footprints. | A non-league football club in Gloucestershire is fitting solar panels to its stadium roof. |
33,164,642 | So usually on a Wednesday "sources close to the ECB" or "people familiar with the situation" have briefed the major financial wires that the central bank's governing council has given permission to Greece's central bank to lend a bit more to Greece's banks, to keep them afloat.
Here is a typical example.
And the likelihood is that again today, we will probably learn in this opaque manner that the amount the Bank of Greece can lend to Greece's tottering banks, to allow those banks to repay their depositors, has risen again - from the current ceiling of 83bn euros.
This is a very rum job.
Because the instant the ECB says it won't allow an increase in central-bank lending to the banks, the game would be up for Greece. There would be a run on the banks, because depositors would rightly at that point fear their money wasn't safe, and the banking system and economy would collapse.
So there is probably no more market-sensitive decision being taken anywhere in the world right now than whether the ECB is prepared to keep propping up Greece's bank.
That is why it is somewhat unnerving - to put it mildly - that the ECB doesn't disclose its actions in a normal transparent way, and trusts instead to unattributable briefings.
The point, I suppose, is that the ECB wants to maintain the fiction that the power of life and death over the Greek financial system and economy is actually with Greece's creditors, namely the IMF and eurozone governments.
But hang on a minute, there is another huge creditor as well, which has been intimately involved in the bailout discussions.
It's the European Central Bank, which is owed 20bn euros directly by the Greek government and considerably more indirectly via the collateral placed with it and with the Bank of Greece for credit provided to commercial banks.
So the ECB cannot escape its massive conflict of interest here.
Anyway, the point is that at the moment the bailout talks collapse, and the Greek government is unable to keep up the payments on its 320bn euros of official debts, the implicit value of Greece's debts - both public sector and private sector - would collapse.
At that juncture, Greek banks would - of course - be bust. They would be unable to lend, deposits would be frozen, and the entire economy would seize up.
Now of course the convention in central banks is that they can only lend to solvent banks.
But it is unarguably the case that Greece's commercial banks are only alive right now because the central bank is lending to them.
The notion that they are only suffering from a liquidity crisis, and that their assets are fundamentally ticketyboo is a fiction as magnificent as War and Peace - almost no economist in the world thinks the Greek government can repay all its debts, and few would place big bets on the ability of the private sector to keep its creditors, notably the banks, whole.
And yet the ECB is maintaining the fiction that the banks are sound, because it dare not be dragged into big politics.
So I imagine that yet again we will learn today, via off-the-record briefings to the wires, that the Bank of Greece is lending a bit more to commercial banks.
Of course that is the rational thing to do, pending some kind of resolution of the rescue talks between the Greek government and eurozone governments, led by Germany
But I am not sure the ECB's reputation is enhanced by the maintenance of the conceit that its judgement about lending to the banks is a routine technical one - especially if Greece collapses, and it ends up losing a fortune of eurozone taxpayers' wealth. | One of the oddest bits of central banking behaviour in the world right now is that pretty much every week since Greece's financial problems went nuclear again, at the start of the year, the European Central Bank has let it be known in a cloak-and-dagger way that it is still providing cooling fluid to the whole combustible mess. |
40,426,041 | In his final innings before the squad for the first Test against South Africa is named on Sunday, Hameed, batting at three, was lbw to Rikki Clarke for 23.
Lancashire went on to 178-4, a lead of 130, with Alex Davies making 79.
Warwickshire had been bowled out for 321, Andy Umeed eventually removed for 113 after 494 minutes at the crease.
He shared a stand of exactly 100 with Jeetan Patel, who was stumped by Stephen Parry, the left-arm spinner then trapping opener Umeed leg before in his next over.
Still, Warwickshire, Division One's bottom side, were able to extend their lead to 48 before Jordan Clark (4-81) bowled debutant George Panayi to end a 36-run last-wicket stand with Boyd Rankin.
Hameed had been off the field with a hand injury and, at first, that seemed to be the explanation for Jos Buttler opening the Lancashire second innings with Davies. However, when Buttler clipped Keith Barker's fifth ball to mid-wicket, Hameed emerged to suggest that the England one-day specialist's elevation up the order had been tactical.
Hameed looked increasingly assured until he played around his front pad to be leg before, extending his wait for a first-class half-century this season. Lancashire were then only seven runs ahead and two wickets down.
But Davies added 89 with captain Steven Croft until both fell to former England pace bowler Rankin. Davies first offered a leading edge to mid-on before Croft was brilliantly taken by Umeed at mid-wicket.
The visitors were again in danger of surrendering the initiative, but Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Dave Vilas guided them to the close to perhaps give Lancashire a slight advantage in a match that is delicately poised. With leaders Essex seemingly set for victory against Middlesex, second-placed Lancashire will want to maintain the chase, while Warwickshire will eye the chance for their first win of the season.
Andy Umeed's century was the slowest in County Championship history, breaking an 103-year-old record.
He reached his ton in 429 minutes - nine more than the previous slowest, by Northamptonshire's Billy Denton against Derbyshire in 1914.
Warwickshire all-rounder Rikki Clarke told BBC WM:
"We'll be in a strong position if we can take a couple of early wickets so we've just got to plug away and try to break this partnership with the new ball, which isn't far away.
"The pink ball has gone a little bit soft but sometimes a red ball does that. As bowlers you've just got toil away and try different things to try and get the breakthrough.
"The way Andy Umeed applied himself was brilliant for such a young guy. With someone like Jimmy Anderson coming in at you that's quite a challenge for anyone. But he stuck in there and fully deserved his hundred and Jeets stuck in their alongside him and put on an important partnership.
"There are definitely signs that we are turning things around. It's certainly not through lack of trying. Sometimes things just don't go for you and we have been in a spell like that. It will turn."
Lancashire batsman Alex Davies told BBC Radio Manchester:
"The pink ball is nice to see early on, nice and bright and pink, but it does go soft quite easily so as a batting unit it is quite difficult to get you out if you get in on a good pitch.
"It reverses quite early, similar to the white ball, but goes softer quite early. There are pros and cons but the experiment is still in its early stages so we'll see.
"In the context of the game, Andy Umeed played really well and did exactly what their team needed him to do and just dug in and put his team in a good position.
"I missed quite a lot of last season so having missed the last three-quarters of the season that made me even more hungry. I put a lot of hard hours in in the winter and I think I'm reaping the benefits." | Haseeb Hameed again failed to impress the England selectors at Edgbaston on day three of Lancashire's day-night Championship game against Warwickshire. |
15,169,769 | They said the unrest in the province of Qatif late on Monday had been incited by "a foreign country", without elaborating.
Saudi Arabia's minority Shia population is concentrated in the east, the scene of protests earlier this year.
State media said eight of those wounded were security personnel and three were civilians.
State news agency SPA quoted the interior ministry as saying that "a group of outlaws and rioters on motorbikes" had gathered in al-Awamia village near the city of Qatif, "carrying petrol bombs".
The group was responsible for acts leading to "insecurity with incitement from a foreign country that aims to undermine the nation's security and stability", SPA reported.
Saudi mentions of foreign meddling are normally veiled references to Iran, the region's main Shia power, observers say.
In March, Saudi police opened fire to disperse protesters in Qatif, a day before planned countrywide anti-government protests.
The protesters, from the Shia minority, were demanding the release of prisoners they said had been held without charge.
Protests are illegal in Saudi Arabia, which has had an absolute monarchy since its unification in the 1930s.
Rights groups have accused the police of beating protesters during previous rallies in Qatif.
Shias make up about 10% of the population in Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has not seen protests on the same scale as other nations in the Middle East and North Africa during the so-called Arab Spring. | Fourteen people have been injured in clashes in eastern Saudi Arabia, state media say. |
37,804,519 | "Acute ethanol intoxication" was a contributory cause of Mikhail Lesin's death on 5 November last year, said the US Attorney for District of Columbia.
The 57-year-old was found dead alone in his Dupont Circle Hotel room.
He had blunt-force injuries to his head, neck, torso, upper and lower extremities.
Who was Mikhail Lesin?
The US Attorney said these injuries were "induced by falls" following "days of excessive consumption of alcohol".
The statement said the investigation by Washington's Metropolitan Police Department and the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia with assistance from the FBI is now closed.
Russian state media reports had quoted Mr Lesin's family as saying he died of a heart attack.
But his mysterious death spawned conspiracy theories that he was murdered, and even preliminary US findings suggested foul play.
Russian officials had criticised a lack of communication from US authorities over Mr Lesin's death.
They said they became aware of details of his injuries only when the medical examiner's report was released.
BBC Russian says Mr Lesin was for a long time considered one of the most influential figures in the Russian media market and in the corridors of power.
He worked as an aide to the presidency between 2004-09, when he helped advise on the creation of the English-language news channel Russia Today.
Mr Putin led tributes to Mr Lesin following news of his death, hailing his "enormous contribution... to the formation of modern Russian media".
Mr Lesin had allegedly amassed millions of dollars in assets in Europe and the US, including $28m in Los Angeles real estate, while working for the Russian government.
Kremlin critics had suggested Mr Lesin was killed by Russian agents because he was about to make a deal with US officials investigating his property holdings in California.
Sergey Vasiliev, a business associate, told the Washington Post that a hotel security guard had checked up on Mr Lesin the night before he was found dead because the guest had not left his room in a long time.
Mr Vasiliev told the newspaper that the guard had found a drunken Mr Lesin on the floor asleep, and he resisted efforts to be helped up.
A cleaner found Mr Lesin the next morning lying in the same spot but non-responsive, added Mr Vasiliev.
The Dupont Circle Hotel, which is not far from the US capital's embassy row area, did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment. | US officials say the death of a former Vladimir Putin adviser, whose body was found in a Washington DC hotel with extensive injuries, was an "accident". |
40,418,208 | Clubb came off the bench in the 23rd minute for his first appearance since undergoing surgery 58 days ago.
His try came in between Sean O'Loughlin and Lewis Tierney scores for Wigan, while Lloyd White responded for Widnes to make it 16-6 at the break.
White pulled another try back before two Joe Burgess tries sealed victory.
Defeat ended Widnes' slim hopes of avoiding a bottom-four finish and having to fight for their top-flight status via the qualifiers.
Wigan's win takes them seventh in the table, above Huddersfield who were beaten 36-20 by Salford Red Devils in Sunday's other Super League match.
Clubb's comeback for the Warriors was not the only milestone moment for Shaun Wane's side as England full-back Sam Tomkins started a home match for the first time in 2017, having spent nine months out with a broken foot.
Tomkins played a crucial part in two tries, with a fine-cut out pass sending Burgess over for the first of two decisive late tries.
Winger Burgess' double came after he made a crucial tackle to deny Stefan Marsh a try and Widnes an equaliser with 19 minutes remaining of a pulsating match at the DW Stadium.
Wigan Warriors coach Shaun Wane:
"I'm happy with the win but I'm frustrated with some of the errors.
"If we keep hold of the ball and stop the unforced errors we could have won by a bigger margin. That's what we need to do, we need to be a bit more ruthless and we weren't that today.
"Our defence was much improved, they got two tries from poor defensive errors, but apart from that we defended really well. We have made massive improvements, but we can't mask over it."
Widnes Vikings coach Denis Betts:
"We played all right. At 16-12 with 10 minutes to go it's a pretty tight game.
"We have come back into it. If you look at the first two tries, Clubb's isn't a try and O'Loughlin's is a bit of magic and Danny Craven is out of position because he's only played two games at full-back.
"We defended our goal-line well, we've got to complete a bit better and be smarter with the ball, but other than that we didn't look out of our depth.
"I thought we had a chance to win that game but we didn't have enough composure or cutting edge to be able to do that."
Wigan Warriors: S Tomkins; Tierney, Gelling, Gildart, Burgess; Williams, Leuluai; Nuuausala, McIlorum, Sutton, Bateman, Farrell, O'Loughlin.
Replacements: Clubb, Powell, Wells, Isa.
Widnes Vikings: Craven; Marsh, Bridge, Runciman, Thompson; Mellor, Gilmore; Dudson, White, Buchanan, Whitley, Houston, Cahill.
Replacements: O'Carroll, Gerrard, Olbison, Heremaia.
Referee: Scott Mikalauskas. | Tony Clubb scored a try on his return from having a kidney removed to help Wigan end an eight-match winless Super League run with victory over Widnes. |
40,454,745 | The film, which is about the relationship between a Romanian worker and the owner of a Yorkshire sheep farm, won the Michael Powell Award.
The award for Best International Feature Film went to Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's Glory.
Chico Pereira's contemplative Donkeyote was the best documentary feature.
The award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film went jointly to actresses Emily Beecham for her role in Daphne and Anne Reid for her roles in Kaleidoscope and Romans.
Other awards included best short film won by The Full Story and the McLaren Award for Best British Animation went to Paloma Baeza's Poles Apart.
Edinburgh International Film Festival awards jurors considered 151 features from 46 countries which were screened at this year's festival.
The Michael Powell Jury said God's Own Country was a film "with a singularity of storytelling and consistency of vision".
They said: "Assured direction with raw and endearing performances result in a film that has an authenticity that is both tender and brutal, a juxtaposition of landscape and emotion, which explores the question of what it means to be a man."
Director Francis Lee said: "I am thrilled with this honour for God's Own Country, especially when you consider the British films that have won before.
"After premiering at Sundance and Berlin it has been wonderful to see how the film has created a real resonance with people and that is why the Michael Powell Award feels so brilliant." | Filmmaker Francis Lee's directorial debut, God's Own Country, has won the award for best British feature at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. |
40,203,346 | Australia international Irvine, 24, scored 10 goals in 44 appearances last season after joining from Ross County.
"We'll see what happens in the next few weeks," Clough told BBC Radio Derby.
"When you score as many goals as him and play as well as he has done, speculation is inevitable."
Irvine, who is currently away with his national team, still has two years left to run on his existing contract at Burton.
Although Clough is keen to talk to Irvine about an improved contract, he knows the former Celtic player will be on the radar of other clubs after an impressive debut season in the Championship.
He continued: "We're realistic. If an offer comes in - and it's the right offer - and Jackson feels that it's a step up in progress for him, then it's very difficult for us to stand in his way.
"It should all become clearer in the next month."
Meanwhile, Burton have given a new one-year deal to reserve goalkeeper Harry Campbell.
The 21-year-old joined from Bolton Wanderers at the start of last season and follows first-choice keeper Stephen Bywater, striker Marvin Sordell, captain John Mousinho, centre-back Shaun Barker and veteran winger Lloyd Dyer in agreeing new contracts at the Pirelli Stadium.
Clough, who says there is no prospect at the moment of re-signing Fulham striker Cauley Woodrow and Leeds midfielder Luke Murphy on loan, is hoping to add to the number of new recruits with midfielder Matty Lund the only arrival so far this summer.
"We're getting closer - we've been doing a lot of talking with clubs and agents," Clough said. "We've got a couple of offers in at the moment and we're making progress, certainly." | Burton Albion could find it "very difficult" keeping midfielder Jackson Irvine if the Championship club receives a good enough offer, says manager Nigel Clough. |
34,142,261 | Parts of Europe have seen an influx of migrants arriving, with many in Hungary wishing to travel to Germany.
The Bundesliga champions plan to provide food, German lessons and football equipment for children.
"Bayern sees it as its social responsibility to help the refugees," said club CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
The number of migrants entering Europe has reached record levels this year, largely driven by the conflict in Syria. Germany expects to take in 800,000 asylum seekers this year - four times last year's total.
Bayern, who have won the German league title 25 times and are five-time European champions, will also highlight the current refugee crisis in their next home match against Augsburg.
The game on 12 September will see the starting line-up enter the Allianz Arena "holding the hand of a German child and a refugee's child".
Bayern's rivals and current league leaders Borussia Dortmund invited 220 refugees to watch the side play Norwegian side Odd in the Europa League last Thursday. Rivals Mainz gave out 200 free tickets to their home match against Hannover last weekend.
Banners carrying positive messages in support of refugees were evident at last weekend's Bundesliga matches.
Meanwhile, Celtic announced their share of the proceeds from this weekend's Jock Stein 30th anniversary events will be devoted to assisting those people affected by the current refugee crisis.
Football expert Raphael Honigstein talking to BBC World Service: "The Germany refugee crisis situation plays out in city centres across the country. You either hear of them being helped by nice people or faced with demonstrators and right-wing terrorists trying to burn down places they are staying in or beating them up.
"You have to take your hat off to fans' groups who have seen this and decided they need to show whose side they are on. You have clubs all over Germany who organise games with refugees, even before this latest wave of refugees. It's a real grassroots movement."
Journalist Ronald Reng talking to BBC World Service: "It shows you that the ultra fans want to be seen as political groups. There is certainly a change. They don't want to be just football fans, but be something more.
"When football fans have been seen as political groups they have usually been associated with being right wing, particularly in Italy. In Germany they want to distance themselves from the first movement - the hooligan movement." | Bayern Munich are to set up a 'training camp' for refugees coming into Germany and will donate 1m euros (£730,000) for refugee projects. |
35,351,725 | Georgina Symonds's body was found at a workshop at Beech Hill Farm, in Usk, Monmouthshire, on 13 January.
A hearing at Gwent Coroner's Court, in Newport, was adjourned for three months for police to continue their inquiries.
Peter Morgan, 53, of Abergavenny, has been charged with her murder. | A woman whose death is at the centre of a murder inquiry died of "ligature pressure to the neck", a coroner's hearing has been told. |
22,149,634 | The news has been welcomed by triathlete James Corlett, from Mapperley, who said educating road users was also important.
The city council said funding for cycle lanes around Dunkirk, Mansfield Road, and the River Lean corridor in Basford has been secured.
The authority is also applying for £6m from the Department for Transport.
Mr Corlett, who has represented Team GB at amateur level, said he has had several near misses whilst cycling in the city.
He said: "It's a good investment but I also think there needs to be a whole package.
"We need to educate people better, not only car drivers but there some absolute idiots on bikes too."
Councillor Jane Urqhart, who is responsible for transport in the city, said areas where safety needs to be stepped up are constantly reviewed. | More than £1.5m is to be invested in improving safety for cyclists in Nottingham. |
33,885,735 | KFC in Pontypool was given a zero score on the Food Standards Agency website meaning urgent action is needed.
Co-operative stores in Pontardawe, Porth, and Birchgrove, Cardiff scored one, along with Subway in Queen Street, Cardiff and Harvester in Cardiff Bay.
Costa in Brecon, Tesco cafe in Maesteg and Asda in Aberdare had a two rating.
That means improvement is necessary.
There are more than 26,000 businesses in Wales which have ratings, carried out by local authorities and registered on the Food Standards Agency website.
Of those, more than 1,400 had a two rating or below. The highest score is five.
Russel Smith, chief operating officer, KFC UK, said: "I was extremely disappointed by the rating this restaurant received, which is completely unacceptable.
"We took immediate action to return the restaurant to the standards we demand and are awaiting a re-inspection which we are sure will reflect this."
A spokesman for The Co-operative Food said: "We take our store environment and hygiene procedures very seriously and these three stores represent a very small percentage of our 143 stores across Wales.
"However, as soon as we were aware of the FSA ratings for these store we adopted an action plan to address the issues and we will be requesting the FSA re-score the stores as we are confident that they will fully meet all FSA required standards."
A spokesman for Harvester said: "The business was recently re-rated by an environmental health officer whilst we carried out some essential works. That work has now been completed and we await a re-visit, so that the business can be re-rated. We are confident that the day to day food safety and hygiene practices remain at a high standard."
A Tesco spokesman said: "On the day of the inspection at our Maesteg store cafe there was an issue with the hot water temporarily not working. This has been resolved and colleagues have been retrained on what to do if this happens. We're awaiting a new inspection from the local authority."
A Costa spokesman said: "We set very high standards for both our own and franchise owned stores and will be working to ensure this matter is addressed as a matter of urgency."
Asda said it has applied to be re-rated.
A spokesman added: "We pride ourselves on upholding the highest standards of hygiene in our stores and while on this occasion there were some areas of improvement to be made, we can assure customers that we are in the process of making those improvements and bringing the store back up to our own high standards."
Subway said the rating has been noted incorrectly. It said the store was awarded a four and they are waiting for it to be rectified.
A Cardiff council spokesman said: "The council takes these matters very seriously and there seems to be a discrepancy in this specific case which is currently being reviewed and the risk rating will be confirmed shortly."
The rating shows how well the business is doing overall but takes account of elements most in need of improving and also the level of risk to people's health any of these issues pose.
This is because some businesses will do well in some areas and less well in others but each of the three elements checked is essential for making sure that food hygiene standards meet requirements and the food served or sold to you is safe to eat.
To get the top rating of '5', businesses must do well in all three elements.
Those with ratings of '0' are very likely to be performing poorly in all three elements and are likely to have a history of serious problems. There may, for example, be a lack of sufficient cleaning and disinfection, and there may not be a good enough system of management in place to check and record what the business does to make sure the food is safe. | Food giants including Asda, Tesco, KFC, Costa, Subway and The Co-operative Food have outlets in Wales which scored poorly in food hygiene ratings. |
40,431,103 | Yeates made 30 appearances in all competitions while playing for Blackpool and Notts County last season.
He joined the Magpies in January, but was released by the League Two club at the end of the season.
The 32-year-old was among the goalscorers in Bradford's shock 4-2 FA Cup fourth round win against Chelsea in January 2015.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Former Bradford and Watford midfielder Mark Yeates has joined National League Eastleigh on a two-year deal. |
40,397,931 | Dywedodd James Price, sy'n gyfrifol am adran economi'r llywodraeth, bod canlyniad y buddsoddiad werth yr arian.
Cafodd y cyllid ei roi i ddatblygwyr sydd eisiau adeiladu Cylchffordd Cymru ger Glyn Ebwy.
'Nôl ym mis Ebrill dywedodd Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru bod "diffygion sylweddol" yn y ffordd y deliodd y llywodraeth â'r arian.
Tra'n rhoi tystiolaeth i Bwyllgor Cyfrifon Cyhoeddus y Cynullliad, dywedodd Mr Price y gallai'r prosiect gael "effaith fawr" ar yr economi, ond ei fod hefyd yn "risg posib sylweddol".
Gwrthododd yr honiad bod "diffygion" yn ei adran, gan ddweud eu bod "wedi dysgu gwersi".
Dywedodd bod £55m wedi ei wario ar ddatblygu'r cynlluniau - £9.2m o'r ffigwr hwnnw mewn grantiau a benthyciadau gan Lywodraeth Cymru.
"Dwi wedi cael fy mherswadio ein bod wedi llwyddo i gael gwerth am arian am yr hyn rydyn ni wedi ei gael, sef prosiect sydd yn barod - os yw cyllid ar gael - i gael ei ddelifro", meddai.
Daw ymddangosiad Mr Price wedi i ffrae godi pan wnaeth dau swyddog dynnu 'nôl o roi tystiolaeth mewn sesiwn flaenorol.
Fe fydd cabinet Llywodraeth Cymru yn trafod dydd Mawrth os byddan nhw'n gwarantu tua hanner y £425m y byddai Cylchffordd Cymru yn ei gostio.
Mae datblygwyr yn dweud gallai'r prosiect greu 6,000 o swyddi yn un o'r llefydd mwyaf difreintiedig yng Nghymru. | Mae un o brif weision sifil Cymru wedi amddiffyn y gwariant o £9m gan Lywodraeth Cymru ar gynlluniau i adeiladu trac rasio ym Mlaenau Gwent. |
21,403,179 | The tower of the Church of St James, in Dry Doddington, is believed to lean between 4.9 and 5.1 degrees.
This would mean it leans more than Italy's famous tower, which tilts at 3.99 degrees.
The friends group for the Lincolnshire church is now raising money to protect its tower for future generations.
Church warden and treasurer Alex Maniurka said: "There's definite indications that we are up there with the Leaning Tower of Pisa and if we could beat it I think it would be something very special.
"Day on day we get people driving past who have to stop and have a look and take a double take at the lean of the angle.
"They can't believe that it leans so much."
A local history society is being set up to uncover the church's past and find out why the tower tilts.
Thomas Braithwaite, a member of the church's friends group, said: "They said there was a plague years ago and they buried some of the dead at the end of the tower which caused it to lean, but it hasn't moved for some years.
"I think it's the movement of the clay soil and things like that."
The tower needs £80,000 of repairs but the work will not alter its angle as it is thought to be stable, Mr Braithwaite said. | Villagers who believe their church tower tilts more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa are trying to get official confirmation. |
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