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27,860,786 | The 20-year-old, who has already pulled out of Wimbledon, has completed just one match in 2014.
Robson has slipped from 46th in the world rankings to 80th.
"I went through a very, very depressed stage," said Robson, "I didn't go on any tennis websites because I was so jealous of everyone able to play."
Robson told BBC Sport that she is now "past that stage" and will be able to start playing mini tennis with sponge balls in August.
"At the moment it's kind of a day-to-day thing in terms of pain and how the inflammation is going, but rehab seems to be coming along nicely," she said.
27 - Highest WTA ranking - now 80
115 - Career singles matches won
91 - Career singles matches lost
£700,000 - Total career prize money
0 - Career titles
1 - Olympic medal (silver) in mixed doubles with Andy Murray, London 2012
Robson's left wrist first flared up in December 2013 when she was forced to withdraw from the ASB Classic in New Zealand. A week later she retired from the Hobart International with the same injury. She has since undergone minor wrist surgery.
In March, Robson added Colombian Mauricio Hadad, who helped Maria Sharapova win Wimbledon in 2004, to her coaching team.
The US Open - the final Grand Slam of the year - gets under way on 25 August in New York.
Robson's only full match to date this year was a swift defeat by Kirsten Flipkens at the Australian Open in January, and she is already targeting Melbourne next year on her route back up the rankings.
"I'd still like to be able to play some matches at the end of this year and get some competitive tennis in before Australia," she said.
"I'm basically going to be playing some very small tournaments to try and get my ranking up again."
The former Wimbledon junior champion admitted that such an extended absence from tennis has been hard to cope with.
"I didn't look at the live scores, and I didn't watch any tennis on TV.
"But now I'm kind of past that and I'm looking forward to being able to watch Wimbledon as a spectator for once."
Robson will be working as part of the BBC commentary team at Wimbledon, which begins on 23 June. | British number two Laura Robson will miss the US Open in August as she continues to recover from a wrist injury. |
31,499,654 | Tuesday's visit is Mr Putin's first to an EU leader since June 2014.
Hungary wants to negotiate a new agreement for Russian gas supplies.
Russia has been largely shunned by EU member states because of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, although it denies accusations of fomenting the violence.
Protesters rallied in Budapest on Monday night carrying banners saying "Putin No! Europe Yes!".
Much of the city centre was closed to traffic on Tuesday as security was stepped up ahead of the visit.
Mr Putin's trip comes less than a fortnight after German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Budapest before embarking on a week of intense diplomacy, which resulted in the announcement of a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian president is keen to demonstrate that he has allies within the EU and Nato, observers say.
During his visit, he is due to visit the graves of Soviet soldiers.
Hungary has backed EU sanctions imposed on Russia over the situation in Ukraine, but has been vocal about their negative impact.
Last year, Mr Orban said the EU had "shot itself in the foot" by restricting trade with Moscow.
Hungary relies on Russia for more than half of its gas supplies and wants to negotiate a flexible long-term deal to succeed the current agreement which expires later this year.
Mr Orban, who rose to prominence with a strong anti-communist and anti-Russian stance as a student leader, told Hungarian radio on Friday that there were psychological tensions with Russia, but he wanted to overcome them.
He is considered to be among Mr Putin's closest allies in Europe.
Many of the demonstrators who marched through Budapest on the eve of Mr Putin's visit said they were wary of closer ties with Russia. | Some 2,000 people have marched through the Hungarian capital, Budapest, ahead of talks between Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
34,720,750 | The Mayor of London and Conservative MP said the UK should consider options for life outside the EU since the cost of exit was lower than it has ever been.
He has not yet said which way he will campaign in a future referendum.
David Cameron has said an EU exit would not be "a land of milk and honey".
The prime minister has said he wants a "better deal" for the UK within the European Union ahead of an in-out referendum by the end of 2017. He is expected to set out the changes he wants to see in more detail in a letter to EU officials next week ahead of a key summit next month.
Speaking on his monthly phone-in on LBC Radio, Mr Johnson signalled that as part of the UK's negotiations he would like to see "derogations" giving the country more control over its borders in a reformed EU.
Obtaining such special provisions was "perfectly possible", he said, and if they were not granted the case for leaving the EU would become stronger.
The wider economic penalties for leaving the EU were lower than ever before, Mr Johnson said: "There is an attractive alternative future - we should be thinking about it."
Pressed on whether he would be prepared to lead the 'Leave' campaign at the in-out referendum, he refused to answer but said he would wait to see the outcome of David Cameron's talks with other EU leaders.
But he added: "In an ideal world I would like to stay in a reformed EU." | Boris Johnson has said there is an "attractive alternative future" for the UK outside the European Union while insisting he would prefer to remain a member of a reformed organisation. |
36,388,445 | Guns both old and new fired a 21-gun salute during the display on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
The celebrations culminated with a "feu de joie" - a cascade of volleys - by six AS90 self-propelled guns.
The Gunners were formed by a royal warrant three centuries ago, on 26 May 1716.
The Queen, who is the regiment's Captain General, paid tribute to the troops: "In all the theatres of war and in peacekeeping and humanitarian missions throughout the world, you have served with great distinction, especially so in the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"It has indeed been a demanding period for Gunners of all ranks and for your families who have so closely supported you. You should be rightly proud of your achievements."
The first two permanent companies of Royal Artillery were formed 300 years ago by a Royal Warrant in the reign of George I.
The companies were based at Woolwich, alongside the guns, powder and shot located in the Royal Arsenal. | Soldiers have put on a huge display of military firepower as the Queen joined the Royal Regiment of Artillery to mark its 300th anniversary. |
39,718,623 | Dina Mitchell told ABC News that the Flex 2 began to combust on her wrist while she was reading a book.
"It burned the heck out of my arm," she said.
Fitbit has said it is "extremely concerned" and is now looking into the issue, though it sees "no reason" for people to stop wearing the Flex 2.
Ms Mitchell said she quickly removed the tracker from her arm and threw it on the floor.
A doctor had to take small pieces of plastic and rubber out of the wound following the incident, she claimed.
"We are not aware of any other complaints of this nature and see no reason for people to stop wearing their Flex 2," Fitbit said in a statement.
"We will share additional information as we are able."
The batteries in many electronic devices are sometimes susceptible to overheating and have been known to catch fire or explode in other cases.
Last year, Samsung had to recall its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after the handsets were found to be prone to combusting. | Fitbit has said it is investigating a report from a Wisconsin woman who said she suffered second-degree burns when her fitness tracker caught fire. |
40,225,560 | Eight males were arrested during operations on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Three of the individuals from Liverpool and two from Conwy county appeared in court on Thursday in Aberystwyth charged with conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine.
Two other men from Llandudno Junction and one from Colwyn Bay were remanded in custody in Llanelli on Friday.
They also face charges of conspiracy to supply both Class A and B drugs.
They will appear at Swansea Crown Court on 10 July.
"This Dyfed Powys Police operation is part of an ongoing investigation, and we will provide further updates when appropriate," said a spokesperson for the force. | Three more men have appeared in court following a series of raids in Conwy county earlier in the week. |
36,119,758 | In March 2015, thousands flocked to Leicester as the king's remains were escorted to the city's cathedral.
The windows, which cost £75,000, are located near Richard III's tomb in the cathedral's St. Katharine's Chapel.
A reverend called the dedication of the windows the "final act" in the story of the king's reinterment.
The windows are approximately 2.5m (8ft 2ins) and 1m (3ft 2ins) high and were designed by stained glass artist Thomas Denny.
They were previously plain glass and had been for about 100 years, according to the Reverend Pete Hobson.
"It's not just telling Richard III's story," he said. "It's helping the person who sees them reflect on the questions of life and death that are raised by the life and death of Richard III."
One of the pictures shows a forlorn, blue figure, which represents personal loss, inspired by the loss felt by the king after the death of his son Edward and wife Anne Neville.
Another depicts women tending to people in the aftermath of battle.
"It's a big day," Mr Hobson said. "It'll be the final act of the story of the reinterment of Richard for us."
Richard was buried in a Leicester church, but the building was lost to later development. His skeleton was found in 2012 in an old friary beneath a car park.
His remains were the subject of a High Court battle in 2014. A group unsuccessfully argued the remains should have been reburied in York. | Two windows inspired by the life of Richard III have been "hallowed" at the scene of the English king's reburial which took place over a year ago. |
35,605,055 | The prime minister wants to keep up the political momentum, give his opponents less time to organise and get the issue out of the way as soon as possible.
But if the negotiations come unstuck in Brussels this week, can Mr Cameron still get his referendum by June?
The short answer is yes.
Here is the long answer why.
Once a deal is done, the European Union Referendum Act 2015 makes clear that three processes need to take place before the referendum can be held.
First, a swathe of secondary legislation needs to be passed through Parliament, minor bits of law that fill in the gaps left blank by the Act.
These would set things like the date of the referendum, the length of the statutory "referendum period", and various rules about the administration of the poll.
Now, getting these so-called statutory instruments through Parliament can be complicated and involve various committees sitting before a decision is made.
As a rule of thumb, they normally take six weeks to become law. But, as ever, there is flexibility and if MPs, peers and officials pull their fingers out, that timescale can be crunched down to a couple of weeks, according to the House of Commons library.
Second, there needs to be a period of time allowed for the Electoral Commission to choose which two organisations will officially campaign for Remain and Leave and receive public funding to do so.
According to existing electoral law, this so-called "designation period" must last six weeks.
But the Referendum Act actually allows the government to set the start date and the duration of the period. So that six weeks could be shortened, although the Electoral Commission might resist that.
And third, there must be a so-called referendum period - when the formal campaign takes place and various spending rules are in force - that must last a minimum of 10 weeks. That is one of the few timescales in the whole process that is fixed.
The government has pencilled in Thursday, 23 June for the referendum.
So if you wind back ten weeks, the formal referendum period must begin by Thursday, 14 April.
If you shorten the designation period down to, say, three weeks, that would have to begin by Thursday, 24 March.
And then if you assume MPs and peers take only three weeks to pass all the necessary secondary legislation, that process would have to begin by Thursday 3, March.
Now these are all assumptions but they are not implausible ones.
And I have been quite generous in the timescales: Parliamentary processes can always be fast tracked in extremis; and it is not impossible for the designation period to overlap with the referendum period.
The bottom line is that the prime minister has until the end of February or at least early March to get a deal on his EU reforms without losing his potential referendum date in late June.
There is still time, say, for a second emergency summit to be held at the end of next week, or even a few days beyond.
One thing is clear: Mr Cameron is in a hurry.
As he told MPs last month: "I am keen to get on and hold a referendum....Believe me, by the time we get to the end of the referendum campaign, everyone will have had enough of the subject." | David Cameron wants to get a deal quickly on his EU reforms so he can hold a referendum by late June. |
38,277,990 | Cathro's first match in charge ended in defeat at Ibrox, having been appointed on Monday.
The 30-year-old previously worked as an assistant at Rio Ave, Valencia and Newcastle United.
"It's important that the fans know that performance is not going to be what is on the grass for them," he explained. "We will be better."
Hearts' Don Cowie had a goal ruled out for offside before Rob Kiernan and Barrie McKay netted for the hosts.
The result increases the gap between second-placed Rangers and Hearts to five points.
Aberdeen, with a game in hand, are a point ahead of Hearts in the Scottish Premiership.
"It's not a dramatic day by any means," said Cathro. "It's a game which could have gone better and we could have been better.
"But there is no disaster associated to it. Just a game we need to learn from and improve from. We will be a different team than what you saw today.
"Of course the situation is different, but I'd like to think one of the reasons I did well as an assistant was being able to help the manager as I really, really cared about it.
"For me, it was a normal day at work. We need to take as much value as we can out of this game and make improvements.
"Was there too much focus on me this week? No. Everyone will go through a process of getting to know me. I think you'll realise that very little bothers me.
"Noise is noise. The reasons why I've been able to make progress in my career is because I focus on the work."
McKay's goal was his first in the league this season, having netted in the League Cup in July.
Rangers manager Mark Warburton said: "Barrie is a young player. Almost all of last season he was first choice and got a national call-up.
"For a young player, a lot came very early. Young players have dips.
"The old saying is that form is temporary and class is permanent and I have no doubt Barrie McKay can go to the very top level.
"He can be as good as he wants to be and it was great to see him back to his best today.
"I thought we were good today as a team. Physically, we were good, tempo wise we were good, quality on the ball was good." | New head coach Ian Cathro insists Hearts will be "a different team" after watching them lose 2-0 against Rangers. |
37,072,433 | Thousands of people began crossing into Colombia in the early hours of Saturday to buy much-needed supplies. Long queues had formed before dawn.
Venezuela is facing a severe economic crisis, with shortages of many goods. It had closed the frontier nearly a year ago on security grounds.
Five border crossings will remain open for 12 hours every day.
"I've had arthritis for seven years and I haven't been able to find the medications for the past six months," Marco Tulio Berdugo, a Colombian living in Venezuela, told El Universal newspaper.
"I came with my family to do some shopping because we can't find anything to eat," engineering student Wilmary Salcedo told Reuters news agency.
An agreement to reopen the border was announced on Thursday by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro.
The two presidents said that during the first stage only pedestrians would be allowed to cross.
"We are going to open the border gradually," said Mr Santos.
The five main crossings along the 2,200km-border (1,370 miles) will be open daily from 08:00 to 20:00 local time (13:00-01:00 GMT).
Venezuelans cross border
Growing discontent on the streets
Women push past border controls
The authorities expect the queues to disappear as people realise that the situation has been normalised.
"People can get here and cross every day of the week now," said Venezuelan border police chief Gustavo Moreno in Cucuta.
Mr Maduro ordered the border to be closed in August 2015 after former Colombian paramilitaries attacked a Venezuelan military patrol and wounded three soldiers.
Many Colombians were expelled, and bilateral trade has since fallen.
When border crossings were allowed briefly in July, nearly 200,000 Venezuelans poured across to stock up on items including cooking oil, sugar and rice.
Venezuela has suffered severe shortages for months as a result of the falling price of oil which is the country's prime source of income. | The border between Venezuela and Colombia has been reopened after nearly a year. |
30,614,071 | At least five people have been killed in the floods along Malaysia's east coast, with over 160,000 displaced.
Prime Minister Najib Razak made the announcement after visiting flood-stricken areas.
He has faced public anger after being photographed golfing with President Obama in Hawaii during the storms.
Mr Razak cut short his holiday, and defended his "golf diplomacy" with the US leader, saying that it was difficult to decline the invitation as it had been planned for a while.
"Every day when I was there, I received the latest report on the flood situation... as it became more serious, I decided to return to the country as soon as possible," he said in Kota Bharu, the capital of Kelantan province,
The extra funding will go to victims after the floods subsides, and is on top of an initial 50m ringgit ($14m; £9m) allocation.
Entire towns have been submerged by the flooding.
Rescue workers have been struggling to bring in enough food and supplies for families sleeping in relief centres.
Some victims have accused the government of being too slow in responding.
"I am angry with them. We don't care about their politics. We just want the government to do what they should do and help us," one woman told AFP.
Eastern states are often flooded during the monsoon season but heavy rain and winds have worsened the situation this year. | Malaysia has announced an extra 500m ringgit ($142m; £92m) to help victims of the country's worst flooding in decades. |
37,171,277 | It meanders through two of the most hotly contested battleground states, both prime targets for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Ohio, the classic bellwether, has picked the winner in every presidential election since 1960. Pennsylvania has voted Democrat in the past six contests, but Donald Trump has designs on turning this reliably blue state Republican red.
The town of Bellaire in Ohio provides precisely the sort of post-industrial landscape that's been a seedbed for his candidacy. Four steel mills have shut down in this area over the decade and derelict plants serve almost as echo chambers for the slogan Make America Great Again.
The small stretch of river that runs alongside the town used to bustle with 300 barges, which ploughed through the waters 24 hours a day.
Now it's a third of that number, and not such a round-the-clock operation. Captain Bob Harrison, who runs a local tug boat company, believes the billionaire will revive the local economy.
"He's a businessman," he says.
"That's what we need to get things going again because politicians are doing nothing for us and we've been overregulated. The trade deals have all failed. It seems like nothing's worked."
Bellaire, despite the shuttered shops and hardscrabble feel, still proudly refers to itself as the all-American town - a place that's representative, a bellwether within a bellwether.
Last time people here voted for the Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.
In the election before. Bellaire went for Barack Obama.
If Trump can't win here, he will struggle to become president. And although there's no shortage of white working-class supporters ready and eager to vote for him, there are Republicans here who are refusing to back him.
Getting out the vote is called the ground game, a term borrowed from American football.
But one of the local football coaches, Bill Timko, is refusing to back Trump. He had planned to vote Republican at this election.
In the primaries, he liked the look of Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. But Trump, he reckons, does not have presidential qualities.
"He's doesn't have any tact," he says. "If you are going to deal with world leaders you have to have tact. You can't sit there and say it's my way or the highway. He's bombastic, he's obscene, and I don't like the guy."
His list of complaints does not end there.
"The country is more than running a business. There's all kinds of things to be taken care of and I don't think he has the ability to do that.
"Every time he hires good people, if they don't agree with him, he fires them. So, I mean you look at his campaign managers, they're all gone. He got rid of all of them. So I'm not buying that theory."
Amber Thompson is another Republican who is refusing to support Donald Trump. At the last election, she actively campaigned for Mitt Romney. Her husband is a Republican who has run for office. But she cannot stomach the thought of Donald Trump as the party's standard-bearer.
"I think he has a real problem with women who aren't supermodels," she says. "He doesn't like Muslims. He doesn't like immigrants. He has no respect for the military. I would never support somebody like that."
Are you going to sit this election out? I ask.
"No," she says. "I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton."
Compounding his problems, Trump has an uneasy relationship with Ohio's state Republican party. Governor John Kasich, his rival during the Republican primary campaign, is refusing to back him. And no Republican has ever reached the White House without winning Ohio.
As we travelled into Pennsylvania, we got a clearer sense of Hillary Clinton's vulnerabilities. Take the community of Clinton, Pennsylvania, where a giant sign reading "Vote Trump" greets drivers.
What makes the sign all the more meaningful is that it was erected by a long-time Democrat, Mike Leber. Eight years ago, in the Democratic primary fight between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, he voted for Clinton.
Now he drives around in a pick-up truck with another large sign reading "Crooked Hillary" in the back.
Two-thirds of voters have told pollsters they don't trust the former Secretary of State.
"She hasn't spoken a truthful word in thirty years," Mike tells me. "If the dogcatcher was running against Hillary Clinton, I'd vote for the dogcatcher."
As we were talking to Mike, Ron Zanski pulled up on his Harley Davidson. He lost his job at a fuel plant earlier in the year, and blames foreign competition and poorly negotiated trade deals. Donald Trump speaks his language.
"I think he's sincere," says Ron. "I think he means what he says and he speaks for a lot of people."
What about Hillary Clinton? I ask.
"She should be in prison."
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If Donald Trump wins this state, along with its 20 Electoral College votes, it opens up a path to the White House.
For the Democrats, Pennsylvania is one of the key bricks in the so-called blue wall, the 18 states that have voted for Democratic presidential candidates in the past six presidential elections, and which gives them an advantage in the Electoral College.
Further along the Ohio river, we came to Aliquippa, another faded steel town, where Hillary Clinton is vulnerable.
But she is helped by the fact that more a third of voters here are African-American.
It's a constituency that Donald Trump has recently tried to court, partly to boost his standing with sceptical minority voters and partly, it seems, to persuade white voters that he's not racist.
So would African-Americans like Jerome Raines support him?
"Absolutely no! No! No! No! If I've seen a black guy voting for Trump, I'll have to do like this and rub his skin and make sure," he says, playfully rubbing at my arm.
"We don't want an idiot in the White House and we definitely don't want a racist in the White House."
Not since the 1940s have the Democrats won three presidential elections in a row.
The country's modern-day demographics, and the fact that the US is even more a polyglot nation, seem to work in their favour.
But questions of trust and ethics bedevil Hillary Clinton, and that's partly why Donald Trump is still in the game. | This election could be decided on the banks of the Ohio River. |
40,955,249 | Professor John Underhill from Heriot-Watt University said the UK's potential shale deposits were likely to have been disrupted by shifts in the earth 55 million years ago.
He said the government would be wise to formulate a Plan B to fracking for future gas supplies.
But the fracking firm Cuadrilla said it would determine how much gas was present from its test drilling.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale, a sedimentary rock found worldwide.
The amount of shale gas available in the UK is acknowledged to be a great unknown.
Cuadrilla said estimates from the British Geological Survey (BGS) indicated a large potential gas reserve.
But Prof Underhill said his research on the influence of tectonic plates on the UK suggested that the shale formations have been lifted, warped and cooled by tectonic action.
These factors make shale gas production much less likely.
"The complexity of the shale gas basins hasn't been fully appreciated so the opportunity has been hyped," he told the BBC.
This is very different from the US, where big deposits of shale gas were created in the continental heart of America, far from the movement of tectonic plates.
Prof Underhill's comments are based on an unpublished paper on tectonics. He said he deduced the impact on shale formations by chance.
He said: "I'm neutral about fracking, so long as it doesn't cause environmental damage. But the debate is between those who think fracking is dangerous and those who think it will help the economy - and no-one's paying enough attention to the geology.
Prof Underhill said: "For fracking to work, the shale should be thick enough, sufficiently porous, and have the right mineralogy. The organic matter must have been buried to a sufficient depth and heated to the degree that it produces substantial amounts of gas or oil."
Professor Underhill said the UK had been tilted strongly by tectonic movement caused by an upward surge of magma under Iceland.
This subsequently led the shale gas basins to buckle and lift, so areas that were once buried deep with high temperatures which generated oil and gas, were then lifted to levels where they were no longer likely to generate either.
The basins were also broken into compartments by folds which created pathways that have allowed some of the oil and gas to escape, he said.
A spokesman for the BGS said it could not comment formally on Prof Underhill's comments as it had not done the research.
Cuadrilla's technical director Mark Lappin told the BBC: "We have noted the BGS estimates for gas-in-place and consider that volume to be indicative of a very large potential reserve.
"It's the purpose of our current drilling operations to better understand the reserve, reduce speculation from all sides and decide if and how to develop it.
"I expect Professor Underhill would be supportive of the effort to understand the resource including geological variation."
The government's opinion tracker showed public support for fracking has fallen to 16%, with opposition at 33%. But it also reported a lack of knowledge of the technology, with 48% of people neither supporting nor opposing it.
Professor Richard Davies, from Newcastle University, told BBC News: "It's correct to say geology could yet surprise the companies who are investing. But the bottle neck, I think, is how many wells one can drill economically in a small space in the UK.
"Shale gas wells in the USA produce very small volumes of gas (2-6 billion cubic feet of gas each), and therefore thousands would be needed to impact on our reliance on imports.
"The BGS estimated resources in Northern England of 1,327 trillion cubic feet (2012). I estimated it would require c. 52,000 wells to produce 10% of this."
Follow Roger on Twitter @rharrabin | The gas reserves in shale rocks in the UK have been "hyped", an academic said. |
16,116,535 | Jemma O'Sullivan, 22, died when she was involved in a four-vehicle collision on the northbound carriageway of the M18 in South Yorkshire in September 2010.
Christopher Kane, 67, of Oakbank Close, Swinton, admitted causing death by dangerous driving when he appeared at Doncaster Crown Court.
Jemma's father, Vincent, said words could not describe his grief.
In a statement, he said: "The trauma and grief that this individual has put us through cannot be put into words.
"Jemma's life was stolen from her and Jemma was stolen from us by this truck driver who had absolutely no regard for other road users.
"This man has caused devastation to our family by texting while driving a heavy goods vehicle at 55mph on the M18, as we heard in court one text alone had one 117 strikes of the keyboard."
Kane was also disqualified from driving for five years.
Police said Miss O'Sullivan had been a front-seat passenger in a Citroen Berlingo which was in collision with a Mercedes lorry.
This lorry collided with the back of a Scania lorry, which then overturned and slid into the back of a Vauxhall van.
Miss O'Sullivan was born in Limerick in the Republic of Ireland and was about to start her final year as a pharmacy student at Sunderland University when she died. | A lorry driver has been jailed for five years for causing the death of a woman while he was texting on a motorway. |
33,975,032 | The AN-602 hydrogen bomb casings will be the main draw at an exhibition devoted to Russia's atomic achievements since 1945, at the Manezh centre.
The Soviet Union exploded the 58-megaton H-bomb in 1961 in the Arctic. It was about 3,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atom bomb.
A specially designed bomber dropped it.
The Tupolev Tu-95B bomber released the 26.5-tonne bomb from a height of 10.5km (6.5 miles) over the Arctic test range at Novaya Zemlya.
Russian media report that the shockwave circled the Earth three times, the fireball was 4.6km wide and the mushroom cloud soared to 67km.
The bomber's altitude plunged almost one kilometre because of the blast.
The bomb casings will come to Moscow from Sarov, a closed nuclear research town 465km (288 miles) east of the Russian capital. Visitors to Sarov require special permits, as nuclear warheads are developed there.
The exhibition, organised by the state corporation Rosatom, will be called "70 years of the atomic industry - a chain reaction of success". It will run from 1 to 29 September.
The bomb also had the nickname "Kuzma's Mother" - from a Russian expression that translates as "we'll teach you a lesson".
The idiom was used by Soviet Communist leader Nikita Khrushchev with former US Vice-President Richard Nixon in 1959, during the Cold War nuclear arms race, Russian media report.
The Manezh exhibition will also feature personal effects of famous Soviet nuclear scientists, formerly secret documents from Soviet archives and models of nuclear reactors and a nuclear-powered icebreaker. | Russia will display a replica of the most powerful nuclear device ever to be exploded - the Soviet "Tsar Bomba" - near the Kremlin in Moscow next month. |
32,429,477 | A flaw in Android makes it possible to steal the personal information so it can be used elsewhere, said the experts from security firm FireEye.
Other Android-based phones that also use fingerprint ID systems could also be vulnerable, they said.
Samsung said it took security "very seriously" and was investigating the researchers' findings.
Fingerprint ID systems are being used more and more in smartphones to unlock the devices or as a way to check who is authorising a transaction. Paypal and Apple already accept fingerprints as an ID check and a growing roster of firms that are members of the Fido Alliance are keen to use them in the same way to remove the need for passwords.
Android phones typically store sensitive data such as fingerprint information in a walled-off area of memory known as the Trusted Zone.
However, Yulong Zhang and Tao Wei found it was possible to grab identification data before it is locked away in the secure area. This method of stealing data was available on all phones running version 5.0 or older versions of Android provided the attacker got high level access to a phone.
They also found that on Samsung Galaxy S5 phones, attackers did not need this deep access to a phone. Instead, they said, just getting access to the gadget's memory could reveal finger scan data.
Using this information an attacker could make a fake lock screen that makes victims believe they are swiping to unlock a phone when they are actually authorising a payment.
In addition, they found, it was possible for attackers to upload their own fingerprints as devices did not keep good records of how many prints were being used on each device.
Mr Zhang and Mr Wei are due to present their findings at the RSA security conference in San Francisco on 24 April.
In an interview with Forbes magazine, Mr Zhang said the flaws they uncovered were likely to be widespread throughout handsets running Android 5.0 and below. Updating to the latest version of Android, version 5.1.1, should remove the vulnerabilities, he said.
The flaw is the latest in a series of problems uncovered with fingerprint ID systems on phones.
In April last year, hackers discovered a way to fool the print sensor on the S5 by taking a photograph of a print left on a smartphone screen, making a mould from the image and using that to make a replica fake finger.
In 2013, a German hacker group used a similar method to bypass the fingerprint reader on Apple's iPhone 5. Hackers from the Chaos Computer Club used a picture of a person's fingerprint left on a glass surface to make a fake finger that unlocked the phone. | Hackers can take copies of fingerprints used to unlock the Samsung Galaxy S5 phone, claim security researchers. |
38,459,994 | The 21-year-old joined the Lilywhites for an undisclosed fee from Manchester United at the start of 2016.
Pearson had impressed in two loan spells at Barnsley before he moved to Deepdale.
"He's been very good this season especially," boss Simon Grayson told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"He's been one of our best players over the last few months since he got back into the team, but he knows he has to keep improving." | Preston North End midfielder Ben Pearson has signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract with the Championship side. |
36,200,713 | It will be the eighth Central Belt expansion of the Aberdeen-based partnership in only five years.
Three branches will be branded under the Aberdein Considine name from next month.
Ireland's legal office will become the partnership's main office in the city.
The combined business will employ 360 staff, with turnover of more than £21m. It offers a wide range of legal, property and financial services.
A&S Ireland was founded in 1985, specialising in private client legal work, and moving into estate agency.
It has two partners and 20 employees, all of whom will transfer to the expanded firm.
Gavin Crowe, one of the A&S Ireland partners, indicated that one of the attractions is the scale a larger firm can bring to providing services online.
"As estate agency continues to evolve in the digital age, this merger will give Glasgow clients a significant new player both online and 'on the ground'," he said. | Law firm Aberdein Considine is expanding its Glasgow and East Renfrewshire presence by merging with legal estate agency A&S Ireland. |
12,686,726 | "I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis," he wrote on his website.
His decision, he said, was not down to "dodgy reviews", "bad treatment in the press" or "because I don't feel loved".
Collins' announcement was in response to a series of "distorted" articles that had erroneously painted him as "a tormented weirdo", he added.
"There's no need for the straitjacket!" joked the 60-year-old, whose hits include In the Air Tonight and Another Day in Paradise.
A former member of rock band Genesis, Collins went on to achieve huge success as a solo performer, including hit albums as No Jacket Required and ...But Seriously.
The winner of seven Grammy awards was also the recipient of an Academy award for his soundtrack for the Disney animated film Tarzan.
Last year he topped the UK album chart with Going Back, a collection of Motown and soul covers.
The singer has two sons, Nicholas and Matthew, with his third wife Orianne Cevey, whom he divorced in 2008. | British singer and drummer Phil Collins has confirmed reports he is to retire from the music business. |
31,110,408 | The most polluted cities were in north-eastern Hebei, the province that surrounds the capital Beijing.
Beijing and Shanghai both failed the assessment, which was based on measurements of major pollutants.
China is attempting to cut pollution but the country still relies heavily on coal for its energy needs.
The government shut more than 8,000 coal-burning factories in Hebei last year.
But the BBC's Celia Hatton in Beijing says like many places in China, the authorities are struggling to balance factory closures with the demands of the country's slowing economy.
The environment ministry's statement published on its website (in Chinese) noted that the 2014 result was an improvement over the previous year, where only three cities met the standards.
But it added that "presently, the country's air pollution situation remains serious".
The assessment was based on readings of pollutants such as PM2.5, PM10, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and ozone.
The southern city of Haikou, in Hainan province, was found to have the cleanest air.
Most of the eight cities that made the grade were in the east of the country.
Meanwhile the northern industrial city of Baoding had the dirtiest air.
The statement did not give the rankings for Beijing and Shanghai, although it noted that Beijing's air quality had improved slightly over the previous year.
The Chinese authorities announced a "war on air pollution" last year, and recently began publishing figures for the air quality in China's cities. Officials have pledged to restrict consumption of coal, scrap millions of cars and rely more on clean energy sources.
At November's Apec summit, China made a historic pledge that its carbon emissions would peak by 2030, but did not set a specific target.
It also attempted to improve the air quality in Beijing during the Apec summit, imposing tight limits on car use and ordering factories to close in the weeks leading up to the meeting.
The temporary improvement in air quality was termed "Apec Blue", and the government has since promised to make it a permanent feature by improving air quality countrywide. | Only eight out of China's 74 biggest cities passed the government's basic air quality standards in 2014, the environment ministry has said. |
40,999,146 | The Brazil international was speaking after scoring twice on his home debut for PSG in a 6-2 win over Toulouse.
"I spent four beautiful years there and parted happy," said the 25-year-old. "But with them [the board], no.
"For me, they are not the people who should be there, for the direction of Barca. Barca deserve much better."
Neymar's two goals against Toulouse took his tally to three in his opening two games for PSG.
Since his departure, Barca have lost 5-1 on aggregate to rivals Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup.
As they seek Neymar's replacement, they have also had three offers for Liverpool playmaker Philippe Coutinho rejected, and have been unable to sign Borussia Dortmund forward Ousmane Dembele.
However, the club have recruited former Tottenham midfielder Paulinho, and opened their league season with a 2-0 win at home to Real Betis on Sunday.
"I cannot speak now I am in another team," said Neymar.
"I don't know what's going on there, but I see my old team-mates sad, and it's that which makes me sad because I have a lot of friends there.
"I hope that things will improve for Barca and that they will become a team that can rival others." | Neymar has criticised the directors of his former club Barcelona, who he left to join Paris St-Germain for a world record £200m earlier this month. |
40,282,543 | Lesley Laird was elected last week to represent Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
Ms Laird was born in Greenock and is a former deputy leader of Fife Council. She worked in human resources before being elected as a councillor in 2012.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said she would help the party present a "positive vision" for Scotland's future.
Mr Corbyn said: "I am delighted to appoint Lesley as Shadow Scottish Secretary.
"She brings a wealth of knowledge and practical real life experience to the Commons, and will play a major role going forward as we hold the Tory Government to account.
"She will work closely with me and Kez Dugdale as we present a positive Labour vision for Scotland's future."
Ms Laird added: "My priorities are the things that people told me are important to them in the General Election campaign: that's jobs, housing and public services.
"I look forward to working closely with Jeremy and Kez as Labour unites to take on the Tories, and I will be holding David Mundell to account for the actions of his government which is causing misery right across Scotland." | Labour have appointed one of their newly-elected MPs to be the party's shadow Scottish Secretary. |
33,055,855 | In April, volunteer Richard Symonds told the Guardian an account linked to Mr Shapps had been blocked.
But Wikipedia said there was no evidence connecting the account with "any specific individual".
Mr Shapps, who denied the claims, said the media had failed to "check even basic facts" in reporting the story.
Mr Symonds, whose username was "Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry", told the Guardian that Wikipedia had barred a user called "Contribsx" because the account had been used to make changes to Mr Shapps' profile.
The administrator told the paper he believed the account was "either run by Shapps directly" or by someone else "but under his clear direction".
However, a report from Wikipedia's arbitration and audit committees said "no evidence" had been presented "that definitively connects the Contribsx account with any specific individual".
On Mr Symonds, it concluded there "does not appear to be a major breach of policy" but the administrator gave the appearance that Wikipedia's monitoring tools were being used to "exert political or social control".
It was also found that the administrator was "unable to provide sufficient justification" for using the monitoring tools, and "did not take adequate steps" before making the information public to make sure that the release of the information was "seen as neutral and unbiased".
The committees said the user should have access to Wikipedia's CheckUser tool revoked and lose their "oversight" permissions.
Mr Shapps said: "Wikipedia's investigation has resulted in the strong disciplinary action now being taken.
"However, the failure of various media outlets to check even basic facts meant that this false and damaging story ran for an entire day during the general election campaign.
"My hope is that this case serves as a reminder that both the source, as well as the content of a story, should be carefully checked before it is broadcast in future."
Mr Symonds said that it would be "premature" to comment on the outcome of the investigation, but said a "flurry of experienced Wikipedians" had expressed support for him. | Wikipedia has censured an administrator who accused Tory MP Grant Shapps of editing his own entry on the site as well as those of Cabinet ministers. |
40,985,873 | The body of Jiri Ulman, 52, was discovered with "multiple serious injuries" near Ten Acres Lane in Newton Heath, Manchester, on 8 August.
Miroslav Kolman, 35, is due to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
Josef Janda, 57, of Kenyon Lane, Moston, was also charged earlier this week with Mr Ulman's murder.
A 60-year-old woman held on suspicion of assisting an offender was released while inquiries continue. | A second man has been charged with murder after a man was found dead in woodland. |
32,450,763 | Nicholas Salvador, 25, of Enfield, also pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey to assault by ABH, by reason of insanity.
He is accused of killing Palmira Silva, found dead in a garden in Nightingale Road, Edmonton, north London, in September 2014.
Mr Salvador is also charged with assaulting a police officer.
Police found Ms Silva's body after being called to the area following reports an animal had been attacked.
Neighbours paid tribute to Ms Silva, an Italian widow who ran a cafe in Church Street, near Edmonton Green station.
Sylvia Lewis said: "She was a lovely lady, she didn't have a bad bone in her body." | A man accused of beheading an 82-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity. |
36,235,724 | The event is celebrated on the first Saturday of May each year and encourages free-spirited gardeners to embrace nature in the nude.
The hashtag #nakedgardeningday was trending on Twitter.
Award-winning gardeners at RHS Malvern Spring Festival in Worcestershire marked the occasion.
Hardy souls sat amongst their cultivated creations and were photographed as nature intended.
Now in its third day, more 90,000 people are expected to attend the Malvern festival over the course of the four-day event. | Nature-lovers are shedding their clothes and heading outside to mark World Naked Gardening Day. |
39,678,686 | Resuming on 238-8, Kent were all out for 259, but Stevens (6-47) helped limit Derbyshire to 159 in reply.
Only five of the visitors' batsmen reached double figures, with Wayne Madsen top scoring with 56.
The hosts fell to 51-5 to start their second innings, but Stevens (53 not out) helped see them to 142-7 when bad light stopped play, a lead of 242 runs.
Stevens, only a week away from his 41st birthday, had taken only 12 five-wicket hauls in his career before this season, but he has taken one in each of Kent's opening three games.
He also maintained his impressive form with the bat, with his unbeaten half-century the fourth time he has gone past 50 this season. | Darren Stevens took his third five-wicket haul of the season for Kent before Derbyshire's bowlers hit back. |
17,721,139 | The country has been off-limits since March 2009, when Sri Lankan cricketers and officials were attacked by gunmen.
Lahore will host a one-day international on 29 April and a Twenty20 match 24 hours later.
"The public of Pakistan have been deprived of cricket and we felt that we needed to support them," said Bangladesh official Mustafa Kamal.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board president added: "The reception we received when we toured Lahore and Karachi on our security visit was overwhelming."
During the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka team six policemen and the team coach driver were killed, while seven cricketers and an assistant coach were injured.
In December, the Pakistan Cricket Board expressed confidence that international cricket would return to the country in 2012.
All of Pakistan's 27 Tests and 67 one-day internationals since the terror attacks have been played on foreign soil.
The UAE has served as Pakistan's temporary home, and played host to England earlier this year, while Lord's and Headingley were the venues for two Tests against Australia in 2010. | Pakistan will host its first international matches since 2009 when Bangladesh tour at the end of April. |
36,209,209 | The hooker is in line to feature for Northampton against Gloucester in the Premiership on Saturday.
"He's done a full week and has been going through the return-to-play protocols," said coach Alan Dickens.
"He's bouncing around the place and back to his usual self."
If 30-year-old Hartley does return from the replacements bench, it will be a significant boost for England before the summer tour to Australia.
England boss Eddie Jones says Hartley will lead the side down under if he proves his fitness for the three-Test series.
Meanwhile, Hartley has been seeking advice over his recovery from his club team-mate George North. The Wales wing took a period away from the game in 2015 because of his own concussion problems.
"Dylan has been around the house a few times for a few coffees and a few chats," North told BBC Radio 5 live. "Anyone who has had concussion, or a number of concussions back-to-back, can really sympathise.
"People don't see a cast on his head or strapping around his brain - it's not like an injury where you have a physical issue like a limp - so it's very difficult to come to terms with.
"You only have one head so make sure you take care of it. If it takes you two or three weeks longer [to recover] then take your time. There is no point rushing it."
Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add alerts for your rugby union team, cricket scores, football and more. | England captain Dylan Hartley is back in full training for the first time since being knocked unconscious during the Grand Slam decider against France in March. |
40,595,130 | They received misconduct notices during an IPCC probe after John Lowe killed Christine Lee and her daughter Lucy.
The three were criticised over the arrest of Ms Lee's other daughter Stacy Banner after the deaths in 2014.
Surrey Police said a hearing found the sergeant should be given management advice, but he could still appeal.
IPCC associate commissioner Tom Milsom said: "The allegations against Stacy came at an extremely difficult time in her life, following the tragic deaths of her mother and sister.
"A panel found a charge of misconduct proven against a detective sergeant who authorised her initial arrest without ensuring relevant lines of enquiry were not completed before doing so.
"The allegations regarding the other officers were not proven."
Ch Supt Helen Collins, from Surrey Police, said the complaints had been thoroughly investigated and the evidence carefully considered, but she added: "We are still in a period where the detective sergeant can choose whether or not to appeal [against] the findings and therefore will not be commenting further."
The IPCC said a constable had faced claims he did not take actions that could have prevented the need to arrest Mrs Banner, but was cleared.
In the sergeant's case, it was claimed the officer did not have sufficient evidence to suspect Mrs Banner of the offence, and failed to ensure relevant witness statements were taken - the watchdog said the first claim was not proven, but two claims relating to witness statements were.
A gross misconduct claim against Det Insp Paul Burrill heard his authorisation of Mrs Banner's continued detention and a further arrest were not necessary - but those claims were not proven.
In a separate development, the IPCC said Mrs Banner also complained about a delay in informing her that her loved ones had been formally identified, and she also said her visit to see their bodies had been "inadequate and unprofessional".
The IPCC said its investigator had interviewed the senior officer and specialists and examined log books, but no-one was given misconduct notices.
Mr Milsom said: "Communications between Stacy and the family liaison specialists indicate that their relationship functioned relatively smoothly and that Stacy's concerns were not raised at the time and nor had Surrey Police picked up any intimations she was unhappy." | Misconduct claims against a Surrey Police sergeant involved in the Farnham puppy farm murders have been proven but two other detectives have been cleared. |
36,359,614 | Dzagoev, 25, broke a metatarsal during CSKA's 1-0 win over Rubin Kazan on Saturday, a result that clinched the Russian title for CSKA.
Russia are in Group B at the Euros with England, Wales and Slovakia and kick-off against England on 11 June.
"The medical examination confirmed the fracture of the second instep bone," the Russian Football Union said.
Dzagoev, the joint-top scorer at Euro 2012, will be replaced by FC Krasnodar's Dmitri Torbinski, 32.
We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter ahead of the Euros and Olympics, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here. | Russia midfielder Alan Dzagoev will miss out on Euro 2016 after suffering a broken foot playing for CSKA Moscow. |
34,960,635 | Starc suffered a stress fracture during the third Test against New Zealand.
Wearing a protective boot, he told reporters: "I'll be in this boot for three or four weeks."
The West Indies series begins on 9 December in Hobart, and Starc could also miss the return series against the Black Caps in New Zealand in February.
"There's no point putting a time stamp on it yet until the bone heals," he said.
Starc was the joint-leading wicket-taker in the series against the Kiwis - won 2-0 by Australia - with 13.
But his injury further depletes their pace bowling resources following the retirement of fellow left-arm quick Mitchell Johnson midway through the New Zealand series. | Australia left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc has been ruled out of the upcoming three-Test series against West Indies with a broken foot. |
25,366,160 | According to a study in The Lancet, nearly a quarter of female prisoners cut, scratch or poison themselves.
Self-harm was also found to be a strong risk factor for suicide in prison, particularly among men.
Experts say more should be done to reduce self-harm rates in prisons.
The Oxford research team looked at self-harm incidents in all prisons in England and Wales between 2004 and 2009.
It found that 5% to 6% of male prisoners and 20% to 24% of female prisoners deliberately harmed themselves every year, resulting in 20,000 to 25,000 incidents per year.
This compared with a 0.6% rate among the UK's general population.
Repeated self-harming was common, the study said, and a small group of 102 women inmates self-harmed more than 100 times a year.
Cutting and scratching were the most frequent methods of self-harming in men and women, followed by poisoning and overdosing.
The study also examined those at greatest risk of self-harm. In female prisoners, being younger than 20 years old, white, in a mixed local prison, or serving a life sentence were major factors.
In male prisoners, those at risk tended to be young, white, in a high-security prison and with a life sentence or unsentenced.
Prisoners who self-harmed were found to be at "substantially greater" risk of suicide than other inmates, particularly among men.
Older male prisoners (aged 30 to 49) with a history of serious self-harm were most at risk.
Dr Seena Fazel, joint study author from the department of psychiatry at the University of Oxford, said all prisoners who are self-harming should be regarded as a risk.
"Now we know the extent to which the risk of subsequent suicide in prisoners who self-harm is greater than the general population, suicide prevention initiatives should be changed to include a focus on prisoners who are self-harming, especially repeatedly."
Writing in a Comment article in The Lancet, Dr Andrew Forrester from King's College London, and Dr Karen Slade from Nottingham Trent University call for more research to address how the self-harm rate in prisons in England and Wales can be reduced.
"The available evidence indicates a key role for multi-agency collaboration, in which suicide is everyone's concern, rather than being the sole preserve of healthcare staff.
"We need to invest in the wide inclusion of all people who, on the ground, can listen to prisoners who are experiencing distress, mobilise concern, and help to deliver joined up care."
Andy Bell, deputy chief executive at the Centre for Mental Health, said it was well known that women in prison were more likely to have depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder which, in turn, can make them extremely vulnerable.
He added it was important to be aware of those at risk at an early stage.
"Women should have access to mental health support and advice at every police station. It should start when they are arrested, particularly if there are signs of self-harming or poor mental health. We have to intervene early to stop the journey." | Self-harm is a serious issue for women in prison, who make up only 5% of the prison population but account for half of all self-harm incidents, say Oxford University researchers. |
37,954,345 | Police found almost 850,000 images of children at Michael Kennedy's Peterborough home, alongside one image of sexual activity with a horse.
It was "the biggest investigation of its kind relating to indecent images seen in Cambridgeshire," officers said.
Kennedy, 52, admitted a number of offences at Cambridge Crown Court.
The GP, of St Pegus Road, who worked at Millfield Medical Centre in Peterborough, was suspended from practising by the General Medical Council after his arrest in March.
He later pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, one count of possessing prohibited images of children and three counts of possessing extreme pornographic images.
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Most of the victims seen in the images, which were both still and moving, were between five and 10 years old.
Det Ch Insp Neil Sloan said: "Never in my time as a police officer have I seen such an extensive collection of such images; more than 800,000 individual images all stored, filed and categorised like a library."
He said while there was no evidence Kennedy had filmed any of the images himself, it was clear he had "an unhealthy interest in indecent images of children and extreme pornography".
Police also stressed there was no evidence to suggest Kennedy had abused his patients.
Kennedy's defence told the court her client was "appalled with himself".
He was jailed for two years and eight months, as well as being placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for life and being made the subject of a lifelong Sexual Harm Prevention Order. | A doctor found to have thousands of indecent images of children as well as animal pornography has been jailed for more than two years. |
10,626,933 | There have also been calls for Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones to resign following the ruling.
The appeal court halted the assembly government's planned cull of around 1,500 badgers to try to stop TB in cattle on Tuesday.
The Badger Trust appealed against the cull questioning its effectiveness.
Three judges announced the trust's appeal against a judicial review which had backed the cull was successful and quashed the order.
Lord Justice Pill said the assembly government was wrong to make an order for the whole of Wales when it consulted on the basis of a Intensive Action Pilot Area (IAPA) which only supported a cull on evidence within the IAPA
Dairy farmer Brian Walters, vice president of the Farmers' Union of Wales, said the decision would have a huge impact on farming.
"The fact it's not happening now in north Pembrokeshire I think is a major disaster for the industry in the whole of Wales," he said.
"In my area and to the west in the cull area, we were looking forward to having some sort of control of the disease and the wildlife... we have incidents of one in every seven badgers with TB on them and comparing that with cattle with one out of 140 cattle with TB."
Stephen James, NFU Cymru's deputy president, said increasing cattle controls while doing nothing to prevent TB in badgers would cause the disease to spread and "wreck the lives of a growing number of farming families".
But Tina Sacco, a farmer in Pembrokeshire, did not support the cull and believes a vaccination programme would be a better option.
"One thing we do know is that a cull has been proved over a 40-year period never to have worked - that's why we're back where we are now," she said.
"Vaccination programmes have been used throughout the world to conquer all sorts of diseases in both man and animals."
Meanwhile Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black, who was a leading campaigner against the proposed badger cull in the Welsh Assembly, said he believed Rural Minister Elin Jones had "mishandled" the cull "from the start".
"Not only did she get the order itself wrong, leading to this decision [in the appeal court], but she also embarked on a course of action in defiance of all the scientific evidence," he said.
But First Minister Carwyn Jones has supported his minister, saying that the defeat in the courts did not reflect poorly on her.
"It's important that we deal with TB in Wales because it's a problem that is growing," he said.
Under the cull, badgers were to be trapped in cages and shot.
Anti-cull protesters, led by the Badger Trust, argued it had not yet been scientifically proven that badgers are implicated in the transmission of TB within cattle and it doubts a cull would help eradicate the disease. | Farmers' unions have described a decision to quash a proposed cull of badgers in north Pembrokeshire as a disaster for farming. |
26,645,490 | They were taken offline for two months last May while extra sea defences were installed after a review into Japan's Fukushima disaster highlighted risks.
Barrie Botley, of Kent Against a Radioactive Environment, said not enough details were given at the time.
EDF said it had ensured that everyone knew about what was happening.
A massive earthquake and tsunami which led to the nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukushima reactor in 2011 prompted new research into the flood risk at Dungeness.
The review concluded that there was "a theoretical but plausible scenario in an extremely rare case where water could have got on to the site, potentially up to waist height", the BBC understands.
EDF issued a statement last May saying Unit 21 was offline for "planned refuelling" and Unit 22 for "improvements to flood defences for extreme events".
It said both units were expected to be returned to service that month.
Mr Botley said that did not make clear that both reactors were completely out of action,
"They betrayed us all and I think it's absolutely disgusting. They're supposed to be very open nowadays and they're not," he said.
But Martin Pearson, station director at Dungeness B, said: "The language we've used is language we've used for 30 years.
"If there's more of an interest from the public, and that is seen as a very positive move, then we'll need to review some of the language that we use."
EDF stressed the site was never unsafe and was now protected against the kind of extreme weather expected to happen "only once in 10,000 years".
A flood defence wall between 5ft 2in (1.6m) and 6ft 6in (2m) high has been constructed all the way around the plant at a cost of £2.3m.
It is part of a £5m investment in flood protection including work inside the station, such as sealing trenches, installing dam boards and raising equipment height.
Both Dungeness B reactors automatically shut down during the St Jude's Day storm on 28 October, when electricity to the site was cut off.
EDF said that during the recent floods and storms it had operated normally. | EDF Energy "betrayed the public" after safety fears led to the closure of both reactors at Dungeness B nuclear power station in Kent, campaigners have said. |
32,145,201 | The band - who count Dignity and Real Gone Kid among their hits - will follow in the footsteps of The Human League and Simple Minds at the Aberdeenshire town's Open Air In The Square (OAITS).
An OAITS spokesperson said: "This is a major boost to Stonehaven's growing reputation as one of the top Hogmanay venues in Scotland.
"We are delighted to feature one of the biggest names in the pop world."
Lead singer Ricky Ross said: "We are really looking forward to coming to Stonehaven.
"It's a place I know quite well. When I was young I grew up in Dundee and used to come to lots of places along the east coast.
"I haven't been in Stonehaven for a long time and I am looking forward to coming back. It's the first time we will have done a gig there.
"We're not doing a lot of gigs this year so it's one of a few special gigs." | Scottish pop group Deacon Blue are to headline Stonehaven's Hogmanay event. |
35,684,441 | Parents removed their children from the Kurunegela school last week, despite the six-year-old having a certificate proving he does not have the disease.
His mother said many other schools had rejected him because her husband's death had been wrongly blamed on Aids.
School officials told the BBC's Sinhala service they would try to hold a session to educate parents.
Chandani De Soysa said she had been trying for some time to find a school place, but "they didn't take my child because of this Aids fear".
"I protested and nothing happened, even I found it difficult to get any work."
After her case was reported by BBC Sinhala earlier this month, the educational and human rights authorities became involved, and last week one school was ordered to take in the child.
Despite both her and her son holding certificates showing they are not infected, parents immediately began putting pressure on her to remove him, but she refused.
"He went to the class and played with other kids, but then suddenly all the parents came and took their children away," she told the BBC.
His class teacher, who stayed with him at school, said she felt "very sad when the child asked me why all my friends are leaving because of me, and why the police and others are here".
She said even though other children had treated him normally, "I am not sure how the children will react even when they come back".
The regional education director, Saman Wijesekara, said parents of all 186 pupils had formally asked to stop attending the school.
"We are thinking of having an educational session to parents to solve this issue," he said.
The school head has closed the school for two days but BBC Sinhala reporters say angry parents have been standing at the school gate and protesting to officials and teachers who enter.
Meanwhile officials from the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission have been to the school and have also visited the boy's home.
Sri Lanka is considered to have a very low prevalence of HIV, the virus that causes Aids.
According to UN figures, in 2014 there were 3,200 adults and 100 children living with HIV, fewer than 0.1% of the population.
But there is also concern about poor awareness of the virus and how it spreads, which leads to stigma and discrimination. | A school in western Sri Lanka has been emptied of all but one pupil amid false rumours that the boy has Aids. |
37,225,929 | Raphael Kasambara was sentenced for his role in the attempted murder of ex-National Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo.
Mr Mphwiyo's shooting in 2013 is believed to have exposed Malawi's worst financial scandal, known as "cashgate".
Up to $250m (£150m) was estimated to have been lost in the fraud.
The money was lost through allegedly fraudulent payments to businessmen for services that never materialised.
The systematic plundering of public resources occurred between 2012 and 2014 during the administration of then-President Joyce Banda,
Malawi's donors then withheld $150m following the scandal's disclosure.
Kasambara suggested after his conviction last month that he would appeal the verdict.
Mr Mphwiyo, who was the budget director in the finance ministry, was flown to South Africa for medical treatment after he was shot.
He recovered and testified at Kasambara's trial. | Malawi's ex-justice minister has been given a 13-year jail term for conspiracy to murder a civil servant, in a crime believed to be linked to a multi-million dollar corruption ring. |
30,326,661 | Operation Respect will see more police patrols in evenings at licensed premises and taxi ranks.
During daytime, plain clothes police officers will target shoplifting.
Operation Respect will also involve Inverness Business Improvement District security workers, street pastors and British Red Cross volunteers.
The initiative will also highlight Police Scotland's national Campaign Against Violence on 19 Friday.
Insp Anne Urquhart, from Police Scotland's Inverness community beat unit, said: "Christmas is a time to celebrate and have fun but for some it can provide opportunity to take advantage of those who are vulnerable and susceptible to crime.
"Police Scotland is once again delighted to work with our key partners to ensure that people gain the maximum enjoyment from the city over the next few weeks and remain safe in doing so." | Increased security and safety initiatives will be held in Inverness over the festive period as part of an annual multi-agency campaign. |
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It was 3-3 midway through the game with Colin Shields (2) and Jonathan Boxill netting for the visitors in Scotland.
It became a rout as Belfast surged clear through goals from Chris Higgins, Steve Saviano, Adam Keefe, Matt Nickerson and James Desmarais
Cardiff came from behind to beat Manchester Storm 5-3 and remain top of the standings.
The Giants were aiming to complete a weekend double after Saturday's 5-4 victory over Braehead Clan.
Belfast opened the scoring at the Murrayfield Ice Rink on Sunday at 3:18 when Shields found the back of the Capitals net, assisted by Desmarais.
The lead was short-lived as Jaroslav Hertl equalised 22 seconds later but Shields grabbed his and his team's second goal of the game at 17:36 when he deflected Derrick Walser's shot past netminder Travis Fullerton on the powerplay.
Jared Staal brought the hosts level when his shot deflected into the Giants net at 22:11. The Giants made it 3-2 at 26:48 when Boxill fired home, assisted by Walser and Matt Towe.
Once again, the Capitals equalised when Jared Staal's shot deflected off Matt Tipoff and squeezed into the Giants net at 33:15.
Higgins pulled the Giants ahead with a fine unassisted goal when he rounded the Capitals netminder at 14:04.
Steve Saviano extended the visitor's lead to 5-3 at 39:16 with a fierce one-timer on the powerplay, assisted by Michael Quesnele and Shields.
Giants captain Keefe added the sixth when his wrist shot ripped into the net at 45:38.
Nickerson gave the Giants a four-goal advantage when his slapshot screamed past ullerton, assisted by Mark Garside, at 48:36.
Nickerson then turned provider when his assist led to the final goal of the game, scored by Desmarais with two minutes remaining. | Belfast Giants thumped Edinburgh Capitals to stay within a point of Elite League leaders Cardiff Devils. |
37,303,230 | The move ends years of speculation about the ownership of the company.
Bernie Ecclestone will remain as chief executive but Chase Carey, vice-chairman of 21st Century Fox, will become the new chairman.
Liberty Media has stakes in several sports and entertainment businesses, including the Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball club.
Owned by the billionaire John Malone, Liberty will initially purchase a minority stake in the world's leading motor-racing championship. A full takeover is planned if regulators approve the deal.
The total transaction values the firm at $8bn but includes $4.1bn worth of F1's debt.
Liberty Media is buying the stake from the private equity firm CVC Capital.
CVC has held a stake for the past decade but sold some of its holding in 2012.
It has been criticised for taking considerable profits from the sport, which has suffered from falling TV ratings in recent years.
This is one of the biggest deals in sports history and one of the most important moments in the history of F1.
Under overlord Bernie Ecclestone's long command - and the last decade of ownership by private equity group CVC - the motorsport series has enjoyed remarkable growth in terms of global popularity, profits and new races.
Liberty Media will hope to build on these strengths, helping the sport gain new fans, especially in the Americas, and to capitalise on new opportunities around marketing, promotion, digital rights and social media.
However, assuming European regulators approve the takeover, there are issues that the new US owners will need to address - the decline in appeal among younger audiences in an ultra-competitive sporting landscape, the rising costs to teams, fans and circuits, and the predictability of races.
Many inside the sport will be relieved to see the back of CVC, which has done very well out of its investment, and excited by the future. But this is also the beginning of the end of Mr Ecclestone's remarkable reign. Inevitably there will be uncertainty.
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"We are excited to become part of Formula 1," said Greg Maffei, chief executive of Liberty Media.
"We think our long-term perspective and expertise with media and sports assets will allow us to be good stewards of Formula 1 and benefit fans, teams and our shareholders."
Mr Ecclestone said: "I would like to welcome Liberty Media and Chase Carey to Formula 1 and I look forward to working with them."
Earlier, he said in an interview with Reuters that he had been asked to stay on for three years and would miss the Singapore Grand Prix on 18 September as he needed be in London for the negotiations.
The 85-year-old British businessman has run the sport for 40 years. | US firm Liberty Media has confirmed it is buying the racing business Formula 1 for $4.4bn (£3.3bn). |
40,980,175 | The rally on Boston Common, which attracted only a small crowd, disbanded early and the participants were escorted out by police.
The organisers had said they would not give a platform to racism or bigotry.
Tensions are high after violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend turned deadly.
The Boston Herald reported that up to 30,000 people attended the protest. Demonstrators had gathered at a Boston sports centre and then marched en masse to the common.
Those at the conservative rally were confined to the bandstand area on Boston Common. Crowds of anti-racism protesters surrounded the bandstand but were kept some distance away.
Hundreds of police were deployed and clashes broke out later between some police and anti-rally protesters. Police said on one street officers had rocks thrown at them.
The Boston Globe newspaper reported that 20 people had been arrested.
Many anti-rally protesters wore stickers showing the face of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, who died when a car was driven into a crowd of counter-protesters at last Saturday's far-right rally in Charlottesville.
"It's time to do something. We are out here to add an extra body to the numbers of those who resist," said Katie Zipps, who travelled from Malden, north of Boston, for the protest.
The crowd chanted "No Nazis, no KKK, no fascists in the USA!" and carried banners with slogans such as "Stop pretending your racism is patriotism".
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The organisers of the rally said that "misinformation in the media" was "likening our organisation to those that ran the Charlottesville rally".
"While we maintain that every individual is entitled to their freedom of speech and defend that basic human right, we will not be offering our platform to racism or bigotry," the group wrote on a Facebook page dedicated to the event. "We denounce the politics of supremacy and violence."
Chris Hood, an 18-year-old Boston resident standing among others planning to join the "Free Speech" rally, told Reuters news agency: "The point of this is to have political speech from across the spectrum, conservative, libertarian, centrist."
The list of speakers for the event changed a number of times in the days ahead of the gathering. At times it included speakers who have been associated with the far right.
The violence in Charlottesville began with a protest and counter-protest over the planned removal of a statue of Confederate commander General Robert E Lee.
In the aftermath, Confederate statues across America have come under renewed scrutiny.
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Duke University in North Carolina removed a statue of Robert E Lee from its chapel entrance in the early hours of Saturday morning, following vandalism earlier in the week.
University President Vincent Price said the decision was made for safety reasons and "above all to express the deep and abiding values of our university". | Tens of thousands of anti-racism protesters have opposed the "Free Speech" rally in the US city of Boston that featured right-wing speakers. |
32,194,365 | Ward 14 is the latest to be shut to admissions and transfers and is subject to visitor restrictions.
General medical wards nine and 10 were shut for much of last week. Ward 10 remains closed, but ward nine was expected to partially reopen at 17:00 on Monday after a deep clean.
Ward 12 was shut on Thursday but reopened on Friday.
Duty manager Graham Gault said 43 patients currently have the bug. They have experienced symptoms of sickness and diarrhoea.
Eleven members of staff have reported experiencing similar symptoms.
Mr Gault said the norovirus has a 72-hour incubation period so people could be unaware they are carrying the infection.
He urged visitors to stay away from wards 10 and 14, which have been affected by the bug.
"However if people are deeply concerned the key message is phone the ward and ask for the charge nurse," he added.
Elaine Ross, infection control manager, said: "This is an unpleasant virus which is circulating in the community and is spread easier wherever people are together.
"In this outbreak, vomiting is more of a feature and this makes it much more easy to transmit, which is why we are seeing higher numbers affected in hospital.
"We regret having to take such measures as restricting visiting, particularly over a holiday period, but thank the public and our staff for their continued support and patience as we endeavour to minimise the impact of this horrible bug." | A fourth ward has closed at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary in a major outbreak of norovirus. |
11,980,315 | The effort will be achieved using three super-sensitive spacecraft called Swarm, which should launch in 2012.
The magnetic signal of the tides sweeping around the globe has been seen before, but the new mission would aim to observe far more detail.
It should provide additional data on how the oceans transfer heat around the Earth, a key feature of the climate.
"When salty ocean water flows through the magnetic field of the Earth, an electric field is generated and this electric field again makes a magnetic field," explained Dr Hermann Lühr, from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) and a leading investigator on Swarm.
"We hope to have the possibility to measure the ocean currents which are so important for climate dynamics, because oceans are transporting a lot of heat. The German Champ mission was the first to see at least the tidal signal, but with Swarm we want to be able to monitor the currents themselves."
The new mission is one of the several innovative European Space Agency (Esa) endeavours being discussed this week here at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, the largest annual gathering of Earth and planetary scientists.
The major part of Earth's global magnetic field is generated by convection of molten iron within the planet's outer liquid core, but there are other components that contribute to the overall signal, including the magnetism retained in rocks.
Swarm's goal is to investigate all the components, but pulling out the small part produced by ocean movement will probably be its greatest challenge, concedes Dr Mark Drinkwater from Esa's Earth observation division.
"We're talking about tens of thousands of nanoteslas for the total field measured at satellite level, of which one part in 50,000 approximately is contributed by ocean circulation," he told BBC News.
"So it's a akin to finding a needle in a haystack, but the modelling which has shown the retrievability of this element of the magnetic field has demonstrated that it might be possible with [our satellite system]."
It means the spacecraft themselves have to be built with extreme care. The magnetism generated by the satellites' own workings has to be minimised as much as possible, and thoroughly modelled to understand what interference it might be introducing into the scientific data.
Currently under construction with manufacturer EADS Astrium, the satellites look like giant mechanical rats with long tails.
The tails are booms designed to hold Swarm's sensitive magnetometer instruments away from the "noise" that would inevitably come from the electronics inside the main body of the spacecraft.
Every component put on the satellites has had to be tested, right down to the glues that have been used to bond some surfaces together. Any trace ferrous materials in the glues could ruin the measurements.
"You can't go near the spacecraft with a standard spanner or screwdriver - all the tools you would normally use on a spacecraft build. You have to de-gauss them," said platform project manager Andy Jones.
"You have to test them and make sure they're magnetically clean so they'll leave no trace, because if you touch a bolt with a magnetised spanner you will leave a field behind on that bolt."
The Champ spacecraft came out of orbit just a few weeks ago, burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Scientists reported first in 2003 that this satellite could sense the subtle magnetic field generated as the waters of the Earth moved under the gravitational tug of the Moon. This signal was apparent because of its very regular pattern.
Sensing the more complex signal from general ocean currents will be much more difficult, however.
At present, researchers use a range of methods to track the currents, including altimetry - the measurement of ocean surface height.
"All these different forms of measurement give you a different answer," said Dr Lühr.
"If you consider altimetry, this relies on seeing how the surface of the water is deformed by the current. But this can also be deformed by other effects like warming up, or having less salt in the water.
"However, if you look into the magnetic field this is just the integral motion from top to bottom of the water, and it will give you a really independent answer about the net transport of that water."
The Swarm satellites will be launched on a single rocket into a polar orbit some 300-500km (186-311 miles) above the Earth.
Two of the satellites will circle the planet in tandem while the plane of the third spacecraft will be offset and gradually diverge over the course of the mission.
This approach is expected to make it much easier for Swarm to separate out all the different components of the global magnetic field.
Scientists say they still have much to learn about Earth's magnetism.
The global field, which shields the planet from high-energy particles emanating from the Sun, appears to be getting weaker, particularly over the South Atlantic where Champ data was used to show there had been a 12% reduction during the course of three decades.
It is in this so-called South Atlantic Anomaly that orbiting spacecraft experience most of their technical failures and where astronauts on the space station receive their largest dose of radiation.
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13,534,368 | He thanked the UK for its solidarity since 9/11 and in tackling the security threats that have followed.
He also paid tribute to the UK's military forces for "standing shoulder to shoulder with the US for decades".
The banquet was hosted by the Queen and attended by royalty, politicians and film stars.
It came at the end of a packed first day of the president's state visit.
The banquet was attended by all three main political leaders, Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband, as well as former prime ministers Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Sir John Major.
Other famous names seated around the horseshoe-shaped table included former athlete and politician Lord Coe, actors Tom Hanks and Kevin Spacey, actress Helena Bonham Carter, entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson and London Mayor Boris Johnson.
The 170 or so guests dined on new season lamb, roast potatoes and a vanilla charlotte, accompanied by vintage champagne.
By James RobbinsDiplomatic correspondent
The two speeches were short, but direct.
President Obama went out of his way to praise Britain, calling it the birthplace of the rule of law and the rights of men and women. His particular emphasis was on "solidarity" in the relationship - the solidarity he said the UK had shown to America in the decade since 9/11.
Of course, he left room for America's other crucial alliances around the world, but the president stressed confidence in the British-American partnership confronting the challenges of the 21st Century together.
He went out of his way to praise his host, calling the Queen "a living witness to the power of our alliance and a chief source of its resilience".
The Queen was equally clear: "We are here to celebrate the tried, tested and - yes - special relationship between our two countries." She didn't mind using the old formula. Both sides clearly think it has a positive future.
The Queen opened proceedings by telling Mr Obama and his wife Michelle that she was "so glad" they were visiting the UK again.
She said: "I firmly believe that the strength of our links and many shared interests will continue to ensure that, when the US and the UK stand together, our people and other people of goodwill around the world will be more secure and can become more prosperous."
She proposed a toast to "celebrate the tried, tested - and, yes, special relationship between our two countries".
The president then told the guests: "As we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I'm particular grateful for the solidarity that the United Kingdom has shown to America over the past decade.
"From that day to this you have been our closest partner in the struggle to protect our people from terrorism attacks and violent extremism from around the world despite very heavy sacrifices here."
To conclude, the president proposed a toast to the Queen, but there appeared to be a mistake as the band played the opening bars to God Save the Queen before he had finished.
The Obamas arrived in London on Monday night from the Republic of Ireland, a day ahead of schedule because of the threat of disruption from the volcanic ash cloud.
On Tuesday, the president and his wife joined the Queen at Buckingham Palace where they briefly met the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge before moving to the palace gardens for a ceremonial welcome, including a 41-gun salute.
The presidential pair's visit to Westminster Abbey included an impromptu meeting with choirboys, when Mr Obama was teased by his wife for his lack of singing talent.
Mr Obama briefly met the prime minister in Downing Street ahead of talks on Wednesday. They then left together for a surprise visit to the Globe Academy in Southwark, south London, where they teamed up for a table tennis match against schoolboys.
The leaders' talks on Wednesday are likely to focus on the Middle East and the ongoing conflict in Libya.
The day's itinerary will also include a barbecue at Number 10 with British and American military veterans and a speech about US foreign policy to MPs before a return banquet at Winfield House, where the Queen will formally say farewell.
In a joint article in the Times on Tuesday, Mr Obama and Mr Cameron said of their countries' relationship: "Ours is not just a special relationship, it is an essential relationship - for us and for the world.
"When the United States and Britain stand together, our people and people around the world can become more secure and more prosperous.
"The reason it thrives is because it advances our common interests and shared values. It is a perfect alignment of what we both need and what we both believe."
They also vowed not to abandon the protesters fighting for democracy in Arab countries, writing that they would "stand with those who want to bring light into dark, support those who seek freedom in place of repression, aid those laying the building blocks of democracy".
"We will not stand by as their aspirations get crushed in a hail of bombs, bullets and mortar fire.
"We are reluctant to use force, but when our interests and values come together, we know we have a responsibility to act." | US President Barack Obama has hailed his country's "special relationship" with the UK in a speech delivered at a state banquet at Buckingham Palace. |
33,060,526 | It was bought by an individual from the Dorset area in a phone bid.
A piece of paper found with the hair said "A single hair of Napoleon Bonaparte's head 29th August 1816" and "5th May 1821' - the date Napoleon died.
The strand of hair was attached to a piece of paper by red sealing wax.
Auctioneer Max Beaumont, of Cottees Auction House, Wareham, said it was found in a drawer by a colleague doing a home valuation.
He said they found a small goldsmith's box and expected to find a watch, but instead they found the folded paper.
The hair is understood to have been owned by the family for the whole of the 20th Century, but has not been professionally analysed.
The initial estimate was £100 to £200.
Mr Beaumont, who at 19 claims to be one of the youngest auctioneers in the country, said: "There has been a lot of interest."
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French emperor who conquered much of Europe. He was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo and imprisoned by the British on the remote Atlantic island of St Helena, where he died on 5 May 1821. | A strand of hair believed to be from the head of former French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's head has sold for £130 at auction in Dorset. |
34,979,325 | A reporter, posing as a student, was offered a loan at a private college in Cardiff using fake qualifications.
It prompted the suspension of payments to West London Vocational Training College and to its Cardiff students.
The Welsh government has stressed that the college is the only English-based private college operating in Wales.
On Wednesday, it emerged concerns over the regulation of private colleges had been raised by an assembly committee in October 2014.
Darren Millar, chairman of the assembly's public accounts committee, has called for a police investigation and the auditor general to look into the allegations, following the Week in Week Out programme broadcast on Tuesday.
Det Chf Insp Karen Thomas of South Wales Police's economic crime unit said the force was in discussions with the Welsh government's counter-fraud department relating to allegations raised.
Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies said the Welsh government "must satisfy the public that they have done everything in their power to ensure that the risk of widespread abuse has been minimised".
Plaid Cymru education spokesman Simon Thomas said there was cause to believe the rules and the level of scrutiny of colleges was not sufficient.
Liberal Democrat education spokesman Aled Roberts said: "These allegations are deeply worrying and the Welsh Labour government needs to ensure that there is no chance of such allegations arising elsewhere."
Questioned about the matter in the Senedd on Tuesday, Mr Lewis told AMs: "There would be no system of regulation, or it would be difficult to contrive a system of regulation, that could be 100% proof against any planned or deliberate fraud."
Changes to the way such colleges are regulated were coming into force in January, he said.
He added: "It would be difficult to see that this particular problem could have spread much wider; this is the only English-based private provider currently operating in Wales."
Week In Week Out also discovered the college's principal, Dr Manoj Kumar, faked his Cambridge University PhD and teaching certificates.
Kazi Shajahan, who was recruiting students to the college, offered to sell coursework needed for qualifications.
The college owner, Bharat Bageja, denied knowing of any wrongdoing in the recruitment of students to his college.
He said Mr Shajahan was never employed as a recruitment director and the principal had been removed from his position.
This followed the broadcast of the Week in Week programme on Tuesday night. | Police are talking to the Welsh government about allegations of fraud at a college after an undercover investigation by BBC Wales. |
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Rebecca Downie, Claudia Fragapane, Ruby Harrold, Hannah Whelan and Kelly Simm held off Australia to win, with Wales putting in a superb display for bronze.
Earlier, Louis Smith, Sam Oldham, Kristian Thomas, Max Whitlock and Nile Wilson won the men's title.
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Scotland finished second to secure their first major team medal.
Dan Keatings, Dan Purvis, Frank Baines, Adam Cox and Liam Davie scored 257.603, with England's 266.804 enough for victory.
However, Oldham missed England's final two rotations after falling in the vault.
England's women finished on a total of 167.555, and errors from Australia on both the floor and beam in the final rotation left them second on 161.646.
The Welsh team of Lizzie Beddoe, Georgina Hockenhull, Jessica Hogg, Angel Romaeo and Raer Theaker secured the country's first team medal with a score of 160.095.
Both England teams led their events after the opening day but Whitlock, who led qualifying for the all-around final with 90.365, acknowledged his team had been pushed by the Scots.
"It's very different competing against Scotland," he added. "These are guys we've been friends and team-mates with for a long time so it's interesting and a bit of fun training with them.
"We've been preparing for this for a long time and for it to go well on the day in front of a crowd like this is amazing."
Whelan, 22, was thrilled with the gold medal and also the performance of 16-year-old Fragapane, who put in solid performances on the floor and beam to help clinch the win.
"We did have a few shaky moments out there but we have worked so hard," said Whelan.
"Coming off the back of a Europeans and going into a Worlds, we have done as much as we can do training-wise and we all felt ready.
"The way Claudia finished it off was fantastic. We have all pulled our weight and I'm really proud of the way everyone has performed." | England's women emulated the achievement of their male team-mates by winning gold in the gymnastics team final at the Commonwealth Games. |
36,807,022 | The 44-year-old was arrested in Paisley, Renfrewshire after allegedly making threats to kill the Wallasey MP in an email, Merseyside Police said.
In a separate incident a brick was thrown through a window of her Wirral constituency office which police are also investigating.
Ms Eagle, 55, is currently campaigning to replace party leader Jeremy Corbyn. | A man has been arrested on suspicion of making death threats to Labour Party leadership contender Angela Eagle. |
32,752,558 | Graves suggested in March that the batsman, sacked by England in 2014, could return with good county form.
But new ECB director of cricket Andrew Strauss said he would not be selected over "trust" issues, with Pietersen describing the decision as "deceitful".
Graves insists he "did not make any promises" to the 34-year-old.
He added in a statement: "Kevin was told on Monday and I completely support the decision that was taken. He may not have liked what he heard but it allowed him to look at his opportunities.
"Despite everything, he can work with us to rebuild the relationship and make a further contribution to English cricket. It was important he knew where he stood."
In the statement, Graves also said:
Strauss offered Pietersen a role as an advisor on a board to improve the one-day side, which was turned down.
Pietersen's omission has divided opinion, particularly after he scored an unbeaten 355 for Surrey against Leicestershire earlier this week.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Pietersen said he had been "misled" by the ECB.
"I just find it incredibly deceitful what has happened to me," he said. "I am angry and hurt but right now there is nothing I can do about it."
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme in early March, Graves refused to rule out a recall for Pietersen but said selectors and coaches would make any final decision.
Graves later told the Telegraph that the selectors "can't ignore" Pietersen if he "scores a lot of runs" for a county side.
"Forget personalities," he added. "Selectors pick the best players in form, taking wickets and scoring runs. That is their job."
Meanwhile, Angus Porter, chief executive of the Professional Cricketers' Association, said he has had no recent contact with Pietersen or his advisors.
He hopes England's players will be allowed to ignore the saga and focus on the upcoming series against New Zealand and Australia.
"The policy on Pietersen is a matter for the ECB board," Porter told BBC Sport. "The current England players are getting put in a really difficult position every time they are asked for their views.
"It is nothing to do with the players. Managers manage and the players play. You just hope that the team will be given every support during what will be a very challenging summer ahead." | New England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves says he did not mislead Kevin Pietersen over a potential recall to the England side. |
32,708,779 | Tuesday's shaker in Nepal is not quite as bad as the 7.8 tremor on 25 April - which was 5.5-times as energetic - but it is a major quake nonetheless.
The location is different. The epicentre this time is about 80km east-northeast of Kathmandu, halfway to Everest. A fortnight ago, the event began 80km to the northwest of the capital.
But just that observation is instructive because of what we have learnt in the past two weeks.
In April, we saw the fault boundary rupture eastwards from the epicentre for 150km. And the immediate analysis suggests Tuesday's tremor has occurred right at the eastern edge of this failure.
In that context, this second earthquake was almost certainly triggered by the stress changes caused by the first one.
Indeed, the US Geological Survey had a forecast for an aftershock in this general area.
Its modelling suggested there was 1-in-200 chance of a M7-7.8 event occurring this week. So, not highly probable, but certainly possible.
Quake experts often talk about "seismic gaps", which refer to segments of faults that are to some extent overdue a quake.
Tuesday's big tremor may well have filled a hole between what we saw on 25 April and some historic events - such as those in 1934, which occurred further still to the east.
There are early reports of deaths and injuries, and one has to hope the outcome this time will be less severe.
Buildings that were left damaged and precarious on 25 April may well have been felled in the following days' aftershocks, or have been put out of bounds. This could limit the casualties this time. But further landslides and avalanches in the mountainous terrain are a persistent risk. And, of course, another big tremor does nothing for the frayed nerves of an already anxious population.
For the future, it is clear there are still large segments of the fault that retain strain, and these regions are where resilience planning is likely to be concentrated.
Satellite images show the 25 April quake did not rupture all the way to the surface, meaning there is potential for another big quake just to the south of Kathmandu. And there are particular concerns to the west, as well.
"I think if you spoke to most people, they would say the biggest patches that didn't break a fortnight ago were the shallower patches, south of Kathmandu; and also west of Kathmandu, or at least west of where it started on 25 April at Pokhara," explained Dr John Elliott from the Nerc Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes and Tectonics (Comet) at Oxford University, UK.
"So, there is that whole portion of western Nepal that hasn't gone since the 1500s. This aftershock was quite big at 7.3 but we'd have concerns still about 8.0s to the west of Pokhara," he told BBC News.
The death toll from the 25 April earthquake now stands at more than 8,000. This is a dreadfully high number, but it is worth remembering the estimates that were produced by the predictive models on that day. These suggested the number of dead could be in the tens of thousands.
It is very probably that the final toll will be higher than what has so far been recorded, but there are indications that the numbers might not be quite so high. An interesting story is emerging about the shaking on 25 April. It seems the fault may have ruptured in a smoother fashion than might have been anticipated, resulting in less destruction.
Susan Hough from the US Geological Survey has been reviewing the data.
She told the BBC: "We can see directly that central Nepal moved up about 1.5m during the earthquake and also to the south, but it did so very gradually, if you will.
"You can see that in videos that show the ground just moving back and forth with a very long period, on the order of five seconds.
"So, you would have had buildings in Kathmandu that were able to ride out what would have been essentially long swells of the ground moving beneath them." | By any stretch, a magnitude-7.3 quake is a big one. |
33,173,218 | The six-month, £670,000 project will upgrade heating and electrics, as well as seeing large areas repainted.
The 14th Century church was demolished and rebuilt in the 1720s and it was believed all trace of the older building had gone.
But builders have uncovered a piece of ancient brickwork which it is hoped can be put on display.
Cathedral administrator Rachel Morris said the building was in very poor condition at the start of the 18th Century and the vicar took a novel approach to securing its future.
"He decided to knock the church down completely, judging it was easier to fundraise for a new building than repairing an old one," she said.
"So we thought all of the medieval church had gone so its quite important to find that.
"We are in discussions with our archaeologist but we would like to have it accessible to the public in the future."
While the cathedral is open on weekends, it is shut Monday to Friday.
In what is believed to be a UK first, this had meant cathedral services being held in a Roman Catholic Church. | Renovation work to Derby Cathedral has discovered remains of the previous church, long thought lost. |
40,581,317 | Joseph Zulu, 23, stabbed Adam Watt, 38, outside his Hemel Hempstead home with such force the knife cut through bone in his upper chest.
St Albans Crown Court heard Mr Watt had been punished "for running off".
Another man, 18 year-old Nicholas Grant, was cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 11 years.
The jury heard that Mr Watt fled after meeting the two men to buy crack cocaine and heroin worth £10 on the evening of 7 January.
Zulu then called Grant and the two men confronted Mr Watt outside his home in Evans Wharf, Aspley Lock, where he was fatally stabbed at around 01:10 GMT.
He died in hospital five hours later.
Judge Andrew Bright QC said: "Adam Watt was a customer of yours. The motive was to punish him for running off. You could not be seen to allow a customer to run off with drugs without paying for them."
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The jury found Zulu, of no fixed address, guilty of murdering the former chef, as well as conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. He will serve a minimum of 25 years.
Grant, of Sunnyhill Road, Hemel, also admitted conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and was sentenced to a total of 11 years.
Jacqueline Brewin, 47, of Sacombe Road, Hemel, who drove the two men to and from the area of the killing, was cleared of all charges.
Zulu, who was born in Zimbabwe to a father from Lebanon and mother from the Congo, came to the UK when he was 11 years old.
Prosecutor Rosina Cottage told the court that Zulu could now face deportation, however Hertfordshire Police confirmed he will serve his sentence in the UK first.
In a statement read to the jury, Alexander Watt said his son had been in a constant battle with drugs.
"Although Adam's addiction ruled his life, it never erased his love for his family and his deep routed decency." | A drug dealer who murdered a man for failing to pay a £10 debt has been jailed for life and faces deportation. |
39,551,974 | Manus Deery, 15, was with a group of teenage friends when he was shot in the head by a soldier from a sentry post on the city's walls in May 1972.
The soldier has since died.
The presiding coroner, Mr Justice Adrian Colton, said the teenager's character has been fully vindicated.
Mr Colton also said Mr Deery was not a member of any illegal organisation. | A coroner has said that a Londonderry teenager, who was shot dead by the Army in the Bogside almost 45 years ago, was "totally innocent" and did not pose a threat to anyone. |
35,976,953 | Declan Thomson fell ill at a house in the North Lanarkshire town in the early hours of Sunday morning. He died in Monklands Hospital later that day.
Police said his death was unexplained. It is believed they are looking into whether it was drugs-related.
A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out to establish how he died.
A 17-year-old woman was arrested and is expected to appear at Airdrie Sheriff Court on Wednesday in connection with alleged drugs offences.
Two males, both aged 15, have been reported to the procurator fiscal in connection with alleged drugs offences.
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: "An 18-year-old man was admitted to Monklands and District General Hospital at around 0230 hours on Sunday 3 April 2016 after becoming unwell at a house in Cumbernauld. He died within hospital later that day.
"The death is being treated as unexplained, however, a post-mortem will be carried out in due course to establish the exact cause of death.
"A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal."
Mr Thomson's brother, Dean, died last year aged 19.
Posting on Facebook, their mother Linda Ann Thomson, said: "Never forget the days U were born now I will never forget the days we had to say goodbye to U both.
"Me and Dec were sooo close. My heart has now been broken twice.
"My heart goes out to my poor Anthony I love all my boys loads and will never ever B forgotten my 2 lovely angels xxxx." | A woman has been arrested and two teenagers reported to prosecutors over alleged drugs offences after the death of an 18-year-old man in Cumbernauld. |
40,321,203 | The cover of Simon and Garfunkel's hit Bridge Over Troubled Water was organised by Simon Cowell.
Other stars including Rita Ora and Leona Lewis recorded parts for the song on Saturday.
Sande said: "It's really inspiring to see people come together. It gives you hope in humanity."
Cowell, who lives in the same London borough as the now burnt-out tower, called the blaze "heartbreaking".
At least 58 people are believed to have died and hundreds more made homeless.
Those taking part in Sunday's recording at Sarm music studios, close to the tower in west London, included singer and former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos and the show's 2015 winner Louisa Johnson.
They were joined by Pitch Battle choirmaster Gareth Malone and Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones.
Pixie Lott said: "It's an honour to be involved and to come down and record today.
"Anything that we can do to help, we should." | Stars including Emeli Sande, Pixie Lott, and Stormzy have gathered to record a Grenfell Tower charity single. |
39,076,041 | The decision comes as the majority councils are increasing the charge, many by the maximum 4.99%.
It is the second consecutive year the Conservative-run authority has reduced its share of the charge.
The council says it eventually aims to cut council tax to zero and free itself from relying on government grants by becoming financially independent.
Council leader Ferris Cowper said: "We have shown it is possible for councils to make their own money, without increasing the tax burden on their residents and without cutting services."
East Hampshire District Council has been marketing its services to other authorities to bring in extra income - departments including planning, regeneration and communications are expected to generate nearly £1m this financial year.
The authority has also bought a number of commercial properties, including the Iceland store in Alton, which in total, it says, generate nearly £850,000 a year for its services.
The latest cut will make the district council share of council tax for a band D property £131.11, down from £134.55.
Council tax rises of 5% or more require a local referendum. | East Hampshire District Council has approved a 2.6% cut in council tax for 2017-18. |
37,644,974 | The Australian world number 14 lost 6-3 6-1 to 110th-ranked Mischa Zverev of Germany in the second round.
Kyrgios, 21, patted the ball over the net several times when serving and began walking back to his chair before a serve from Zverev had landed.
He was also fined for abusing a spectator and unsportsmanlike conduct.
Kyrgios received a code violation for swearing during the match and argued with a member of the crowd.
The ATP decided to issue the maximum $10,000 (£8,192) fine for breaching its code of conduct regarding "lack of best efforts".
Having been booed by the crowd, Kyrgios admitted he "took the easy way out" and "tapped out a little bit" against Zverev.
However, the Australian said he did not "owe them anything".
It came a day after Kyrgios said he was "bored" during his first-round victory over Sam Querrey. | Nick Kyrgios has been fined $16,500 (£13,533) for his behaviour - including "lack of best efforts" - during his Shanghai Masters defeat on Wednesday. |
34,940,235 | Andrew Stoddart's tenancy at Colstoun Mains farm, near Haddington in East Lothian, was due to end on 28 November.
But compensation for his eviction has been agreed with the Colstoun Trust and Mr Stoddart will be allowed to stay on until January 2016.
The agreement has been welcomed by Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead, who called it a "complex case".
A statement issued on behalf of both Mr Stoddart and the Colstoun Trust said: "Mediation has taken place between Andrew Stoddart and the Trustees.
"Representatives of the Scottish government were in attendance but have not accepted liability for claims already intimated to them by either Mr Stoddart or the Trustees and did not mediate on these aspects.
"Mr Stoddart and the Trustees have agreed the terms for payment of Mr Stoddart's waygoing claim. They have agreed that Mr Stoddart may continue to have the use of the house, grazing land and farm buildings at Colstoun Mains Farm, Haddington, until January 2016."
The dispute over the farm in East Lothian has become the focus of a campaign to improve the rights of tenant farmers.
Earlier this month, Mr Stoddart joined land rights campaigners in a protest at the Scottish parliament.
Welcoming agreement in this case on behalf of the government, Mr Lochhead said: "There is no doubt that this has been an incredibly complex case with many different factors involved ranging from flawed legislation to a breakdown in relationship between landlord and tenant over many years.
"We understand that more than 300 tenant farmers were originally affected by the flawed 2003 Agricultural Holdings legislation introduced by the previous administration.
"Agreement between landlord and tenant has been reached in almost all of the cases although seven remain unresolved. I hope that the mediation process that we are facilitating will also now help in these cases."
The body representing landowners has also said it is pleased that the dispute at Colstoun Mains is over.
David Johnstone, the chairman of Scottish Land and Estates, said: "We are pleased that agreement has been reached between the Trust and Mr Stoddart and we are aware there was a willingness on the part of the landlord to deal with the issues involved.
"It is a great pity that this case was surrounded by so much ill-informed rhetoric.
"It was very regrettable that Mr Stoddart was, as were other tenants in Scotland, given false hope by defective legislation brought forward by the then-Scottish Executive many years ago." | An agreement has been reached between land owners and a tenant farmer facing eviction after more than 20 years. |
32,857,377 | Matt Richardson, of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, wore 1970s sportswear to attempt to break the hour record of 52.937km (32.9 miles).
He managed 31.9km (19.8 miles) at the velodrome in Reading on his 1969 Mk1 Chopper.
Mr Richardson said his attempt was fun but that he "trained very hard for it".
The 49-year-old father of two has used the challenge to try and raise £5,000 for leukaemia and lymphoma research, in memory of his father who died of the disease.
"I was in so much pain. I could barely see and every muscle in my body was screaming at me to stop," he said.
"When I felt I couldn't keep going, I thought about the suffering my father endured with cancer but also how loudly he would have roared me on."
The lawyer, who spent six months training, said he was unfazed that he was far from breaking the official record set by British rider Alex Dowsett on 2 May.
"It's all about raising money," he said.
"In one sense it's an enormous joke and poking fun as I do think people have got a little bit hung up on getting the latest carbon versions [of bicycles]."
He said no record existed of such an attempt on a Chopper, which is about twice the weight of a modern track bike.
Three track cycling league officials, a static camera and an electronic device attached to the bike recorded the distance.
However cycling's international governing body UCI will not recognise the time because it does not meet its hour record specifications.
Olympic champion Sir Bradley Wiggins will attempt the hour record in London on 7 June. | A man has taken a retro approach to a cycling record attempt by pedalling as far as he can in 60 minutes on a vintage Raleigh Chopper. |
40,161,604 | 5 June 2017 Last updated at 13:55 BST
It's been rigged up on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, and those taking the plunge start off 115 metres above the ground.
It's all because the French Open tennis competition is currently going on in the country.
So the idea is that anyone trying out the zip wire will get an idea of just how fast a tennis ball can move through the air.
It travels at 90 kilometres per hour (about 55 miles per hour), which is the speed of a tennis ball being smashed.
But it's still not as quick of the world's fastest zip line in north Wales, which reaches speeds of around 191 kilometres per hour (119 miles per hour)! | Check out the views from this very special zip wire! |
35,430,901 | Now, though, Atletico are contenders again. They are through to the Champions League knockout phase after winning their group and are level on points at the top of La Liga with Barcelona going into Saturday's trip to the Nou Camp (although Barca have a game in hand).
The man behind Atletico's success is manager Diego Simeone, the fiery Argentine who for many years was best known in England for his role in David Beckham's red card in the 1998 World Cup finals but is now firmly established as one of the game's finest coaches.
In recent weeks, Simeone has repeatedly been linked with a summer move to Chelsea, and that is no surprise considering his success at the Vicente Calderon.
When he returned to Atletico, who he had played for in December 2011, they had won only two trophies in 15 years. Under Simeone they have claimed five: the Europa League and Uefa Super Cup in 2012; the Copa del Rey in 2013; La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup in 2014.
And those triumphs are even more impressive when you consider they have been achieved on a fraction of the budgets enjoyed by Atletico's chief competitors, Real Madrid and Barcelona.
So it is clear Simeone is a very good manager indeed. But what makes him so special, what would he bring to the Premier League, and would he even consider making the move?
A cursory glance at statistics tells you Atletico's greatest quality is their defensive strength.
Their title-winning campaign was based upon by far the best defensive record in Spain and this season they have been even more difficult to score against, conceding only eight goals in 21 league games. Indeed, their record of just three goals conceded from the opening 11 away fixtures has never been achieved before in La Liga.
In part, Atletico's defensive excellence is down to the magnificence of Diego Godin, the impeccably reliable Uruguayan centre-back.
More than individuals, though, Atletico's resilience at the back can be explained by the rigorous positional discipline and insatiable work ethic instilled by Simeone, whose approach to football is regularly summed up with one word: intensity.
Those who remember Simeone's playing career will be familiar with that quality. He was a relentlessly hard-working midfielder who enjoyed great success with Atletico, Inter Milan, Lazio and the Argentina national team, among others.
He has now succeeded in transmitting that kind of passion into his players, and on matchdays he provides a powerful, prowling presence on the touchline - especially during home games, where he can be regularly seen turning to the Vicente Calderon fans and beseeching them to raise the volume of their support.
At times, Simeone's emotion can spill over. In the latter stages of the 2014 Champions League final defeat by Real, he was sent to the stands after running onto the pitch to rage at opposing defender Raphael Varane, and later in the year he received an eight-game ban after confronting the officials during another game against Real.
But he does seem to have calmed down since then, perhaps learning the lesson that his team suffers when his temper boils over. Or maybe the next explosion is just around the corner.
There is, however, much more to Simeone's strategy than passion and discipline. One of his most vocal admirers is Michael Robinson, the former Liverpool and Republic of Ireland forward who finished his playing career in Spain and is now the country's foremost television analyst.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Robinson argues there is a great fallacy in the common perception of the Atletico boss, noting: "When someone has a reputation for a particular thing, it can be hard to shake off.
"People know Simeone was a hard player and that Atletico are a hard team, so they think it's all huff and puff, diligence and defending. But the truth is he's not at all one-dimensional - he's very astute tactically and a real admirer of talent.
"The year they won the league, he would often change the tactics three or four times a game. For example, they'd start by going long to Diego Costa, forcing the opposition to defend deeper, and then they could start to play shorter because they had created space."
It is certainly true that Atletico's defensive sturdiness and propensity for scoring scrappy goals from set-pieces encourages onlookers to disregard the silkier aspects of their play, including Simeone's willingness to incorporate creative, flair players if they are also prepared to work hard.
In the past, that role was filled by Arda Turan, the gifted Turk who was signed last summer by Barcelona; now, a lighter touch to counterbalance the trademark intensity is provided by highly skilled performers such as Antoine Griezmann, Yannick Carrasco and Luciano Vietto.
Indeed, there is a growing sense the current Atletico crop plays in a very different manner to the team that shocked the football world by overcoming Barcelona and Real for the La Liga title two years ago.
"Simeone gives a concession to artistry," states Robinson. "One of his great strengths is taking artistic players and giving them his work ethic without sacrificing their flamboyance.
"I've seen Atletico grow, and in some ways they are now considerably better than the team which won the league - he has incorporated players with more natural talent and they can be very eloquent with the ball.
"He certainly isn't just an old-school manager who only tells his players to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in."
From the way Atletico players regularly celebrate their goals by racing to the sidelines and embracing their manager, it is clear Simeone is greatly admired and respected within his squad.
In Spain, he is widely known by his nickname, 'El Cholo', and the past couple of years have seen 'Cholismo' reach almost cult-like status among followers who admire his maxims asserting nothing in life can be achieved without hard work and dedication.
Simeone loves Atletico's role as underdogs, regularly using their place in Barca and Real's shadows as a motivational tool - in the run-up to the 2014 title triumph he famously declared: "We see ourselves reflected in society, in people who have to fight. People identify with us. We're a source of hope."
But in addition to delivering stirring words, Simeone's astute football mind also allows him to get the most out of players by improving the technical and tactical aspects of their game.
A great example is Griezmann, who was always a highly regarded youngster during his early days with Real Sociedad but has rapidly matured into a world-class talent since joining Atletico in 2014.
"The change in Griezmann is quite wondrous," enthuses Robinson. "Cholo has converted him into a most unbelievable all-round forward, who will one second be making a tackle on the edge of his own area and the next be shooting on the edge of the other.
"It didn't happen overnight, but within the space of three months of working with Simeone there was a spectacular transition."
So, is this passionate, tactically astute, inspirational and, above all, successful manager ready to take his considerable talents to England? Not so fast.
This is not the first time Simeone has been linked with a move away from Atletico, with his title-winning exploits in 2014 inevitably resulting in similar speculation. But he rejected all advances and last year signed a new contract to stay with his current club until 2020.
"Why would he leave?" asks Robinson, who believes Simeone has more work to do at the Vicente Calderon.
"I think he's got a challenge here - he has already done away with the duopoly of Real Madrid and Barcelona, and now I think he's got the ambition to make Atletico Madrid natural contenders, or even favourites, for every competition they play in."
Of course, it could be argued that after so many years of lagging behind Real Madrid and Barcelona in financial terms, Simeone would relish the opportunity to join a club such as Chelsea where signing world-class talent became a realistic option.
But Atletico are rapidly growing off the pitch, boosted by additional revenue following their recent part-acquisition by the massive Chinese property investment company Wanda Group. And they will take another big step forward next year by moving into a new 70,000-capacity stadium.
Although Robinson would not entirely rule out the prospect of Simeone abandoning Atletico at such an exciting period in their history, he can only foresee that scenario unfolding in a certain set of circumstances.
"Knowing Cholo, I don't think he's worried about cheque books or personal recognition," smiles Robinson. "He could leave if he falls out with someone at Atletico, or if he's getting bored, or if he feels the players are getting tired of listening to him.
"But for his career aspirations, I don't think he could go anywhere better."
So, Roman Abramovich, be warned: Simeone might be the man you want, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll get him. | When Atletico Madrid won La Liga a couple of years ago - and came within a few seconds of adding the Champions League - it was widely perceived as a glorious but unrepeatable one-off: the right people in the right place at the right time. |
41,093,911 | A plastic folder with €540 (£498), a holiday itinerary and flight boarding passes from Manchester to Rome were left in Royston Police Station's postbox in Hertfordshire.
Andrew and Josephine Minshull, named on the passes, were eventually tracked down to Warrington, Cheshire.
Mr Minshull said he "can't believe honest people are still out there".
The couple had been attending the wedding of Mr Minshull's nephew in late July when they stayed at a hotel in Royston and he believes he lost the items when packing up the car to make the 180-mile trip home.
To find the couple, Hertfordshire Police first checked the local electoral role and found one man with the surname in Royston, who said it originated from Cheshire.
That led them to an address in Warrington and after Mr Minshull answered a few security questions, it was clear they were the owners and he picked up the money earlier this month.
Police community support officer Penny Tomsett said: "We are over the moon to have been able to reunite Mr Minshull with the folder. Royston is a lovely town and most people here are still very community-minded and honest.
"I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the mystery Good Samaritan who put the folder into the police postbox."
Mr and Mrs Minshull were still able travel on their holiday to the Italian capital. | A couple have been reunited with their holiday money and flight tickets thanks to a "mystery Good Samaritan". |
39,553,456 | Thistle's 1-0 win over Motherwell secured their first top-six finish since the league split was introduced, and their highest top-flight finish since '81.
"Alan has to rebuild his side almost every summer," MacKinnon said.
"In those circumstances, it has eclipsed what Thistle did previously."
MacKinnon has been hugely impressed by the exploits of Archibald's side, who have won 10 and drawn 11 of their 32 Premiership matches so far this season.
The 60-year-old, who was at Thistle from 1978-1982 and shared a dressing room with players such as Brian Whittaker, Jamie Doyle, Tony Higgins and Donald Park, says the changes football has seen since the early 1980s make the Jags' achievement this season all the more significant.
"I remember that season well because I came back from having a kidney removed in October 1980 and played my first game back in January '81," MacKinnon told BBC Scotland.
"Partick Thistle had a great team then, even though we were part-time. That team was comparable with any team in the league at the time.
"Some players had been there for years and it was a well-established side. It was the same team virtually every week because of the contract situation then - players were on long deals and would only leave a club if their contract wasn't renewed or they were transferred.
"Alan Archibald won't have too many players on long-term deals these days so what he has done is a tremendous achievement. Every season they have to rebuild and I think when Thistle were struggling at the start of this season it was because so many new players had to adjust to Scottish football.
"Once Alan got the players into his way of thinking they have done so well. If I was involved with the club now I would be trying to keep the squad together for next season as they will hit the ground running and that could be the key."
Archibald, 39, has been in charge of Thistle since January 2013 and after guiding them to the then-First Division title that season, he has kept them in the top flight ever since.
His stock will have risen further this term but MacKinnon is convinced the man who spent a total of 12 years at Firhill as a player will be in no rush to leave.
"Alan Archibald is a very smart, astute guy," MacKinnon said. "He's in a good place, at a well run club, and that can be more important than short-term thinking, so I don't think he will jump ship.
"I'm sure at some point he will leave but that will be when he feels he can't take the club forward. At the moment I think he will be looking to make sure next season is better than this one." | Former Partick Thistle player Dave MacKinnon says Alan Archibald's current squad have "eclipsed" his side's achievement of finishing sixth in 1981. |
40,480,691 | The 32-year-old returned home to attend the birth of his first child but will not fly back to England in time for the start of the series on Thursday.
Team manager Mohammed Moosajee said: "The difficult nature of the delivery has delayed his return to the UK."
Opener Dean Elgar will captain the side for the first time, while Du Plessis will rejoin the squad later this week.
Theunis de Bruyn, who made his Test debut in March, or the uncapped Aiden Markram will replace the skipper.
Seamer Vernon Philander has been cleared to play after missing the drawn warm-up fixture against England Lions with an ankle injury.
South Africa are without pace bowler Dale Steyn, who has not recovered from a shoulder injury, and former captain AB de Villiers, who is taking a break from Test cricket.
Du Plessis averages 44.92 with the bat in 40 Tests.
The match is Joe Root's first since being appointed England Test captain.
Visit this page for England team news. | South Africa captain Faf du Plessis will miss the first Test against England at Lord's for family reasons. |
34,612,830 | The emergency services were called to the property on Prospect Terrace at about 19:10 on Thursday.
A spokesman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said crews faced a "well established" blaze. No-one was injured. | Firefighters have tackled a blaze at a house in Lossiemouth in Moray. |
36,440,055 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 47.87 points to 17,837.54.
The S&P 500 index was up 5.83 points, to 2,105.16, while the tech-focused Nasdaq gained 19.11 points to 4,971.36.
Energy stocks took a dip after a meeting between large oil producing nations failed to reach an agreement to curb production.
The price of crude oil remained mostly flat though following a report that US stockpiles of crude oil were shrinking.
ExxonMobil shares were down 0.8%. Chevron was 0.6% lower.
Shares of Johnson & Johnson climbed 1.5% after announcing plans to buy hair care product maker Vogue International.
Software giant Oracle fell 4% after a former employee filed a lawsuit alleging she was instructed to alter the company's sales figures.
Apple shares fell 0.8% after Goldman Sachs cut its price target for the company due to an expected decline in smartphone sales. | (Closed): Wall Street markets rose on Thursday as investors prepared for the release of a slew of economic data on Friday, including monthly jobs figures. |
20,910,632 | The Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey (NMGS) was set up in 2010 with the aim of identifying and recording pre-Reformation graffiti inscriptions.
Project director Matt Champion believes the two-year survey will change the thinking about how the inside of a medieval church would have looked in the middle ages.
It could also shed light on the history of a church.
One of the first sites to be examined by the NMGS was Binham Priory in North Norfolk.
The Priory is famous for its revolutionary window construction technique which allowed light to flood into the previously dark interiors of the medieval church.
But the west window was bricked up in the 18th Century, and, with no authentic pictures surviving, its design has been the subject of debate.
During the survey of the building, NMGS members found a series of architectural designs etched onto a wall in the church, which are believed to relate to the "lost" west window.
Mr Champion says he believes the master mason used the wall for his drawings instead of paper.
During the Middle Ages churches would have been places of vibrant colour and paintwork, with lower sections of the wall coloured with a single pigment.
Amongst the graffiti found in In St Margaret's Church, Cley, the NMGS found a drawing of a sailing ship.
"It's a design typical of a North Sea cog [an oak vessel associated with seagoing trade in medieval Europe] of the late 14th Century," said Mr Champion.
"In the Middle Ages the pillars at Cley would have been black and the graffiti scratched through the pigment.
"The reason the graffiti hasn't been found before is because we haven't been looking for it," he added.
He said that similar ships had been found at other coastal churches in the county.
"What we think is happening here is that they are either prayers of thanksgiving for voyages undertaken or they're really asking for a safe journey yet to come.
"Today graffiti is seen as something that's very destructive, but that simply wasn't the case back then.
"This was both an accepted and acceptable part of everyday worship."
Thanks to the success of the NMGS, the idea of checking other churches for such graffiti has now spread to six other counties, including Suffolk and Bedfordshire.
More on this story on BBC Inside Out East at 19:30 GMT on Monday 7 January | Research into Norfolk's medieval churches has discovered that many are covered in graffiti more than 500 years old. |
31,991,484 | A Cricket Ireland statement on Friday confirmed the Trinidadian's departure after eight years in the role.
"I'll always be eternally grateful for the opportunity given to me by Cricket Ireland," said Simmons, 51.
"It was a very difficult decision to leave but I couldn't turn down the opportunity to coach my home team."
His decision means he will be in charge of the West Indies for next month's Test series against England in the Caribbean as he begins a three-year contract.
Stuart Williams has been in temporary charge of the Windies after they parted company with Ottis Gibson last August.
Simmons, who played 26 Tests from 1988 until 1997, has been linked with the West Indies job on a number of previous occasions.
His stock has risen further over the last month given Ireland's impressive performances at the World Cup.
Since replacing Adi Birrell after the 2007 World Cup, Simmons has guided Ireland to the 2011 and 2015 tournaments and earned wins over Test nations England, the West Indies and Zimbabwe.
Ireland also defeated the West Indies in their opening World Cup game in Nelson last month but missed out on a quarter-final spot on run-rate despite further group victories over the United Arab Emirates and Zimbabwe.
During his tenure, Simmons guided his side to 11 trophies contested by associate countries.
The Trinidadian said that he would cherish his "eight wonderful years" in the Ireland role.
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"The wins in the World Cups over full members were all special as we showed the world just what Irish cricket is capable of," added Simmons, who also spoke of his partnership with Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom.
Deutrom paid tribute to the West Indian's achievements with Ireland as well as his character.
"His warmth and strength of values endeared him to everyone here," said the Cricket Ireland chief.
"Over the last eight years, Phil has built upon Adi's legacy by overseeing our qualification for every major ICC event."
Ireland captain William Porterfield said Simmons had been a "towering presence not just in Irish cricket but across the world".
"While it's sad to be losing him at this time, everyone in the squad understands his reasons for wanting to coach his home country," added Porterfield.
West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Michael Muirhead said that they had been impressed with Simmons's "understandings of the current realities of West Indies cricket".
"Phil has a proven ability to develop players while cultivating great team spirit, and a winning culture," said the WICB chief.
Cricket Ireland say their search for a new coach will begin immediately. | Ireland coach Phil Simmons has accepted an offer to take charge of his native West Indies after the conclusion of the current World Cup. |
34,008,846 | Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani's powerful Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is seeking an extension of its leader's tenure against the will of four other major political parties.
These four parties are now pushing to settle the matter in parliament amid warnings that a lack of consensus might spark political unrest.
The Kurdistan Region is known for its political stability and has attracted dozens of international oil companies keen on tapping energy potential. More recently its vital contribution to the fight against the Islamic State (IS) has been grabbing international headlines.
The region shares a 1,000km (620 mile)-long frontier with IS-held territory, stretching from the Iranian border in central Iraq all the way to the Syrian border.
Iraqi Kurdish forces known as the Peshmerga - supported by US-led coalition air power - have been hailed for recent advances against the IS on several fronts in northern Iraq. They even helped fellow Kurds in Syria defend the besieged town of Kobane.
Domestic turmoil over the presidency will inevitably affect the Peshmerga as they are heavily divided along partisan lines.
Just last week the region's capital, Irbil, saw the president's party flex its military muscle in a rare display of might. Troops affiliated with the KDP drove through its streets in a long convoy, fuelling tensions.
Though Mr Barzani later banned such displays, the message was clear. The incident is one of many reasons why the issue of the presidency is seen as more divisive than any other issue in the region since the civil war that tore it apart in the 1990s.
Mr Barzani has served his two terms, the maximum currently allowed. His last term expired in 2013, when it was extended by two years. But the KDP, which currently leads a coalition government that includes the other four parties, is firm on Mr Barzani staying in office.
However, existing laws provide neither a clear mechanism for electing a new president nor a legal route to keep the current one in place.
The KDP says that given the Kurdistan Region's conflict against IS, if no agreement is reached Mr Barzani should stay in power as a caretaker president until the next election in 2017.
However, existing laws stipulate that the speaker of parliament should take over the president's powers in the event of a presidential vacuum.
So an extension for Mr Barzani at this point would be divisive at best and possibly illegal in the eyes of many.
The four other major parties disagree with the KDP and have suggested amending current laws to make the system of governance in the Kurdistan Region a fully-fledged parliamentary system.
The changes would mean the president is elected by MPs rather than a popular vote. This will also automatically make the president accountable to parliament.
The president's powers would also be significantly reduced - this would mirror the political system of the federal Iraqi government, where the presidency is a largely ceremonial position.
The KDP strongly rejects the amendments and is engaged in a last-ditch attempt to frustrate the parliamentary efforts.
Mr Barzani himself has stayed quiet for months but recently likened the attempt to amend the law to a coup and called for parties to reach a "consensus". His party has refused to budge on its demand for the extension of his term with full powers.
His critics say the post has been tailored to Mr Barzani and that, for as long as possible, he will not hand it over.
In fact, his presidential office is based at the resort town of Sari Rash, overlooking Irbil, which is also his personal residence and the headquarters of his party.
These are uncertain times for the Kurdistan Region: its fragile economy is heavily dependent on oil sales and payments from Baghdad.
The global decline in oil prices and tense relations with the cash-strapped federal government have prevented the Kurdish economy from prospering.
The presidency countdown has proved to be truly democratic in spirit with parties clashing and showing great determination. But additional political turmoil over the matter looks likely to continue.
Many will be hope no harm is done to the reputation and reality of the region as a politically stable oil boomtown as that turmoil passes.
Roman Zagros & Kareem Abdulrahman are senior editors at Insight, an Iraq-focused political analysis service, follow @inKurdistan | Iraqi Kurdish parties are locked in a bitter stalemate over the fate of the presidency of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, which expired on Wednesday. |
29,641,802 | Kosovo's Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, said the country's intelligence agency had found and rescued Erion Abazi with help from Turkish intelligence.
It was a "complicated and dangerous" operation, which followed careful analysis, Mr Thaci said in a statement.
About 200 Kosovans are believed to be with Islamist groups in Iraq and Syria.
The boy's mother, Pranvera Zena, had made a public appeal for the return of her son when he was taken against her will in June 2014.
She also set up a Facebook page and made appearances in Kosovo and Albania.
Mr Thaci did not give details of the rescue operation, which was authorised by him and the country's president, Atifete Jahjaga.
While Erion was in Syria, pictures appeared on social media showing him holding up one finger in the Islamic State (IS) sign, and tumbling around with other children next to the militants' black flag.
His father Arben had told Pranvera that he was taking Erion on an excursion to the mountains in Kosovo. Instead he took Erion across the border to Albania, and then flew from Tirana to Turkey, before travelling on to Syria.
Pranvera's cousin told the BBC last week that the family had had only sporadic contact with the boy since then. In one phone-call he said his father had been in a training camp far away.
After the reunion at Pristina's international airport Pranvera Zena told Associated Press "it feels like a dream" and "it feels as if I am waking up and I fear he is still not there".
She hugged him as he sat on her lap and showed her his toy soldiers and a toy tank.
Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanians are mainly Muslim. Only a tiny minority are thought to have embraced jihadist ideology.
The territory, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, has a population of about 1.8 million.
The civil war in Syria has drawn in hundreds of jihadists from European countries, including the UK, France and Belgium.
A cousin of Erion - Suad Sadullahi - told the BBC World Service on Thursday that Erion "is still a little bit confused - he didn't say anything much".
"I think he was treated ok, like the other children."
When asked about the secret rescue operation he declined to give any details.
He said Pranvera got a text message from Arben in early July, in which Arben said he was with the boy in Syria.
"We searched everywhere, contacted every single person who could give us a hint," Suad Sadullahi said.
On 15 September they managed to see Erion in a call on Skype, he said. "It was a very big relief. He was with some of the families of militants there."
"His father is in Iraq fighting for Islamic State, he doesn't know Erion is here," he told the BBC.
When asked what he thought motivated Arben he said: "I think ideology first, he thought Erion would be better over there."
He said they now wanted Erion to spend as much time as possible with his mother. | An eight-year-old boy from Kosovo has been reunited with his mother after his jihadist father kept him for five months in Syria. |
34,845,792 | The French club will be playing their first game since the terrorist attacks in their home city of Paris last weekend.
Racing's opener against Glasgow was among sporting postponements.
"What happened in Paris last weekend has touched everybody, really," said Pivac.
"And certainly, personally, having lived in France and got friends over there it was very, very concerning to see that happen.
"We expect the Racing boys to come over and be very motivated and probably be quite an emotional occasion.
"So we'll be talking about that as a group and making sure we prepare well and put on a good display for what will be a big occasion."
Pivac's side earned a losing bonus point away to Northampton at Franklin's Gardens in round one.
Wales front-row pair Samson Lee and Ken Owens will return for Scarlets after being omitted last weekend because of fitness concerns.
Lee, 22, played five times at the World Cup after recovering from a long-term Achilles tendon injury but has made just one regional appearance since.
But Pivac said the tight-head prop and hooker Owens will face Racing.
"Samson has had a good three weeks off... we are happy to involve him this week so it has been a worthwhile exercise," Pivac said.
"As for Ken, he has a foot injury and he hasn't quite been himself since returning from the World Cup.
"We have scanned that so we know what the issue is and as a result he was left out last weekend.
"He is back this week, but he will get another rest in the near future."
The Scarlets will be without loose-head prop Rob Evans, who suffered a head injury at Franklin's Gardens.
Welsh pair Luke Charteris and Mike Phillips are included in Racing's 27-man squad, while Argentina wing Juan Imhoff makes his first appearance of the season for the Parisians following the World Cup.
Scarlets: TBC
Harlequins: TBC
Referee: Greg Garner (England). | Scarlets boss Wayne Pivac expects Racing 92 to be highly motivated on an "emotional" occasion on Saturday for their Champions Cup game in Llanelli. |
40,027,283 | Mr Brodin is the company's head in Sweden and will succeed Peter Agnefjall, who had been in the role for four years.
Ikea is now based in the Netherlands and the new boss will work in Leiden.
The new chief executive said he was "very honoured and excited" about his new role.
Mr Agnefjall said he will take some time off with his family before embarking on his next challenge.
Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, chairman of Ikea's parent company INGKA Holding, said: "Under Peter's leadership, Ikea Group has expanded into new and crucial markets, accelerated our retail transformation in order to meet the changing needs of customers and taken our sustainability commitments further."
Robert Haigh, of analyst firm Brand Finance, said an internal appointment was a "sensible move" for a firm like Ikea.
"It's a difficult decision for a company whether to look inside the company or whether to bring someone in," he said.
"But for one with strong brand identity like Ikea, as we have seen with the recent appointment by John Lewis, it makes sense to continue that identity and culture. Ikea is still performing well and is Sweden and Scandinavia's most valuable brand."
Ikea's sales have grown by double-digit percentages since it started selling its products online eight years ago, but the company is also concentrating on improving the in-store experience for customers.
Mr Haigh added: "While there has been a real decline in out-of-town shopping centres, especially in the food sector, the shopping experience can still be something people really enjoy.
"At Ikea customers like to be able to feel the product and it is almost uniquely tied in with the Ikea experience, with people also going there for the meatballs and other food."
Ikea opened its first store in 1958 and has made ready-to-assemble furniture a global phenomenon.
Last year 783 million people visited the company's 348 stores, while it had 2.1 billion visits to its website. | Ikea, the Swedish flatpack furniture giant, has named Jesper Brodin as its new chief executive from September. |
34,845,229 | The 32-year-old mother was at home with her three young children on Thorpe Crescent, Middleton, when she answered the door to four or five masked men at about 20:00 GMT on Monday.
One was armed with what appeared to be a handgun and at least two others had knives, West Yorkshire Police said.
The gang drove off in the family's Range Rover with cash and jewellery.
Police said the car, registration RF58 WYK, belongs to the woman's husband who was out of the house at the time.
It is still missing along with a large amount of cash, jewellery, bank cards and a mobile phone.
Det Insp John Dexter said: "This was an absolutely terrifying experience for the victim to be confronted in her home by a group of masked men armed with weapons.
"Her children were at home at the time and this will have been a really upsetting ordeal for this family.
"At one point the offenders even threatened to take one of her children if she didn't comply with their demands for money.
"The people involved are clearly dangerous and we urgently need to identify them and arrest them at the earliest opportunity. I would like to hear from anyone who saw anyone acting suspiciously in Thorpe Crescent in the time leading up to the incident or around the time of the incident itself."
Anyone with information about the grey Range Rover should contact West Yorkshire Police on 101. | A gang of armed robbers threatened to kidnap a child during a "terrifying" robbery at a family home in Leeds. |
36,043,168 | Ricky Tynemouth was a passenger in a Vauxhall Corsa which left the A196 near South Farm, Choppington, at about 19:30 BST on Wednesday.
The 17 year old, from Guidepost, was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other boys, both 17, were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Northumbria Police arrested the 18-year-old driver on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. | A teenager has died in a crash on a rural road in Northumberland. |
39,194,162 | Pupils from Westborough High School in Dewsbury have devised a business which leases out cheap laptops for classmates without computers at home.
The teenagers had brought their winning pitch, from the Tycoon in Schools project, to Buckingham Palace.
The Duke of York commended the scheme's mix of business and ethics.
He said it showed the entrepreneurialism that could happen if young people were able to stop fearing failure.
"There is a need for "de-risking" the mind," said Prince Andrew, who said pupils needed to be able take risks with business ideas and be allowed to fail in a safe environment.
"One of the things I was taught when I was at school was that the best way of being successful is to fail," he said.
"If you can learn about failure, but do it in a way that's a safe environment... you learn what not to do next time."
The project by pupils at Westborough High School was a response to discovering that more than 200 students in the school did not have any access to computers at home - even though they were vital for homework and revision.
The pupils' business plan for a "level playing field" has been to refurbish old laptops and to lease them to pupils for a few pounds a week.
The self-help idea, presented under the chandeliers and oil paintings of Buckingham Palace, won a £1,000 prize in a competition for primary and secondary school entrepreneurs in which more than 2,000 young people took part.
Prince Andrew said that the youngsters had found the key to a good business idea, in tackling a practical problem on their doorstep.
Mr Jones, star of the Dragon's Den television series, said these young people had the hunger to succeed and the edge to "beat the competition".
But he said that there was too little emphasis on entrepreneurialism in schools.
"We're still closing our eyes to it," he said - and he said successive governments had failed to "smell the coffee" on the economic urgency.
"We need job creation, we need people to stimulate that, we need great ideas. But we're not going to get that unless we give people experience of running a business," said Mr Jones.
He said it remained an "old staid British style" and "incredibly archaic" to assume that talented young people should go straight to university after school.
But Mr Jones, as the face of entrepreneurialism, also has to face a deluge of pitches from the public, both plausible and implausible.
He says he gets 400 to 500 pitches per week - and even when he has been in a restaurant with his family he has had would-be business partners waiting to pounce on him with an idea.
Prince Andrew said that there was no such thing as a "terrible idea" - it was sometimes a case of having to "pivot" it in a different direction.
But Mr Jones said he had seen some ideas that were less than impressive - including "knee roller skates".
It was "very niche and pretty stupid", he said.
"I thought he was going to say this was a bit of a joke, but when he was completely deadpan serious, I started to get concerned." | Young entrepreneurs from a school in a disadvantaged area of West Yorkshire have got the backing of Prince Andrew and Dragon's Den star Peter Jones. |
35,180,057 | The unconvincing Gunners looked set for a point on a soggy Emirates Stadium pitch until defender Laurent Koscielny came to the rescue with a close-range poked winner in the 72nd minute.
The Magpies should have come away with at least a point, having been on the front foot for much of the second half.
Georginio Wijnaldum went closest but his shot was saved by Petr Cech.
It was not pretty, nor was it particularly effective but it was a win that kept the belief going among Arsenal fans that this might be their season.
The Gunners did not deserve the three points, and few would have begrudged the Magpies victory, but the goal encapsulated why Arsenal are top and why the visitors are struggling.
Newcastle striker Ayoze Perez covered a lot of ground, helping out his team-mates in midfield to quell the danger posed by the likes of Mesut Ozil, Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
However, the young Spaniard switched off in the 72nd minute, allowing Koscielny to stick out a foot and convert an Olivier Giroud header.
Few would have expected this possession stat: Arsenal 51% - Newcastle 49%.
The Magpies midfield dominated their counterparts for periods of the match.
The wingers did not look up for the battle, with Oxlade-Chamberlain only winning 33.3% of his duels, while Theo Walcott won 36.4% of his - the two lowest figures in the Arsenal side.
Newcastle can take heart from their display. Jack Colback and Wijnaldum were particularly outstanding in the middle of the park, winning more than 70% of their battles.
Defence? Fine. Midfield? Excellent. Strikers? Hmm...
The Magpies looked a threat in attack in their past three outings, but Steve McClaren's forwards have been misfiring terribly. From their 32 efforts on goal, they have only managed to find the target once. Newcastle have only scored 19 times this season - the third-lowest total in the league.
Serbia striker Aleksandar Mitrovic, who cost £13m in the summer, was supposed to arrest the problem of last season, but has yet to settle. Perez has been in and out of the side, while Papiss Cisse is inconsistent and often injured - as was the case on Saturday.
Does Magpies' owner Mike Ashley, who spent north of £60m in the summer, have any money left in the kitty?
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger: "We were not at our best but we had to dig deep and we can do that when needed.
"If you are down there then those are the matches you lose but they will not stay down there - they are a good team.
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"It was about solidarity, tired legs and taking a chance from a set piece. We were not at our best today, but over Christmas in four games we took nine points so we can look back and say we did 75% of our job as we lost at Southampton."
Asked if his side would be signing anyone in the transfer window, Wenger replied: "Imminent, no, but we will look."
Newcastle manager Steve McClaren: "The players can't believe it, we controlled and dominated the game after the first 10 minutes.
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"We asked for a performance and the players gave it, but we conceded one soft goal and lost the game. You can't fault the performance, we just have to be more ruthless at both ends.
"We caused them so many problems and controlled them at the back and we're bewildered how we have not got anything."
Arsenal host Sunderland at home in the FA Cup next week before a trip to Liverpool. The Magpies are at Watford in the cup next Saturday and then return to league action at home to Manchester United.
Match ends, Arsenal 1, Newcastle United 0.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 1, Newcastle United 0.
Attempt saved. Siem de Jong (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Florian Thauvin with a cross.
Hand ball by Chancel Mbemba (Newcastle United).
Mesut Özil (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Arsenal. Calum Chambers tries a through ball, but Mesut Özil is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.
Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Substitution, Arsenal. Calum Chambers replaces Olivier Giroud.
Attempt saved. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Joel Campbell.
Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Siem de Jong (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Newcastle United. Siem de Jong replaces Cheick Tioté.
Attempt missed. Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Daryl Janmaat with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Laurent Koscielny.
Foul by Nacho Monreal (Arsenal).
Florian Thauvin (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mathieu Flamini (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mathieu Flamini (Arsenal).
Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Arsenal. Kieran Gibbs replaces Theo Walcott.
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Florian Thauvin replaces Jack Colback.
Joel Campbell (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United).
Attempt missed. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Olivier Giroud.
Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Nacho Monreal with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Cheick Tioté (Newcastle United) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Nacho Monreal (Arsenal) header from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Per Mertesacker with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Chancel Mbemba.
Attempt blocked. Jack Colback (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum.
Goal! Arsenal 1, Newcastle United 0. Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Olivier Giroud with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Paul Dummett.
Substitution, Arsenal. Joel Campbell replaces Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Daryl Janmaat (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Daryl Janmaat.
Attempt missed. Chancel Mbemba (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Fabricio Coloccini (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Aleksandar Mitrovic. | Arsenal moved two points clear of Leicester at the top of the Premier League table with a win over Newcastle. |
40,708,865 | Caerphilly MP Wayne David said the Norway model, favoured by First Minister Carwyn Jones, would lead to a "massive loss of sovereignty".
He said the Labour party needed to have a debate on its Brexit position.
Mr Jones' spokesman said single market access was key to protecting jobs.
Norway is not in the European Union but it still has access to the single market.
It has to make a financial contribution and must accept the majority of EU laws but it does not have a say on how they are created.
First Minister Carwyn Jones visited Norway in January to learn about its EU links and said the example demonstrated the UK did not have to give up access to the single market when it leaves the European Union.
Speaking on Monday, he said: "We would not control the rules but we would have full and unfettered access."
Mr David said although the first minister was right to focus on the importance of the single market - with many Welsh jobs dependent on it - the Norway model was a step too far.
"The big problem with simply adopting the Norwegian model is that we accept the laws which are made in the European Union, which we will be outside, without having any say on those laws as they affect the single market," he said.
"That is a big pill for people to swallow.
"It is very difficult for people to accept that for the first time in our history a large measure of our legislation will be made by other people and yet we will be having to conduct all our business relationships under those laws."
Mr David said the the UK could look at how elements of the Norway Model could work in part, rather embracing it "hook, line and sinker".
A spokesman for the first minister said: "We have consistently argued that protecting jobs and our economy should be the focus of Brexit negotiations.
"The most effective way of doing this is through securing full and unfettered access to the single market and remaining in the customs union as we set out in our Brexit white paper.
"Membership of the EEA is one option for maintaining full and unfettered access, as Norway do, though it is not the only model."
Labour's shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner has already said the Norway model would prevent the UK from achieving the reasons why people voted to leave the EU. | A model which could see the UK remain in the single market after Brexit would be "very difficult for people to accept", a former shadow Europe minister has said. |
34,200,344 | It is thought hundreds of people may have paid Ben Hyland-Ward, 18, for tickets to this weekend's festival on the Isle of Wight.
Sussex Police said they had been contacted by 60 ticket-less people and the number has been rising.
Mr Hyland-Ward, from Brighton, said he had been scammed but would refund cash.
It is thought he had offered the tickets at a large discount to the standard price.
A Facebook group set up by people who had not received tickets from Mr Hyland-Ward has attracted 850 members, although it is not clear how many of these are out of pocket.
In a comment on the Facebook page, Mr Hyland-Ward said: "I am working with the police to sort this out.
"In the next few days a way to refund everyone will be worked out and I will private message all of you individually to sort this out.
"I would like to give a huge apology to everyone as well. I am not asking for sympathy but it has been a horrible 24 hours and I have had some full death threats and I am in real danger."
A Sussex Police spokeswoman said: "The man has not yet provided the tickets and he himself alerted police when he became concerned about people turning up at the house where he had been lodging to collect them.
"He has now left the city and is staying outside of the county.
"At this time, he has been advised that this needs to be resolved as a civil matter, but police will be formally speaking to him later in the week to see if the tickets have been supplied or money refunded."
Bestival is being held between 10 and 13 September with Duran Duran, The Chemical Brothers and Missy Elliot headlining.
A spokesman for the festival said tickets "must be bought from reputable and trusted sources".
"In light of the recent Brighton ticketing issue, Bestival is waiving the booking fee on a limited number of tickets for sale to anyone who has been affected," he said.
To qualify for the offer, people must apply with a valid police crime number relating to the missing tickets. | A teenager who took thousands of pounds for Bestival tickets but failed to deliver has gone into hiding claiming he has received death threats. |
36,723,444 | The group will play at the First Avenue club in Minneapolis - which was the partial setting of the Purple Rain film - on 2 and 3 September.
Key members Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, Brown Mark, Bobby Z and Matt "Doctor" Fink will all take part.
Announcing the shows, they called Prince's death a "profound loss".
"Only by playing for you, the fans, can we be Prince's Revolution," they added. "He gives us to one another now, as we all start to heal and fill forever emptiness with sound. Together we are The Revolution."
Bassist Brown Mark hinted more dates could be announced soon, writing on Facebook: "Minneapolis First Avenue is just the beginning."
First Avenue became a focal point for mourners after Prince died in April, aged 57. Hundreds of fans brought traffic to a standstill as they gathered outside the club, laying wreaths and singing his songs.
Prince first played there in 1981, and visited throughout his career. His most famous song, Purple Rain, was recorded live at the club and edited down from the original 11-minute performance for release.
He later played warm-up shows for the Parade and Sign O The Times tours at the venue, last visiting for a late-night show in 2007.
"Playing there was always important," said Revolution drummer Bobby Z in an interview shortly before Prince's death. "It became his marquee, and it still is today."
The Revolution first announced plans for a reunion in April.
"We have decided after spending three or four days together now grieving over the loss of Prince that we would like to come out and do some shows," said guitarist Melvoin in a short video. "We want to let you know that we'll be there soon, so we want to let you know now."
The musicians served as Prince's backing band from 1979, although they weren't officially credited as The Revolution until the Purple Rain album.
Prince abruptly terminated their career in 1986 - taking many of the members by surprise. Wendy and Lisa went on to have a moderately successful career as a pop duo, and now work as composers for television, with credits including Heroes, Nurse Jackie and Touch.
Tickets for the reunion concert cost between $65 (£50) and $99 (£76). Dez Dickerson and Andre Cymone, who played with Prince at the start of his career, will also take part in the show.
"I need this as much as you," wrote bassist Brown Mark on his Facebook page after the show was announced. "I have no closure, I have no peace and the void echoes loud in an empty space deep within.
"Playing my bass is the answer and sharing the music with you is what will heal."
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email [email protected]. | The Revolution, Prince's backing band during the 1999 and Purple Rain era, will reunite for a pair of tribute shows honouring the late music star. |
36,842,760 | Ronan McGavigan was killed on the Lone Moor Road at about 13:15 BST on Sunday.
The McGavigan family's parish priest, Fr Eamon Graham, said the boy had been out playing and enjoying the sunshine when he ran out on to the road.
The funeral mass was held at St Columba's Church, Long Tower on Wednesday.
Speaking to BBC Radio Foyle on Monday, Fr Graham said he had visited the McGavigan family.
"It's almost like they are looking at it from outside because the enormity of it is so great that how do you begin to come to terms with it?"
"By all accounts Ronan was just a lovely boy, full of the life and devilment that a two-year-old would be.
"They're not long back from a family holiday," said Fr Graham, "I suppose they are trying to hold on to those good memories of what they had together. | The funeral of a two-year-old boy who died after being hit by a car has taken place in Londonderry. |
39,758,108 | Heads at the National Association of Head Teachers conference said ministers had not been listening to their plight.
They backed a motion giving their leaders licence to explore all available options - including a shorter school week - to protect education.
The government insists school funding has never been higher.
It says funding will rise to £41bn in the next year.
Head teacher Graham Frost said at the conference in Telford that the line from the government was like "a recorded message" that came back every time the issue was raised.
And this was driving heads "crazy", he said.
"We are not advocating a four-and-a-half day week, we are just so despairing," said Mr Frost.
He said dropping teacher hours could be necessary if a school did not have the staff to run classes safely.
Alternatively, a head may make this decision to prevent schools from axing support staff for children with particular needs.
Another head teacher, Clem Coady, said: "The four-and-a-half day week must be seen as the very last resort because we don't want to cut the offer we are giving to children, to parents, to families, to our staff.
"But there has to be some way of forcing and opposing these government imposed cuts - they have got to overturn it."
The motion also gave the NAHT executive the right to encourage its members to take other steps, such as running deficit budgets in schools or refusing to file budgets to local authorities.
The NAHT will discuss further steps in its campaign to oppose school funding cuts at an executive conference in June.
The National Audit Office has found schools are facing budget cuts of £3bn by 2020 because funding was not keeping pace with increased pupil numbers and the rising costs of national insurance and pension contributions. | Head teachers could bring in a four-and-a-half day week in schools around England as they grapple with £3bn in budget pressures. |
38,651,461 | Edward Tron, 51, from Gateshead, and Mark Quilliam, 55, from Liverpool, were both found guilty at Hull Crown Court of conspiracy to import cocaine.
Tron's wife, Susan, 54, was convicted of money laundering.
All three had denied the offences but were convicted following an 11 day trial. They will be sentenced on Wednesday.
Tron, of Carr Hill Road, Gateshead, and Quilliam, of Gladica Close, Liverpool, were warned by Judge Simon Jack that they faced long prison terms.
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The men had used their positions, Tron as a steward and Quilliam as a chef, to smuggle cocaine into Hull from Rotterdam, the court had previously heard.
It was claimed they had made up to £60,000 per trip over a six-year-period.
The Tron's had deposited more than £138,000 in their own bank accounts but the couple had been unable to explain where the money came from.
The smuggling enterprise was discovered after a crewmate was arrested with a large amount of cash and was later jailed for money laundering.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) then mounted an undercover operation in collaboration with Dutch police.
An officer was placed on the ferry and recorded conversations in which the prosecution said Mr Tron admitted importing drugs.
In a police interview, Tron claimed he had made up a fantasy and everything he had told the undercover officer was not true.
Speaking after the convictions, Mick Maloney, from the NCA, said: "Eddie Tron and Mark Quilliam worked as 'guns for hire', selling their services to organised crime groups to help them get their commodity into the UK.
"Theirs was an important link in the chain which connects ruthless cocaine manufacturers in South America with street gangs involved in violence and exploitation on the streets of the UK." | Two former P&O workers have been convicted of running a drug smuggling operation onboard a North Sea ferry. |
38,433,106 | Wolves goalkeeper Carl Ikeme denied Vincent Sasso early on and also made a double save to foil Steven Fletcher and Fernando Forestieri before the break.
But Jon Dadi Bodvarsson hit the bar and Joe Mason fired his follow-up over as Wolves ended the first-half strongly.
Mason then hit the post with a shot before Matt Doherty had a strike cleared off the line by Adam Reach.
The draw left Wednesday sixth in the Championship table and in the play-off places, with Wolves - just the second team to keep the Owls scoreless at home this season - remaining 18th after 25 games.
In a bright start, and Wednesday's strongest spell of the game, Ikeme did well to keep a Sasso header out from a Barry Bannan free-kick.
And while Fletcher and Forestieri again had the visiting keeper scrambling before the break, he was rarely troubled after that.
At the other end, a penalty shout was turned away as Owls keeper Keiren Westwood appeared to bring down Doherty late in the half which ended with Bodvarsson's effort against the woodwork and Mason's miss.
The visitors continued to pressure after the break, carving out chances but failing to take them, while Wednesday fashioned a number of chances of their own with Forestieri having the best of them saved by Ikeme.
Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal:
"I think it was a typical game after such a short break of 48 hours. You try your best, you put the best team out to win the game but you also have to put out the team who has recovered the best.
"I think the scoreline was correct. We had chances, they had chances. We wanted to do better in this game, but we did what we could have done under the circumstances and the draw was the fair result.
"I don't know if we win one point or lose two points but I think the time off now will be very good to us."
Wolves manager Paul Lambert:
"I think anybody at the stadium saw that we deserved to win. If we walked out of the stadium winning 3-0 I don't think anybody would have questioned it.
"I thought the pressing was fantastic. The game-plan was perfect, other than the goals we deserved to get. Everything about us, the passing, the tempo. I'm just disappointed we've managed not to win.
"It shows you how far we've come. It wasn't that long ago that Sheffield Wednesday came down to our place and beat us quite easily, so the progress we've made is huge."
Match ends, Sheffield Wednesday 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0.
Second Half ends, Sheffield Wednesday 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Vincent Sasso.
Attempt missed. Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Jack Hunt.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Danny Batth.
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lucas João (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt blocked. Lucas João (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sam Hutchinson.
Attempt blocked. Joe Mason (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jón Dadi Bödvarsson with a cross.
Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Vincent Sasso (Sheffield Wednesday).
Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt saved. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas João.
Attempt blocked. Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. David Jones replaces Steven Fletcher.
Attempt blocked. Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Reach with a cross.
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday).
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Keiren Westwood.
Attempt saved. Joe Mason (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Danny Batth.
Attempt missed. Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Fernando Forestieri.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Nouha Dicko replaces Connor Ronan because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Connor Ronan (Wolverhampton Wanderers) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Adam Reach.
Attempt blocked. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas João.
Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt missed. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Barry Bannan.
Attempt missed. Vincent Sasso (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by David Edwards.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Ivan Cavaleiro replaces Hélder Costa.
Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt blocked. Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Jack Price (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing. | Sheffield Wednesday survived a Wolves onslaught to share the spoils in a tense goalless draw at Hillsborough. |
39,233,617 | Lindsey Kushner QC said women were entitled to "drink themselves into the ground" but their "disinhibited behaviour" could put them in danger.
Judge Kushner made the courtroom plea as she jailed a man for six years who raped a girl he met in a Burger King in Manchester city centre last year.
But, Rape Crisis slammed her comments as "outrageous" and "misguided".
Yvonne Traynor, chief executive of Rape Crisis South East, said: "As a judge and a woman she should know better.
"The only person who is responsible for rape, is the rapist.
"Women are yet again being blamed for rape."
The judge spoke out as she retired from the criminal bench.
Judge Kushner, 64, said "as a woman judge" it would "be remiss" if she did not beg women to protect themselves from predatory men who ''gravitate'' towards drunken females.
The mother of two, who has sat as a senior circuit judge since 2002, said judges have been criticised for "putting more emphasis on what girls should and shouldn't do than on the act and the blame to be apportioned to rapists".
"There is absolutely no excuse and a woman can do with her body what she wants and a man will have to adjust his behaviour accordingly," she said.
But she said she does not "think it's wrong for a judge to beg woman to take actions to protect themselves".
Judge Kushner's plea to women to protect themselves was strongly - but carefully - worded: she was emphatically not blaming them for an attack but warning them that when drunk they're more vulnerable.
Other judges who've stepped into this tricky territory haven't always framed their remarks so delicately.
Judge Mary Jane Mowat's comment in 2014 that "the rape conviction statistics will not improve until women stop getting so drunk" was designed to highlight a point Judge Kushner also made - that victims are less likely to believed if they've had a lot of alcohol - but she made it sound as though women were responsible for rapists getting off.
But even more insensitive was the comment made by Mr Justice Leonard in 1987 when he declared that the trauma suffered by Ealing vicarage rape victim Jill Saward "had not been so great". He later apologised.
Judge Kushner said "potential defendants to rape" target girls who have been drinking because they are "more likely to agree as they are more disinhibited, even if they don't agree they are less likely to fight a man with evil intentions off".
She said a woman would be less likely to report a rape "because she was drunk or cannot remember what happened or feels ashamed to deal with it".
"Or, if push comes to shove, a girl who has been drunk is less likely to be believed than one who is sober at the time," she said.
"It should not be like that but it does happen and we see it time and time again."
She said women "are entitled to do what they like" but asked them to "please be aware there are men out there who gravitate towards a woman who might be more vulnerable than others".
"That's my final line, in my final criminal trial, and my final sentence," she concluded.
Judge Kushner jailed factory worker Ricardo Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes, 19, after Manchester Crown Court heard he ignored his 18-year-old victim's screams as he attacked her on a canal bank.
A witness heard the teenager, who had been drinking lager and vodka as well as inhaling the party drug amyl nitrite, begging Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes to stop. | A female judge has warned women who get drunk they are putting themselves in danger of being targeted by rapists. |
26,179,963 | Buy a yacht and sail the world, lie on a beach all day or put it all on red at a Vegas casino?
Chris Roberts has that much to spend and he is using it to build a universe.
Mr Roberts is not entirely free to use the cash as he wishes because the money has come to him from crowdfunding site Kickstarter and through the Roberts Space Industries website.
"I'm completely shocked by how much we have raised and how well we have done," said Mr Roberts. "I would never have guessed it was possible."
The reason that people have given him so much cash is because of his track record in making space games. Mr Roberts was the driving creative force behind the massively popular Wing Commander series of games. These let people play a part in the star-spanning conflict between humans and the cat-like Kilrathi.
The money is being spent on another space game called Star Citizen set in a 30th century virtual universe. Players will pilot their ships around this persistent online universe engaging in dogfights as they trade and explore. Alongside this, and in the same universe will go a more episodic game, called Squadron 42, that can be played by individuals or groups.
Star Citizen debuted on Kickstarter in late 2012 seeking just $500,000 (£300,000). When its funding period closed it had raised more than $2m from 34,000 people.
A year or so on and the funding drive has continued via the game's dedicated website and the total is closing in on $40m. The number of people who have signed up or put down cash has hit 300,000.
Mr Roberts believes that at least part of the reason so many have backed Star Citizen is because there have been so few big space-based games in the last decade or so.
In more recent times, the steady success of Eve Online showed there was an appetite for some kind of space trading and combat game. However, said Mr Roberts, Star Citizen would offer more "visceral" thrills than the somewhat intellectual Eve Online - a game that sometimes seems to reward skill with a spreadsheet more than it does a blaster.
Competition for space sim fans will come, however, from Eve Valkyrie - a new game set in the Eve universe but which puts players in the cockpit of a spaceship and gives them the chance to let loose with missiles and lasers against other people.
Perhaps a bigger threat is another space-based game that also raised lots of money via Kickstarter - Elite Dangerous.
That too has an industry veteran at its helm, British gaming veteran David Braben, and will let players fight, trade and explore in an online universe.
"The competition is healthy," said Mr Roberts. "Just like in in the old days when Lucas Arts had their X-Wing and Tie Fighter games.
"I feel like there have not been enough space games and I'm happy to have more," he said, adding that he had backed Elite on Kickstarter and was looking forward to playing it.
Before the game can be launched against its competitors, it has to be developed and, said Mr Roberts, creating a game set in a sizeable chunk of the universe, even a digital one, was always going to take a lot of money.
"It's not one of those games you can make for two, three or even four million," said Mr Roberts. "Originally, I didn't think I would be able to do everything I wanted to."
The basic plan was to raise a few million on Kickstarter and then turn to investors to build up a total development fund of $12-$14m. That cash would be used to fund the alpha or test version which would help raise more money to flesh out the full vision - which Mr Roberts estimated had a price tag of about $20m.
However, he said, getting all the cash almost upfront means no alpha and no investors. Instead he's been able to set out a plan to get the whole thing done right from the start and recruit heavily so development of different parts of Star Citizen proceed in parallel. The extra cash means it will get more ships, more star systems and missions set on planets.
One element of the game has already been released - the hangar module that lets players look around the ship or ships they have bought and in which they will fly in Star Citizen. One of the next modules is the dog-fighting system that players will test before the final release in 2015.
But what the pledged funds have not done is change the fundamental direction of the game, he said.
Star Citizen might have 300,000 people interested but that does not mean that Mr Roberts has 300,000 bosses who want him to make the game for them.
While it is good to hear from the backers, they are not going to be able to radically change the game.
"The way we look at the crowd is that it's a huge resource for talking the game over with 300,000 people instead of just a small team," he said. "If something they say resonates with us then we should respond to it, but if it does not then we just don't do it."
"But," he said, "it's definitely good to get that feedback early on in this process."
He added: "We could spend an eternity building this game but we have to make decisions about what we focus on and having the crowd involved really helps us with that process."
And, he said, that large crowd had bought in to the project because of his involvement.
"I think, in general, a lot of people are backing this because of my past games," he said, adding that they are going to get a recognisably Chris Roberts game.
"I get pretty focused when I have an idea in my head," he said. "It's not like I'm easily swayed." | If you were given $40m (£24m), what would you spend it on? |
37,678,844 | Lewis Faulkner, 25, collided with Tereasa Cutler's car on the A31 near Wimborne, Dorset, on 10 June last year.
Ms Cutler died at the scene. Her two children and her nephew, who she had recently adopted following her sister's death, were seriously injured.
Faulkner was jailed for four years and four months after admitting causing death by dangerous driving.
He also admitted causing death while uninsured and three counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Ms Cutler, 49, from Ringwood, Hampshire, had just been to the funeral of her sister, Patricia, and was driving to the wake with her two children, Daniel, then 16, and Alice, 18, and her nephew, Joe Woodland, aged 19.
According to police, Faulkner's BMW 3 Series hit Ms Cutler's Fiesta head-on at a bend.
Both he and his male passenger, 22, were also seriously injured in the crash.
Appearing at Bournemouth Crown Court, Faulkner was told he would serve half his sentence on licence.
He was also banned from driving for four years and eight months.
Faulkner, of Coburg Road, Dorchester, previously denied the charges but changed his plea to guilty on Monday morning.
Judge Peter Crabtree described it as a tragic case with catastrophic consequences.
A victim impact statement by Ms Cutler's daughter, Alice, said: "I feel vulnerable because I do not have my mum to comfort and guide me. Instead, all I have is a grave which provides me with little comfort. An accident like this changes you - you see the world differently."
Following the hearing, Sgt Lee Savage of Dorset Police said: "Alice and Daniel lost their much-loved mother and Joe lost an auntie who had just taken on parental responsibility for him following his own mother's death.
"This is one of the most heart-breaking cases I have dealt with and I would like to pay tribute to them for the strength they have shown throughout this tragic time." | A man has been jailed for causing a crash in which a mother was killed as she returned from her sister's funeral. |
39,280,657 | Silicon Valley is what happened when the flower power generation sobered up.
Steve Jobs was a Buddhist, though to what extent has been the subject of much debate.
And the zealous mission on which Facebook is embarked - to create a more open and connected world, smashing barriers instinctively - owes a substantial debt to the baby boomers and their own particular doctrine, (John) Lennonism. When Mark Zuckerberg speaks, I always hear the lyrics to Imagine.
Perhaps it is this moral component to what Silicon Valley's biggest companies do that has, for the most part, protected them from what I had long considered inevitable: a monumental backlash.
I call this the tech-lash, and thought it would have two main components.
First, anti-capitalism: the hostility toward plutocracy shown by groups such as Occupy Wall Street would, eventually, take aim at the astronomical wealth of tech billionaires - especially once it dawned on these protesters, and society at large, that compared to the industrialists of old, these companies don't actually employ many people.
As a result, of the vast capital they have amassed, a disconcertingly small amount actually makes it to the labour force.
That smells like trickle-down economics - without the trickle down.
The second component of the tech-lash would arise from concerns about privacy, fuelled not least by the revelations from Edward Snowden.
It is hard to get your head around just how much data companies such as Google and Facebook hold, and how much information they have about us - most of it voluntarily given over.
If the civil liberties brigade ever needed a cause around which to rally, this could well be it.
Together with disgust at how little taxes these companies pay, you have the elements of an almighty revolt.
And yet, it hasn't really come: partly, I imagine, because of that sense of moral purpose; and partly because of the fact that these brilliant and uniquely innovative companies have improved our lives without asking us to pay a penny.
Your appetite for being horrible toward Google is neutered when you use Gmail to rally comrades to a cause, and Google Maps to get to a protest.
This, then, was the tech-lash that wasn't. Until now.
Two stories this week suggest that the mood is changing.
On Tuesday, the Home Affairs Select Committee gave a ferocious grilling to senior executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter.
The Daily Mail is usually a good indicator of which way the wind is blowing; its front page headline on Wednesday was "Shaming of the web giants".
The next story that showed public feeling might be turning was on the front of another British newspaper - the Financial Times.
And yet the story wasn't about Britain. The splash headline was: "Berlin plans €50m [£44m] fines for hate speech and fake news".
This is a remarkable story: the German government is drafting legislation that will aggressively target internet companies, including social media giants, if they don't do enough to stop the spread of socially corrosive material online, particularly by giving users tools to flag such material.
Germany is uniquely susceptible to the spread of fake news.
Angela Merkel's hugely controversial refugees policy, the rise of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party, the constant threat from neo-Nazis, upcoming national elections, and the staid media landscape - staid compared with Britain's raucous tabloids, for instance - all make conditions ripe for exploitation.
But Germany is now leading the fight-back. Germans have a very different approach to the state to that which is fashionable on America's West Coast.
The new tech giants are often libertarians who believe that innovation and technology can solve social problems much more effectively than government.
They are diametrically opposed to what you might, crudely, call the Teutonic faith in regulation: many Germans - and indeed all those I spoke to while reporting there - believe that a smart, enabling state can, through effective legislation, mitigate social ills.
If the much heralded tech-lash is finally upon us, it is the Germans who hold the whip hand.
It isn't hatred of plutocracy, or love of privacy, that finally turned the temper of a people against tech giants: it is the threat of election, and legislative power falling into the hands of nasty forces, that has prompted action.
Moreover, it took the German faith in the efficacy of regulation to confront those giants with the threat of punitive action.
If the German proposal becomes legislation, it will offer a template that could be rolled out elsewhere.
Whether this is the beginning of a tech-lash - a concerted effort by societies and government to, ahem, take back control from tech companies - or just an incremental development in a constantly maturing new world of law and power, is unclear.
I would hope, whatever the regulatory fallout of the fake news phenomenon, the likes of Facebook and Google continue to earn immense respect for being better at providing exceptional services to customers than most companies in history.
Does that include the British? Yes, basically: our political class reveres Silicon Valley and hopes to replicate its success over here.
But my conversations in Westminster lead me to believe that, in Theresa May, we have a leader who is not far off the pragmatic, populist patriotism of Mrs Merkel; that, like the German chancellor, our prime minister is a provincial Tory who believes in the good that government can do.
Given her one-nation rhetoric, Mrs May will be conscious that fake news - which Facebook is taking very seriously - does potentially pose a threat to the social solidarity.
The prime minister and her most senior lieutenants are very close observers of German affairs, and there are people close to the top of British government who are wondering what they can learn, and imitate, from this week's German proposal.
In recent years, the moral fervour of those sons and daughters of the 1960s who have come to dominate Silicon Valley, and all our lives, has forged an alliance with wealth and power of a kind most of us can't imagine.
What happens when it clashes with the alternative worldview of people in faraway lands who have elections to win, and hatred to silence, will determine much of this, the first truly digital chapter in history. | It is perhaps the most beguiling irony of our age that a new class of super-rich that has emerged on America's West Coast has its moral, intellectual and even spiritual origins in the anti-materialistic radicalism of 1960s counter-culture. |
30,745,740 | The 29-year-old victim fell from the roof of Al Amin Wholesale in Grosvenor Road at about 11:00 GMT on Monday.
He was taken to hospital with a serious head wound and died from his injuries the following day, West Midlands Police said.
The arrested men - aged 30 and 38 - have been released on bail pending further inquiries.
Det Sgt Tom Olphin said: "We are at the very early stages of an investigation and our thoughts remain with the man's family and friends at this sad time."
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) confirmed it would be investigating.
"We are aware of the incident and are assisting police with their inquiries," a spokeswoman said. | Two men have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a man fell from a warehouse roof in Birmingham. |
37,405,598 | At the UN summit in New York, the prime minister said the migration crisis had been "exacerbated" by "unprecedented" numbers of economic migrants.
She urged a change in approach, saying refugees should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.
The UN says a record number of people have been displaced by conflict.
It estimates that 65.3 million people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of five million in a year.
The UN summit for refugees and migrants is aiming to agree a "more humane and coordinated approach".
Addressing world leaders, Mrs May called for a greater distinction between refugees and people trying to enter a country for economic reasons.
"Controlled legal and safe migration" benefited the economy, she said, and there was nothing wrong with "moving for a better life".
But she said the current levels of "uncontrolled migration" were not in the interests of the migrants or the countries involved, and served to reduce popular support for refugees.
"We need to be clear that all countries have the right to control their borders and protect their citizens and be equally clear that countries have a duty to manage their borders, to reduce onward flows of illegal and uncontrolled migration," she said.
She argued that refugees should seek asylum in the first safe country they arrived in because the current trend of onward movement exposed them to increased danger and benefited criminal gangs.
Such an approach would bar EU countries from allowing migrants to travel onwards from countries like Greece, Italy and France through Europe to Britain.
Mrs May said resources should be focused on "refugees in desperate need of protection", and she urged the international community to "come together" to deal with the crisis.
UN appeals for assistance were "underfunded", host countries were not getting enough support and displaced people not receiving the aid they needed, she said.
The PM said the UK was "already playing its part" but promised to "step up our efforts" with more financial assistance.
Defending the UK's approach, the Home Office said the government had pledged £2.3bn in humanitarian aid to Syria and neighbouring countries and was providing nearly £70m in response to the Mediterranean migration crisis.
"This government has been at the forefront of the international response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria," it said.
"We have committed to resettling 20,000 Syrian refugees through our Vulnerable Persons Resettlement scheme over the course of this Parliament - we are on track to achieve that and have already provided refuge to more than 2,800 under this route.
"Under the new Vulnerable Children's Resettlement Scheme we will also bring 3,000 individuals to the UK over the same period."
As well as speaking at the UN event, chaired by secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, Mrs May is also taking part in a summit on refugees hosted by US president Barack Obama on Tuesday.
In London's Parliament Square, campaigners have created a display using lifejackets worn by refugees crossing the sea into Europe.
Charities behind the temporary installation said it would "remind leaders of the risks families have taken to reach safety, the need for solidarity with refugees, respect of their rights and more international responsibility sharing".
They said the summit was a "historic opportunity to garner the political will of world leaders to save lives, protect rights and share responsibility on a global scale".
Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs her party's refugees taskforce, said the UK was "resisting doing our bit" in terms of settling refugees, particularly children.
She agreed with Mrs May on the importance of border controls, which she said would help prevent people-smuggling, but criticised the PM for focusing on this element rather than helping refugees. | Theresa May has called for a global clampdown on "uncontrolled migration", saying it is the right and the duty of countries to control their borders. |
33,096,260 | That stark warning comes from one of the world's leading specialists in the iconic animals.
Deforestation and hunting are taking an increasing toll, according to Professor Jonah Ratsimbazafy, director of GERP, a centre for primate research in Madagascar.
"My heart is broken," he told the BBC, "because the situation is getting worse as more forests disappear every year. That means the lemurs are in more and more trouble."
So far 106 species of lemur have been identified and nearly all of them are judged to be at risk of extinction, many of them critically endangered.
The habitats they depend on - mostly a variety of different kinds of forest - only exist in Madagascar.
"Just as fish cannot survive without water, lemurs cannot survive without forest, but less than 10% of the original Madagascar forest is left," said Prof Ratsimbazafy, who is also a co-vice chair of the Madagascar primates section of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
"I would believe that within the next 25 years, if the speed of the deforestation is still the same, there would be no forest left, and that means no lemurs left in this island."
The pressure to clear the forests comes from a rapidly growing but extremely poor population seeking to open up new farmland. At least 92% of people in Madagascar live on less than the equivalent of $2 a day.
A form of slash-and-burn agriculture known as "tavi" sees trees felled and undergrowth scorched to make way for fields of rice and other crops.
Video of one recent forest clearance shows an apocalyptic scene of an entire hillside of charred stumps and smouldering vegetation.
In one supposedly protected area I visited in eastern Madagascar, a sign announcing a prohibition on tree felling stood ignored amid new plantations of banana palms and maize.
Conservationists have long argued that slash-and-burn farming is needlessly damaging, leaving the soil unproductive after a few years, and that more intensive forms of cultivation would allow more forests to be left standing.
The government of Madagascar has recently confirmed that as much as 10% of the country is now earmarked in some way for wildlife - from national parks to what are called protected areas - but the rules are often not enforced at a local level.
Prof Ratsimbazafy said: "We have a struggle. Sometimes there is engagement on paper but sometimes it's not in reality because on the ground there is still deforestation."
He recalled how a new species of mouse lemur had once been discovered and identified in a forest only for that land to be "turned into a field of cassava" two years later.
The only long-term solution, according to Prof Ratsimbazafy, is to engage communities and persuade them that the forests - and the lemurs - have a value that is worth safeguarding.
In one protected area, Maromizaha, his organisation, GERP, is hiring local people to keep watch over the forest and to act as guides for tourists, making the point that the lemurs can worth more alive than dead.
It is also supporting new ventures in the local village including fish-farming and bee-keeping, and teaching new techniques for rice-growing that do not require constant expansion into the forest.
Nearby, a reserve known as Mitsinjo is run by a cooperative group set up by guides who encourage eco-tourism and ensure that the lemurs are safe - a model of management widely seen as promising.
But there is an additional threat to the lemurs that stems from persistent poverty and widespread hunger - a continuing demand for bushmeat.
Although it is illegal to kill lemurs, poachers are still setting traps for the animals or shooting them, either for their own consumption or to be sold to others.
There are no reliable estimates for the scale of the losses but in one vulnerable area it is thought that as many as 10% of the population of lemurs could be killed ever year.
A local NGO called Madagasikara Voakajy recently investigated the bushmeat trade and photographed lemurs being hunted, butchered and eaten.
The organisation's director, Julie Razafimanahaka, told us that her researchers persuaded a hunter to allow them to observe him searching for the largest of Madagascar's lemurs, the Indri, famous for their size and black, white and grey fur.
"My team met with the hunter and followed him in the forest and saw him using guns and shooting the Indris and bringing back five to the shops and small restaurants.
"Families were then cooking and eating them. That was very shocking."
Although in the past it has been taboo or what is called "fady" for local communities to eat lemurs, the increasing mobility of the population has brought in outsiders who do not care about old traditions.
In one gold-mining area, new arrivals persuaded local people to hunt Indri for them. And when the locals saw that breaking the taboo did not bring them bad luck, they too started eating the lemurs.
What had begun as a research project by Madagasikara Voakajy was quickly switched into a campaign to try to save the lemurs with an education campaign in schools.
According to Julie Razafimanahaka, a survey of opinion among children conducted after the campaign found a clear difference in attitude towards the lemurs.
"We have seen that children that have been educated are more aware of the protection status of the lemurs and they have a more positive perception so they would be sad if the lemurs were dying and they would be happy to see one.
"Whereas children at schools where we didn't do the education still thought lemurs were bushmeat - they thought they could eat them and most didn't care if there were lemurs or not because they're just like any animals."
Meanwhile another study into lemurs came up with a finding that complicates the campaign to save the animals: children that were fed lemurs suffered less malnutrition than those that were not.
The most recent comprehensive survey of lemurs was published in 2013 by the IUCN, the Bristol Conservation and Science Group and Conservation International.
It concluded that 94% of lemur species were at risk - an increase from 66% only seven years earlier - and highlighted the urgent need to engage local people, foster eco-tourism and maintain a permanent research presence in the forests.
But the report also signalled that breeding colonies should be set up to ensure that the animals at least survive in captivity, if not in the wild, as a strategy of last resort. | The famous lemurs of Madagascar face such severe threats to their survival that none of them may be left in the wild within 25 years. |
36,989,717 | Holy Trinity Church in Rothwell, Northamptonshire - home to one of only two 13th Century crypts in the UK - contains the remains of 2,500 people.
Radio carbon dating found some skulls were older than first thought.
But scientists from the University of Sheffield, who "assumed the ossuary was a medieval thing", were also surprised to find bones from the last century.
"It seems people continued to put skulls and bones down here, not only into the post-medieval period but even as late as around 1900," Dr Lizzie Craig-Atkins said.
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The Holy Trinity crypt is just one of two 13th Century sites in the UK, with the other being at St Leonard's in Hythe, Kent.
Testing on five skull samples was carried out by scientists at the University of Sheffield, using facilities based at the Queen's University in Belfast.
The process, which took weeks to complete, involved the bone samples being crushed, chemically separated and freeze dried before graphite was extracted.
Professor Paula Reimer, from the University of Belfast, said: "We know what the rate of change of the amount of radio carbon is, so we measure what is still in the sample and from that we can calculate how long it has been since death."
Dr Crangle said the bones, which legend said belonged to soldiers or plague victims, would actually have been the remains of local people placed in the crypt by their families.
"They were deliberately built so people could be prayed for. They were built to protect the dead, and were built to be visited," she said.
Researchers now plan to gather further samples to gather a fuller picture of when bodies found in the crypt were laid to rest. | Skulls and bones stored under a church date from 1250 to as recently as 1900, tests have revealed. |
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The Price of Football, the biggest study of its kind in Europe, looked at prices at 223 clubs.
More than two thirds of ticket prices across the UK have been either cut or frozen for the 2016-17 season.
However, an away ticket in the Championship can now be more expensive than for a Premier League match.
This is because top-flight clubs have capped prices for visiting fans at £30.
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Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters' Federation, said: "On their current £8.3bn deal, the Premier League could afford to let every single fan in free for every game and still have as much money as they had under the previous deal.
"That gives you an idea of the scale of the amount of money they have got."
The Premier League said in a statement: "Clubs are listening to their fans and working hard to make sure that Premier League football is accessible as well as competitive and compelling."
The study also found replica shirt prices have increased year-on-year and half of top-flight clubs put up the price of their junior shirts.
For the first time, we asked clubs for the percentage of male and female season-ticket holders. In the Premier League, 14 clubs responded, with Southampton revealing one in five of their season-ticket holders are women, while at Liverpool the figure is 11%.
Other findings include:
With the bumper 2016-2019 Premier League TV rights deal coming into effect - which includes £5bn for domestic rights and another £3bn globally - top-flight clubs will each benefit by a minimum of £100m.
In this year's study, we contacted 223 clubs across 23 leagues in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the continent.
We have analysed ticket prices in six categories - cheapest matchday, dearest matchday, cheapest away ticket, dearest away ticket, cheapest and dearest season tickets - as well as teas, pies, programmes and junior and adult shirt prices.
The rate of inflation over the past year, as measured by the Consumer Price index, is 0.9%, and over the six years of study it is 15.65%.
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English Football League chief executive Shaun Harvey:
"It's clear to see from the recent research that EFL clubs are working very hard to ensure home and away ticket pricing continues to be as competitive and affordable as possible.
"In addition to the BBC's findings, we know from our own analysis that EFL clubs have reached a significant landmark this season, in attracting over 500,000 season-ticket holders across the three divisions for the first time.
"Quite rightly, clubs make the final decisions on pricing models and we will continue to work with them to ensure the positive trends highlighted are maintained and that football attendances across the three divisions of the EFL continue to thrive."
Scottish Professional Football League chief executive Neil Doncaster:
"All 42 SPFL clubs work tirelessly to ensure they have a pricing structure which provides as much value for money as possible, especially for families to help attract the next generation of supporters.
"We know that while much progress has been made in three years there is much more that can and needs to be done to help make Scottish football as attractive as it can be to existing and potential customers."
Football Supporters' Federation chairman Malcolm Clarke:
"We believe it's a positive thing that almost three quarters of ticket prices have been reduced or frozen. That's thanks in no small part to pressure from football supporters up and down the country.
"There is no room for complacency, however, with some Premier League clubs charging far too much for their season tickets and away ticket prices in the Championship being the most expensive in the country. We will remain vigilant and continue our campaigning to make football affordable for this generation of supporters and the next."
The Premier League:
"Clubs value their fans and appreciate their support. Full and vibrant grounds are a significant part of what makes the Premier League a great football competition.
"Research we published only last week, using club data and analysis by leading professional services company EY, detailed not only the price of tickets, but the number purchased at each price. The research also found that four million tickets are discounted from the publicly listed price through early-bird renewals and concessions.
"The data demonstrated the real prices being paid by fans and what volume of tickets are being sold at what levels, finding that 56% of fans in Premier League stadiums this season will pay £30 or less per game with the average price paid being £31."
Burnley chief executive David Baldwin:
"What's very evident about Burnley as a town is that it is very much a one-club town. You very rarely see other club colours being worn around the town. It is very much claret and blue.
"We don't take that for granted because what we have to be conscious of is what is affordable to people. You don't want them to fall out of the love of football.
"We've established this year a fans' forum so fans can discuss ticket prices for next year and we already have a number of supporter consultant groups that we discuss our pricing policy with before it goes forward for a recommendation."
Shadow Sports Minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan:
"Football should be accessible to everyone, from Sunday League to Premier League.
"I am pleased to see the average cost of Premier League tickets come down this year, but with the amount of television and sponsorship money being pumped into football - more needs to be done.
"Despite the small reduction in ticket prices, the vast majority of fans are priced out of football. Children look up to these players, they are role models for millions - yet it costs £40 for a child to wear the same shirt." | The cost of attending Premier League football has come down in the first season of a record £8bn global TV rights deal, a BBC study has found. |
38,711,876 | 23 January 2017 Last updated at 08:36 GMT
Well, it's an Olympic sport where competitors are timed while skating a certain distance.
Great Britain dominated the sport around a hundred years ago, but as time went on, the sport has almost died out here in the UK.
BBC reporter Mike Bushell has been finding out what happened to the sport, and why the Netherlands is the new home for speed skating! | How much do you know about long-track speed skating? |
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The 31-year-old fly-half returned from a five-week injury absence to produce a masterful half-back display along with scrum-half Conor Murray.
Sexton's display included 11 points as Ireland kept their title hopes alive.
"He has never navigated us round the pitch as well as he did today for a while," said the Ireland coach.
"It is great to have someone who everyone has confidence in, he makes a call and everyone backs him."
Schmidt had no hesitation in recalling Sexton in place of in-form Paddy Jackson even though the Leinster star had not played since sustaining a calf injury in the European Champions Cup game against Castres on 20 January.
"Based on experience it is not the first time he has done it [impressed after a lay-off]," added Schmidt.
"He prepares incredibly well and has such a competitive edge."
Sexton was expected to play for around 50 minutes against the French but Schmidt opted to keep the British & Irish Lion on the field for 69 minutes, when Jackson was introduced.
"The stop-start nature of the game when there were several scrums at a time allowed him a bit of a breather," added the 51-year-old New Zealander.
"He was really, really positive in a measured way. He varied the game especially in the second half because we felt we couldn't use ourselves up too much and instead tire them out.
"It allowed us to keep the pressure on, plus he never shirks his defensive duties.
"We aimed to keep him on till the 55th minute at the latest but as he had a two-and-a-half-minute break after a tough hit we kept him on."
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Schmidt said the victory keeps Ireland's title destiny in their own hands although he insisted that he is now focusing all his attentions on the game with out-of-contention Wales in Cardiff on 10 March rather than a possible title decider against England a week later.
The Irish coach, hoping to guide his side to a third Six Nations title in four years, felt Wales had been somewhat unlucky in Saturday's 29-13 defeat by Scotland.
"They lost on the scoreboard but had two tries scratched out. For me they seemed to have a lot of control of the game and we can testify how effective the Scots are at finishing.
"You don't go to Cardiff and get anything easy because the Welsh take a heck of a lot of pride in their game and have some super players." | Ireland coach Joe Schmidt says Johnny Sexton's display in Saturday's 19-9 Six Nations win over France showed a player at the top of his game. |
34,452,980 | Fifty-seven workers were hired to build a stretch of railway in Pennsylvania known as Duffy's Cut.
However, within weeks all of them were dead.
It is thought some died from cholera, while others were murdered by local people who believed the immigrants were spreading the disease.
They all hailed from counties Tyrone, Donegal and Londonderry.
Six sets of remains have previously been uncovered and the new searches that are taking place are at what is believed to be the site of a mass grave containing the remaining 51.
In July, a funeral mass and burial took place at St Patrick's Church in Clonoe, near Coalisland, County Tyrone, for one of the migrants - 29-year-old Catherine Burns.
Injuries to her skull indicated she had been murdered.
The new search site is about 50 yards from where the other remains were found.
Duffy's Cut and its story have been brought to light over the past 12 years by brothers Frank and William Watson, a Lutheran minister and a historian at Immaculata University.
Dr Frank Watson said the site currently being searched is close to the modern railway line.
They had to negotiate with Amtrak, the national railroad in the United States, to carry out the dig.
"What we are conducting now are core samples at the site of what we believe is the mass grave of the remaining 51 labourers at Duffy's Cut," he said.
"We have core samples being taken between 20 and 30 feet along an area underground that our geophysicist indicated looks like the mass burial place.
"If we find human remains in these core samples, our intent is to excavate the remains and re-inter them in the United States and Ireland as we have already done with the first six bodies who were buried at the base of the 1832 railroad tracks."
The new searches are close to a stone memorial wall that was built for the migrants in 1909.
"That wall replaced an earlier 1872 wooden fence put in place by Irish-American railroaders who wanted to remember those who died at Duffy's Cut," Dr Watson said.
"Anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiment combined with fear of a world-wise cholera pandemic that hit Chester County, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1832, led to the vigilante violence at Duffy's Cut." | New searches are under way in the US to try to find the remains of 51 Irish railroad workers who died - or were murdered - in 1832. |
40,341,333 | The scheme will appoint a named person, usually a teacher or health visitor, who will be responsible for ensuring the welfare of every child.
It had been due to come into force last August, but the Supreme Court ruled that sections covering information sharing did not comply with the law.
The changes published on Tuesday aim to overcome those concerns.
They will ensure that public bodies can only share information about children if is likely to "promote, support or safeguard the wellbeing" of the child.
Public bodies will also be required to consider whether sharing the information would be compatible with data protection, human rights and confidentiality laws.
Only then will they be given the power to share the information.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney said the changes would bring "consistency, clarity and coherence to the practice of sharing information about children and young people's wellbeing across Scotland".
He added: "The Supreme Court ruled definitively that the intention of providing a named person for every child to promote and safeguard their wellbeing was 'unquestionably legitimate and benign'.
"But young people and families must have confidence that information will be shared only where their rights can be respected.
"We must ensure that we get it right for every child, but in a way that respects the rights of families fully."
Supreme Court judges ruled in July last year that specific proposals in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act about information-sharing were incompatible with the rights to privacy and a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.
They said the legislation made it "perfectly possible" that confidential information about a young person could be disclosed to a "wide range of public authorities without either the child or young person or her parents being aware".
Judges at the Court of Session had previously ruled that named persons would have "no effect whatsoever on the legal, moral or social relationships within the family".
They added: "The assertion to the contrary, without any supporting basis, has the appearance of hyperbole."
The appeal was brought to the Supreme Court by the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) coalition, which includes the Christian Institute, Care (Christian Action Research and Education), Tyme Trust and the Family Education Trust.
They had claimed named person would undermine parents by appointing a state guardian for their children, and would stretch resources for protecting vulnerable children by creating a scheme that applied to all children regardless of need.
The Scottish government said after the Supreme Court ruling that it remained absolutely committed to introducing named person, and would bring forward fresh legislation that would comply with the law.
It had originally hoped to do so in time for the scheme to be implemented by August this year - but that has been delayed until 2018.
The Scottish Conservatives, who have been vocal critics of the scheme, said the changes to named person marked a "major U-turn" by the government.
The party said the changes meant that "parents who do not accept the advice of named persons will not be subsequently viewed with suspicion by authorities".
But while welcoming the clarification on data sharing, the Tories said they continued to have "serious concerns" about the legislation.
Simon Calvert of NO2NP said the new rules on information sharing were a "100% climb-down on their original plan of a statutory duty to share information about people's private lives almost without restriction".
Mr Calvert added: "If they'd only listened at the start, they could have saved huge amounts of time and money. They now have to retrain those who have already been trained to implement an unlawful scheme."
Scottish Labour said the implementation of named person had been a "complete mess from the start" and called on the Scottish government to produce a "clear plan to rebuild trust in the scheme".
The Liberal Democrats warned there was a "very real risk that the limited changes now being proposed won't be enough to regain the confidence of families across Scotland."
But the Scottish Greens welcomed the Scottish government changes, which it said meant that "We are now back on track to ensuring children in Scotland are as safe and well supported as possible". | The Scottish government has published changes to its controversial named person scheme. |
36,895,648 | Matt Smith, 32, sheared 731 ewes in nine hours at a farm in Cornwall to beat the previous record of 721.
The event has made headlines around the world and was live streamed to audiences in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Iceland and Ireland.
It was the first sheep-shearing world record attempt in the northern hemisphere.
At one point Mr Smith, originally from New Zealand, was tackling the sheep at a rate of one every 36 seconds - well ahead of the 45 second target.
A team of masseurs were on hand to ease the strain on Mr Smith's back during breaks at the event at St Clether, Launceston.
Steve Matthew, a judge from the World Shearing Council, said the attempt required huge "physical and mental strength".
"This is the Everest of the sheep-shearing world," he said.
Farm security firm Agricamera have provided live online coverage, with between 300 and 500 people watching at any one time.
Agricamera's Jake Withecombe said: "We didn't quite anticipate it being as popular as it has turned out to be."
Mr Smith began his attempt at 05:00 BST, took four breaks and finished at around 17:00.
The previous record of 721 sheep in nine hours was set by Rodney Sutton in 2007. | A sheep-shearing world record has been broken with thousands of people watching around the world. |
34,856,872 | Silhan Ozcelik, 18, told the Old Bailey that her family would have been more accepting of her political aspirations than her secret relationship.
Ms Ozcelik, from Holloway, London is accused of attempting to join a guerrilla army in 2014.
She denies preparing to commit acts of terrorism.
PKK, which is denounced as a terrorist group by UK authorities, is fighting against so-called Islamic State in Syria.
Ms Ozcelik left her parents' house for Brussels on a one-way Eurostar ticket in October 2014 and told the court that travelling with a man was "really shameful" in her community.
She said: "In the Kurdish community, if you say I'm joining the PKK, everyone will look up to you, they'll respect you. If you say you're going off with a boy, the situation changes."
After initially describing her family as "happy", the jury heard that Ms Ozcelik was not allowed out of the house after 17:00.
"I didn't have the freedom that a British girl would normally have," she said.
Ms Ozcelik wanted a relationship with a 28-year-old man called Mehmet, who she travelled to Holland and Germany with, the court heard.
She told the jury she initially "felt like an adult", but ended up doing the cooking and cleaning and was oppressed.
After speaking to her mother, she eventually decided to return home.
The jury heard of Ozcelik's enthusiasm for the PKK, making a collage of PKK leaders, Kurdish and Turkish socialists and Che Guevara as part of a school project.
She also admired the role of the PKK during Islamic State massacres, jurors heard.
The trial continues. | A teenager accused of running away to fight with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed she lied to hide the fact she was travelling with a man. |
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