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30,297,638 | Scott Panetti, 56, is slated for execution on Wednesday for the fatal shootings of his in-laws in 1992.
High court justices in 2002 prohibited the execution of the mentally impaired, but have allowed it for mentally ill inmates with a rational understanding.
Panetti's lawyers argue the mentally ill should also be exempt under law.
A number of conservatives leaders have also joined the fight to save his life, writing a letter asking Texas Governor Rick Perry to commute the death sentence to life in prison.
"As conservatives, we must be on guard that such an extraordinary government sanction not be used against a person who is mentally incapable of rational thought," according to the letter.
"It would be immoral for the government to take this man's life."
The Texas inmate was severely mentally ill "before, during and after the crime for which he has been sentenced to death", lawyers Gregory Wiercioch and Kathryn Kase told the Supreme Court on Monday.
Panetti was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1978 and hospitalised more than a dozen times before killing Joe and Amanda Alvarado.
"Imposition of the death penalty on people with severe mental illness, as with people with intellectual disability, does not serve the two goals of deterrence and retribution because of their reduced moral culpability," his lawyers told the court.
The Supreme Court added a provision mandating that an inmate have a rational understanding of why he was being put to death in 2007 under a previous appeal from Panetti.
His case has gone to the high court for review at least five times since his 1995 conviction, records show.
A separate appeal for the inmate - requesting a delay in execution to evaluate his mental competency - is currently before a federal appeals court.
Ellen Stewart-Klein, an assistant Texas attorney general, told that appeals court Panetti's medical records "strongly indicate rational awareness of his impending execution and the reason for it".
"Panetti's mental status has at best been severely exaggerated by his counsel," she added. | Lawyers for a schizophrenic Texas inmate set to be executed this week have called on the US Supreme Court to halt the lethal injection. |
37,845,290 | With 37 million people said to own a smartphone in the UK, touchscreen is king.
Phones, tablets, many cash points and self-service check-outs are all designed to give the consumer control at the swipe of a finger. But what if you can't use them?
Political reporter Esther Webber recently posted a snapshot of her battered Nokia on Facebook accompanied with the caption "Goodbye my lover" a reference to James Blunt's hit. It was like 2005 all over again.
But her love for the old phone wasn't some kooky style choice, it was a necessity which came with chunky buttons and physical mechanisms. The tremors from her cerebral palsy making touchscreen surfaces almost impossible to use.
"Pressing a button, however small, is a cruder, more definite movement than the sensitive skidding of the touchscreen," she says.
"My imprecise hand movements make it impossible to tap out anything resembling an intelligible sentence. At primary school I used an electric typewriter and at secondary school, a laptop.
"But when smartphones arrived, for the first time, I felt excluded."
According to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 11 million people have cerebral palsy globally, an additional 10 million have Parkinson's Disease and with an aging population there is growing demand for a solution.
It was a situation noted by two of the university's students - Aviva Dayan and Ido Elad - and their Professor Yuval Kochman who went on to develop a potentially "life-changing", but yet-to-be-named, tremor absorbing software which could open up touchscreen technology to millions of people.
Dayan says: "A close friend of our family, who we refer to as uncle, has cerebral palsy and he took a huge, daily, part in my upbringing. A few years ago I found myself frustrated that I couldn't Skype him because he can't use it.
"I want to be able to Skype with my uncle and I hope to do the same for other people in similar situations. The next step is to allow people like my uncle to generally use all touchscreen functionality, everywhere, like anyone else."
Dayan describes the software as a "translation programme" which intercepts and "listens" to the shaky screen touches, cancelling out the "noise" of the tremors for the operating system to understand and act upon without delay.
It's still being discussed how the technology can be rolled out. Options include having an app available to download or getting a deal to incorporate it directly into phone operating systems.
Dayan says: "As far as the user is concerned, they just press the icons on the screen, and the computer works just the same as it works for anyone else."
She says the bonus is that it would work with any phone and not "come with 'special needs' adaptations".
For Webber that is music to her ears compared to current options.
"Voice commands? OK, but the other passengers on the bus don't really need to know where I'm planning to go for drinks. Detachable keyboards? Yes, but the process of assemblage takes the 'mobile' out of mobile phone."
At Scope, Assistive Technologist Kim Lawther says this type of technology could "change lives".
"Quite a number of my students experience involuntary spasms, which makes certain technologies impossible to use, so if you're able to almost cancel those out then the technology is usable," she says.
"The pros are obvious. If it works, that would change lives but the cons are all the unanswered questions, until you get the final software it's hard to be too excited."
For now, she acknowledges Webber's frustrations but says voice commands to "do the hard work" such as updating a Facebook status or keyboard adaptations remain "the best thing" for now.
Robin Christopherson, the Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet agrees the product being nurtured is "powerful" and something he would "love to see built into the operating system," but it comes with a warning to the aspiring entrepreneurs.
"iOS and Android build in lots of cleverness, so I do ask myself why can't Apple or Google just build the extra level of noise cancellation into the accessibility settings?"
He predicts if the system piques a company's interest it might just buy it out saying "it wouldn't be the first time by any means".
Apple did not respond to requests to talk about the potential of the tremor absorber, and Android simply highlighted its voice activation services - both companies perhaps keeping any future plans to themselves.
The potential of the students' project was first identified at a science fair by Tamir Huberman a business development specialist for the university's for-profit company, Yissum, which aims to turn the best ideas originated at the university into businesses.
He says "as a rule of thumb" about $500,000 is needed to help fund the wider trials and get this technology into development . It is hoped it will be available within two years.
Following the "death" of her Nokia, Webber opted for a BlackBerry with keyboard, although the company recently announced plans to stop designing its smartphones in-house leaving her fearing facing her touchscreen "nemesis" sooner rather than later.
She says: "What's happening in Jerusalem sounds like something that would make a big difference. Other people with fine motor impairments tell me they've just 'got used' to typing gobbledygook or rearranging all their apps with one errant movement. As someone who writes for a living this idea horrifies me.
"I just hope technology catches up soon."
Voice recognition on Android: Converts the user's speech into text for typing messages and launching applications
Speak passwords on Android: A system which will read out passwords to the user with TalkBack making is easier to fill in passwords
Touch and hold delay on Android: When having to tap and hold something on the screen to activate it, users can set a delay between the two motions so the device can tell the difference between a quick and long press
Inverting colours on Apple: Changing the colour combination of the device can improve the contrast between text, image and background making items easier to identify
Switch control on Apple: This highlights items one by one before the user can then make a selection by activating a switch
Guided access on Apple: This limits what can be accessed at any one time so you concentrate on a selected app which can use useful for those with attention and sensory challenges
Source: Ability Net | In a university lab in Jerusalem two computer science students and their professor have hit upon a potential game-changer in the touchscreen market. |
36,082,654 | Emergency services were called to Devil's Bridge, near Aberystwyth, at 10:54 BST on Tuesday.
Special rope rescue teams combined with HM Coastguard to rescue the woman.
She was taken to Aberystwyth's Bronglais Hospital with what are thought to be non life-threatening injuries. | A woman who was left stranded after falling down an embankment in Ceredigion has been rescued and taken to hospital. |
11,697,908 | The officials work for the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation and Canadile Miners, state media reported.
They are suspected of fraudulently obtaining a licence to mine the controversial Marange fields, in the east of the country.
Marange is mired in controversy over legal issues and abuse by the military.
The Kimberley Process, a global certification scheme meant to prevent trade in "blood diamonds", has limited sales from Marange after its investigation found soldiers had beaten villagers to force them to mine the gems.
The group is due to meet to review Zimbabwe's efforts to curb abuses by government soldiers.
The state-run Herald newspaper said those arrested included Dominic Mubaiwa, chief executive of the ZMDC, and Lovemore Kurotwi, the local head of Canadile Miners - a joint Zimbabwean-South African venture.
The report said they faced charges of misrepresenting that the joint venture firm was able to fund mining operations in Marange.
"Blood diamonds" are rough diamonds used by rebel groups or their allies to finance wars and conflicts.
The Kimberley Process was set up in 2002 after the diamond trade was accused of fuelling several conflicts in Africa. | Zimbabwean police have arrested six directors of two diamond mining corporations on suspicion of fraudulently obtaining a licence. |
34,506,331 | The five-time world champion, 39, was included in the draw but said last week that he would decline the invitation to play without stating why.
Tournament organiser have now confirmed the two-time winner will not feature.
O'Sullivan's decision not to play means Ruhr Open winner Rory McLeod will now be assured of an invite to play in the event, which begins on 10 November.
Writing on Twitter last week, O'Sullivan said: "I don't want fans buying tickets for Coventry thinking I'm playing. I said I hadn't entered weeks ago. Nothing's changed."
World champion Stuart Bingham will play the opening match of the tournament, while the likes of Neil Robertson, Shaun Murphy and world number one Mark Selby will also be in action. | Ronnie O'Sullivan will not defend his Champion of Champions title in Coventry next month. |
35,577,820 | Blair Nimmo, of administrators KPMG, confirmed no party had been prepared to buy the business and assets at Hawick Knitwear in their current format.
The company called in administrators nearly six weeks ago after experiencing "difficult trading conditions".
More than 100 staff were made redundant immediately with just 56 workers retained to complete remaining orders.
Mr Nimmo said discussions were continuing with various parties who had offered to acquire the assets of the company and may at some point start production from the Hawick Knitwear premises.
He added: "However until a formal agreement is concluded we are not in a position to provide further information." | A prospective buyer has yet to be found to take over a Borders knitwear firm as a going concern. |
33,763,628 | He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud.
The 35-year old is the first individual to face a jury trial for manipulating the rate, which is used as a benchmark for trillions of pounds of global borrowing and lending.
Many of the world's leading banks have paid heavy financial penalties for tampering with the key benchmark.
The jury found Hayes guilty on all eight charges of conspiracy to defraud.
Hayes stood impassively as the foreman on the jury read out all eight guilty verdicts.
His wife noted down the verdicts as they were read out.
At one point, he shook his head and looked across at his wife, mother and stepfather in the public gallery.
Hayes held his head in his hands while his lawyer read out a list of mitigating factors.
Hayes was sentenced to 14 years, half to be spent in custody before any possibility of release on licence.
Justice Cooke said Hayes was the "centre and hub" of the manipulation.
He said: "You succumbed to temptation because you could... To gain status, seniority and remuneration," adding that Hayes' actions were "dishonest and wrong".
The case was brought by the Serious Fraud Office, which said Hayes set up a network of brokers and traders spanning 10 financial institutions and cajoled or bribed them to help rig Libor rates for profit.
During the trial, jurors were told that Hayes promised to pay a broker up to $100,000 to keep the Libor rate "as low as possible".
It took the jury one week to arrive at the verdicts.
Defence barrister Neil Hawes asked the judge to take into account the prevalence of Libor manipulation at the time, and also that Hayes had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum.
Mr Hawes also said that managers and senior managers at Hayes' bank knew of, and in some cases condoned, Libor manipulation.
Hayes, a former star trader originally from Fleet in Hampshire, rigged the Libor rates daily for nearly four years while working in Tokyo for UBS, then Citigroup, from 2006 until 2010.
Citigroup says it has no comment about the verdicts. UBS has said it was not a party to the case.
Hayes's trading activities were based around movements in the Libor rate - the London interbank offered rate.
It is an interest rate used by banks around the world to set the price of financial products worth trillions of pounds.
Rigging even minor movements in the rate can result in bumper profits for a trader manipulating the rates, or the rate can be moved simply to make a bank look more creditworthy.
During the trial, the court heard that manipulating the Libor rate was so commonplace that an offer of a Mars bar could get it changed.
Hayes told a fellow trader: "Just give the cash desk a Mars bar and they'll set wherever you want."
Hayes confessed, saying that he did not want to be extradited to the US.
He claimed that the manipulation was widespread.
Hayes initially co-operated with investigators, confessing to the manipulation.
But four months after he was charged in 2013, he changed his legal team, and his plea.
He pleaded "not guilty" to the charges, resulting in the trial, which began on 26 May. | Former City trader Tom Hayes has been found guilty at a London court of rigging global Libor interest rates. |
36,804,345 | The 30-year-old was also questioned on suspicion of acting in a disorderly manner on the Flybe flight from Liverpool on Thursday.
He was detained at George Best Belfast City Airport on Thursday afternoon.
A police spokesman said the man has since been released on bail pending further inquiries. | A man was arrested on suspicion of endangering the safety of an aircraft following an "incident" on board a Belfast-bound flight, police have said. |
39,658,785 | The target, first set by David Cameron in 2010, has never been met and net migration was 273,000 according to the latest figures.
Mrs May said she wanted "sustainable" levels of migration which she said would be in the tens of thousands.
She was speaking on a general election campaign visit to Enfield in London.
With the 8 June election announcement taking most of Westminster by surprise, the parties have yet to put forward formal policy manifestos, but Mrs May indicated her backing for the migration pledge, which she was responsible for as home secretary under Mr Cameron.
"We want to see sustainable net migration in this country," she told the BBC.
"I believe that sustainable net migration is in the tens of thousands.
"Leaving the European Union enables us to control our borders in relation to people coming from the EU, as well as those who are coming from outside."
Questions had been raised about whether the commitment would feature in the Conservative manifesto after Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said earlier that immigration was "not about putting numbers on it" but about ensuring Britain had the skilled workers it needed.
The government has promised new migration controls after the UK leaves the EU, when freedom of movement rules will no longer apply.
But it has yet to set out the precise model it will adopt.
Mrs May hit back at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who used a campaign speech to paint the general election as the "people against the Establishment" and an "ego trip" for the PM.
She said the election was about "ensuring that we have strong and stable leadership in this country" as well as strengthening the government's hand in Brexit talks. | Theresa May has indicated she will stick with the government's long-running aim of reducing migration to below 100,000. |
36,540,295 | Wantage Community Hospital was scheduled to shut early in summer after raised levels of legionella bacteria were detected in its hot water system.
An online petition to save the hospital was signed by more than 3,900 people.
Oxford Health NHS trust has now said its midwifery and physiotherapy services will remain open.
Campaigners have said the trust should also reverse plans to close the hospital's 12 bed in-patient service.
The trust has said repairs to the hospital's old, corroded pipework, needed to reduce the legionella risk, will not go ahead until after a consultation in the autumn.
A trust spokesperson said it had "listened to local concerns" and offered to continue running services where there is the least risk to patients.
But she added: "It remains necessary to close the 12-bed inpatient service to protect those people more exposed to legionella risk and who are typically the most vulnerable in the event of an outbreak.
"The inpatient service must be closed since it would be impossible to relocate these patients quickly if an emergency shutdown is required."
Emma Jones, who started the petition, said the hospital was "vital to local people".
The facility's long-term future will be decided after a public consultation later this year, which will also look at other NHS services across Oxfordshire.
Legionella bacteria are commonly found in water and if inhaled can lead to Legionnaires' disease, a potentially fatal type of pneumonia. | Plans to close an Oxfordshire hospital because of an increased risk of Legionnaires' disease have been shelved after pressure from campaigners. |
34,958,742 | It didn't look like much, to be honest. A pale blue linen folder on top of a pile of books. The sort of binding someone might use for a PhD thesis. Bigger than A4. And just a few pages long.
But I picked it up. And straight away I was intrigued. A few cuttings from newspapers carefully tucked inside. Then several pages of beautiful, handwritten calligraphy.
It was a testimonial to a priest, to commemorate 50 years in the service of the church.
I'd never seen anything like it before. And it was only priced at £6:50. So, I thought I had to buy it.
When I got it home, there was time to read it more carefully.
It was addressed to Father John Rooney, priest at St Columbkille's. Dated May 1974.
And there were references to the Scottish Catholic Aid Fund (Sciaf). Father Rooney, it said, was chosen to be a founder member, national chairman, and administrator of Sciaf.
The first place to start, to try and find out more, was back at the bookshop where I'd bought it - "Voltaire and Rousseau" in Glasgow's west end.
Eddie McGonigle, one of the two brothers who run the shop, recognised the document straight away.
He remembered that it had come with about 2,000 books, "virtually all Catholic theology", from a house in Motherwell. They'd all been in good condition, and had sold quickly.
But he'd never seen anything like the testimonial before.
"It's the type of thing that would be handed to another priest. Or someone would hand it in to their parish priest. So it wouldn't end up here", he told me.
Next stop, the parish where Father Rooney was serving when he celebrated his milestone in the priesthood.
St Columbkille's is a busy place. Hundreds of parishioners gathered for morning Mass in the church hall on the day I was there, including children from the local Scout group who processed in and took part in the service.
Afterwards, in the parish house, I heard some memories of John Rooney from people who'd been children in the parish when he was there.
Michael McGrath said: "The memory I have of him is meeting him as he would walk up and down Rutherglen Main Street, wearing his black coat and his black trilby hat.
"He would doff his hat to every family he passed."
Miriam McKernan laughed as she told me: "I don't remember many sermons. But I remember one, where he was advising how we should baptise our children.
"I would have been about 10 at the time. And I can remember him saying 'You must give your child a saint's name. Otherwise you might as well call her Carrot!'"
But then a real breakthrough. The priest at St Columkille's now is Father Pat Hennessey. I asked him to look at the list of signatures at the end of the testimonial, to see if he recognised any of the names.
"That's my signature there", he pointed. And there, indeed, it was. The Reverend Patrick Hennessey.
He was young, fresh-faced, and just out of the seminary. His first posting. And he remembered the celebration when his boss marked 50 years as a priest.
"A lot of people made great speeches," he said. "And there was great joy, really.
"And we all felt delighted for Monsignor. He became Monsignor that night."
But it turns out that the cuttings I'd seen in the front of the folder were obituaries - from the local papers, and the Catholic press.
John Rooney died just days later.
Father Pat remembered that, too.
"After such joy over in the hall, his funeral was celebrated here in the church."
And that was quite an occasion, too. The funeral Mass was attended by a Cardinal, two Archbishops, five bishops, and hundreds of parishioners.
Pat Hennessey says the service recognised John Rooney's work in education. And it commemorated the fact that he'd been "the driving force" to get Sciaf established.
So, finally, my quest took me to Sciaf's present headquarters at Park Circus in Glasgow.
Director, Alistair Dutton, pointed out the remarkable coincidence that a document written to commemorate John Rooney's Jubilee had come to light in the year that the organisation he'd helped to start is itself celebrating 50 years since its foundation.
He said it had begun as a parish effort.
"But very quickly the Bishop, and then the Bishops' Conference more generally, recognised the value of that," he said.
"And so in September 1965 there was this pastoral letter that launched Sciaf as the official aid agency for the (Roman Catholic) church in Scotland."
Mr Dutton said it was "incredibly moving" to see the document written to celebrate one of the charity's founders.
He added that it was "really reassuring to go back to the spirit of the founders, and just see we are still true to exactly what they wanted to achieve.
"We're bigger now, but that means we're able to do more of it. I'm pretty confident if Monsignor John Rooney was sitting here now, he'd be smiling at what we're doing."
BBC Radio Scotland's "Sunday Morning With" programme reported on the discovery of the document. The programme appealed for information about who produced the document and who looked after it when Mgr John Rooney died. | A chance find in a Glasgow second-hand bookshop has thrown new light on one of the key individuals behind the foundation of the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund |
39,784,545 | Donald confirmed Hill will take permanent charge of the Spitfires for a second time after a turbulent season which saw three changes in management.
Former Gillingham boss Hessenthaler will be Hill's assistant.
"We should be achieving much more than we have this year for the money we've been spending," Donald said.
The National League side parted company with Chris Todd, Ronnie Moore and Martin Allen this season as they finished a disappointing 15th.
Hill returned as director of football and caretaker manager in February.
"Since Richard left the first time, I've given other managers more money to spend on the squad than he had," Donald told BBC Radio Solent.
"I'm hoping that if we can give him a little bit of that extra money, we will do a lot better. But, Richard and Andy have got to spend the money right over the summer."
Midfielder Ben Strevens will continue on Eastleigh's coaching team alongside Paul Reid on the scouting side. | Eastleigh chairman Stewart Donald hopes new management pairing Richard Hill and Andy Hessenthaler will spend wisely on the squad for next season. |
40,454,385 | The savings ratio - which measures the outgoings and incomings that affect households - has been falling sharply for more than a year.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the ratio stood at 1.7% from January to March, down from 3.3% in the previous quarter.
The UK economy grew by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2017, the ONS said.
This was unchanged from an earlier estimate but confirmed the slowdown from the 0.7% rate seen in the final quarter of last year.
Growth in the business services and finance sectors helped to offset slower consumer spending, the ONS said.
Consumer spending and saving were hit by another fall in disposable income.
For the first time since the 1970s, disposable income has fallen for three quarters in a row.
Concerns have also been expressed about the level of consumer borrowing on loans, credit cards, overdrafts and car finance.
But the ONS also said that the timing of tax payments was a major factor in the cut in savings levels since September last year. Gross saving of £5.6bn in the first quarter of the year was a sharp drop from £11bn the previous quarter, and £17.7bn in the three months before that.
Darren Morgan, head of GDP at the ONS, said: "The saving ratio has fallen again this quarter to a new record low, partly as a result of higher tax payments reducing disposable income.
"Some of the fall could be as a result of the timing of those payments, but the underlying trend is for a continued fall in the saving ratio."
Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the TUC, said: "These figures make for grim reading. People raiding their piggy banks is bad news for working people and the economy.
"But with wages falling as living costs rise, many families are having to run down their savings or rely on credit cards and loans to get through the month. With household debt now at crisis levels, we urgently need to create better paid jobs."
Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: "This suggests that the crisis in earnings not keeping up with prices means that many working households are struggling to make ends meet."
Vince Cable, from the Liberal Democrats, said: "Rising prices and falling wages since the Brexit vote mean families are increasingly unable to live within their means or save for the future.
"Our economy's reliance on consumer spending, propped up by debt, is not sustainable and combined with an extreme Brexit the consequences could be severe."
Earlier this week, financial information service Moneyfacts said that savers have faced a "never-ending battle" to get a decent return on their cash over the past few years.
Nine out of 10 easy access savings accounts pay interest of less than 1%, and a third of such accounts failed to even pay a rate matching the current base rate of 0.25%.
Savings rates are failing to keep pace with the rising cost of living, with inflation at a rate of 2.9%. | The proportion of UK residents' disposable income that goes into savings has fallen to a record low. |
36,330,451 | The body of John Henry Sabine was found at the rear of flats at Trem-y-Cwm, Beddau, on 24 November. The cause of death was blunt force head trauma.
Mr Sabine's wife Leigh Ann, who died last October, is the main suspect.
His inquest in Aberdare was told she admitted killing her husband with a stone frog in a phone call to a friend.
South Wales Central Coroner Andrew Barkley said it was "beyond doubt in my mind that foul play was the cause of his death".
He said the cause was blunt force injury to the head, with the evidence about the stone frog fitting with this.
Mr Sabine, who had not been seen for 18 years, would have been 85 when his body was uncovered - it is still not known when he died.
His decomposed body was found wearing Marks & Spencer pyjamas and was wrapped in many layers of heavy-duty material, such as roofing felt, as well as shopping bags and bin bags tied with green string.
It was relatively well-preserved because of a process known as "chemical mummification", which can persist for years or even centuries.
The coroner said there was no recorded history of domestic violence or that Mrs Sabine acted in self defence and he was satisfied her husband was unlawfully killed.
"Precisely what happened and the circumstances will sadly never totally be known," he added.
The hearing was told Mr Sabine's wife admitted killing her husband during a phone call to Valerie Chalkley in 1997.
In written evidence to Aberdare Coroner's Court, Mrs Chalkley said she had been friends with the couple.
In 1997, after she moved to Hull, she had a call from Mrs Sabine and joked: "I thought you two would have killed each other by now."
Later in the conversation, Mrs Sabine said: "You know what you just said about killing him. I've killed him with a stone frog I kept by the side of the bed."
Mrs Chalkley added: "The problem with Ann was you never knew if she was telling the truth or not."
Mrs Sabine described her husband as jealous and possessive and told her his behaviour "drove her mad", Mrs Chalkley added.
Forensic pathologist Dr Richard Jones said a single blow from the 1.1kg (2.4lbs), 14cm (5.5in) object could account for all of the fractures.
The inquest heard that, before Mrs Sabine's death in October, she had asked a neighbour to move a "medical skeleton" from her garden, bought while she was training to be a nurse.
Neighbour Michelle James described how, after Mrs Sabine had died, a few people decided to play a joke with the purported medical skeleton by pretending it was a new boyfriend for one of her friends.
They took a knife and tried to cut open the packaging around it, when they made the grim discovery.
"I started screaming: 'It's a dead body, it's a dead body'. I went inside and was saying: 'Don't think I'm nuts but there's a dead body in the garden'," she said.
Police Community Support Officer Gareth Bishop said he was called to the house after the discovery of the skeleton and described "a strong rotting smell, like from a compost bin".
Mary West, a street pastor and executor of Mrs Sabine's will, said in written evidence Mrs Sabine "span a myth about her life", with stories of winning a modelling contract in Australia, a glamorous singing career and tales of her husband's affairs. | A man found wrapped in plastic in his Rhondda Cynon Taff garden was unlawfully killed, a coroner has concluded. |
37,792,649 | The 36-year-old has not been selected since Pakistan's early exit from the World Twenty20 in India in April, after which he resigned as Twenty20 captain.
A hard-hitting right-handed batsman and leg-spinner, Afridi retired from Test cricket in 2010 and from one-day internationals in 2015.
He has scored more sixes than any other player in the history of one-day international cricket, with 351.
Meanwhile, off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has also been omitted by the Pakistan Cricket Board, hurting his chances of making a comeback in the national side. | Pakistan have decided not to renew Shahid Afridi's central contract. |
35,306,094 | Shadow Lords leader Baroness Smith said the move was a "massive over-reaction" to the government's defeat over tax credit changes last year.
She was speaking as peers debated the proposals put forward by Conservative Lord Strathclyde.
The Tory peer said Lords were actually being given a new "very practical" power they had never had before.
He led a review launched by David Cameron into the powers of the House of Lords after they blocked plans to cut tax credits in October, to the anger of Conservative ministers.
The cuts were later shelved in the Autumn Statement.
The review recommended taking away the absolute veto the House of Lords had over laws, called statutory instruments, and instead create a new procedure allowing them to send the secondary legislation back to the House of Commons to "think again".
They would only be allowed to do this once, enabling the House of Commons to have the final say and push through its agenda even if the Lords disagrees.
Lord Strathclyde told a packed Upper House this new procedure would be the "ping without the pong" referring to legislation that goes back and forth between the House of Commons and Lords until both agree, commonly known as ping-ponging.
But Baroness Smith said it was "an unnecessary solution to a fictitious problem".
"The reality is that we seldom use our powers to their limits," she said.
"But that doesn't mean they shouldn't exist."
Unlike in the Commons, the Conservatives do not have a majority in the House of Lords.
Making his maiden speech in the House of Lords, former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling said he understood the frustration of being a government minister.
George Osborne should have been grateful to peers for bringing about the reversal, he said, recalling the former Labour government's much-criticised abolition of the 10p rate of income tax.
He said the tax credit changes should have been introduced as primary legislation in the first place, which would have allowed the Lords to scrutinise them.
"I am increasingly concerned about the amount of constitutional change taking place in this country on a piecemeal basis," he added.
In recent years, Lord Strathclyde said the House of Lords had developed a "lesser understanding of the implications of what happens when we use our powers too aggressively" and enjoyed "unfettered powers" to veto secondary legislation.
Under the proposed model, he said: "We have a conversation between the two Houses but they (the Commons) have the final say."
It was right for the Lords to have a new procedure "to do what we do best, which is to ask the Commons to think again", he added. | Labour has accused the government of trying to "stifle debate" by removing peers' power to veto some draft laws. |
39,235,248 | Redrow Homes' outline proposals for the greenfield site near St Fagans includes almost 6,000 homes, four schools, shops and parks.
If passed, Plasdwr will be built over 20 years and will also include sports and healthcare facilities.
But residents and politicians have objected over traffic, overdevelopment and environmental concerns.
Plans for the first stages of the development, which will see about 1,000 homes built on land near Pentrebane Road and Llantrisant Road, have already been granted.
The latest phase of the scheme is for homes on a 900 acre-site (368 hectare) of fields bordering Fairwater, St Fagans, Danescourt and Radyr.
As well as homes, it includes proposals for three primary schools, a secondary school, playgrounds, play areas and facilities for teenagers such as a BMX or skateboard park.
There could also be two food stores, a GP surgery and dentist, sports pitches and allotments as well as restaurants and pubs.
New roads, bus routes and cycle paths are also planned.
But community councils in Radyr and Morganstown and St Fagans are against the scheme, while a petition of more than 200 names and 130 letters have also been submitted in opposition.
Plaid Cymru AM Neil McEvoy and Rod McKerlich, councillor for Radyr and Morganstown, are also against it.
Their concerns include worries about wildlife, increased traffic, and questions over whether local services could cope with the large influx of new residents it would bring.
The planning application will be considered by councillors on Wednesday. | The latest plans for a £2bn "garden village" on the outskirts of Cardiff have been submitted to planners. |
32,400,837 | Magnox, the owners of the Trawsfynydd station, said 90 jobs are to go.
The staff, who work for various contractors at the plant, will lose their jobs between now and the end of the year.
Around 180 workers are employed by Magnox on site, while the number of people employed by contractors will be cut from 220 to 130. | Dozens of jobs are being lost at a Gwynedd nuclear power station which is being decommissioned. |
39,163,776 | Last week's debutant Baily Cargill could keep his place because Simon Francis is still nursing a hamstring injury and may not be ready to return.
West Ham welcome back Michail Antonio after a one-match ban, and Winston Reid should have recovered from a leg injury he suffered against Chelsea.
Andy Carroll and Robert Snodgrass are expected to be fit despite both needing stitches after that game.
John Motson: "This is a game in which I'm expecting goals.
"Bournemouth have conceded 36 goals in their past 15 league games, while West Ham have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last six.
"The Cherries have let in three or more goals in 10 league games this season - they really need to tighten up at the back to avoid being dragged into a relegation battle.
"But they're missing Nathan Ake, and the absence of Tyrone Mings for the next five games won't help.
"Yet it's an important game for West Ham too, as they aren't going through a great spell either.
"In short, both teams need a win to turn around a very indifferent spell."
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "West Ham have done well. They've picked up, got some good results and it coincides with some key players returning for them.
"They're a different team with Andy Carroll - he's got strengths and is a huge part of their game."
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic: "They have had a few defeats and a draw but the last game [a draw against Manchester United] would have given them a big boost and confidence.
"It's a great result to get a point at Old Trafford, especially with 10 men.
"We are expecting a difficult game. [It's] a small pitch and a good atmosphere."
Eddie Howe's side need a win - they have not had one in their past eight league matches - and I think they might do it on Saturday.
I don't see West Ham's season just petering out, because they are chasing a top-half finish - but I am backing Bournemouth to edge this one.
Prediction: 2-1
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SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) is a super-computer created by @ProfIanMcHale at the University of Salford that is used to predict the outcome of football matches. | Bournemouth will be without suspended pair Andrew Surman and Tyrone Mings. |
34,930,870 | Lawrence told Entertainment Weekly she had signed up to direct the movie, titled Project Delirium.
It is based on a 2012 New Yorker story about the controversial Army research.
Lawrence said: "It's based on this article about mental warfare in the '60s, like an acid experiment gone terribly wrong."
The star won an Oscar in 2013 for starring in Silver Linings Playbook, and has been nominated two further times, for American Hustle and Winter's Bone.
She can currently be seen in the final instalment of The Hunger Games series, Mockingjay Part Two.
"I have wanted to direct as long as I've wanted to act," she said. "I just don't talk about it because I'd rather just do it."
She added: "I've wanted to direct since I was 16 and always thought I should start making steps towards that. If I had tried to do it earlier, I wouldn't have been ready. Now I actually feel ready."
Project Delirium is expected to tell the story of research carried out by Colonel James S Ketchum, who tested psychoactive chemicals on around 2,500 soldiers in the belief that such agents could be used to incapacitate enemies.
However, many of the volunteers have since claimed the experiences led to a range of mental and physical health problems.
In 2013, a Californian judge ruled that those who took part were entitled to more information about the chemicals they were exposed to, but not entitled to additional government-funded medical care, the New Scientist reported at the time. | Actress Jennifer Lawrence is to move behind the camera to direct her first film, about US military experiments in mind-altering chemical weapons. |
36,020,105 | Milan have reached the Coppa Italia final but remain sixth in Serie A, 27 points off leaders Juventus.
Mihajlovic picked up two points from his last five games in charge and lost 2-1 at home to Juve in his final game.
The 47-year-old was appointed as Milan boss in June 2015 and Brocchi, who had been working as youth team coach, will take over until the end of the season.
In a statement, the 18-time Serie A winners said they wanted "to thank Mihajlovic for the dedication and hard work carried out this season".
Brocchi, 40, made 161 appearances for Milan between 2001 and 2008 and retired when a Lazio player in 2013. | AC Milan have sacked Sinisa Mihajlovic as manager and replaced him with their former midfielder Cristian Brocchi. |
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Heatley raced on to a superb long ball by Billy Joe Burns and got past keeper Conor Devlin to score the winner.
Burns was later sent-off for two yellow cards while Cliftonville substitute George McMullan got a red for comments made from the touchline.
Crusaders remain seven points ahead of second-placed Linfield.
Overall, referee Ross Dunlop issued two red cards and 11 yellow in what was a highly-competitive north Belfast derby.
Cliftonville, League Cup winners last weekend, now find themselves 12 adrift of the leaders.
They had a Johnny Flynn header ruled out for offside and also felt they should have been awarded a penalty for hand ball against Jordan Owens.
However, the points went to Crusaders and the way their players celebrated on the pitch after the final whistle, illustrated just how import the victory was as they go for back-to-back titles.
Cliftonville, champions in 2013 and 2014, really needed a victory to throw the title race wide open.
But now, many will view the battle for the Premiership crown as a two-horse race between the holders and David Healy's Linfield.
Crusaders scorer Paul Heatley: "In my opinion Cliftonville are out of it now, and I think most people will see it that way.
"We have been beaten just two times this season and it shows how consistent we have been.
"It is why we are 12 points ahead of Cliftonville of seven of Linfield with a game in hand."
Cliftonville manager Gerard Lyttle: "The big decisions didn't go our way today and we seemed to get all the bookings.
"It is not the first time we have come down here and the decisions have gone against us.
"Declan Caddell made about nine fouls before he actually got booked while we make one foul and get booked for it." | Paul Heatley's goal after just three minutes proved enough to seal a vital win for Premiership leaders Crusaders against third-placed Cliftonville. |
34,774,416 | Mr Reilly, from Kilkeel in County Down, was expelled from UKIP last week. He had originally been suspended in September.
He was UKIP's candidate in last year's European elections, receiving more than 24,000 votes.
TUV leader Jim Allister said Mr Reilly "fits exactly into the TUV profile".
"Henry is both a proven, staunch traditional unionist and a Eurosceptic," Mr Allister said.
"I welcome him as a considerable asset to the party." | Former UKIP councillor Henry Reilly has joined Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV). |
35,764,007 | The cost of watching football has been a hot topic of debate, with supporters at Liverpool organising a high-profile protest over proposed increases in season ticket prices.
Now the top flight's 20 clubs have "unanimously agreed" that more should be done to help away fans.
The £30 away ticket cap will be introduced from next season.
In a statement, the Premier League said away fans were "essential for match atmosphere" and helped make the league unique.
It also recognised that away fans often had travel costs to pay on top of the price of a match-day ticket.
Eight of 18 Premier League clubs who took part in the BBC's latest Price of Football study already offer away tickets for less than £30 for some matches.
But the study, published in October, also found that nine clubs charge more than £30 for their cheapest away ticket.
The change is likely to see travelling supporters paying more to watch second-tier football than top-flight games next season. The Price of Football study found 13 clubs in the Championship charge £30 or more for their most expensive away tickets.
The new measures will replace the Away Supporters' Initiative.
This was introduced in 2013 and saw clubs individually implement a range of measures, including travel subsidies, reciprocal pricing and reduced admissions as well as improved facilities.
The Football Supporters' Federation (FSF) has long campaigned for cheaper tickets and wanted prices for away fans capped at £20.
FSF director of communications Michael Brunskill welcomed Wednesday's announcement, calling it "good news for fan groups around the country".
He added: "This shows that clubs will listen to reasonable, well articulated mass movements."
Labour's shadow Minister for Sport Clive Efford gave the announcement a cautious welcome.
"This is a welcome step in the right direction, but it is still £10 above the level that fans have called for," he said.
"The Football Supporters' Federation must be congratulated on the effectiveness of their Twenty's Plenty campaign."
Liverpool fans group Spirit of Shankly, who helped to successfully lead protests against a proposed price increase at Anfield earlier this season, said the away ticket cap was "a very good step in the right direction".
Spokesperson James McKenna credited the Premier League's new £5bn television deal, which starts next season, as the driver for the cap: "We have been saying the price of away tickets was too much and this new TV deal presented them with an opportunity to lower them."
Everton chief executive Robert Elstone said the move was "absolutely right for away fans and for the Premier League".
He added: "Most clubs have recognised for some time that we need to do something for the travelling supporter."
Stoke chief executive Tony Scholes added: "[Away] supporters pay a disproportionately high cost to follow their team in terms of match tickets and travel and we are delighted the £30 initiative has been adopted."
The away ticket price cap was announced on the same day Arsenal and Tottenham announced ticket price freezes for home fans.
Arsenal also said they would provide a further £4 discount for away supporters, meaning Gunners fans will only pay £26 to go to away games.
Kevin Miles, chief executive of FSF, said his organisation was "very pleased the voice of fans has been listened to".
He added: "A maximum price of £30 for away tickets will save a lot of fans a lot of money, and for many will make the difference between attending away games or not.
"We hope many clubs will also follow the example of Arsenal and reduce away ticket prices for their fans even further."
The move could mean that in many cases it will be more expensive to watch an away match in the Championship than in the Premier League.
BBC Sport's 2015 Price of Football study found that 13 of 24 clubs in English football's second tier had a most expensive away ticket of £30 or over.
A Football League spokesman said: "The Football League has always determined that the issue of ticket pricing is a matter for individual clubs, particularly given that ticket revenue forms a far greater proportion of their turnover than it does for Premier League clubs.
"Overall, our clubs offer excellent value for money with the very best value being reserved for those supporters committing to a season ticket. Two-thirds of the 16 million admissions recorded by our clubs last season were season ticket holders and, as a result, the average ticket price paid per paying spectator was just £14.
"Nevertheless, today's decision will give our clubs something to consider given that they are in a competitive market for spectators and therefore must be able to offer value for money.
"The Football League Board will also keep its approach to ticket pricing under review and will discuss any relevant matters with member clubs at an appropriate time." | Premier League clubs have agreed plans to cap away tickets at £30 for the next three seasons. |
34,765,937 | Facebook says it will appeal against the decision and that the order relates to a cookie it has used for five years.
The cookie is installed when an internet user visits a Facebook page even if they are not members.
However, the Belgian court said that the company was obliged to obtain consent to collect the information being gathered.
"The judge ruled that this is personal data, which Facebook can only use if the internet user expressly gives their consent, as Belgian privacy law dictates," it said in a statement.
If Facebook fails to comply, it could face a fine of up to 250,000 euros (£180,000) per day.
The fine would go to the Belgian Privacy Commission, which brought the case, the court added.
Cookies are simple files that track whether a user has visited a website before and notify the site itself.
They can track a number of user activities, such as how long they stayed, what they clicked and any preferences selected.
"We've used the Datr cookie for more than five years to keep Facebook secure for 1.5 billion people around the world," said a Facebook spokesperson.
"We will appeal this decision and are working to minimise any disruption to people's access to Facebook in Belgium." | A court has given Facebook 48 hours to stop tracking people in Belgium who are not members of its social network. |
38,636,132 | Experts from Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial team believe the pendant belonged to Karoline Cohn, who may have known the famous diarist.
Like Frank, Cohn was born in Frankfurt in 1929. Yad Vashem traced her via a date of birth engraved on the pendant.
Historians say they have found evidence of only two pendants of the kind.
The small triangular pendant is engraved on one side with the words "Mazal Tov" (congratulations) in Hebrew, alongside Cohn's date of birth and the name of her home city - Frankfurt.
On the reverse is the Hebrew letter "Hay", often used to represent a name of God, surrounded by three Stars of David.
Researchers are now trying to discover from any remaining relatives whether the two girls could have been related.
Yad Vashem is working alongside the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) to excavate parts of the former death camp at Sobibor.
The pendant was found at what is believed to be the location where victims undressed and had their heads shaved before being sent into the gas chambers.
Yad Vashem said the items recovered, which also included a Star of David necklace and a woman's watch, probably fell through the floorboards and remained buried.
Cohn was born in Frankfurt on 3 July 1929. She was deported from the city on 11 November 1941 to the Minsk ghetto.
The ghetto was liquidated in September 1943 and Cohn may have been among some 2,000 of its residents sent to Sobibor, where the pendant lay concealed for more than 70 years.
Records show that Frank owned a nearly identical pendant, differing only in the date of birth engraved on one side.
Yoram Haimi, an archaeologist with the IAA who led the excavation at Sobibor, said: "This pendant demonstrates once again the importance of archaeological research of former Nazi death camp sites.
"The moving story of Karoline Cohn is symbolic of the shared fate of the Jews murdered in the camp. It is important to tell the story, so that we never forget."
More than 250,000 Jews are believed to have been killed at Sobibor, in Nazi-controlled eastern Poland. Unlike some facilities which also functioned as labour camps, Sobibor was among the Nazi camps built solely to exterminate Jews.
The Nazis destroyed the camp following an uprising in 1943 and planted it over in an attempt to cover up their crimes.
Archaeologists have since discovered the foundations of gas chambers and a train platform.
Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen camp, in northern Germany, in 1945. | Researchers excavating the site of the Nazi death camp at Sobibor have discovered a pendant nearly identical to one owned by Anne Frank. |
37,211,256 | The 20-year-old had a two-shot lead going into the final round and carded a six-under 66 to finish on 23 under par.
Northern Ireland's Stephanie Meadow began the day tied in third but hit an even-par 72 and finished tied for 10th.
Jutanugarn's 23 under equalled the course record at Priddis Greens Golf and Country Club in Alberta, Canada.
Scotland's Catriona Matthew finished tied for 37th on six under, with England's Jodi Ewart Shadoff two shots further back in a tie for 48th. | Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn claimed her fifth victory of the season with a four-shot win at the Canadian Pacific Women's Open. |
38,287,511 | Maria Byrne, 35, died at the couple's home in Morgan Crescent, Theydon Bois, Essex, on 13 February.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard she had been hit on the head by Darren Byrne, 40, after finding out he had been having an affair.
Judge Charles Gratwicke described Byrne's crimes as "wicked and heinous".
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Byrne, who had denied the charges against him, had doused his wife's body with white spirit and had turned on the hob before going on an hour-long dog walk.
Returning to find his plan had not worked, he concocted a charade, the jury was told.
He called the emergency services to say his wife was "burned" and told the operator: "The stove was on and the frying pan's on the other side of the room. She's not breathing."
The court heard Byrne had told paramedics his wife had been making him a bacon sandwich and when he returned home she was dead.
Mrs Byrne's death was initially treated as unexplained but a murder inquiry started following a post-mortem examination, which identified white spirit on her clothing.
A half-empty bottle of white spirit was also found in the garage, the jury heard.
Byrne, a father of two, will be sentenced later this week. | A husband who hit his wife over the head before dousing her body in white spirit and turning on a gas hob has been found guilty of murder and arson. |
38,438,070 | Dr Peter Bennie said health service funding was stagnating despite the "unprecedented challenges" facing it.
And he called for an "honest debate" on how the NHS could be sustained for future generations.
The Scottish government recently published its blueprint for the future of the NHS.
The document calls for an end to the country's "fix and treat" approach, with greater emphasis on preventing people becoming ill in the first place, and intervening as quickly as possible to prevent their conditions becoming more serious.
It also sets out commitments to treating people closer to home rather than in hospital whenever possible, recruiting more GPs and nurses and regionalising some hospital services.
It followed an Audit Scotland report which showed that the NHS had met only one of its eight waiting time targets, with the service needing to make "unprecedented savings" next year.
In his Christmas message, Dr Bennie said: "Report after report on the state of the NHS in Scotland have set out the increasing scale of the challenges the health services faces.
"Audit Scotland reiterated what BMA Scotland have been saying for some considerable time: the NHS in Scotland is struggling to cope.
"But despite the body of evidence to show that urgent action is needed now, the much needed plans for action have been allowed to slip."
BMA Scotland is the trade union that represents the country's doctors.
Dr Bennie said Holyrood's health committee had highlighted major problems with recruitment and retention across the health and social care sectors in Scotland - not just the NHS - particularly in remote and rural areas.
He added: "The government's response must not simply repeat the tired mantra that Scotland is spending more money on the NHS than ever before, and has more nurses and doctors than ever before. This completely misses the point.
"Vacancies in the medical workforce are increasing and the range and scale of pressures on the service continue to grow. There are significant problems in recruitment and retention of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, yet the official figures still struggle to capture the real extent of medical vacancies.
"Action is needed now to make Scotland a more attractive place to work if we are to address these vacancies which exist across consultant, GP, trainee and specialist posts."
Dr Bennie went on to say that Scotland's ageing population meant the increasing demands on the health service were outstripping the available resources - a situation he argued was becoming unsustainable.
He said NHS funding had been "virtually stagnant across the UK" since the onset of austerity, with the UK spending a lower proportion of its GDP on healthcare than most comparable EU countries, with the gap growing in recent years.
He added: "If the NHS does not get the resources it needs to keep pace with demand, then the only alternative is to look at the range and models of services that can realistically be delivered within the budget provided.
"If the gap between demand and resources is going to continue, then there is no choice but to ask what the NHS in Scotland can and can't deliver in the future."
Responding to Dr Bennie, Health Secretary Shona Robison said she agreed on the need for a mature plan as a result of the changing nature of healthcare delivery.
She added: "That's why the last few months has seen the publication of three crucial building blocks for the transformational change required.
"The National Clinical Strategy is a blueprint for what health and social care will look like in the decades to come.
"The Chief Medical Officer's annual report focusing on realistic medicine calls for a new relationship between doctors and patients and families built on mutual trust and shared decision making.
"Finally, just this week, we published a National Delivery Plan with concrete actions for the next year and beyond."
But Scottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron claimed the NHS in Scotland was "on its knees", and said the SNP administration had "no excuses" after 10 years in power.
He added: "This is yet another startling attack on the SNP's handling of the NHS, and it's time they started to listen.
"For too long the SNP has failed to prioritise our health service, and as a result standards have dropped with almost all national targets missed last year."
Scottish Labour's health spokesman, Anas Sarwar, said: "A decade of SNP mismanagement has increased pressure on staff in every part of our health service - from nurses who say their workload is getting worse, to GPs who say their surgeries are understaffed." | The Scottish NHS is struggling to cope with the increasing demands being placed on it, according to the chairman of BMA Scotland. |
40,511,283 | European Commission said it had "unconditionally approved" Peugeot's move to buy the European division of General Motors (GM).
It said it had concluded that "the transaction would raise no competition concerns in the relevant markets".
Vauxhall employs 4,500 people in the UK at plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton.
Elsewhere in Europe, Opel employs about 33,500 staff in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Spain and Italy.
GM agreed the sale of its European division, on which it has not made a profit since 1999, to Peugeot in March.
In 2016 it lost $257m (£206m), making it the 16th consecutive loss-making year for GM in Europe, bringing its cumulated losses on the continent since 2000 to more than $15bn.
The deal will mean that Peugeot becomes Europe's second-biggest carmaker, after Volkswagen.
It will enable the firm to boost its presence in the UK and to re-enter the US market, which Citroen left in 1974 and Peugeot exited in 1991.
In its statement, the European Commission said that in terms of the manufacture and sale of motor vehicles, the two firms had a combined market share of more than 40% in only two national markets, Estonia and Portugal, for small commercial vehicles.
"In the other affected markets, the market shares remain small," it added.
"The Commission investigation also showed that the merged entity will still face strong competition from manufacturers such as Renault, Volkswagen, Daimler, Ford, Fiat and various Asian competitors." | The European Commission has given the go-ahead to the takeover of Vauxhall and Opel brands by France's PSA Group, maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars. |
34,533,979 | John Kear's side failed to win a game in last year's tournament.
But tries from Steve Parry, Dalton Grant and Anthony Walker, plus three Courtney Davies goals, ensured a moral-boosting win for Wales.
Scotland were always playing catch-up but finished with tries from Dale Ferguson and Oscar Thomas
Wales started brightly and Parry weaved his way through the Scottish defence to go under the posts, allowing Davies an easy conversion.
Davies increased the home side's lead when he was the subject of a dangerous tackle, picking himself up to kick the resulting penalty goal.
Scotland hit back through a Ferguson try between the sticks, converted by Danny Brough.
But Grant squeezed over in the corner to give Wales a 12-6 lead at half-time.
Ferguson nearly grabbed a second try as Scotland started the second period well, but he was held up over the line.
Wales stretched their lead with another Davies kick, before Walker went over after good work by Rhys Williams and Ollie Olds.
Thomas ensured a thrilling finale as his try, converted by Brough, brought Scotland to within a converted try of claiming a draw.
But Wales held firm to get their campaign up and running.
Wales next host France at Cardiff Arms Park on 30 October, before an away game in Ireland on 7 November.
Wales squad: Michael Channing (Castleford Tigers), Dalton Grant (Dewsbury Rams), Courtney Davies, Jamie Murphy, Steve Parry, Lewis Reece (Gloucestershire All Golds), Craig Kopczak (Huddersfield Giants), Elliot Kear, Rhys Williams (London Broncos), Matt Barron, Ricky Hough (Newcastle Thunder), Joe Burke, Rob Massam, Christian Roets (North Wales Crusaders), Morgan Knowles (St Helens), Ollie Olds (Souths Logan Magpies), Anthony Walker (Wakefield Trinity), Phil Joseph (Widnes Vikings), Rhodri Lloyd (Wigan Warriors)
Scotland squad: Danny Addy, Dale Ferguson (Bradford Bulls), Corbyn Kilday (Central Queensland Capras), David Scott (Doncaster), Lewis Clarke, Scott Plumridge, Craig Robertson (Edinburgh Eagles), Joe McClean (Gloucestershire All Golds), Danny Brough (Huddersfield Giants), Sonny Esslemont, Adam Walker (Hull KR), Johnny Walker (Leigh Centurions), Ben Hellewell, Oscar Thomas, Alex Walker (London Broncos), Liam Hood (Salford Red Devils), Richard Harris (Warrington Wolves), Ben Kavanagh (Widnes Vikings), Harvey Burnett (unattached) | Wales opened their European Championship campaign with an impressive win over defending champions Scotland in Wrexham. |
35,101,652 | Archie Aitken wrote the note, "I hope you find your treasure, when I grow up I would like to join you", and put it in a plastic a bottle in the Tyne.
Sent from more than 1,000 miles in Lista, Norway, Archie and his family now want to find the mystery pirates.
Archie said: "There's only two pirates left so it shouldn't be that hard."
Archie's mother, Suzanne, said he had sent the bottle, from Hexham, after becoming "obsessed" with the film Treasure Island.
She said: "It's quite special. We had completely forgotten about it.
"Then on Saturday morning, with all the Christmas cards, lo and behold there was this postcard from Norway. We were so shocked and delighted.
"It's a mystery. But then pirates are like that. They are at sea for long periods of time, so maybe they don't want to be found." | A boy aged nine has been sent a postcard from "pirates" in Norway after they found a message in a bottle he sent from Northumberland two years ago. |
34,827,209 | Addressing political leaders on Monday, Theresa Villiers told political leaders it was "make your mind up time".
Ms Villiers, who has chaired 150 meetings in the process, said they have had "plenty of time to discuss the issues".
Talks between Northern Ireland's five main parties and the British and Irish governments have lasted 10 weeks.
The deputy first minister said negotiations, aimed at resolving the political crisis at Stormont, should not go beyond Wednesday.
Martin McGuinness said a sticking point is on institutions designed to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.
First Minister Peter Robinson said he was hopeful progress would be made during Monday and Tuesday.
The discussions are focusing on finance, paramilitary activity and how to deal with the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict.
Mr McGuinness said the best thing local politicians could do is to forge an agreement this week.
He said the government needed to come up to the mark in meeting the concerns of victims about "national security" being used as a reason not to disclose information.
But he added that if the government did not do this, there is no reason why the politicians cannot press ahead on other issues on which progress has been made.
A minute's silence was held at by MLAs at Stormont's Parliament Buildings on Monday morning as a mark of respect for the victims of Friday's gun and bomb attacks in Paris, in which 129 people were killed.
Afterwards, Mr Robinson said events in France heighten resolve to ensure that paramilitarism and terrorism in Northern Ireland is over once and for all.
Cross-party discussions began in September in a bid to resolve Northern Ireland's current political crisis.
That crisis erupted when police said they believed IRA members had been involved in the murder of a former IRA man in Belfast in August.
The parties have also been at loggerheads over the implementation of welfare reforms.
A welfare reform deal had been agreed almost a year ago, but Sinn Féin withdrew its support in March. | The Northern Ireland Secretary of State has demanded politicians reach a deal on the Stormont talks this week. |
27,238,172 | It comes after a string of recommendations from Dame Elish Angiolini in her report into the handling of the issue at Mortonhall crematorium in Edinburgh
Aberdeen has always maintained that the powerful burners in place at Hazlehead left no ashes.
Neil Cooney said Aberdeen would have to change in line with technology.
Dame Elish said any crematorium that cannot guarantee ashes to return to bereaved families should stop cremating babies.
Mr Cooney, convener of housing and environment at the city council, told BBC Scotland: "We broke no rules, we followed the criteria that was demanded under the old regime, and we really handled it with as much sensitivity as we could.
"The technology has changed and we have got to change with it."
He said any residual ash left under new modern techniques would be returned to undertakers.
A separate inquiry into how infant remains have been dealt with throughout Scotland is expected to report at the end of May.
Former high court judge Lord Bonomy has chaired the Infant Cremation Commission, which will recommend changes to the law to prevent a similar scandal happening again. | A senior Aberdeen councillor has promised a review into the way cremations of babies are handled. |
35,529,483 | Richards struck just before the hour mark, after John Mullins was penalised for handling the ball in the area.
The hosts managed just one shot on target in the game and winger Chris Maguire also struck the post.
Northampton are now eight points clear of second-placed Plymouth at the top and 18 ahead of Accrington in fourth.
Meanwhile, Oxford remain the in automatic promotion places, six points clear of Accrington despite the defeat. | Northampton equalled a 56-year-old club record as Marc Richards' penalty gave them an eighth successive victory - at the expense of promotion rivals Oxford. |
18,784,064 | Broadcast media are mainly commercial and are open to diverse comment. There are three terrestrial TV stations and a handful of cable channels. The main newspapers are privately-owned.
Jamaica enjoys a top 20 ranking in the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index.
BBC World Service radio is available on FM.
Jamaica had 1.6 million internet users in June 2012 (via Internetworldstats). | Jamaica enjoys a free press and its newspapers frequently criticise officials. |
39,851,770 | If your answer to that question is a resounding "no way", and the very thought conjures up terrifying images of unwitting drug mules and long prison sentences, you might need to think again.
"I always take things back from my travels for family and friends," says 45-year-old French airline worker Olivier Kaba. "Now not only am I able to bring things for others, but I get rewarded financially for doing it.
"In the past two years I have made about 1,000 euros ($1,100; £860)."
Olivier is a regular user of Worldcraze, one of three similar firms that have launched in recent years to help connect people who would like to buy something from a different country, with travellers who have spare space in their suitcase and want to make a bit of money by being informal couriers.
The idea is that the buyer can quickly get his or her hands on a product that may not be available to buy or import where he or she lives (country A), or that the item may simply be a lot cheaper abroad (country B).
So with transactions made via the three companies' websites and apps, travellers who are due to fly from country B to country A can purchase and transport the products for the buyers. They can then arrange to meet to hand them over.
Over the past 24 months Olivier says he has transported everything from three months' supply of French salami to the US, bags of Japanese sweets called "Tokyo banana", and 20kg of fabric samples for a woman starting her own business.
"I discover new products I have never heard of," he says.
Worldcraze was launched in 2012 by French entrepreneurs Frederic Simons and Guillaume Cayard.
On a trip to New York Frederic noticed a large price difference between Levi's jeans in France and the US, and the idea was born.
Today Worldcraze says it has 10,000 users, with Apple products being the most frequently delivered items.
From each transaction Worldcraze takes €2.50 from the buyer, and 10% of the traveller's payment, which is up to 10% of the cost of the product being transported.
Singapore-based Ouibring has a similar business model.
Founded in 2016 by developers Joel Gordon and Andrew Crosio, they say that one Ouibring delivery is now made every day on average.
Goods delivered so far include artisan coffee from Japan to Hungary, a baby carrier from Thailand to the US, a candle carried from India, and a room spray from Singapore to the Czech Republic.
"For shoppers this is a way of getting previously unavailable products, full stop," says Joel.
"For bringers [the travellers who deliver the items] it's about making some money, and meeting interesting people who appreciate the effort, and can share tips for exploring the place you're visiting, or the next step on your journey."
To remove the risk of illegal or counterfeit products being transported both Ouibring and Worldcraze only allow users to buy and collect new products from legitimate shops.
Worldcraze's chief marketing officer Constance Claviez Homberg says: "Our users can't buy illegal products because they are buying products directly in shops.
"That way it is just impossible to carry illegal stuff, or counterfeit products. [And] travellers have to upload the product's bill on our platform to prove that the product is congruent."
The company also advises users to check on whether the item in question is legal in the destination country, and has staff that check out requests made on its website and app every day.
Ouibring's Joel Gordon says that it also has a "moderation system" which "flags requests that may be inappropriate, and we remove requests if required".
He says that the company also advises users that if they are unsure about anything they should get in touch via its secure contact form "and we'll get back to you asap".
"We are happy to provide advice for travellers for specific questions," says Joel. "At the end of the day, it is the individual traveller's responsibility to ensure they comply with the relevant laws of the country they are travelling to."
Mumbai-based Beck Friends, another firm that enables travellers to transport goods for other people, doesn't limit people to purchasing new items.
Instead a traveller recently transported a much-loved teddy bear from Chicago to Mumbai after its owner, a four-year-old girl called Heer, left it behind.
To remove any security concerns, the buyer and carrier have to be first connected on social media, such as on Facebook, LinkedIn or Google+. Users must also upload two valid forms of identification, such as a passport and driving licence.
Beck co-founder Deep Malhotra says: "Security is the prime concern, and we are building a robust platform to address this."
Where things get more complicated is the issue of export and import tariffs, which vary greatly from country to country. All three companies say they advise users on this, and it is the buyer who ultimately has to pay any charges.
If any traveller is unsure of something, or gets into any difficulties, all three companies say they have support staff available around the clock to help, be it via telephone, live web chat or email.
Ouibring's Joel Gordon says that he doesn't think security or customs worries will hold back the growth of his company.
"Our vision is to become another part of daily international life, like Airbnb, with people all around the world helping to make transport, logistics and travel work together better." | The next time you take an international flight, how about transporting something in your suitcase for a complete stranger? |
38,156,230 | In the next two days Europe's research ministers will decide whether to push ahead with the mission to send the rover to the Martian surface in 2021.
A team at Aberystwyth University has developed a special camera on top of the ExoMars rover.
Dr Matthew Gun hopes it will capture life on the Red Planet by sampling soil drilled from under the surface.
The team - previously overseen by Prof Dave Barnes, who died in 2014 - is developing calibration equipment for the panoramic camera on the rover.
Similar to a chart of "stable" colours used by photographers at the start of any session, the kit ensures the shades being captured in images of the Martian surface will be accurate.
A recent study found the Beagle 2, the failed British mission in 2003, did not crash-land and came "excruciatingly close" to succeeding.
The research fellow said it would be exciting but "deeply frustrating" if the Beagle 2 had been operating for all this time but had been unable to send the data back to Earth.
He said the team were learning from previous mistakes and are hopeful they will find life on the Martian surface when the mission starts in 2021.
"I never thought I would be doing anything like this when I was in school," he said, adding the team was continuing the work in Prof Barnes memory.
"It has evolved quite quickly over the last few years, we learnt a lot from the Beagle 2."
But Dr Gunn said sending members of the public into space was still some way off.
"There are a lot of people trying to do things like that - there have been technological advances but it would need a lot more before people can go out there," he said.
"I can see it happening one day." | A Welsh scientist working on sending a robot with a selfie stick into space believes it will find life on Mars. |
38,437,297 | The New York to Paris flight landed at Shannon Airport after 07:30 local time.
It has been reported that the 172 passengers had an "urgent need" to use the toilet after the facilities on board became unusable.
The crew asked for engineers to be on standby to service the aircraft's toilets when it landed.
The flight resumed its journey to Paris shortly after 09:30. | A transatlantic flight diverted to the Republic of Ireland after crew requested a landing so that passengers could use an airport's toilets. |
39,453,489 | The blaze, which broke out at Asda in Wigmore Lane on 6 March, was tackled by almost 100 firefighters, with 16 engines and three aerial platforms.
The GMB union said the company had told it refurbishment should be complete in three months.
Asda said it was "unable to confirm dates at this stage".
A spokesman said: "We want to get the store back open as quickly as possible.
"We are doing everything we can to get the store back up and running for our customers as soon as we can."
The workforce has been redeployed to other stores in the region.
An investigation into the cause of the blaze is ongoing. | Workers at a Luton supermarket forced to close after it was severely damaged by fire, are being told it will be about 12 weeks before it reopens. |
35,879,141 | The federal prosecutor said Brahim was part of the attack at Zaventem airport that killed 11 people. Khalid struck at Maelbeek metro, where 20 people died.
Two other attackers at the airport have not yet been identified. One of them died, another is on the run.
Prosecutors say Brahim left a note in which he wrote of his desperation.
Belgium is observing three days of national mourning. The nation held a minute's silence at midday (11:00 GMT) on Wednesday. Belgium's king and queen have visited the airport and met some of the 300 people injured in the attacks. About 150 people remain in hospital, 61 in intensive care.
So-called Islamic State (IS) has said it was behind the attacks.
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Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said Brahim el-Bakraoui had been identified as the middle of three men in a CCTV image of the suspects of the airport attack.
The man on the left is believed to have died at the airport. The man on the right, wearing the hat, is thought to have fled the scene.
Unconfirmed reports in Belgian and French media suggest the man on the left is the wanted jihadist Najim Laachraoui.
Mr Van Leeuw told reporters that a taxi driver said he had picked up the three men from an address in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels. This apartment was raided later on Tuesday and bomb-making materials, including 15kg (33lb) of high explosive, were found.
A note from Brahim el-Bakraoui was found in a nearby rubbish bin. In it, he wrote: "I'm in a hurry. I don't know what to do anymore, they're looking for me everywhere. I'm not safe anymore. If I give myself up they'll put me in a cell."
Mr van Leeuw said the two brothers were known to police and had criminal records. They were identified by DNA records.
The RTBF broadcaster, quoting a police source, said that Khalid el-Bakraoui, 27, had used a false name to rent the flat in the Forest area of the Belgian capital where police killed a gunman in a shootout last week.
It was during that raid that police found a fingerprint of Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the Paris terror attacks of 13 November. He was arrested in a raid in Brussels last Friday and is due to appear before a pre-trial court on Wednesday.
Khalid el-Bakraoui appears on the Interpol website. It says that he is being sought for terrorist activities.
Turkey says Brahim was detained by Turkish officials on the border with Syria in June 2015. They deported him with the warning that he was a "foreign fighter" but the Belgian authorities let him go. Belgium has not yet responded to the claims.
The man on the right in the CCTV picture, who is being hunted, had a bag of detonators that were left behind. Mr Van Leeuw said the bag had contained "the biggest bomb", which later exploded "because it was so unstable" but did not harm anyone.
Najim Laachraoui was named earlier this week by police as a wanted accomplice of Abdeslam.
Analysts say Laachraoui is believed to be a key bomb maker, and French media say he also played a major role in the terror attacks in Paris.
Some Belgian media reported on Wednesday that he was the man arrested in Anderlecht area of the city, but Mr Van Leeuw denied the reports.
There are still dozens of passengers being escorted out of the Brussels airport security zone, a day on from the biggest terrorist atrocity to hit Belgium. They were guests at the Sheraton Airport hotel.
Security services had advised spending the night at the hotel for their own safety, and intelligence officers have been visiting each room, interviewing guests and looking for anything suspicious. The hotel foyer became the immediate triage area for medical teams, bringing in the casualties and the bodies of those who died.
Now, dozens of military police and soldiers guard the airport entrance, with access only for forensic teams, investigators and airport staff. Several 'ghost flights' with no passengers on board set off this afternoon. Airlines are starting to move their aircrafts elsewhere, aware that 'business as usual' at Brussels airport could be a long way off.
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The first of the victims to be named is Peruvian Adelma Tapia Ruiz, 37.
She had been at Zaventem airport with her Belgian husband and twin four-year-old daughters, who were unharmed, her brother told Peruvian radio.
World leaders have been reacting to the attacks. US President Barack Obama said fighting IS was his administration's "top priority", but added: "How do we do it in an intelligent way?"
France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls, on a visit to Belgium, warned that EU nations "will have to invest massively in their security system" in the coming years.
EU interior and justice ministers will hold a crisis meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss their response to the latest attacks.
Belgium has raised its terrorism alert to the highest level, and its international airport will remain closed on Thursday. Brussels Metro is due to close on Wednesday at 19:00 (18:00 GMT), operators say. | Two of the suicide bombers who carried out attacks in Brussels on Tuesday have been named as brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui, Belgian nationals. |
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Dylan Hartley will be captain after being left out of the Lions squad.
Flanker Sam Underhill, New Zealand-born cross-code convert Denny Solomona, and fly-half Piers Francis - who will join Northampton from Auckland Blues in the summer - are included.
There are also call-ups for Sale twins Ben and Tom Curry, 18, as well as Saracens forward Nick Isiekwe, 19.
London Irish wing Joe Cokanasiga and Harry Mallinder of Northampton are included too.
After missing out on selection for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand, the likes of Joe Launchbury, James Haskell, Chris Robshaw, George Ford and Mike Brown all are included, but there is no place for Danny Cipriani, Christian Wade or Semesa Rokoduguni.
Harlequins player Jack Clifford and Sam Jones of Wasps are unavailable through injury.
"We are looking forward to going to Argentina and winning 2-0," said head coach Jones.
Australian Glen Ella, who coached England on tour last summer, will again join Jones' backroom team.
On the tour, England will face their hosts in San Juan on Saturday 10 June and in Santa Fe a week later.
At a news conference, Jones said he did not want to get involved in debate about the Lions squad.
"You miss out on a Lions tour and you get an England tour - it's not a bad second prize," said the Australian.
"If I can develop three or four of these guys to be better than the Lions guys, it will be a successful tour.
"It's going to be a tough tour, but my job is to improve the squad. It's a great opportunity where we can bring a bunch of young, enthusiastic and potentially good players into the squad at one time."
Forwards: Will Collier (Harlequins, uncapped), Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs, 4 caps), Ben Curry (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Tom Curry (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Charlie Ewels (Bath Rugby, 3 caps), Ellis Genge (Leicester Tigers, 1 cap), Dylan Hartley - captain (Northampton Saints, 84 caps), James Haskell (Wasps, 75 caps), Paul Hill (Northampton Saints, 5 caps), Nathan Hughes (Wasps, 8 caps), Nick Isiekwe (Saracens, uncapped), Joe Launchbury (Wasps, 42 caps), Matt Mullan (Wasps, 15 caps), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins, 55 caps), Sam Underhill (Ospreys/Bath Rugby, uncapped), Harry Williams (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped), Tom Wood (Northampton Saints, 50 caps)
Backs: Mike Brown - vice-captain (Harlequins, 60 caps), Danny Care - vice captain (Harlequins, 71 caps), Joe Cokanasiga (London Irish, uncapped), Nathan Earle (Saracens, uncapped), George Ford - vice captain (Bath Rugby, 35 caps), Piers Francis (Auckland Blues/Northampton Saints, uncapped), Sam James (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Alex Lozowski (Saracens, uncapped), Harry Mallinder (Northampton Saints, uncapped), Joe Marchant (Harlequins, uncapped), Jack Maunder (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped), Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby, 25 caps), Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs, 4 caps), Denny Solomona (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
BBC Radio 5 live rugby reporter Chris Jones:
Even though 16 men are away with the Lions, this is a startling squad from Eddie Jones, with almost half of the touring party uncapped.
There are four men who helped clinch the Under 20s Grand Slam, one who recently qualified in Denny Solomona, while Sam Underhill and Piers Francis will both tour before they have played for their Premiership clubs.
Jones will lean on a wealth of experience - with all the main Lions casualties on this trip - but the abundance of youth points to a healthy future for English rugby. | England head coach Eddie Jones has named 15 uncapped players in his 31-man squad to tour Argentina in June. |
32,181,780 | Dr Barry Morgan said "resurrection moments" happen "when we see the power of God at work".
He said the "power of God" is present when we see "unexpected acts of kindness from strangers, forgiveness, generosity and sacrifice".
The archbishop held a service at Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, on Easter Sunday. | The Archbishop of Wales has used his Easter message to urge Christians to "be alert to the presence of God". |
28,250,577 | It accused the Welsh government of not adequately publicising the 31 July deadline to claim refunds from the NHS for the costs of continuing healthcare.
More than £50m has been reimbursed over the last 10 years after many elderly people were forced to sell their homes.
The Welsh government said it had "proactively publicised" the deadline.
The NHS is responsible for paying the fees for people who receive care primarily for health reasons, regardless of the person's financial circumstances or whether the care was in a nursing home or in their own home.
This is known as NHS Continuing Healthcare.
Many people did not claim the payments because they did not know they could or because they were told they did not qualify for the funding.
People who paid for nursing care between 1 April 2003 and 31 July 2013 have until the end of this month register their intent to appeal and then until 31 December complete and submit their documentation.
Powys Teaching Health Board, which has been running a pan-Wales scheme for retrospective claims, has paid £50m since 2004. In some cases, local health boards have dealt with claims directly.
It said 83% of the 1,375 cases administered by the scheme have resulted in a refund of part or all of the care fees.
Now, shadow health minister Darren Millar is calling for the Welsh Government to extend the deadline for people to claim back money.
He said: "The 31 July deadline should now be extended by three months to give the thousands of relatives, many of whom are elderly and vulnerable, the opportunity to claim back five figure care home bills they never should have been made to pay.
"An extended deadline would give Labour ministers and Local Health Boards the chance to re-double their efforts and properly publicise how families can have their claims fairly assessed and be appropriately reimbursed."
Viv Roberts, from Aberdare, managed to claim back more than £80,000 after his sister-in-law Eileen Puc was denied funding for care.
Mrs Puc, who had worked for the NHS, was forced to sell her house in order to pay the fees for the nursing home that she lived in before she died in 2009.
She was immobile after three strokes, was diabetic, could not speak and was partially sighted.
When she was assessed for continuing healthcare she was told that she was not entitled to any funding.
However, that decision was overturned following three appeals and two complaints to the Public Services Ombudsman.
But the delay in funding meant Mrs Puc's home had to be sold to pay the nursing home fees.
Mr Roberts said the experience was "traumatic".
"These people cannot look after themselves anymore but they worked 40, 50 years," he said.
"They paid their taxes and their national insurance contributions and were never a burden to society and when it came to their case, for them to be looked after, they had to pay for themselves."
Age Cymru's head of policy and public affairs, Graeme Francis, said: "I don't think there's been a huge amount of pro-active publicity given about this deadline.
"I think that's wrong because people need to have the right information and need to know whether they can apply or they might miss the opportunity.
"I think there's been reluctance in the past or an attempt by the NHS to manage its budgets and to try and avoid liabilities to pay for people's care.
"Ultimately, that doesn't serve them or the people that are getting the care in the long run."
The Welsh government denied failing to alert people to the limited time left to claim refunds.
"We wrote to a range of bodies throughout the health, local government, user groups and the independent sector - including Age Cymru - announcing to them the new arrangements." a spokesperson said.
"Local health boards worked with their own communications teams to distribute these materials. Welsh government has placed adverts in 12 newspapers across Wales." | Thousands of families are at risk of missing the chance to claim back wrongly paid care home fees, Age Cymru has claimed. |
29,564,207 | Malala, the youngest ever recipient of the prize, survived being shot by the Taliban in 2012 but went on to be a global advocate for educational rights.
Mr Satyarthi has campaigned in various peaceful protests to end the exploitation of children for financial gain.
Here is some of the Twitter reaction from personalities around the world. | Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani activist for girls' education, and Kailash Satyarthi, a child rights activist from India, have jointly won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. |
37,500,734 | Wright is filmed apparently being given an envelope of money in return for allegedly helping persuade Barnsley to sign players from a fake Far East firm.
The newspaper claims he accepted £5,000 at a meeting in Leeds in August.
The Championship club say he has been suspended "pending an internal investigation into these allegations".
The Daily Telegraph's investigation involved Wright being introduced to members of the Far East firm, who were undercover reporters, by two football agents.
"I can just recommend players to you that I've gone and seen, and you will have to do your spicy dealing, whatever you do," Wright is filmed saying during one of a number of meetings.
Wright says "you know where I live" when the subject of giving him money is raised.
He tells a member of the firm "cheers, just put it there," when a person hands him the envelope before the newspaper claims he left with it in his pocket.
The article makes it clear that there is no suggestion Barnsley were aware of Wright's actions.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Mr Wright is quoted as saying: "Any suggested acts contrary to criminal law or those of the FA and Fifa are categorically denied."
The latest allegations come a day after the Telegraph claimed eight current or former Premier League managers had taken bribes for player transfers.
Sam Allardyce left his post as England manager on Tuesday after claims in the newspaper that he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
In a separate meeting, QPR manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is filmed apparently negotiating a fee to travel to Singapore to speak to the Far East firm.
The Dutchman also allegedly discusses the possibility of signing players from them.
He has not been suspended by the Championship club who say "there will be a thorough internal investigation regarding this matter".
QPR's statement added: "However, we have every confidence in our manager and the robust systems and processes the club has in place."
Former Chelsea striker Hasselbaink also issued a statement in which he denied "any accusations of wrongdoing on my part".
"I was approached by Mr McGarvey and Ms Newell of The Telegraph purporting to be players' agents. They offered me a fee to make a speech in Singapore.
"I do not see anything unusual in being offered to be paid to make a speech.
"I did not make any promises in return. I did not ask QPR to purchase any of the players who were said to be managed by Mr McGarvey and Ms Newell and did not and would not recommend the purchase of a player for my personal gain."
Controversial Leeds owner Massimo Cellino was also filmed by the Telegraph offering undercover reporters posing as an investment firm a way to get around FA and Fifa third-party ownership rules.
In a meeting at Leeds' ground, arranged by football agent Pino Pagliara, Cellino apparently offered to sell shares in the Championship club as a means of funding the purchase of players.
The Italian proposed the fictitious firm buy 20% of the club, in return for which it would receive the same percentage of future player sell-on fees.
In the video, Cellino says: "I tell you, I spend eight million this year... on new players.
"You want to finance that? You want to come 20% in that? You got 20% of the player - it's the only way.
"As a shareholder you can finance the club, asking everything you want - percentage - you are allowed to do it in England."
Leeds claimed the footage of their owner amounted to a "non-story" as Cellino "made a perfectly proper suggestion which is entirely consistent with the FA's regulations".
The statement added: "If a company commits money to a club by way of investment, taking on the potential for profit but also the risk for loss, then that is a normal, everyday corporate process.
"This is plainly not a suggestion as to how to circumvent the rules, but rather, an accurate albeit concise explanation of how to operate within the confines of the rules and effectively become 'the club'." | Barnsley have suspended assistant manager Tommy Wright after he was named in a Daily Telegraph investigation alleging corruption in football. |
39,745,843 | Ballance hit 85 in his 143-run fourth-wicket stand with Peter Handscomb (86), which proved the crucial difference between the two sides at Headingley.
Chasing 297 to win, Lancashire were bowled out in the 44th over for 217.
After being put in, the Tykes looked on course for more than their 296-9.
At 230-3, with still 13 overs to come, they then lost six wickets for just 66 in 74 balls. But, despite that apparent confidence boost to get back into the contest offered late on by their bowlers, most notably Stephen Parry (3-48), the Lancashire batting failed as they suffered a second successive group defeat.
After England Test opener Haseeb Hameed had made only eight, wicketkeeper Alex Davies top-scored with 43 for a Lancashire side missing injured skipper Steven Croft (thumb) and West Indies veteran Shiv Chanderpaul (thigh).
As for England's other batsmen, Jonny Bairstow made 28 of an opening stand of 48 with former England opener Adam Lyth (30), while England Test captain Joe Root made 21.
Pace bowler Jimmy Anderson went wicketless with his eight overs costing 37 runs, while David Willey's two wickets for Yorkshire proved expensive as his seven cost 53.
But Yorkshire's spinners proved their main weapon, England leg-spinner Adil Rashid taking 2-34, while Azeem Rafiq weighed in with the lion's share of the wickets, wrapping up the Tykes' second straight group victory to finish with 4-47.
Yorkshire director of cricket Martyn Moxon told BBC Radio Leeds:
"It's pleasing to get two wins out of two. That was a pretty good all-round performance again. There was a slight disappointment that we didn't get more runs in those final 10 overs of our innings when we were set up so well.
"Other than that, we have got to be very pleased with the win and the performance. Peter looked fantastic. Hopefully he is coming into a rich vein of form. Obviously Gary's continuing his fine form. Their partnership was crucial.
"Adil was outstanding. Obviously his wickets with his googlies were good to see. He showed his value to the team and what he's capable of. Also, don't underestimate Azeem's performance. He picked up four wickets at a time when the batsmen were looking to attack."
Lancashire captain Liam Livingstone told BBC Radio Manchester:
"We were outplayed by a better side, We didn't bowl too well at the start and we ended up dragging it back really well. That gave us a better start but batting-wise we faced too many dot-balls and that kills you in one-day cricket.
"Stephen Parry and Jordan Clark bowled really well but it took us 40 overs to realise what we should be doing on the pitch.
"I don't think it was our greatest bowling performance and it certainly wasn't our greatest batting performance. We can't afford to lose too many more games now." | Yorkshire skipper Gary Ballance kept up his good start to the 2017 season with a fine half-century to help Yorkshire ease to a comfortable 79-run One-Day Cup Roses match win over Lancashire. |
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The Scots lie fifth in Group F, four points adrift of their opponents, who are second behind leaders England.
Strachan admits anything less than victory will spell the end of another bid to end Scotland's finals drought.
"There's no grey areas to it. It's must-win. That's dealing with reality. We have to win," said the 60-year-old.
"But sometimes when you have a challenge like that in life, it brings the best out of you so we will have a team ready for that challenge of 'must win'.
"What we don't have to do is win it in the first five or 10 minutes. You never know in big games when your opportunity will come along.
"However, what we do have to do is make opportunities and the players we pick will make those opportunities.
"But if we don't score, we must get back into our shape that allows them very little opportunities."
Strachan admits there are "a couple of knocks" in his squad, with Bournemouth winger Ryan Fraser again forced to sit out training on Saturday with a knee injury that prevented his involvement against Canada.
But the head coach has decided on his line-up that will face the Slovenians, who are ranked 58th in Fifa's world rankings, above Scotland in 67th.
The visitors have drawn 2-2 with Lithuania and won 1-0 in Malta in their two away matches to date, and beaten Slovakia and drawn with England at home.
"What we have done is pick a team that is feeling good about themselves," said Strachan, who is likely to lean on up to six of Celtic's players, who are unbeaten in domestic competition this season.
"It might be completely different from the England game but I am hoping we get the same commitment, the same bravery on the ball.
"If we can get it together then we will be fine. We can compete with most teams.
"We have got the shape right. We've got the players now. We've given them the information and we're ready to go now."
After the misery of Wednesday's friendly draw against Canada in cold and wet conditions, Strachan says the balmy spring temperatures have buoyed his players ahead of Sunday's encounter.
"One thing for sure is it's going to be a great day, the weather is fantastic and there is a spring in the players' step after what we had in Edinburgh at the beginning of the week," he added.
"I think it will be a tremendous place to see football tomorrow, and I think it's going to be a tremendous game." | Scotland coach Gordon Strachan insists the 'must-win' nature of Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Slovenia will bring the best out of his side. |
39,368,502 | The alarm was raised at about 11:40 when the Maritime and Coastguard Agency received a 999 call.
A major search involving coastguard teams, the RNLI, police and the fire service was carried out around Kilt Rock in Staffin.
Police said the body of the man was recovered from the water at about 16:00.
He was treated by medics at the scene but did not survive.
Insp Lynda Allan said: "We are making efforts to contact the man's next-of-kin.
"There are no apparent suspicious circumstances and as is standard a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal." | The body of a man has been recovered from the sea off Skye following a major search. |
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In Fortaleza
The road that sweeps around the front of this picturesque north-eastern coastal location was populated with fans torn between the joy of quarter-final victory against Colombia and the sadness of seeing their icon and greatest hope left in a local clinic and out of the tournament.
Neymar's departure on a stretcher with a fractured vertebra was not exactly a footnote to the win that sets up a semi-final against Germany but few suspected the full consequences of Colombia defender Juan Zuniga's cynical knee in the back at the actual moment of impact.
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And the scale of Neymar's importance to hosts Brazil and the World Cup was illustrated by the reaction as recognition hit home that the 22-year-old was facing a fight to remain involved in the showpiece that so often bears his name and face here in Brazil.
As those inside Fortaleza's Estadio Castelao acclaimed coach Luiz Felipe Scolari and his players at the final whistle after a night of colour, noise and pure theatre, others outside were making their way to where Neymar had been taken for what was ultimately a pessimistic diagnosis.
Brazil team doctor Rodrigo Lasmar delivered the news that left the nation fearing their dream of winning the World Cup on home soil had been irreparably damaged by the brutal challenge on Neymar.
Scolari, with a typical verbal flourish, announced Neymar had been "hunted" - although plenty could assert with some justification that Brazil had employed similar methods to subdue Colombia forward James Rodriguez.
He complained: "Not even a yellow card. Nothing. People think Germany, these or the others, only they are hunted but not Neymar."
It was somehow an almost inevitable result of an extraordinarily lenient display by referee Carlos Velasco Carballo, whose refusal to exert his authority on a game that contained more fouls than any other at this World Cup, 54, occasionally threatened a free-for-all and encouraged defenders to take such licence.
This figure exceeded Brazil's last game against Chile, when there were 51 fouls. Brazil also conceded more fouls than they have done in any World Cup match since 1966 with 31 while the last time there were more fouls in a single game was when Germany played Argentina in 2006, when 55 were committed.
It suggests that for all the commitment to the so-called "O Jogo Bonito" ("the Beautiful Game") Scolari's Brazil are prepared to do whatever it takes to win.
Whereas the roughed up Rodriguez left the field in tears, with the sort of sympathy from Brazil's players they had pointedly declined to offer him during the game, Neymar left on a stretcher and to the sad acceptance that his World Cup, if not Brazil's, was over.
Inevitably, given that Neymar has become the public face of Brazil's campaign, the television screens were dominated by the challenge and its consequences. They must now do without the one player regarded as close to irreplaceable.
The fact that another player of great significance, captain Thiago Silva, will also not face Germany in Belo Horizonte because of suspension was reduced to the undercard in terms of importance.
Brazilian media have been offering up the theory that when Neymar plays well Brazil play well - and vice-versa. It may be overstating the case and they got through here with goals from central defenders Silva and David Luiz, but there was always a question mark about how they would cope without him.
Now, against the wishes of the entire country, they get the chance to find out.
Neymar may have had mixed fortunes at Barcelona but this has not reduced his celebrity nor the level of adulation here. He brings a touch of fantasy to a Brazil side that is not vintage in many areas and distinctly vulnerable in some.
If there is some consolation for Scolari it will come from the manner in which Brazil were at least able to get a result without Neymar at his best but it looked scant as the news sank in.
Doubts have been raised about whether Brazil have the quality to win the World Cup and the absence of their best player, the man regarded as their best hope of victory and who had contributed four goals, will only increase them.
Scolari admitted he was unsure how he would adjust to Neymar's absence but this may now be the chance for Chelsea's Willian to make his mark and for team-mate Oscar's role to be an even more prominent one but there is no doubt Brazil will spend the days between now and Tuesday's semi-final against Germany coming to terms with this loss.
It was a sad end to a spectacular occasion in Fortaleza, from the extended rendition of Brazil's national anthem to the sweep of yellow shirts - broken only by those choosing to wear the red of Colombia's away kit - and the thunderous noise that did not let up for 90 minutes.
This was what Scolari called "the fifth step" on the road to the World Cup and redemption for Brazil as this country seeks to expunge the still bitter memories of the defeat by Uruguay in the final in Rio 1950.
This may seem like a lifetime ago but it remains almost like yesterday for so many in Brazil who recall it as their darkest sporting day.
The roadshow now moves to Belo Horizonte for Scolari's sixth step. The dream lives on but there was no disguising Brazil's pain and concern at having to try and complete the final part of the journey without, in their eyes, the World Cup's biggest star. | Fortaleza's Avenida Beira Mar was alive with the sounds of Brazil's celebrations after they took another step towards the 2014 Fifa World Cup final - but there was no mistaking the Neymar effect. |
38,129,536 | The International Federation of Professional Footballers (Fifpro), a trade union of sorts, has conducted a global survey of nearly 14,000 professional footballers in 54 countries - the largest ever undertaken.
Over 3,000 of the players who took part in the survey are from 13 African countries: Botswana, Cameroon, DR Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.
While many young Africans dream of becoming the next Didier Drogba or Samuel Eto'o, the data collected by Fifpro paints a dark picture of the reality of life as a footballer on the continent.
One of the most shocking findings of the survey is that physical abuse of footballers in Africa is the worst in the world.
Players in Ghana are 10 times more likely than the global average to be physically attacked by club seniors.
They face multiple forms of abuse:
Players also reported very high levels of discrimination - which Fifpro categorised as either racial, sexual or religious - by fans, other players, coaching staff and third parties.
Strangely, this was only equalled by Scotland - whose discrimination is largely driven by the religious divide between Catholic Celtic and Protestant Rangers.
In South Africa and DR Congo, violent attacks on players by other players are three times higher than the global average.
DR Congo has the highest rate of players being physically attacked by fans on a match day, with Kenya coming a close second.
There is also evidence of what Fifpro calls "a form of solitary confinement", amounting to mental abuse.
The survey found that the players most likely to be ordered to train alone are in Africa.
This applied to 7.6% of players - more than double the tally of footballers in Europe or the Americas.
More players in Africa than anywhere else said this was to pressure them into signing a contract.
When it came to pay, 100% of footballers in Ghana said they earned less than $1,000 (£800) a month.
The best-paid African nation when it came to earning over $1,000 a month was Morocco, although players there were the most insecure on the continent about their future.
Egypt's league is widely seen as the strongest in Africa - with two of its clubs having been crowned African champions more than anyone else.
Al Ahly have won eight titles, Zamalek five (with just one other club, TP Mazembe of DR Congo, also on five).
Yet the Egyptian league is the fifth worst-paid of the 13 surveyed in Africa.
Over 90% of players said they were paid under $1,000 a month, which may be equivalent to Europe's worst-paid surveyed country (Ukraine) but which reflects poorly against the tally of just 5% in Morocco.
Have the figures been compromised by the Egyptian league's recent troubles?
Stadium disasters in 2012 and 2015 have resulted in fans being largely barred from matches, all but annihilating gate receipts (and hugely damaging the domestic game).
The survey's highest rate of payment delays was in Africa - with over half the continent's respondents saying they had suffered.
In Gabon, which will host the Africa Nations Cup in January, a whopping 96% of players reported payment delays.
Africa has the greatest number of footballers without a written contract, according to the survey, with 40% of players saying they lack a copy of their contract.
The three worst scoring countries surveyed were Cameroon (65% lacked a copy), Gabon (60%) and Ivory Coast (60%).
Africa's superior treatment of foreign nationals in daily life is reflected in its football, with expatriates disproportionately more likely to have written contracts than local players.
In a move that Fifpro says avoids "taxes, protective labour legislation… and other provisions safeguarding the interests of players," many Africa-based players were paid through secondary image-rights contracts, which normally reward a player based on his commercial value.
Surprisingly, more Africans receive remuneration this way - 11% - than those in the promised land of Europe.
In Gabon and Zimbabwe, this applies to 32% and 30% respectively of players.
But all is not bleak in the survey's findings.
When it comes to paid annual leave, Ivory Coast and Namibia are shining examples, in that both give players more than 30 days per year.
In contrast, the powerhouse of Egypt doesn't look so good - with 93% of respondents saying they have less than 10 days of paid annual leave a year.
A stand-out 99.5% of players in Tunisia, meanwhile, are given a full day off every week.
In the rest of the continent, however, almost a third of Africa-based players say they do not have a full day off each week.
In no other continent do so many players fear for their future.
When players were asked if they felt insecure about their job, 11 of the top 13 countries to express such concerns in the entire survey were African.
Despite their relative wealth, Morocco and Gabon feature highly.
Perhaps surprisingly, players in Zimbabwe - a country where the local FA is so cash-strapped its inability to pay a former coach resulted in its suspension from the 2018 World Cup - felt the most secure of the 13 African countries.
Previous research by Fifpro suggests that non-payment of footballers' salaries may be a significant factor in increasing the risk of match-fixing approaches.
Coupled with low wages, is it any surprise that Africa has the highest rate of approaches - standing at 8.3% of those surveyed?
However, this needs context. This means that nearly 92% have not been approached, a figure that is almost equivalent to Europe (94.1%).
Furthermore, while 10.1% of the Africans surveyed said they were aware of match-fixing in their league, that is only slightly higher than those in Europe - 9.8%.
Three of the five countries reporting the biggest problems were European, whereas a number of African countries reported relatively low numbers of approaches.
Seemingly the last place you would want to be a professional footballer in Africa is DR Congo.
Some 89% of players in DR Congo have no written employment contract - a figure double that of any other nation in the 54-country survey.
The number of players who have experienced violent attacks by other players is three times the global average in DR Congo.
In addition, one in four Congo-based players say they have been attacked on a match day by fans - the survey's highest rate.
Even violence on a non-match day in the country is three times the global average.
One in five players say they have been bullied or harassed by colleagues, and the same tally say they have been pressurised into renewing a contract (another figure that is unsurpassed).
Another sign of poor working conditions is that over half the Congolese players say they do not have a day off each week.
Does any of the above explain why a staggering 56% of players say they are aware of match-fixing in the Congolese league? | A major survey into global football shows that life for the vast majority of African footballers is a far cry from the glitz and glamour of those lucky enough to play in the world's top leagues, writes Piers Edwards. |
38,510,654 | Gundogan Dursan, 47, had not realised the substance was an over-the-counter natural sleep aid.
His victim was awoken by "a sensation of liquid landing on her face", and found Dursan standing by her bed, the Old Bailey heard.
Dursan, who admitted common assault, was handed a year-long community order.
His victim said she was left "shocked" and "feared for her safety" when she awoke to find Dursan had sprayed the liquid at her.
Prosecutor Nick Wayne said the woman, who cannot be identified, "saw Mr Dursan standing by her bed and it seemed to her he was trying to conceal something in his hand".
When she confronted him, Dursan would not say what was in the bottle which turned out to contain lavender, vetiver and wild camomile, he said.
At first, Dursan claimed to be looking for something, but later admitted spraying the woman's pillow in the hope she would have "long time sleep" so "she might have intercourse with me".
Mr Wayne said the product was freely available over the counter at chemists and was not the kind of substance that had any "powerful hypnotising" effect.
He said its chemical impact as a sleep aid was "unclear".
Police brought charges against Dursan from Enfield, north London, after the woman told her therapist about the incident last summer.
The prosecution offered no evidence to a second charge of administering a substance with intent to stupefy and overpower to engage in sexual activity, which Dursan had denied.
Dursan, who had no previous convictions, spent 11 days in jail ahead of the court case as well as 17 days on a tagged curfew.
Marie de Redman defending said: "He did not have any sinister intentions... It was perhaps not the most sensible thing to do."
Dursan was handed a year-long community order with a 10-day rehabilitation activity requirement plus a victim surcharge of £85.
Sentencing, Judge Stephen Kramer QC told him: "Had what you did been more serious, the court would have taken a different view - and a more serious view.
"Please do not trouble the criminal courts ever again." | A man has admitted spraying a lavender-infused herbal remedy into a woman's face in the hope it would make her want to have sex with him. |
32,221,589 | Genetic factors had a "substantial influence" on the risk of being convicted of a sex offence, it found.
The study analysed data from 21,566 men convicted of sex offences in Sweden between 1973 and 2009.
The findings could help prevent crime, said co-author Prof Seena Fazel from the University of Oxford.
The study - by researchers from Oxford University and the Karolinska Institute, in Sweden - looked at the proportion of sexual offences carried out by sons and brothers of convicted male sex offenders.
The authors then compared the data with the criminal records of men from the general Swedish population with similar age and family profiles.
It found around 2.5% of brothers of convicted sex offenders were themselves convicted of sexual offences - compared with 0.5% of men in the general population.
The study also looked at the sons of sexual offenders, and found they were nearly four times more likely than average to have committed a similar crime.
Other studies in the past have assessed the link between familial relationships and the propensity to commit crime.
One found that children of male violent offenders were about 3.5 times more likely than average to commit violent crimes themselves.
In the latest study, genetic factors were found to have a "substantial influence on an increased risk of being convicted of sexual offences", Prof Fazel said.
"It tells us something about why if we take two sets of brothers, whose backgrounds might look identical, one set has a higher risk of sexual offending than the other," he said.
The analysis could help authorities target potential offenders, Prof Fazel said, adding: "At the moment genetic factors are typically ignored when it comes to making risk assessments of those at high risk of sexual offending."
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that while a person's environment was a contributing factor to their risk of sexual offending, a person's genes could contribute about 30-50% of the risk.
But the authors stressed the analysis did not mean someone with a brother or father convicted of rape would also go on to become a sex offender.
"It's important to remember that it's nothing mystic," said Professor Niklas Langstrom, from the Karolinska Institute.
"People get worried about the fact that there's a strong genetic component in problematic human behaviour.
"Of course, you don't inherit in some kind of automatised robotic way so that you will grow up to be a sexual offender." | Men with a brother found guilty of a sex offence are up to five times more likely than average to commit a similar crime, a study suggests. |
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37,203,953 | The Mercedes driver has been hit with a series of penalties for using too many engine parts.
Hamilton has a 19-point championship lead over team-mate Nico Rosberg.
He said: "I envisage it will be hard to get into the top 10. All I can do is to aim as high as possible. A podium feels unlikely but it's not impossible."
Hamilton said his attempt to fight back through the field would be made more difficult by the fact that the Pirelli tyres are not lasting at the Spa-Francorchamps track.
There are unexpectedly high temperatures at the fast and demanding circuit in the Ardennes mountains this year and high tyre pressures chosen by Pirelli to protect against failures following two high-speed blowouts at last year's race are exacerbating the situation.
"With these tyres the way they are, which is a bit of a mess, it is going to be tough out there for everyone," Hamilton said.
"It's a long race. I don't have to go crazy at the start. That's the same whenever we start at the back.
"There were failures last year and they didn't want failures this year so they put the pressures up to 23, 24psi whatever it is. It's so high. I have never seen pressures like that my whole racing career. That doesn't help."
Hamilton said the problems caused by the tyres would make chasing other cars more difficult. The Pirellis overheat and lose grip if a driver follows another car closely. This has the corollary of reducing the number of laps the tyres can manage.
"It is going to be a very, very hard race," he said. "Being this hot it is going to be hard to follow. Being in the traffic it is going to be hard to get to my stop target, or go longer than the guys in front of me.
"But I hope I prove myself wrong and I hope I'm pleasantly surprised."
Hamilton's remarks on the tyres were echoed by McLaren driver Jenson Button, who said the pressures were "unbelievably high".
"It is amazing what we have to do to get the tyres in the working window," said Button, who starts ninth.
"If you push on the out lap (from the pits), they are done by turn three, blistering and overheating. What we have to do is crazy. I have never had to do this in my career before.
"It's the pressures. It's not helped by the temperatures, but we go to hot countries and Pirelli know that.
"It is shame we are so high on the pressures because we are in a position at the moment with the tyre where you can't push the car. You are just rolling around with the tyre.
"Hopefully with the new tyres for F1 next year it will not be the case because it is not a nice feeling at the moment."
Pirelli has been set the task of providing tyres in 2017 that drivers can push flat out for entire race distances, as opposed to having to lap under the limit to ensure the temperatures remain under control, as is the case currently. | Lewis Hamilton says scoring points will be difficult in what will be a "very, very hard race" from the back of the grid in Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix. |
35,949,411 | Visiting keeper Ross Flitney was in great form to stop Omar Bogle on a number of occasions in the first-half.
Shortly after the restart, Eastleigh's Josh Payne was sent off for a tackle on Richard Tait.
Grimsby stepped up the pressure but Flitney was equal to Jon Nolan's swerving shot to secure a point.
The Mariners are fourth in the table, seven points clear of sixth-placed Braintree, with Eastleigh a point further back in seventh.
Grimsby boss Paul Hurst told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"Overall I was really happy with the performance and I think you can see at the end that they're the ones who went down to 10 men.
"You can see the lads are out on their feet and we're having to really demand and ask them to dig deep and give everything.
"Unfortunately today we weren't rewarded with the three points but I feel it was a good performance and if you look at who we're playing against, it was just unfortunate we couldn't get that winning goal." | Grimsby strengthened their position in the National League play-off places despite being held to a goalless draw by 10-man Eastleigh. |
35,797,457 | Barbara Henderson, from Newcastle, was 18 in 1971 when she knocked on the door of the record company's London offices.
"It was 10 o'clock at night and amazingly he answered the door," she said.
Auctioneer Fred Wyrley-Birch said: "The market for anything Beatles-related is very strong and, as time goes on, there is more and more interest."
The 16 Apple Corps pictures to be auctioned include images of The Beatles, John Tavener, James Taylor, The Radha-Krishna Temple, Mary Hopkin, Yoko Ono and Jackie Lomax.
The company's security guard had taken Ms Henderson and her friend around the building and given them photos and albums, she said.
"I don't really want to let them go but they're gathering dust," she said.
"They're so rare - I have never seen them anywhere else and I'm always looking for Beatles pictures."
The auction is due to take place on March 23. | Rare promotional photos of The Beatles given to a teenager by an Apple Records security guard are to be auctioned. |
39,360,973 | The German said he lacked race fitness as a result of time off recovering from a back injury sustained in a crash in January's Race of Champions.
"My back is fine but I took a step back in terms of fitness and I'm trying to catch up," the 22-year-old said.
"I am not feeling like I could do a whole race at my best level."
Sauber said it was entirely the driver's decision.
Wehrlein, who is a Mercedes protege and was passed over for the seat alongside Lewis Hamilton this winter in favour of Valtteri Bottas, said he would have made the same decision had he been racing for the world champions.
He added that his decision had been influenced by the fact that it was the first race of the season and it might be a possibility for the struggling team to score points as a result of the high race of attrition.
"I want to be in the car and not even think about fitness. I want to show my best performance level and I would think about fitness at some point," he said.
Pressed on the fact that F1 history was littered with examples of drivers racing in extreme physical adversity, he said: "Every situation is different."
Wehrlein missed the first pre-season test at Spain's Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya as result of the back injury but did drive in the second, but he said the problem had not become apparent there.
Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn said: "It matters what the driver says and if the driver cannot deliver to his best level you have to take that into account..
"Pascal is a very ambitious driver so you don't go into risks."
She added that there was no reason to believe there would be a problem with Wehrlein for the next race in China in two weeks' time.
Giovinazzi, the runner-up in the GP2 feeder series last year, has experience of the Sauber after replacing Wehrlein at the first pre-season test. | Sauber driver Pascal Wehrlein has pulled out of the Australian Grand Prix and will be replaced by Ferrari third driver Antonio Giovinazzi. |
23,574,624 | The bid, made late on Sunday, was £25m plus add-ons but United maintain the 27-year-old is not for sale.
Age: 27
Club: Manchester United
Previous club: Everton
Debut: Everton 2-2 Tottenham - 17/08/02
United appearances: 402
United goals: 197
England caps: 83
England goals: 36
Honours: Premier League (x5); League Cup (x2); Champions League; Fifa World Club Cup; PFA Player of the Year 2010
Rooney, who remains intent on leaving United, has been left out of their squad for Tuesday's pre-season friendly in Stockholm with a shoulder injury.
It is understood the striker picked up the knock during a behind-closed-doors match against Real Betis on Saturday.
Chelsea had an initial bid for Rooney, of about £20m, turned down by United in July and have again been knocked back, despite upping their offer.
United manager David Moyes has continually stressed that Rooney will stay with the Premier League champions but Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho remains determined to bring him to Stamford Bridge.
Rooney has been left angered and confused by recent messages coming out of Old Trafford, most noticeably the suggestion from Moyes that Robin van Persie is the preferred option up front.
The situation could come to a head later this week with Rooney giving serious thought to handing in a transfer request in order to force a move away from Old Trafford.
In October 2010, Rooney said he wanted to leave the club because of concerns over the strength of their squad, but signed a new five-year contract just days later.
He flew home from Thailand in July with a hamstring injury and has not played for the club since a substitute appearance in the 1-0 defeat by Chelsea on 5 May. | Manchester United have rejected an improved offer from Chelsea for England striker Wayne Rooney. |
40,206,434 | Two goals by Leicester's Harvey Barnes and another by Sunderland's Elliot Embleton saw a team mainly aged 19 or under reach the final.
England face Ivory Coast or the Czech Republic in Saturday's final in France.
Earlier, England also reached the final of the Under-20 World Cup for the first time by beating Italy.
Gareth Southgate was in charge when an England U21 side beat France 2-1 in the 2016 Toulon Tournament final.
At this year's event, England won all three of their group games against Angola, Cuba and Japan to advance to the semi-finals.
Scotland had bounced back from a 3-2 defeat by the Czech Republic in their opening group game to beat Brazil and Indonesia and book a last-four spot.
Saturday's final kicks off at 16:30 BST. | Holders England reached the final of the Toulon Tournament with a comfortable 3-0 win over Scotland in Thursday's semi-final. |
35,402,233 | Priestland, 29, has been the understudy to England's George Ford at Bath since his move from Scarlets last summer.
"It's obviously an issue with Priest not being able to play a great deal of rugby," kicking coach Jenkins said.
Meanwhile, Jenkins expects Ireland to "do their utmost" to get fly-half Jonathan Sexton fit to face Wales in their opener in Dublin on 7 February.
Worries about 30-year-old Sexton's head injury after he came off in Leinster's Champions Cup defeat by Wasps on Saturday have eased.
Bath coach Mike Ford had announced that Priestland would be taking an 18-month sabbatical from Test rugby, but the player changed his mind as Wales' squad announcement approached and he is again challenging Ospreys' Dan Biggar for the stand-off role.
"He's a fantastic rugby player, we like the way he plays for us but his lack of game-time is a worry," said Jenkins.
Bath are at Saracens in the Aviva Premiership on Saturday and Jenkins added: "He might be one that needs game-time this weekend, but whether he gets the opportunity, who knows?"
"I've been up to see him a few times and he'd love to play a lot more than he is."
Wales head coach Warren Gatland will decide by midweek which Welsh-based players will be released back to their regions for Pro12 matches this weekend.
Captain Sam Warburton wants more action after making his comeback from an ankle injury for Cardiff Blues last Friday, while full-back Liam Williams has not played since the World Cup because of a foot injury.
Three-quarter Tyler Morgan, who was also injured during the World Cup, is close to a return. | Fly-half Rhys Priestland's lack of Bath matches is a worry for Wales before the Six Nations, says Neil Jenkins. |
40,002,770 | Provincial leader Helen Zille said water will be harvested by drilling boreholes to serve key points like hospitals in Cape Town.
The alert will last for three months but could be extended if the crisis persists, she said in a statement.
Southern African nations are reeling from a two-year drought.
The UN estimates that over 40 million people have been affected by the drought that was caused by the El Nino climate phenomenon.
"The disaster declaration will accelerate... the province's strategy to ensure that taps do not run dry," Ms Zille said.
She also announced plans to use a mobile desalination plant and tap the natural aquifer under Cape Town's Table Mountain.
Residents have also been urged not to use no more than 100 litres (22 gallons) of water a day.
Ms Zille said the disaster declaration will mean that authorities in the province can prioritise public funds for drought relief operations.
Two reservoirs in the Western Cape region are already completely dry according to official statistics.
The Karoo and West Coast areas of the Western Cape previously declared drought disasters in 2016, but Monday's announcement extends the scope of those emergency measures to the entire province, the AFP news agency reports. | South Africa's Western Cape province has declared a drought disaster as it faces its worst water shortage in 113 years. |
39,126,425 | The petition was delivered to the club on 2 February, with a hearing to be held at the High Court on 20 March.
The struggling League Two club are currently second bottom in the table, and in danger of going out the Football League.
A 4-1 defeat at Stevenage on Tuesday evening left them six points adrift of safety.
Orient president Francesco Becchetti said last month that he would consider selling the club, which he took over in 2014.
However, it is understood a number of potential offers have not been considered sufficiently financially attractive.
While the taxman is the principal petitioner for a winding-up, it now remains to be seen whether other creditors will come on board and support the action.
In the most recently available financial results, for the year ending 30 June 2015, Leyton Orient put their book value, the net value of the company running the football club, at -£5,512,449 - in other words, the club had debts exceeding its assets of more than £5.5m.
A spokesman for the EFL said it was aware of the winding-up petition, and had been in contact with the club asking them for further information and observations about the situation.
A meeting of the Leyton Orient Fans Trust (Loft) supporters' group will take place on Thursday to establish a financial "fighting fund" to help revive the club should it go into liquidation.
"This is a cause for alarm, but given the way things have been going recently we suspected something like this was coming down the track," said Tom Davies, vice-chairman of Loft.
"Obviously it is concerning to get a winding-up petition, and we are worried about how the owner will react, if indeed he does react to this."
Davies said the HMRC action would give extra focus to the fan meeting, and called on supporters to rally around to save the club.
"We need new funding, and a new owner," he added. "Other clubs have survived periods like this and gone on to flourish, but first of all we need to get out of the hole we are in at present." | London football club Leyton Orient has been served with a winding-up petition by HM Revenue and Customs. |
39,809,277 | Ben Walker, 15, collapsed when playing for Thrapston Town Juniors on 28 April.
He supported Aston Villa and fellow fans called for applause in the 15th minute of the game against Brighton - to mark the time Ben collapsed.
Fans shared the appeal on social media and Villa welcomed the move with a retweeted message to 957,000 followers before the game which ended 1-1.
"The Aston Villa family have come together on numerous occasions this season to remember their own," a club spokesman said.
"We were all saddened to hear that Ben had tragically passed away and we would like to offer our sincere condolences to his family and friends at this sad time."
Family friend, Aaron Clipston started the campaign and said: "I'm amazed and overwhelmed by the level of support it's had from Villa and Brighton fans.
"The family are fully behind it and I know Ben would have loved it."
Thrapston Town Juniors said he died doing the thing he loved. Flowers and football shirts have been left by friends at the club on Chancery Lane.
A fundraising page set up to raise money for a memorial to Ben and to support his family has raised more than £10,000.
Nick Price, from the club, who set it up said: "It was my way of supporting the family. Nobody plans for a child's funeral. This was something I could do to help.
"No firm decision has been made about a permanent memorial. It's something we're thinking about."
Ben also played cricket for Thrapston Cricket Club, which described him as a "promising wicket-keeper and batsman". | A teenage footballer who died during a game was remembered with honour by the crowd at a Championship match. |
40,243,939 | Mrs Trump and her son, 11, had stayed in New York to finish the school year.
The decision was seen as unusual by some, as she was the first presidential spouse in recent years not to relocate to the capital immediately.
Separately Mr Trump's daughter, Ivanka, said in a TV interview that her father had been "subjected to a level of viciousness that I was not expecting".
In an interview with the Fox and Friends morning TV show, she said that she had been left blindsided by the ferocity of some of the attacks levelled against the president.
Ms Trump said that she felt "very vindicated" by former FBI Director James Comey's recent Senate testimony because it supported her father's contention that he was not being personally investigated for alleged links to Russia and that Mr Comey had on at least one occasion supplied a leak to The New York Times.
A Fox News report said that Ms Trump - who along with her husband Jared Kushner is a special adviser to the president - "glided past the more controversial interview topics like a seasoned vet".
Melania Trump is the first presidential spouse in recent history to delay her arrival in Washington, following her husband's inauguration at the start of the year.
Her predecessor, Michelle Obama, even moved to Washington early to get her daughters settled in their new school.
However, it seems the First Lady is delighted by the move, tweeting a picture looking out across the White House lawn, marking the occasion.
The move will also no doubt be welcomed by New Yorkers, who have footed a hefty security bill keeping the First Family safe in Trump Tower.
Their presence in the Big Apple has also been known to create a fair few traffic problems. The New York Post warned of a potential "traffic apocalypse" if they did not make the move.
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning | Melania Trump and son Barron have moved into the White House - five months after her husband Donald took office. |
35,841,461 | Eight-month-old Marley from Hitcham chewed through the tube of glue his owner was using for home improvements.
At first he showed no signs of illness, but within a week needed emergency surgery to remove a solid lump of adhesive from his stomach.
His owner Beverley King said her pet made a full recovery and was now "bouncing around" again.
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Mrs King said her husband had been working upstairs when Marley came down with his paws covered in glue.
He was taken to the vet to have the glue removed and seemed fine, she said.
However he later became ill and had to be referred to a specialist veterinary centre near Newmarket, where the full extent of Marley's mishap was revealed.
He underwent a one-hour operation to have the ball of glue removed by a surgical specialist.
Mrs King, who slept by his side every night "just to be on the safe side", said her pet was due to have a final check up later. | A cocker spaniel has been saved from a sticky end after eating a tube of expanding glue. |
33,565,865 | Police said two men, aged 31 and 33, were victims of a serious assault on Renfield Street, in central Glasgow, at 03:15 on 19 October last year.
The group of men which attacked them later boarded a taxi near Buchanan Street Bus Station.
Police said they wanted to trace all six men pictured in the CCTV images.
Det Con David Copeland, of Police Scotland, said: "This was an unprovoked attack on two men by a much larger group which left the victims with serious injuries.
"This type of activity on what seems to be a night out cannot be tolerated. We seek the assistance of the public in tracking down those responsible."
The men in the images are described as white, Scottish, in their late 20s or early 30s, of medium build, with one being of heavy build.
Four men wore dark tops and jeans, one was wearing a yellow coloured t-shirt and another wore a white cardigan with dark sleeves. The other man was wearing a light coloured t-shirt.
Det Con Copeland added: "One of the men wearing dark clothing was also wearing a green Robin Hood-type hat with a red feather at the left hand side.
"Another male was wearing a Heidi-type blonde wig with plaits on either side.
"I am particularly keen to trace the taxi driver who picked up a group of men from a taxi rank at Buchanan Street Bus Station at 0346 hours."
Anyone with information is asked to contact police. | CCTV stills of a man wearing a Robin Hood-style hat and another in a Heidi wig are among six images released by police investigating a street attack. |
39,523,126 | The game was twice delayed in the first 10 minutes when Charlton fans threw plastic pigs onto the pitch in protest against the club's ownership.
After Nathan Byrne hit the bar for Charlton, George Thomas fired the Sky Blues ahead from close range.
But Patrick Bauer's headed equaliser in the second half sealed City's fate.
Coventry were in the Premier League as recently as 2001, but they now face the prospect of playing fourth-tier football for the first time since 1959.
The Sky Blues' descent towards relegation saw them fail to win in their opening 10 games, with a difficult season on the pitch matched by problems off it, with fans holding a series of protests against the club's owners, the hedge fund Sisu.
Their form has improved in recent weeks under Mark Robins, culminating in their victory over Oxford in the EFL Trophy final, and they started the brighter of the two teams.
Both sides were withdrawn from the field after Addicks fans threw pigs onto the pitch for the second time, with Coventry taking the lead through Thomas' sharp finish.
Jodi Jones had a shot saved just before half-time, while Thomas went close again after the break, but City could not maintain their advantage.
Bauer nodded in from two yards out after Coventry failed to clear a corner, and the hosts could not find a late winner to stave off the drop.
Charlton meanwhile climb to 15th, six points clear of relegation with three games to play.
Match ends, Coventry City 1, Charlton Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, Coventry City 1, Charlton Athletic 1.
Attempt missed. Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Chris Solly.
Foul by Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City).
Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. George Thomas (Coventry City) right footed shot from very close range is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Kwame Thomas (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andrew Crofts (Charlton Athletic).
Attempt saved. Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ben Stevenson (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ben Stevenson (Coventry City).
Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Joe Aribo replaces Ricky Holmes.
Foul by Kevin Foley (Coventry City).
Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Nathan Byrne (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Coventry City. Kyel Reid replaces Jodi Jones.
Attempt saved. Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Coventry City. Kevin Foley replaces Jordan Willis.
Kwame Thomas (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic).
Jodi Jones (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jodi Jones (Coventry City).
Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Farrend Rawson.
Attempt saved. George Thomas (Coventry City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Kwame Thomas (Coventry City).
Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. George Thomas (Coventry City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Jodi Jones (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Ben Stevenson (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Chris Solly.
Foul by Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic).
Jordan Turnbull (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Andrew Crofts (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Andrew Crofts (Charlton Athletic).
Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Jake Forster-Caskey replaces Ezri Konsa Ngoyo.
Goal! Coventry City 1, Charlton Athletic 1. Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Josh Magennis following a corner. | Coventry City were relegated to the fourth tier of English football for the first time in 58 years after drawing with fellow strugglers Charlton. |
40,959,203 | Antoinette Corbally, 48, has been named locally as one of two people shot dead in the gun attack at a house at Balbutcher Drive, Ballymun.
It is believed the attack was gang related but not connected to the ongoing Hutch-Kinahan feud.
Gardaí (Irish police) are seeking two men over the shooting.
Nicola Tallant, investigations editor from the Sunday World, told Good Morning Ulster that Derek Devoy, the brother of Ms Corbally, was the target of the attack but he escaped.
She said the shooting appeared to be related to a "drug turf war" and that Mr Devoy is a "well-known Dublin criminal".
She said that two men pulled up to the house and one opened fire "indiscriminately" at the house, which had children inside.
She added that Mr Devoy was holding a toddler at the time of the attack and that he "threw the child and ran out the back door".
Another man and woman were treated for less serious injuries in hospital following the shooting.
Irish police recovered a gun at the scene of the shooting. A silver Opel Zafria was found partially burnt out on Balbutcher Drive and Gardaí also recovered a second car they believe was involved in the attack in Santry.
Irish Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said he condemned the shooting and that high-visibility policing, including armed checkpoints, would continue across the city. | A mother-of-six and a man shot dead in a suspected gang attack in Dublin are not believed to have been the intended target of the gunmen. |
27,218,085 | St Beuno's in Gwyddelwern, which has plants growing out of its spire, will use the Heritage Lottery Fund grant for work on the spire, tower and roof.
Church wardens hope the work will allow the building to reopen for church services and community use.
A church is believed to have stood on the site since the seventh century.
Canon Martin Snellgrove, the rector of the Corwen group of parishes, said the appearance of the church was a central problem for the village.
"We haven't even got to get out of your car and get below 30mph to see that there are that there are trees growing out of the spire which have been there for some years and there has been lots of masonry falling off the top of the tower damaging the spire," he told BBC Radio Wales.
"On of the most regular effects [of the church being closed] is that the school children who usually cross the churchyard to get to the canolfan (centre) where they do various activities have to take the long route by the road because the church is closed because it's unsafe.
"The congregation is meeting in a committee room in the canolfan and we have had two funerals that I know of in the last year and one wedding that have had to be located elsewhere.
"It would be good to have our building back." | An historic church near Corwen in Denbighshire which closed four years ago because of falling masonry has received £123,000 to repair its spire. |
35,441,452 | Thousands of customers currently paying £17 a month for unlimited data and calls have been told they will be moved onto a new £30 tariff if they do not opt out within 30 days.
The company has notified customers by post and said it would also text them.
Three said the more expensive plan was the closest remaining deal offering unlimited calls and data.
It stopped offering the £17 monthly deal to new customers in 2014 and said it was phasing out "legacy" tariffs, but the BBC understands hundreds of thousands of customers still use the tariff and will be affected by the switch.
One mobile industry analyst told the BBC the demise of unlimited data plans was "inevitable".
"Consumer data usage is growing exponentially," said Ben Wood from CCS Insight.
"The networks are seeing huge growth in data consumption as people watch more video content at ever-higher resolutions on their smartphones. At some point certain all-you-can-eat tariffs become uneconomical."
While the network does still offer plans with unlimited data and calls, Three says its average account holder consumes just 4.9 gigabytes of data per month.
The firm had 8.8 million customers in 2015, according to its website.
Some have posted their anger at the tariff change online, ironically tagging their posts #MakeItRight - the hashtag Three uses in its advertising campaign.
"That's how you lose brand loyalty," tweeted software engineer Joseph Longden.
"Stop forcing loyal customers like myself into new plans which are almost double the price," wrote Nathan McLean.
In a statement, Three said: "In March 2014, we introduced new price plans giving customers more options in the size of their data and voice bundles, as well as limits and alerts to prevent bill shock.
"We have a lot of tariffs that we no longer sell and moving customers to one of the new plans will ensure they can enjoy the benefits of these plans." | Mobile network Three has defended its decision to end a popular "all you can eat" phone contract. |
36,323,003 | Fears had been expressed that people who pay into some auto-enrolment pensions could lose their money, should their scheme collapse.
The Pensions Bill will provide for stricter supervision of so-called master trust schemes by the regulator.
In February, an investigation by the BBC found that dozens of master trusts were too small to survive.
Experts said up to a quarter of a million people were at risk of losing their savings.
The bill will give the Pensions Regulator (TPR) greater powers to authorise the schemes and step in where necessary.
Master trusts themselves will need to demonstrate that their schemes meet strict new criteria.
At the moment, only nine of 72 master trust schemes are listed on TPR's website as qualifying for their kitemark.
The regulator has no responsibility for checking that the schemes' claims are accurate.
MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee previously expressed concern about "potentially unstable master trusts" and called for swift government action.
The Pensions Regulator itself welcomed the new bill.
"We have voiced concerns for some time about the need for stronger legislative standards for master trusts and have worked with government and other regulators to improve levels of protection for members," said Lesley Titcomb, TPR's chief executive.
"We have been calling for a significantly higher bar regarding authorisation and supervision, and we are pleased that today's announcement proposes to give us the power to implement these safeguards."
The bill will also help those who have been trying to withdraw money from their pension funds, but have been faced with early exit fees.
Data collected by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) suggests that as many as 700,000 people might be liable to pay such charges.
As previously announced, those fees will now be capped - although it is not known at what level.
A new guidance body will also be set up, to give help to people retiring, as well as those in debt.
It will bring together the Pensions Advisory Service, Pension Wise and the Money Advice Service.
"We will work closely with the sector in the coming months to further shape our plans," said pensions minister Ros Altmann. | The cash of millions of pension savers will be better protected, under plans announced alongside the Queen's Speech. |
34,676,048 | The trial by Cambridgeshire Police aims to free-up time for neighbourhood patrols and offer more flexibility for victims.
But the move has been criticised as a money-saving measure.
The Police Federation raised concerns for those people unable to use or afford the technology required for the online audio-visual call system.
The Cambridgeshire force claimed Skype will provide greater flexibility for victims, as well as allowing better response times.
The Home Office said it would be up to other individual forces to decide on whether adopt a similar approach.
Oz Merrygold, secretary of Cambridgeshire Police Federation, said due to cuts to policing it is "just not possible anymore" to send officers out on crimes such as burgled homes.
He claimed police roles need to be "redefined" and "austerity" measures meant forces having to take difficult decisions, leading to technological solutions.
It wouldn't be possible to the 'average Joe' to hack these calls but it's a bigger debate about whether it's actually possible. I would hope that the police computers would be secure.
We've seen cases where webcams can be hacked. That's not anything to do with Skype, it's the fact that the whole set up might not be secure, including the webcam and computer.
But it's a relatively low risk compared to whether it's an appropriate way to conduct interviews.
I would be worried about the quality of an interview which is conducted over Skype compared to a normal interview done face-to-face.
I would have thought there were dos and don'ts and recommendations for conducting an interview over the internet.
Supt Melanie Dales, area commander for Peterborough, said using Skype would help people with busy lives and bring police more in line with other services, such as doctors' surgeries.
"It will allow officers, who use a large proportion of time travelling to and from appointments, more time to patrol their neighbourhoods," she said.
A spokeswoman for the National Police Chiefs' Council said: "Police are expecting further significant reductions to budgets as well as responding to changes in crime and demand on the service.
"All chiefs are having to prioritise and look at where they can make savings or provide services differently so they can continue to provide the vital services that reduce crime and protect people."
The Home Office spokesman said: "We support attempts to give victims of crime greater choice in how they report crime and engage with the police and the police must embrace new technology as forces deliver the next phase of police reform.
"Cambridgeshire Police has been clear that the pilot is not for reporting emergencies and officers will still carry out home visits where necessary. People should always call 999 if a crime is in progress or when violence is being used or threatened." | Crime victims are being asked to speak to police on Skype instead of being interviewed at home by officers. |
27,554,885 | The former Labour leader of Tower Hamlets, standing independently for Tower Hamlets First, received 43.38% of first preference votes.
He addressed supporters outside Troxy theatre in Stepney, east London, after the result at about 02:00 BST.
He said an investigation ordered by the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles had been "politically motivated".
Mr Pickles appointed inspectors to look into allegations of governance failure, poor financial management and fraud following a report by the BBC's Panorama which found Mr Rahman had more than doubled funding recommended by officers for Bengali-run charities.
Inspectors have until 30 June to report their findings.
In the mayoral election, Labour candidate John Biggs received 32.82% of first preference votes.
Mr Rahman said: "The people of this borough have spoken again.
"I want to thank the thousands of people who have been outside in the rain for six or seven hours waiting for a result.
"All we want is an equal playing field. To see obstacles being placed in my way unfairly, I find that quite difficult to accept."
He added: "Judge me on my record. Judge me on what we have done for the people of this borough.
"The only borough in the land who has delivered an educational maintenance allowance. The only borough in the land who has delivered a university grant of £1500 for our students going to university."
He also pointed to his elderly homecare policies and free primary school meals coming in in September.
Meanwhile, the council election count has been suspended. A spokesman said it will resume at 14:00 BST on Sunday when six wards will be recounted.
Turnout: 84,234 (45.9%) | Tower Hamlets Bangladeshi mayor Lutfur Rahman has been re-elected, greeted by about 2,000 supporters. |
32,217,671 | Called Athena, the new system was launched last week by Essex Police as part of a three-month roll-out.
Part of the system relating to processing people into custody was not working properly on Tuesday.
Ch Supt Andy Prophet said this meant custody officers reverting to paper while the system was down.
He denied media reports that some officers had been told not to make arrests but did say: "We did have issues in our custody suites with the system going offline.
"Essex Police remains open for business."
Essex Police and Crime Commissioner Nick Alston praised officers and denied Athena - which brings together various police functions such as processing, investigations and intelligence - was broken.
"There have been one or two problems. Officers have had to fall back to how they were doing things before," he said.
"Some things were being done on paper and completed into the system when it was running and I think some went back to older systems.
"No work had been lost. It is not untypical with new systems when problems arise and they are worked through.
"It is disappointing? Yes. Is it surprising? No." | Police in Essex have had to resort to pen and paper to process suspects because of problems with a new £32m computer system. |
35,376,833 | The retailer Brantano has 200 outlets across Britain, employing about 2,000 people.
It has shops at Aberystwyth, Broughton in Flintshire, Cardiff, Carmarthen, Holyhead on Anglesey, Pembroke Dock and Rhyl in Denbighshire.
Administrators said the shops would continue to trade while a decision was taken over the future of the business.
"Like many others, Brantano has been hit hard by the change in consumers' shopping habits and the evolution of the UK retail environment," said Tony Barrell, lead administrator for PwC.
"The administrators are continuing to trade the businesses as normal whilst we assess the trading strategy over the coming days and weeks.
"Staff will be paid their arrears of wages and salaries, and will continue to be paid for their work during the administration." | A shoe store chain with eight shops in Wales has called in administrators. |
32,217,819 | The crash happened at Cassiobury Park on Tuesday afternoon.
Jeff Price, who owns the railway, said one woman was taken by her family to hospital for a cut on the head and there were a number of "grazed knees".
Watford Borough Council said no-one was seriously hurt, but the Health and Safety Executive had been informed.
Daniel Reichmann, 26, from Edgware, who was on the train with about 10 other family members, said five minutes into the ride there was "a bang and a crash and a jolt".
He said there were "a number of screams" as one of the carriages derailed and the others behind crashed into it.
Mr Reichmann, a volunteer paramedic and part of the Reichmann family who built Canary Wharf in London, said: "About two or three children were trapped under one of the carriages, but we managed to lift it off. One or two people were thrown out of the carriage.
"There was a lot of screaming, but I assessed the children and there were no broken bones or serious injuries.
"The driver was clearly shocked and immediately offered to refund the ride."
Mr Price said the problem occurred with a faulty spring on one of the carriages, which has since been removed from service.
He said other matters were being dealt with to "mitigate any future risk".
Watford Borough Council, which owns the park but leases the railway to Mr Price, said: "Nobody was seriously injured and the ambulance service was not called to the area.
"The children's train operator will be submitting a report, setting out what has happened to the Health and Safety Executive and they will determine if further investigation and action is needed." | A number of children became "trapped" under a railway carriage after a miniature train ride in a Watford park derailed, eyewitnesses have said. |
35,427,580 | It has received hundreds of complaints from owners of new homes about poor broadband.
According to the Home Builders Federation, BT Openreach has failed to connect new homes on time.
In response, Openreach said it was "working hard to fix this issue".
It acknowledged that it had a backlog of new homes waiting to be connected to broadband.
"The rapid growth in the number of new homes being built around the country has resulted in some owners of new build properties having to wait longer than usual for their phone and broadband service," it said in a statement.
"Openreach would like to apologise to any affected customers and is working hard to fix this issue. We have also stated our ambition to provide infrastructure to all homes in new build developments before customers move in.
"Close liaison with developers is critical so Openreach continues to work closely with the house-building community to better plan for and deliver the capacity and infrastructure needed."
Openreach, the BT subsidiary responsible for the UK's telecoms infrastructure, is facing increasing pressure over its performance, as regulator Ofcom considers whether to separate the two companies.
In January, a group of more than 100 MPs signed a letter calling for Openreach to be split off.
The HBF offered its own response to the possible break-up of Openreach in October.
In its report, the federation said that it had "grown increasingly concerned at the persistent failure of BT Openreach to connect new build homes in a consistent and timely fashion".
"The poor performance of Openreach in connecting many new build homes to broadband services within a reasonable timeframe is now having an impact on the customer satisfaction levels obtained by the house builder," its report read.
"With broadband now seen as an essential utility it is unsurprising that customers moving into new homes with little or no connectivity feel dissatisfied even when, in some cases, house builders provide mobile broadband services in the interim."
A spokesman for the HBF told the BBC that the relationship with BT has improved in recent months.
Openreach added that it too "has made a lot of progress over the past year in improving its communication with developers".
"Improved processes such as encouraging developers to register new sites with Openreach at the beginning of the planning stage are also helping us to deliver on our commitment to bring fibre to as many new housing developments as possible," it told the BBC.
The telecoms company is expected to make an announcement on its plans to provide broadband services to new homes imminently.
Andrew Ferguson, editor of broadband news site ThinkBroadband said that often timetables between developers and BT clashed.
"Even where developers work with Openreach, the timescale from agreeing to put a cabinet for fibre and going live is around a year (based on the 20-30 private funded cabinets that have done this to date). If a developer can get Openreach on board ahead of time this can be done to coincide with the first house being sold."
He advised buyers wanting a good connection to make sure they checked that broadband was available before purchasing.
"Only when people stop buying homes with bad broadband will developers be forced to consider it with the same importance they give things like electricity and parking," he said.
Hundreds of residents who have recently purchased a new home without broadband, have contacted Cable.co.uk to express their anger.
Dan Howdle, editor-in-chief of the website, said: "It comes as a complete surprise to most new build homebuyers that their ultra-modern home not only offers broadband speeds unfit for basic everyday use, but in some cases no broadband connectivity at all."
Earlier this month Labour MP Chi Onwurah - a former telecoms engineer - said that it was "incomprehensible" that new developments are being built without access to fibre networks. She urged the government to act on the issue.
A spokesman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport said: A DCMS spokesperson said: "Connectivity is something home buyers expect when buying a new build. Government is working closely with industry to address this and we expect to make an announcement on further progress soon." | Many residents moving into newly-built homes are finding broadband services slow or non-existent, an investigation from broadband advice site Cable.co.uk has revealed. |
37,386,888 | The road bridge over the River Wharfe at Tadcaster partially collapsed in December, with a temporary footbridge currently connecting the two sides.
Plans to widen the bridge were agreed at a council meeting, but in a letter the Samuel Smith's Brewery said the proposal contradicted planning policy.
The brewery did not wish to comment.
Repairs to the bridge are set to conclude in December, with paths widened to improve safety for pedestrians.
The seven-page letter said the proposal was "contrary to the provisions of the adopted Development Plan and national planning policy".
It said the move could impact "important nature conservation interests" and did not consider the effect it would have "on the behaviour of flood waters".
Chris Metcalfe, county councillor for Tadcaster at North Yorkshire County Council, said the brewery could apply for a judicial review on the move.
Speaking to BBC Radio York, the Conservative councillor said: "The brewery had every opportunity to lodge any objection within the statutory consultation period.
"It's absolutely mind-blowing to take this view, especially when aware of the public opinion in Tadcaster."
The government pledged £3m for repair work within days of the bridge collapse, and £1.4m was given by the region's Local Enterprise Partnership to widen and strengthen the bridge. | A brewery has lodged an objection to plans to widen a Grade II listed bridge which was damaged by winter flooding in North Yorkshire. |
31,706,131 | The issue is causing pollution and could spread disease, says the boss of Nepal's mountaineering association.
Ang Tshering wants Nepal's government to get visitors to dispose of their waste properly.
He says faeces and urine have been "piling up" for years around the four camps. "Climbers usually dig holes in the snow for their toilet use and leave the human waste there."
More than 700 climbers and guides spend almost two months on the mountain slopes each season, which began this week and ends in May.
"It is a health hazard and the issue needs to be addressed," says Dawa Steven Sherpa, who has been working on clean-up expeditions since 2008.
Some climbers do carry disposable travel toilet bags to use in the higher camps, he explains.
At base camp there are toilet tents, which have drums into which human waste goes. These can be properly disposed of after they are carried to a lower area.
The camps between the base and the summit do have tents and other supplies, but no toilets.
The government in Nepal has yet to come up with a solution to the problem of human waste disposal - but officials will be monitoring the rubbish on the mountain, says the head of the government's mountaineering department Puspa Raj Katuwa
New rules mean each climber must bring 8kg (18lb) of rubbish when they return to base camp.
That is the amount experts believe a climber discards along the route.
Teams also make a $4,000 (£2,600) deposit, which they lose if they don't stick to the rules.
Last year's season was cancelled after 16 local guides were killed in an avalanche in April.
In total, hundreds of people have died trying to scale Mount Everest, which was first conquered by New Zealand climber Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Too much poo and wee is being left behind by climbers on Mount Everest. |
40,910,468 | The borough council said there had been 11 unauthorised incursions at Granville Road this year.
It has set aside the money to prevent further camps being set up on its parks and other pieces of land.
The latest measures include installing knee-high metal barriers and earth mounds around a grassy area between Granville Road, Southcote, and the A4.
A spokesman said fencing would also be installed in Dwyer Road and work had already been carried out to prevent vehicles accessing Coley Recreation Ground and Courage Park.
According to the authority's website, there are no authorised traveller sites in the borough.
National guidelines require councils to assess the need for accommodation for travellers.
The last assessment, carried out in 2006, found a need for seven pitches in Reading but its only provision was a site for travelling show-people at Scours Lane.
The authority's latest draft plan, published in May, said the council was carrying out an updated assessment that was anticipated to "identify a need for pitches arising from the high recent numbers of unauthorised encampments". | Anti-traveller measures are being installed on public land in Reading at a cost of £100,000. |
34,380,490 | The company's shares dropped to a new record low of 69p on Monday, helping push the FTSE 100 down 2%.
Analysts warned slumping metal prices could leave Glencore shares almost worthless because of its heavy debts.
Fears over Glencore's £20bn debt pile have seen its shares drop more than 30% in the past month.
More than £3.5bn was wiped off Glencore's market value after a warning from analysts at Investec.
They wrote that low metals prices "could see almost all equity value eliminated" at the Switzerland-based company.
They also questioned how much Glencore could raise from selling its agriculture division, as "valuing such a volatile business is likely to be tough".
Glencore hopes to generate up to $12bn (£7.9bn) from the sale of its grains business to reduce its debt burden.
The Investec analysts said that without major restructuring, Glencore and another debt-laden mining firm, Anglo American, could see their value "evaporate".
Shares in London-listed Anglo American also fell 10%.
Hunter Hillcoat, an analyst at Investec, said: "Mining companies gorged themselves on cheap debt in a race to grow production following the Chinese stimulus that occurred in the wake of the great financial crisis.
"The consequences are only now coming home to roost, as mines take a long time to build."
Fears of a slowdown in China's economy has weighed on metal prices, with copper, aluminium and nickel all down more than 25% compared to a year ago. | Shares in commodity giant Glencore plunged almost 30% after analysts raised fears about lower metal prices. |
36,367,521 | North Yorkshire County Council voted 7-4 in favour of Third Energy's application to extract shale gas at a site near Kirby Misperton in Ryedale.
Friends of the Earth and Frack Free Ryedale said they would be seeking legal advice and launched a People's Declaration in a bid to stop fracking.
Third Energy says the process is safe.
Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at rock to release the gas inside.
Opponents say it can cause water contamination, earthquakes and noise and traffic pollution.
Third Energy's application was passed by the council's planning committee on Monday.
More than 4,300 objections to the application were received and 100 people gave evidence during the two-day hearing. Just 36 representations in support of the application were received.
Ryedale District Councillor Di Keal, of Frack Free Ryedale, told BBC Radio York: "People are very down, people are very upset - there were tears yesterday. But I know people round here, they will stand up and they will fight. This battle does go on.
"We will be looking to take legal opinion on what we can do."
Friends Of The Earth campaigner Simon Bowens said the organisation would "consider all options available, and that includes judicial review", but would not expand on what any legal challenge might focus on.
Both groups are urging people to support their campaign by signing a Public Declaration, which states that "we remain opposed to fracking in Yorkshire, in Britain, and across the world".
Protesters have also raised concerns that passing the application will open the floodgates to hundreds of other wells.
But planning committee chairman Peter Sowray said: "This planning application has nothing to do with any more wells. It was just about the test stimulation of the one well."
He said some opposition was based on "emotions" rather than "genuine planning reasons", and he was confident in the safety assurances given by Third Energy and the Environment Agency.
Since the application was passed, Conservative councillor Cliff Trotter, who voted in favour of fracking, said he had received intimidating emails.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "Yes, a few. But that's par for the course, I suppose."
Third Energy operations director John Dewar said he was "absolutely confident" that the operation - called KM8 - would run according to plan. He could not say whether fracking there would be commercially viable.
"What we can't predict at this moment in time how much [gas] will flow and how long it will flow for," he said.
"We do know the gas is down there and I'm absolutely confident we will be able to fracture each of the five zones safely, and then we just have to wait and see what quantity and what rate of gas comes back."
The onshore energy industry has welcomed the decision.
The chief executive of UK Onshore Oil and Gas, Ken Cronin, said fracking could help to combat climate change.
He said: "What we've seen in the US is a massive reduction in emissions coming from the electricity sector, as a result of a shift from coal to gas.
"We've also seen a very significant shift from coal to gas in this country over the course of the last six months.
"And that's partly down to the North Sea, partly down to on-shore and also partly down to renewables." | Anti-fracking campaigners are considering a possible legal challenge after plans to begin the controversial technique were approved by councillors. |
33,115,246 | The boy shot and fatally wounded himself in the chest after finding the gun at his home near Cincinnati.
In a 911 audiotape release by police, the boy's mother Elizabeth Green is heard reporting the incident.
"My son just shot himself and I'm not getting a pulse," she is heard screaming. Prosecutors are considering whether to charge her.
In the call, she said she keeps the gun in her purse and had set the purse down at home before the tragedy.
"The gun is mine. It is in the house, I carry it in my purse, I laid it down. We just got home," the mother told the 911 operator.
The boy has been identified as Marques Green, according to local media.
A detective was seen leaving the home with a small black handgun, and placing it into an evidence bag.
This is the second accidental shooting death of a child this month in this region of Ohio.
About 100 children die in the US every year in accidental shootings, according to data compiled by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. | A three-year-old boy has killed himself while playing with his mother's handgun, according to police in Ohio. |
33,341,163 | The FT reported earlier that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had sent a letter on Tuesday saying Greece would accept most of the conditions offered last weekend.
The news ignited European markets, with the FTSE 100 up 1.24% at 6601.86.
Germany's Dax index was up 2.15%, while France's Cac 40 index jumped 1.94%.
The news also led to Greek bond prices rising, cutting their yields, and yields in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese bonds also fell.
On Tuesday, Greece missed its deadline for a €1.5bn payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
It meant Greece is the first advanced country to fail to repay a loan to the IMF and is now formally in arrears.
Two key meetings took place to discuss aid for Greece on Wednesday. In one, officials with the European Central Bank (ECB) talked about whether to grant an emergency loan to Greece.
In the second, eurozone finance ministers discussed Greece's latest proposal for a third bailout. It would last two years and amount to €29.1bn.
On the currency markets, the euro fell 0.52% against the dollar to $1.10830. The pound fell 0.13% against the euro to €1.40880 and was 0.62% lower against the dollar at $1.56110
On the London market, banks saw some of the biggest gains, with Royal Bank of Scotland up 3.19%.
Airline shares were also higher after the government's Airports Commission recommended the building of a third runway at Heathrow.
Easyjet shares rose 2.39% while British Airways owner IAG was up 1.58%. | (Close): Shares in London and across Europe rose sharply on reports that Greece will accept most of its creditors' bailout conditions. |
35,320,021 | In the latest Republican debate for White House hopefuls, Mr Trump told his rival: "There's a big question mark over your head."
The constitution mandates the president be a "natural born citizen" of the US.
Issues of national security, the economy and foreign policy have also played heavily in the debate.
In the polls, the pair are leading the five other candidates, who were also on the stage in North Charleston.
The debate came just two weeks before the first real test of the campaign, when voters in Iowa pick their Republican and Democratic choices for president.
"Cruz acquitted himself well, cementing his status as the front-runner's chief opponent," writes Howard Kurtz for Fox News. "But Trump didn't suffer, and in fact may have had his strongest debate performance... The two-man top tier remains just that, way ahead of the rest of the field."
"For much of his career in Washington, Ted Cruz has been dismissed as a cartoonish sideshow," Michael Barbaro notes in the New York Times. However, he "did not just dominate much of the Republican debate, he slashed, he mocked, he charmed and he outmanoeuvred everybody else on stage".
"Donald Trump and Ted Cruz had an unofficial non-aggression pact at the first five Republican presidential debates... but the sixth one Thursday night quickly became a flurry of mutual scorn," writes Susan Page in USA Today.
"There were only three real players in this exercise: Trump, Cruz and Rubio," according to Josh Marshall on the Talking Points Memo website. "Trump wins, Cruz loses a bit of ground but not much and the clock continues to run out on Rubio."
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The sixth Republican presidential debate was the political equivalent of a wrestling "battle royale", where fists fly, chairs are thrown, the crowd cheers and the referees flee for safety.
There could have been no clearer indication that the Cruz-Trump honeymoon was over. The two candidates who stand atop the Republican presidential opinion polls had exchanged warm words through much of the campaign but with the Iowa caucuses just two weeks away, the niceties have melted away.
They exchanged barbs over Mr Cruz's Canadian birthplace and Mr Trump's alleged liberal "New York values".
From there, numerous side fights broke out. Rubio v Christie over Mr Christie's tenure as New Jersey governor. Trump v Kasich, Rubio v Bush on trade. Rubio v Cruz on immigration. Each candidate could boast a strong moment or two, but each also felt the sting of their competitors' barbs.
A battle royale is supposed to end when only one participant is left standing. In Charleston, however, all the candidates survived - but all were bloodied.
The event hosted by Fox Business Network came after days of Mr Cruz and Mr Trump taking shots at each other, shattering a months-long period of goodwill between the two men.
The start of hostilities began a week ago when the billionaire businessman started raising questions about whether the Texas senator's birth in Canada put his eligibility in doubt.
But on the debate stage on Thursday night, Mr Cruz said there was "zero chance" of a lawsuit succeeding because the constitution's definition of "natural born citizens" included people born to an American parent.
Mr Cruz was born in Calgary to an American mother and a Cuban father.
But the business mogul stood firm, noting that a Harvard law scholar had raised doubts and Mr Cruz could face lawsuits by Democrats wishing to challenge his qualification.
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They also argued over the meaning of "New York values", which Mr Cruz threw at the New York billionaire as a slur on his conservative credentials.
But the New Yorker said that was an insult to the "great people" who pulled together after the 9/11 attacks.
After the debate, Mr Trump told reporters: "I guess the bromance is over."
All the candidates targeted leading Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who was repeatedly attacked for her time as Secretary of State.
The primary contests, in which each party picks their nominee for president, begin in February and the presidential election is in November. | Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has attacked Ted Cruz over his birth in Canada, saying it raises questions about his presidential eligibility. |
40,753,751 | UCAS announced earlier this year that there had been a notable decrease in students from England applying to do at least one nursing course, saying it had fallen 23% to 33,810 in 2017.
Chancellor Philip Hammond spoke last week about the "very high numbers of foreign workers keeping our NHS going".
Looking at the figures from NHS Digital, overall, 82% of NHS staff are UK nationals, with 5% from the European Economic Area (EEA, that's the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and 6% from the rest of the world. The remaining 7% are of unknown nationalities.
The unknowns are relatively high because they come from electronic staff records, not HR information, and it is not compulsory for staff to declare their nationalities for those records.
For doctors, it's 70% UK, 9% EEA, 16% from the rest of the world and 5% unknown.
And for nurses and health visitors it is 78% UK, 7% EEA, 8% from the rest of the world and 6% unknown.
To put that into context, according to the latest labour market figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 7.3% of workers in the UK are EU nationals while 3.9% are from the rest of the world.
Clearly, the unknowns throw comparisons out a bit, but the proportion of NHS staff from the EEA appears to be a bit below the workforce as a whole while there are considerably more from the rest of the world than the workforce average.
For doctors, there are proportionally more foreign nationals than in the workforce as a whole, especially for those from the rest of the world.
If you look at the figures for where doctors earned their qualifications, the rest of the world comes even higher with 27%, compared with 64% from the UK and 9% from the EEA.
Nurses from the EEA work in the NHS in the same proportion as the rest of the workforce while nurses from the rest of the world are overrepresented.
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Follow us on Twitter | From Tuesday 1 August, most new students of areas such as nursing, midwifery and physiotherapy will no longer be able to apply for grants, and will have access instead to the student loans system. |
36,458,894 | The actress's mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe, had ancestral links to Scotland, according to Clan Munro USA.
It believes that an ancestor of Monroe, an alternative spelling of the Scottish surname Munro, was a Highland soldier banished to America in the 1650s.
The society has offered free DNA test kits to Munro men of Highland origin in the hope of learning more.
The search was unveiled to coincide with what would have been Monroe's 90th birthday earlier this month. The star of Some Like it Hot died of an overdose at 36 in August 1962.
Since the launch, Clan Munro USA - which is being assisted in its efforts by the Clan Munro Association in Scotland - has started receiving replies to its offer of DNA kits.
It will take several months to complete the testing and analyse the results.
Clan Munro USA hopes to trace Monroe's Scottish roots through YDNA testing. The Y chromosome is only carried by men and is passed virtually unchanged from father to son.
The society has already tracked down and tested a living descendant of Monroe's great grandfather.
The results were compared to the others in its Munro DNA Project, a database of hundreds of samples provided by Munros living all over the world whose family trees have been studied.
The project includes the descendants of Munros from Easter Ross in the Highlands, also the fifth US president James Monroe and Scots soldiers who were imprisoned and then banished to Britain's America colonies after the Battle of Worcester in 1651.
Worcester was the last battle of the English Civil Wars and involved thousands of Scots combatants.
Texas-based Mark Monroe, of Clan Munro USA, said the YDNA test already done had shown that the Hollywood actress was a descendant of one of those soldiers, said to be a Highlander whose family came from Aldie, near Tain, in the Munro clan's Easter Ross stronghold.
Mr Monroe said: "The YDNA sample marker values matched with other YDNA samples in the Munro YDNA project that then tied her ancestry to a John Munro who settled in Bristol, Rhode Island, after being captured at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 and banished to America."
"We do not know the ancestry of John Munro, but there are likely male Scots living today who have the same characteristic YDNA marker values and, thus, could prove to be cousins of Marilyn Monroe." | An effort to find Scottish relatives of Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe has begun. |
33,652,770 | About 9,000 tonnes of the rock will be re-aligned on Happisburgh beach over the next 12 weeks.
Beach debris, old sea defences, timber, rubble, concrete and sheet steel piles will also be removed so sea defences will be ready for any winter storms.
A consultant archaeologist will work with contractors as numerous historical finds have been made in the area.
In May 2013 the beach revealed the earliest human footprints outside Africa.
Hand-axes have also been found indicating that the area had been home to the earliest human occupation in northern Europe.
The huge rocks at Happisburgh were set down following the failure of previous sea defences.
Now the cliff has receded further so the rocks need to be moved closer to land to be more effective.
The work will cost up to £75,000, depending on the debris that needs clearing, and will start on Monday.
Angie Fitch-Tillett, cabinet member at North Norfolk District Council, said: "This work is essential and it needs to be undertaken when the beach level and weather conditions are good.
"I know the community has been waiting for the work to happen, although it is unfortunate that it'll take place during the peak holiday season."
The car park, new play area and beach access ramp will remain open but people will only be able to walk on the long sandy stretch to the east. | Huge rock sea defences designed to slow down erosion on the Norfolk coast are to be moved closer to crumbling cliffs. |
25,636,555 | Peter Capaldi, who has replaced Matt Smith as the Time Lord, joined co-star Jenna Coleman in Cardiff.
The actor, and lifelong Doctor Who fan, said: "New job, first day, slightly nervous. Just like the Doctor, I'm emerging from the Tardis into a whole other world."
Capaldi appeared in the hit BBC show during the Christmas Day episode.
The show's writer Steven Moffat said: "First the eyebrows. Then, at Christmas, the face. Coming soon, the whole Doctor. In the Cardiff studios, the Capaldi era begins."
Filming on the latest series of the show will continue until August with director Ben Wheatley coming on board. | The new Doctor Who has admitted to first-day nerves after stepping onto the show's set in south Wales. |
37,031,301 | Bedfordshire Police said the car did not stop when officers signalled for it to pull over, and then hit a property in High Town Road, Luton.
The teenager died at the scene, and a man was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
Officers are "particularly keen" to speak to a third person believed to have been in the car at the time of the crash.
Witnesses reported seeing a man fleeing from the vehicle with a police helicopter involved in the search for him.
People affected by the damage to the shop were evacuated from the building and a structural engineer was called to make the scene safe.
The force has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission "in line with standard protocol", a spokesman said.
"Anyone who witnessed the incident, or saw the Volkswagen Golf - which has a black bonnet and black roof - prior to the collision, is asked to contact police," the force said. | A teenage girl was killed when the car she was in crashed into a shop front. |
38,682,574 | Here are some side-by-side comparisons of Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009 and Donald Trump's in 2017.
App users should tap here to fully explore the interactive images. | It's been eight years since a new president took the oath of office at the US Capitol. |
36,526,166 | The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate was kept low as a fall in the price of clothing offset rising transport costs.
The Bank of England has an inflation target of 2%, but has failed to meet this for more than two years.
Analysts said the low rate of inflation meant it was unlikely the Bank would raise interest rates for some time.
The ONS said the main upward pressure on the inflation rate came from transport costs, which rose by 0.9% between April and May, partly due to higher diesel costs.
However, offsetting this was clothing and footwear prices, which dropped 0.2% between April and May, while food and drink prices fell 0.4%.
The rate of inflation as measured by the Retail Prices Index, which includes some housing costs, rose to 1.4% in May from 1.3% the month before.
In the years since the financial crisis of 2008, the Bank has been trying to lift economic activity and it has kept interest rates at record lows of 0.5% for seven years,
The Bank's interest rate-setting committee, the Monetary Policy Committee, meets this week to discuss interest rates. At its last meeting, all nine members of the MPC voted not to change interest rates.
The Bank's most recent forecast, in May, said inflation would remain below 1% until late into 2016, and would stay below the 2% target until 2018.
Weak energy prices have helped to cut inflation in the past couple of years. The price of oil is currently about $50 a barrel, less than half the peak of $115 reached in 2014.
Food prices in the UK have also fallen due to a price-war between the major supermarkets.
The picture of low inflation and interest rates is a similar one in many developed world economies.
Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, said the inflation figures added "to the view that no hike in interest rates is on the horizon" and gave "policymakers leeway to add stimulus to the economy if needed".
He added: "Subdued wage growth should help keep the headline rate down below the Bank's target." | The UK's inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, was unchanged in May at 0.3%, figures show. |
40,516,576 | Andrew Bailey said there should be common rules and a mechanism for resolving disputes between UK and EU financial firms following Brexit.
He said UK firms should to be given more information on plans for Brexit before the end of this year.
But he admitted the picture he was painting was "what we should aspire to" rather than a definite prediction.
"My question is... whether restricting trade is an inevitable or a necessary response to Brexit and in the interests of anyone?" he said.
"I hope you will not be surprised to hear that my answer to these is 'No'".
He was speaking to an audience of business journalists and representatives of the financial services industry at Thomson Reuters in Canary Wharf and addressing concerns over what will happen to London's large financial services industry after the UK leaves the European Union.
He suggested the City of London should be given a transitional period during which it could "continue with current arrangements while whatever comes next, is put into effect".
Banks and other financial institutions are drawing up contingency plans and some have indicated they plan to shift jobs and business to other European locations once the UK leaves the European Union.
Mr Bailey said firms would need more information on the government's Brexit blueprint by the end of this year if they were to avoid putting those contingency plans into action.
What Brexit will look like and how it will work seem increasingly to depend on where you are standing.
Michel Barnier, the EU's Chief Negotiator for Brexit warned today that you are either in the Single Market or you are not, there can be no special deals for different parts of the economy; while Andrew Bailey, the head of the FCA, the UK finance industry's regulator, says firms won't have to move to the EU after Brexit nor do you have to be in the single market to get the benefits of free trade with the EU.
It may seem difficult to reconcile those views, but not impossible.
Andrew Bailey sees a deal negotiated between the UK and the EU which respects each others' rules and regulations, coordinates regulation and agrees on a mechanism to solve disputes.
But he also added firms in the City would want to see the details such a deal by the end of this year, or they might decide the risks are too high of no deal being agreed and decide to move anyway.
That timetable seems very ambitious, the talks have yet to agree on such details as citizens' rights or the bill for leaving, if any.
While Mr Barnier's emphasis that there will be no special deals for different British industries, seems to undermine the British financial sector's demand that it maintains open access to the EU.
As Mr Barnier also said today, the EU has made its views very clear on these issues but he was "not sure they have been fully understood across the Channel."
Other European countries have indicated they would like to see more business, such as the clearing of euro denominated derivatives, which London dominates, move to cities remaining within the EU.
"When I hear people say that firms need to relocate in order to continue to benefit from access to EU financial markets, I start to seriously wonder: Does Brexit have to mean abandoning the benefits of free trade and open markets in financial services? It should not," Mr Bailey said.
"Does it require membership of the Single Market to get the benefits of free trade with the EU? No."
Mr Bailey said that while he viewed competition between locations as healthy, Brexit should not be used as an excuse to restrict where firms located their operations, or activities such as clearing.
He said he hoped there could be a sensible and pragmatic solution to maintaining open markets in financial services and that four key elements that would be required to make that work: "comparability of rules, but not exact mirroring; supervisory co-ordination; exchange of information; and a mechanism to deal with differences when they occur."
"My own view is quite clearly what comes next should not look very different to what we have now but we require some sort of institutional view to make it work." | Brexit should not end open financial markets in Europe, the head of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority has said. |
41,010,988 | The Inspector General of Police, Kale Kayihura, said that a suspect had confessed to killing eight women on the orders of businessmen.
The murders were for ritual sacrifices, Gen Kayihura told residents of Nansana municipality.
Local media say 17 women have been killed in a gruesome manner since May.
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Police spokesman Asan Kasingye told the BBC that while the murders occurred in the same district, they were not all related.
He said that in the majority of cases, the victims were sex workers who had been raped and strangled in isolated places in "the wee hours of the morning".
"Two were students," he said, adding that in five cases the women had been killed by their estranged partners.
Mr Kasingye said the municipalities were at least 60 km (40 miles) apart.
He said that Gen Kayihura was reacting to local media reports that the police had failed to apprehend the culprits.
"In all but one of the cases the suspects have been apprehended," Mr Kasingye said. | Uganda police say they have arrested a number of suspects over a recent spate of killings of women near the capital, Kampala. |
36,773,555 | The education watchdog has been examining how well colleges implement the Prevent counter-extremism strategy.
In one case, inspectors said a student had watched a "terrorist propaganda video" in a resource centre.
Ofsted's Paul Joyce said there was "poor practice that I've no doubt would shock parents and learners alike".
The report from Ofsted, based on visits to 37 further education and skills providers and 46 regular inspections or monitoring visits, concluded that too many students were at risk of "radicalisation and extremism".
It found that general further education colleges and sixth-form colleges were "making good progress" with carrying out the Prevent duties on tackling extremism.
But there were particular concerns about small, independent providers, who might be "leaving learners at risk".
Ofsted inspectors warned of a lack of safeguards for internet use and found examples where students had been able to "bypass" online security settings to visit websites "selling firearms" or "promoting terrorist ideology".
"These included one isolated instance of a learner viewing a terrorist propaganda video in the provider's learning resource centre," the report says.
This is understood to be a video from so-called Islamic State showing a beheading.
The Ofsted report says some colleges have adopted a tougher line on internet access, such as "stringent firewalls" and regular checks on attempts to access inappropriate websites.
And there are colleges that block internet access on students' personal devices when they are on college premises.
There were also some concerns over checks on external speakers.
But, overall, inspectors found that outside speakers helped students to learn about different views, which promoted "tolerance, respect and democracy".
Ofsted's deputy director for further education and skills, Paul Joyce, said that most leaders of FE and sixth-form colleges were making "quick progress" in carrying out their duties under the Prevent strategy, introduced for colleges last year.
But he said it was worrying that for some providers "the progress made in implementing the duty has been slow".
David Corke, the Association of Colleges' director of education and skills, said colleges have been "working incredibly hard to implement the duty, and they will continue to do so as the threat of radicalisation and terrorism is ever present".
"The safeguarding of students is of paramount importance for further education and sixth-form colleges," he said.
But Sally Hunt, general secretary of the UCU lecturers' union, said that colleges had to cope with "vague definitions" and "inconsistent advice" in the debate about challenging radicalisation and protecting free speech.
"The Prevent duty risks doing more harm than good by shutting down debate on contentious topics and creating mistrust between teachers and students," she said.
"College teachers have always taken their duty of care to students very seriously, so the focus on implementing the Prevent duty is both unnecessary and potentially counterproductive."
Skills Minister Nick Boles said: "While the majority of providers have worked hard to implement the safeguards effectively, we recognise there is still further work to do in making the government-funded guidance and training as consistent as possible." | There are warnings from Ofsted that further education providers are "falling short in protecting learners from risk of extremism". |
35,349,618 | Under the new rules, passengers will pay a higher fine if they disturb the pilot. Transport officials say they revised laws because of public demand.
Heather Cho was convicted last February after ordering a taxiing plane back to offload a steward who served the nuts in a way she deemed inappropriate.
The case attracted global attention.
But in South Korea it reopened a national debate about elitism and the Korean business system, which is dominated by family firms known as chaebols.
Besides being the vice-president at Korean Air at that time, Ms Cho - also known as Cho Hyun-ah - is the daughter of the airline's chairman.
During the incident she was angered that she was given macadamia nuts which she did not ask for, and was offended that they were served in a bag, not in a bowl.
After confronting flight staff, she ordered the plane which was taxiing at New York's JFK Airport to turn back and offload the chief steward.
Under the new law, passed by parliamentarians last year, anyone who disturbs the pilot during a flight could face up to five years in prison or a 50 million won ($41,200; £28,900) fine.
Previously the same offence did not have a jail term and only had a 5 million won fine. Crew members are also now compelled to hand over unruly passengers to the police, or risk a 10 million won fine.
"The amended law reflects mounting public demand for enhanced aviation safety and the prevention of unruly behaviour during flight following the Korean Air nut rage incident," the transport ministry said in a press statement.
Ms Cho was convicted of violating airline safety. She served five months in jail before she was freed in May after an appeals court overturned the ruling saying she did not cause a change in flight path. Another conviction of using violence against flight attendants still stands. | South Korea has enacted tougher laws against unruly air passengers, after the so-called nut rage scandal which saw a top Korean Air executive jailed |
34,550,071 | David Thompson will take over from retiring Chief Constable Chris Sims.
Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said: "David Thompson is clearly the best person in the country to do the job."
Mr Thompson said: "I will very much be looking to continue the fantastic work of Mr Sims." | The deputy chief constable of West Midlands Police will take over the top job in January, the force announced today. |
36,010,348 | The 19-year-old said his party, Demosisto, would demand self-determination for Hong Kong.
Mr Wong was a leading figure in the so-called Umbrella Movement in 2014, which aimed to secure greater voting rights for the territory's residents.
"Street activism is not enough if we want to fight for a better future," Mr Wong told the BBC.
"We have to enter the system, create a political party and shape the political agenda, in order to drive forward our movement for self-determination."
Although Mr Wong is too young to run for office, Demosisto will put forward candidates in Legislative Council elections in September.
His televised arrest in September 2014 helped spark pro-democracy protests that would continue for 79 days, paralysing the heart of the city.
But they ultimately failed to win any concessions from the Chinese government.
By BBC Hong Kong correspondent Juliana Liu
Mr Wong recently disbanded his student activist group Scholarism to pave way for the new party.
Its first goal is to contest, and hopefully win, seats in the Legislative Council election in September.
Mr Wong himself, not yet 21, is still too young to run. Three fellow party leaders will stand for election in two districts.
For his part, Joshua Wong says his party rejects violence, but will continue to engage in street politics.
His journey from child activist to party leader has begun.
Read Juliana's full analysis
A founder of student protest group Scholarism, in 2012, Mr Wong rallied more than 100,000 people to protest against Hong Kong's plans to implement mandatory "patriotic education" in schools.
He began his protesting career at just 13, when he demonstrated against plans to build a high-speed rail link between Hong Kong and the mainland.
Two years later, he had set up Scholarism, successfully challenged the government and was firmly in the limelight.
By 2014 his profile was so high, he held a press conference to announce his university entrance exam results.
A former British colony, Hong Kong became a special administrative region of China in 1997. | Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong's most famous pro-democracy campaigners, has launched a new political party. |
40,370,442 | The sculpture in memory of Flt Lt Jon Egging has been cordoned off since the slip at East Cliff in April 2016.
It is to be moved to the top of the East Cliff Zig-Zag path nearby.
His widow Dr Emma Egging said the new site would "allow visitors to continue to remember Jon and honour the teamwork and dedication of the Red Arrows."
The 33-year-old pilot died when his Hawk T1 jet crashed after completing a display at the annual festival in 2011.
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The 5m-high (16ft 4in) artwork, featuring three glass Red Arrows planes and stainless steel contrails, was designed by local schoolchildren and unveiled in August 2012.
Rubble fell down the 30m-high (100ft) rock face in East Cliff on 24 April. The carriages of an Edwardian funicular railway - known as East Cliff Lift - were partially engulfed by the landslip and a block of toilets crushed.
Although undamaged in the landslide, the Jon Egging memorial was close to the edge and was sealed off from public view.
Dr Egging said: "The memorial sculpture to Jon has become such a poignant symbol on the East Cliff, I have seen so many wonderful photographs taken with the glorious blue sky, clifftop and Red Arrows during the Air Festival."
It is hoped the memorial will be moved in time for this year's Bournemouth Air Festival at the end of August. | A memorial to a Red Arrows pilot who died following a display at the Bournemouth Air Festival is to be moved following a cliff landslip last year. |
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