[ { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Four died after their vehicle was reportedly fired on by pro-Russian separatists in Schastye, close to the separatist stronghold of Lugansk.\nTwo others were killed when their vehicle hit an anti-tank mine near the government-held port city of Mariupol.\nA fragile ceasefire has been in force in eastern Ukraine since February.\nThere have been isolated violations of the ceasefire, which was agreed by leaders from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France.\nIn the Schastye incident, the four Ukrainian government troops are said to have died when their vehicle was hit as it drove across a bridge .\nInitial reports said rebels \"had fired an anti-tank missile\", the interior ministry said in a statement.\nIn the mine explosion near Mariupol, two soldiers died at the scene while a third was wounded and taken to hospital, the army said.\nOn Saturday, the government reported the deaths of three soldiers in a mine explosion near Donetsk, another separatist stronghold.\nSome 6,000 people have been killed since fighting broke out in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian government a year ago.\nThe Ukrainian government, Western leaders and Nato say there is clear evidence that Russia has helped the rebels with heavy weapons and soldiers. Independent experts echo that accusation.\nMoscow denies it, insisting that any Russians serving with the rebels are \"volunteers\".", "summary": "Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in two separate incidents in the east of the country, government officials say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Newcastle fought back from 3-1 down to win with two goals in stoppage time.\n\"They worked as hard as you could possibly ask them to and it was honest when they tried to win the header and they've not won it,\" said Neil.\n\"I can't say anything negative about them other than the fact we just didn't defend our box well enough.\"\nNeil believed Newcastle \"didn't do anything out of the ordinary\" in the early part of injury time, with the Canaries having gone for a back three late on in the game by bringing on Ryan Bennett.\nBut Yoan Gouffran equalised in the 95th minute before Dwight Gayle took down a \"straight ball\" forward to score the winner and his hat-trick goal.\nNorwich would have returned to the top of the Championship with a victory, but remain second and the Magpies moved up to third.\n\"I just think at times when we need to see important games out, for whatever reason, we don't make good decisions or win crucial headers,\" Neil told BBC Radio Norfolk.\n\"There's about 100 headers all over the pitch and maybe only five or six are critical headers, and at the moment we aren't winning the critical ones.\"", "summary": "Norwich manager Alex Neil says his side need to win \"more headers\" after Wednesday's dramatic 4-3 defeat at Newcastle United in the Championship." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The blaze broke out at the Earth's Crust Bakery in Laurieston, near Castle Douglas, in the early hours of Monday morning.\nOwners said an \"unexplained electric fault\" had caused the fire which ripped through the building.\nThe business - which started three years ago and is estimated to have produced 12,000 loaves - has been forced to close for the time being.\nA Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said it had receive a call shortly after 06:00 reporting the fire and had sent crews from Dalbeattie and Kirkcudbright.\n\"They arrived to find a fire within a brick building approximately four by six metres in size and a team of four firefighters in breathing apparatus used two high pressure jets to extinguish the flames,\" he said.\n\"Our crews then conducted dampening down operations and cleared debris that would have posed a danger to the public had it been left in place.\n\"Both our appliances left the scene around 8:15am.\"", "summary": "A small artisan bakery in the south of Scotland has been destroyed by fire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 27-year-old Welshman, who arrived in late March, scored 32 points in the last four Pro 12 games.\nTovey said: \"Having the opportunity to come up to Edinburgh and play some rugby was definitely the right move for me and I'm loving it here.\n\"I couldn't have asked for more from the boys over the last six weeks.\"\nAfter a winning debut against Zebre, Tovey was unable to prevent Edinburgh slipping to defeat in their final three matches against Munster, Leinster and Cardiff Blues to finish ninth, one place lower than the last two seasons.\nHead coach Alan Solomons has instilled a structured style of rugby in the capital, spearheaded by a fearsome pack, a robust set-piece and a strong defence but without a great deal of attacking flair.\nEdinburgh only managed to claim a try bonus-point - for scoring four or more in a game - twice this season, crossing the whitewash on a total of 41 occasions.\n\"That's something we've got to look to bring into our game and start scoring a lot more tries,\" Tovey said.\n\"I think the last couple of weeks of the season we tried to change a bit, tried to play a different brand of rugby.\n\"But there's certain times where we've got to go back to that style and use our big heavy pack and I'm sure pre-season will come and we'll try and mix it up a bit more.\n\"That comes down to nine and 10 - they're the ones controlling it.\"\nTovey will compete for the number 10 jersey with Scotland fly-half Duncan Weir, who is joining from Glasgow Warriors.\nWeir could be absent for chunks of the season on international duty and there is likely to be a preference in the Scotland camp for the native man to start.\nHowever, Tovey says he's comfortable playing at full-back if required but will face competition there from impressive youngster Blair Kinghorn and Glenn Bryce, another new signing from Glasgow.\n\"He's a Scottish international, so it's always nice to have two 10s,\" Tovey said of Weir. \"Hopefully both playing well at the same time, creating competition and getting the best out of each other.\n\"I'm not too sure about playing 12. I started off my career at full-back, so there'd be no dramas there, but Blair Kinghorn this season's been great and we've got Glenn Bryce coming in as well - two quality full-backs.\"", "summary": "Fly-half Jason Tovey has signed a two-year contract with Edinburgh until May 2018 after a loan spell from Newport Gwent Dragons." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is the first European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) to reach that stage, the European Commission says.\nThere are strict rules for such mass initiatives - and the EU is not obliged to enshrine such a proposal in law, even if it clears all the hurdles.\nAn ECI requires more than one million signatures in at least seven countries.\nThe water campaign, called Right2Water, was given a hearing with the European Commission and European Parliament on Monday, so that the organisers could present their case.\nRight2Water was set up by a European trade union federation, EPSU, which claims to represent the interests of eight million public service workers across Europe.\nOn its website the campaign says the management of water resources should \"not be subject to 'internal market rules'\" and should be \"excluded from liberalisation\".\nRight2Water collected nearly 1.9 million signatures of support.\nStephen Tindale, an analyst at an EU-focused think-tank, the Centre for European Reform, said the ECI mechanism was a useful way to put an issue on the EU's agenda.\nThe mechanism was launched in April 2012, as an effort to empower European citizens and encourage direct democracy.\n\"It requires the Commission to meet groups, consider the issue and give a response, but it won't necessarily lead to a change in policy,\" Mr Tindale told the BBC.\nHe said Right2Water's desire to exempt water supplies from liberalisation \"won't go anywhere, because the Commission regards it as its primary function to promote the single market\".\nThe Commission, which drafts EU laws, has to give a full, formal response to the initiative by 20 March, Commission spokesman Antonio Gravili told the BBC.\nRight2Water \"is the first to come to us with enough signatures validated by member states,\" he said.\nThe Commission's response will require the approval of all 28 commissioners. There were various options, Mr Gravili said. For example, \"it could be yes to parts of the proposal, or yes but not by legislative means\".\nTwo other ECIs are likely to be considered by the Commission soon. One is called One of Us, which is a campaign urging the EU to ban \"the destruction of human embryos, in particular in the areas of research, development aid and public health\". Such a ban would have a big impact on stem cell research in Europe.\nThe other initiative, called Stop Vivisection, aims to stop EU funding for animal experimentation.\nOrdinary EU citizens can also raise issues directly with the European Parliament through petitions, but Mr Tindale said ECIs could have a bigger impact on the EU agenda.\n\"Just having a debate in the European Parliament doesn't achieve much, but getting something considered by the Commission has potential,\" he said.\nMr Gravili called the ECI a successful tool to encourage bottom-up initiatives - \"citizens telling us what's important to them, getting it on to the agenda at European level\".\nHe called it a form of \"transnational participatory democracy which has never been done before at such a level\".\nEven rejected ECIs were important, he said, because \"they encourage people to organise across borders, on things they are passionate about\".", "summary": "A grassroots initiative to protect the quality of Europe's drinking water and stop it being privatised has got on to the agenda of EU lawmakers in Brussels." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a statement, the BNP accused him of trying to \"destabilise\" the party and \"harassing\" party members.\nIn a tweet, Mr Griffin took issue with the decision, accusing the party leadership of \"plastic gangster games\".\nMr Griffin stepped down as party leader in July after 15 years at the top. The party saw its vote collapse in May's elections, in which Mr Griffin lost his seat in the European Parliament.\nThe BNP said the decision to expel Mr Griffin had been taken by its conduct committee following an investigation after he stepped down as leader.\nIt accused him of seeking to \"destabilise\" the party and \"embroil it in factionalism\".\nSpecifically, it claimed Mr Griffin prepared and leaked \"damaging and defamatory\" allegations about senior members of the party and its finances.\nIt also accused him of \"harassing members of BNP staff and in at least one case making physical threats\" as well as publishing e-mails giving a false account of his own financial affairs after he was declared bankrupt in January.\nIt also suggested that he had ignored warnings from Adam Walker, the party's chairman, that he was bringing the BNP into disrepute.\n\"Although we all appreciate that Nick has achieved a lot for our party in the past, we must also remember that the party is bigger than any individual,\" Clive Jefferson, a member of the conduct committee, said in a statement.\n\"Nick did not adjust well to being given the honorary title of president and it soon became obvious that he was unable to work as an equal member of the team and alarmingly his behaviour became more erratic and disruptive.\"\nAnalysis: Iain Watson, BBC political correspondent\nWhy the fuss over the internal machinations of a party which has no MPs, no MEPs - and which polls suggest commands the support of about one per cent of voters?\nWell, for many people Nick Griffin was the BNP, and his personal - and his party's - fortunes appeared intertwined. But 2014 hasn't been a good year for him.\nHe lost his seat in the European Parliament, was declared bankrupt, replaced as party leader and has now been expelled from the party.\nHe says he will not '\"resort to the BBC gutter\" to air his grievances - the members will sort it all out, he says. But a political comeback looks like a very tall order.\nRead more from Iain Watson\nIn response, Mr Griffin said he had been \"expelled without a trial\".\nHe accused the party of \"operating outside the constitution\", adding that he would \"ignore their plastic gangster games\".\nMr Griffin has been the public face of the BNP for more than a decade, during which time the party increased its popular support despite being dogged by allegations of racism, which it has always rejected.\nBut the BNP's fortunes have slumped in recent years amid internal divisions and questions over the party's future direction.\nWhile it won more than 6% of the vote in the 2009 European elections, when Mr Griffin and one other colleague were elected, it garnered just over 1% of the vote in May.\nThe party has also lost the majority of its council representatives.\nMr Griffin told political correspondent Ross Hawkins that he would not speak to the BBC about the dispute but insisted he would \"sort it out\" with party members.\nThe party's divisions, he added, were linked to its slump in electoral support since 2009 but observers also claimed that there had been arguments over the party's financial affairs.", "summary": "The British National Party says it has expelled its ex-leader Nick Griffin." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The unnamed Slovakian national, who was being sought for multiple serious sexual offences in his native country, was found in Girlington on Saturday.\nOfficers searched three different homes before he was found at a fourth address.\nHe has been arrested and taken to a detention centre before being deported, West Yorkshire Police said.\nIn a Facebook posting, the force said it was \"feeling accomplished\" and several officers had \"conducted enquiries\" in that part of Bradford, looking for the man who they said had links to the area.\nIt added: \"After speaking with members of the local community four different addresses in Girlington were searched by the above officers. The male was located at the fourth address hiding behind a wardrobe.\n\"Good mornings work!\"", "summary": "One of the UK's \"most wanted\" men has been found hiding behind a wardrobe in Bradford, police have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In five areas of the country, more than half the adult population has savings below that level.\nThose areas are Northern Ireland, the West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber, North East England and Wales.\nThe MAS said the findings were worrying and presented a particular challenge for low earners.\n\"These figures show the millions put at risk by the saving gaps in the UK,\" said Nick Hill, money expert at the service.\n\"For some on low incomes, saving is a real challenge as they may simply lack the income needed to save at all.\"\nThe research was carried out for MAS by the consumer data company CACI which has a database of 48m UK adults.\nHowever, the research also showed that some people on low incomes do save money.\nRoughly a quarter of adults with household incomes below £13,500 have more than £1,000 in savings.\nAnd 40% of people in that income bracket manage to save something every month.\nMartyn Alonzo is 53 and from the West Midlands. He earns £13,000 a year delivering stationery and installing furniture.\nSix months ago he was not managing to save anything.\n\"I just seemed to be working to eat and survive,\" he says. \"I couldn't get any money behind me.\"\nBut after getting involved with a Money Advice Service project to learn about saving, he has now managed to save £800.\nHe and his in-laws now pool their shopping bills by cooking for four people rather than two.\n\"I'll buy a packet of mince for £3, and make two meals out of it: lasagne and spaghetti bolognaise. I'm totally de-stressed with it all.\"\nThe MAS says saving small amounts on a regular basis is achievable for most people.\n\"Regular saving is key to building up that buffer against those life surprises,\" said Mr Hill.\n\"If you earn enough to set even a little aside each month that's great - a direct debit into a savings account might be an easy way to do this, even if you start small and increase the amount with time.\"\nSince April, basic-rate taxpayers have been allowed to earn up to £1,000 a year in a savings account, and pay no income tax.\nThe Personal Savings Allowance, as it is known, is £500 a year for higher-rate taxpayers, while there is no allowance for those paying the top rate of tax.", "summary": "More than 16m people in the UK have savings of less than £100, a study by the Money Advice Service (MAS) has found." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said phytoplankton has washed up on the shores at Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, West Angle in Pembrokeshire, and Pendine in Carmarthenshire.\nDespite looking like pollution, NRW said the seaweed-smelling foam is harmless.\nPhytoplankton is eaten by marine life.", "summary": "A runny green slurry which has appeared on some beaches around the Welsh coast is algae, not sewage, an environment watchdog has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sixers, who lost their first six group games and are now on a nine-game winning streak, will meet city rivals Sydney Thunder in Sunday's final.\nHurricanes, led by England's Heather Knight, made 86-8 from 14 overs.\nSet 55 from eight overs to win, Alyssa Healy and Ellyse Perry helped Sixers to a 10-wicket win with 10 balls to spare.\nThe Duckworth-Lewis-adjusted target proved too easy for Australia stars Healy (32 not out) and Perry (22 not out), who raced to their target without loss.\nSixers were also indebted to veteran ex-Australia spinner Lisa Sthalekar, who came out of retirement for this tournament and took 3-9 from her three overs.\nShe captured the key wickets of captain Knight (16), Erin Burns (26) and New Zealand left-hander Amy Satterthwaite (24) - the only three Hurricanes players to make double figures.\nIt leaves Sixers all-rounder Laura Marsh as the only England player left in the WBBL, although she did not play in the semi-final and has only featured in six of their 15 games.\nAlso at the MCG on Friday, Melbourne Stars beat Perth Scorchers by seven wickets in the second men's Big Bash League semi-final, joining Sydney Thunder in Sunday's final.", "summary": "Sydney Sixers cruised into the inaugural Women's Big Bash League final after beating Hobart Hurricanes in a rain-affected semi-final in Melbourne." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nSharapova, 28, revealed on Monday that she tested positive for the banned substance meldonium in January.\nA number of sponsors have already distanced themselves from the Russian.\nPound cannot understand how Sharapova found herself in this situation, given the high stakes involved, both professionally and financially.\n\"Running a $30m business depends on you staying eligible to play tennis,\" he told BBC Sport.\nSharapova has been the highest-earning female athlete in the world in each of the past 11 years, according to the Forbes list.\nHowever, sportswear giant Nike has suspended its relationship with the five-time Grand Slam winner, while watch manufacturer Tag Heuer has cut its ties.\nGerman carmaker Porsche said it was \"postponing planned activities\" with Sharapova until the situation became clearer.\nSharapova says she has taken meldonium since 2006 for health reasons.\nHowever, it became a banned substance on 1 January after Wada deemed it had performance-enhancing properties.\nPound, who was head of Wada from 1999 to 2007, said Sharapova had made a \"big mistake\" and \"should have known\" the consequences of using it.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"Anytime there is a change to the list, notice is given on 30 September prior to the change,\" he said.\n\"You have October, November, December to get off what you are doing.\n\"All the tennis players were given notification of it and she has a medical team somewhere. That is reckless beyond description.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nMeldonium could have a positive effect on stamina and endurance because it has the ability to increase oxygen movement to muscles.\nPound said it was eventually added to the banned list because a lot of people began taking it for performance-enhancing reasons.\nHe added that most of the drugs of choice for dopers were \"built for therapeutic reasons\", like EPO, but that they all had side-effects that could be put to use by those seeking to gain an advantage over their rivals.\nGrindeks, the Latvian company that manufactures meldonium, said a typical course of treatment should only run to a few weeks.\n\"Depending on the patient's health condition, treatment course of meldonium preparations may vary from four to six weeks,\" its statement read.\n\"Treatment can be repeated twice or thrice a year. Only physicians can follow and evaluate patient's health condition and state whether the patient should use meldonium for a longer period of time.\"\nIn response, Sharapova's lawyer, John Haggerty, said she had not been taking the drug every day for 10 years.\n\"That's simply not the case,\" he said, adding that she took meldonium \"in accordance with the recommendations of her doctor\".\nThe International Tennis Federation said Sharapova will be provisionally suspended from 12 March.\nShe faces up to a four-year ban, but Pound, 73, says suspensions can be reduced if \"there is absolutely zero fault on the part of the athlete\".\nHe said it was the ITF's responsibility to \"propose\" any ban and warned that Wada could appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for an increase if it did not think the punishment was sufficient.\nSharapova's announcement, made at a hotel in Los Angeles on Monday, has polarised opinions.\nWorld number one Serena Williams, who had beaten Sharapova at the Australian Open on 26 January before she tested positive, said the Russian has shown \"a lot of courage\" for accepting responsibility.\nHowever, British sprinter Jeanette Kwakye, who was a 100m finalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, criticised Sharapova and felt her high public profile might mean she escapes with a light sentence.\n\"What we have in Maria Sharapova is a media darling,\" said Kwakye.\n\"She knows how to work the world of media, she knows how to spin and put things in her favour by breaking her own news.\n\"For somebody like her, it may be a lenient slap on the wrist.\"", "summary": "Maria Sharapova's failed drugs test was \"reckless beyond description\", according to former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In the ad, a man dressed in tradesman's clothing criticises the opposition Labor Party for its stance on banks, enterprise and tax concessions.\nThe man's delivery was lampooned as unconvincing and the hashtag #faketradie trended on social media.\nBut a Liberal Party spokesman insisted a genuine tradesman was used in the ad.\n\"We are very pleased that people are talking about this ad which highlights the risks of [Labor leader] Bill Shorten's war on business. The tradie is real,\" a statement said.\nThe ad received a relentless battering on Twitter for its heavy-handed use of Australian slang and its plea for voters to \"stick with the current mob for a while\".\nSome wags pointed out the odd placement of the man's saw equipment on a road outside of the construction site. Others noted that the man in the ad appeared to be wearing an expensive watch.\nOpposition Leader Bill Shorten jumped on the #faketradie bandwagon, saying: \"The problem with the Liberal ad is exactly the same problem with [Prime Minister Malcolm] Turnbull - Australians can spot a fake when they see one\".\nThe Australian Council of Trade Unions claimed that the man in the ad was an actor named Andrew MacRae.\nBut Mr MacRae told the Daily Mail he had nothing to do with the ad. Although he has not yet been named, it appears the #faketradie is in fact a #realtradie.\nThe marathon election campaign entered its seventh week on Monday, with the Labor opposition attacking the government over what it says are plans to privatise the public health system, Medicare.\nThe government dismissed the claims as a scare campaign and guaranteed that no part of Medicare would be privatised.", "summary": "An army of amateur internet critics has turned on the latest Australian election campaign ad from Australia's conservative Coalition government." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In the run-up to Sunday's British Grand Prix, the world champion told us what he enjoys about racing at home, his dream team-mate, favourite grand prix and the other Formula 1 team he would like to drive for.\nWhat is your favourite thing about racing at Silverstone? - Laurence Taylor\n\"Getting to see the fans. Home crowd.\"\nIf you could go back and relive one grand prix, which would it be? - Simon Lee Harrop\n\"It will always be Abu Dhabi 2014, when I won my second world championship.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nWhy did you change your helmet colour to white? - Cosmos\n\"I changed it because my team-mate Nico Rosberg had a yellow helmet at the time and because yellow just did not go with Petronas green on the car.\"\nWhat is your greatest ever overtake? - Dani Lissoni\n\"Buckmore Park [a kart circuit in Kent] in 1996. I went into the last corner fourth and came out first, having gone around the outside.\"\nTime in the car is limited so why did you skip testing last week, giving your main rival extra car time? - Trina S\n\"I had doctors' appointments, just some personal things I had to get checked out.\"\nHave you cleared the clutch problem that affected you in Austria? Your starts were great before they changed. - Sabine\n\"A lot of investigation has gone into it. There was a problem with the car and they have worked hard to fix it.\"\nWhich era would you have like to have driven in most in F1 and who would you have as a team-mate? - James\n\"I would have had Ayrton Senna as a team-mate but I would race in this era.\"\nWhat is the main thing you learnt from Senna's driving that you use in your driving today? - Bruton\n\"Just his aggressive style, I guess.\"\nWho's your favourite guitar player and/or biggest influence on guitar? - Brian Basara\n\"Probably Jimi Hendrix.\"\nWhat's it like being close friends with the Kardashians? - Mike Johnno\n\"It's like having normal friends. They are great fun, really down-to-earth, loving people, which people probably don't get to truly see.\"\nWhat advice would you have for aspiring F1 drivers? - Duke\n\"Just never give up. Don't let anyone tell you, you can't do it until proven otherwise. And that goes for any walk of life.\"\nDo you agree with Niki Lauda that technology has ruined the job of the driver? - Gerard V.P.\n\"That is a personal opinion of his and it's not for me to judge. The situation is what it is, but it was better when there was less technology, for sure.\"\nIf you were Bernie Ecclestone for the day what would you do/change? - Grant Harvey\n\"Nothing in F1 gets changed in a day. It takes months and months.\"\nAs a driver for the last eight-and-a-half years, are you still able to view F1 as a fan, or only as a driver? - Alex Whitworth\n\"Yes, but of course I don't see it like a fan. Obviously I see it from behind closed doors and on my laptop, so I don't get to see it as a fan.\"\nWhat's the one item you couldn't travel without? - Helen\n\"My headphones. I love music.\"\nHow do you feel about the current form of your former team McLaren? Do you think they will recover? - Mark Jones\n\"It's sad to see them where they are and I hope they will find their way back.\"\nIf you had to race for any team other than Mercedes, who would it be? - Dani Lissoni\n\"Ferrari.\"\nWhat is your physical training program? - Ant\n\"During the season, an hour to an hour and a half of running in the morning and then gym for an hour in the afternoon, which is weights and core. In the winter, I go to the mountains and do a lot of cross-country skiing.\"\nWould you ever be tempted to try out Formula E or the World Endurance Championship? - Topher Smith\n\"No. I have no desires to do so.\"\nYou can follow Hamilton on Twitter @lewishamilton and you can see exclusive content on his website www.lewishamilton.com\nLewis Hamilton was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson", "summary": "After a busy week which featured a guest appearance on The Graham Norton Show and a trip to Glastonbury, Lewis Hamilton has answered the best of the #AskLewis questions you sent to the BBC Sport website." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The tycoon told the BBC he would probably join a club for party donors called the Leader's Group.\nThis club requires an annual membership fee of £50,000.\nLord Ashcroft - also a former party treasurer - donated millions of pounds to the Conservatives, often targeted at marginal seats, but fell out with ex-prime minister David Cameron in 2010.\nSpeaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, the peer praised Mr Cameron's replacement, Theresa May, for her speech on Brexit to the Conservative conference on Sunday.\nAsked whether he would be prepared to donate again, he said: \"I think, probably, I might join the Leader's Group again but that's a small sum compared to historically what I have given to the party.\"\nThe Leader's Group is described as the Conservative Party's \"premier supporter group\".\nMembers are invited to join the prime minister and other senior figures at dinners, drinks receptions and other events, in exchange for their annual £50,000 donation.\nLord Ashcroft, who was ranked 74 in the 2015 Sunday Times Rich List, said he hoped that under Mrs May the party would have \"significantly broadened\" its funding base so it was not dependent on individuals giving \"seven-figure sums\".\nAsked whether he would be prepared to donate smaller sums, he replied: \"Under the appropriate circumstances and the direction in which it's heading, it's very nice to be back.\"\nLord Ashcroft was deputy chairman of the Conservative Party during Mr Cameron's period as Leader of the Opposition.\nIn July 2010, he gave up his non-domiciled tax status after a law was passed requiring peers and MPs to be tax resident and domiciled in order to remain in Parliament.\nHis tax status had long been criticised by his opponents.\nWhen he co-authored a book on Mr Cameron last year, he admitted to having personal \"beef\" with the prime minister after not being offered a major job in the coalition government following the 2010 general election.\nHe has been credited with helping to rescue the party's finances in the past, once stepping in to personally guarantee its overdraft when it was reportedly £3m in the red.", "summary": "Ex-Conservative Party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft says he will start donating to the party again." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A report by the trust, which provides security for Britain's Jewish community and monitors anti-Semitism, said the number of incidents had more than doubled to 1,168 in 2014.\nIt is the highest figure since the trust began monitoring in 1984.\n\"Anti-Semitic reactions to the conflict in Israel and Gaza\" were the biggest factor behind the rise, the trust said.\nIt recorded 314 incidents in July - the highest ever recorded in a single month.\nIt said almost half the offenders made reference to Gaza or Palestinians.\nHowever, it said the number of incidents had already risen significantly in the first six months of the year, before the summer's conflict.\nThe report said the increase was most marked in London - where the number of incidents rose by 137% to 583 - and in Greater Manchester, where the number rose by 79% to 309.\nIt said there were 81 violent anti-Semitic assaults across the UK in 2014.\nOne, in London last September, was classified as \"extreme\".\nThe victim was subjected to verbal abuse and was hit with a glass and a baseball bat, the report said.\nMost assaults were random attacks on Jewish people in public places, it added.\nIt said 19 involved objects - usually eggs - being thrown at \"visibly Jewish\" people from cars.\nEight were assaults on synagogue congregants going to or from prayers, the report said, and four targeted Jewish schoolchildren on their way to or from school.\nIn addition, there were more than 300 reported incidents of verbal abuse - apparently randomly directed at Jewish people in public.\nFor instance, in Manchester in November a 12-year-old girl was walking along the street when someone in a passing car shouted anti-Semitic abuse at her.\nThe report noted 233 cases of abuse or threats on social media last year, compared to 88 in 2013.\nAn image of Hitler, with the caption \"Yes man, you were right\" was widely shared over the summer.\nSocial media is also being used to spread anti-Semitic messages, along with graffiti on the homes of Jewish people.\nSeveral cemeteries have also been desecrated - including one in Manchester in February: \"Jewish slag\" was daubed on gravestones.\nThe report showed an increase in the number of incidents involving schools, Jewish schoolchildren or staff: 66 in 2014, compared with 32 the year before.\nChildren at one Jewish primary in north London told the BBC last month they had experienced anti-Semitism while travelling to school and on school trips.\nThey had also begun to practice what to do in case armed intruders attacked their school.\nThe most visible Jewish communities in Britain are the ultra-Orthodox, the Haredim: they wear traditional clothes, with men bearded and wearing skullcaps.\nBritain's biggest Haredi community is in Stamford Hill, east London.\nLast week one far-right activist said he was planning a protest there next month - against \"Jewification\", according to a poster he put on Facebook.\nA leading figure in the Haredi community, Rabbi Avraham Pinter, said some in the community feared it might inflame tensions.\nBut he said they had been \"overwhelmed\" by support from all quarters, especially other faith groups.\nDavid Delew, chief executive of the trust, said the increase in recorded incidents \"shows just how easily anti-Semitic attitudes can erupt into race hate abuse, threats and attacks\".\nHome Secretary Theresa May said the new figures were \"deeply concerning\", and she was committed to working with Jewish leaders and police to tackle anti-Semitism.\nShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said this was \"an important report\" which \"must serve as a warning to everyone\".\nThe Metropolitan Police said hate crime \"remains largely under reported\" and urged victims to come forward.\nIn a statement, it said recent events had made Jewish communities \"anxious\" and said it was providing more patrols in \"key areas\" and was \"closely monitoring the situation\".", "summary": "Anti-Semitic incidents reached a record level in the UK last year, according to the Community Security Trust." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 45-year-old was placed under formal investigation on 6 March, but magistrates are deciding whether to remand him in custody.\nSeveral alleged victims attended the morning hearing.\nThe suspect denies the charges, with his lawyer saying there are \"real weaknesses\" in the case against him.\nHe is accused of carrying out the premeditated poisonings over a nine-year period from 2008 at two clinics - the Franche-Comté and Saint-Vicente - in Besançon, a city in eastern France.\nThe suspect is said to have been well-regarded in his field.\nAccording to the investigation, \"lethal doses of potassium and anaesthetic\" were administered to seven patients, aged from 37 to 53.\nThey all suffered cardiac arrest, said French news provider Europe1, quoting a judge.\nA 53-year-old man died in 2008 during a kidney operation, and a 51-year-old woman died in 2016 during an operation on a fracture.\nAbout 40 other poisoning cases dating from the last 20 years are also being investigated, reported AFP news agency. They account for about 20 additional fatalities.\nThe agency quoted the suspect's lawyer, Randall Schwerdorffer, as arguing for him to remain at liberty on €60,000 (£52,000; $64,000) bail and barred from medical practice.\nProsecutors are pressing for him to be placed in custody, underlining the gravity of the charges and arguing it is necessary for the investigation to proceed \"without pressure\".", "summary": "An anaesthetist suspected of poisoning seven patients - two of whom died - appeared in court in France on Wednesday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The attack on a police convoy last Friday is thought to be one of the deadliest single episodes of violence in Kasai since unrest broke out in August 2016.\nReports say up to 400 people have been killed in total.\nSix policemen who spoke the local Tshiluba language were freed in Friday's incident, but the rest were killed, Kasai Assembly President Francois Kalamba said.\nThe Kamwina Nsapu group was believed to be behind the attack. It has been fighting DR Congo forces since its leader was killed by the security forces last year.\nThe attack came days after the UN Human Rights Council said 10 mass graves had been found in Kasai, with limbs sticking out of the soil at some of the sites.\nAt least 99 people, including 18 children, were killed between 1 January and 23 February this year, the UN body said after a visit to the area by a team of investigators.\nIn one attack on 10 February, government troops killed at least 40 alleged militiamen and buried them in two mass graves that its investigators had seen, the UN body added in a report.\nThe militia is also alleged to have committed atrocities, including killing about 30 people, among them children, following an incursion into the neighbouring Lomami region on 9 March.\nIn another instance, the militia allegedly \"decapitated two policemen and took away their heads\", the UN report said.\nFollowers of Kamwina Nsapu, a traditional chief whose real name was Jean-Pierre Pandi, wanted his chiefdom to be officially recognised by the authorities.\nThere were communal clashes after Kamwina Nsapu called for a popular uprising in June 2016 with the aim of removing all state institutions and security forces from the region.\nHe was killed two months later when the police raided his house.\nHis followers vowed to avenge his killing.\nThey also demanded the exhumation of the late leader's body, saying he had not been buried in accordance with traditional rites.\nThe conflict has since escalated, tapping into long-held grievances over marginalisation in this opposition bastion blighted by poor infrastructure.\nThe Kamwina Nsapu fighters - largely made up of child soldiers - have targeted state institutions, looting and burning local and national government offices.\nHowever, the UN has condemned the army for using disproportionate force against fighters equipped with traditional weapons such as machetes, homemade rifles or even just sticks.\nThe violence has now spread to neighbouring provinces, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.\nIt is a new layer of instability in a country mired in a political crisis sparked by President Joseph Kabila's refusal to step down when his constitutional mandate expired in December.\nAn agreement was found between the opposition and the presidential coalition on New Year's Eve which were supposed to lead to new elections.\nBut talks, under the mediation of the Catholic Church, over its implementation have since stalled.\nIn the meantime, a graphic seven-minute video circulated in February that appeared to show soldiers shooting civilians, including women and children, dead. They were assumed to be supporters of the Kamwina Nsapu militia.\nOn 12 March, two UN officials - from the US and Sweden - went missing in an apparent abduction.\nThey were investigating the alleged killing of more than 100 members and supporters of the militia by security forces in February.\nIt is not yet clear who kidnapped them and there are growing concerns over their fate.\nSeven soldiers have been arrested in connection with the video and charged with war crimes.\nBut more videos of alleged extrajudicial killings have emerged and a number of mass graves have also been discovered.\nThe UN says that security forces have prevented its teams from accessing the sites.\nThe authorities have pledged to investigate all allegations.\nDeputy Prime Minister Ramazani Shadari held talks with the family of the late traditional leader and the two sides reportedly agreed to exhume the body of Kamwina Nsapu to allow a proper burial and the installation of a new chief.\nA week later, about 60 militiamen surrendered to the provincial authorities.\nBut clashes broke out near the airport in Kananga the day after and the situation remains volatile.\nKasai is also a stronghold of DR Congo's main opposition party, the United People's Democratic Solidarity (UDPS).\nThere are fears that the unrest in Kasai could take on a more political aspect.\nThe attention last year was very much focused on the political impasse that reached its climax in December when President Kabila refused to step down at the end of his second term.\nPlanned elections had not been held, which sparked civil unrest in the capital Kinshasa.\nThe security forces crushed all demonstrations.\nAt the time, only a few media reported the on-going clashes in the Kasai province but the scale of the violence only emerged recently as videos started to circulate on social media.", "summary": "Militia fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have decapitated about 40 police officers in an ambush in the central province of Kasai, local officials say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Home Office said the move would allow a \"radical transformation\" of how the police, fire and rescue co-operate.\nThe services were previously the responsibility of the Department for Communities and Local Government.\nMP Mike Penning will take over the portfolio as minister for policing, fire, criminal justice and victims.\nThe Home Office said the response across the country to recent flooding showed \"how well the police and fire service already worked together\".\nUnder government plans consulted on last year, police and crime commissioners (PCCs) will be able to take control of fire services in their area.\nThe elected officials will be able to put in place a single \"employer\", led by a senior officer in charge of hiring all local fire and police personnel.\nThe new strategy could lead to arrangements such as sharing back office functions - although the government insists they will remain operationally independent.\nHowever, unions have attacked the proposals, with the Fire Brigades Union calling them \"dangerous\".\nFBU general secretary Matt Wrack described the proposal as a \"half-baked suggestion\" and accused \"one or two\" PCCs supporting the plan of \"empire building\".\nThere was no support for the plans among firefighters, police officers or local communities, \"and yet the government seems to be intent on forcing it though\", he said.\nMr Penning, a former firefighter, said closer collaboration between the police, fire and rescue services would deliver \"significant savings and benefits for the public\".\n\"This is about smarter working, reducing the cost of back office functions and freeing up the time of frontline staff,\" he said.\n\"This move will have benefits for both services. Fire authorities can learn from the journey that police forces have undertaken on reform over the last five years. Equally, the success of fire and rescue services in prevention holds important lessons for the police.\"", "summary": "The Home Office has taken control of fire and rescue policy in England ahead of planned closer working with the police, the government has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The independent commission, set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), is set to report its findings on Monday.\nMcLaren said: \"This is going to be a real game-changer for sport.\"\nMeanwhile, the son of ex-IAAF chief Lamine Diack is among four men charged by the body over ethics code breaches.\nPapa Massata Diack is a former consultant to the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations), the sport's world governing body.\nThe charges relate to covering up Russian athlete Liliya Shobukhova's doping violations, the IAAF ethics commission chairman said.\nThey came in the week that former IAAF president Lamine Diack was placed under investigation by French police, over allegations the 82-year-old took payments for deferring sanctions against Russian drugs cheats.\nMcLaren, who was appointed by Wada in December 2014 to investigate allegations made in a German TV documentary of systematic doping and cover-ups in Russia, said ahead of Monday's report his team had \"found evidence to support what was said in the documentary\".\nHe told the BBC World Service: \"We were given a very narrow mandate and asked to look at that documentary and determine the accuracy of it, to what extent it was correct.\n\"The contents of our report speak for itself, I think.\"\nMcLaren, an international sports lawyer who is one of three Wada independent commissioners to have co-authored the document, added they had \"absolutely no power\" to implement changes, only to make recommendations.\n\"I'd like to see all of the recommendations adopted and acted on and I'm sure the press will vigilant to seeing that that occurs,\" he added.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nAlong with Papa Massata Diack, the other three men charged by the IAAF are: the former head of the IAAF anti-doping department Gabriel Dolle, the former president of the All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) Alexei Melnikov and Valentin Balakhnichev, a former chief ARAF coach for long distance walkers and runners.\nThe charges were issued in September and announced after new IAAF president Lord Coe won approval to amend the code. Their cases will be heard in London on 16-18 December.\nIAAF ethics commission chairman Michael Beloff QC said an investigation was \"also ongoing in respect of an additional person\".\nMcLaren added: \"You potentially have a bunch of old men who put a whole lot of extra money in their pockets - through extortion and bribes - but also caused significant changes to actual results and final standings of international athletics competitions.\"\nThe investigations into the accused officials came about after the independent Wada commission passed on information during their inquiries.", "summary": "A report into claims of doping cover-ups, extortion and money-laundering in athletics will show \"a whole different scale of corruption\" even compared to Fifa, says co-author Richard McLaren." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nMatt tells his story about his love of gymnastics and why he was unstoppable, growing up on a farm in County Durham with his family.\nFancy seeing life from a different angle and giving gymnastics a go? Here's all you need to know in our handy guide.", "summary": "Matt Baker now makes a living charming the nation on The One Show, but in his youth he was a British gymnastic and sport acrobatics champion." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The girl, whose case was being considered by the Supreme Court, was 24 weeks pregnant.\nCurrent laws allow abortion only at up to 20 weeks of pregnancy.\nThe 44-year-old law allows abortion for women not as a right but only if doctors are of the opinion, taken in \"good faith\", continuing the pregnancy involves substantial risks for the physical and mental health of the mother or of foetal abnormalities developing.\nTwo qualified doctors must agree for an abortion at between 12 and 20 weeks of pregnancy.\nAnd a woman can have an abortion after 20 weeks only if her life is at immediate risk.\nThe issue came to the fore in 2008, when a Mumbai couple, Niketa and Haresh Mehta, asked the Bombay High Court to allow them to abort their 26-week-old foetus, which had been diagnosed with a heart defect.\nIt rejected the plea, and Mrs Mehta suffered a miscarriage a few weeks later.\nThe Mehtas' doctor, Nikhil Datar, then filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking reconsideration of the 20-weeks limit.\nThis petition was joined by two other women whose foetuses had been discovered to have abnormalities.\nCountries such as the UK and Spain allow abortion after 20 weeks, if certain criteria are met.\n\"Many women come for ultrasound check-ups for anomalies late, which is common in our society that has a large rural or poor population,\" says Dr Datar, a practicing gynaecologist and obstetrician in Mumbai.\n\"In many cases foetal abnormalities can only be detected or confirmed after 20 weeks, after which doors of legal abortion are closed to the woman.\"\nFollowing these petitions, in 2014, India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare prepared a draft amendment to the law, which provided for abortion at up to 24 weeks.\nSignificantly, it also allowed a woman to seek and undergo abortion \"on request\" in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.\nAs researcher Shweta Krishnan wrote, the draft bill recognised a woman's right to self-determination and autonomy and represented a shift in the focus of the law from the healthcare provider to the woman undergoing abortion.\nIn another change, the earlier act allowed for abortion, at up to 20 weeks, in case of failure of contraception on the part of the \"married woman or husband\" for the purpose of \"limiting\" the family - but the draft bill omitted the word \"married\", recognising the reality of pregnancy outside marriage among young women or widows.\nIt also mandated maintaining the patient's confidentiality.\n\"Women may take time for various reasons,\" said Vinoj Manning, executive director, Ipas India, a non-profit organisation that advocates for women's rights in this area.\n\"Some are raped at home and are too scared to talk about it.\n\"If the amendment takes place, the vulnerable women, including survivors of rape, can benefit, and not go through the trauma of going to courts.\nMany women in such situations would rather have an illegal abortion after 20 weeks, entailing a serious risk to their life, than have the child.\nThe provision in the draft bill that caused a stir in the medical community was that it allowed practitioners of alternative medicine, as well as nurses or midwives, to conduct abortions.\nThe Indian Medical Association opposed this provision, arguing such practitioners would not be able to handle emergencies or complications that might arise during abortion procedures.\nThe World Health Organization has said involving health workers can help reduce the number of deaths arising out of unsafe abortions, which it estimates account for 9% of all maternal deaths in India.\n\"Like allopathic [mainstream] doctors undergo training and certification for abortion, similarly non-allopaths and nurses and midwives can undergo training and certification to conduct first-trimester [at up to 12 weeks] abortions,\" said Ravi Duggal, author of the Abortion Assessment Project.\nOther opposition to the draft bill comes from activists against sex-selective abortions.\nThe 2011 census showed the child sex ratio had dropped to 914 girls to 1,000 boys from 927 girls to 1,000 boys in 2001.\nActivists believe there would be significantly more sex-selective abortions if the amendment comes into force.\nDr Neelam Singh, who runs Vatsalya, a non-profit group based in Lucknow, suggests in pregnancies over 20 weeks, a district or state-level committee or board of experts should decide on abortion based on the merits of each case.\nBut other doctors say such committees would only increase bureaucracy and trauma for the vulnerable woman.\nIn the case of the 14-year-old rape survivor, the Supreme Court issued a \"flexible\" order, deciding if a team of doctors and psychologists were of the view an abortion would save \"her life\", including her mental wellbeing, the procedure could go ahead.\nThe 2014 amendment may help strike the balance between safe abortion and acknowledging the vulnerability of a pregnant woman.\nMenaka Rao is a Mumbai-based freelance journalist.", "summary": "Last month, the plight of a 14-year-old rape survivor seeking to terminate her pregnancy renewed the debate surrounding India's abortion laws." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The FTSE 100 started the day higher, but by the close, the index was down 63.79 points at 6,890.42.\nThe fall came despite oil majors BP and Royal Dutch Shell both rising by about 1.5% after crude prices surged.\nOil prices jumped more than 4% after non-Opec oil producing nations agreed to cut output in a deal designed to reduce oversupply and boost prices.\nOpec announced last month that it would be cutting its own production.\nOutside the energy sector, shares in Marks and Spencer rose 1.4% after Bank of America-Merrill Lynch upgraded its rating on the retailer to \"buy\".\nShares in Sky slipped 2.8% after having surged on Friday, when it emerged that 21st Century Fox had made a takeover approach for the company.\nFox offered £10.75 a share for the 61% of the business it does not already own, valuing Sky at about £18.5bn.\nBut Sky's shares fell 28p to 972p on Monday. Reports at the weekend suggested that some major shareholders were unhappy with the level of the offer.\nOn the currency markets, the pound rose 0.78% against the dollar to $1.2673 and gained 0.32% against the euro at €1.1947.", "summary": "The London market slid despite shares in oil companies being boosted by a jump in oil prices." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The data, published in the Lancet medical journal, showed the chance of a stroke increased beyond the traditional 9am to 5pm.\nThe link is uncertain, but theories include a stressful job and the damaging impact on lifestyle.\nExperts said people working long hours should monitor their blood pressure\nThe study showed that in comparison to a 35-40 hour week, doing up to 48 hours increased the risk by 10%, up to 54 hours by 27% and over 55 hours by 33%.\nDr Mika Kivimaki, from University College London, said that in the 35-40 hour group there were fewer than five strokes per 1,000 employees per decade.\nAnd that increased to six strokes per 1,000 employees per decade in those working 55 hours or more.\nDr Kivimaki admitted researchers were still at the \"early stages\" of understanding what was going on.\nIdeas include the extra stress of working long hours or that sitting down for long periods is bad for health and may increase the risk of a stroke.\nHowever, it could just be a marker for poor health with those chained to the office not having enough time to prepare healthy meals or exercise.\nDr Kivimaki told the BBC News website: \"People need to be extra careful that they still maintain a healthy lifestyle and ensure their blood pressure does not increase.\"\nThe Stroke Association's Dr Shamim Quadir commented: \"Working long hours can involve sitting for long periods of time, experiencing stress and leads to less time available to look after yourself.\n\"We advise that you have regular blood pressure checks, if you're at all concerned about your stroke risk you should make an appointment with your GP or health professional.\"\nDr Tim Chico, a consultant cardiologist based at the University of Sheffield, said: \"Most of us could reduce the amount of time we spend sitting down, increase our physical activity and improve our diet while working and this might be more important the more time we spend at work.\"", "summary": "People working long hours are more likely to have a stroke, according to analysis of more than half a million people." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 23-year-old spent time on loan at Charlton earlier this season and has had previous stints at Cardiff, Brentford and Scunthorpe.\nToffees academy product McAleny has made three appearances for the Merseysiders.\n\"Conor is someone we were looking at last summer,\" boss Gary Caldwell told the club website.\nHe is the Latics seventh signing in the January transfer window.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "League One side Wigan have signed Everton striker Conor McAleny on loan for the rest of the season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Becky's step-brother, Nathan Matthews, 28, was convicted of her murder and his girlfriend Shauna Hoare was convicted of manslaughter. They were each jailed.\nBoth have applied for leave to appeal.\nMatthews suffocated the teenager at her home in the St George area of Bristol on 19 February while trying to kidnap her. Hoare, 21, who was pregnant at the time, was at the address.\nHoare's paperwork has been received by the Court of Appeal, while Bristol Crown Court said it had received Matthews' application to appeal on Thursday.\nA spokeswoman for the court said this had now been passed on to the Court of Appeal.\nBecky's body was dismembered and hidden in a shed while a huge manhunt in Bristol attempted to track down the 16-year-old.\nA jury took less than four hours last month to convict the pair of her killing.\nHoare was convicted of manslaughter because she had participated in a kidnap where any \"sober and reasonable person\" would have known some harm would come to Becky.\nMatthews was given a life sentence and told he would serve at least 33 years. Hoare was jailed for 17 years.\nJudge Mr Justice Dingemans said both Matthews and Hoare had given \"obviously dishonest\" accounts of what happened.\nMatthews had claimed he was trying to scare Becky into changing what he believed was poor behaviour while Hoare said she knew nothing about any of it.\n\"The evidence proves, and I am sure, that Nathan Matthews had developed a fixation with having sex with petite teenage girls and Shauna Hoare had been persuaded to participate in this fixation,\" said the judge.\nJudge Dingemans added during sentencing that he was sure the planned kidnap \"was for a sexual purpose\".", "summary": "The couple convicted of killing Becky Watts say they will appeal against their convictions and sentences." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sam Allardyce left his post as England boss after the newspaper investigation claimed he offered advice on how to \"get around\" rules on player transfers.\nHe had been in charge of England for one game before his exit.\nBut police said Allardyce \"is not part of the investigation\".\nIn a statement, 62-year-old Allardyce said he welcomed the confirmation, adding: \"I was always confident that this would be the case as there was no evidence against me. I now ask that the Football Association deals with this matter as quickly as possible.\n\"While I am sad that my tenure came to an end early, I am nonetheless proud to have been chosen to manage the England football team and hope that today's confirmation from the police will give me the opportunity to move on.\"\nThe FA, English Football League and Premier League have all been waiting for the City of London Police to complete its review of the Telegraph's evidence so they can proceed with their own inquiries.", "summary": "Police have opened a criminal investigation into an allegation of bribery after reviewing material from the Daily Telegraph's investigation into suspected corruption in football." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Broadhurst, 50, who won the Scottish Senior Open last year, started four shots behind overnight leader Jimenez.\nBut he led the Spaniard by a shot heading down the 18th and parred it for a round of 68 as Jimenez had a double bogey which dropped him to joint-third.\nAmerican Scott McCarron surged into a one-shot lead but ended up in second.\nBroadhurst, whose best Open finish is a tie for 12th in both 1990, when he shot a joint-Open record of 63 at St Andrews, and 2007 at Carnoustie, now qualifies for next year's 146th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.\nHe has also secured an exemption for next year's lucrative Champions Tour, where he has already won a tournament to accompany six previous wins on the European Tour and two on the European Seniors Tour.\n\"It's incredible to be honest. I never dreamed this would ever happen,\" the former Ryder Cup player from Atherstone, Warwickshire, told BBC Scotland.\n\"It is seriously beyond my wildest dreams. It hasn't really sunk in yet.\"\nBroadhurst's last events on the main European Tour were in 2012. He has spent the last few years playing PGA Midlands tournaments, mostly Pro-Ams.\n\"I had a decision to make; either stop playing and perhaps go into teaching or find a job - I was only 45-46,\" he explained.\n\"But I decided I wanted to carry on playing. I was working with Tim Rouse, the pro at Northants County Golf Club, and he has turned my game around really.\n\"That was my remit when we first met - 'I want to be playing well when I get to 50 - we have got three years to sort my game out'. So a massive thank-you to him. Without his help, this wouldn't have happened.\"\nThe cigar-smoking Jimenez, 52, who finished 18th at The Open last week, had led by four shots overnight after a sparkling seven-under 65 on Saturday.\nBut hoping to land a first career major of any kind after 21 wins on the European Tour and three on the Champions Tour, he could only manage a three-over-par 75. Jimenez's best major finish is runner-up in the 2000 US Open.\n\"It looks like I was not the same guy who played yesterday,\" he said. \"At the beginning I was not loose enough you know. I didn't have the confidence. Any time I missed a shot I got a bogey.\n\"You feel tense of course. It's important for you. But I didn't feel comfortable. But that's golf, that's the game. Anything that happens like this is very disappointing and this is very disappointing.\"\nSwede Magnus P Atlevi closed with a 67 to join Jimenez in a tie for third on eight under, ahead of a quartet of Americans in Brandt Jobe and Tom Byrum (seven under), and Joe Durant and Wes Short Jr (six under).\nGerman veteran Bernard Langer, who won the Senior Open at Carnoustie in 2010, carded a fourth successive 71 to finish on four under, seven shots back, in a tie for ninth.\nFind out how to get into golf with our special guide.\nWe've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.", "summary": "England's Paul Broadhurst won his first major title at the Senior Open at Carnoustie as Miguel Angel Jimenez's form collapsed in Sunday's final round." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Wayne Stirrups, 30, from Canterbury in Kent, told his family he was going to Cardiff to visit his sons, but had not been seen since 17 November.\nJason Stirrups said his brother returned to his mother's house in Canterbury on Monday night.\n\"Words can't express how I feel. For him to turn up is such a relief,\" he added.\nFamily and friends of Mr Stirrups travelled to Cardiff on Sunday to raise awareness of his disappearance and put up more than 1,200 posters in Cardiff, Bristol and London over the weekend.\nJason Stirrups travelled to London on Monday after a phone call from the police saying his brother had been spotted.\nWhile he was in the capital, his brother turned up at their mother's house.\n\"He's completely fine - now it's trying to work out what went wrong,\" said Jason Stirrups.\n\"We're so grateful to all the people who helped, it meant so much to me and my family.\"", "summary": "A father of two who went missing for 10 days has been found safe, his brother has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Blake Donnellan, 31, was serving part of a 15-year sentence at HMP Sudbury for conspiracy to supply class A drugs.\nHe was released on temporary licence on Christmas Day but failed to return.\nDonnellan, who has links to Manchester, Plymouth and Cornwall, was jailed in 2011 for his part in the operation which saw 30 people convicted.\nIn 2009 and 2010, drugs with an estimated street value of £1m and nearly £100,000 in cash were seized by police Devon and Cornwall Police.\nThe haul included 11,000 ecstasy tablets, 14kg of cocaine, 330g of heroin, 2kg of amphetamine and 11kg of BZP (Benzylpiperazine).\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said Donnellan was the \"mover and shaker\" in the network and the link between the drugs coming down from Manchester to the Plymouth area and onwards to Cornwall.\nHe is described as white, 6ft (1.8m) tall and of medium build. He has brown eyes, short dark hair and speaks with a Manchester accent.\nDonnellan's last known address was in Bude in Cornwall.", "summary": "A man once described as the linchpin in a massive drug-dealing network has absconded from an open prison in Derbyshire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Andras Lakatos and Jenone Orgona duped three women into travelling to the UK with the promise of legitimate jobs.\nTheir identity documents taken and were forced into sex work. One escaped and was offered help by Laszlo Petrovics, who forced her back into prostitution.\nThey admitted human trafficking and forcing prostitution offences and were jailed at Manchester Crown Court.\nThe victims, who were aged between 19 and 24, came from poor backgrounds and spoke little or no English, the court heard.\nLakatos and Orgona trafficked the women who were tricked into travelling to the north of England in December 2015.\nTwo of the women had up to 10 customers every day, while a third was ordered to have sex with men at car washes.\nWhen one of the women managed to escape, she was later offered of a place of safety by Laszlo Petrovics, only to be forced straight back into prostitution.\nThe women saw none of the money themselves, while Lakatos and Petrovics spent cash on alcohol, gambling and drugs.\nKaren Tonge, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said the victims were \"degraded and dehumanised\" and regularly threatened with violence.\n\"Lakatos convinced two of the women that he was in a romantic relationship with them in order to manipulate them,\" she said.\n\"The impact upon these victims cannot be underestimated. All three have shown immense courage.\"\nDet Con Adam Cronshaw of Greater Manchester Police, said: \"These young women were dehumanised by these narcissistic and controlling offenders who were only interested in greed.\n\"However, now they are behind bars these brave women can enjoy their lives again.\"", "summary": "Three people who forced a group of Hungarian women to work as prostitutes in Greater Manchester have been jailed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced the number of troops in Wiltshire would be increased by about 3,000 in a shake-up of army bases.\nThe move is part of the gradual withdrawal of troops from Germany.\nIt is seen as good news for the local economy but is expected to place extra demand on services in the area.\nWiltshire has a long history with the Army, with Tidworth, Bulford, Larkhill and Warminster barracks based on Salisbury Plain.\nNew homes are expected to be built and bases refurbished as troops and Ministry of Defence staff return to the country.\nTidworth Mayor Chris Franklin said: \"This is good news for businesses and good news for the local community.\n\"My only concern is it needs to remain a garrison within a town and not a town within a garrison, and I think this is something the MoD need to take on board.\"\nWiltshire councillor Mark Connolly said he welcomed the move but was concerned land earmarked for civilian housing would now be used for troops coming into the area.\n\"For Tidworth, a large influx of more service personnel will be a double-edged sword,\" he said.\nBy Dave HarveyBusiness Correspondent, BBC West\nIt is often jokingly said the British Army has two homes - one on Salisbury Plain, the other on the banks of the Rhine in Germany.\nBut now, the Army is selling up its German houses and moving back to the UK, and Salisbury Plain is central to this plan.\nBuilders will be spending £1bn building houses across the UK for these soldiers and their families and it is good news for pubs, taxis and for hairdressers.\nThat is because garrison towns have a younger average age than your normal town.\nThere is some concern about the character of the towns - if you get even more soldiers and their families moving into Wiltshire there could be concern about places in schools and hospitals, so it is a bit of a balancing act.\n\"It will be good that Tidworth is seen as an expanded garrison town and has a long term future with the Army, but the downside is that the 20 years work of trying to redress the balance is going to be undone as the military will take over a large portion of new housing that was to have been civilian housing.\n\"If the MoD are going to use this land, more needs to be released for civilian housing to rebalance the situation.\"\nHe added, with higher numbers of people in the town they would also need better infrastructure and facilities to support the increased population.\nMore than 12,000 members of the armed forces are housed across Tidworth and Bulford barracks, which are the largest in the South West and within 20 miles of Salisbury.\nThis is expected to increase to 15,000.\nDevizes MP Claire Perry, whose constituency includes Tidworth and Bulford barracks, welcomed the announcement.\n\"I am delighted that our local towns and villages will be welcoming new soldiers which will give a real boost to the local economy,\" Ms Perry said.\n\"The Salisbury Plain training area is the only place in the country where the Army can carry out the complex and demanding training they need to undertake and it makes perfect sense to concentrate units that work together around the Plain\"\nSalisbury Mayor John Collier said: \"We welcome the relocation, we've known it was coming for a while.\n\"If there is a net increase of personnel into the area, that's going to be very good news for the local economy.\n\"Salisbury is very well placed to serve those coming back.\"\nBulford parish councillor John Clee said: \"We are aware there is going to be an influx and that that is going to bring with it a requirement for more family quarters in the parish, but this is not causing the council any concern.\"\nHe said the move could place pressure on infrastructure and medical services but added that civilian housing developments do just the same.\nSalisbury MP John Glen added: \"I think this is extremely positive news for Salisbury and the surrounding area.\n\"Wiltshire is more than capable of coping with the extra influx. The towns are set up for military families and the challenges they face, as is Wiltshire Council.\"", "summary": "An influx of service personnel to Salisbury Plain would be a \"double-edged sword\" for the local area, a Wiltshire councillor said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 33-year-old was injured on day two at Edgbaston with the hosts going on to beat Australia by eight wickets.\n\"It's not as serious as we thought at first. I'll be aiming to get myself ready in three weeks for the Oval,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\nThe fourth Test starts on 6 August with the fifth Test on 20 August.\nAn England and Wales Cricket Board statement said Anderson's availability for the final Test at The Oval would be \"determined in due course\".\nAfter two compelling bowling displays by England, Anderson's omission from the fourth Test will come as a severe blow to the hosts.\nThe Lancashire bowler took six wickets as Australia were all out for 136 in their first innings, before taking another as the tourists were reduced to 168-7 on day two. The home side wrapped up victory on day three to take a 2-1 series lead.\nHe was injured on his birthday after taking 10 scalps in the Ashes series so far, and will now miss the Trent Bridge Test which has been a happy hunting ground in previous years.\nAnderson has taken 53 wickets in Nottingham, with Lord's the only Test venue where he has been more deadly with 75.\n\"It's a bit sore, I felt something on one of the deliveries,\" he added.\n\"It could be a number of things. It was on my 33rd birthday, after 12 years of professional cricket - that might have something to do with it.\n\"Injuries happen to fast bowlers. I've been very fortunate in the last few years that I've not had many so you've just got to take it on the chin. Hopefully I can come back stronger.\"\nHe joked: \"I'll be trying to referee the football warm-ups in the morning, I spoke to Alastair Cook earlier and he said he'd like me to stick around.\"\nEngland team-mate Stuart Broad says bowling alongside Anderson at The Oval would be a boost.\n\"It is a big loss but Jimmy is more positive than when he left the field on Thursday,\" he told Sky Sports.\n\"He thought he had gone in the side but got back from the scan and was confident he would be OK for The Oval. That will be a big bonus.\"\nThe development has echoes of the injury suffered by Australian bowler Glenn McGrath, who hurt his ankle in the warm-up of the Edgbaston Test during the 2005 series in England.\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan said: \"There is always a twist in an Ashes series. Is Jimmy Anderson's injury that moment?\"\nListen to Anderson's interview with BBC Radio 5 live.", "summary": "England bowler James Anderson will miss the the fourth Test at Trent Bridge because of a side strain but is \"hopeful\" of returning for the fifth." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The proposal, known as the \"Enforcement Initiative\", has been put forward by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP).\nIt is not the first such vote: in 2010, the Swiss backed proposals to deport foreigners convicted of murder or sexual violence. That policy has come into force, but the Swiss People's Party, believing it does not go far enough, now wants to strengthen it.\nThe new plan would also deport those who commit two minor offences, such as speeding, or arguing with a police officer, within 10 years. There would be no right of appeal: conviction would lead to deportation in every case, regardless of individual circumstances.\nSupporters of the proposals say it will make Switzerland a safer place, and point to statistics indicating that foreigners take up more than their fair share of prison cells.\nOpponents argue that those statistics reflect only a partial reality, because many of those in prison are illegal migrants awaiting deportation anyway, while the proposed new law would target the 25% of the population who are foreign, but permanently and legally resident in Switzerland.\nThe campaign has been emotional and divisive. An infamous black sheep poster, widely criticised as racist when it was first used by the People's Party several years ago, has reappeared.\nOpponents of the new law have responded with blunt posters of their own, showing jackboots stamping on the Swiss parliament, and the figure of justice being smashed by a wrecking ball.\nWhat seems to worry some voters most is not the idea that the Swiss government should be tougher on crime, which is in fact low by European standards, but that the new proposal would create a two-tier justice system, one for the Swiss, and one for foreigners.\nGetting Swiss nationality remains a long, complicated, and relatively expensive process. Being born in Switzerland does not confer citizenship, so hundreds of thousands of Swiss residents may not have a Swiss passport, but have never actually lived anywhere else.\nHypothetical cases are being offered to try to give voters a picture of how the new law would work.\nTake, for example, two young men born in the same village, who attended the same school, and have lived all their lives in Switzerland. But only one is Swiss, the other is third-generation Portuguese.\nBoth are convicted of petty offences, possession of cannabis perhaps, or being drunk and disorderly outside a nightclub. After they get their driving licences, both are booked for speeding.\nUnder the new law, the Portuguese would be automatically deported, irrespective of whether he had ever lived in Portugal, could speak the language, or whether he had dependants in Switzerland.\nThis prospect has struck real fear into Switzerland's foreign community, with some families even approaching their Swiss neighbours and quietly pleading with them to reject the proposal.\nOthers have lashed out, bitterly condemning the Swiss People's Party as dangerously discriminatory.\n\"How long before foreigners are forced to wear a sign so that the law-abiding Swiss know to steer clear of them? Maybe a big red A for Auslander (foreigner)?\", wrote one.\nA leading Swiss columnist has even described (in German) Sunday's vote as Switzerland's \"Nazi moment\", suggesting that the imagery and the language of the Yes campaign bear comparison with Germany in the 1930s.\nThe Swiss People's Party angrily rejects such comparisons, arguing that getting tough with foreign criminals will protect other law-abiding foreign residents who, the party line goes, currently risk guilt by association simply because they are foreign.\nBut the People's Party is well known for campaigning on one single issue: immigration.\nMany political analysts see this vote as the latest in a clever strategy to keep that topic at the forefront of voters' minds, so that when parliamentary elections come around again, the Swiss People's Party can, it hopes, gain yet more seats.", "summary": "Swiss voters are going to the polls on Sunday to decide on a proposal to automatically deport foreigners who commit minor crimes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Council workers Charles Owenson, 62, and James Costello, 44, helped award contracts to Edinburgh Action Building Contracts Ltd (ABC Ltd).\nIn return, ABC directors Kevin Balmer, 52, and Brendan Cantwell, 44, gave them tens of thousands of pounds, trips to lap dancing clubs and football tickets.\nThe charges related to the maintenance of council buildings from 2006 to 2010.\nOwenson was sentenced to more than four years in prison, Costello received more than three years and Cantwell and Balmer were both jailed for more than two years.\nCantwell and Balmer were also disqualified from serving as company directors for five years.", "summary": "Four men who admitted corruption charges over Edinburgh council building repairs have been jailed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Glasgow's Queen Street Station handles 20 million passengers a year but this is predicted to grow to 28 million passengers by 2030.\nThe work will see the main entrance at George Square replaced by a huge glass facade. Platforms will also be extended to accommodate longer trains.\nThe redevelopment is expected to be completed by 2019.\nAlthough the tender is being issued by Network Rail, the project will be overseen by ScotRail Alliance - a management team created from senior Abellio ScotRail and Network Rail staff for the purposes over overseeing major projects in Scotland.\nPhil Verster, managing director of ScotRail Alliance, said: \"Today we are confirming that one of our busiest and most important stations will also be transformed, making it larger and with much better facilities for our growing number of customers.\n\"The changes we are making in the coming years will make sure that we have a modern fleet, running on improved infrastructure to and from world-class stations. That is a rail network we can all be proud of.\"\nNetwork Rail confirmed that the £112m Queen Street Station development would include:\nThe project is part of the Scottish government's £742m Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP), which aims to reduce journey times and increase capacity on Scotland's main rail routes.\nEGIP programme director, Rodger Querns, said the issuing of the tender was \"further good progress in the delivery of EGIP\".\n\"We have already successfully completed a number of key elements of EGIP,\" he said.\n\"We look forward to delivering this challenging, but exciting project that will realise huge improvements for passengers.\"", "summary": "Network Rail has invited tenders for the £112m contract to rebuild Scotland's third busiest rail station." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Fillon's spokesman, Thierry Solere, is being investigated for alleged tax evasion, reported the Canard Enchaine.\nMr Solere denied any wrongdoing and has announced his intention to sue the satirical newspaper for libel.\nBut it is another distraction for Mr Fillon as he clings to the centre-right candidacy nine weeks before elections.\nMr Fillon and his family are the subject of a preliminary investigation into claims, which also originated in the Canard Enchaine, that his wife and two of his children were paid hundreds of thousands of euros for non-existent parliamentary work.\nBefore the claims surfaced, Mr Fillon was the favourite to win the presidency, but polls now show him running third behind the National Front's Marine Le Pen and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron.\nOn Tuesday, Mr Fillon once again faced down demands to stand aside in favour of another candidate - this time from 20 lawmakers within his own Republicans Party.\nFillon payment inquiry: What you need to know\nFrance presidential election 2017\nThe Canard Enchaine reported that Mr Solere was the target of a preliminary tax fraud investigation by the public prosecutor in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.\nThe prosecutor confirmed the preliminary investigation but would not comment further.\nAmong other claims are questions about whether Mr Solere failed to pay a portion of his income taxes from 2010 to 2013.\nBut later on BFMTV, Mr Solere denied any fraud allegations and said he would sue the weekly for libel for \"recycling\" old claims which had been dealt with. He said he had \"always declared my income\" and was currently \"up to date with my taxes\".\nMeanwhile, an aide to Mr Macron has accused Russia of trying to derail his campaign.\nLast week, Mr Macron was forced to deny suggestions he had had a gay affair.\nBenjamin Griveaux accused the Kremlin of mounting a \"smear campaign\" against Mr Macron, who is a supporter of the European Union, via media organisations such as Russia Today and Sputnik.\n\"The Kremlin has chosen its candidates: Francois Fillon and Marine Le Pen,\" Mr Griveaux told the broadcaster i-Tele, according to AFP news agency.\nThat was \"for a very simple reason: they do not want a strong Europe, they want a weak Europe,\" he said.\nThe Kremlin, RT and Sputnik have all staunchly denied the claims.", "summary": "The scandal-hit campaign of French presidential candidate Francois Fillon has been hit by new allegations in the media." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The body of Nadia Jones, 38, was found in her flat in Tremorfa on Friday.\nFive men, two aged 36 and ones aged 27,30 and 32, were arrested in connection with her murder and were being questioned at Cardiff Bay police station on Saturday.\nA post mortem examination has been carried out and police are waiting for further tests.\nMs Jones's next of kin have been informed.\nPolice officers were conducting house to house inquiries on Saturday and studying CCTV from the area.\nDet Supt Chris Parsons of South Wales Police said: \"This incident has no doubt shocked the local community, but police action has been swift and we have five people currently in custody.\"", "summary": "Five men have been arrested in a murder investigation which was launched after a woman's body was found in Cardiff." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The video shows the bird briefly lifting the child in a Montreal park before dropping him unharmed.\nNearly 17 million people have watched the video on YouTube in three days.\nBut a digital training centre in Montreal later told the BBC that the clip was made by its students as part of a degree course.\nSuzanne Guevremont, director of the Centre NAD, said the clip had been produced by four students who \"had an idea of making something believable\".\nThe students - who were doing a degree in 3D animation and digital design - had come up with the idea after a brainstorming session, completing the project in seven weeks, she said.\n\"It's a challenge... they wanted to test their skills,\" Ms Guevremont said.\nShe added that the bird and the child seen being snatched were all computer generated imagery (CGI), and the only real things in the video were the park, the boy (after being dropped on the ground) and his father comforting him.\nThe CGI was dropped into real footage to create the effect.\nSome YouTube and Twitter users expressed doubts about the authenticity of the clip soon after it was posted online on 18 December.", "summary": "A video of a golden eagle snatching a child in Canada that has gone viral online was an elaborate hoax aimed at testing the skills of the clipmakers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Around 150 gifts, worth about £3,000, were taken from a disused ward at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, central London.\nThe presents were due to be given out at a Christmas party on 11 December.\nDetails emerged earlier as Cosmic - the Children of St Mary's Intensive Care charity - launched an appeal to replace the stolen items.\nAlso taken during the theft were Christmas decorations and a Santa suit that has been used to entertain children at the hospital for more than a decade.\nThe paediatric intensive care unit at St Mary's treats children for conditions including meningitis, sepsis or trauma.\nTina Halton, lead play specialist St Mary's, said: \"It's really sad that something like this could happen. It's hard being in hospital at Christmas and it's hard to have a sick child. That's why we tried to fill it the hospital with nice things.\n\"I was so sad when I heard that we may not have our Santa suit this year. The children just love it, it's magical.\"\n\"A lot of families haven't been out to an event since their child was diagnosed as ill. Most people don't realise how tough it is to go to a party with a sick child,\" she added.\nThe Christmas party and a carol concert are due to go ahead, but the head of fundraising at Cosmic, Vicky Rees, said the stolen items will be difficult to replace.\n\"All the gifts have been specially selected for the children, as they may have special needs or requirements,\" she said.\nDet Sgt Tom Hirst, from the Met Police, said: \"This is an awful crime at this time of year and hard to imagine what kind of person would steal gifts so clearly destined for sick children to make their lives a little brighter this festive season.\n\"We are appealing for any witnesses or anyone with information to please contact us as soon as possible.\"", "summary": "Christmas presents intended for critically ill children have been stolen from a hospital." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Biomass mission's novel space radar will make 3D maps of forests, improving our understanding of how carbon is cycled through the Earth system.\nIts data will be important for climate research, and will create a baseline for treaties that seek to monitor the status of global forest resources.\nThe spacecraft is to be assembled by the UK arm of Airbus Defence and Space.\nIt signed a contract with the European Space Agency (Esa) on Friday last week valued at €229m (£179m).\nThe mission, which will launch on a Vega rocket in 2021, is part of Esa's Earth Explorer programme.\nThis operates a fleet of satellites that deploy innovative sensor technology to address big, outstanding environmental questions.\nThe newness in Biomass is its P-band radar: a type of instrument that only recently has begun to be exploited in orbit.\nBy pulsing with a wavelength of 70cm, the radar can look through the leaf canopy of forests to the woody parts below.\nUsing an approach akin to tomography, it will scan slices through the trees on repeat passes to build up a picture of how much woody material is present.\nGlobal maps should be produced every six months. The plan is for Biomass to gather at least five years' worth of data.\n\"Effectively, we'll be weighing the forests,\" said Prof Shaun Quegan, who was one of the key proposers of the mission.\n\"We'll know their weight and their height at a scale of 200m, and we'll see how they are changing over time.\n\"This will give us unprecedented information on deforestation - on how much carbon is going into the atmosphere from this source. At the same time, we'll also see how much carbon is being taken up in regrowth,\" the Sheffield University scientist told BBC News.\nBiomass Earth Explorer\nBiomass will be permitted under international telecommunications rules to operate everywhere except the far north of the Americas and northern Europe.\nMilitary priority for the detection of missiles means the satellite will have to turn off its radar in these regions.\nScientists are not unduly concerned about this, however, because forest statistics in those areas are already reasonably robust. The major regions of uncertainty are in the tropics, where Biomass can wield its instrument without restriction.\nThe capture of the satellite contract from Esa is a further boost to the British space sector. After some lean years, it is now the industrial lead on a number of the agency's missions:\n\"This is further proof of the confidence Esa has in UK industry to deliver,\" said Airbus executive Andy Stroomer. \"It also affirms our approach to re-use proven systems to reduce cost.\n\"So, although Biomass with its big antenna looks quite different from Sentinel-5p, they actually share many of the same components, particularly the electronics.\"\nAll missions have a primary objective, but then enterprising researchers will find secondary applications for a satellite's data. Biomass promises some fascinating alternative uses.\nIts P-band radar, for example, will see tens of metres into the ground.\n\"The penetration depth of the radio wave is very high compared to any other radar,\" explained Volker Liebig, Esa's director of Earth observation.\n\"This means in deserts we can look under the sand for archaeology, for the foundations of old buildings. It may be possible to see old impact structures from meteorites as well.\"\nUK science minister Jo Johnson, who witnessed the contract signing between Mr Stroomer and Prof Liebig, said: \"Biomass is a revolutionary mission, helping us better understand our planet's carbon cycle to help tackle climate change.\n\"Satellites are the only way for us to get this unique perspective on our planet. It is our membership of Esa and our reputation for science and innovation that enables UK industry to win major satellite manufacturing contracts such as this one, creating jobs around the country.\"\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "summary": "British industry is to lead the construction of a satellite that will weigh the world's trees." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "United Utilities needs to stop taking supplies from Ennerdale Water in the Lake District, which is a protected wildlife habitat.\nInstead it wants a new 62-mile (100km) pipeline from Thirlmere reservoir to provide water to about 150,000 people.\nAllerdale Council is the final local authority in the county to approve the company's planning application.\nUnited Utilities estimates the project, which also includes new treatment works and pumping stations, will create about 400 jobs.\nAreas around Whitehaven, Egremont, Workington, Maryport, Cockermouth and Wigton will receive their water via the new pipeline when it is completed in 2022.\nThe route will roughly follow the A591 from Thirlmere to a planned new treatment works near Cockermouth.\nThe plan was approved by Allerdale Council despite objections from several groups including Friends of the Lake District and the Ramblers, who claimed it would significantly damage the landscape.\nUnited Utilities said water extraction from Ennerdale had to stop to meet EU environmental regulations and to prevent predicted shortages to supplies.\nA spokesman added: \"This is the culmination of several years of detailed planning and consultation.\n\"We've worked to develop a scheme which delivers major long-term benefits for west Cumbria, while seeking to minimise traffic inconvenience and safeguarding the environment during construction.\n\"The new scheme will ease the pressure on sensitive local water sources and provide a more secure supply for homes and businesses for the decades to come.\"\nWork on the new pipeline is due to begin in March 2017.", "summary": "Plans for a £300m pipeline to safeguard demand for drinking water in west Cumbria have been approved." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Kyle Vaughan, from Newbridge, Caerphilly county, vanished on 30 December 2012.\nGwent Police has searched extensively for him, made several arrests, but all without success.\nBut the 24-year-old's mother, Mary Lucas, who has been battling cancer, has made a last appeal after being given just weeks to live.\nShe said she wants to bury her son before she, too, dies.\nMr Vaughan disappeared three years ago. His damaged silver Peugeot 306 was found abandoned on the A467 between Risca and Cross Keys.\nIt had been in a collision, but it is not known whether he was driving it at the time.\nPolice believe Mr Vaughan, known to his friends as Jabbers, walked away from his car but it remains a mystery what happened to him after that.\nA missing person's inquiry was launched, which rapidly become a murder investigation.\n\"I know he's dead,\" Ms Lucas said.\n\"Somebody has done something to him. I would just like them to come forward and say.\n\"Put yourself in my shoes - what would they feel like if they were going to die and their son or daughter was dead and they didn't know where they were?\"\nMs Lucas said she had been living from day to day since her son disappeared.\n\"You don't come to terms with it, not until you find them and lay them to rest,\" she said.\n\"When he went out that evening he said 'ta-ra Mam, I'll see you in the morning, if you want me just give me a phone' - and that was it.\"\nEight people aged between 15 and 62 have been arrested, as part of the inquiry, on suspicion of offences including perverting the course of justice, assisting an offender and murder.\nAll of them have been released without charge.\nMs Lucas' sister, Katherine Beddis, said: \"All of Mary's life disappeared that night, along with Kyle. It's been a constant battle with the cancer and the battle of trying to find Kyle, and that has been her life for three years.\n\"I just want someone to give her a little bit of peace for what little time she's got left.\"\nSo far, officers have:\nDet Ch Insp Bill Davies stressed witnesses should not fear coming forward.\n\"I would ask - and implore - anyone with information to stop, think about the current situation, and then pick up the phone,\" he said.\n\"Confidentiality can be agreed, totally agreed.\n\"I think there may be a group of individuals with direct knowledge of what happened.\"\nAnyone with information should ring Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.", "summary": "A terminally ill mother has made a final plea to her son's killers to tell her where his remains are buried." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Russian Aleksandr Andreevich Panin has been sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in jail. His accomplice, Algerian Hamza Bendelladj, will serve 15 years.\nThey created the SpyEye virus package that is believed to have infected more than 50 million computers.\nThe sophisticated malware could steal sensitive data or let hackers use infected machines to send spam.\nThe pair used SpyEye themselves but also offered it as a malware \"kit\" to anyone willing to pay for it, said the US Department of Justice (DoJ). The most sophisticated version of SpyEye cost about $10,000.\nOnce large numbers of PCs were infected with SpyEye, the pair ran tools that siphoned off cash and also helped the malware spread further.\nCleaning up the damage caused by SpyEye from 2010 to 2012 is believed to have cost banks around the world more than $1bn, said the DoJ.\n\"It is difficult to overstate the significance of this case, not only in terms of bringing two prolific computer hackers to justice, but also in disrupting and preventing immeasurable financial losses to individuals and the financial industry around the world,\" said US attorney John Horn in a statement.\n\"The sentences that were imposed reflect the magnitude of the harm,\" said Mr Horn.\nPanin, known as \"Gribodemon\" and \"Harderman\" online, pleaded guilty to bank and wire fraud charges in January 2014 after reaching a deal with prosecutors.\n\"I want everyone in this courtroom to understand my actions were inexcusable and inexplicable,\" said Panin at the sentencing hearing. Panin was arrested in 2013 as he passed through Atlanta, Georgia on an international flight.\nBendelladj, known as Bx1 online, also pleaded guilty but has not reached a deal with prosecutors. His lawyer said he planned to appeal.\nBendelladj was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand in early 2013 while changing planes and was extradited to the US shortly afterwards.\nTackling SpyEye helped law enforcement officers shut down a notorious malware marketplace called Darkode.com, said prosecutor Steven Grimberg.\nPanin and Bendelladj were \"legends\" in the criminal underworld, said Mr Grimberg, adding that the sentences would send a message to other cybercriminals.", "summary": "Computer hackers who created malware that stole about $100m (£70m) have been given long jail sentences in the US." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 21-year-old Belgium striker was substituted in the second half of Wednesday's 4-0 win at Anfield after a challenge by Ramiro Funes Mori, who was then sent off.\nLiverpool, in seventh, trail fifth-place Manchester United by five points with five games remaining.\n\"We'll try everything,\" said Klopp.\nOrigi had to be taken off on a stretcher but it was confirmed shortly after the game that he had not broken his ankle.\n\"The season is not over,\" added Klopp. \"We are all different. We don't have to make any general comments. We only have to work with him and see what happens.\n\"Why should we say the season is over now when it is still a few games away?\"", "summary": "Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says Divock Origi could play again this season despite suffering a \"serious injury\" against Everton." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The US singer rattled through a medley of hits during a 12-minute concert that also included a guest appearance from rapper Missy Elliott.\nIt ended with Perry singing Firework as actual pyrotechnics exploded above her.\nAccording to The Guardian, the result was a \"high-octane show [as] notable for its surreal camp as for its tunes\".\nThe New York Times said she \"held her own, navigating a handful of her smashes and three wardrobe changes in a performance that resisted bad mood\".\n\"Even if you weren't a fan of Perry's music, you had to be impressed with her spectacle,\" agreed USA Today.\nBritney Spears, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg were among the celebrities on hand to watch the New England Patriots narrowly beat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24.\nEarlier, Frozen star Idina Menzel kicked off proceedings at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona with the traditional rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner.\nPerry followed such other high-profile half-time performers as Madonna, Beyonce and last year's interval act, Bruno Mars.\nThe 30-year-old avoided the controversy that dogged such previous performers as Janet Jackson, whose infamous \"wardrobe malfunction\" made headlines around the world in 2004.\nThe California Gurls singer marked the occasion by having XLIX - the Roman numerals for 49, marking the 49th Super Bowl - tattooed on one of the fingers of her right hand.\n\"I thought it would be appropriate to draw blood tonight,\" tweeted the singer, who also sang excerpts from I Kissed a Girl and Teenage Dream during her set.\nViewers in the US were also treated to new trailers for Jurassic World, Pitch Perfect 2 and other upcoming films during the ad breaks that punctuated the American Football action.\nOther highlights included actor Bryan Cranston reviving his Walter White character from Breaking Bad for a car insurance commercial.", "summary": "Katy Perry used a giant tiger, Lenny Kravitz and backing dancers dressed as sharks to wow the crowds with her Super Bowl half-time performance." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Office for National Statistics' (ONS) second estimate of GDP growth for the quarter was unrevised.\nThe growth estimate for 2015 was also unchanged at 2.2%, which was the slowest annual pace since 2012.\nHowever, the UK economy remains one of the fastest growing of the developed nations.\nThe ONS noted that the fourth quarter of 2015 was the 12th consecutive quarter of growth, compared with the erratic pattern of behaviour between 2009 and 2012.\nONS chief economist Joe Grice said: \"Once again, the buoyancy of the services sector has offset the relative sluggishness of the rest of the UK economy.\"\nOutput in UK's services sector grew 0.7% in the three months to the end of December. Household spending slowed slightly in the quarter, but still rose by 0.7%.\nHowever, the production sector and net trade dragged on growth in the final three months of 2015.\nProduction output, which includes heavy industry, energy and manufacturing, contracted by 0.5% in the fourth quarter compared with the previous three months.\nVicky Redwood, economist at Capital Economics, warned \"the recovery remains entirely dependent on consumer spending\".\nChris Williamson, economist at research firm Markit, said the ONS data painted \"a picture of an unbalanced economy that is once again reliant on consumer spending to drive growth as business shows increased signs of risk aversion\".\n\"Growth is being supported by firms increasing the wages paid to workers alongside low inflation, which is clearly good for household incomes in the short term. But for a sustainable recovery, which involves improvements in productivity and profits, we also need to see business investment revive, something which will only happen when business confidence lifts higher again.\"\nLast month, Chancellor George Osborne warned that the economy was facing a \"dangerous cocktail\" of risks in 2016, ranging from slowing global economic growth to volatile stock markets and the continuing slump in oil prices.\nOn Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the UK economy's recent performance had been \"strong\", but added that the referendum on EU membership was a \"risk and uncertainty\".\nThe IMF also said that the global economy had weakened further and warned it was \"highly vulnerable to adverse shocks\".\nIt said the weakening had come \"amid increasing financial turbulence and falling asset prices\".\nThe IMF's report comes before the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Shanghai later this week.\nIt said China's slowdown was adding to global economic growth concerns.\nChina's economy, the second-biggest in the world, is growing at the slowest rate in 25 years.\n\"Growth in advanced economies is modest already under the baseline, as low demand in some countries and a broad-based weakening of potential growth continue to hold back the recovery,\" the Washington-based IMF said.", "summary": "UK economic growth in the last three months of 2015 has been confirmed at 0.5%, figures show, supported by steady growth in the services sector." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Instead viewers enjoy its no-holds barred episodes, covering everything from celebrity gossip to politics, online or on pirated DVDs.\nLike much of Taiwanese programming, the show would not get past Chinese censors because of content considered inappropriate.\nIn one of the most-watched episodes last year, for example, Taiwanese singer FanFan shared with audiences in great detail the jokes her TV host husband Hei Ren plays on her. This includes snapping pictures of her after he passes gas.\nThat's certainly something not normally seen on Chinese TV.\nBut it's not just a reluctance to embrace a different kind of TV humour. Chinese regulations forbid all types of Taiwanese talk shows from being aired in their original state.\nThese are just some of many obstacles that reflect the unease with which the Chinese government still views Taiwan's cultural influences, despite much improved relations in recent years and the island being one of the biggest outside sources of cultural sway on China\nBut Taiwan is now trying to ease its former political rival's worries.\nOn the surface, Taiwanese culture seems widely visible in China. Many songs played on Chinese radio are Taiwanese. Major TV performances, such as the recent New Year's Eve show, would not be complete without Taiwanese performers.\nThis is not surprising. Though tiny compared to mainland China, Taiwan has long been a sort of Hollywood of pop culture for Chinese speakers around the world, even in China during previous decades of tense relations.\nTaiwanese singer Teresa Teng was so popular in the 1980s that a Chinese government ban of her music could not stop it from being played everywhere.\nThe infatuation with Taiwanese pop culture continues today. But Taiwan still faces many hurdles entering the Chinese market, because of protectionism and fears of too much influence.\nFew Taiwanese films are allowed in China's cinemas - only seven made it in the past two years despite a landmark trade agreement in 2010 lifting quota restrictions.\nTaiwan's TV shows, meanwhile, are categorised as foreign, even though they are in Mandarin.\nAs a result, they face quotas and cannot be aired on prime time. Or they undergo such long approval periods that the pirated versions are widely sold by the time they make it on air.\nChinese TV hosts meanwhile have been told to avoid speaking with the Taiwanese accent.\nTaiwanese publishers and authors also struggle to sell or print their books in China, partly because of content deemed sensitive.\nMuch of Taiwanese culture seen on the mainland have never received official approval. This all amounts to a lot of money that Taiwan could be making, but isn't.\nFor example, while Taiwan's singers are popular in China, they do not make money except during concerts because much of their music in the mainland is pirated or downloaded.\nThis is partly why Taiwan's new cultural minister, Lung Ying-tai, recently said that she wanted to see more cultural exchanges between both sides, and that culture was not a weapon.\nShe estimates that more than one million copies of her own bestseller Big River, Big Sea - which tells the stories of Chinese people who fled the mainland to Taiwan in 1949 - were sold on the black market in China.\nBut Ms Lung sees this issue as being more than just making money for Taiwan - it is also about making peace, she says.\n\"If you look at an example of what countries like Germany, Poland or France have done after World War II, they had done so much in promoting cultural exchanges with countries that were enemies before,\" she said.\n\"What's the purpose of that? It's to reach peace, and in order to reach peace, what would be better than cultural exchanges? And that I believe is what we really have to strive for across the stage,\" Ms Lung said.\nAt the same time, Taiwan also restricts the import of Chinese culture, allowing only 10 Chinese films to be shown each year.\nIt also limits Chinese ads in local media and bans Chinese TV programmes because of politically-sensitive content.\nFor example, a film about the Xinhai Revolution - which helped overthrow the last emperor - was not allowed.\n\"To put it simply, China is worried about the sovereignty issue being mentioned [in films and TV shows]. Taiwan actually has the same concerns,\" said Jay Huang, a spokesman for CTI TV, which owns rights to the popular talk show Kang Xi Lai Le.\nChina still considers Taiwan its province, while the Taiwanese see the island as an independent country.\nSince relations began improving in 2008, with the coming to power of a Taiwanese president eager to promote China ties, exchanges have been stepped up, including among students, scholars and artists.\nIt was only last year that Taiwan began to allow Chinese students to study for academic degrees.\nTaiwan also asked Chinese celebrities to host the popular Golden Horse awards ceremony - known as the Oscars for Chinese-language films - for the first time in November despite concerns.\nMs Lung said more exchanges needed to be done.\n\"After six decades of hostilities and the possibility of war still there, it's never enough. We really have to do more for mutual understanding, to reduce the level of suspicion and distrust,\" she said.\nCulture brings people closer together, she added.\nRelying only on politicians to reach agreements without the basis of real cultural understanding among people means any negotiation could be overturned there is a change in power.\n\"Therefore the cultural understanding and mutual trust among the people themselves is the foundation of any political talks,\" Ms Lung said.\n\"To reach authentic, genuine and lasting peace across the [Taiwan] Strait, I think cultural exchanges are even more important than political negotiations.\"", "summary": "Millions in China watch the Taiwanese variety talk show Kang Xi Lai Le - but not on television." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 50-year-old, who played heart surgeon Preston Burke during the first three seasons, was axed after he used a homophobic slur during an on-set altercation.\nWashington will make a guest appearance to coincide with the departure of series regular Sandra Oh, his former on-screen love interest.\nIt will be screened in the US in May.\nWashington was last seen on the series leaving Oh's character, Cristina Yang, at the altar on their wedding day.\nSeries creator Shonda Rhimes said his return was integral to Yang's storyline.\n\"It's important to me that Cristina's journey unfolds exactly as it should,\" she said.\n\"Burke is vital to that journey - he gives her story that full-circle moment we need to properly say goodbye to our beloved Cristina Yang.\"\nWashington was one of the original stars of Grey's Anatomy, but his contract was not renewed after he used the anti-gay slur during an argument with co-star Patrick Dempsey.\nSoon after, fellow cast member TR Knight revealed he was gay and said he was offended by what the actor had said.\nWashington then further angered network bosses by repeating the slur backstage at the Golden Globes while denying he had said it.\nThe actor later apologised for his comments, saying it was \"unacceptable in any context or circumstance\". He received counselling and met with gay rights groups to discuss ways to address homophobia.\nThe Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has praised Washington's return to the series, telling The Hollywood Reporter: \"His PSA (public service announcement) and his statements promoting marriage equality in recent years have sent a strong message of support for LGBT people.\"\n\"We look forward to seeing him return to one of our favourite shows, as well as in Patrik-Ian Polk's moving film Blackbird about a young man coming out in a small Southern town.\"\nAfter his controversial exit from Grey's Anatomy, Washington struggled to find continuous work and mainly landed bit parts in television shows including Law & Order: LA and the re-make of Bionic Woman which was cancelled mid-way through its first series.\nHe will next appear in US post-apocalyptic drama The 100 - his first regular series role since Grey's Anatomy.", "summary": "Actor Isaiah Washington is to return to US medical drama Grey's Anatomy, seven years after he was fired from the show." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Recent data collected from air quality monitoring stations in five places across the country show Lumbini is highly polluted.\nThe warnings have come amid expanding industrialisation near the sacred site.\nIt is already located in a pollution hotspot on the Gangetic plains.\nFor the month of January, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Lumbini, in southwest Nepal, was measured at 173.035 micrograms per cubic metre.\nThe reading for the neighbouring town of Chitwan was 113.32 and the capital, Kathmandu, which is known for its high pollution levels, was at 109.82.\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) safe limit for the pollutant is 25 micrograms per cubic metre and the Nepal government has set the national standard at 40.\nScientific studies have also highlighted the increasing levels of pollution in and around the historic site.\n\"The combined effect of trans-boundary transport from the pollution rich Indo-Gangetic Plain region and trapped local industrial pollution due to temperature inversion is responsible for severe winter pollution,\" says a study done by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in collaboration with the WHO.\n\"For other seasons, local emissions are largely responsible for bad air quality.\"\nIt found that levels of PM 2.5 fine particles, which can enter human blood vessels, were more than 10 times above the WHO safe limit.\nAnother study conducted by the IUCN and UNESCO found that the pollution had begun to threaten the Lumbini World Heritage site.\n\"The expansion of the carbon emission industries within the Lumbini Protected Zone has caused several problems such as threats to biodiversity, health hazards to local residents, archaeological properties, social and cultural values.\"\nA IUCN study on three monuments of the historic site concluded that the sacred garden - the core place - was polluted by air dispersed gaseous and solid compounds.\n\"On the samples of the Ashoka pillar (that was established in 249 BC by Emperor Ashoka to mark the birthplace of Buddha) gypsum, calcite, dolomite and magnesite are present in the form of fine powder that deposits on the surface,\" says the report authored by Italian archaeologist Constantino Meucci of the University of Rome, Italy.\n\"All compounds are part of the cement production cycle.\"\nA government body had designated 15km aerial distance from the north east and west boundary of the historic site as the Lumbini Protected Zone.\nAdjoining the LPZ is an expanding industrial corridor that has cement, steel, paper and noodle factories and brick kilns.\nSeveral of these factories are well within the LPZ and environmentalists say that is in clear violation of the government regulation.\nTourists and monks visiting the site have told the BBC they felt uneasy while breathing in the air.\n\"At times I have difficulty in breathing properly and I have to cough,\" said Monk Vivekananda who runs an international meditation centre in Lumbini.\nHe and a few others were meditating with their face masks on nearby the Mayadevi temple that marks the exact spot where Gautam Buddha was born more than 2,600 years ago.\n\"We had at our meditation centre certain [people] who have had asthma conditions and during their stay here in Lumbini, it has badly affected them,\" he told the BBC.\n\"In at least three cases, [they] had to cut their retreat short and go back because they could not tolerate the conditions here anymore.\"\nHealth workers in the area said the conditions were getting worse.\n\"When the wind brings more pollution, we see many monks meditating here with their masks on,\" said Shankar Gautam, who has just retired after working as a health official for 30 years.\n\"Studies have shown that in the past 10 years the number of people with lung related diseases has gone up.\n\"The dust coming in here has also led to a huge increase in skin-related diseases.\"\nA major pilgrimage for Buddhists, Lumbini is also a major tourist destination.\nLast year it saw one million visitors and the government plans to develop it as a global tourism destination.\n\"My feeling at this time is that it is more polluted than seven or eight years ago,\" said Nguyen Duy Nhan, a Vietnamese tourist.\n\"I can see a lot of dust on the leaves and trees on the way we were coming in here.\"\nHis friend Victor Vlodovych nodded in agreement and said: \"Maybe if I stay longer it will affect [me] a lot, I can feel that there is a lot of construction and manufacturing around [this place].\"\nFactory operators say they are reasonably far away from the sacred site.\n\"Yes certainly this is very near to the birthplace of Lord Gautam Buddha,\" admitted Ajay Ajad, a manager with the biggest cement factory in the area.\n\"Obviously cement factories emit some dust but we are at a reasonably safe distance and therefore the deposition of our dust particles on the sacred site is minimised.\nHe says dust is not a problem confined to Lumbini: \"It is all over Nepal and even at places where there are no cement factories.\"\nGovernment officials are aware of the problem.\n\"Based on recent data, we know that Lumbini is more polluted than Kathmandu,\" said Shankar Prasad Poudel, chief of the air pollution measurement section at the environment department.\n\"We plan to detect the sources of the pollution using a drone in the near future and hopefully this will help minimise the problem.\"", "summary": "The historic site of Buddha's birthplace in Nepal faces a serious threat from air pollution, scientists and officials have warned." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Even a phone has a decent enough camera to get some nice looking nature shots these days.\nBut it's not just still photography where the technology is changing fast.\nAmazingly the sort of wildlife camera set-up that was once the preserve of a big budget show like Springwatch is now within the reach of many people.\nI've been out to meet Dave Walker, a man who has more than 25 video cameras scattered throughout his Worcestershire garden - inside nest boxes, trained on badger setts, even operated by remote control and scanning the whole garden.\nAll that information pours into a central hub, with three large monitors for all the various video feeds. The best images can be found on their website.\nThe woman responsible for the technical side of things is Kate MacRae, (or Wildlife Kate as Springwatch viewers may know her).\nShe's wired her own Lichfield garden up with lots of cameras too. However, with Dave's garden she was able to start from scratch and the results are amazing. Some of the best footage is included in this blogpost.\nAs these cameras improve in quality and drop in price Kate has top tips for getting the best out of them.\nShe says you can use a portable, motion-controlled, \"trail camera\" to find the best spot for recording wildlife. Then you can hardwire a better camera into that position which allows you to record the action round the clock, rather than in short bursts.\nThe amazing otter and kingfisher footage are my favourite clips, but have a look and let us know what you think.\nAnd don't forget to email us any clips or pictures you gather yourselves - we'd love to see them.", "summary": "As this gallery of your nature photos shows getting a great wildlife picture is no longer solely the preserve of the professional." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The occupants of the car had been wearing fake suicide vests and had knives and an axe, officials said.\nSeven people were injured in the attack, one of whom later died.\nIt came hours after a van was driven into crowds in Barcelona, leaving 13 people dead and scores injured.\nPolice say the van driver, who fled the scene, could be among those killed in Cambrils, but this has not yet been confirmed.\n\"The investigation points in this direction,\" said Catalonian police official Josep Lluis Trapero, but there was no \"concrete proof\".\nHe added that, despite police training, it was \"not easy\" for the officer who had shot dead four of the five suspects.\nThe attack in Cambrils unfolded when an Audi A3 was driven at people walking along the seafront in the early hours of Friday.\nThe car overturned and those inside then attacked people with knives. Police said four were shot dead at the scene and the fifth was killed a few hundred metres away.\nWaiter Joan Marc Serra Salinas heard the shots that rang out on Cambrils promenade.\n\"It was bang, bang, bang. Shouting, more shouting. I threw myself on to the ground on the beach,\" he said.\nThe Mayor of Cambrils, Cami Mendoza, praised the \"speed and efficiency\" of the police response.", "summary": "A lone police officer shot dead four of the five suspects who were in a car that was driven into pedestrians in the Spanish seaside town of Cambrils, it has emerged." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Roedd yr eglwys yn llawn, gyda channoedd hefyd yn gwylio ar sgrin y tu allan.\nBu farw Mr Williams yn 46 oed fis diwethaf. Mae'n gadael ei wraig, Becky, a phump o blant.\nRoedd Mr Williams, sylfaenydd ymgyrch Hawl I Fyw, yn wyneb a llais cyfarwydd yng Nghymru ers iddo gael diagnosis o ganser y coluddyn ym mis Ionawr 2014.\nFe gafodd ei achos sylw yn ystod un o sesiynau holi'r Prif Weinidog yn San Steffan, wrth i wleidyddion drafod yr hawl i gleifion dderbyn y cyffur Cetuximab yng Nghymru.\nClywodd y dorf bod Mr Williams am i'r digwyddiad fod yn ddathliad o'i fywyd, ac roedd perfformiadau gan Gôr Glanaethwy a'r tenor Rhys Meirion.\nFe wnaeth cyfaill i Mr Williams, y chwaraewr rygbi Robin McBryde, ddarllen yn y gwasanaeth.\nWrth arwain y gwasanaeth, dywedodd Deon Bangor, y Tra Pharchedicaf Kathy Jones nad oedd Mr Williams wedi \"bwriadu bod yn arwr... ond dyna oedd o\".\nYchwanegodd ei gyfaill, Gary: \"Roedd Irfon yn un o'r bobl mwyaf doniol oeddwn i'n 'nabod.\n\"Hyd yn oed pan oedd yn sal iawn roedd yn dal i wneud i mi chwerthin.\"", "summary": "Mae angladd yr ymgyrchydd canser Irfon Williams wedi ei gynnal yn Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor ddydd Mercher." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Alda, 81, was made a Doctor of Law at a graduation ceremony in the city's Caird Hall.\nHe helped found the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.\nLast year Mr Alda supported Dundee University's new £10m forensic science research centre in a video message.\nHe said: \"I feel great, it's wonderful. I don't quite understand the doctorate of law, I haven't broken many so maybe that's it.\"\nThe Alan Alda Center is an international partner of Dundee University's Leverhulme Centre, which is co-led by Professor Dame Sue Black, who proposed the actor for the honour.\nMr Alda said greater understanding of science was \"more important now than ever.\"\nHe said: \"I did a science programme on television where I interviewed hundreds of scientists for eleven years.\n\"The University of Dundee are planning to have a partnership with a really important area, which is science in the courtrooms and the justice system with regard to forensic science.\n\"It's very important the public understand about science to ask important questions.\n\"We're entitled to be heard with our questions and our objections but we need to have a language that is common.\n\"It doesn't do much good for scientists to tell us something we don't understand or for us to ask questions based on misunderstanding.\"\nThe university's graduation ceremonies continue until Friday.\nOther recipients of honorary degrees include Olympian Dame Katherine Grainger and Turner Prize-winning artist Susan Philipsz.", "summary": "M*A*S*H actor Alan Alda has received an honorary degree from Dundee University for his work promoting the communication of science." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The visitors stayed fifth, three points clear of Eastleigh and Tranmere after Rovers won at the Spitfires.\nMichael Cheek scored Braintree's opener before Simon Heslop levelled and Lee Fowler put the hosts ahead.\nCheek added a second before the break and Brundle struck to keep Braintree's promotion hopes alive.\nWrexham manager Gary Mills told BBC Radio Wales: \"We always knew we were rank outsiders to do it (make the play-offs), but it's disappointing to not win the game and go into it with a chance next week.\n\"When we went 2-1 up we started to dominate the game a little bit, but then we go and give away a stupid goal again and it changes the whole mental state of the players.\n\"It was a tough afternoon. We've given away some sloppy goals, which I've said too many times this season.\n\"You can't give away three goals at home - and sloppy goals at that - and it's cost us.\"", "summary": "Mitch Brundle put Braintree on the brink of the National League play-offs with a late winner that ended Wrexham's promotion hopes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lord Judge lambasted measures in the Wales Bill which he said could allow UK ministers to change assembly legislation without Parliament's say.\nThe independent peer called including the a \"constitutional aberration\".\nA Wales Office spokesman said the power was simply to \"fine tune\" the new devolution settlement.\nThe proposed Wales Bill - which devolves new powers to the Welsh assembly including over fracking and changes the way it makes laws - is being considered in its final stages in the House of Lords.\nThe row erupted as the Lords discussed amendments to the bill, including giving the Welsh Government the powers to ban high-stakes gambling machines and scrapping a clause allowing UK ministers to block some laws made in Wales about water.\nLord Judge, the most senior judge in England and Wales between 2008 and 2013, was critical of measures - known as the Henry VIII clauses - contained in the bill which he said would allow laws passed by the Welsh assembly to be changed by ministers in London without Parliament's consent.\nLord Judge said: \"This is the malevolent ghost of King Henry VIII wandering through the Valleys of Wales.\"\n\"Actually it is an insult to the democratic process which this Parliament created when the National Assembly of Wales was created,\" he added.\nLord Judge said the House of Lords should be \"embarrassed\" that it had allowed such a measure to be put in place in Scotland.\nPlaid Cymru peer Lord Wigley, also criticised the clauses, describing them as \"arcane and undemocratic\".\nThis is not the first time a row has broken out during the passage of the bill, last year First Minister Carwyn Jones said measures in it amounted to an \"English veto on Welsh laws\".\nBut the Wales Office denied the clauses gave UK ministers any more power than Welsh ministers, insisting they were \"simply a power to do the fine tuning needed to implement the new devolution settlement for Wales set out in the Wales Bill\".\nA spokesman said: \"A significant number of assembly acts give Welsh ministers reciprocal powers to change parliamentary legislation without Parliament's approval in order to implement assembly legislation.\n\"This power is part and parcel of the consequential powers held both by UK ministers and Welsh ministers.\"\nThe spokesman added that Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns had written to First Minister Carwyn Jones and Presiding Officer Elin Jones committing himself to working closely with the Welsh Government and the assembly \"on any regulations that need to be made which modify assembly legislation\".\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"It is clear that the former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, shares our concerns about provisions he describes as a 'constitutional aberration'.\n\"It is disappointing that the UK government has not felt able so far to respond effectively to our, and his, arguments.\"\nThe UK government also faced calls to guarantee Welsh communities would never again be sacrificed to provide water for England.\nIn 1965, the village of Capel Celyn was flooded to create the Tryweryn reservoir to provide Liverpool with water, under a law passed in 1956.\nLast month Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said he would scrap his ability to block some laws made in the assembly about water under changes to the Wales Bill.\nBut Lord Wigley said the amendments failed to deliver on the promise, instead stating a protocol may be put in place to protect English consumers and Wales.\nLabour peer and assembly member Baroness Morgan of Ely called for the UK government to clarify exactly what was in the protocol.\nBut Lord Bourne said Tryweryn could not happen again and the issue was unaffected by the Wales Bill.\nThe bill is scheduled to be discussed in the House of Lords again on 10 January.", "summary": "Powers allowing the UK government to overturn laws made in Wales have been criticised by a former lord chief justice as an \"insult\" to democracy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "British-born Wintour, 67, has been the editor of American Vogue for almost 30 years.\nWith her trademark bob and dark glasses, she has earned a reputation as one of fashion's most influential, and formidable, commentators.\nWintour, named in the New Year Honours list, spoke briefly to the Queen at the ceremony, smiling broadly.\nThe Queen struggled to attach the insignia to the editor's pink belted Chanel outfit: \"She couldn't find where to put the brooch,\" said Wintour.\n\"I congratulated her on Prince Philip's service because obviously that's so remarkable and such an inspiration to us all,\" the fashion editor told reporters.\nThe ceremony at Buckingham Palace also saw James Jones, the former bishop of Liverpool, knighted for his work with the families of the Hillsborough victims.\nThe 68-year-old, who is now assistant bishop in the Diocese of York, chaired the panel which saw the eventual release of files relating to the 1989 disaster.\nThe Times political cartoonist Peter Brookes, 73, received a CBE for services to the media and singer Marty Wilde - a rock'n'roll star who rose to fame alongside Sir Cliff Richard in the 1950s - received an MBE for services to popular music.\nWintour, who was raised in London to a British father and an American mother, was formerly editor of British Vogue, before taking the helm at its US sister publication in 1988.\nShe is credited with having turned American Vogue into one of the world's top fashion publications, where her no-nonsense style of micro-management earned her the nickname 'Nuclear Wintour'.\nShe is widely assumed to have been the inspiration for the character of Miranda (played by Meryl Streep) in the hit film The Devil Wears Prada, which was based on a book written by her former personal assistant, Lauren Weisberger.\nIn 2013, she was also named artistic director of publisher Conde Nast.\nEarlier this week, Wintour attended the Met Gala in New York, the annual society fund-raiser which Wintour herself organises to raise money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The event is hailed as one of the key events in the fashion calendar.\nOver the years, she has raised around $150m (£116m) for that institute, which was named in her honour in 2014. The 2016 gala raised around $13.5m, and tickets for this year's event were reportedly $30,000 (£23,000) a head.\nGet news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning", "summary": "Vogue editor Anna Wintour has been made a dame at Buckingham Palace for services to fashion and journalism." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Defeat came three days after they suffered a record 5-0 Nottinghamshire derby loss at Mansfield Town.\nCooper is in charge until the end of the season and has been set a points target to earn an extended contract.\n\"I said to them 'you have got two managers the sack already and you are not getting me out',\" Cooper said.\nAfter losing his first game in charge 4-0 at Portsmouth, Cooper's Notts took eight points from a possible 12 before their defeat at Mansfield.\nAsked by BBC Radio Nottingham if he saw defeat coming at 1-0 up, the former Swindon boss said: \"I did because I know what is in the changing room.\n\"What you know is with the group of players that we have got, if any real pressure comes they will cave in.\"\nBarnet manager and former Notts boss Martin Allen said it was a \"comfortable win\" against a side that \"offered nothing\" in the second half.\n\"They turned their back on their club,\" Allen said of the Magpies players.\n\"They let their supporters, their manager and everyone down from the way they played.\n\"I have interest in that club as I worked there, I have fond memories of my time there, and whoever brought those players in needs to take a long, hard look at themselves.\"\nNotts, relegated from League One last season, are 17th in the League Two table after 43 games.", "summary": "Notts County manager Mark Cooper told his players that they will not cost him his job after slumping to a 3-1 defeat at Barnet on Tuesday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The amount lost to online ticket fraud rose to £5.2m in the year to the end of October compared with £3.35m a year earlier, police said.\nMajor events, such as the Rugby Union World Cup, which was hosted by England, led to the rise in cases, they said.\nFans aged in their 20s are most likely to buy fake or bogus tickets online.\nPolice raised concerns that the \"tech-savvy\" generation were the hardest hit by ticket fraud, although those aged in their 20s are also likely to be financially-pressed and looking for a bargain.\n\"If this group is falling victim, it suggests that the fraudulent ticket sellers are very convincing and have the ability to exploit just about every type of internet user,\" said Chris Greany, of the City of London Police.\nThe figures, from the City of London Police National Fraud Intelligence Bureau and awareness group Get Safe Online, suggest that fans of the Rugby Union World Cup and Premier League football were targeted in more than a quarter of ticket scam cases.\nTicket scams relating to gigs and music festivals were next on the list, accounting for 15% of cases.\nTony Neate, of Get Safe Online, urged sports fans and festival goers to do their homework before buying tickets to popular events online.\n\"Criminals are clever and often use pre-existing websites or fan forums to help them appear legitimate, or in fact mimic genuine websites to help them dupe their victims into handing over money,\" he said.", "summary": "Online ticket fraud revenue rose by 55% in a year - driven by scams targeting fans of Premier League football and the Rugby Union World Cup." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "All times BST\nMonday 2 May\nWorld Championship final, 14:00-18:05; 19:00-23:00, BBC Two\nCatch-up on every session with BBC iPlayer", "summary": "BBC Sport will bring you live coverage of the 2016 World Snooker Championship from Saturday, 16 April across BBC TV, Red Button, connected TVs, online, tablets and smartphones." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Protesters blocked the entrance to the London embassy on Thursday with 800 mannequin limbs which they said was in response to the killing of civilians in Syrian city Aleppo.\nTwo people also chained themselves to the gates.\nCampaigners said the limbs represented the injuries suffered by people.\nActivists began their protest at about 14:00 BST.\nSyrian forces have been besieging rebel-held parts of Aleppo with backing from Russian air strikes.\nIn a statement, the Russian embassy said it was \"deeply concerned\" about the unwillingness of the UK government to \"ensure security and unhindered operation of the Russian diplomatic mission in London\".\nIt added: \"An unauthorised protest action by a group of unidentified people interrupted the work of the embassy as the entrance to the consular section was blocked up with a heap of mannequin body parts while the protestors handcuffed themselves to the gate.\n\"As a result, the mission staff and visitors were unable to enter the premises of the embassy. Police officers remained indifferent in the face of the openly provocative and disorderly conduct of the 'demonstrators'.\n\"Moreover, nuisance callers blocked the embassy telephone line rendering it impossible to contact the mission for genuine callers.\"\nThe Russian embassy statement accused the \"so-called protest action\" of being \"carefully and thoroughly planned\".\nIt also accused the government of waging an anti-Russian campaign in the media backed by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson who in the House of Commons recently encouraged people to protest outside the Russian embassy.\nMore than 250,000 trapped residents have been enduring food shortages, price hikes and bombing in Aleppo.\nBissan Fakih from the Syria Campaign said campaigners wanted to highlight that Russian warplanes \"are killing so many families\" and that the bombing \"needs to stop\".\n\"Our message to the people of (the embassy) is that the people of the world are watching,\" she said.\nThe Russian embassy appeared to suggest Boris Johnson was partly to blame by tweeting that the demonstration came \"after the call of @BorisJohnson\".\nRussia and Syria have told the rebel forces to leave eastern Aleppo by Friday evening but the rebels have rejected the offer.\nIt is estimated that there have been more than 800 civilian deaths since the end of the last ceasefire in September.", "summary": "The Russian embassy has expressed concern about the security of its diplomats after a protest against Russia's bombing of Syria." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Belgium international Dembele appeared to eye-gouge forward Costa during Spurs' 2-2 draw with Chelsea on Monday.\nReferee Mark Clattenburg did not punish the 28-year-old during the game.\nDembele chose not to contest the charge, and will now be unavailable to manager Mauricio Pochettino until Spurs' fifth game of next season.\nHe has made 29 appearances in the league this season, scoring three goals.\nDembele was one of nine Spurs players booked in the draw at Stamford Bridge - a Premier League record for one team.\nMonday's result ended Tottenham's hopes of winning the Premier League. Pochettino's side have two games remaining this season, against Southampton and Newcastle, with three points almost certain to secure second place.\nStoke and former Republic of Ireland keeper Shay Given told BBC Radio 5 live that he thought the punishment was \"way too high\".\n\"Looking at the incident, did he stick his finger in his eye and actually gouge his eye?\" he said.\n\"I've seen worse tackles on the field which don't get a suspension or a maximum of three matches. If someone is going to go in two-footed, lunging, and their opponent are out for six to nine months with a broken leg and they don't get a ban - I don't understand that.\n\"Dembele's fingers weren't right in his eye. He scraped a bit of his face. I think it is harsh. I know the FA are trying to send a message that this isn't acceptable, but I've seen worse things on a football pitch.\"\nFormer West Brom striker Jason Roberts agreed, saying: \"Things happen on the pitch that can genuinely hurt somebody - like Fellaini's elbow on Huth. That in my opinion was much more dangerous and more of an issue than what Dembele did.\"\nLISTEN: Given tells BBC Radio 5 live he had \"seen worse tackles\"", "summary": "Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Mousa Dembele has been banned for six games by the Football Association for violent conduct against Chelsea's Diego Costa." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ministry of Cake employs 400 people at its Taunton and Torquay factories. It evolved from Maynards Sweets in Yeovil which was established in 1865.\nManaging director Chris Ormrod, said: \"This deal secures jobs and investment in a company which is firmly rooted in the West Country.\"\nThe buyer, Mademoiselle Desserts, has other sites in Maidenhead and Corby.\n\"We ultimately were owned by a private equity house - we borrowed £11m two years ago and wrote a four-year plan.\n\"We've achieved that plan in two years and pretty much all of last year we had people knocking on our door asking if we would be up for sale,\" said Mr Ormrod.\n'Brexit uncertainty'\nMinistry of Cake had a turnover of £30m last year. It supplies desserts to major pub and restaurant chains including JD Wetherspoon and TGI Friday.\nMademoiselle Desserts employs more than 1,400 in eight production sites in France, the UK and the Netherlands.\nIts customers in the UK include Marks and Spencer Food.\nMr Ormrod said management and staff jobs were safe and having a new owner would open up new career opportunities in France for staff.\n\"We've had a really good year this year and we've grown ourselves by 10%. We've won some big contracts. This is more about looking to the future.\n\"We're in that perfect storm of not knowing quite where Brexit is going to take us and what it means to tariff barriers, so this was about securing the business as it is and giving ourselves some real room to grow with a very supportive parent,\" he said.", "summary": "A Somerset-based dessert-making firm has been sold to a French food company for an undisclosed sum." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 24-year-old German left-back previously tasted life in the English Premier League and the Bundesliga but has joined Accies until January.\n\"A lot of people who play at that level and come down the way have trouble adjusting and still see themselves as a big player,\" Canning told BBC Scotland.\n\"But Lennard's a good boy and his attitude is a different class.\"\nSowah, whose parents are from Ghana, made his full Portsmouth debut in 2010 and in doing so became the first player born after the launch of English Premier League in 1992 to start a match in it.\nSince leaving Portsmouth the former Arsenal youth player has spent most of his time in Hamburg's first and second teams.\n\"He is a talented player and you don't play at the level he's played at if you don't have talent,\" said Canning.\n\"The most important thing for me with guys like Lennard that are coming from those types of clubs is that their attitude is right. That they don't see themselves as a big player, they see themselves as where they are now and work hard to get back to that level.\n\"He gets forward well and reads the game very well. He's very quick; a good athlete and strong with good use of the ball.\"\nHamilton, in ninth place, visit bottom side Partick Thistle - who are two points behind them - on Saturday, with both sides looking for their second league victory of the season.\nAccies beat Ross County 1-0 on 27 August and Thistle got the better of Inverness on the opening day of the season.\n\"Every game is a hard game,\" added Canning. \"There is so little between six, seven or maybe eight teams with such fine margins.\n\"We know that if we approach it properly and perform the way we can, we know we can get the three points and it's something we've got to start doing.\n\"I read a statistic the other day that we've lost 14 points from a winning position this season, which is a lot of points. Games like Kilmarnock here, Dundee away and Inverness here we were 1-0 up with good opportunities to score a second and have not taken it.\n\"There's not a whole lot wrong with what we're doing on the pitch, but maybe just being a little bit more ruthless to go and get the second goal that puts the game to bed.\"", "summary": "Hamilton Academical boss Martin Canning believes Lennard Sowah's humility helps make him a \"good fit\" for club." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "PwC's latest UK Economic Outlook report projects GDP growth of 1.8% for Scotland in 2016.\nThe equivalent figure for Wales is 1.7%, and for Northern Ireland it is 1.4%. North-east England is predicted to see 1.7% growth.\nThe average UK growth figure is predicted to be stronger, at 2.2%.\nPwC Scotland regional chairman Lindsay Gardiner said: \"It is not only promising to see Scotland continuing to grow but also to look ahead and see education and health set to be large employment sectors.\nMr Gardiner added: \"In general the growth rate has been slow - in part due to weak consumer growth thanks to reduced spending - but exports and investment are holding their own for now.\"\nThe report identified danger areas for the Scottish economy. These included:\nMr Gardiner picked out the relative lack of investment in research and development as a key concern.\nHe said: \"This in part reflects the decline of manufacturing, where there has traditionally been high spending in R&D, but as we transition to a more digital and flexible economy, we need to accept that spending in R&D must be far higher in all sectors to encourage growth.\"", "summary": "A leading accountancy firm has said Scotland's economy is set to outperform Wales, Northern Ireland and the north-east of England." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored the second-half winner with his first goal in five matches, nodding in substitute Wayne Rooney's mis-hit shot at the far post.\nIt was United's first effort on target, despite dominating at Old Trafford.\nZorya offered little threat, although Sergio Romero had to be alert to save Paulinho's shot just before the winner.\nRelive how Manchester United edged past Zorya Luhansk\nThe Red Devils are among the favourites to win Europe's secondary club competition, but started the evening at the bottom of Group A following a 1-0 defeat at Dutch side Feyenoord in their opening match.\nAnd for more than an hour it looked as though Jose Mourinho's men would stay there.\nDespite hogging over 70% of possession, United were slow and ponderous in the final third as Zorya's well-drilled defence held firm.\nBut Zorya, making their debut in the Europa League group stage, were undone inside two minutes of Rooney's introduction.\nUnited move up to third, level on three points with Feyenoord and one adrift of Turkish leaders Fenerbahce, who travel to Old Trafford on 20 October in the next round of games.\nRooney had been expected to be restored to the United starting XI after being dropped for the Premier League win against Leicester last weekend.\nBut Mourinho's plan to recall the England skipper was scuppered by a minor back injury.\nThe United manager decided that continuity was the policy in his absence, sticking with the attacking quartet - Ibrahimovic, Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard and Juan Mata - that started Saturday's 4-1 win.\nHowever, they offered little spark against a visiting side that finished fourth in the Ukrainian Premier League last season.\nRooney was summoned from the bench with 25 minutes left and inadvertently set up the winner, as the ball struck his knee and bounced up off the ground for Ibrahimovic to head in at the far post.\n\"Wayne gave us different positions and speed when the opposing team was getting tired,\" said Mourinho.\nMourinho, who replaced Louis van Gaal in the summer, questioned the character of his United side earlier this month after they suffered three straight defeats against Manchester City, Feyenoord and Watford.\nBut they have bounced back with three successive wins, beating Zorya after victories against Northampton in the EFL Cup and Leicester in the Premier League.\n\"One week, three defeats. One week, three victories. But I was not depressed by the defeats and I am not over the moon with three wins,\" said the 53-year-old Portuguese.\n\"It was difficult. We had our chances in the first half, we could have scored and it would have been a different match. But we didn't.\n\"They kept organised and had plenty of players behind the ball but with players ready to do something on the counter-attack. It was difficult and we needed to win.\"\nManchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic:\n\"It was not an easy game. We played well, created chances, but this is a typical game. When you don't score in the beginning, the spaces get smaller and smaller. After the goal, we had more space but it was a decent game. We won and that is what counts after losing against Feyenoord.\n\"We could have done much more though, and I expect much more from the team. We did not score as we did against Leicester but it is good for confidence. If we continue this and step it up, we will do good.\"\nBack to the Premier League and back to Old Trafford for Manchester United. The sixth-placed side host Stoke, who are second bottom and winless, on Sunday (12:00 BST).\nMatch ends, Manchester United 1, Zorya Luhansk 0.\nSecond Half ends, Manchester United 1, Zorya Luhansk 0.\nAttempt missed. Ivan Petryak (Zorya Luhansk) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a set piece situation.\nFoul by Marcos Rojo (Manchester United).\nOleksandr Karavayev (Zorya Luhansk) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nAttempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.\nPaul Pogba (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Jaba Lipartia (Zorya Luhansk).\nMykyta Kamenyuka (Zorya Luhansk) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nMarcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Mykyta Kamenyuka (Zorya Luhansk).\nAttempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\nAnthony Martial (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Rafael Forster (Zorya Luhansk).\nZlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Rafael Forster (Zorya Luhansk).\nAttempt missed. Oleksandr Karavayev (Zorya Luhansk) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Paulinho with a cross.\nAttempt missed. Paulinho (Zorya Luhansk) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mykyta Kamenyuka with a cross.\nAttempt missed. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Wayne Rooney with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, Manchester United. Conceded by Mikhail Sivakov.\nAttempt blocked. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) header from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Wayne Rooney.\nSubstitution, Zorya Luhansk. Artem Gordienko replaces Igor Chaykovsky.\nAttempt missed. Jaba Lipartia (Zorya Luhansk) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\nFoul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).\nJaba Lipartia (Zorya Luhansk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nSubstitution, Zorya Luhansk. Jaba Lipartia replaces Zeljko Ljubenovic.\nSubstitution, Manchester United. Anthony Martial replaces Timothy Fosu-Mensah.\nSubstitution, Manchester United. Ashley Young replaces Juan Mata.\nGoal! Manchester United 1, Zorya Luhansk 0. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Wayne Rooney.\nAttempt missed. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Timothy Fosu-Mensah.\nSubstitution, Manchester United. Wayne Rooney replaces Jesse Lingard.\nCorner, Zorya Luhansk. Conceded by Sergio Romero.\nAttempt saved. Paulinho (Zorya Luhansk) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Igor Chaykovsky.\nHand ball by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).\nCorner, Zorya Luhansk. Conceded by Timothy Fosu-Mensah.\nEric Bailly (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Eric Bailly (Manchester United).\nPaulinho (Zorya Luhansk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nSubstitution, Zorya Luhansk. Paulinho replaces Vladyslav Kulach.\nZlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.", "summary": "Manchester United climbed off the bottom of their Europa League group with an uninspiring win over Ukrainian minnows Zorya Luhansk." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The most serious cases included the deaths of 26 newborns and 79 stillbirths. Three mothers also died.\nStaff shortages, medicines given in error and treatment delays were also among the incidents logged.\nThe Scottish government pointed out that in 2015 the country had recorded its lowest level of stillbirths.\nHealth Secretary Shona Robison also said that there were fewer neonatal deaths and fewer maternal deaths.\nThe minister's comments came following a BBC Scotland Freedom of Information (FOI) request into the number of \"adverse events\" taking place in maternity units.\nAcross Scotland from the beginning of 2011 until the end of 2015 there were more than 285,000 births, including 1,247 stillbirths.\nHealth board detailed minor incidents including slips, trips, bumps and falls, but also more serious events including:\nIn reality the total figure may be far higher than 25,000, because some health boards - including Greater Glasgow and Clyde - provided only the most serious events rather than all adverse events.\nThe figures did reveal almost 500 incidents in relation to staff shortages, more than 440 referring to medicine given in error, and more than 100 delays in treatment.\nThe FOIs also showed evidence of a series of staffing problems at health boards in Fife, Grampian, Highland and Lanarkshire.\nIt has raised questions over how many of these adverse events could have been avoided.\nOn Monday, the Scottish government announced an independent investigation into baby deaths at a Kilmarnock hospital.\nMs Robison said Healthcare Improvement Scotland would review care at Crosshouse after BBC Scotland revealed six so-called \"unnecessary\" deaths of babies at the hospital since 2008.\nFraser Morton said NHS Ayrshire and Arran health board had refused to carry out a review following the death of his son Lucas in Crosshouse Hospital last year.\nHe believed a shortage of staff and a lack of training contributed to the death of his son.\nGillian Smith, the director of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), said there was a definite correlation between staff shortages and adverse events.\nWith new figures showing that more than 40% of Scotland's midwives were in their 50s and 60s, she warned that the country was facing a \"demographic timebomb\".\nShe added: \"There are always going to be adverse events of some kind... mothers and babies will still die for reasons we don't know and couldn't avoid.\n\"However, what we want is to look at all the avoidable incidents and take the learning we can from that.\n\"Learning from avoidable incidents in the only way we will get better.\"\nMs Robison told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that she had full confidence in Healthcare Improvements Scotland to carry out the national review of maternity services, which will report in a few weeks' time.\nShe added: \"Its remit will be to look into the questions being asked by families to make sure that the processes and procedures that should have been followed within Ayrshire and Arran were followed and to report to me after looking into all of those issues.\"\nShe acknowledged that she was ultimately accountable if future failures in the system were not addressed.\nShe said: \"Accountability lies both with the board and ultimately the chief executive of that board and eventually, yes, with me. Which is why that we need to make sure that all of these adverse events are subject to review, that lessons are learned. \"\nA project by the Royal College of Gynaecologists (RCOG) aims to halve the number of \"avoidable\" stillbirths in the UK by 2020.\nIts Each Baby Counts programme found 1,000 incidents of avoidable harm at birth in its first year of monitoring - with about 100 of them in Scotland.\nProf Alan Cameron, the principal investigator on the UK wide project, said: \"Some of these events don't cause any harm but they are recordable as adverse events. But some can cause harm and what is key is that the service sits up to recognise that and do something about it.\n\"Some of the events we have looked at are staggering. Some of the reports we have read beggar belief.\n\"Labour is the most hazardous journey a baby makes. If something goes wrong health service staff have to act quickly. That can be alarming. This is such an acute and unpredictable specialty.\"\nHe said BBC Scotland's findings showed that health boards had different classifications for serious adverse events, and he called for consistency.\nHe added: \"It is a concern that some areas are not doing as well as others in terms of outcomes from labour.\n\"I would certainly hope another Morecambe Bay would not happen again and that is why we need to put mechanisms in place to prevent it happening in future.\"\nFiling Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to Scottish authorities is nearly always an exercise in frustration. If they are not late they are incomplete, if they don't give you what you ask for they don't give it to you at all.\nMy request to the country's health boards for adverse event information hit more snags than usual. The responses issued gave a patchwork quilt of data - a frustratingly blinkered view of the actual figures. The ensuing inconsistent mishmash of data ultimately boiled down to how boards had interpreted what I meant by \"adverse event\".\nSome only returned data on \"serious\" adverse events - those incidents that resulted in actual loss of life. Others returned events classified as \"minor\", \"major\" or \"significant\" - they included anything from falls and staff shortages, to a pregnant woman involved in a \"radiation incident\".\nThe waters were muddied further by some overly enthusiastic redaction of internal adverse events reports, partial returns with some data missing, and some responses citing only annual totals without giving us an idea of the type of adverse event.\nBut even as a partial snapshot these figures are rather alarming. These varying returns mean we don't know exactly how many adverse events occurred, determined how they have been dealt with (to ensure that they could be avoided in future), and nor can we say with 100% certainty whether the number of adverse events in our hospitals is falling.", "summary": "Scotland's maternity hospitals have recorded more than 25,000 adverse incidents since 2011, BBC Scotland has discovered." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Tom Harris, who is launching the Scottish Vote Leave campaign, said the new powers were part of a specific Scottish case for leaving the EU.\nThe former Labour MP will say fishing and agriculture would be left to Holyrood if the UK votes to quit.\nBut pro-EU campaigners believe life outside the bloc would be uncertain.\nScotland stronger in Europe has warned that none of the alternatives would offer Scots as much protection as membership of the EU.\nMr Harris said other inducements for Scots to vote against remaining part of Europe include a cash boost for Scottish higher education once EU students pay tuition fees and a £1.5bn windfall for the Scottish budget after contributions to EU institutions stop.\nAt the launch of the Scottish Vote Leave campaign, he will say: \"Major new powers - particularly in fishing and agriculture - would automatically be devolved to Holyrood, not Westminster, in the event of the UK voting to leave the EU.\n\"Any repatriated power that isn't already explicitly denoted as \"reserved\" in the Scotland Act 1998 is assumed to be the remit of the Scottish Parliament.\"\nHe will also say: \"Leaving the EU could also secure free university tuition for Scottish students, by significantly increasing the amount of money it can charge EU students attending Scottish universities.\nMr Harris claimed that the UK pays £350m a week to the EU for the \"privilege of maintaining its membership\".\nHe said Scotland's share of was £1.5bn a year.\nThis figure is disputed by opponents of leaving the EU as it does not include the UK's rebate or the money that it receives back from the EU.\nRemain campaigners argue the true cost of EU membership is closer to £136m a week.\nMr Harris said: \"We want potential MSPs to tell us what they would do with that extra money, or to explain why they think Scotland can afford to continue sending that money to Brussels.\"\nOther leave campaign groups will also call for Scots to back Brexit later this week.", "summary": "Scotland would get \"major\" new powers and a bigger budget if the UK votes to leave the European Union, according to one of the campaigners backing Brexit." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "This is a place with fewer than 3,000 people, but here are a few facts:\nBut for the past decade, work has been going on to improve skills and raise ambitions.\nALEX NOTT, a single mother of two, claims employment support allowance, child benefit and child tax allowance.\nShe left school without qualifications but has done different jobs and has, recently, been taking courses. Ms Nott is unfit to work, but she starts a university degree course in police forensics in September.\n\"I think it's enough to live on,\" she said of her benefits.\n\"I manage and I run a car. I wouldn't say I live in poverty, I've a nice house, it's warm, as long as there's food in the cupboard and the kids have shoes on their feet.\n\"But I know with people on Jobseeker's Allowance - it's not a lot of money.\"\nHer eldest daughter, 16, has been looking for work in shops, restaurants and cafes for the past five months.\nDR SARAH LLOYD-JONES, director of the Cardiff-based education charity People and Work Unit, has been working with regeneration projects in Glyncoch for six years to combat poverty.\n\"When we first came in, well over 50% had no qualifications whatsoever, no-one was learning in a sixth form - environmentally, the community was very run down.\n\"But we found it's more mixed than you might expect. There are highly skilled people, those running their own businesses, professionals living here.\n\"We looked at drawing people together, looking at people as a strength, not just the problem. We worked with the Communities First team and regeneration programmes focusing on how people can get skills and what it takes to create a level playing field.\n\"We now have a lot of people in sixth form and pursuing qualifications. It's not all about what we've done but part of wider improvement with primary schools doing much, much better than they were.\"\nKATIE GILLETT, leader of the Chance to Learn project, where Alex Nott and her daughter have been training.\n\"There's more participation now,\" she said of changing attitudes within the community.\n\"We're not working for them, we're working with them, there's a different take on it.\n\"It's had a massive impact on the value of life and quality of life. It's about the one-on-one support we give and money [we get] is an important part of that.\"\nThe community has benefited from work from the likes of Oxfam while education, health and skills programmes are delivered by Communities First.\nPresenter Stephen Fry tweeted and helped back a successful crowd-funding campaign for a new community centre.\nProjects in Glyncoch include Build It Together, which has helped 100 people gain practical skills to help them back into education, training and work.\nYoung people have been taught practical skills like woodworking and decorating to help them into education, training or employment and about 100 people have been involved as volunteers, trainees or apprentices.\nMs Gillett recognises that Glyncoch is still a poor area and its long-term recovery will also be determined by factors outside the community.\n\"It all depends on how Wales' economy goes and if we can find replacements for those industries that have gone in these areas.\n\"But it's not all about jobs; educational attainment is a massive thing towards that. And as long as we realise what skills are needed to meet the job market, it should grow and we should develop economically.\"", "summary": "The Glyncoch estate, two miles north of Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, is a community long-associated with deprivation." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Actor Mark Ruffalo who played superhero The Incredible Hulk, has written to the authorities in support of protesters.\nThey are campaigning against an exploratory oil well at Woodburn Forest near Carrickfergus, County Antrim.\nMr Ruffalo, who founded an organisation called Water Defense had written to Environment Minister Mark H Durkan outlining his concerns.\nWater Defense is a non-profit organisation dedicated to clean water.\nMr Ruffalo's letter has been copied to First Minister Arlene Foster and the planning authority, Mid & East Antrim Council.\nNorthern Ireland Water has also received a copy.\nIn it, Mr Ruffalo said there are many \"concerning facts\" about the case.\nProtesters have objected to the well because they say it is part of the catchment for a reservoir that supplies water to thousands of homes in Belfast and Carrick.\nThey claim chemicals used in the drill process could leach into the water table.\nNorthern Ireland Water, which has leased the drill site to oil company Infrastrata, said the project would not compromise the water supply.\nInfrastrata has outlined measures that it will take to protect groundwater.\nThese include collection of surface water at the site and protection of the drill shaft by encasing it in steel and concrete.\nIn his letter, Mr Ruffalo said the \"small amount\" of oil and gas that might be found \"pales in comparison\" to the importance of protecting the water supply.\nWater Defense said it would be sending testing kits to local residents and will be monitoring the situation.", "summary": "A Hollywood superstar has weighed into a dispute over a controversial oil well in Northern Ireland." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 32-year-old made 263 appearances for the Dons in a six-year spell, but announced in April that he would leave at the end of the season.\nPotter previously played for Sheffield Wednesday, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Southampton and Liverpool.\nHe is Rotherham's second summer signing after the arrival of Michael Ihiekwe from Tranmere.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "Rotherham United have signed former MK Dons midfielder Darren Potter on a two-year deal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Both historically - pioneering blues musicians like Albert King hail from this tiny town on the state's so-called \"Cotton Highway\" - and emotionally.\nHard hit by the financial crisis, as factory after factory shut and jobs moved away, the town's main street is mostly hollowed out, with century-old buildings standing vacant.\nCotton strands masquerading as cobwebs - blown over from the fields dotted with puffy white plants in the surrounding the area - lurk in every corner.\nA sign advertising weekly bingo games creaks in the wind, as a handful of people mill in front of the town's municipal building at midday.\nHowever, like most small towns around this state that were battered by the recession, things are slowly improving.\nStatewide, the unemployment rate peaked at 8.1% in 2010, but has since fallen nearly to its pre-recession level of 6.2% - just above the national average.\nBut the problem for the Democrats - who are fighting hard to help Senator Mark Pryor keep his position and to ensure outgoing Governor Mike Beebe's seat stays in Democratic hands - is that those statistics haven't translated into sentiment.\nAs former President Bill Clinton said, in speeches supporting the Democratic candidate in his home state: \"The economy is coming back, but nobody believes it because you don't feel it.\"\nPerhaps nowhere is this thorny issue for Democrats more evident than in Osceola.\nAfter years of negotiations, Big River Steel was persuaded to locate their billion-dollar steel factory on the banks of the Mississippi in the city, lured by incentives promoted by both local and state-wide Democratic officials.\nConstruction of the plant, which is situated on nearly 1,300 acres next to what was once a Fruit of the Loom plant - a nod to the area's cotton heritage - began in earnest over the summer.\nNearly 2,000 people will be hired to build the facility and once it is up and running, more than 525 will be employed at the plant, smelting steel and sending it off down the nearby Mississippi river to neighbouring states.\nThose jobs will pay $75,000 - nearly triple the local average wage.\nMark Bula, the chief commercial officer of the company, says that while the main drivers of the decision to locate the plant in Osceola were the cost of power and proximity to the Mississippi, tax incentives - totalling over $100m - certainly did not hurt.\nBut, he adds, it was also a good deal for the local community.\n\"A lot of other companies, you can drive around this town or any town, there's a lot companies that have just picked up and moved,\" he says\n\"They can move their equipment to Mexico or some other place.\n\"For us it's actually very difficult to do. You don't pick up a steel mill and move it every day.\"\nYet despite the arrival of Big River Steel - helped by government incentives - most residents are hesitant to give anyone credit for a recovery that they say, frankly, they still don't really feel.\nOutside of the local Wal-Mart - Arkansas is the home of the US's biggest retailer - most were gloomy about the state of the US economy.\nShopper Angela Reuther says things for her haven't really improved since the recession.\n\"On paper it might be better, but for me it's the same,\" she says.\nThat's why despite the numbers, she says she is reluctant to give either party - Democrat or Republican - credit for improving the economy.\nTamiko Allen echoes the sentiments of many when she says that its not just Democrats who have disappointed her, but President Barack Obama specifically.\n\"He's taking us down, not bringing us up,\" she says.\nThat apathy - and general frustration with the president, despite the fact that he has now overseen a US economy that is back growing at its pre-recession levels - seems to be mainly what is driving voters away from the Democrats.\nZettie Sanders sums up the plight of many here.\n\"My Daddy always taught me I was a Democrat from birth,\" she says.\n\"But I'd say he'd turn over in his grave now, because I can't say that I'm a Democrat anymore - but I don't know if I'm a Republican either.\"\nThis malaise - and the inability of those in Osceola and the surrounding areas to really feel the effects of the recovery - has translated into swelling support for the aptly named Republican candidate, Representative Tom Cotton.\nJust up a few miles north of the future home of Big River Steel, Mr Cotton met with a group of steelworkers at rival plant Nucor Steel.\nGenial and approachable in a fleece vest, he made jokes - \"It's like being in church, everyone's sitting in the back\" - and shook hands - the typical political campaign fare.\nYet when he got up to address the group of 30 or so people, he stayed focused primarily on one topic: the economy.\n\"We've added three times as many people to food stamps as we have to the workforce - and wages have fallen by 5%,\" he said, as many in the room nodded.\n\"We need a healthy growing economy - taxes are too high and regulations are too costly,\" he added, in particular emphasising dysfunction in Washington and President Obama.\nNoticeably, the name of his opponent - current Democratic Senator Mark Pryor - was never mentioned.\nRepresentative Cotton even went so far as to single out another Democrat - former president Bill Clinton - for praise, noting with satisfaction his handling of the welfare system.\nAnd that, in the end, seems to be the theme here in Arkansas and in many swing states across the US.\nIt is less about party politics, and more about the mid-term blues.\nUS voters seem desperate to cast a ballot more for change than for a political party - for anyone who can make the statistics about the US recovery translate into a local reality.\nBut for now, whatever recovery his happening here in Osceola feels much like the threads of cotton blowing in the air during the harvest.\nThey're all around - but barely felt.", "summary": "Osceola, Arkansas is a town filled with the blues." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nClinton also credited Ali, who turned 70 on Tuesday, with helping pave the way for Barack Obama to become the country's first black president.\n\"He made millions of people believe. He was something unique,\" said Clinton.\nThree-time world heavyweight champion Ali won 56 bouts over a 21-year career.\nHe was entertaining and when he was younger he was always mouthing off. But it was part of his schtick. He made [boxing] part theatre, part dance and all power\nHe also made plenty of headlines outside of the ring with his sharp words and refusal to take part in the Vietnam War.\nBut Clinton believes his fellow American's legacy will be the way he got the whole world talking about boxing again in the 1960s.\n\"People had moved away from boxing. It was a huge deal in America in the 1940s and 1950s and then they wrote it off,\" he told BBC Sport boxing commentator Mike Costello.\n\"Then here comes Muhammad Ali, first as Cassius Clay, looking like a ballerina in the boxing ring - reminding people it was a sport.\n\"He made it exciting and meaningful again. He was entertaining and when he was younger he was always mouthing off. But it was part of his schtick.\n\"He made it part theatre, part dance and all power.\"\nAli risked his glittering career, and his reputation, to oppose the Vietnam War. He refused to serve in the US Army when he was called up for service and was subsequently arrested for committing a felony.\nBoxing authorities suspended his licence and stripped him of his titles before he was found guilty of the offence after a 1967 trial. The US Supreme Court reversed the conviction four years later.\n\"It could have destroyed him but it didn't - because people realised he had been very forthright and he was prepared to pay the price for his convictions,\" said Clinton. \"On balance he won more admirers than detractors.\"\nAli's success helped break down racial barriers in the US and create the path which eventually led to President Obama's election in 2008, according to Clinton.\n\"All those people from the Civil Rights years and also every African-American who did everything that destroyed the old stereotypes have helped,\" said Clinton, 65.\n\"There was nothing inferior about Ali - he was superior on merit without regards to his race when it came to what he loved.\n\"All this stuff played a role. Society changes slowly, like icebergs turning in the ocean. Sometimes great symbolic events affect changes of consciousness of a whole country. Ali reflects a lot of that.\"\nBritish broadcaster Sir David Frost, who famously verbally sparred with the boxer during television interviews at the height of his fame, believes Ali touched the hearts of millions with his words.\nHe said: \"Over the years Muhammad Ali spoke with peace. Not just for boxing but peace in general.\nAli was the primary reason I took up boxing. I wonder how many more youngsters across the globe pushed open a gym door for the same reason\nMike Costello meets Bill Clinton\n\"Although he spoke in this war-like rhetoric, it was already clear that the man beyond that rhetoric was a warm and friendly and peaceable man.\n\"He became the most famous man in the world for a long time. He's not far off it now even.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nFormer British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Joe Bugner fought Ali in 1973 and 1975, losing on points on each occasion. He told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast: \"It was a great pleasure to fight him on both occasions.\n\"He was more of an athlete than a fighter. He was a highly intelligent athlete, who utilised every inch of the boxing room.\"\nFrank Bruno insists the world will never see another boxer like Ali, whom he believes put \"boxing on the map\".\n\"He paved the way for boxers like myself to want to go into boxing and make a living for themselves,\" said Bruno.\n\"We're grateful we had Muhammad Ali to inspire us.\"\nDavid Haye, who won the WBA heavyweight crown in 2009, added: \"I believe he is the world's greatest ever athlete bar none.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device", "summary": "Muhammad Ali's talent, charisma and strong principles were responsible for raising boxing's popularity across the world, according to former US president Bill Clinton." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry presented the Legacy Awards to children and teenagers for creating positive social change in their communities.\nThe recipients came from the UK, United States, Canada, India, Belize and the United Arab Emirates.\nThe Duke paid tribute to his mother, saying she still inspires \"countless acts of compassion and bravery\".\nHe and Prince Harry were making their first joint appearance at an event run by the Diana Award, established to promote their mother's belief in the positive power of young people.\nAward winners included a teenager from North Yorkshire who set up a swimming club for young people with disabilities.\nJemima Browning, 16, who started Tadcaster Stingrays, was inspired by her brother Will, 14, who has Down's Syndrome.\nShe said he often experienced barriers to competing in sport due to his disabilities and the additional support he requires.\n\"It doesn't feel real, it feels really strange it feels like I don't deserve something amazing like this,\" she said.\n\"To be able to stand in front of two amazing people who are recognized across the world is just a massive honour and I can't believe it really.\"\nThe Duke of Cambridge said: \"We are so glad our mothers name is being put to good use through The Diana Award.\"\nThe winners were selected from a poll of nominations by an independent judging panel chaired by Dame Julia Cleverdon, founder of Step Up To Serve.\nThe panel included Julia Samuel, Patron of Child Bereavement UK and friend of Princess Diana, and campaigner Baroness Lawrence OBE.\nThose to receive awards (as well as Jemima) were:", "summary": "Twenty young people have been given a new award set up in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "With a rucksack on his chest and wearing a surgical mask, the man was shot dead by officers while trying to escape after carrying out the attack.\nOne person suffered a \"superficial\" hatchet wound and three people were treated for exposure to pepper spray.\nThe man was later named as a 29-year-old local, Vincente David Montano.\nPolice spokesman Don Aaron said Montano had \"significant\" psychological issues and had been committed to psychiatric care four times.\nHe had also been arrested in 2004 for assault and resisting arrest.\nPolice had at first believed the attacker was 51. They also mistakenly said he had a firearm but later clarified it was a pellet gun.\nOfficers were called at 13:13 local time (17:13 GMT) on Wednesday to the Carmike Hickory 8 cinema in Antioch, where a screening of Mad Max: Fury Road 2D was just starting.\nWitnesses were running out as the police arrived, and one officer entered the auditorium through the projection room, only to be shot at by the gunman.\nThe assailant tried to escape out of a rear door but was shot dead.\nHis rucksack, still strapped to him when he died, was detonated by authorities and \"nothing of danger\" was found, police said.\nNearby businesses were placed on temporary lockdown.\nThe latest attack comes about two weeks after a shooting at a cinema in Lafayette, Louisiana.\nAnd jurors in Colorado are currently deciding whether the man who killed 12 and injured 70 during a Batman film in 2012 should receive the death penalty.", "summary": "A man brandishing an axe and pepper spray has been killed by police after attacking people in a cinema in suburban Nashville, Tennessee." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "After just 23 days on the job, Mr Flynn was forced out over revelations that he had discussed lifting US sanctions on Russia with their ambassador to Washington, and that he lied to the US vice-president about that conversation.\nSince his departure, revelations have kept on coming.\nSince Mr Flynn left the White House the Pentagon has launched an investigation into whether he failed to disclose payments from Russian and Turkish lobbyists that he was given for speeches and consulting work.\nIn March, he registered with the US government as a \"foreign agent\" due to his work for the Turkish government.\nFormer President Barack Obama warned Mr Trump against hiring the former general less than 48 hours after the November election during a conversation inside the Oval Office.\nMr Flynn has requested immunity from the congressional committees investigating alleged Russian meddling on the 2016 election in exchange for his testimony, but so far no committee has taken him up on the offer.\n\"As a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from Russia, Turkey or anybody else,\" said Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz.\n\"And it appears as if he did take that money. It was inappropriate, and there are repercussions for a violation of law.\"\nMr Flynn was all but written off two years ago when he was removed from his post as a Pentagon intelligence chief by Mr Obama.\nBut the retired US Army three-star lieutenant-general was one of Donald Trump's closest advisers and most ardent supporters during the 2016 campaign.\nHis importance was underlined just days before his resignation, when he was with the president at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as he hosted his first foreign leader there, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.\nIn the past, Mr Flynn has complained he was fired from the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 2014 after just two years for telling hard truths about the war on Islamist extremism.\nMr Flynn said the US is losing a global war against Islamist extremism that could last for generations.\nBut insiders have suggested his exit at the DIA may have been related to his unpopular overhaul of the agency.\nFormer US officials who worked closely with him described him as extremely smart, though a poor manager.\nIndeed, Mr Flynn, a father-of-two who married his high-school sweetheart, went on to become one of the Obama administration's most outspoken critics, all the more surprising as he was a life-long Democrat.\nBut the Rhode Islander said he no longer recognised the Democrats as the party he once supported.\nHe instead decided to align himself with Mr Trump, a man whom he rated as a hustler and outsider like himself, part of a larger fight against \"the dishonesty and deceit of our government\".\nMr Flynn was an almost evangelical supporter of Mr Trump.\n\"We just went through a revolution,\" he said after the businessman's shock election victory.\n\"This is probably the biggest election in our nation's history, since bringing on George Washington when he decided not to be a king. That's how important this is.\"\nMr Flynn and Mr Trump shared many views, including the advantages of closer ties with Russia, renegotiating the Iran deal and combating the threat from Islamic State militants.\nLike Mr Trump, Mr Flynn called the 2003 invasion of Iraq a strategic blunder.\nEven the areas where the two disagreed at first were quickly smoothed over.\nGen Flynn's declaration that he was pro-choice was quickly amended to pro-life in July, after it sparked outrage among Trump supporters.\nAnd, like Mr Trump, he was no stranger to controversy.\nBack during his days at the DIA, he apologised for a presentation which suggested make-up made women \"more attractive\" and encouraged people to dress for their body shape.\nHe later said neither he nor the agency \"condone this briefing\".\nIn 2016, his appearance at a banquet held in honour of the Russian government, where Gen Flynn sat two seats away from Vladimir Putin, raised eyebrows, with his apparent warmth towards Moscow concerning some national security experts.\nMore controversial yet have been his views on Islam.\nIn February 2016, he tweeted \"fear of Muslims is RATIONAL\".\nIn August, he spoke at an event in Dallas, Texas, for an anti-Islamist group Act for America, saying that Islam \"is a political ideology\" and that it \"definitely hides behind being a religion\".\nSome expressed concern at how much influence Mr Flynn could wield over a president with little international experience.\nBut for all his critics, there were those who stood behind Mr Flynn, a man who built a reputation as an astute intelligence professional during his three decades in the US Army.\nDavid Deptula, a retired air force lieutenant general who used to work with him, praised his willingness to \"speak truth to power and not politicise his answers\".", "summary": "Michael Flynn's short tenure as Donald Trump's national security adviser ended in controversy when he resigned over contacts he had made with Russia before Mr Trump took office." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "\"I don't think anyone who has never had it can understand how much it affects you mentally,\" she told the Kaye Adams programme on BBC Radio Scotland.\nJudith stopped going out because she did not want to be seen in public and she had trouble sleeping because of the pain it caused.\nColleagues at work asked if she had chicken pox because of the red spots all over her body.\nIt got so bad she started to take a prescription drug with side effects such as the risk of migraines, chronic fatigue and in some cases depression.\nJudith, now 25, says: \"I woke up one morning and I had bumps all over my chin and my forehead, then it just kept getting worse and worse - no amount of make-up would cover them.\n\"Eventually they developed into big cystic spots that would be really painful and take ages to go away.\n\"Going through puberty I had a few spots but it was nothing like this experience.\"\nAt first she thought it was an allergic reaction to something such as a make-up or face wash.\nShe says: \"It escalated so that it was all over my cheeks, my forehead, my back, my shoulders and my chest. It was quite brutal.\"\nJudith, from Glasgow, went to the doctors and got antibiotics and topical treatments but \"nothing worked\".\n\"It just got worse so I stopped going out, stopped going to the gym because I did not want anyone to see me without my make-up,\" she says.\nJudith says she changed her diet and tried different skin cleansers but her dermatologist told her acne was related to genetics.\nShe says: \"My brothers had acne when they were teenagers but nothing like I got.\"\nProf John Hawk, a specialist in dermatology, told BBC Radio Scotland it was the \"tendency\" to develop acne and not the severity that could be tracked through families.\nHe said it was difficult to say why the acne would come on so quickly for Judith in her 20s.\nProf Hawk says: \"Obviously Judith had minor trouble before when she was a teenager so she had a tendency for it and the tendency is genetic. That's the basic problem. It has nothing to do with diet or washing your face enough.\n\"It's a genetic problem in which the pores get blocked by the production of too much oil.\n\"If they get blocked badly enough the oil-producing glands beneath surface swell up and fill with bacteria which love the stuff that is in the glands.\n\"Then the glands burst like a balloon and cause a major problem under the skin.\"\nProf Hawk says: \"Acne is incredibly psychologically damaging for anyone who has it even mildly and it is treatable in 99% of cases, although it does take several months.\"\nJudith says her dermatologist offered her the drug isotretinoin (often known by the brand name Roaccutane) in July last year.\nShe waited until November to decide to take it because of its stated side effects.\nShe says of taking the drug: \"I had migraines for the first two months, tiredness for the first three, nosebleeds, dry eyes and dry lips that no amount of lip salve will solve.\n\"I also developed eczema on my hands.\n\"But apart from that I don't feel like I've had too bad a ride with it.\"\nJudith says the tiredness was extreme.\nShe says she would have to sleep for two hours after work before she could get up for her dinner. She would sleep for 10 or 11 hours a day.\n\"All the side effects totally outweighed the way I was feeling with my acne,\" Judith says.\n\"I hated myself and hated being around other girls who had perfect skin.\"\nProf Hawk says he has treated thousands of people with isotretinoin and it is not renowned for causing migraines and chronic fatigue.\nHe says: \"It definitely causes a number of things such as dryness of the skin and it definitely causes deformed babies if you get pregnant while taking it but normally it would not do anything more.\n\"It can occasionally cause slight liver irritation and it can push the cholesterol up but not enough to matter.\"\nHe says: \"High doses can cause problems but I usually give low doses which tend to work pretty well.\"\nProf Hawk says that whereas Judith was on a dose of 60mg he might only have prescribed 20mg or 30mg for someone of her weight.\nThe drug was licensed in the UK in 1983 for the most severe forms of acne which have failed to respond to other treatments.\nIt must be prescribed by, or under supervision of, a consultant dermatologist.\nSome campaigners have questioned whether it is overused.\nManufacturer Roche said 17 million people worldwide had used Roaccutane - a brand name for isotretinoin - and no causal link has been established between the medication and either depression or suicide.\nProf Hawk says: \"Depression is something which has been renowned to have been caused by it since it was first introduced in about 1980 but people that have it are usually depressed because they have got acne and quite a few are teenagers and they get depressed because of social circumstances.\n\"The evidence is strong that it does not cause depression because equal percentages of people get depressed on it as off it. Lower doses would probably not cause as much annoyance.\n\"This drug has an aura of dreadfulness around it but that it is completely unjustified.\"\nProf Hawk says: \"For mild acne - black heads and white heads - you can use topical things such as benzoyl peroxide which over two or three months tends to settle things.\n\"If you have red spots which are annoying but not big cysts then antibiotics - anti tetracycline or minocycline - work very well in most people over about three months.\n\"Isotretinoin is for more severe acne.\"\nJudith has been on the acne drug for four months and has at least two months to go.\nShe says: \"I'm much more confident. I go to the gym without my make-up.\n\"It's made a phenomenal amount of difference. It's completely changed my life.\"", "summary": "When Judith Donald suddenly developed acne at the age of 23 it really knocked her confidence." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 18-year-old is yet to make his first-team debut for the Hammers and had a spell on loan at Dagenham & Redbridge last season.\nHe made six appearances during a one-month stint with the Daggers.\nPask, who can play at centre-back or as a holding midfielder, becomes Gillingham's ninth signing of the summer transfer window.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "League One side Gillingham have signed West Ham defender Josh Pask on a season-long loan deal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The studio says the JJ Abrams film earned enough on Wednesday to pass the £520 million taken by Avatar over its lifetime.\nAvatar, however, still holds the global sales record, say AP news agency.\nLast month, Star Wars: The Force Awakens became the fastest film to take £674 million at the global box office.\nThe film also scored the biggest US Christmas Day box office takings in history with $49.3 million.\nAnd it also smashed the record for the biggest box office debut weekend globally, with ticket sales of $529 million.\nThe seventh instalment in the Star Wars series of movies is due to open in China on Saturday which, analysts say, will give the film another significant boost.\nThe latest film returns to \"a galaxy far, far away\" some 30 years on from the action of 1983's Return of the Jedi.\nIt sees original trilogy stars Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher back in action as Han Solo and Princess Leia.", "summary": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens has beaten Avatar to become the top film of all time in North America, Disney says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Nemesis, a heavily-modified Lotus Exige body, will be driven by estate agent Nick Ponting, 21, from Gloucester.\nDale Vince said he had built the car to \"smash the stereotype of electric cars as something Noddy would drive - slow, boring, not cool\".\nThe record attempt is due to be made at Elvington Airfield, near York, on 27 September.\nNemesis was designed and built in under two years by a team of British motorsport engineers in Norfolk.\nIt can travel from 100-150 miles between charges, depending on driving style, and can be charged from empty in about 30 minutes using a rapid-charger.\nThe team believes theoretically the motors are capable of about 200mph but \"real world\" constraints like aerodynamic lift have to be addressed before the attempt.\nMr Vince, who runs the electricity company Ecotricity, said he was quietly confident the team would break the record.\nThe current record of 137mph (220km/h) was set by Don Wales, from Addlestone, Surrey, in 2000.\nA separate attempt to beat the record last August was thwarted after the vehicle's suspension was damaged by a pothole.\nThe Bluebird Electric was being driven along Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire by Mr Wales's son Joe, who suffered mild whiplash as a result.", "summary": "A battery-powered car will attempt to beat the UK land-speed record for electric vehicles later this month." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nDhoni led India to victory at the inaugural 2007 tournament in South Africa, but exited at the semi-final stage on home turf on Thursday.\nThe 34-year-old joked with a journalist who asked if he would quit the short format, replying \"do you think I can survive until the 2019 World Cup?\"\nWhen the reply was \"yes\", Dhoni said: \"Then you have answered the question.\"\nThe Mumbai crowd fell silent after West Indies' Andre Russell hit the winning runs with two balls to spare to set up a final with England on Sunday.\nHowever it was Lendl Simmons, twice caught off no-balls, who frustrated Dhoni and India with a man-of-the-match performance.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"The only thing I'm disappointed about is the two no-balls,\" added the wicketkeeper.\n\"I feel the point at which the no-balls were bowled was quite crucial. If we had got those wickets, we would have got the opportunity to bowl one or two overs of spin and gotten away without giving too many runs.\n\"A no-ball is something that can be avoided, especially the front foot no-ball. The only thing is if you don't want to bowl a no-ball you should never bowl a no-ball.\"\nIndia scored 192-2 on the back of Virat Kohli's unbeaten 89, the batsman's third unbeaten half-century in the tournament after his 55 against arch-rivals Pakistan and 82 not out against Australia.\nBut it ended in a seven-wicket victory for the 2012 champions, though Dhoni feels dew on the pitch during the West Indies' innings played a part.\n\"When they started batting the first few overs were fine,\" he added. \"But after that there was a considerable amount of dew which meant the spinners couldn't bowl how they would have liked to.\n\"It was a bad toss to lose because of the dew.\"", "summary": "India captain MS Dhoni says he has no intention of retiring after his side's World Twenty20 loss to West Indies." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe 1-0 win over Crystal Palace saw them rise to 17th, and they have now picked up eight points from 12.\n\"We must keep the momentum,\" said manager Rafael Benitez, with a trip to relegated Aston Villa next week.\nSunderland are a point behind after a 1-1 draw at Stoke and Norwich are two adrift after their 1-0 loss at Arsenal.\nBoth the Black Cats and the Canaries have a game in hand on Newcastle.\nCould the appointment of Benitez prove to be owner Mike Ashley's greatest signing since he took control of Newcastle in 2007?\nWith £100m the reward for Premier League status next season, Ashley took the plunge and sacked Steve McClaren in March with the team in 19th position.\nIt took four matches for the former Liverpool and Real Madrid boss to get his first win, but now it is no defeats in the past four.\nAndros Townsend scored a brilliant winner against Palace on Saturday, but Benitez also had keeper Karl Darlow to thank for saving Yohan Cabaye's second-half penalty.\n\"The win could be important for us,\" said Benitez. \"I'm sure it's important for the fans and everyone now when you see the table. But we still have to keep going.\n\"We know that we have to approach the next game against Aston Villa like another final, and that's it. We cannot look too much at the table - we just have to be sure that the next game, we will be ready.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nSam Allardyce's Sunderland side required Jermain Defoe's stoppage-time penalty to rescue a point at Stoke.\nThe Wearsiders have now drawn their last two games and have only won one match in the past nine.\nCommenting on Newcastle's win, Allardyce said: \"Those things are not in our control.\n\"What's in our control is making sure that we try and win next week [against Chelsea] and then make the game in hand really count against Everton.\n\"That's our big task in the next two games. If we can hold our nerve, we have the capabilities to see if we can try and do the escape that this club has done for the last two or three years.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nAlex Neil's Norwich have stuttered in recent weeks.\nThey have now lost their past three Premier League games, the latest loss coming at Arsenal where the Gunners' Danny Welbeck scored the only goal as a second-half substitute.\nHaving hovered just above the relegation zone over the past four weeks, they are now down to 19th.\n\"The last thing you can do down in the dogfight is feel sorry for yourselves,\" said the Canaries' Scottish manager.\n\"We didn't get what we deserved at Arsenal. We need three displays like that in the next three games. If you start worrying about the maths and what other people are doing then it'll drive you crazy.\"\nHe added: \"Newcastle are a different kettle of fish because they've only two games left but I think it's unlikely Sunderland will win their three remaining games.\n\"We just have to try and take as many points as we can.\"", "summary": "Newcastle moved out of the bottom three for the first time since 1 February, as rivals Sunderland and Norwich slipped up in the fight for survival." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The bridge, at junction 6 of the ring road, is intended to make the city centre more accessible for pedestrians walking from the railway station.\nSixteen beams have been put in place to form the bridge, which should be completed by April next year.\nA 40-year-old bridge at the junction was demolished in March.\nThe huge new bridge is so large that it has effectively created a tunnel where part of the ring road goes, BBC Midlands Today's transport correspondent Peter Plisner said.\nThe last two beams were winched into place on Monday evening, when the ring road in the area was closed to traffic.", "summary": "The last two large steel beams have been winched into place to support a new £13m bridge across Coventry's ring road." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "South Somerset Council stopped 39 cars, with one in four turning out to have defects, including brake pads that were close to the legal limit.\nCouncil licensing manager Nigel Marsden said spot checks kept \"drivers on their toes\".\nYeovil Radio Cabs manager Andrew Rossiter said he was surprised at the number of problems found.\nMr Rossiter's firm has 65 taxis, and he said if it was a reflection on his firm he would be concerned.\n\"If it was a reflection on my firm I'd be desperately worried, because of the ongoing maintenance we do, we MOT a vehicle every three or four months, and the vehicle comes in for a service regularly every 10,000 miles,\" he said.\n\"And when it has got a fault the driver lets us know and obviously we go and repair vehicles.\"\nMr Marsden said: \"I think over the last six or seven years standards of taxis operating in south Somerset has increased and that's mainly because we've been doing these regular spot checks.\n\"With the recession drivers may be trying to cut a few corners in terms of their maintenance regimes, but the type of operation we did the other day, that we do frequently, keeps them on their toes.\"\nOther councils in Somerset had lower percentage of problems in their latest spot checks.", "summary": "Spot checks of taxis in south Somerset have resulted in 10 cars being taken off the road until repairs are made." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Victoria and Jonathan O'Brien got together after Victoria took a shine to the person behind the tweets for a Waterstones bookshop account and got in touch.\nMr O'Brien, the man behind the posts, had built up a following with his humorous tweets for the store.\nHis new bride says she was dared by a friend to get a date.\n\"It took a couple of months - Jonathan ignored my first tweet but the second had a typo and he picked up on that,\" she said.\nOnline interest built when, on Sunday evening, Victoria tweeted a photograph of her original 2012 message declaring her love for the @WstonesOxfordSt account manager, alongside a \"just married\" photo, and the famous line from Jane Eyre: \"Dear reader, I married him\".\nThe couple, from London, have since been contacted by people from all over the world. The new Ms O'Brien says the whole thing is \"crazy\" and \"overwhelming\".\nAnd what does her husband have to say?\n\"The response to this has been astounding. Thanks, the internet.\n\"And Twitter, we guess\".", "summary": "A couple who met over Twitter have found their marriage is now trending on the social media site." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator will provide state-of-the-art laboratory space and offices on the Daulby Street site.\nThe accelerator is expected to open in June 2017.\nThe Chrysalis fund, which supports commercial regeneration in the city, has invested £11.5m in the project.\nThe laboratory is being developed in partnership with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).\nProfessor Janet Hemingway, director of the school, said: \"LSTM was one of the first institutions in the world to recognise the importance of studying and understanding the phenomenon of drug resistance. The accelerator will allow us to further boost Liverpool's reputation as a world renowned centre of expertise.\"\nThe facility will \"benefit global health\" by taking research and innovation from the laboratory to \"where it is needed most,\" she added.\nThe accelerator is the first development in the creation of a city centre health campus that will be built on the site of the existing Royal Liverpool University Hospital, the trust said.\nBuilding work will begin mid-November.", "summary": "A £25m laboratory is to be built at the new Royal Liverpool hospital to carry out research into antibiotic resistance." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Three second-half goals were enough to secure a first win in 11 League Two games for the U's.\nThe only serious save of an uneventful first period was made by Cheltenham's Russell Griffiths, who kept out a left-footed effort from Craig Slater in the fourth minute.\nBut former Kilmarnock midfielder Slater shot low past Griffiths three minutes into the second half after evading several challenges in the box, finding the bottom-right corner.\nThe visitors doubled their lead in the 65th minute when Kurtis Guthrie set up Brennan Dickenson, who fired a powerful shot into the net from 14 yards.\nAnd Tom Eastman added the third to put the result beyond any doubt, nodding Owen Garvan's corner home from close range three minutes later.\nThe home side's night went from bad to worse when Harry Pell was sent off in the 87th minute for simulation after going down in the box in search of a penalty.\nColchester gave a start to defender George Elokobi after he was recalled from his loan spell at National League side Braintree Town.\nReport supplied by the Press Association\nMatch ends, Cheltenham Town 0, Colchester United 3.\nSecond Half ends, Cheltenham Town 0, Colchester United 3.\nCorner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Frankie Kent.\nAttempt blocked. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\nCorner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Tom Eastman.\nCorner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Tom Eastman.\nAttempt blocked. Koby Arthur (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked.\nFoul by Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United).\nDaniel O'Shaughnessy (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nSubstitution, Colchester United. Tarique Fosu-Henry replaces Owen Garvan.\nFoul by George Elokobi (Colchester United).\nBilly Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nSubstitution, Colchester United. Kane Vincent-Young replaces Richard Brindley.\nSecond yellow card to Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town).\nAttempt blocked. Owen Garvan (Colchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nJordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nDrey Wright (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town).\nSubstitution, Colchester United. Drey Wright replaces Denny Johnstone.\nFoul by Owen Garvan (Colchester United).\nRobert Dickie (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Amari Morgan-Smith (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.\nAttempt missed. Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\nAttempt missed. Koby Arthur (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\nKurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Robert Dickie (Cheltenham Town).\nCorner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by George Elokobi.\nGoal! Cheltenham Town 0, Colchester United 3. Tom Eastman (Colchester United) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Owen Garvan following a corner.\nCorner, Colchester United. Conceded by Daniel O'Shaughnessy.\nTom Lapslie (Colchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town).\nSubstitution, Cheltenham Town. Jack Munns replaces James Rowe.\nSubstitution, Cheltenham Town. Koby Arthur replaces Dan Holman.\nGoal! Cheltenham Town 0, Colchester United 2. Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kurtis Guthrie.\nFoul by Tom Lapslie (Colchester United).\nBilly Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Craig Slater (Colchester United).\nJames Rowe (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFrankie Kent (Colchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town).", "summary": "Colchester ended their long winless run with an impressive performance at 10-man Cheltenham." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cyclist Owain Doull and sailor Hannah Mills who both won gold at the Rio 2016 Olympics attended the Senedd event.\nChampion shot putter Aled Sion Davies and javelin gold medallist Hollie Arnold, who won two of seven Welsh Paralympic medals, were also there.\nCarwyn Jones paid tribute to the athletes' determination to win.\nDavies told the crowd it was great to be back in Wales and see the appreciation of the fans.\n\"It's lovely. When I was out in Brazil you are in like a bubble, so you don't see all of this. So to get back here and to be part of such a successful summer for Wales, it's great,\" he said.\nArnold, who moved to Ystrad Mynach, Caerphilly county, from Grimbsy so she could train in Wales, thanked the people of Wales for their support.\n\"Thank you for welcoming me. This [motioning to her medal] is pretty much for everyone who's helped me, so thank you,\" she said.\nTeam GB Chef de Mission Mark England said: \"It was absolutely wonderful - the athletes were superb and Wales contributed so wonderfully to the medal.\"\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones led a round of applause for the athletes and thanked them for inspiring a new generation.\nHe said: \"You look at the people behind me and what you see is the dedication, determination, strength and of course more than anything else, a will to win.\n\"You have done us proud, there are so many people around Wales this evening, youngsters particularly, who will have seen what you've done and they will say 'hey, if they can do it, I can do it'.\n\"And we know that means in future we won't be short of champions as well.\"", "summary": "Hundreds of people have gathered to welcome Welsh Olympians and Paralympians home at a ceremony in Cardiff." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Parry-Jones was Wales' highest paid chief executive when he stepped down from his post at the end of October and was paid more than £190,000 a year.\nHe also received a £277,000 severance deal.\nThe authority's senior staff committee salary recommendation will now need to be ratified by the full council.\nThe decision by members of the cross-party committee comes after the Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales said a new chief executive should be paid £130,000.\nCouncillor Paul Miller told his colleagues it would be \"inconceivable\" to set the chief executive's salary higher than the panel's recommendation.\nHe also said there was now an opportunity to review car allowances for senior officers.\nIt comes after BBC Wales discovered Mr Parry-Jones had been given a luxury Porsche lease car worth around £90,000 as his work vehicle.\nThe recruitment process for a new chief executive will start in April, with a shortlist drawn up in May.\nAn appointment is likely to be made in June.\nMr Parry-Jones came under pressure to resign after it was revealed he received cash payments in lieu of pension contributions, which the Wales Audit Office said were unlawful.\nPolice inquiries into the payments were dropped after no evidence was found of criminal offences.", "summary": "The salary for the successor to controversial Pembrokeshire council chief executive Bryn Parry-Jones should be £130,000, councillors say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Canadian Soccer Association said it had to intervene as its Quebec branch showed no sign of changing the policy.\nThe Quebec group said turbans were a safety hazard and global football body, Fifa, did not explicitly allow them.\nQuebec's premier Pauline Marois defended the Quebec federation, saying it could set its own rules.\n\"I believe that the Quebec federation had the right to establish their own regulations,\" Ms Marois said on Tuesday. \"They are autonomous and they are not liable to the Canadian federation.\"\nCanadian Sikh groups estimate the ban has stopped 200 children playing in federated leagues this year.\n\"The Canadian Soccer Association has requested on 6 June that the Quebec Soccer Federation reverse its position on turbans/patkas/keski with no resolution,\" said Victor Montagliani, president of the Canadian Soccer Association, in a statement.\n\"The Quebec Soccer Federation's inaction has forced us to take measures in order to ensure soccer remains accessible to the largest number of Canadians.\"\nThe Canadian Soccer Association has said it would only lift the suspension once it has proof the turban ban has ended.\nEarlier this month, a Quebec Soccer Federation official defended the ban on turbans for players in its youth leagues, saying Sikh boys \"can play in their backyard\".\nA spokeswoman said the federation had not conducted safety studies on turbans, as the organisation did not have funds for one. She was unaware of any related injuries in the province's leagues.\nThe ban on turbans came despite the Canadian Soccer Association allowing hijabs, or Islamic headscarves, as well as turbans, on the pitch.\nQuebec's federation is the only provincial soccer organisation in the country that has banned the turban.\nThe World Sikh Organization of Canada said earlier it was considering a legal challenge, but said the season was already lost for many young players, as the registration deadline had passed.", "summary": "The Quebec Soccer Federation has been suspended from Canada's national football organisation over its ban on turbans on the pitch, the groups said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "This issue hit me with both barrels between the eyes this week when I had to wrestle with a series of images from besieged Aleppo.\nThey had been taken by Syrian doctors in an underground hospital and forwarded to me by Dr David Nott, the pioneering war surgeon who has been using social media to teach his colleagues over the internet how to, for example, rebuild a man's face.\nI first covered war in 1988 and I've seen more than enough real horror with my own eyes.\nBut the Aleppo hospital pictures were grim beyond the saying of it. Be warned. What I must write and you will now read is a terrible litany of suffering.\nThey include a boy, so coated in cement dust I can't say whether he is alive or dead; a boy, dead; two boys, lying on the floor next to a drain because there are no beds left, both dead; a boy, alive, his face a river of blood; a boy, alive, holding up his broken arm; a boy, dead; a girl with ginger hair, dying.\nA boy, his face white from dust apart from a smear of blood running from his eyes to his nose; the 17th, a baby girl, dying; a teenage girl in a white headdress, it and her face splotched with arterial blood; a dead infant; a father, covered in cement dust, dead, holding the arm of an infant, also dead, the infant headless.\nMost of these images we cannot show you. The reason is simple: there is no watershed on the internet and you cannot put out these kind of images without causing people, especially children, real upset.\nI understand this completely.\nI returned from Rwanda and Burundi in 1988 from reporting a massacre for the Observer, and back in London described a machete wound to a friend, who wrote TV comedies. His face went green.\nI realised that from then on, I should be careful about what I said about the details of man's inhumanity to man; still more about what I showed via image and video.\nBut then the other thing. Something truly horrible is happening to the people of eastern Aleppo.\nThey rose up against Bashar al-Assad five years ago. They are not with Isis but against them; they seek a third path between the tyrant and the fanatics.\nThey are trapped inside a siege. They have nowhere to hide. So when the cluster bombs fall - the ones that don't go off are marked Shoab 0.5m in Russian, so we have a pretty good idea who is dropping them - they kill.\nOn our BBC Newsnight film we did show something of what happens when a cluster bomb lands on a city packed with children.\nThe doctors in the underground hospital filmed one little boy with a ball bearing from a cluster bomb in his spine; a second with a ball bearing that had entered the back of his head and lodged in the skull just behind his nose.\nWe did show blood on the floor of the hospital - there is no time to get rid of it and, since the waterworks has been bombed, no good water supply. We did show neurosurgery taking place on the floor because no beds were free.\nBut we didn't show what often happens: that cluster bombs kill children. The danger is that, for fear of causing upset, we end up sanitising war.\nThis matters because Western policy on Syria is in deep trouble. Assad's strategic narrative - it's a choice between me or Isis - is becoming more and more true.\nThe danger for Western security is that policy may drive good people into the hands of Isis because they hate Assad so much. But if people in the West do not see the reality on the ground because media organisations don't want to cause upset, then the story gets obscured or buried.\nHollywood hoovers up the dreadful dust of war. In multiplex movies you see machine-guns spit and shells fall - but not people with no eyes because of the percussion effect from high explosives; you see heroism, but not children with ball bearings in their spine.\nAssad and Russia say they are fighting terrorism. None of the dead children pictured on my phone and indelibly in my memory are terrorists.\nCorrecting these falsehoods - both benign and malign - is the job of journalism. Right now we are not showing you the full horror of the war in Syria.", "summary": "How do you report something you can't show people because it is judged too ghastly for them to see?" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They want to secure an assessment from top geologists because of the increased risks from earthquake-torn mountains.\nThis type of tourism is a major source of income for Nepal.\nMajor destinations are still facing landslides, after the quake and its aftershocks left mountains unstable.\nPlaces seen as highly risky are mainly in the Manasalu, Langtang, Rolwaling and Helambu trekking areas in central Nepal. But there are also concerns for the Annapurna and Everest regions, which see the highest numbers of trekkers and mountaineers.\n\"Before we announce that the earthquake-hit areas are safe as tourist destinations, we are determined to get an assessment report from international geologists and experts who will be visiting the ground,\" said Ramesh Dhamala, president of Trekking Agents' Association of Nepal.\n\"Without them first saying which areas no longer have the risk of mountains coming down, we will not be doing this risky business just for an immediate benefit.\n\"We are also recommending to the government, in writing, that these areas should not be reopened (for trekking and mountaineering) before the team of experts make their assessment public internationally.\"\nTrekking agents say they are worried that if tourists are allowed to visit the earthquake-hit areas under present circumstances, and if disaster strikes such areas again, the country's tourism industry will suffer irrecoverably.\nMountaineering operators are similarly worried.\n\"We too think the same way, and we have joined forces with trekking agents and the government to ascertain a scientific assessment - because it is equally, if not more, risky for mountaineers to be in the region that has been so badly shaken by the earthquake,\" says Ang Tshering Sherpa, president of Nepal Mountaineering Association.\nBut there are some operators who believe business should resume as soon as possible, because not everywhere has been badly hit and that there are some areas with lesser risks.\nNearly 800,000 tourists visited Nepal in 2013, and a similar number in 2012. Around 13% of those visitors were trekkers and mountaineers.\nThe Annapurna region sees the highest number of trekkers, followed by the Everest region.\nThe April 25 quake had its epicentre in Gorkha to the west of Kathmandu, but it shook mountains as far away as Everest to the east.\nThat quake ruinously rattled mountains mainly in the Langtang valley, where entire villages were buried under avalanches and landslides and debris killed nearly 200 people including foreign trekkers.\nThe main quake zone also shook many mountains in the Annapurna region, where landslides have continued and one of them even blocked a major river on Sunday.\nThe biggest aftershock - a 7.3 magnitude quake on 12 May - had its epicentre to the northeast of Kathmandu where there are popular trekking regions including the Rolwaling and Helambu.\nThat tremor caused huge devastation in these areas and there was damage in the Everest region again.\nOfficials said a small glacial pond near Mount Everest burst its containment on Monday night, causing panic among villagers because they fear the earthquake and aftershocks may have destabilised bigger glacial lakes in the region.\nGeologists say the quakes triggered more than 3,000 landslides in the affected areas and the upcoming monsoon could worsen conditions.\n\"The reason why the mountains remain unstable is that earthquakes cause intense shaking of the landscape, which damages the rock and soils on hillsides,\" says Prof Alex Densmore from the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at Durham University in the UK.\n\"This means that even hillsides that did not fail during the earthquake are more damaged, and thus more prone to failure, than they were before 25 April.\n\"In some cases this damage may be visible at the surface in the form of cracks or fractures in the ground, but this is not necessarily the case; the damage may be at depth and not immediately visible.\"\nProf Jeffrey Kargel, a glaciologist at the University of Arizona who has studied landslides on Nepalese mountains and their impacts on rivers, says an assessment of the situation is absolutely critical.\n\"We have seen so much activity of the earth following the main shock and the largest aftershock that we have to presume that there is going to be a state of greatly heightened activity during this monsoon, and quite possibly into coming years,\" he said.\n\"It's very clear that we have to do what's possible, not just to keep trekkers and climbers safe, but also the people who service the trekkers and climbers and the entire economic structure of these very hard-hit areas.\"\nBut given Nepal's difficult topography in the Himalayan region, assessing the risks would not be easy.\n\"It will take quite a bit of work because every valley, every glacier, every mountain is going to be different depending on the circumstances of the glaciers, the moraines and possible fracturing of the rocks,\" Prof Kargel said.\nInternational tour operators are waiting and watching as well.\n\"To rush out and simply say it's safe to come to Nepal without factual knowledge is a little bit foolhardy, potentially,\" said Nicholas Cowlie, Nepal general manager for Intrepid Travel - the largest international provider of trekking tourists to the country.\n\"At this point, our clients are holding on to their (Nepal) holiday bookings and our major focus is to report back to them and show them that we are ready for business when we know that it is operationally safe.\"", "summary": "Tourism operators in earthquake-hit Nepal say they are seeking guidance from international experts on which areas can be declared safe for trekking and mountaineering." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner Christopher Salmon is asking for views in an online questionnaire.\nAt present, 74 officers routinely carry pistols while on everyday tasks.\n\"I'd like to know if the public want this practice to continue or whether I need to give it further thought,\" Mr Salmon said.", "summary": "A poll is asking the public whether police in mid and west Wales should carry guns while on \"everyday duties\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police captain Anyelo Palacios hit the headlines when he alleged he was the victim of a male prostitution ring within the police.\nHis stepfather said he was seized by armed men in Norte de Santander province late on Saturday.\nColombia's police chief Gen Jorge Nieto refused to speculate about the possible motives for the kidnapping.\nKidnappings have become a lot less frequent in Colombia since the government started peace talks with the country's largest rebel group, but abductions in remote rural areas where a smaller rebel group is active do still occur.\nHowever, speculation is rife in Capt Palacios' case over whether he was taken for the incriminating information he is believed to have.\nGen Nieto told Colombian radio that Capt Palacios \"escaped from his captors\" who had held him in the village of Caliche in Norte de Santander.\nHe had been seized by four armed men as he was driving from the city of Cucuta to the town of Pamplona in north-eastern Colombia.\nHis 76-year-old stepfather, Arcilio Ortiz Valero, was in the car with Capt Palacios when they got stopped by the gunmen.\nThey ordered Mr Ortiz out of the car and told him they would return his stepson within the hour.\nWhen the gunmen did not return, he alerted the authorities.\nCapt Palacios has been at the centre of a scandal involving Colombia's national police since he told reporters he had been abused as a young cadet by a male prostitution ring operating within the force.\nColombia's Prosecutor General Alejandro Ordonez said that Capt Palacios' allegation was backed up by a separate complaint by a now retired police captain.\nAccording to the complaint, young male police cadets were cajoled and threatened into having sex with higher-ranking officers and influential politicians.\nA day after Mr Ordonez opened an investigation into the case, police chief Gen Rodolfo Palomino, who said he was \"absolutely innocent\", resigned.\nTo back up his allegations, Capt Palacios handed Colombian radio station La FM a video he says he took of himself and Senator Carlos Ferro in 2008.\nThe video shows the then-senator in a car talking to the man recording the video.\nThe man making the recording cannot be seen but can be heard clearly and his voice seems to match that of Capt Palacios.\nThe two discuss their sexual preferences and engage in talk of an explicit sexual nature.\nHowever, there is no mention of a prostitution ring or any signs of coercion or cajoling.\nThe airing of the video by La FM Radio led to the resignation of Mr Ferro in February, who at the time was deputy interior minister.\nBut it also caused a backlash among Colombians who said it offered no proof of anything illegal and should therefore not have been made public.\nThe journalist who aired it, Vicky Davila, came under heavy criticism and was asked to resign by her bosses.\nThe investigation into the alleged prostitution ring is still under way and Capt Palacios is a key witness.", "summary": "A Colombian whistleblower who was kidnapped on Saturday has escaped his captors, police have announced." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Women in Football said its language expert is certain Mourinho used abusive language towards a woman, contrary to the verdict of the FA's chosen expert.\n\"It's another example of the FA failing to tackle discrimination,\" it said.\n\"We are concerned by the serious flaws in the process of such investigations.\"\nThe FA studied footage from the 2-2 draw with Swansea on 8 August after a member of the public made a complaint.\nIt said it was \"satisfied the words used do not constitute discriminatory language under FA rules\".\nCarneiro and head physio Jon Fearn were criticised by Mourinho for treating Eden Hazard with the side a man down.\nThe club doctor, 42, had her role downgraded before she decided to leave the club.\nThe Women in Football statement said: \"Our own language expert made it abundantly clear that the abusive words used by Mr Mourinho on the touchline that day were specifically directed towards a woman, as indicated by the grammar of his sentence.\n\"Other Portuguese speakers we contacted in gathering evidence also emphasised this point. We therefore find it extraordinary that any expert or Portuguese speaker would report otherwise.\"\nThe FA said it had appointed an independent academic expert in Portuguese linguistics to analyse the footage of the incident, which included the audio recording.\nIt said in its statement: \"Both the words used, as translated and analysed by the independent expert, and the video evidence, do not support the conclusion that the words were directed at any person in particular.\"", "summary": "The Football Association's decision to clear Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho of making discriminatory comments to former club doctor Eva Carneiro has \"appalled\" a campaign group." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police said Joanne Rand was sitting on a bench in Frogmoor, High Wycombe, on the afternoon of 3 June when there was a fight between a group of men.\nA bottle of liquid, thought to be an alkaline substance, was kicked and went over her.\nMs Rand, 47, of Marlow, was discharged from hospital but was readmitted last Friday and died on Wednesday. A murder investigation is under way.\nUpdates on this story and other Buckinghamshire news\nA post-mortem is yet to take place.\nPolice said the bottle of liquid had yet to be recovered.\nDet Supt Paul Hayles said the bottle might have been discarded nearby in or with a \"dark-coloured shoulder bag\".\nThe bottle is described as white with an orange or red hazard label on the side.\nDet Supt Hayles warned members of the public not to touch the bottle.", "summary": "A woman who was seriously burned when a chemical was sprayed over her has died." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The chytrid fungus is highly infectious and is responsible for devastating amphibian populations worldwide.\nOver five years, a team of researchers was able to clear the disease from toads which are native to the Spanish island of Mallorca.\nDetails of the work are published in the journal Biology Letters.\nThe scientists collected tadpoles from the wild, transported them to a lab and bathed them in an antifungal solution.\nThey then returned the Mallorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis) tadpoles to the collection sites by helicopter.\nIn addition, they used a common laboratory decontaminant to sterilise the environment around each breeding site.\nDr Trenton Garner, from ZSL's Institute of Zoology, said: \"This study represents a major breakthrough in the fight against this highly-destructive pathogen; for the first time we have managed to rid wild individuals of infection for a continued period.\n\"Amphibian-associated chytrid fungi are a critical conservation issue that requires simple, straightforward and transferrable solutions. Our study is a significant step towards providing these.\"\nThe chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) has severely affected over 700 amphibian species worldwide, driving population declines and species extinctions across five continents.\nDr Jaime Bosch, a co-author from Spain's MNCN-CSIC institute, added: \"This is the first time that chytrid has ever been successfully eliminated from a wild population - a real positive which we can take forward into further research to tackle this deadly disease.\"\nHowever in their paper, the researchers acknowledged that the use of their disinfectant in the environment was controversial. They said it was driven by the urgency of the decline in the Mallorcan midwife toad on the island.", "summary": "For the first time, researchers have eliminated a devastating amphibian fungal disease in a population of toads." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Trump, 27, has been the form player this season, reaching five ranking title finals and winning two - the English Open and Players Championship.\n\"I honestly believe I can play to a standard which is very rare nowadays,\" Trump told BBC Sport.\nThe event starts on Saturday at 10:00 BST and runs until 1 May.\nDefending champion Mark Selby opens play against Ireland's Fergal O'Brien in Saturday's morning session, before five-time winner Ronnie O'Sullivan plays Crucible debutant Gary Wilson in the afternoon session at 14:30.\nBristol-born Trump, who begins against qualifier Rory McLeod on Tuesday, was runner-up to John Higgins in 2011, but has only reached two semi-finals since.\nHowever, he feels the consistency he has shown this season - taking his career ranking victories to seven - puts him among the players to beat in Sheffield.\n\"Being the favourite is a help,\" said Trump. \"When people tip you, a lot put themselves under pressure but I use it as an advantage.\n\"The public are seeing something from me which they have not seen before, and I think I can win it. It is about keeping your foot on the gas.\n\"I have been too inconsistent here in the past but I am at an age where there are no more excuses, I am getting towards the peak of my career and now is the time to really step up and win a lot of titles.\"\nThe World Championship will be played at the iconic Sheffield venue until 2027 at least after a new 10-year agreement was struck.\nWorld Snooker chairman Barry Hearn signed the deal on Friday during the broadcast of 40 Years of the Crucible on the BBC Red Button.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nDefending champion Selby won the title for a second time by beating Ding Junhui in last year's final.\nThe Leicester man won the most recent ranking event - the China Open - but is aware that no player has won the World Championship in the same year.\n\"The hoodoo needs to be broken at some point. Hopefully this year might be the case,\" Selby told BBC Sport.\n\"To win it again and be on three just on your own would be very, very special. This year is as hard as it has been to pick a winner with so many players on form.\n\"It is Judd Trump's best chance to win it this year.\"\nSelby plays his first match on the opening morning against O'Brien, who claimed the longest frame in professional snooker history in his final qualifier which lasted two hours, three minutes and 41 seconds.\nWorld Snooker chairman Barry Hearn said last week that China will become the sport's superpower within the next decade.\nThis year's tournament in Sheffield sees five Chinese players competing - last year's finalist Ding, Liang Wenbo and Xiao Guodong as well as teenage debutants Zhou Yeulong, 19, and 17-year-old Yan Bingtao.\nYan becomes the first player born after 2000 to appear at the main stages of the tournament and the second youngest ever to do so.\nBut the youthful duo are no strangers to success after their two-man team won the 2015 World Cup in their home country.\nEnglishmen Wilson and David Grace (both 31), plus Thailand's Noppon Saengkham, 24, will also appear at the Crucible for the first time.\nWilson faces a tough draw against five-time champion O'Sullivan, Grace plays Kyren Wilson and Saengkham faces 2010 champion Neil Robertson of Australia.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nAll the top 16 players were at the Crucible on the eve of the tournament and were asked by BBC Sport to describe the iconic venue in three words or fewer...\nThis content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser", "summary": "Favourite Judd Trump says he believes he is \"the best\" in the world and can win the 40th World Snooker Championship to be held at the Crucible Theatre." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "19 November 2015 Last updated at 01:07 GMT\nThe Blocks project had hoped to raise $250,000 (£164,000) but backers pledged six times that amount.\nThe creators say the modular design, which lets wearers choose which sensors they want on their wrist, makes the device future-proof and upgradeable.\nCo-founders Serge Didenko and Ali Tahmaseb showed a prototype to BBC technology reporter Chris Foxx.", "summary": "A customisable smartwatch with removable sensors has smashed through its crowdfunding target." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The property at Inshriach House, an Edwardian country house on an estate near Aviemore, is now in the running for the overall prize.\nThe shed's facilities are made available to guests at the house, and not open to the wider public.\nThe overall winner will be announced on Sunday.\nWalter Micklethwait, who owns Inshriach House, built the shed with help from his girlfriend Lizzy Westman.\nUntil recently the property had a \"house sheep\", an orphaned lamb called Dash who shared a bed with Monty, a dog.\nDash has a new home in a nearby field.\nMr Micklethwait said: \"The pub category is apparently the most hotly contested each year.\n\"I was up against Keith the Pirate from Croydon whose Caribbean themed pub was full of coconuts and parrots and has a drawbridge, Simon's nightclub in a shed and Michael Jelley's biker pub, an amazing warren of bike and booze paraphernalia.\n\"Perhaps the nature of our business - hospitality and gin - gave us an advantage with the public vote.\"\nHe added: \"I just saw entering the competition as a laugh and a way of spreading the word about Crossbill Gin.\n\"What I hadn't really anticipated was what a brilliant bunch of people would be involved, some properly talented craftsmen and true eccentrics - totally unpretentious, uncompetitive and full of brilliant ideas.\"", "summary": "A wooden building in the Highlands with a gin distillery has won the pub category of Channel 4's Amazing Spaces Shed of the Year competition." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Castleford, who trailed the champions by four points in the table at kick-off, scored six tries but found seven-try Saints too strong.\nSaints move above Huddersfield Giants into third place with the win.\nCas can match the 34 points of the Giants, who play Warrington on Sunday, but have an inferior points difference.\nThe regular-season meeting of these two sides was won by a dramatic late drop-goal by Tigers playmaker Ben Roberts to end a 15-game losing streak against Saints.\nHowever this time there was no such salvation.\nBoth sides had tries chalked off early on but Saints responded on the following play when Swift rolled his way across from a Josh Jones flick to score, and he went in again shortly after a deliciously flowing move to the left.\nJames Roby's break was stemmed by desperate defence but the ball was recycled by Jones, who delayed the pass to meet a beauty of a line from Mark Percival to score.\nJon Wilkin was denied a fourth try by the video referee and Cas went up the other end to score when Luke Dorn's footwork on the back of an inside ball from Luke Gale reduced the deficit.\nDorn raced in again with a step and pace that took him to eighth on the all-time Super League scorers chart and Ben Roberts scored after Luke Gale won a penalty with a teasing run across field to bring the scores level at the break.\nRoberts failed to replicate his regular season heroics when he missed an attempt at the end of the half but got a second try after half-time when he took a wonderful offload from Mike McMeeken to score.\nPercival shuttled in on the resulting set to grab a second although the lead swung back the home side's way when Gale sank a long-range penalty goal.\nAdam Quinlan finished off out wide after Roberts spilled the restart and not even an obstruction claim could deprive Saints when the decision went to the video referee, who awarded the try.\nTommy Makinson slid in for a sixth score but Cas fought back once again when Gale's looping ball to the left found Denny Solomona to touch down.\nSwift grabbed the treble when he supported a Jon Wilkin break to scoot under the sticks and once Percival had a hat-trick score ruled out by the video referee, not even a desperate late try from Junior Moors could drag Daryl Powell's side back into contention.\nCastleford Tigers head coach Daryl Powell:\n\"We scored enough points to win the game but we couldn't defend well enough. We're disappointed we're not going to make the four. We've let ourselves down badly over the last three games.\n\"We've been all over the place defensively but we've played some outstanding rugby league all year and we did tonight.\n\"I thought there were loads of positives for us but there needs to be a bit of an attitude shift if we are to get into the top four on a regular basis.\"\nSt Helens head coach Keiron Cunningham:\n\"This video ref system is just becoming a mockery of rugby league. We've got referees making decisions on the field and getting them overturned. The Jon Wilkin no-try was a massive swing for us. At 24-0 it was game over.\n\"We've had three video-ref no tries, which absolutely baffles me. I don't get the whole system. You might as well not have a referee on the field any more, you might as well just run with a video referee for everything.\n\"Our start was what we wanted, it was brilliant. credit to Cas, who had everything to play for tonight, it was their final hurrah and we knew they would come out fighting. We fell into the trap of playing into Castleford's hands and it started getting like touch footie where we were missing tackles and grabbing instead of using shoulders like we did at the start.\"\nCastleford: Dorn; Gibson, McMeeken, Shenton, Solomona; Roberts, Gale; Lynch, Milner, Millington, Holmes, Moors, Wheeldon\nInterchanges: Boyle, Maher, Springer, McShane\nSt Helens: Quinlan; Makinson, Percival, Jones, Swift; Burns, Walsh; Amor, Roby, Walmsley, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Wilkin, Turner\nInterchanges: Richards, Greenwood, Flanagan, Thompson\nReferee: Ben Thaler", "summary": "Adam Swift's hat-trick ended Castleford's top-four hopes and secured St Helens' place in the Super League semi-finals with two games to play." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rehman Chishti said under franchise plans c2c was offering to start refunds for people in Essex if their trains were late by two minutes or more.\nIn parliament, he asked Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin to encourage other operators, including Southeastern, to follow suit.\nSoutheastern said it would continue to pay for delays of 30 minutes or more.\nMr Chishti, who represents Gillingham and Rainham, said: \"The refund proposal promised by c2c offers commuters a fairer deal than the current one offered in Medway, and I'd like my constituents to also benefit from such a scheme.\n\"I would like to see Southeastern take up a similar proposal so that hard working commuters in Gillingham and Rainham can be fully compensated for any delay.\"\nIn a statement, the rail firm added: \"When a passenger's journey is delayed by more than 30 minutes they are able to claim compensation under the industry-wide delay repay scheme, which we are signed up to.\n\"During the current franchise period, which runs until June 2018, we'll continue to operate according to this scheme.\n\"Any proposal to adjust passenger compensation levels needs to be approved by government as it forms part of the funding arrangements for the franchise period.\"\nA c2c spokesman said: \"From 2016, we will be compensating passengers financially every time they are delayed for two minutes or more, for each subsequent minute they are delayed. It will be an automatic refund, of a few pence per minute's delay.\"\nHe said the company would use smart cards to track passengers' journeys and any delays.\n\"We'll credit the money to their online account that they register with us,\" he said.\n\"It means that season ticket holders will get a discount each time they renew their ticket.\"", "summary": "An MP is calling for Southeastern trains to pay compensation to passengers for delays of a few minutes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lots of other tests have tried to find out just how clever the little insects are but almost all of them involved tasks that have been similar to bees normal behaviour.\nThe scientists were surprised to find out that bees could watch and learn behaviour from other bees.\nThen the bees used their newly learned skills to get a food reward.\nThe team showed a set of bees how to push a ball into a small hole using a plastic demonstration bee.\nScientists then gave some other bees two types of training, watching a bee who had been trained with the plastic bee, push a ball into a hole and another where the ball was moved into the hole using a magnet.\nThe bees that watched the trained bee pushing the ball into the hole were better at learning what to do than the bees who watched the ball move on its own.\nNot only that, the little black and yellow insects did not just copy exactly what they saw, but figured out their own way to get the ball to the right place.", "summary": "A team of researchers has taught some bumble bees to play golf!" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Two people were hurt in the collision outside Soho House's Pizza East in Highgate Road, Kentish Town.\nOne man suffered non-life threatening injuries, while a woman was treated for minor injuries, the Met Police said.\nThe crash happened after the police car was in collision with another car, at the junction between Sanderson Close and Highgate Road, at 19:44 BST.\nTwo police officers were treated for whiplash injuries, following the crash.\nBoth victims are believed to be aged in their 30s, police said.\nFreelance newsreader Zora Suleman tweeted: \"One minute everyone was chatting and drinking next sirens then a huge bang and ppl screaming.\"\nThe other vehicle involved stopped at the scene and the driver is assisting police with their inquiries, the Met said.\nNo arrests have been made, and local road closures are in place.\n\"As a matter of course, this incident has been referred to the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards,\" the Met confirmed.", "summary": "An unmarked police car on an emergency call has crashed into customers sitting outside a restaurant in London." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Fes Watch has a minimalist, monochrome design but falls short of the features offered by smartwatches.\nHowever, the battery of the e-paper watch could last far longer with an estimated 60 days of use.\nThe device has been described as \"retro and cool\" by gadget expert Stuart Miles from Pocket-lint.\n\"One of my predictions for next year is that fashion is going to play a huge part in shaping the tech industry.\n\"Having a phone that's big and square is one thing, but if we're actually wearing things, it has to look good.\"\nThe watch face and straps have an e-paper display - comparable to the technology used in e-book readers such as Amazon's Kindle.\nIt means the watch can alternate between several different styles of watch face and strap design.\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal, Sony had deliberately kept the development of the watch low-key, opting to use a spin-off division called Fashion Entertainments to work on the device.\nFashion Entertainments ran a crowdfunding campaign to fund the watch's creation, the WSJ reported, in an attempt to gauge the public's interest in the concept.\nIt raised 3.5 million yen ($30,000; £19,000).\n\"We hid Sony's name because we wanted to test the real value of the product, whether there will be demand for our concept,\" a person involved in the project told the newspaper. A spokeswoman for Sony confirmed to the BBC that Fashion Entertainments is a division of company's New Business Creation Department, and was working on a number of e-paper prototypes.\nOther e-paper experiments being worked on by Fashion Entertainments include shoes, bow-ties and glasses.\nOne drawback of using e-paper rather than, for example, liquid-crystal displays (LCD) is a limitation on possible features due to the limitations of what e-paper can display.\nHowever, Mr Miles said he did not envision that being too significant a drawback for e-paper wearable technology.\n\"Look at traditional watches now, they just tell the time and we're happy with that,\" he said, noting that one of the most popular smartwatches on the market, the Pebble, uses e-paper.\nSony has not provided a date for the Fes Watch's release.\nFollow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC", "summary": "Sony has developed a watch made from e-paper as part of an initiative to experiment with the use of the material for fashion products." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Chief executive Simon Stevens told the Guardian newspaper he was proposing a 20% tax on all sugary drinks and foods in NHS cafes to be introduced by 2020.\nHe said the NHS's 1.3 million staff had a \"responsibility\" to lead by example, and urged MPs to take similar action.\nDavid Cameron has said he would not rule out a national sugar tax.\nHow much sugar is hiding in your food?\nAnalysis: Can we trust the sugar industry?\nIt is expected the NHS levy, which would initially only apply to sugary drinks, could raise £20m-£40m a year, Mr Stevens said.\nIt is hoped the tax would discourage staff, patients and visitors from buying sugary items, while the money raised would be used to improve the health of the NHS's large workforce, he said.\nIt would be the first public body in Britain to impose a sugar tax.\nThe Welsh government and the Northern Ireland executive said there were no plans for a similar measure in their respective NHS facilities.\nMr Stevens said: \"Because of the role that the NHS occupies in national life, all of us working in the NHS have a responsibility not just to support those who look after patients, but also to draw attention to and make the case for some of the wider changes that will actually improve the health of this country.\n\"It's not just the well-being of people in this country and our children. But it's also the sustainability of the NHS itself,\" he added.\nBosses would consult on introducing the tax, which would be gradually enforced as catering and hospital shop contracts come up for renewal over the next three to five years.\nThe NHS levy would be linked to the government's forthcoming national childhood obesity strategy.\nThe campaign group, Action on Sugar, welcomed the idea - saying it had been a long-time coming.\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs said the idea was \"ineffective, but also unfair\".\nHead of lifestyle economics Chris Snowdon said: \"Taxing soft drinks, no matter where they are purchased, hits the poorest hardest and has never been shown to reduce obesity anywhere in the world.\nThe proposal comes days after David Cameron signalled that he was prepared to drop his opposition to a sugar tax. Number 10 previously said the prime minister \"doesn't see a need for a tax on sugar\".\nMr Cameron told journalists it would be better not to have to resort to new taxes but said that \"what matters is we do make progress\" on obesity.\nIn October a report by Public Health England recommended a tax of between 10 and 20% on high-sugar products as one of the measures needed to achieve a \"meaningful\" reduction in sugar consumption.\nCelebrity chef Jamie Oliver has also campaigned for such a move, while a new study in the British Medical Journal said Mexico's sugary drinks tax led to a 12% reduction in sales.\nIan Wright of the Food and Drink Federation, said it was puzzling that Mr Stevens has chosen to pre-empt the launch of Government's comprehensive obesity strategy, by announcing plans for new taxes.\n\"Public Health England acknowledges that there is a lack of evidence about the long-term effectiveness of additional taxes on food and drink. We can only assume, therefore, that today's announcement is driven more by the need to raise money than by any wish to change behaviours.\"\nWhy is sugar so addictive?", "summary": "The NHS is to impose its own \"sugar tax\" in hospitals and health centres in England to help tackle the growing problem of obesity, its head has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A protest immediately followed, with 300 people surrounding the vehicle where he died, local media report.\nThe allegation that he was suffocated is being investigated by an independent police complaints body.\nPolice say that he died after swallowing drugs as they were about to arrest him for possession.\nIndependent Police Investigative Directorate spokesperson Robbie Raburabu told the News24 website that \"as soon as he saw the police coming he swallowed the drugs and overdosed and died on the scene\".\nBut Mr Raburabu told the BBC that all the circumstances surrounding the man's death, including the possibility of suffocation, is being looked into by pathologists.\nPolice used rubber bullets to disperse the crowd of about 300 protesters in the Kempton Park area on Saturday, Eyewitness News reports.\nThe Nigeria Union in South Africa say that this is not the only incident of a Nigerian being mistreated while being held by South African police.\n\"We take exception to the continued torture of Nigerians by the South African police,\" said the union's president, Ikechukwu Anyene, Nigeria's Premium Times newspaper reports.\nThere have also been demands for the Nigerian community to commission its own post-mortem.", "summary": "South African state pathologists are to carry out a post-mortem on a Nigerian man who died after being arrested near Johannesburg on Saturday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "On Tuesday, seven schools received bomb threats. Similar incidents also occurred in other parts of the UK.\nPolice said there is nothing to suggest the incidents are terrorist-related.\n\"We continue to investigate who is responsible and whether these incidents are linked to similar calls made to seven schools earlier this week,\" Ch Supt Garry Eaton said on Friday.\nAmong the schools affected on Friday was Kilmaine Primary School in Bangor, County Down.\nUlster Unionist MLA Alan Chambers, whose grandchildren attend the school, said 600 children were moved from it to a nearby church.\n\"Fortunately, the pupils seemed to be taking events very much in their stride and did not seem to be distressed in any way, even though they had to leave the school without their coats or lunch boxes,\" he said.\n\"It was clear that the parents and grandparents who arrived to collect their children were upset at what had happened.\n\"I simply cannot conceive of the mentality of anyone who would target young children in his manner.\n\"The number of alerts that have been received this week indicate a degree of sophistication and organisation. It is imperative that the police act swiftly to catch whoever is responsible for this disruption.\"\nKilmaine PS principal Billy Campbell said they were interviewing for teaching jobs when the secretary came in said they had received a bomb threat.\n\"We immediately took the decision to evacuate the school. We had already thought about this beforehand because, in light of these other incidents happening at other schools, we thought 'what will we do if it happens here?'\" he said\n\"So we had a plan in place already, which we hopefully weren't going to have to use, but it was there so we did it today.\n\"As soon as the message was received, the building was evacuated very professionally by all the teachers and classroom assistants, the children were all fantastically well behaved as I knew they would be.\"\nOther schools threatened on Friday included Armstrong Primary School in Armagh and Omagh County Primary School.", "summary": "Four schools in Northern Ireland have received bomb threats on Friday, three days after others received hoax calls." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lawyers in the case said the boy's parents had sought a second opinion.\nIn October, a High Court judge, heard the Polish boy had vanished and made a written order stating efforts should be made to find him.\nMr Justice Mostyn granted an application, made by an NHS trust, allowing doctors to perform surgery.\nHe had urged the boy's parents to co-operate with doctors.\nDoctors said the boy's parents preferred to treat their son with \"Chinese medicine\".\nSpecialists said the boy would die a \"brutal and agonising death\" within six months to a year if a tumour was not removed \"very soon\".\nHe was told there was evidence the boy, who cannot be identified, had left his home in England with his mother and that his father had boarded a ferry bound for France.\nAt the latest hearing, lawyers told another judge at the Family Division of the High Court in London that the boy had been traced to an address in Poland.\nThey told Mr Justice MacDonald that the boy was with his mother and that his father had returned to England.\nLawyers said the plan was for mother and child to return to England by Christmas.\nMr Justice MacDonald heard submissions from lawyers representing the hospital, the boy's father and from Cafcass - a Government-funded social work organisation which reviews local authority plans for children.\nThe case is due to be re-analysed at a further family court hearing in January.", "summary": "A 10-year-old boy, who needs urgent surgery for jaw cancer, is in Poland and could be back in the UK by Christmas, a family court has heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 27-year-old came in at number 10 and finished 114 not out at New Road.\nThe South African's only previous first-class experience came in 2014 for Northants against the Sri Lankans.\n\"Two years waiting to play a second first-class game is a long time and you think to yourself 'are you going to play another one?'\" he said.\n\"When I got the nod, I thought when I have a bat or a bowl I've just got to show what I can do.\"\nBarrett has played for a number of county Second XIs trying to earn another first-class chance, including Leicestershire, Middlesex and Somerset.\nBut his opportunity has come at Northants, and his innings was the highest score by a number 10 for the county in first-class cricket.\nHe told BBC Radio Northampton: \"I'm a coach on the side and I've got very supportive parents, especially my mum, who kept on telling me 'keep going, you're good enough to be playing'.\n\"It's tough to go round and play seconds cricket, but that's the life of a professional sportsman, you've got to go round and prove yourself. To finally get a gig here is a big plus.\"", "summary": "Chad Barrett questioned if he would play first-class cricket again before his century on his Championship debut for Northants against Worcestershire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Universities wanted to remain claiming funding for research and collaboration with other European academics brought huge benefits.\nCardiff's Vice Chancellor Colin Riordan said the referendum signalled \"a period of uncertainty and disruption\".\nThe Welsh Government said it would try to protect the higher education sector.\nCardiff University is one of the UK's leading institutions for research - ranked fifth in an assessment two years ago.\nIt has attracted millions of pounds of funding from the European Union including £4.5m towards the new Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre.\nProf Riordan warned there is a threat to the research capacity of universities, but applications for grants and collaboration with other EU researchers had to continue.\n\"Until there's much much more certainty - which will be not months but years - we need to continue as we planned and continue to work closely with our European partners,\" he said.\n\"We will get through this, but it's not what we would have wanted.\"\nLast year there were 5,425 students from the EU studying at Welsh universities.\nThe Welsh Government has said current EU students and those applying to study in Wales this year would be eligible for the same financial support.\nA spokesman said: \"Ministers will use every lever at their disposal to ensure Welsh jobs and communities, including the higher education sector, are protected as much as possible through what may be difficult times ahead, and to work together to get the best deal for Wales.\nBefore the referendum, Leave campaigners pledged to maintain funding levels for research and argued that European and global research collaboration could continue and be enhanced outside the EU.\nConservative education spokesman Darren Millar AM said a far greater worry was the unsustainability of the Welsh Government's tuition fee policy.\nHe added: \"Our universities should take courage from the fact that they are full to the brim with some of the world's brightest minds and innovators who will be integral to safeguarding their economic futures.\"", "summary": "Leaving the EU is a \"major setback\" for Welsh universities, a university boss has said, but he believes they would \"come out the other side\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Officers are searching land in Poleglass, after receiving a report of a suspicious object in the area.\nA section of Brians Well Road was shut shortly before 18:10 GMT. There are no reports of homes being evacuated.\nA PSNI tweet said nothing had been found so far and asked for local residents' \"continued patience\".\nSDLP councillor Brian Heading told BBC News NI that he had been speaking to the PSNI about the security operation as early as Friday night.\n\"I understand that police are still investigating that report of a suspicious object,\" Mr Heading said.\n\"This is tying up PSNI resources, which could be used to combat drugs offences and anti-social behaviour.\"", "summary": "A security alert on the outskirts of west Belfast is likely to continue overnight and into Sunday morning, police have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The England striker put the visitors ahead after two minutes, heading home Alex Greenwood's free-kick.\nShe netted her second after connecting with Danielle Buet's impressive cross and was denied a hat-trick when another effort was ruled out for offside.\nLiverpool's best chances fell to Rosie White and Natasha Dowie.\nThe Lady Magpies will face Arsenal in the final at Rotherham on 1 November, having already finished FA Cup runners-up in August.\nRachel Williams looked a constant threat for County and the midfielder forced the Liverpool defence into two last-ditch clearances following a couple of powerful headers.\nThe defeat marked the return of Liverpool midfielder Fara Williams, who came on for the last 10 minutes following three months out with a hamstring injury.\nNotts County striker Ellen White:\n\"This is another milestone, obviously we wanted to do a bit better in the league but this is a massive cup for us.\n\"We want to go to the final and put in a big performance and do it for our coaches more than anything. Rotherham's an incredible stadium and we'll look forward to facing Arsenal.\"\nLiverpool Ladies manager Matt Beard:\n\"I felt we gave a good account of ourselves but Notts County deserved to win it.\n\"I thought especially in the second half we were good and created some chances but we've got 10 players who have come through our centre of excellence and nine players out injured.\n\"All nine of them probably would be in the starting XI and you can't legislate for that.\"\nLiverpool Ladies: Gibbons, Ryland, Beckwith, Murray, Pacheco, Dale (Staniforth 60), Ormarsdottir, Zelem (Williams 81), Hodson, Dowie, White (Green 72).\nSubstitutes not used: Darbyshire, Wild.\nNotts County Ladies: Telford, Walton, Turner, Bassett, Greenwood, Buet, Scott, Crichton; Clarke, Williams, White (Whelan 87).\nSubstitutes not used: Chamberlain, Whelan, Plumptre, Hassall, O'Neill.\nReferee: Ian Hussin\nAttendance: 538", "summary": "Two first-half goals by Ellen White ensured Notts County beat Liverpool 2-0 to set up a Continental Cup final with Arsenal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a match played under the Arthur Ashe Stadium roof because of heavy rain in New York, Serb Lajovic served for the first set but Nadal broke back to love.\nAfter taking the first set on a tie-break, the Spaniard dominated against the world number 85.\nNadal will face Japan's Taro Daniel or American Tommy Paul next.\n\"It was tough at the beginning, he was playing well and not making many mistakes and I felt he was controlling the points too many times,\" the 15-time Grand Slam champion said.\n\"At the end of that first set it was important to get the break point back and I played a good point at 6-6, then hit a good winner to win the set. Then everything was changing.\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.\n\"I need to keep improving, but the first round is never easy, there are nerves out here when you play in his amazing place. Always at the beginning you want to do it well.\"\nEarlier this year, Lajovic broke eventual champion Roger Federer at the first opportunity in their second-round meeting at Wimbledon on his way to losing an opening-set tie-break and the match.\nOnce again, the 27-year-old's best work came early as he matched Nadal for much of the first set with an unexpectedly high standard of tennis.\nBut his first-serve percentage (83%) and the rate of winners (nine) both dropped substantially over the next two as Nadal's class showed.\nNo other men's matches were completed on day two because of the rain that arrived after less than two hours' play and forced the cancellation of the schedule on the outside courts.", "summary": "World number one Rafael Nadal beat Dusan Lajovic 7-6 (8-6) 6-2 6-2 to reach the second round of the US Open at Flushing Meadows." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "West Brom midfielder Chris Brunt has won 48 caps for Northern Ireland and played in eight of their 10 qualifying games for Euro 2016, but missed out on their squad for the finals through injury after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in March. He is in France as a pundit for BBC Sport.\nEveryone was totally deflated. It felt like a massive anti-climax after all the build-up to Euro 2016 because the boys were so disappointed, not just because we lost but with the way we played.\nIt is something I have experienced plenty of times before as a player - you always bounce back in the end but, straight after the final whistle, everyone was thinking about what had just gone wrong.\nAll I could do was talk to a few of them and try to give them a bit of a lift.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nI have actually been with the squad all week because I have been doing rehab work with them after my knee injury.\nObviously I would love to have been playing myself. That was not possible, but it has still been nice to be around the team and see what has been going on.\nThere was an amazing atmosphere at the stadium in Nice, with both sets of fans mixed together and enjoying themselves. It was a great experience, bar the result.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThere was no big inquest straight after the game because Michael O'Neill is the sort of manager who thinks a lot about things before he says anything.\nOur training base is near Lyon - about 200km from Nice. I travelled back with them and it was pretty late by the time we got back there on Sunday.\nWe had a team meeting on Monday morning about what had happened and talked about things we could do better.\nMichael was his usual self but I think he was as disappointed as everyone else. We were on a 12-game unbeaten run and you get used to not losing - it had not happened for such a long time.\nEveryone was still down about it but the message at the end was that match is gone now. We have to draw a line under it and move on.\nNow it is just a case of getting everybody ready again, mentally and physically, for Ukraine in Lyon on Thursday.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nNo matter whether it is for club or country, when you lose a game you want the next one to come around as quickly as possible - especially if you don't play well.\nThe last time we lost a competitive match, to Romania in November 2014, we had to wait until the following March to play again. At least this time we only have to wait four days to try to put things right.\nThe boys put in a lot of work on Sunday and it was pretty warm in Nice so I think they will have a pretty easy week and just make sure they are ready to go in that one.\nI don't think there will be a problem with the team's confidence or morale. Everyone is so disappointed with the first game that they want to prove a point this time.\nBy the time Thursday comes around, everyone will be looking forward to the Ukraine game as much as they were the Poland one.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nWe never really got into the Poland game in an attacking sense, and did not create very much.\nThat was not like us. In qualifying and in the friendlies leading up to the tournament, when we have had the ball on the break, we have been very dangerous and have always looked like scoring.\nI am sure Michael will look at that going into the Ukraine game because it is a game we have to win. If we don't, we are left with having to beat Germany, the world champions, to get out of our group.\nThere is no real pressure on us, though, because nobody expects us to do well in France - apart from ourselves. We have got expectations as a squad that we can do well, and losing to Poland has not changed that.\nWe will have to be back to our usual standards against Ukraine but I know we will be ready for it. We will know exactly what we have to do.\nThe boys came through some big occasions in qualifying, for example when we could have made it to the finals with a victory over Hungary at home but instead dug out a draw with Kyle Lafferty's stoppage-time goal.\nThen there was the night we beat Greece and did clinch our place in France. The way we approached that game, and the way we got the result we needed, is exactly what is required against Ukraine, so we have been there and done it before.\nChris Brunt was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan in France.", "summary": "The Northern Ireland dressing room is normally a noisy place to be around but it was very quiet after our defeat by Poland at Stade de Nice on Sunday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Zef Eisenberg was riding a gas turbine engine motorbike at the Straightliners Top Speed meeting at Elvington Airfield in North Yorkshire.\nThe 43-year-old fell from his Madmax Turbine bike during a during timed track run at 14:00 BST.\nIt is understood he has a suspected broken pelvis.\nThe event is a gathering of vehicles to attempt land speed records.\nA spokeswoman for the Madmax race team, owned by Mr Eisenberg, said he \"had an accident racing\" and was taken to Leeds General Infirmary. He is understood to have sustained a suspected broken pelvis.\nShe added: \"He is in a stable condition and is receiving the very best care.\"\nGuernsey-based Madmax is a specialist engineering team focusing on extreme motor bikes, quad bike and land speed racing", "summary": "The millionaire founder of the Maximuscle nutrition brand was airlifted to hospital after a crash at a high-speed racing event." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "7 October 2015 Last updated at 09:19 BST\nMarine scientist, David Gruber, was diving near the Solomon Islands when he shone a special light at the turtle and saw that it glowed in the dark.\nScientists think that the hawksbill turtle is the first reptile known to have biofluorescence, which enables the creature to absorb some colours of light and glow.\nVideo courtesy of David Gruber", "summary": "A glow-in-the-dark sea turtle has been discovered in the South Pacific ocean." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Mount Stuart Square building, last used as an arts venue, closed in 2013 and was described as \"a crumbling eyesore\" by developer Signature Living.\nBuilt in 1883, it was once where the world price of coal was set and the first £1m cheque signed.\nIts future had been under threat but the Grand Hall and 40 hotel rooms opened on Saturday.\nThis represents the first phase and when all work is finished later this year, it will feature 200 rooms, a restaurant and events space.\nThe developer said it had to remove 1,100 tonnes of rubble from the site and repaired several floors that had collapsed during the eight-month restoration.\n\"The rot and decay has been swept away and the building has been fully revived,\" said Signature Living's Lawrence Kenwright.\n\"Every possible original feature has been saved and the feeling of grandeur has fully returned.\"", "summary": "Cardiff's Grade II*-listed Coal Exchange has reopened after a £40m project to save it." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Three women will challenge 21 men for the title. A woman last won the Claymore Trophy nine years ago.\nAlice Buttress, an artist from the event's home of Carrbridge, Nanci Hemming from Wales and American Griffon Ramsey have entered Saturday's event.\nMoffat-based Pete Bowsher will be defending the title.\nLast year he won the event for the second year in a row with his cowboy carving I Told You To Draw.\nCarve Carr-Bridge is now in its 13th year and draws a crowd of more than 3,000 people.", "summary": "This year's Scottish Open Chainsaw Carving Championships - also known as Carve Carr-Bridge - has attracted a record number of female competitors." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Strauss plays at number eight as Ryan Wilson moves to blind-side flanker.\nJones replaces Mark Bennett, having recovered from the foot injury that ruled him out of the final autumn Test against Georgia in November.\nBrown's inclusion means a place on the bench for Edinburgh's Ross Ford.\nEdinburgh prop Simon Berghan is the only uncapped player in the squad.\nIn front of Strauss and Wilson, Hamish Watson holds down the openside role he occupied throughout the autumn Tests, and brothers Jonny and Richie Gray are paired once again in the Scotland second row.\nProps Allan Dell and Zander Fagerson, with only seven caps between them, are either side of Brown in the front row.\nJones became the first Scot to score two tries against Australia, when he made his first start for Scotland at Murrayfield in November, but he was injured against Argentina a week later.\nHe and Alex Dunbar combine again in midfield, and Cotter has opted for a familiar set of backs as Greig Laidlaw, Finn Russell play at nine and 10 respectively, and full-back Stuart Hogg and wingers Sean Maitland and Tommy Seymour form the back three.\nHead coach Cotter welcomed having the enthusiasm of an uncapped player and \"some reasonably new players\" in the squad.\n\"We've been growing our depth and our versatility within that, so we have a number of different options that allow us to continually attack the opposition, which is our main focus,\" said the New Zealander ahead of his final Six Nations in charge of Scotland.\n\"Facing Ireland first up doesn't get much harder.\n\"They are at the top of their game and will come here with confidence after beating some of the best teams in the world, including the All Blacks and Wallabies and having won the tournament twice in the past three years.\"\nBBC Scotland's Tom English\nJohn Barclay's omission for Josh Strauss is the main talking point in this Scotland team. The Scarlets back-row has started nine of the last 10 Tests while Strauss has been a bit of a peripheral figure this past year. Strauss is in on the back of some powerful stuff for Glasgow in Europe. The need for ball carriers is massive in this match and Strauss, at his best, is better at that side of the game than Barclay, who can count himself unlucky.\nFraser Brown makes it ahead of Ross Ford. Brown has been superb of late. He's another ball-carrier - a stratospheric 14 carries in Glasgow's rout of Leicester - and offers more than the centurion Ford.\nHuw Jones is in despite not having played since November. Cotter is hoping his game-breaking class will not be lessened by a lack of match sharpness.\nIreland's team is formidable, despite Johnny Sexton not being in it. It's an illustration of their depth that Donnacha Ryan, a standout in the second-row in the victory over New Zealand, can't now get into the 23. Jared Payne and Jordi Murphy, two more heroes from that historic victory, are long-term injuries, but Ireland are still loaded with class, power and experience.\nScotland team to face Ireland: Stuart Hogg, Sean Maitland, Huw Jones, Alex Dunbar, Tommy Seymour, Finn Russell, Greig Laidlaw (capt), Allan Dell, Fraser Brown, Zander Fagerson, Richie Gray, Jonny Gray, Ryan Wilson, Hamish Watson, Josh Strauss.\nReplacements: Ross Ford, Gordon Reid, Simon Berghan, Tim Swinson, John Barclay, Ali Price, Duncan Weir, Mark Bennett.", "summary": "Josh Strauss, Glasgow team-mate Fraser Brown and Stormers centre Huw Jones come in to Vern Cotter's Scotland starting XV for the Six Nations opener at home against Ireland on Saturday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The batsman and wicketkeeper, 33, has spent 16 years at Durham and will miss his own benefit game in order to finish the season with Gloucestershire.\nA finger injury to 24-year-old wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick led the club to pursue Mustard.\nHead coach Richard Dawson told the club website: \"Phil brings vast experience and match-winning abilities which I'm sure he will show at Gloucestershire.\"\nMustard has played in all of Durham's major trophy-winning sides and helped Lancashire to promotion while on loan in 2015.\nHe is also Durham's leading appearance maker in both first-class and T20 cricket.\nGloucestershire hope Mustard will be eligible for their One-Day Cup match against Surrey at the Oval on 27 July.\nHe would not be eligible if Gloucestershire and Durham were to meet in the knockout stages of either limited-overs competition.", "summary": "Gloucestershire have signed Durham stalwart Phil Mustard on loan." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former diplomat was known for opposing the controversial demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque.\nHe served as an MP for three terms between 1979 and 1996, and also successfully campaigned to ban Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.\nHe died in hospital following a prolonged illness, local media said.\nSyed Shahabuddin previously worked as an Indian Foreign Service officer and also led the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat - the country's top-level forum for Muslim organisations.\nMr Shahabuddin was also the head of the Babri Action Committee, an organisation dedicated to the preservation of a 16th Century mosque in Ayodhya.\nThe contested ownership of the site and its eventual demolition created national tension between Hindus and Muslims, resulting in the 1992 riots in which 2,000 people died. The site remains a flashpoint today.\nHe also came to international attention for his efforts to ban The Satanic Verses, whose publication in 1988 outraged Muslims around the world, with many arguing it was blasphemous.\nMr Shahabuddin was widely seen as responsible for preventing the book from being imported into India - the first country to introduce such a ban.\nThe book is comprised of three stories woven together. One of them - the most controversial - features a prophet named Mahound, who founds a religion in the desert.\nThat story is inspired by an apocryphal incident in the life of the Prophet Muhammad, called the Satanic Verses.\nIt references verses of the Koran which the Prophet Muhammad later retracted as incorrect - and blamed on the prompting of Satan.\nThe issue is a controversial one for scholars and religious teachers.\nFollowing the controversy over Rushdie's novel, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill the author.\nThe book is still banned in India.", "summary": "Indian politician Syed Shahabuddin, an influential political figure for minority Indian Muslims, has died aged 82." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Bavuma, 25, became the first black African to score a Test hundred for South Africa as he hit an unbeaten 102 against England in Cape Town.\nHashim Amla scored a double century as the hosts declared on 627-7, with England ending day four 18 runs ahead.\n\"I'm full of emotion, relief and I'm very satisfied,\" said Bavuma.\nSpeaking to BBC Test Match Special, he added: \"Luckily with the team environment we have it wasn't all about the runs I scored that enabled me to have a sense of belonging.\n\"But I think for myself it really gives me that boost of confidence to say that I can truly play at this level.\"\nEngland all-rounder Ben Stokes appeared to be caught on television coverage sledging Bavuma early in the South African's innings.\nBavuma told a post-match news conference that he respected \"tough competitor\" Stokes for congratulating him after the game on reaching his milestone.\n\"He did come hard, but everything was in the spirit of the game,\" he said.\n\"Some of things he said I couldn't really hear him, but the more he kept on speaking, it fired me a bit more to knuckle down and focus on the task in hand.\"\nPrior to this match, Bavuma had amassed just 145 runs at an average of 20.71 in six Tests since making his debut against West Indies in December 2014.\nArriving at the crease under pressure as the Proteas lost three wickets for 10 runs after lunch, the diminutive batsman played with impressive fluency, driving through the covers and pulling anything short to the boundary.\nBavuma, born in the Langa township in Cape Town, raced to his half century off just 52 balls before reaching three figures late in the day in front of an elated home crowd.\n\"There was a lot of noise and I think people were probably just as jubilated or as satisfied as I was,\" he added.\n\"My parents were watching and I'm sure it was also a special moment for them. I had a couple of friends that kept making noise, so I think the moment was greatly shared by the people as well as myself.\n\"Our mindset was just to bat time, try to occupy most of the day and luckily we got into a position where we were able to shift pressure on to England.\n\"Unfortunately we didn't get that wicket that we wanted late on but on Wednesday we hope to get a couple of wickets and get the English guys scrambling out there.\"\nThe tourists dropped eight catches of varying difficulty across South Africa's marathon 211-over innings, including Bavuma on 77 when wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow failed to claim an edge behind low to his right.\nEngland assistant coach Paul Farbrace admits those mistakes have probably cost his side victory on a flat wicket but hopes they can \"send out a statement\" for the rest of the series on the final day on Wednesday.\n\"We didn't expect to be in this position on day four and honestly if we'd taken our chances through the two days then we wouldn't be in this position,\" he added.\n\"Our bowlers have created great opportunities, which on a flat pitch is all you can do - one or two were half-chances and that's tough but one or two others we should've caught and we're disappointed we haven't.\n\"You don't want to highlight it to the extent you're saying 'don't drop catches' to them because obviously any tension in the body makes it harder so it's a case of lots of repetitive catching and working incredibly hard.\n\"I'm sure our bowlers in the ice bath after the day will say it's a flat wicket but it's not it's not a terrible pitch for Test match cricket by any means because chances have been created - we've shown that if you get the ball in the right place there has been a little bit there.\"", "summary": "South Africa batsman Temba Bavuma says his historic maiden Test century has justified his place at international level after a tough year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "As the conference in the Saudi capital began, one of the most powerful rebel groups struck an uncompromising tone.\nAhrar al-Sham insisted President Bashar al-Assad would have to face justice.\nIt also criticised the presence of Syria-based opposition figures tolerated by Mr Assad and the absence of al-Qaeda's affiliate in the country.\nWorld powers want peace talks between a unified opposition delegation and the government to start by 1 January, and a transitional government to be formed within six months.\nThe two-day conference at a heavily secured hotel in Riyadh is taking place under the auspices of the Saudi government, which has provided political and military support to the Syrian opposition.\nOne delegate told the AFP news agency the first day would focus on political questions, including the outline of a potential political settlement, while the second would be dedicated to discussing \"terrorism, a ceasefire and reconstruction\".\nAmong those attending are representatives of the Western-backed National Coalition, whose leaders are based mainly outside Syria, and the more moderate National Co-ordination Committee, which is tolerated by Damascus.\nMost of the main rebel factions are taking part, including Ahrar al-Sham, an ultraconservative Islamist group that operates mainly in north-western Syria.\nNotably absent are Kurdish groups, which control large parts of the north, and the powerful al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, which is part of an alliance with Ahrar al-Sham but is regarded internationally as a terrorist organisation.\nThe BBC's Hanan Razek in Riyadh says there is a keen sense of optimism that a common position will be found.\nThe president of the National Coalition, Khaled Khoja, said many of those attending the meeting were already in broad agreement.\nThe main Western-backed political alliance, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, supports the implementation of the 2012 Geneva Communique, which calls for the establishment of a transitional governing body in Syria. Its Turkey-based leadership insists that President Assad must go\nThe Syria-based opposition grouping, the National Co-ordination Committee for Democratic Change, calls for negotiations on a peaceful transition. It is tolerated by the government, though its members have been harassed and detained.\nAhrar al-Sham is a ultraconservative Islamist, or Salafist, rebel group that aims to topple Mr Assad and build an Islamic state, though it vows to achieve the latter through the ballot box and not force. It is part of Jaysh al-Fatah, an alliance that includes the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front.\nJaysh al-Islam, a Islamist rebel group active mostly around Damascus, previously called for the establishment of an Islamic state. Its leader now says he favours allowing Syrians to decide what sort of state they want.\nThe Western-backed Southern Front alliance, which operates in the south, describes its self as \"the moderate voice and the strong arm of the Syrian people\".\nBut Ahrar al-Sham - whose founders had links to al-Qaeda - criticised the \"lack of representation of jihadist factions\" at a level reflecting their presence on the ground in Syria. Some of those invited were \"closer to representing the regime than the people and the revolution\", it added without elaborating.\nThe group also warned that it would \"not accept the results of this conference\" unless they included \"the complete cleansing of the Russian-Iranian occupation of Syrian land, and the sectarian militias which support it\".\nIt called for the \"overthrow of the Assad regime with all its pillars and symbols, and handing them over for fair trial\".\nSecurity and military institutions would also have to be dissolved, Ahrar al-Sham said, rejecting last month's statement by 17 world powers - including the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran - that called for them to be kept intact initially.\nThey see a political solution to the four-and-a-half-year conflict as an important step in a process that will eventually lead to the elimination of the self-styled Islamic State (IS), which controls large parts of northern and eastern Syria.", "summary": "More than 100 Syrian rebels and opposition politicians are meeting in Riyadh in an attempt to come up with a united front for possible peace talks." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hooker Dwyer, 21, joins the Broncos on a one-year loan deal while prop Riley, also 21, moves to the capital on a permanent one-year contract.\nDwyer has made 10 appearances for Warrington this season, while Riley has featured 12 times.\n\"They will match the culture we are creating here,\" Broncos head coach Joey Grima said.\nDwyer, who signed a new two-year contract with Warrington this summer, had a spell on loan at Huddersfield last season.\nHe and Riley both came through the Warrington Academy and both played for Swinton Lions on dual-registration terms.\n\"Both these players have been prominent in the Championship and Super League,\" Grima added.\n\"Coming from the Warrington system under Tony Smith ensures that the standards will be high in both players.\n\"I've been impressed by both Brad and Glenn as their level of maturity exceeds their actual age and they will help us build the culture at the Broncos.\"", "summary": "Relegated London Broncos have signed Warrington Wolves duo Brad Dwyer and Glenn Riley for the 2015 season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a letter to parents, Barclay Primary School in Leyton said it has previously had a \"number of children who became ill and fainted\", or been unable to learn while fasting.\nThe school said it had \"sought guidance\" and that children were not required to fast during the period.\nCritics said the move was an overreaction and unnecessary.\nAjmal Masroor, Imam and spokesman for the Islamic Society of Britain, said children were not expected to fast, especially not primary school children.\nHe said: \"It could have been easily resolved by just speaking to parents. Now we have another negative story against the Muslim community - as if we don't have enough already.\"\nThe action was \"stupidly foolish\", he said.\nBarclay School said the month fell during a hot spell and a busy time of the year with sports days and field trips.\nIt suggested older children who wanted to take part in fasting \"do so at weekends\".", "summary": "A primary school in east London has banned children from fasting during the month of Ramadan." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "This is a man who betrayed not a scintilla of doubt after his team lost to Lincoln Red Imps around this time last year, so anybody expecting any kind of reservation from him about the second leg in Trondheim next week is in for a seriously long wait.\nIn the wake of the goalless draw - which could so easily have been 1-0 or 2-0 to Rosenborg had they taken some of their better chances - Rodgers spoke about Celtic's capacity for scoring away goals in Europe while adding that 0-0 in the first leg is as good a result for the home team as it is for the away team.\nRodgers was unperturbed. He praised his side, gave off a vibe of total authority and exited.\nCeltic's goal-scoring record away from home on his watch? They've scored in four of their seven games on the road in Europe.\nHis take on the 0-0 being a good result? Going back to 2014-15, there have been 70 ties in the Europa League and Champions League, including qualifiers, that have begun with the home side drawing 0-0. In 36 of the 70 ties, the home team that drew 0-0 in the first leg were knocked out.\nThat's not far off 50-50 and that, in turn, is not far off Celtic's chances of progressing. Maybe experience gives them a slight edge on Wednesday, but it's only slight and it will only exist at all presuming Leigh Griffiths is fit to play, which remains a big presumption.\nIt was obvious from the opening minutes at Celtic Park that Rodgers' team were struggling to find a way of playing without a natural striker, Moussa Dembele being injured and Griffiths being both suspended and injured.\nRodgers thought he could get by with Tom Rogic as a de facto striker, pointing out that the Australian had played that way for half an hour against Partick Thistle towards the end of last season. He declared Rogic \"brilliant\" in that role, but that wasn't Champions League stuff, that was a no-pressure 5-0 stroll when the team was confident and could do no wrong.\nCeltic can have a howitzer attack on their best days. Against Rosenborg, it was pop gun.\nRogic tried his best, but he was uncomfortable, neither a striker nor the fine midfielder we know he can be. He was trapped in no-man's land for most of the night. Scott Sinclair took a brief turn in the second half, but he was ill at ease as well.\nRosenborg suffocated Celtic, playing with great discipline and high concentration levels. They made very few mistakes in defence.\nCeltic's first shot on target came in the 77th minute. That tells you much about their lack of threat. It was unusual to see them so harmless in front of goal.\nRodgers says he's hopeful that Griffiths will be fit. It's a different ball game if he is.\nIt's reasonable to ask, though, why Celtic allowed a situation to develop whereby they had no striker available for a Champions League qualifier, a competition that is the beginning, the end and the in between of their dreams.\nFor a club with Celtic's ambition - not just of group stage but last 16 - is it sensible to have just two out-and-out goal-scorers in their squad, one of whom, Dembele, missed the last six games of Celtic's invincible domestic season through injury?\nThey can't read the future, but losing Dembele for the final month of their record-breaking campaign might have served as a reminder that they're thin up top and, perhaps, a back-up man might not be a bad way to go. Rodgers was asked about it on the eve of the Rosenborg game and his answer was interesting.\n\"If you have two highly-strung strikers who are fighting for a position and then you add a third one to the mix, it can actually work against you,\" he said.\n\"Some will say you can't have too many good players, but you can. It can give you a problem. It's just unfortunate that two get injured, so we'll see.\"\nYou can understand Rodgers' point. He's only going to start one striker in any given game, so how is he supposed to keep three happy if there's only room for one in his team? The last thing he needs is a player moping and upsetting the mood because he's not getting game-time.\nCeltic have lofty goals though. They want to progress in Europe. They want to improve against the big shots of the Champions League. That's murderously difficult on their budget and the task doesn't get any easier when they leave themselves so shallow in such a critical area of the pitch.\nNot a lot gets past Rodgers. He's a shrewd man. He would surely have weighed up the possibility of injury or suspension leaving him short in attack, but he reckoned he had enough to get by.\nHe had goals throughout the team. He had players, like Rogic, who could adapt. Or he thought he had.\nIn the six games that Dembele missed at the end of last season, it wasn't just Griffiths who delivered goals - he scored four - or, indeed, Patrick Roberts - who also scored four but who's no longer at Celtic. Callum McGregor, Stuart Armstrong and Dedryck Boyata got three each, Rogic two, Mikael Lustig one, as did Sinclair, who'd scored 24 before that.\nCeltic knocked in 21 goals in those six games. Did that kind of dominance make them believe that they'd be OK even if the worst-case scenario unfolded and their main strikers were laid low? If it was a gamble then it backfired on Wednesday.\nRodgers problem-solved numerous times last season. After the humbling by the Red Imps, he fixed it. When Celtic got annihilated by Barcelona, their response in Europe was a thrilling home draw with Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, a team that had played 10 games to that point, winning all 10.\nAnother lesson was learned against Borussia Monchengladbach. Beaten comfortably by the Germans at Celtic Park, Rodgers' sorted his team out and got a deserved 1-1 away from home.\nThis is another big challenge, a pivotal, potentially season-defining point, despite the fact that we'll be barely into August by the time it arrives.\nNobody among the Celtic support will doubt Rodgers as he tries to plot his way through a delicate tie, but they'll be praying for Griffiths' return nonetheless.", "summary": "The one thing you weren't going to get from Brendan Rodgers in the aftermath of Celtic's disappointing performance against Rosenborg in the Champions League qualifier was uncertainty." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The hosts won Friday's first one-day international by two wickets and this result puts them 2-0 up in the three-match series.\nPaul Stirling (72) and Gary Wilson (65) were the top contributors as the Irish finished on 268-7.\nZimbabwe won with nine balls to spare, Ervine hitting 101 from 174 balls while Sean Williams added 43.\nIreland increased their run-rate from Thursday and with Kevin O'Brien chipping in with a half-century, they gave themselves a good chance of levelling the series.\nSikandar Raza was the stand-out bowler for Zimbabwe, his three wickets coming at a cost of 49 runs.\nZimbabwe reached the target with ease and Ervine followed up his 60 in the opener with another impressive display.\nIt was a tough day for the Irish attack with all-rounder O'Brien picking up two wickets.\nZimbabwe moved above Ireland in the ODI rankings into 10th place with Friday's victory and will remain above the tourists even if they lose Tuesday's final game.", "summary": "Craig Ervine's unbeaten century helped Zimbabwe to a five-wicket win in Harare and a series victory over Ireland." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "An investigation was launched after British Athletics analysed GPS data.\n\"We're devastated that this mistake has happened,\" said the race organisers.\n\"We take full responsibility for this situation and apologise unreservedly to all runners who took part in the affected years.\"\nIt is the latest in a series of measuring errors which have affected high-profile mass participation races.\nAnd it is not the first time Brighton organisers have had to apologise - after they revealed the course was too long in 2012.\nAlso, in 2016, the Great Scottish Run half-marathon course in Glasgow was found to be about 150m short after it was re-measured.\nThe error meant the record set by winner Callum Hawkins was invalid as were personal best times recorded by runners.\nIn addition, times from the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Greater Manchester Marathon were discounted, affecting about 24,000 runners, after the course was found to be 380m too short.", "summary": "Organisers of the Brighton Half Marathon have apologised after it was revealed the course has been 146 metres (0.09 miles) short for the past three years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The image was taken using mirrors, enabling the photographer to capture full-length pictures of the Queen from the front, back and sides.\nPrince William and the Duchess of Cornwall have also posed for similar shots.\nAll of the images, taken over the last few years, will be used in the exhibition The Queen's People.\nMr Rittson-Thomas, who has photographed people including the Dalai Lama and David Cameron, spoke of technical problems during his session with the Queen.\n\"The camera had a digital seizure but luckily I was about two-thirds of the way into the shoot. She was very calm and cool and put me at ease,\" he said.\nMr Rittson-Thomas said he captured the Queen's smile after he asked the passionate horse-owner how she would feel if one of her horses won the Epsom Derby - the only classic to have eluded her.\nThe photographs were taken in 2013 at Windsor Castle.\nPrince William, Colonel of the Irish Guards, was photographed in 2012 when he and wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, joined the regiment to celebrate St Patrick's Day.\nHe was wearing his Irish Guards frock coat for the occasion.\nThe exhibition features members of the Royal Household and senior ceremonial figures in their traditional uniforms depicted using the same quadruple portrait effect.\nOthers featured in the exhibition include the Bishop of London Richard Chartres, who is Dean of the Chapel Royal, and Lieutenant General David Leakey, who is the senior House of Lords officer Black Rod.\nThe Duchess of Cornwall's picture was taken earlier this year wearing formal attire, designed by Bruce Oldfield, together with family jewellery.\nThe project was inspired by 16th and 17th Century paintings of monarchs such as Elizabeth I and her court, often painted against a black or dark background which emphasised the rich colours of the outfits worn.\nThe Queen's People exhibition will be held at Eleven Gallery in London from 19 August to 19 September.", "summary": "The Queen has shown off her best sides in a quadruple portrait produced by photographer Hugo Rittson-Thomas." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "This has been suspected since the 1989 discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid that looks just like a modern human's.\nBut now computer modelling of how it works has shown this bone was also used in a very similar way.\nWriting in journal Plos One, scientists say their study is \"highly suggestive\" of complex speech in Neanderthals.\nThe hyoid bone is crucial for speaking as it supports the root of the tongue. In non-human primates, it is not placed in the right position to vocalise like humans.\nAn international team of researchers analysed a fossil Neanderthal throat bone using 3D x-ray imaging and mechanical modelling.\nThis model allowed the group to see how the hyoid behaved in relation to the other surrounding bones.\nStephen Wroe, from the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia, said: \"We would argue that this is a very significant step forward. It shows that the Kebara 2 hyoid doesn't just look like those of modern humans - it was used in a very similar way.\"\nHe told BBC News that it not only changed our understanding of Neanderthals, but also of ourselves.\n\"Many would argue that our capacity for speech and language is among the most fundamental of characteristics that make us human. If Neanderthals also had language then they were truly human, too.\"\nIt was commonly believed that complex language did not evolve until about 100,000 years ago and that modern humans were the only ones capable of complex speech.\nBut that changed with the discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid bone in 1989. It was found in the Kebara Cave in Israel and is very similar to our own,\nMuch older hyoid fossils have also recently been discovered, attributed to the human and Neanderthal relative Homo heidelbergensis. They were found in Spain and are over 500,000 years old.\nThese have yet to be modelled, but Prof Wroe said they were likely to be very similar to those of modern humans and Neanderthals, so could take back the origins of speech still further.\nHe added that his work would not necessarily be accepted as proof that Neanderthals spoke.\n\"We were very careful not to suggest that we had proven anything beyond doubt, but I do think it will help to convince a good number of specialists and tip the weight of opinion.\"\nNeanderthals were stockier and shorter than modern humans, with no chin and backwards sloping foreheads. They are not regarded as direct human ancestors but DNA analysis has revealed that between 1% and 4% of the Eurasian human genome seems to come from Neanderthals.\nDan Dediu, from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands, published a review article earlier this year suggesting that Neanderthals and modern humans shared a similar capacity for language.\nHe said that the current study brought more weight to the conclusions that Neanderthals had very similar hyoid bones to us, \"not only in form but also in what concerns their mechanical properties\".\n\"The authors themselves are understandably cautious in drawing strong conclusions, but I think that their work clearly supports the contention that speech and language is an old feature of our lineage going back at least to the last common ancestor that we shared with the Neanderthals,\" Dr Dediu told BBC News.\nHe stressed, though, that the latest study was only a first step and that future work on other living primates were necessary to better understand the range of variation within modern humans.", "summary": "An analysis of a Neanderthal's fossilised hyoid bone - a horseshoe-shaped structure in the neck - suggests the species had the ability to speak." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "\"I don't think any of us were prepared for Donald Trump to be president,\" singer Billie Joe Armstrong told the BBC.\n\"I think there's going to come a time when the protests get larger and larger - and that I fully support.\"\nThe star, who has been an outspoken critic of Mr Trump, said he felt like his \"country is being set on fire\".\nProtests against a Trump presidency have broken out across the US, with demonstrations in New York, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Baltimore and San Francisco.\nTwenty-six people were arrested in Portland, Oregon on Thursday night after violence broke out amongst demonstrators.\nGreen Day were in London when the Republican's victory was announced, shortly after they collected the Global Icon award at Sunday's MTV Europe Awards in Rotterdam.\nSpeaking to the BBC on Friday afternoon, 44-year-old Armstrong said the news was still sinking in - but refused to criticise Green Day fans who voted for Mr Trump.\n\"If there's anybody who, because of this election, feels like marginalised in any way, those are the people I feel the most sympathy for.\n\"So whether you're black, brown, white, gay, straight, trans, Muslim - those are the people I want to rally with.\"\nA Green Day concert is a \"safe house for anyone who feels marginalised\" he added.\nFormed in 1986, Green Day have been one of the most political bands of their generation, notably on the 2004 album American Idiot, which expressed anger at the war in Iraq and the presidency of George W Bush.\nTheir latest album, Revolution Radio, debuted at number one last month, and tackles topics including America's mass shootings and the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\"I write songs when I'm confused or scratching my head and asking why things are happening in the world,\" Armstrong said.\n\"You're trying to make sense of what's going on and what's happening to you - and somehow through it you can find kindred spirits or a solution.\"\nHowever, he said he had been unable to write since the US election.\n\"It's really hard to laugh when you're scared.\"\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Rock group Green Day say they \"fully support\" the protests against US president elect Donald Trump." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 32-year-old £40m signing from Boca Juniors will be presented to fans at the Hongkou Stadium later.\nTevez will receive a salary in excess of £310,000 a week at the Chinese Super League club, reportedly making him the world's highest paid footballer.\nChants of \"Carlos! Carlos!\" were heard as he was ushered through the crowds.", "summary": "Hundreds of Shanghai Shenua fans turned up at the city's airport on Thursday to welcome Argentina striker Carlos Tevez to China." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The match at the Caledonian Stadium will now be played on Tuesday, 12 April, with a 19:45 BST kick-off.\nUp to 12 Hearts players have been suffering from gastroenteritis and an under-20s match was cancelled to provide cover.\nHead coach Robbie Neilson was concerned about the bug spreading.\n\"Players had been away on Scotland Under-21 duty and a couple of the guys from other teams had had it,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\"They came back here, John Souttar had it and it looks like it has spread from there and all five of them that went away last week with the 21s were down with it and a few other guys as well.\n\"The worry is that it then spreads even further through the club and possibly even up to Inverness with the Inverness players.\n\"So, the doctor's made the decision we're going to have to close this place down for two days, get it cleared out and hopefully by the time we come back in on Thursday be ready to go.\n\"If we finally get up there next Tuesday, that'll be the third attempt to get the game played and we're desperate to get it done. It's three journeys, three hotels paid for, three bus journeys paid for so it's been an expensive trip this time.\"\nThe Scottish Professional Football League said in a statement Hearts applied for the postponement as the majority of their first-team squad were affected by injuries or illness and they had only one fit goalkeeper over the age of 16.\nIt added: \"The Heart of Midlothian FC doctor has provided written evidence to the SPFL of the injuries and sickness of all those affected and has also advised of the potential for further infection, both of other squad members and of players and staff of Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC.\n\"In these exceptional circumstances, the SPFL has agreed to the postponement request.\"\nHearts are scheduled to play Aberdeen at Tyencastle on Friday evening.\n\"It's important that we get Friday's game done and then try and get the game done next Tuesday because it's an important period for everyone, not just ourselves but the other teams as well trying to get into the top six,\" added Neilson.", "summary": "Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Scottish Premiership match against Hearts on Tuesday is off because a virus left the away side with \"few fit players\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The cover on 17 September dipped to 5.01 million sq km, and has risen slightly since then, suggesting the autumn re-freeze has now taken hold.\nThis year's minimum is fractionally smaller than last year (5.10 million sq km), making summer 2014 the sixth lowest in the modern satellite record.\nThe Antarctic, in contrast, continues its winter growth.\nIt is still a few weeks away from reaching its maximum, which will continue the record-setting trend of recent years.\nIce extent surrounding the White Continent has just topped 20 million sq km.\nThe marine cover at both poles is the subject of discussion at a major UK Royal Society conference taking place this week.\nIn the Arctic, Prof Julienne Stroeve from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center said conditions in the north had been relatively cool this summer.\n\"This was what we might now call a 'normal year',\" she told BBC News.\nWinds had blown ice towards the Canadian Arctic archipelago, piling up the floes.\nThis will have protected them from melting and from being exported out of the Arctic basin, explained the researcher, who is also affiliated to University College London.\nAlthough, the last two summers had seen greater coverage than the record-setting low of 2012, she cautioned that the long-term trend was still clear: September Arctic sea ice is declining in extent by more than 10% per decade.\nThe eight lowest ice covers in the satellite record have now occurred in the past eight years.\nHigher temperatures are seen as the cause; the Arctic has been one of the fastest warming regions on Earth.\nComputer models are doing a better job at forecasting the losses but they still underestimate the changes that are occurring.\nIn the Antarctic, the research problem is a very different one.\nThis austral winter will be the third year in a row that sea-ice extent has reached a satellite-era maximum, and it is the first time that this record has jumped above 20 million sq km.\nTraditionally, the greatest cover is not reached until early October, so there should be time for the south to accumulate even more marine cover.\nBut scientists are careful not to make equal and opposite comparisons for what is happening at the two poles.\nThe regions' geographies are quite different. The Arctic is in large part an ocean enclosed by land, whereas the Antarctic is a land mass totally surrounded by ocean.\nWhat is more, the southern pole feels the influence of three great oceans - the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Indian.\nMany of the ice behaviours and responses are peculiar as a consequence.\nDr Paul Holland works with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS): \"Sea-ice extent in the Antarctic is going up by about one-fifth the speed that the Arctic is going down. And the volume of Antarctic sea ice is going up by about one-tenth the speed that Arctic volume is going down, and the volume is the more important number.\n\"My point is that the Antarctic is essentially flat; the increase in extent is to some degree a red herring.\n\"The more interesting question is why the Antarctic is not going down like the Arctic, and not enough people are asking that question.\"\nVarious ideas have been put forward to explain the differences, but \"as to a single, underlying, silver-bullet cause - there just isn't one,\" he added.\nHis BAS colleague, Prof John Turner, highlighted the big up-turn in sea-ice growth around the Antarctic in only the past fortnight - the result of more storms in the region.\n\"Southerly winds have pushed the ice out to greater northerly latitudes, and that means the cold winds coming off the continent then freeze the open water left behind.\"\nPrincipally, this is seen in the Ross Sea area of Antarctica. Indeed, more than 80% of the growth trend is focussed on this one region.\nProf Turner said he thought the persistent behaviour of a low-pressure system known as the Amundsen Sea Low (ASL) was probably at the root of the observed Antarctic trend, but as to why that was the case - no-one could yet explain.\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "summary": "Arctic sea ice has passed its minimum summer extent, say polar experts meeting in London." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Fourteen months since predominately Shia protests erupted against the rule of the Sunni monarchy, questions are being raised over whether one of the biggest events in Bahrain's calendar should go ahead.\nThe Formula 1 Grand Prix is due to be held on 22 April and for the tiny island Gulf state this is huge.\nIt indirectly employs thousands of Bahrainis, both Shia and Sunni, and, according to the government, brings in hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of business, putting Bahrain firmly on the world sporting map.\nThe problem is, those protests are far from over, the country is perhaps more divided than ever along sectarian lines, and one of the most prominent pro-democracy campaigners, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, is two months into a hunger strike in protest at his life sentence on charges of trying to overthrow the monarchy.\nIf he dies in custody, as his lawyer warns he might, then the simmering daily clashes between police and protesters in the Shia villages will likely explode.\nLittle wonder that some of the international F1 participants are voicing doubts about whether they want to take part. Last year's F1 Grand Prix in Bahrain was postponed, then cancelled.\nSo should Bahrain's F1 go ahead this year or not?\nFormula 1 Group CEO Bernie Ecclestone said on Tuesday this is \"up to the people of Bahrain\" and at the moment it is going ahead.\nEssentially it boils down to two factors for teams to consider: safety and morality.\nOn safety, the Bahraini authorities are likely to take every possible precaution to shield participants from any unpleasantness. They will be chaperoned, escorted and protected, from airport to hotel to race track.\nThe venue itself is out in the desert, halfway down the island at Sakhir - and far from the troubled villages where Molotov cocktails are traded nightly with the riot police.\nA long-term Bahrain resident said: \"They may experience traffic jams but hopefully nothing worse\".\nBut the issue of moral conscience is rather more complex.\nBahrain is where the Arab Spring visibly failed last year, smothered by draconian security measures that saw several unarmed protesters die in custody. Al-Khawaja himself was arrested in his house at night and beaten unconscious in front of his screaming family.\nSince then, an independent commission of inquiry, the BICI commission, has investigated thousands of claims of abuses, found the government guilty of systematic abuse of prisoners, and made numerous recommendations to improve human rights which the ruler, King Hamad, has promised to act on.\nReforms include two senior police officers being drafted in from the UK and US to advise Bahrain on how to improve community policing, while several junior Bahraini officers are being investigated for alleged abuses.\nBut the opposition says the reforms are mainly cosmetic, innocent people are still in jail and there is no meaningful dialogue under way on how to share power more equitably, despite the efforts of the more reform-minded members of the ruling al-Khalifa family and moderate voices in the opposition.\nIf this month's Grand Prix is cancelled it would effectively be an international vote of no confidence in Bahrain.\nThis is exactly what many of the government's opponents want, sending a message that as long as the country's Shia community feels disenfranchised then why should it be business as usual?\nBut a senior official in Bahrain, who asked not to be named, told the BBC \"cancelling the Grand Prix would be a real backward step and is not going to benefit anyone, either politically or economically.\n\"It will send the Sunni community apoplectic and make it harder than ever for moderates to reach common ground.\"", "summary": "Bahrain is once again at a crossroads." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Southeastern halted services between Folkestone and Dover Priory in Kent on Christmas Eve.\nIt is thought the cracks in the wall at Folkestone were caused by the sea.\nThe operator said there had been more damage to the structure since Thursday and the line would stay closed until it was repaired.\nSoutheastern tweeted: \"While the repairs are carried out buses will replace trains between Dover Priory and Folkestone Central.\"\n\"As soon as we receive more information we will send updates out on here with regard to the line closure between Dover and Folkestone,\" it continued.\n\"Some high-sSpeed trains will be diverted to Ramsgate via Canterbury West. You can also travel between Dover and London via Canterbury East.\"", "summary": "Part of a major coastal rail route has been shut \"until further notice\" after cracks appeared in the sea wall over the Christmas period." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Bolt is carrying a hamstring problem, but said that was not to blame for his modest time of 10.09 seconds.\n\"It was just a bad race. It wasn't a bothering pain so I can't blame it on that,\" the 26-year-old said.\nBailey-Cole, one of Bolt's training partners, was given the same time.\nBolt, the triple Olympic champion from London 2012, added: \"I felt it [hamstring injury] slightly. I just have to go back and figure out with my coach what went wrong.\"\nAntigua's Daniel Bailey finished third in the Cayman Islands with a time of 10.23 secs.\nAmerica's Carmelita Jeter won the women's 100m in a world leading 10.95 secs.", "summary": "Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt won his first 100m of the season in a photo finish, beating fellow Jamaican Kemar Bailey-Cole at the Cayman Invitational." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A controlled explosion was carried out on a car in the cemetery on the Lone Moor Road in Londonderry shortly before midnight on Wednesday.\nSearches were carried out on Thursday morning but nothing further was found.\nSupt Mark McEwan said the guns are being linked to violent dissident republican activity.\nHe said he was thankful that the weapons were now out of circulation.\n\"This is a sensitive area to carry out these operations and shows the disregard for the community on the part of those involved in this type of activity,\" he said.\n\"In the district, this is the third firearm we have taken out of circulation this week.\n\"These are weapons that are made and possessed with one purpose in mind and that is to kill or cause serious injury to people.\"", "summary": "A security alert at Derry City Cemetery, that led to the discovery of two semi automatic handguns, has ended." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Avon coroner ordered a safety audit after the deaths on the river by the downward slope from Green Park Road.\nBath and North East Somerset Council said it has spent £500,000 on safety works since 2011, with £200,000 earmarked for further improvements.\nThe authority said the work includes a new vandal proof life buoy system.", "summary": "Work has begun to install new safety railings on a path alongside a stretch of the River Avon in Bath where four men have drowned in the past year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It would see palliative care nurses working overnight in Rostrevor, Warrenpoint and Burren.\nThe committee chair, Dr Henry McLaughlin, said the initiative would complement existing services.\nMore than 100 people attended a meeting in Rostrevor on Sunday night to show support for it.\nAt present, patients who require palliative care in the Southern Trust area are supported by GPs, specialist nurses and carers - but only during the day time.\nThere is also a twilight district nurse service that operates until 23:00 BST, along with out-of-hours emergency services.\nMarie Curie nurses operate a night-sitting service between 23:00 and 08:00 - but on a limited number of nights.\nIn 2015, a report analysing the UK's palliative care system described services as lacking and in need of a major overhaul.\nThrough the residents' committee, Dr McLaughlin has come up with a new model that would see qualified nurses, who already live in the Rostrevor area, working between the hours of 23:00 and 08:00 BST, to help patients who are most in need.\nDr McLaughlin, who has been a GP in the area for 30 years, explained that the health system is under so much pressure that palliative care patients are often having to wait too long for help.\n\"The aim of our proposal is that patients choosing to die at home should have the same access as patients in hospital,\" he said.\n\"The GP out-of-hours service is under such intense pressure that it can rarely respond rapidly to the need for pain relief and symptom control.\"\nHe added that the core focus behind the idea is to make palliative care services as local as possible, to reduce waiting times.\n\"When I started all GPs lived in the area that they worked in, and went on a rota at night, patients saw the GP really quickly,\" said Dr McLaughlin.\n\"Now there's an incredible shortage of GPs and Marie Curie nurses, who cover the entire Southern board, aim to see 88% of patients within two hours - that's quite a big ask.\n\"It's only going to be achieved by a community approach, where we'd see quicker response times of 20 to 30 minutes.\"\nIt is almost a year exactly since Rostrevor woman, Roisin Franklin, lost her father, Patsy Tinnelly, to terminal cancer of the bile duct.\nHer father was able to spend his last weeks at home and received palliative care services to help manage his pain.\nShe said the support her father received was excellent, but that services were limited during the night - and that the new community scheme could make a big difference to loved ones' final days,\n\"We were keen that daddy never had pain, and could have a dignified death,\" she told the BBC.\n\"To be able to have him at home feeling comfortable and relaxed - so many people want to do the same thing for their loved ones.\"\nMrs Franklin said she believes her father would have gotten behind the new initiative because he \"knew the great benefits of it\".\nDr McLaughlin said it is not certain that the proposed service will get off the ground, as there is a lot of paperwork and funding required before nurses can begin working in the area.\nThe group has to raise money, register as a charity and with the health regulator, recruit staff and plan out its workflow.\nThere is no timeframe in place yet, but the group said if the service does not come to fruition, any money raised will be donated to the Newry hospice.\nDr McLaughlin said even if his idea does not come to anything, he hopes \"it shows to the powers that be that the system needs to change\".\n\"If you're at home at night, in the dark, scared and in pain, possibly distressed with nausea and vomiting - those symptoms need to be relieved as soon as possible, it's not good enough to have to wait for two hours.\n\"Palliative care is really difficult (to work in), but it's one of the most rewarding things you can do, to help someone die at home.\"", "summary": "A residents' group in Rostrevor, County Down, is aiming to set up a new community-run service for dying patients with a terminal illness." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "MG Alba, which runs the digital television channel BBC Alba in partnership with BBC Scotland, has received the sum since 2014.\nThe UK government had also provided funding but Chancellor George Osborne did not to renew the deal in November.\nMG Alba's chief Donald Campbell said he was pleased by the continued support from the Scottish government.\nMG Alba was set up to ensure high-quality Gaelic television programmes are available to viewers in Scotland.\nLaunched in September 2008, the channel now reaches on average more than 700,000 viewers per week in Scotland.\nMinister for Scotland's Languages Alasdair Allan said: \"I have no doubt that Gaelic broadcasting adds significant value to important areas of Gaelic development, whether that's in education, in the community or at home.\n\"The impact and benefits of MG Alba are felt across Scotland, and it has an impressive economic impact - this is unique and this funding will enable these areas to increase employment, skills and training.\"\nThe £1m funding for 2016/17 follows a previous investment from the Scottish government of £1m for 2014-16 and is in addition to core funding of £11.8m.\nBBC Alba's output has included comedy Two Days in October and Bannan, which is filmed on Skye, and is the first Gaelic drama to be made since Machair in the 1990s.\nAlong with CBeebies, it also commissioned a television adaption of Mairi Hedderwick's Katie Morag books. The show is filmed on Lewis in the Western Isles.", "summary": "Gaelic broadcaster MG Alba is to receive £1m of funding from the Scottish government." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The review will examine possible risks, such as hacking or fraud, as well as potential impact on cases of intimidation of union members.\nThe review has been welcomed by political parties and unions.\nIt will be led by Sir Ken Knight, former chief fire and rescue adviser for England.\nElectronic voting means people can cast a ballot from a computer or smartphone, rather than having to go to a polling station or other venue to cast their vote.\nA lot of entertainment formats use it, such as reality shows like Big Brother.\nAnd a number of other organisations use it too, including the Conservative Party.\nBut there have been question marks over its security - hence the review.\nThe debate has been rife in recent years when it comes to trade unions balloting their staff on strike action.\nEarlier this year, the new Trade Union Act established that a vote in favour of industrial action requires a turnout of at least 50%, and that key public services need at least 40% of eligible members to back a strike for it to be a legitimate result.\nThe law also stated that these ballots had to be returned by post.\nIf electronic voting is introduced members will be able to vote online, which would be easier and could increase numbers.\nThe review seems to be gathering support from all sides of the political spectrum.\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of the TUC, welcomed the news.\nShe said: \"It is time to bring union balloting into the 21st Century and let members vote securely online.\n\"Allowing union members to vote online should be an uncontroversial move welcomed by anyone who values democracy.\"\nBusiness minister Margot James was less enthusiastic, but also backed the review.\nShe said: \"The Trade Union Act ensures strikes will only ever happen as a result of a clear, positive decision by those entitled to vote.\n\"The Knight review will explore the issues and implications of allowing electronic voting in industrial action ballots and I look forward to reading his findings.\"\nWhile welcoming the review, Labour shadow business minister Jack Dromey said the government had \"dragged its heels\" over looking into electronic voting.\nWhilst politically there is widespread support for electronic voting, it has not always worked in practice.\nFive local authorities in the UK tried pilots of electronic voting back in 2007, but there were issues with security and the transparency of the systems, so they were soon shelved.\nOther countries, including Canada, Norway, Italy, France, Germany and Ireland, have all invested millions into trials, but the risks were deemed too big to continue.\nAmong security experts who have warned of the dangers is Jim Killock, the executive director of the Open Rights Group.\nHe told Computer Weekly: \"The real driver of voter participation is the importance of elections and trust in politicians. You can't solve those problems with technology.\n\"Electronic voting in national elections is an expensive and dangerous irrelevance.\"\nWhile such a move has already been given some thought in Westminster, there remains a long way to go.\nCommons Speaker John Bercow set up the Speaker's Commission on Digital Democracy in 2013, to consider a range of electronic projects - including electronic voting.\nAmong the recommendations in its report last year was a call for secure online voting to be an option for all voters by the general election of 2020.\nThe Electoral Commission has also been looking into \"radical changes\" for the voting system, including going down the electronic route, in recent years.\nIn a speech in 2014, Electoral Commission chairwoman Jenny Watson said: \"We will of course need to consider carefully the balance between the security of the system as opposed to its accessibility. But as technology advances and society develops, this is not an issue that can stay on the slow track any longer.\n\"Whether it is the ability to register to vote on the day of the election or voters being able to use any polling station in their constituency, or the introduction of advance voting, or even more radical options such as e-voting, we plan to look at a variety of options, assessing how they will help citizens engage more effectively.\"\nBut by the time of last year's general election, little progress had been made.\nFurthermore, the way elections are carried out is written in law so any changes would have to be brought before Parliament.", "summary": "Electronic voting could become a reality in industrial action ballots, after the government announced an independent review of the technology." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz said top positions in the Territorial Defence Force had already been decided.\nThe force will have civilian volunteers trained in military skills. It is aimed at countering \"hybrid\" warfare of the kind that led parts of Ukraine to break away and pledge loyalty to Russia.\nNato also plans to reinforce Poland.\nOne Nato battalion will be deployed to Poland and three more to the neighbouring Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The total troop deployment is expected to be about 4,000, on a rotating basis.\nA Nato summit in Warsaw on 8-9 July will finalise the details of that deployment. Several of Nato's 28 member states will send troops to beef up the alliance's presence in the east, near the Russian border.\nRussia's annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea peninsula in March 2014 and the insurgency by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine sent a chill through Nato members who used to be in the Soviet bloc.\nRussia has also deployed Iskander-M nuclear-capable missiles to Kaliningrad, a territory sandwiched between Poland and the Baltic states.\nIn April, Mr Macierewicz said the new Territorial Defence Force was needed because Poland \"is threatened by the actions of our neighbour Russia, which makes no secret of its aggressive intentions and which since 2008 has systematically been undertaking action aimed at destabilising the peaceful order in Europe\".\nOn Thursday he announced a September recruitment drive, at a conference of paramilitary organisations in Ostroda, northern Poland.\nThe idea of resurrecting Poland's territorial defence units gained traction following Russia's annexation of Crimea and its support for rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine.\nWhen Mr Macierewicz signed the document initiating the volunteer defence system in a Warsaw secondary school in April, he said the units would serve to defend against Russian aggression and to promote patriotism.\nHe said Poland was the only Nato member without such a force. Warsaw abandoned its Soviet-era territorial units in 2008.\nVolunteers will undergo about 30 days' military training a year and the first three brigades are scheduled to be operational in eastern Poland by the start of next year, with the remaining 14 in the rest of the country expected to be ready in 2019.\nOne of the first three brigades will defend Poland's border with Kaliningrad. The war in Ukraine triggered discussion about the territorial units in both Poland and the Baltic states, which already have them.\nOne of the main concerns is the threat of a hybrid attack, a combination of conventional and unconventional warfare and cyber warfare.\nThe Baltic region has experienced heightened military tension in recent months, with Nato complaining of aggressive behaviour by Russian air force jets.\nRussian Foreign Ministry department chief Andrei Kelin, quoted by Reuters news agency, said the deployment of four Nato battalions to the region \"would be a very dangerous build-up of armed forces pretty close to our borders\".\nRussia has announced plans to send three new military divisions to areas close to its western and southern borders.\nMilitary sources quoted by Russian media say they are likely to be motorised rifle formations of about 10,000 soldiers each.\nNext week some existing Polish paramilitary units will take part in a Nato defensive military exercise in Poland called Anaconda 2016.", "summary": "Poland says it will start recruiting in September for a new 35,000-strong paramilitary defence force because of tensions with Russia." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ian Paisley was one of 18 MPs to have a stop put on their cards by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa)\nThe North Antrim MP owed a total of £13,833.38 on 29 June, according to the watchdog, but his card was blocked when the bill was at £6,195.94.\nA spokesman for Mr Paisley said it \"was a result of unreconciled invoices\".\n\"The matter has been addressed with Ipsa earlier this week,\" he added.\nThe details were disclosed in response to a freedom of information request by the Press Association.\nIpsa issues MPs with credit cards for to pay for items such as travel, accommodation and stationery.\nThe politicians then have to prove the spending was genuine by the end of each month, or they build up debts to the watchdog.\nSince the beginning of this year, the cards of 18 MPs had been temporarily suspended because they have not settled outstanding sums.\nThe debts are then recouped by not paying out valid claims filed by the politicians.\nA spokesman for Ipsa said it did not discuss individual cases.\nWhen asked if Mr Paisley's card was still suspended the spokesman said: \"For those MPs who owe a large amount of money, the card would normally be suspended until the money owed had been cleared.\"\nHe added that in general for Northern Ireland MPs, the expenses bill would tend to be higher because of the travel costs involved for them and their staff.", "summary": "A DUP MP's official credit card has been temporarily suspended over a £6,000 debt." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is believed the woman was killed by rocks falling from cliffs but the exact details are still unclear.\nAn ambulance service spokesman said they were called to the incident just before 17:30 BST.\nEmergency services are still at the scene which is under the control of South Wales Police.\nA rapid response vehicle and a hazardous area response team were sent to the scene.\nThe Wales Air Ambulance was also called out.\nBBC Wales understands a coastguard rescue team was also brought in to assist.\nA police spokesman said: \"South Wales Police officers are in attendance at an incident at Llantwit Major beach which was reported shortly before 5.30pm this evening.\n\"A woman in her 20s has been declared deceased.\"\nThere are numerous signs along the beach about the danger of falling rocks.\nThe police appealed for witnesses or anyone who was visiting the beach at that time to contact them.", "summary": "A woman in her 20s has died in an incident on Llantwit Major beach in the Vale of Glamorgan, the Welsh Ambulance Service has confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police said that a number of vehicles were trapped about five miles south of Fort William from about 10:10.\nEngineers from Bear Scotland and the Forestry Commission have cleared that blockage but are working to clear other debris from the carriageway.\nThe road is expected to be closed overnight for assessment.\nNo-one was injured but vehicles were unable to get out of the area.\nThe A82 is closed between Fort William and Ballachulish, with diversions in place.\nInsp Donald Campbell said: \"Firstly, I would like to thank the members of the public who were stuck between the blockages for their good spirit and patience whilst we dealt with the incident.\n\"The road is expected to be closed overnight as engineers will be working to assess the area.\"\nA spokesman for BEAR Scotland said \"We are dealing with a variety of flooding related incidents across the north west area of Scotland.\n\"Our main concerns currently relate to the A82 between Fort William and Ballachulish where several flood events have caused the road to be blocked.\n\"These have included trees and debris washed from the forestry areas above the road. We are currently working with the Forestry Commision to remove approximately 30 large trees from the carriageway using specialist plant.\"\nThe Met Office issued an amber \"be prepared\" warning for the Highlands.\nIt said prolonged and heavy rain was forecast during Sunday and Monday.\nIt has also issued yellow \"be aware\" warnings for Strathclyde, Central, Tayside and Fife, where rain and gales are predicted with gusts of up to 70mph possible in exposed areas.\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has put in place 11 flood warnings in the Highlands and Tayside, with further flood alerts throughout the country.\nThe Tay, Skye and Dornoch bridges have been affected by high winds while CalMac ferry services on the west coast have been disrupted or cancelled.\nTransport Scotland is monitoring the situation with Sepa, local authorities and Police Scotland.", "summary": "About 15 cars were stuck for five hours between two landslips on the A82 in the Highlands as heavy rain caused flooding and travel disruption." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Tries from Kotaro Matsushima and Yoshikazu Fujita helped them into an 18-8 half-time lead, with Takudzwa Ngwenya crossing for the US.\nAmanaki Mafi burst through for Japan's third try before Chris Wyles crossed to give the United States hope.\nBut Goromaru's third penalty late in the game gave Japan a clear lead.\nAfter their thrilling opening win against South Africa, Japan went on to add the scalps of Samoa and the US, but their heavy defeat by Scotland left them third in the group, and they miss out on a place in the last eight.\nThe Eagles finish having lost all four of their matches.\nJapan, who left Kingsholm to a standing ovation after a lap of honour, host the competition in four years' time and will go into that tournament buoyed by an excellent World Cup on English soil.\nThey had only ever won one match at a World Cup before, and their three victories in England represent a significant improvement.\nJapan are the first non-tier-one team to win three matches at a single Rugby World Cup.\nFull-back Ayumu Goromaru is the first player to score more than 50 points in a single RWC campaign for Japan. At the end of the pool stage, only Greig Laidlaw (60) has scored more than him in 2015 (58).\nEric Fry became the seventh player to get a yellow card for the USA in a RWC match.\nJapan's win brought to an end a highly-competitive and entertaining pool stage. The quarter-finalists are now known as the 2015 tournament reaches the business end.\nUSA: Chris Wyles; Takudzwa Ngwenya, Seamus Kelly, Thretton Palamo, Zach Test, AJ MacGinty, Mike Petri; Eric Fry, Zach Fenoglio, Titi Lamositele, Hayden Smith, Greg Peterson, Al McFarland, Andrew Durutalo, Samu Manoa.\nReplacements: Phil Thiel Thiel for Fenoglio (63), Cam Dolan for Smith (31), John Quill for Peterson (77).\nJapan: Ayumu Goromaru; Yoshikazu Fujita, Harumichi Tatekawa, Craig Wing, Kotaro Matsushima, Kosei Ono, Fumiaki Tanaka; Keita Inagaki, Shota Horie, Hiroshi Yamashita, Luke Thompson, Justin Ives, Michael Leitch, Michael Broadhurst, Ryu Koliniasi Holani.\nReplacements: Karne Hesketh for H. Ono (73), Masataka Mikami for Inagaki (59), Takeshi Kizu for Horie (77), Kensuke Hatakeyama for Yamashita (41), Shinya Makabe for Ives (68), Hendrik Tui for Broadhurst (73), Lelei Mafi for Holani (41).\nAttendance: 14,578\nReferee: Glen Jackson (New Zealand)\nFor the latest rugby union news, follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "summary": "Japan made unwelcome history as the first team to exit the World Cup having won three matches after they beat the United States." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Delhi's relations with Tehran are multi-faceted and complex. The two countries share centuries-old cultural and linguistic links. In modern times, the relationship is more economic and strategic.\nTehran was the second biggest supplier of crude oil to India until 2011-12. Iran is also strategically located in the Gulf, and it offers an alternative trade route to Afghanistan and to Central Asia.\nIndia is home to the world's second highest Shia population, next only to Iran. Iran's influence over an estimated 45 million Shias in India is regarded as significant. With Iran emerging after international sanctions, it offers great investment opportunities to Indian companies.\nBut the bilateral ties suffered setbacks following international sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear programme. As successive Indian governments moved closer to the US, their Iran policy took a back seat, much to the displeasure of the Iranians.\nIranians were dismayed when India voted against their country at a vote in the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2009. Then India significantly reduced oil imports from Tehran following US pressure.\n\"That was a bitter lesson for the Iranians. They understood that India would not take Iran's side on any dispute and India would not sacrifice its relations with the US and the West for Iran,\" says Fatemeh Aman, an Iran-South Asia affairs analyst based in the US.\nDuring his first two years at office, Mr Modi focused more on India's immediate neighbourhood and Indian Ocean rim countries. Relations with the United States and the west were given a priority.\n\"There is very clear sense in India that he has to engage more with Muslim countries in the region, in the extended neighbourhood. Mr Modi has already been to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and planning to visit Qatar.\n\"The visit to Iran comes as part of the strategy,\" says Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, Senior Fellow for South Asia at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London.\nWhen the international sanctions were in place, India could not pay for the oil it had imported from Iran. It still owes $6.5bn in unpaid dues and Delhi is still finding a way to facilitate the payment.\nWestern banks are still reluctant to do business with Iran when some of the US sanctions are still in place.\nIndia is aware that China is making inroads into Iran to rebuild the economy devastated by the sanctions. The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, visited Iran in January this year to firm up business ties. Beijing is already Iran's largest trading partner.\nProfile: Narendra Modi\nWith the security situation in Afghanistan deteriorating, India is also looking to find various ways to maintain its foothold in the war-torn nation to counter Pakistani influence. With the land route to Afghanistan through Pakistan unavailable, it's looking at Iran to trade with Afghanistan.\nIndia is investing more than $150m to develop Chabahar port in south-eastern Iran. It hopes the port will give a transit route to Afghanistan.\nIn the future, it also wants to bring gas from Central Asia and then transport it to India. The project will also give sea access to Afghanistan.\n\"From India's perspective, Chabahar port is a gateway to Afghanistan. From Chabahar there is a road which goes all the way to Afghanistan and it will link up with a road which India has already built inside Afghanistan. In a way, India is ensuring that there could be no exit strategy from Afghanistan,\" says Mr Roy-Chaudhury.\nMr Modi plans to visit Kabul in June and he is expected to sign a trilateral trade agreement with Iran and Afghanistan for Chabahar port.\nDuring his meeting with the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, Mr Modi would want to assure that India is keen to establish deeper and long-standing ties.\nBut Iranians may be a bit wary given their past experience.", "summary": "When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Tehran this weekend, he will find out whether it's the beginning of a new era in bilateral ties - or a missed opportunity." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They said they should instead be helped to integrate back into society.\nBolivia's prison service said shutting down San Pedro prison in La Paz would put an end to \"cocaine trafficking and other abuses\" carried out by prisoners.\nThe decision follows allegations that a 12-year-old girl became pregnant inside the jail after being repeatedly raped by her imprisoned father and other men.\nBut a spokesman for the prisoners, Ever Quilche, denied the rape and said the girl was \"fine\".\n\"There is no proof that the girl was raped, mistreated or touched,\" he told the BBC.\n\"We are waiting for medical tests so that we can deny the allegation.\"\nThe girl, who ha been taken into care, was among several hundred children with no alternative but to live in the San Pedro jail while their relatives serve their sentences.\nThe minors share living space with violent criminals including murderers, rapists, gang members and drug dealers.\n\"We have been abandoned and we don't know what to do if the jail closes,\" Mr Quilche complained.\n\"We need jobs and education so that we can be reintegrated into society.\"\nBut the head of the prison service, Ramiro Llanos, said the alleged rape was \"the straw that broke the camel's back\".\n\"We have had enough of abuses being committed inside the jail,\" he told the BBC.\n\"We cannot control the police. They have orders to stop drugs and alcohol from entering the prison, but to no avail.\n\"So we will close down the prison altogether.\"\nMr Llanos explained that no more criminals will be imprisoned there from 18 July, and those already inside will be relocated or released in the next few years.\nOriginally intended to house around 600 inmates, San Pedro prison now has more than 2,400 prisoners.\nCorrespondents say the operation of the jail, in central La Paz, has been the subject of constant criticism for its poor infrastructure and overcrowding.", "summary": "Inmates at Bolivia's biggest prison have said they are protesting against government plans to close the jail." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Justinas Gubinas, 23, and Nerijus Radavicius, 30, were both jailed for four-and-a half years last year.\nCo-accused Ovidijus Kavaliauskas was found guilty of raping the woman while she was asleep.\nGubinas and Radavicius appealed, claiming the jury had been misdirected about how they could approach the video images taken on phones.\nThe offences took place in a farmhouse in 2014 where the three men were staying at the time.\nThe woman had agreed to go back to their house.\nAll three denied rape and claimed that the woman had consented to sex with them.\nAn element of the legal challenge was referred to a bench of five judges, including Scotland's two most senior judicial figures, the Lord Justice General and the Lord Justice Clerk.\nThey maintained that the trial judge, Lord Armstrong, had misdirected the jury on the way in which they could approach the video images taken on their phones.\nThe judge had told the jury to form a judgement about what the footage shown at the trial revealed and to form their own conclusions about what it depicted.\nDefence lawyers argued that it was wrong to tell jurors that they could form their own view of what the images demonstrated.\nThe footage showed the woman in an intoxicated state and at one point in the accompanying audio recording she could be heard saying \"no\".\nLord Carloway, who heard the appeal with Lady Dorrian, Lord Menzies, Lord Brodie and Lord Turnbull, said: \"Once before the fact finder, the recording's content is available as proof of fact.\n\"The fact finder is free to make such inferences from the audio or video components as would be open to any judge or jury hearing oral testimony descriptive of the same events. This does not convert the fact finder into a witness.\"\nThe senior judge said that once the provenance of images was established it became real evidence which a jury could use to establish fact, irrespective of concurring or conflicting testimony.\n\"Even if all the witnesses say that the deceased was stabbed in the conservatory, if CCTV images show that he was shot in the library, then so be it,\" he said.\nLord Carloway said the judges had paid particular attention to the sound reasoning of a Canadian Supreme Court decision which he said represented \"an enlightened and sensible approach to video or audio recordings\".\nIn the Canadian case a judge said: \"So long as the videotape is of good quality and gives a clear picture of events and the perpetrator, it may provide the best evidence of the identity of the perpetrator.\"\nLord Carloway said the trial judge's directions to the jury were generally correct.\n\"The direction to the jury to form a judgement about what the images showed, just as if they would form a judgement about eye witness descriptions of what happened, was correct,\" he said.\n\"The statement that the jury could draw their own conclusions about what the images depicted was also correct.\"", "summary": "Two rapists who filmed their attack on a woman in Fraserburgh have lost their appeal against conviction." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "One of the lorries shed its load of spuds in the crash near Knutsford and police said it took three hours to clear the road.\n\"They filled the carriageway,\" said bee farmer Henry Baxendale, whose farm is close by. \"I didn't see any injuries but there were a few bruised potatoes.\"\nA police spokeswoman said: \"One man tried to sweep them up but he failed.\"\nPolice and others chipped in to clear the crop that had blocked Chester Road near The Smoker Inn pub shortly after 10:00 BST.", "summary": "A potato spillage blocked roads after a smash involving two lorries in Cheshire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sri Lanka were bowled out early in the morning for 205, with seamer Vernon Philander finishing with 5-45.\nCook put on century partnerships with Dean Elgar (52) and Hashim Amla (48) as Sri Lanka's bowlers struggled.\nQuinton de Kock and Faf du Plessis hit 42 and 41 not out respectively as South Africa closed with a 432-run lead.\nCook and Elgar began South Africa's reply in positive fashion before a lightning storm delayed play for 90 minutes. They put on 116 before Elgar top-edged a delivery to Angelo Matthew at mid-on.\nAmla's knock lasted 53 deliveries before he became the 10,000th player in Test history to be dismissed lbw when he was trapped in front by Nuwan Pradeep.", "summary": "South Africa opener Stephen Cook scored a career-best 117 as the home side dominated Sri Lanka to reach 351-5 on the third day in Port Elizabeth." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cleansing worker Paul Donohoe, 54, told the High Court in Glasgow that his colleague called an ambulance for 76-year-old John Baker.\nHe said the injured man had called out: \"I've got a bad heart, I can't breathe right\", before passing out.\nPeter Telfer, 25, denies murdering Mr Baker in the Calton area on 29 June 2016.\nMr Telfer is also accused of assaulting and attempting to rob shop worker Owaisuddin Siddique and carrying a knife on 24 June.\nHe also faces a string of charges including behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at various streets in Glasgow city centre and assaulting and robbing two women of their handbags on 28 June.\nMr Telfer allegedly attempted to defeat the ends of justice, and has also been charged with possessing cannabis.\nGiving evidence at the trial, Mr Donohoe described how he and his two colleagues were told by John Baker \"I've been stabbed\".\nA recording of the 999 call made by his colleague Alan Miller was played to jurors.\nOne of the workmen can be heard on a recording to the emergency services saying there was \"blood coming from his mouth\" and \"I can't feel a pulse\".\nA voice in the background could be heard saying there were two wounds on Mr Baker's back and he was having \"trouble breathing\".\nThe trial before judge Lord Matthews continues.", "summary": "A dying man flagged down a refuse truck for help after being attacked in a Glasgow street, a court has heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Indian-owed manufacturer will replace the outgoing Trulli team for the 2016-17 season.\nFormula E is currently in its second year, with Nelson Piquet Jr having won the inaugural 2014-15 championship.\nJaguar have not been involved in top-level motorsport since leaving Formula 1 at the end of 2004.\nThey are joined by Williams Advanced Racing as official technical partners, part of the group which includes the Williams Formula 1 team.\n\"Electric vehicles will absolutely play a role in Jaguar Land Rover's future product portfolio and Formula E will give us a unique opportunity to further our development of electrification technologies,\" said Nick Rogers, JLR's Group engineering director.\nIndian conglomerate Tata bought the British-based Jaguar and Land Rover brands in 2008 from Ford, who had previously raced the Jaguar brand in F1 from 2000 to 2004.\nAfter a failing to win a race, the team was sold to Red Bull, who went on to win four Formula 1 constructors' and drivers' championships in successive years.", "summary": "Jaguar will return to motorsport in 2016 after 12 years away when they enter a team in electric racing series Formula E." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Minstermen, who have a game in hand on 20th-placed Torquay, recorded a third victory in five games thanks to goals from Simon Heslop, Vadaine Oliver and Jon Parkin.\nHeslop gave the visitors a seventh-minute lead when he fired a 25-yard drive past former York goalkeeper Scott Flinders.\nAnd Oliver made it 2-0 eight minutes later, slotting past Flinders from close range.\nMacclesfield pulled a goal back from the penalty spot in the 58th minute when Dan Parslow's handball allowed Danny Whitaker to stroke home.\nBut Parkin made sure of an away win with eight minutes left when he forced the ball home following a Sam Muggleton long throw.\nMatch report supplied by the Press Association.", "summary": "York moved within four points of escaping the National League relegation zone with a win at Macclesfield." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Four police officers entered the home in Des Plaines, Illinois, on Thursday after someone called emergency services asking for help.\nInside the suburban house, they found two men dead and a woman seriously ill.\nBut after a few minutes inside, the officers fell ill, complaining of breathing problems.\nOfficials cordoned off the home and sent in teams in protective Hazmat suits to test the air and water inside the home, but could not determine the cause.\n\"They didn't find anything in particular, but they were able to rule out anything that was bad,\" Rick Dobrowski, chief of North Maine Fire Protection District, told Chicago TV station WMAQ.\n\"They were also able to test the water that they found to make sure there was nothing mixed, chemical wise.\"\nPolice later named the victims as Hong K Kim, 53, and John Tae Kim, 83.\nThe woman is in a critical condition at a local hospital. The officers were treated and released.", "summary": "Investigators are trying to determine what killed two people and made five others sick, including four police officers, inside a home near Chicago." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They collapsed for a second time against Liam Norwell (3-14) having ended the first innings 24 runs behind.\nAneurin Donald's 39 was the top score in Glamorgan's first-innings 117, with David Payne claiming 3-37.\nGloucestershire struggled to 141, with three apiece for Marchant de Lange, Timm van der Gugten and Michael Hogan.\nThe pitch showed inconsistent bounce, with several wickets falling to deliveries from the Chapel end which kept low, while most batsmen struggled to time the ball.\nBut it could not account for the extent of the seamers' complete dominance all day, with eight wickets in the first session, nine in the second and eight in the third.\nKieran Noema-Barnett (34) played a key role in getting Gloucestershire into the lead and also claimed important wickets in both innings to leave the home side favourites for a two-day victory.\nGloucestershire coach Richard Dawson told BBC Radio Bristol:\n\"We've just chatted about the pitch and we're not putting any blame on that, that's not the question mark.\n\"We know it's a fast-moving game at Cheltenham and we've chatted about whether (in our innings) we played what happened in the first (Glamorgan) innings, rather than what was in front of us.\n\"But we come back in a position where the last hour of bowling has helped us out, and the lead that Kieran (Noema-Barnett), Craig (Miles) and David Payne got us has helped as well.\"\nGlamorgan bowler Timm van der Gugten told BBC Wales Sport:\n\"it was an interesting day, I don't think I've been involved in one quite like that before, but wickets seemed to fall consistently and it didn't seem to stop.\n\"It was one of those wickets where you didn't feel you were ever in, hopefully we can put on a bit of a partnership with Salts (Andrew Salter) and I, and get a bit of a lead., then we've still got some recognised batters in Chris Cooke and Graham Wagg.\n\"It's actually a nice-looking wicket, it's a strange one where one might nip back or bounce a bit more, or stay a little low, it's got a bit of everything in it.\"", "summary": "Glamorgan finished an extraordinary day one on 59-5 in their second innings, 35 runs ahead of Gloucestershire, after 25 wickets crashed at Cheltenham." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "2 March 2016 Last updated at 13:36 GMT\nPoint its app at a Coke can, for instance, and it may play you a tune from Spotify.\nThe software does this by recognising objects and then superimposing information or triggering an action.\nThe firm's founder Ambarish Mitra gave the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones a demo.", "summary": "Augmented reality app-maker Blippar has found a lucrative use for augmented reality by offering leading brands new ways to connect with consumers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 28-year-old has agreed a long-term contract with the Gunners after ending an 18-month spell at St James' Park.\nDebuchy has 25 international caps for France and represented his country at this summer's World Cup in Brazil.\n\"He is a quality defender who has good Premier League experience and I'm confident he will fit in very well with us,\" said Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger.\n\"He has shown he can perform at the highest level with his club sides and also for France.\"\nDebuchy, who made 46 appearances for Newcastle after joining in 2013 from French club Lille, with whom he spent the first nine years of his career, said: \"I'm very proud to be joining a great club like Arsenal and to wear its colours, it's one of the biggest clubs in the whole world.\n\"I'm looking forward to working with Arsene Wenger and to helping the team build on last season's FA Cup success.\n\"Playing again in the Champions League is a big excitement for me and I will do my best to help Arsenal compete for trophies.\"\nThe defender made 233 appearances for Lille, helping them to a league and cup double in 2010/11.", "summary": "Arsenal have completed the signing of right-back Mathieu Debuchy from Newcastle for an undisclosed fee." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Inspectors found problems with the way Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham runs its heart unit after a high death rates compared with other hopsitals.\nThe trust ignored repeated warnings over high death rates, the report said.\nThe trust said patient safety remained its \"number one priority\".\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has now been ordered to make improvements and send weekly surgery results to the Care Quality Commission (CQC).\nRead more news for Birmingham\nThe report said the trust has only recently started a quality improvement programme (QIP), despite concerns being identified in 2013 and consultants approaching the executive team in 2014 with concerns around patient deaths and outcomes.\nThe trust was also informed that its death rates were outside the national average in March last year.\nEngland's chief inspector of hospitals, Prof Sir Mike Richards, said: \"Initial data regarding surgery outcomes in the months since our inspection show an improvement but we need to continue to monitor the service.\"\nData from the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgeons showed the cardiac surgical unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital had an above average death rate over the three years from April 2011 to March 2014.\nA spokeswoman for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said on Tuesday: \"None of the cardiac surgeons currently working at UHB are outliers for mortality outcomes and we are confident they will continue to offer the highest standards of care and expertise in delivering their service.\n\"The trust established a QIP for the cardiac surgery service in July 2015, which is ongoing and subject to external review.\n\"At the time of the CQC inspection in December 2015, the QIP had already improved outcomes and internal issues within the service.\n\"The subsequent report has added awareness and pace to what is considered a valuable exercise to enhance both staff and, more importantly, patient benefit.\"", "summary": "A culture of bullying prevented staff at an NHS trust from speaking out about the number of heart surgery patients who were dying, a report has found." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 22-year-old will join the club on 1 July after agreeing a three-year deal.\nHolt was part of the Doonhamers team that finished fourth in the Scottish Championship and lost out to Rangers in the play-offs, making 41 appearances throughout the season.\nHe becomes the fifth player to sign with Paul Hartley's men ahead of next season, joining Kane Hemmings, Nicky Low, Rory Low and Daryll Meggatt.", "summary": "Dundee have signed Queen of the South left-back Kevin Holt on a pre-contract." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Reid, who has not played since September 2014 when Stuart Pearce was manager, will be part of Paul Williams' backroom staff until the end of the season.\nThe 30-year-old said: \"I've been asked to help out in any way I can.\n\"I would urge people to get behind the chairman, the manager and the team and see where that takes us.\"\nFreedman was sacked on Sunday night following a run of five Championship defeats in six games that leaves the Reds nine points above the relegation zone.\nThe Scot was the seventh manager used by chairman Fawaz Al Hasawi in his 44 months at the club. Paul Williams, who has taken over until the end of the season, is the eighth.\nLong-serving midfielder Chris Cohen added: \"We haven't been good enough and we feel that we've let Dougie down. We've apologised to Fawaz for that.\n\"The way we've been playing and the run we've been on is down to the players.\"", "summary": "Nottingham Forest midfielder Andy Reid has joined the club's coaching staff following Dougie Freedman's departure." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The BCC said Mr Longworth had accepted his support for leaving the EU was \"likely to create confusion\".\nHe revealed his support for \"Brexit\" at the BCC annual conference on Thursday.\nThe BCC said Mr Longworth had breached the group's official position of neutrality on the referendum.\nAt the conference, Mr Longworth said the EU referendum was a choice between the \"devil and the deep blue sea\".\nHe added that voters faced \"undoubtedly a tough choice\".\nOne option was staying in an \"essentially unreformed EU\", with the other being the uncertainty of leaving.\nHe later said his comments had been made in a personal capacity.\nHis remarks and his subsequent suspension prompted a political outcry, with London mayor Boris Johnson and former defence secretary Liam Fox, both prominent campaigners for the UK to leave the EU, weighing in on his behalf.\nMr Johnson called Mr Longworth's treatment \"scandalous\", while Mr Fox said ministers should clarify \"if they were involved in any way in putting pressure on\" the BCC to suspend Mr Longworth.\nDowning Street denied any pressure was put on the BBC to suspend its director general.", "summary": "The head of the British Chambers of Commerce, John Longworth, has resigned after being suspended for saying the UK's long-term prospects could be \"brighter\" outside the EU." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It comes after unconfirmed reports they found a baby's remains in a bag at a building at the Stobhill site.\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it could not comment on the alleged discovery at the secure facility which is used to store medical \"artefacts\".\nThe teenagers, who are aged 13 and 14 years old, have been reported to the Children's Reporter.\nA video appearing to show the discovery has been posted online.\nA statement from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: \"A locked building within the Stobhill Hospital site was broken into at the weekend. The secured facility is used to store artefacts, all of which comply with relevant legislation.\n\"The matter is subject to an ongoing criminal investigation.\"\nThe building involved is a storage facility and is part of the old Stobhill Hospital which sits on the same site as the newer facility.\nPolice Scotland confirmed six teenagers had been arrested for alleged theft by housebreaking.\nThree 13-year-olds and three 14-year-olds were detained on 17 and 18 August.", "summary": "Six teenagers have been arrested in connection with an alleged break-in at a Glasgow hospital." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Yn ystod dadl yn Neuadd San Steffan ar ddyfodol darparwyr newyddion lleol, fe wnaeth Liz Saville Roberts godi pryderon bod toriadau i bapurau bro yn peryglu'r traddodiad o gael gwasg ddwyieithog yng Nghymru.\nDaw wrth i'r unig bapur newydd Cymraeg cenedlaethol, Y Cymro, gyhoeddi ei fod yn chwilio am rywun i'w brynu.\nGalwodd Ms Saville Roberts, a weithiodd fel newyddiadurwr i bapur y Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald, am fwy o rôl i Lywodraeth Cymru i gefnogi newyddion lleol.\n\"Rwy'n credu ei bod yn ddyletswydd ar Lywodraeth y DU i gynnal ymchwiliad i ddyfodol y cyfryngau print yng Nghymru, er mwyn asesu lefelau presennol o ddosbarthu a chyflwr cyhoeddiadau cyfredol,\" meddai.\n\"Ni allwn adael i'n cyhoeddiadau gau i lawr gan wneud dim am y gwagle difrifol a adewir ar ôl yn ein cymunedau.\"\nYn ei hapêl i weinidogion, fe aeth AS Dwyfor Meirionnydd ymlaen i restru'r holl bapurau bro yn ei hetholaeth, gan ymddiheuro i'r gwasanaeth sy'n cofnodi popeth sy'n cael ei ddweud yn nhrafodaethau San Steffan, Hansard, am yr enwau anghyfarwydd Cymraeg.", "summary": "Mae AS Plaid Cymru wedi galw ar Lywodraeth y DU i gynnal ymchwiliad ar ddyfodol cyfryngau print yng Nghymru." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Iman Zainab Javed was killed when a lorry collided with two cars on the M61 near Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, at about 22:30 GMT on 23 January.\nHer family said she had had a \"special bond\" with her cousin, who she helped out of the wreckage before she died.\nPolice said the 11-year-old's father, who was driving, remains \"critical\".\nIman, of Rochdale, was in the back of a VW Sharan heading southbound that collided with a Renault Clio before a lorry struck both cars.\nThree other people suffered less serious injuries in the crash.\nHer family said she was \" beautiful, caring, fun-loving, inquisitive and sometimes cheeky young girl\", who \"could play patiently for hours with her younger cousins but could also tell you the impact Brexit had on the pound\".\n\"Iman had a particularly special bond with her three-year-old cousin, Aaima Vasim, who suffers from a serious heart condition,\" they said.\n\"Iman's last act in this world was to help Aaima out of the vehicle to safety.\"\nLinda Cotton, Iman's head teacher at Norden Community Primary School, said her death had been a \"tremendous shock\".\n\"Iman was a first class student and such a bright, intelligent girl,\" she said.", "summary": "A young girl who died in a motorway crash used her \"last act in this world\" to help save the life of her three-year-old cousin, her family have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Writing in the Telegraph, the peer insisted the UK could succeed economically outside of the EU.\nAnd he argued that a vote to leave would give Britain control of its immigration, and boost democracy and accountability.\nVoters in the UK will decide on 23 June whether to remain or leave the EU.\nThe government is campaigning for the UK to stay in a reformed EU, saying it will be stronger and safer by being a member of the bloc.\nLord Lamont, who was chancellor of the exchequer between 1990 and 1993, said reaching his decision had been \"extremely painful... not least because of the prime minister\", who used to work for him as a political adviser.\n\"But I have nonetheless come to the view that in this once-in-a-generation opportunity Britain,\" Lord Lamont wrote in the Telegraph.\nHe said Mr Cameron \"probably got as good a deal from the EU as anyone could\" in his renegotiation of Britain's terms of membership of the bloc.\nBut he warned that \"whatever barriers Britain erects against integration, the EU will always push for ways around them\" - saying it had \"repeatedly demonstrated contempt for democracy\".\n\"Voting to remain in will not be voting for things to remain the same. The EU will continue to integrate come what may,\" he said.\nLord Lamont dismissed claims made by the Remain campaign that withdrawing from the EU would harm British trade and access to the EU single market.\n\"What is forgotten is that the EU needs an agreement just as much as we do,\" he said, adding: \"Britain would have its own arrangement suited to our circumstances.\"\nHe also said Britain had \"lost control of its borders\", arguing that there was \"no economic case\" for \"immigration in the hundreds of thousands\".\nThe Conservative Party is deeply spit over the EU referendum, with about half of its MPs supporting an EU exit - against the PM's recommendation.\nFive cabinet members, including Work and Pension Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, are backing the Vote Leave campaign group, as is London mayor Boris Johnson.", "summary": "Former Conservative Chancellor Norman Lamont has come out in favour of an EU exit, saying the upcoming referendum is a \"once-in-a-generation opportunity\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "There were 194 made against Betsi Cadwaladr in 2016-2017- the second highest health board had 107.\nOmbudsman Nick Bennett highlighted three of these incidents, all involving Glan Clwyd Hospital, Denbighshire.\nA Betsi Cadwaladr spokeswoman said it takes all complaints seriously and they help it find ways to improve services.\nThere were 702 cases closed across Wales in 2016-17, with 194 complaints involving Betsi Cadwaladr, 107 from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg, 102 from Hywel Dda and 93 from Cardiff and Vale.\n\"I am concerned about both the volume and outcome of complaints against Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board over the past 12 months,\" Mr Bennett said.\nHe issued five health public interest reports about serious cases over the course of the year and three involved Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire.\nIn the first, Mr Bennett said Betsi Cadwaladr should pay £20,000 to the wife of a hospital patient who did not see a consultant for 12 hours and later died.\nAnother related to \"fundamental clinical shortcomings\" when a bowel cancer patient died after being admitted for surgery.\nThe third was about a patient with a potentially life-threatening cancer who waited four months for his first treatment after a \"disturbing lack of urgency\".\nRedress payments to people who complained in the Betsi Cadwaladr area between April 2016 and March 2017 amounted to £61,999 in a Wales-wide total of £115,430.\n\"While public services are facing unprecedented pressures, it is essential that lessons are learnt when things do go wrong,\" Mr Bennett added.\n\"We have assigned an improvement officer to work alongside the health board and hope to see better complaint handling and learning as a result of that.\"\nA Welsh Government spokesman said this was a matter for the health board, but \"we value feedback and encourage concerns to be raised as soon as possible so they can be dealt with quickly and easily so services can continuously learn and improve\".\nClwyd West AM Darren Millar said the complaints were a \"cause for concern\" given that the health board is in special measures.\n\"Complaints are a warning sign that all is not well and I know from my own constituency casework that Betsi takes far too long to resolve problems and seems to make the same mistakes over and over again.\"\nHe added: \"The Welsh Government must ensure that the NHS in north Wales learns from things that go wrong and gets on top of this issue\".\nRepresentatives of the board are also due to attend a health complaint handling seminar organised by the ombudsman next month.\nGill Harris, executive director of nursing and midwifery, said: \"Complaints provide us with an opportunity to look closely at the care we offer, and learn from the experience of our service users. We welcome and encourage people to use our concerns process so that we can investigate and provide the best care possible in the future.\n\"Complaints is a key area for improvement under special measures and we are carrying out a significant programme of work to ensure our complaints procedures are as responsive and effective as possible.\n\"This will include the introduction of a new Patient Advice and Support Service this summer to ensure we can respond to concerns in real time.\"", "summary": "The number of complaints made against one health board and how these were dealt with is concerning, the public services ombudsman has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She had tweeted: \"Life expectancy in Scotland based 07/08 birth is 59.5. Goodness me. That lot will do anything to avoid working until retirement.\"\nThousands of people signed a petition calling for her to be banned from TV, and protest Facebook pages were set up.\nMs Hopkins apologised and said it had been \"bad timing\".\nIn a later tweet, she said her comments had referred to a government article on health.\nThe Clutha pub had been packed with more than 100 people when a police helicopter crashed into it at 22:25 on Friday, killing nine people.", "summary": "The Apprentice star and Sun columnist Katie Hopkins has apologised after making a joke about Scots just hours after the Glasgow helicopter crash." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Two F-16s intercepted Myrtle Rose's aircraft as she took to the skies over the suburbs of Chicago city on Wednesday afternoon.\nThe widow told US media she thought the warplanes were just admiring her plane.\nThe agency which oversees air safety in America said it was investigating.\nBecause of President Barack Obama's visit to Chicago on Wednesday to attend a fundraiser marking his 50th birthday, restrictions were in place forbidding private pilots to come within 30 miles (48km) of the city's O'Hare Airport.\nMs Rose told the Associated Press news agency that before flying her Piper J-3 Cub aircraft she normally checks for any airspace restrictions on her computer, but it was not working properly that day.\n\"I hadn't flown in over a week,\" Ms Rose told AP. \"It was a beautiful afternoon.\"\nShe also said she did not have her radio on. Jets were scrambled from Toledo, Ohio, when air traffic controllers were unable to contact her.\nAsked what she thought when the F-16s appeared, Ms Rose told AP: \"I thought, 'Oh, well, they're just looking at how cute the Cub is.'\"\nWhen Ms Rose landed on an airstrip on the outskirts of Chicago, police were waiting.\nThe North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), which scrambled the two warplanes, said there was no excuse for not knowing about the airspace restrictions.\n\"The biggest thing to keep in mind is that when F-16s come screaming up to you, they are probably trying to tell you something,\" said Norad spokeswoman Stacey Knott.\nMs Rose said she had filled in a report with the Federal Aviation Administration, which said she could face a fine, a pilot's licence suspension, or no action at all.", "summary": "A 75-year-old aviation enthusiast whose plane strayed into restricted airspace during a presidential visit, prompting fighter jets to be scrambled, has brushed off the incident." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The decision is part of new measures to accelerate house building in line with a commitment to build 50,000 affordable homes over the next five years.\nA £50m grant and loan fund has also been set up to help with issues such as financing, infrastructure and planning.\nThe move has been criticised by the body which represents local authorities, Cosla.\nIt would mean the Scottish government could over-rule decisions made by local councils to reject larger housing schemes.\nA Cosla spokesman said: \"We need to re-boot our planning system not 'call in more applications'\".\n\"We must restore public confidence in getting involved in planning, not continue a pattern of repositioning control nationally on the flawed premise of efficiency whilst in fact further diluting local democracy.\"\nHe added: \"Whilst we welcome investment to address housing supply, local assessments tend to suggest the need for smaller more affordable homes, which reflect the needs of much of our communities.\n\"But maybe not the outcomes desired of the higher volume, larger capacity national house builders.\"\nResponding to Cosla's concerns, a Scottish government spokesman said: \"The outcome of the recalled appeals will be determined on a case by case basis; for each appeal, the reporter will make recommendations to Scottish ministers, and Scottish ministers may either accept or reject the reporter's recommendation, and they may either uphold or dismiss the appeal.\n\"So far only a handful of appeals have been recalled and overall ministerial involvement in planning cases will continue to be a very small proportion of the tens of thousands of cases dealt with by local authorities each year.\"\nThe Scottish government has committed to delivering least 50,000 affordable homes over the next five years. Of those, 70% are to be for social rent.\nBoth grants and loans will also be given to help progress development at key housing sites.\nIt is hoped the money will speed up the rate at which private and affordable homes are being built. The Scottish government is also looking at ways of funding more mid-market rent developments.\nSocial Justice Secretary Alex Neil said: \"The £50m infrastructure fund will help unblock sites that are strategically important to councils and that have the potential to accelerate the delivery of thousands of new homes across the country.\n\"To make that happen we will team up with public and private sector bodies to tackle complex development, financing, infrastructure and planning issues impeding housing supply.\nHe added: \"We will also explore more innovative financing to build more homes for mid-market rent.\n\"We have listened to our partners and are putting in place measures to support the increase in the supply of homes across all tenures, support jobs in the construction industry, and encourage inclusive growth in the wider economy.\"\nTom Barclay, co-chair of the Joint Housing Policy delivery group, said: \"This announcement is one of a series of actions that is signalling a step change in Scotland to prioritise the building of new homes. \"", "summary": "Planning appeals for housing developments of more than 100 units are to be called in by Scottish ministers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 2012 X Factor winner James Arthur headlined the festival at the town's Dock Park.\nOther acts involved included Cascada and Bella and the Bear.\nPolice asked the public to plan how they were getting to and from the festival due to the number of people expected to attend the event.", "summary": "About 12,000 fans have attended the Youth Beatz event in Dumfries, billed as Scotland's biggest free music festival." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 25-year-old joined the Elland Road side in January last year from Major League Soccer team Columbus Crew after a trial.\nHaving only started one game for United since his arrival he was put on the transfer list.\nHe recently returned from a loan spell at Stevenage, where he made nine appearances for the League One club.", "summary": "Leeds United have released United States international forward Robbie Rogers by mutual consent." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Emergency services were called to the four-storey block in Brougham Place at about 06:50 on Saturday.\nThe fire service said a blaze in the stairwell had caused \"heavy smoke logging\" and trapped people in upper-level flats.\nThey were rescued from second and third-floor properties using a turntable ladder and given oxygen.\nThe six were then treated by paramedics who took them to hospital for further treatment.", "summary": "Six people have been treated for smoke inhalation after a fire at a tenement in Edinburgh." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "8 April 2016 Last updated at 20:56 BST\nThe gardens were closed because of the subsidence and cracks have appeared in the disused hotel next door.\nThe BBC has been told the hole, which is 10ft (3m) in diameter, could be 20ft (6m) deep.\nIt is close to the spot on Earlham Road where a double decker bus sank into a hole in the road in 1988.\nThe Earlham Road area is built over a number of chalk quarries and tunnels.", "summary": "A hole in the ground has opened up near the Plantation Gardens on Earlham Road in Norwich." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A firearm and ammunition, subject to ballistic examination, were seized after police stopped and searched two cars at Kyletaun, Rathkeale, on Saturday morning.\nPolice said the three men who were arrested were aged in their mid 20s to late 30s.\nThey are being held at Henry Street Garda Station in Limerick.", "summary": "Three men have been arrested in County Limerick as part of an investigation into dissident republican activity." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nShe returns to action this week for the first time since last summer's Games where she became the first woman to win an Olympic boxing gold medal.\nAdams, 30, said: \"I'm always getting tweets from girls saying they've taken up boxing because they've seen me win.\"\nThe Leeds flyweight competes at the European Union Championships in Hungary, which start on Monday.\nPeople's perceptions of women's boxing have changed. The fact that [women's boxing] was on the telly, everyone could see it and the skill involved, and the determination of Nicola and the rest of the team\nDefending champion Adams, Lisa Whiteside, Natasha Jonas and Savannah Marshall will represent GB Boxing in the event.\nMany voiced disapproval at the prospect of women getting into an Olympic boxing ring when the decision to include the sport was made in 2009, but the heroic scenes of Adams winning gold has changed many opinions.\nSport England figures show that before last summer's Games, where women's boxing was included for the first time, there were 19,600 females boxing once a week, compared with 35,100 now - an increase of 79%.\nWomen's boxing is one of only a handful of sports that have enjoyed participation increases after the Games, according to the latest results from Sport England's Active Peoples Survey.\nJonas told BBC Sport: \"People's perceptions of women's boxing have changed. The fact that women's boxing was on the telly, everyone could see it and the skill involved, and the determination of Nicola and the rest of the team - people were looking at it like 'yeah, I want to do that'.\n\"We've got a lot more younger females participating in the sport and just having a go at the training. That's what the Olympics were all about.\"\nThe International Olympic Committee decided in 2009 to allow women's boxing to join the Olympic schedule following a systematic review of their sports programme.\nThe participation rise bodes well for GB Boxing heading towards the 2016 Olympics, as Britain will want to build on their five-medal success in London.\nAs defending champion and boosted by her Olympic success, Adams is the boxer to beat in Hungary.\n\"I know everybody's coming for my spot - everybody wants to knock me off my perch so it's made me train harder,\" Adams said.\nShe is part of a strong British team that also includes world middleweight champion Marshall, Jonas and newcomer Whiteside.\n\"We've got the best boxers out there,\" says GB Boxing coach Bob Dillon.\n\"I can remember coaching the guys like [Olympic silver medallist] Amir Khan and we would turn up for tournaments and we wouldn't even be acknowledged.\n\"Now we're turning up with these ladies and people are looking at us to see who we've brought.\"", "summary": "Britain's Olympic champion Nicola Adams says attitudes towards women's boxing have changed since London 2012." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Gillian Phillips, 54, and David Oakes, 60, had more than 40 stab wounds each when police found them at her home in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, in 2015.\nChelmsford Crown Court heard Brett Rogers was jailed in 2012 for breaking his father's eye socket.\nThe 23-year-old, who received a life term, had denied two counts of murder.\nRead more on this story and other news from Essex\nJurors heard Rogers was found at his mother's home in Bentfield Gardens after the attacks laughing and covered in blood.\nMrs Phillips had been stabbed at least 41 times in the head, neck and torso. Mr Oakes suffered 56 wounds to his head, face and neck and died of severe head injuries.\nJudge Philippa Whipple said it was a \"brutal and sustained attack\".\nShe said: \"One image that will stay in the mind of anyone involved in this case is that of the reconstruction of your mother's face showing the stamp injury attributed to your shoe on her left cheek.\n\"You are a man who attacked the people who loved you the most.\n\"Look at what you have done to them.\n\"By your actions you have ruined your family's life and you have ruined your life.\"\nA forensic scientist told the court seven knives found at the scene had been examined, many of them with Rogers' DNA on the handles, along with that of Mrs Phillips and Mr Oakes.\nRogers claimed the pair were attacked by a mystery stranger while he went out to the supermarket for five minutes.\nMr Oakes, 60, had recently undergone treatment for cancer. He was stamped on while he was on the ground and had cuts on his hands and knuckles where he had tried to defend himself. He died the next day.\nRogers was given a 32-year minimum term. If ever released, he will be on licence for the rest of his life.\nThe court heard he was on licence at the time of the killings, after leaving his father with a broken eye socket in 2012.", "summary": "A man has been jailed for at least 32 years for stabbing his mother and her friend to death while he was on licence after attacking his father." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "His family said he had been admitted to the Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego last week, but had failed to recover fully from surgery.\nShankar gained widespread international recognition through his association with The Beatles.\nIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described him as a \"national treasure and global ambassador of India's cultural heritage\".\nIn a statement quoted by Reuters, Shankar's wife Sukanya and daughter Anoushka said he had recently undergone surgery which would have \"potentially given him a new lease of life\".\n\"Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of the surgeons and doctors taking care of him, his body was not able to withstand the strain of the surgery,\" they said.\n\"We were at his side when he passed away.\n\"Although it is a time for sorrow and sadness, it is also a time for all of us to give thanks and to be grateful that we were able to have him as a part of our lives. He will live forever in our hearts and in his music.\"\nAnoushka Shankar is herself a sitar player. Shankar's other daughter is Grammy award-winning singer Norah Jones.\nGeorge Harrison of the Beatles once called Shankar \"the godfather of world music\".\nHe played at Woodstock and the 1967 Monterey Pop festival, and also collaborated with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.\nShankar also composed a number of film scores - notably Satyajit Ray's celebrated Apu trilogy (1951-55) and Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) - and collaborated with US composer Philip Glass in Passages in 1990.\nTalking in later life about his experiences at the influential Monterey Pop festival, Ravi Shankar said he was \"shocked to see people dressing so flamboyantly\".\nHe told Rolling Stone magazine that he was horrified when Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire on stage.\n\"That was too much for me. In our culture, we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God,\" he said.\nIn 1999, Shankar was awarded the highest civilian citation in India - the Bharat Ratna, or Jewel of India.\nLife in pictures: Ravi Shankar\nTributes pour in\nWestern musicians praise Shankar\nOn Wednesday morning, shortly after his death, the Recording Academy of America announced the musician would receive a lifetime achievement award at next year's Grammys.\nThe Academy's President Neil Portnow said he had been able to inform Shankar of the honour last week.\n\"He was deeply touched and so pleased,\" he said, adding, \"we have lost an innovative and exceptional talent and a true ambassador of international music\".\nBorn into a Bengali family in the ancient Indian city of Varanasi, Ravi Shankar was originally a dancer with his brother's troupe.\nHe gave up dancing to study the sitar at the age of 18.\nFor seven years Shankar studied under Baba Allauddin Khan, founder of the Maihar Gharana style of Hindustani classical music, and became well-known in India for his virtuoso sitar playing.\nFor the last years of his life, Ravi Shankar lived in Encinitas, California, with his wife.", "summary": "Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar has died in a hospital in the US, aged 92." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Günther Oettinger said the bloc must either spend less or find new money to fill the gap, equivalent to an estimated 16% of the entire budget.\nAmong the options on the table could be less generous payments to farmers or a tax on financial transactions.\n\"A big country, a net contributor is leaving,\" Mr Oettinger said.\n\"That must have consequences.\"\nMr Oettinger said each euro spent must have a positive impact on people's lives, as he presented a discussion paper on the EU's future.\nNegotiations are under way for the UK to leave the EU by the end of March 2019, following last year's referendum vote.\nIt is not just Brexit giving the EU a budget headache.\n\"At the same time we need to finance new tasks such as defence, internal security...,\" Mr Oettinger writes, with regional policy commissioner Corina Cretu, in an EU blog.\n\"The total gap could therefore be up to twice as much.\"\nThe BBC's Europe reporter, Adam Fleming, says the disappearance of Britain's annual rebate will make the budget process simpler.\nThe rebate, negotiated under former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is a complex calculation which sees a sizeable proportion of the UK's net contribution to the EU each year returned.\nOfficials will now consult member states and the European Parliament, our reporter says,\nThey hope the \"Brexit effect\" will be clearer by the end of the year and a draft budget for the years 2020 and beyond will be proposed by the middle of next year.", "summary": "The UK's departure from the EU will leave a budget shortfall of at least €10bn (£8.8bn; $11.4bn), the budget commissioner has warned." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Figures show recruitment to secondary school teacher training courses was more than a third below the target for the second year in a row.\nThe chief executive of the Education Workforce Councils said a national campaign to attract more people to the profession is needed.\nThe Welsh Government said the teacher vacancy rate is \"comparatively low\".\nWales' three teacher training centres recruited 538 students to secondary school teacher training courses, starting in September 2016, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales figures show.\nThis represents a 38% shortfall on the target of filling 871 places, following a 37% shortfall in 2015-16.\nUniversities reported filling 683 primary teacher places despite a target of 750, a similar picture to last year.\nHayden Llewellyn, chief executive of the Education Workforce Council, said the situation was not yet a \"crisis\" but issues needed to be addressed.\nThe council is the regulator for the teaching profession and keeps a register of those working in education in Wales.\nMr Llewellyn said the key areas of concern are around recruitment of newly qualified teachers, head teachers, science and modern languages teachers and Welsh medium teachers.\n\"It needs to be monitored,\" he said.\n\"We are seeing some of these issues that previously we didn't have.\n\"In the past we always had an oversupply of people wanting to be teachers. It's acknowledging that this situation was different to 10 years ago.\n\"We haven't got a crisis, we've got some issues. The key is to start to address them before we get a major problem.\"\nPlaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood last month said there was now a \"crisis\" in teacher training in Wales.\nTeaching unions have claimed the stress and workload associated with teaching has deterred people from joining the profession.\nAnother key issue according to Mr Llewellyn is a scarcity of permanent jobs for newly qualified teachers.\nHe said: \"An obvious area to look at would be that rather than new teachers starting on a supply basis or a temporary contract basis, to give them permanent employment.\n\"That would be a clear signal that teaching is a rewarding career and you start with a permanent job\".\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the overall teacher vacancy rate in Wales remains \"comparatively low\" despite some \"local difficulties\" in recruiting in certain subjects or sectors.\n\"We want teaching in Wales to be a first choice profession so we attract the very best,\" it read.\n\"We are working closely with partners including regional consortia and local authorities to identify and address issues relating to recruitment and retention.\"\nFinancial incentives are offered to graduates with the highest level of subject knowledge.", "summary": "Teacher shortages need to be addressed before schools face major problems, the teaching regulator has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is unsupported on your device\n1 December 2014 Last updated at 17:37 GMT\nThe 24-year-old midfielder becomes the first Algerian to win the award, which is decided for by football fans.\nBrahimi told BBC Sport: \"It's a big honour for me to receive this wonderful trophy. I owe it to my country, Algeria, and to all the people who voted for me.\"\nBBC Focus on Africa presenter Peter Okwoche presented the Porto player with the award.", "summary": "Yacine Brahimi has been voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2014." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The African champions missed several chances to beat Australia as they were held to a 1-1 draw on Thursday.\nPorto's Vincent Aboubakar was guilty of failing to capitalise on more than one opportunity to score.\n\"If you have one [striker] in mind, please tell me his name and I'll go straight away and see him,\" Broos said.\n\"We're searching, we're searching, we're searching and we keep on searching but you have to be able to find one. Someone who scores goals.\n\"Yes, it's very easy to say you haven't got players who score (but) you have to find them.\n\"You should know as someone from Cameroon that Cameroonian football is not as rich (in strikers) at the moment.\"\nCameroon failed to score in their opening match at the tournament in Russia as they lost 2-0 to Copa America winners Chile.\nThe results mean the Indomitable Lions must win their final group match against world champions Germany on Sunday to have any chance at all of progressing.\nDefender Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui was the top scorer for Cameroon as they won the Africa Cup of Nations in January, he scored two of the team's seven goals in Gabon.\nDespite a lack of finishing prowess Broos insists his side are making progress.\n\"A year ago we didn't even have a team. Today you have a team that won the Africa Cup of Nations and that's progress,\" the Belgian coach added.\n\"You should not think that winning the Africa Cup of Nations means that you can win the Confederations Cup and next year the World Cup.\nThat's not how it works. Let this team grow, let it get some experience and if tomorrow I can find someone who scores goals with his eyes closed, he'll be in my team.\"\nCameroon face crucial back-to-back games against Nigeria in 2018 World Cup qualifying at end of August and early September.\nNigeria top Group B with six points after two matches while Cameroon have just two, with only the pool winners qualifying for the World Cup in Russia next year.", "summary": "Cameroon coach Hugo Broos admits his side are lacking a clinical striker as the Indomitable Lions struggle to score at the Confederations Cup." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The supposedly sizeable strip of land, named Sandy Island on Google maps, was positioned midway between Australia and French-governed New Caledonia.\nBut when scientists from the University of Sydney went to the area, they found only the blue ocean of the Coral Sea.\nThe phantom island has featured in publications for at least a decade.\nScientist Maria Seton, who was on the ship, said that the team was expecting land, not 1,400m (4,620ft) of deep ocean.\n\"We wanted to check it out because the navigation charts on board the ship showed a water depth of 1,400m in that area - very deep,\" Dr Seton, from the University of Sydney, told the AFP news agency after the 25-day voyage.\n\"It's on Google Earth and other maps so we went to check and there was no island. We're really puzzled. It's quite bizarre.\n\"How did it find its way onto the maps? We just don't know, but we plan to follow up and find out.\"\nAustralian newspapers have reported that the invisible island would sit within French territorial waters if it existed - but does not feature on French government maps.\nAustralia's Hydrographic Service, which produces the country's nautical charts, says its appearance on some scientific maps and Google Earth could just be the result of human error, repeated down the years.\nA spokesman from the service told Australian newspapers that while some map makers intentionally include phantom streets to prevent copyright infringements, that was was not usually the case with nautical charts because it would reduce confidence in them.\nA spokesman for Google said they consult a variety of authoritative sources when making their maps.\n\"The world is a constantly changing place, the Google spokesman told AFP, \"and keeping on top of these changes is a never-ending endeavour'.'\nThe BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Sydney says that while most explorers dream of discovering uncharted territory, the Australian team appears to have done the opposite - and cartographers everywhere are now rushing to undiscover Sandy Island for ever.", "summary": "A South Pacific island, shown on marine charts and world maps as well as on Google Earth and Google Maps, does not exist, Australian scientists say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Council-funded home help and care home places for the elderly and adults with disabilities are currently offered only to those with under £23,250 of assets.\nThe Dilnot report said the threshold should rise to £100,000 and a £35,000 lifetime cap on costs would be \"fair\".\nBut the Treasury is known to have doubts about the expense of the plans.\nJust over £14bn a year is spent by councils on social care.\nHowever, the changes would cost an extra £1.7bn a year if they were implemented now - and this figure could rise by 50% as the \"baby boom\" generation begins to retire.\nLast year the coalition government asked economist Andrew Dilnot to look into how the system of funding social care in England could be changed amid concerns it was getting harder for people to get access to state support.\nThe ageing population and squeeze on council budgets have led councils to impose stricter criteria on who can get help.\nBy Ben GeogheganBBC Political correspondent\n\"Now Gordon Wants £20,000 when you die\".\nThat was the Conservative campaign slogan in 2010, the last time there was a serious attempt to sort out social care.\nThen as now, the main political parties were talking about cross-party consensus.\nThen as now, they insisted reform was needed so that old people didn't have to sell their homes to pay for their care.\nHowever, their attempt to reach agreement failed and led to what Ed Miliband today described as \"political bickering\".\nMight things end the same way this time round?\nIn Whitehall, officials are warning about the difficulties that lie ahead.\nThey insist this issue will \"absolutely not be long-grassed\", but politicians don't need reminding that - as one source put it - this will not be nice and easy.\nAn age old problem with no easy answer\nIt means while 1.8m are getting state funding, another 1m-plus either have to pay for support themselves or go without.\nMr Dilnot's commission has ruled out calling for care to be free.\nInstead, it has recommended a partnership between the state and individual whereby the high costs are covered by the government - one in 10 people aged over 65 faces care costs of more than £100,000 over their lifetime.\nBut the individual should be liable for the first tranche of care with a cap in costs set at between £25,000 and £50,000, the report said.\nIt went on to suggest £35,000 as the ideal figure - a third of over 65s face sums above this amount.\nBelow the age of 65, the cap should be phased in. For young adults below the age of 40 to 45 it should be free - although in reality this makes little difference as hardly any pay now because those with care needs at that age have often not had time to accrue savings or buy property.\nAfter that age, the cap should be gradually phased in by £10,000 each decade.\nThe hope is that with the state paying for the high-cost cases, the insurance industry would be encouraged to develop polices which would cover any care costs below the cap.\nThe cap will not include so-called \"hotel costs\" for food and accommodation. However, the report said there should be a standard charge which could be around £7,000 to £10,000 per year.\nMeans-testing should remain so that the poorest would not have to pay, the commission recommended, but the threshold increased to £100,000 for residential care to better reflect the rise in property prices seen over the last two decades.\nThe commission believes the cap and rise in the threshold will mean no-one will lose more than 30% of their assets paying for care.\nCommentators divided over how report will be received\nMr Dilnot said the money would have to be found by making cuts elsewhere or raising taxes and he said any tax rise \"should be paid, at least in part, by those of retirement age\".\nLaunching the report, he added: \"The issue of funding for adult social care has been ignored for too long.\n\"The current system is confusing, unfair and unsustainable. Individuals are living in fear, worrying about meeting their care costs.\n\"Putting a limit on the maximum lifetime costs people may face will allow them to plan ahead for how they wish to meet these costs.\"\nThe report also called for an end to the ever-tightening restrictions being placed on access, arguing there should be a national standard so everyone had the same access no matter where they lived.\nThe commission has already had talks with the Treasury about the proposals. It is understood that government officials voiced concerns whether extra money could be found in the current financial climate.\nHealth Secretary Andrew Lansley acknowledged finding the money remained a challenge, saying such change would require \"significant cost\" and need to be balanced against other funding priorities.\nHowever, he said despite this social care was still a \"priority for reform\" and the commission's report would be \"carefully considered\" before the government put forward its proposals next spring.\nLabour leader Ed Miliband said he would be willing to have cross-party talks to try to reach a consensus on the issue.\nThe recommendations already have widespread support among charities and campaigners with many arguing it provided the blueprint for reform.\nMichelle Mitchell, of Age UK, said action was long overdue: \"Social care is at crisis point. Vulnerable people are going without care and that means their conditions are worsening and they are ending up in hospital and costing the government more. We cannot go on as we are doing.\"\nAny overhaul of the system would take about four years to introduce.", "summary": "Social care costs in England should be capped so people do not face losing large chunks of their assets, an independent review says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Canadian indie band is the first act announced for the festival, which was under threat of being cancelled.\nThe band were recommended to the event's organisers by music legend David Bowie. It will be their first UK festival performance since 2014.\nThe four-day festival at Seaclose Park, Newport will run from 8-11 June.\nThe band will be following previous Isle of Wight headliners that have included Queen and The Who.\nJohn Giddings, Isle of Wight Festival promoter, said: \"I'm so happy to have secured Arcade Fire as our first headliner. David Bowie recommended them and I've been a fan ever since. Last year was incredible and I'm ready for us to come back even better.\"\nMade up of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne along with Win's brother William Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara, the band will take to the stage on 10 June.\nArcade Fire's music reached number one in the UK charts after the release of their fourth album Reflektor three years ago.\nThe band also received an Academy award nomination after being featured in the film Her in 2013.", "summary": "Arcade Fire have been revealed as the Saturday night headliner for the Isle of Wight Festival next year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 45-year-old was already sidelined for this month's three-match Twenty20 series against India following a scan on a swollen left calf last Saturday.\nHe will now also miss the ODIs in New Zealand on 3, 6 and 8 February.\nCricket Australia's chief medical officer Dr John Orchard said Lehmann was waiting for clearance to fly.\n\"He is meeting with specialists in Sydney later this week and will have repeat scans on Friday to check his progress,\" added Orchard.\nBatting coach Michael di Venuto has been placed in charge of Australia for the current Twenty20 series against India, which comprises three games on 26, 29 and 31 January.\nNo decision has yet been made on a stand-in for Lehmann for the New Zealand ODIs, which are followed by two Tests from 12-16 and 20-24 February.", "summary": "Australia coach Darren Lehmann will miss his side's three one-day internationals in New Zealand as he recovers from deep vein thrombosis." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Louise Burns, 35, said she was \"shocked and appalled\" at being asked by the luxury hotel to use a large napkin to cover herself while she breastfed.\nThe protest's organisers, Free to Feed, wants the hotel to change its policy.\nClaridge's said it \"embraced\" breastfeeding but \"urged mothers to be discreet.\"\nThe women gathered at the five-star hotel in Mayfair at about 14:00 GMT. BBC reporter Alice Bhandhukravi said about 25 mothers were breastfeeding outside the hotel.\nKatie Pirson, who took part in the protest, said: \"I believe my baby has the right to be fed whenever he's hungry.\n\"I think in 2014 we shouldn't have to worry about how babies are fed, just that they are fed.\"\nEmily Slough, who founded the group after she was called a \"tramp\" on Facebook for breastfeeding in public, said: \"Every time something like this happens, there's an uproar of people who disagree with it.\n\"So I think it's really important to get the message across and let breastfeeding mothers know they are protected in law to breastfeed where they wish to breastfeed, and that they should do so without any hassle or trouble from anybody else.\"\nEmma Bullock, 25, who had helped organise the peaceful protest, arrived at the demo with her 11-month-old daughter Eleanor.\nShe said: \"Breastfeeding is normal and natural. I might not like it if someone chews with their mouth open, but I won't object.\"\nBut Lindsay Jardine, 35, said Claridge's had been perfectly right to tell Mrs Burns to cover up.\nShe said: \"If I was eating there I wouldn't want to see someone feeding their baby in front of me. And it's cruel for the babies, being out in such weather.\"\nClaridge's has not yet commented on the protest.\nThe 2010 Equality Act makes it unlawful for a business to discriminate against a breastfeeding woman.\nUKIP leader Nigel Farage got involved in the debate earlier in the week, saying in a radio interview although he has no problem with breastfeeding, businesses could ask mothers to \"perhaps sit in a corner\".\nHe added it should be for businesses to decide their own rules but it should be recognised that \"some people feel very embarrassed\" by breastfeeding in public.\nIn a later statement, Mr Farage accused the media of misinterpreting him.\nHe said: \"Let me get this clear, as I said on the radio and as I repeat now, I personally have no problem with mothers breastfeeding wherever they want.\"\nA Downing Street spokeswoman said David Cameron \"shares the view of the NHS, which is that breastfeeding is completely natural and it's totally unacceptable for any women to be made to feel uncomfortable when breastfeeding in public\".", "summary": "Mothers have staged a public breastfeed outside Claridge's Hotel in central London in protest against a woman being told to cover-up while feeding." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hart, who is on a season-long loan from Manchester City, allowed Geoffrey Kondogbia's shot to slip under his body as Inter took the lead on 27 minutes.\nDaniele Baselli and Afriyie Acquah put Torino ahead before Hart contributed to Inter's 62nd-minute equaliser.\nThe 29-year-old misjudged Cristian Ansaldi's cross, allowing Antonio Candreva to score from close range.\nThe draw leaves Inter in fifth place, five points behind third-placed Napoli, who fill the final Champions League spot.\nNapoli face Empoli on Sunday, while leaders Juventus are at Sampdoria, and Roma, in second, host Sassuolo.\nIn Saturday's other match, AC Milan beat Genoa 1-0 to move up to sixth, with Matias Fernandez scoring the only goal.\nMatch ends, Torino 2, Inter Milan 2.\nSecond Half ends, Torino 2, Inter Milan 2.\nMaxi López (Torino) is shown the yellow card.\nMaxi López (Torino) has gone down, but that's a dive.\nHand ball by Maxi López (Torino).\nFoul by Jeison Murillo (Inter Milan).\nAndrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Éder following a fast break.\nFoul by Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan).\nSasa Lukic (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nDangerous play by Mauro Icardi (Inter Milan).\nCristian Molinaro (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Antonio Candreva.\nCorner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Luca Rossettini.\nAttempt blocked. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic.\nAttempt saved. Andrea Belotti (Torino) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Sasa Lukic.\nCorner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Emiliano Moretti.\nMiranda (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Maxi López (Torino).\nFoul by Miranda (Inter Milan).\nAndrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nDanilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Lucas Boyé (Torino).\nSubstitution, Torino. Maxi López replaces Daniele Baselli.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Afriyie Acquah (Torino) because of an injury.\nCorner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Joe Hart.\nAttempt saved. Éder (Inter Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic.\nAttempt missed. Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Perisic with a cross.\nAttempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.\nMarcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Afriyie Acquah (Torino).\nFoul by Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan).\nDaniele Baselli (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAntonio Candreva (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Lucas Boyé (Torino).\nHand ball by Andrea Belotti (Torino).\nSubstitution, Inter Milan. Marcelo Brozovic replaces Geoffrey Kondogbia.\nAttempt missed. Éder (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.\nRoberto Gagliardini (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the attacking half.", "summary": "England goalkeeper Joe Hart made two costly errors as Torino drew with Inter Milan in Serie A." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "ABC News reported that DNA, found on food near the campsite, is linked to the two escapees.\nA pair of prison-issue underpants was also found in the cabin, according to the New York Times.\nThe two escapees, Richard Matt, 49, and David Sweat, 35, disappeared 17 days ago on 6 June.\nThe discovery has shifted the search to an area 20 miles (32km) west of the site of the prison break.\nThey escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, through tunnels, using power tools to escape from their cells.\n\"We have recovered specific items from cabins and forwarded them to labs and got conclusive information, but we will not confirm what it found,\" said New York State Police Major Charles Guess at a news conference on Monday.\nPolice had been searching heavily on a rural area close to the Pennsylvania state line on Monday in Friendship, 300 miles (480km) south of the prison.\nOn Saturday police responded to a sighting of two men walking along a railway in the area. That sighting is still unconfirmed.\n\"No lead is too small for us to investigate,\" Mr Guess said.\nPrison employee Joyce Mitchell has been arrested for possibly helping them escape and giving the pair the tools.\nMs Mitchell was planning on meeting the duo with a getaway car, but changed her mind.\nMatt was sentenced to 25 years to life for kidnapping and dismembering his former employer in 1997. Sweat was serving life without parole for killing a sheriff's deputy in 2002.", "summary": "Police hunting for two escaped killers have found evidence in a New York cabin after a witness reported seeing a man fleeing from the home." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "At least 100 parents were also briefly detained for helping their children cheat in the senior school exams.\nOver 1.3 million students from 4,000 schools sat the exams.\nCheating in exams is fairly common in Bihar, but the number of students and teachers caught this time is unprecedented.\nOfficials said improved vigilance by teachers, police and surprise visits by \"flying squads\" of officials headed by area magistrates to examination centres were the main reasons why such a large number of students and parents were caught cheating.\nBihar is one of India's poorest states with a 64% literacy rate, one of the lowest in the country. India's literacy rate is 74%.\nThe five-day examination, held by the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB), ended on Monday.\n\"Students have been expelled on charges of using unfair means or cheating in the examination halls,\" Lallan Jha, a senior BSEB official said.\nHe said the parents were detained for passing on answers and other \"study material\" at the examination centres.\nMr Jha said the expelled students could be barred from taking an examination for up to three years.\nThe students and parents can also be fined 2,000 rupees ($36; £24) or jailed for six months, or both, for the offence.\nBut such punishment has been rarely reported in the state.\nMost of the incidents of cheating in the latest exam were reported from Chhapra, Motihari, Vaishali, Sheikhpura, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Gaya, Bhagalpur and Jehanabad districts.\nOfficials say students smuggled in textbooks and notes into the examination centres despite tight security for \"fair and peaceful examinations\".\nSome of their parents and relatives also threw into classrooms answers written on paper planes or \"simply passed them on to other people walking in and out of the classrooms\".\nAt some schools, parents helping their children cheat also clashed with the police, officials say.\nIn the past years, local newspapers have published photographs of students caught cheating and parents found to have been helping them in a bid to shame them. But this does not appear to have deterred those caught this year.\n\"What to do? It has been happening here for a long time. Everybody does it here,\" said Permeshwar Sharma, a resident of Motihari.\nHe said his young brother had passed on textbooks to his son who sat for the exam through a classroom window while standing on the perimeter wall of a school building.\nIn 2008, India's Supreme Court said students caught cheating during exams deserved \"no leniency... and should be severely punished\".\n\"If our country is to progress we must maintain high educational standards, and this is only possible if malpractices in examinations are curbed with an iron hand,\" the court said.", "summary": "More than 1,600 students have been expelled for cheating in school examinations in the northern Indian state of Bihar, officials say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 20-year-old former Derry City player, who was captain at Institute, had been a target for Bannsiders manager Oran Kearney.\n\"I feel Ciaron has been with us for a long time because I've watched him that often,\" said Kearney.\n\"We are delighted to have him on board - he is a fit lad and he gets about the pitch.\"\n\"I went especially to the play-off game away at Ballinamallard in May and he was as good a player as there was on the pitch that night,\" Kearney told the Coleraine Times.\n\"That game at Ballinamallard was a big pressure game but the way he managed himself and the game was way beyond his years.\n\"He was captain of Institute which says a huge amount at the tender age of 20.\"", "summary": "Coleraine have completed the signing of midfielder Ciaron Harkin from Championship side Institute." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Doug Beattie served three tours in Afghanistan in 2006, 2008 and 2010-11. Originally from Portadown in Northern Ireland, he became a soldier in 1982\nMr Beattie was reflecting on his time in Afghanistan ahead of a service in St Paul's Cathedral attended by the Queen on Friday to mark the end of combat operations in the country.\nThe former Royal Irish Regiment soldier said while many believed the conflict was about dropping bombs on an unseen enemy, the truth was radically different.\n\"War is brutal, it really is carnage - it's medieval sometimes,\" he said.\n\"I think people sitting back in their living rooms, or in pubs and clubs, think we live in a high-tech world where soldiers don't really see the enemy they're fighting.\n\"What I found in 2006 when I was involved in a 14-day battle in Garmsir is that this is about man against man.\n\"I never really thought that at the age of 40 I would have to thrust a bayonet through another person and yet I had to do that in September 2006 and I watched a man die at the end of my rifle.\"\nAnother experience that brought home the reality of war for him was the death of a young Afghan girl who had been fatally injured by a coalition mortar bomb.\n\"When you talk about what are your feelings at the end of a conflict such as Afghanistan and you say to people I'm filled with great sadness, I'm filled with great pride, but I'm also filled with great shame,\" he said.\n\"That shame is because of people like that young Afghan girl who was carried to me - this beautiful little thing who was only six years of age whose skin had been punctured by British mortar bombs.\n\"We though we could help her, but sadly within 24 hours this girl was dead. Her name was Shabia, I will never forget that name, it's imprinted on me and it just reminds me of how brutal war is.\"\nHe admits that after his first tour of duty in Afghanistan, adjusting to normal life when he returned home was difficult.\n\"I left the battlefield and within 24 or 48 hours, I was sitting at home having a glass of wine having had no decompression whatsoever,\" he said.\n\"I suddenly went into a mode where I was having problems dealing with what I had done and what I had seen.\"\nHe said that by his second and third tours, the army was better equipped to help people with the after-effects of conflict.\nIn terms of preparedness for what they would face in Afghanistan, he said: \"We did receive a wide range of training and not just military training, but cultural training and political training so we had a degree of understanding of what was going on in Afghanistan and certainly Helmand Province.\n\"But I don't think we necessarily had that depth of knowledge that we really needed.\"\nHe added: \"It made life difficult because you were learning as you went along.\"\nMr Beattie said while he had a complicated mixture of feelings about his combat duty in Afghanistan, he looked back on it with a sense of pride.\n\"We are proud of what we did, I am proud of what I did and more so, I'm proud of the young men and the young women who stood with me, some who will never return, some who returned with life-changing injuries, some with serious mental issues,\" he said.\nHowever, he said he had found there was a conflicting response back home in Northern Ireland to the Army's role in Afghanistan.\n\"We cannot stand up united together with pride and say, 'this is what I've done' because part of this community will not allow us to do that,\" he said.\n\"It is difficult when you have those in the nationalist/republican community who say, 'You're a British soldier, you're a child murderer'.\n\"Then you have those in the unionist/loyalist community saying, 'No it doesn't matter what you did, you're a soldier and we'll support you'.\n\"The reality sits within me and that reality is the sense of sadness, that sense of shame, that sense of pride.\n\"I don't need anybody to tell me that I'm a child killer and I don't need anyone to tell me, 'I will support you regardless'.\"", "summary": "A former army captain who served in Afghanistan has said he never thought, as a veteran soldier, that he would have to kill a man in face-to-face combat until he went into battle there." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Fire crews from Douglas and Laxey stations were called to the accident on King Edward Road in Onchan at around 09:00 BST.\nA spokesman said the car had \"rolled and landed back on its wheels\" across the Manx Electric Railway lines.\nThe man driving the car was treated at the scene for \"minor injuries.\"\nFire crews made the vehicle safe and power to the railway was isolated so that it could be recovered.\nStation Officer Tony Duncan said the car was recovered promptly and the track inspected by MER staff for any signs of damage before services were resumed.", "summary": "A car flipped when it crashed onto tracks used by the Manx Electric Railway (MER), the fire service has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cyril Barthelme, who opened the Patisserie Maxime bakery, wants to change the way people think about eating bugs.\nAround two billion people worldwide eat insects as part of their diet, and some scientists say they are better for you than other types of meat.\nScorpions, mealworms and crickets are just some of the ingredients added to the bakery's special brownies.\nSo what do you think of these creepy-crawly bakes? - would you try them?\nThis chat page is now closed.\nThat is so gross.\nChelsea, 11, Grimston", "summary": "A bakery selling cakes made from insects has opened in Edinburgh, in Scotland." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "First, let's spend a minute thinking about what could have been.\n\"If I'd been born in America, I would've run,\" says Arnold Schwarzenegger, in an interview with AdWeek. \"Because now? This was a very good time to get in the race.\"\nSadly, because the actor-turned-politician was born in Austria, we'll never know who would have won in a (primary) battle between Schwarzenegger and Donald Trump.\nJudging by his comments earlier this month, he would have put up more of a fight than the other Republican candidates.\nAnyway, back in the real world, Donald Trump continued his offensive on Monday against the women who have accused him of sexual assault.\nTalking about the allegations at a rally in Florida, he said: \"One said, 'He grabbed me on the arm.' And she's a porn star,\" before adding: \"Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before.\"\nHe was referring to Jessica Drake, a 42-year-old adult film star who says the Republican nominee grabbed her and kissed her without permission 10 years ago.\nMr Trump denies the claims and has vowed to sue the accusers after the election. We've got a round-up of the accusations and Mr Trump's response to each here.\nIt's not all plain sailing for Hillary Clinton though, with her links to the FBI coming under scrutiny again.\nOn Monday, it was revealed that a political committee for Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe gave nearly $500,000 to help fund an election campaign of Dr Jill McCabe, the wife of an FBI official.\nThat's awkward for Mrs Clinton because Mr McAuliffe is a long-term friend of both her and Bill, and the FBI official later helped oversee the investigation into Mrs Clinton's email use.\nLike many of the scandals that have been linked to the Democratic nominee, it's confusing and unclear how, if at all, she was involved - but it's news she could do without.\nOne group of voters that Donald Trump has found it difficult to woo is millennials, with one USA Today poll earlier this month giving Hillary Clinton a 48% lead over the Republican. The BBC's Franz Strasser has been out to speak to young Trump supporters in North Carolina to find out why they're standing behind the businessman. You can watch his full report above - it includes this great quote: \"The slime will only get slimier.\"\nOn what led to Mr Trump's candidacy, Katty Kay has come up with 10 reasons why The Donald ended up as the Republican candidate, including the financial crash, Uber and the LGBT movement. You can read her full piece here: Driverless cars and other reasons we have Trump.\nAnd Aleem Maqbool has been to Virginia to see if the allegations of sexual misconduct surrounding Donald Trump have stifled support among America's Christian evangelical churches, traditionally a reliable source of Republican votes. Watch the video below to find out.\n6 million\nThe number of Americans that have already voted in the election in states that have early voting.\nVideo: Senator Warren says 'nasty women' will sink Trump\nDonald Trump remains in Florida, holding a rally in Sanford then another at the Tallahassee Car Museum in the evening. Mike Pence, his running mate, is in Ohio.\nHillary Clinton is also in Florida, holding two rallies during the day before attending a fundraising event in Miami in the evening. Her running mate Tim Kaine is also attending fundraising events, but in Connecticut and New York.\nMrs Clinton's army of surrogates are also out on the road, with her husband Bill campaigning in North Carolina and her daughter Chelsea in Wisconsin. Vice President Joe Biden is taking the Democratic nominee's case to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Senator Elizabeth Warren is in North Carolina.\nWho is ahead in the polls?\n50%\nHillary Clinton\n44%\nDonald Trump\nLast updated October 25, 2016", "summary": "With just two weeks until America goes to the polls, Arnold Schwarzenegger is sad he can't run, Donald Trump is fighting back over sexual assault claims, and President Obama is really happy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "North Wales and Cheshire police forces have previously said restrictions could be reviewed if there was no trouble at the two games this season.\nWrexham fans will be ferried to the \"bubble match\" at Chester on Saturday via designated transport only.\nSeptember's 0-0 game at Wrexham finished without incident.\n\"Bubble matches\" were introduced five years ago to curb trouble by some fans.\n\"If things go well again then hopefully the two forces will look again at this bubble status and lift it which would be great news for both clubs and fans,\" said commissioner Arfon Jones, a Wrexham season ticket holder.\nCheshire Police Supt Luke McDonnell said the ambition of all concerned was to get to a \"position where the current policing arrangements are no longer necessary\".\n\"Following this match, an assessment will be made in consultation between ourselves, North Wales Police, Chester FC and Wrexham AFC, along with the supporters groups from both clubs,\" he said.\n\"A decision will then be made on how this fixture is to be policed moving forward in a way that maximises the safety to all those attending the fixtures, as well as the wider community.\n\"In the meantime, we look forward to another competitive match between the two teams, and good-natured behaviour from all those attending.\"", "summary": "Restrictions on how fans attend Wrexham-Chester derby clashes could be lifted in the future, north Wales' police and crime commissioner has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The price tag means the property in Upperton, near Airdrie, could be the cheapest home in the UK.\nAlthough the dilapidated apartment needs \"significant upgrading\", Auction House Scotland said it offered \"huge potential for development\".\nThe flat is due to go under the hammer at an auction in Glasgow, with a guide price of £1, later this month.\nIt is expected to be snapped up by a buy-to-let landlord.\nGillian Cochrane, director of operations at Auction House Scotland, said it was not the first property they had advertised for £1.\n\"We have done it once before and the flat sold for £14,500 to a London-based property manager,\" she said.\n\"It's a not a strategy that we'd use for all types of property.\n\"It's very run-down and the seller is desperate to get a quick sale - it's a one-off.\"\nThe top-floor home in Dervaig Gardens has a shared balcony, communal gardens and on-street parking.\nA similar property on the same street sold for £25,000 last year.", "summary": "A three-bedroom flat in a North Lanarkshire village is on the market for just £1." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It will feature unseen archive material including original costumes, handwritten notes and sketches and personal photographs.\nThe exhibition will show the socio-political situation in the 1970s and how ABBA rose to fame during \"quite a grim time for the UK\", producers say.\nABBA Super Troupers will run from 14 December to 29 April.\nPaul Denton, producer at the Southbank Centre, said: \"We're looking at what was special about ABBA and why they rose to prominence.\n\"During the 1970s there was a three-day working week, a hung parliament and economically Britain was quite poor. ABBA were seen as quite exotic creatures from Sweden.\n\"Obviously their music is what carried them through, their music caught the hearts and imagination of people.\"", "summary": "An exhibition celebrating the rise of pop sensation ABBA will open at the Southbank Centre." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lucia Baratta and John Sessions flew to the islands on Monday for their ceremony but their luggage, including the wedding dress, was lost in transit.\nThe owners of the Kirkwall Hotel in Kirkwall posted an appeal for help on social media.\nResponses to the plea included offers of a total of 12 wedding dresses in the right size.\nMs Baratta was also supplied with petticoats, veils, tiaras and shoes along with makeup and flowers.\nThe couple tied the knot in a ceremony on Tuesday afternoon and the bride was full of praise for all the help she had received.\nShe told BBC Radio Orkney: \"We came to Orkney in a surprise elopement only to find our luggage was lost.\n\"We had no bags and no wedding dress.\n\"The outpouring from the community has been incredible.\"", "summary": "Orkney islanders have rescued a bride's big day after her and the groom's bags were lost on the journey to the isles." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But for the Belvedere Hotel, it means more than 320 parties in five days, its 126 rooms crammed with chief executives, prime ministers and presidents, and about 35% of its annual revenue.\nThat means providing more than 1,500 bottles of champagne and prosecco, 1,300 mini pretzels and 1,350 chocolate-covered strawberries.\n\"Yesterday I welcomed 70 chief executives and heads of state,\" says Stefan Buchs, the area general manager.\n\"And I gave them all my mobile phone number in case they needed anything. I'm slightly regretting that,\" he jokes. \"Today I'm doing it all again.\"\nHe thinks nothing of organising a helicopter transfer - that's normal.\nAnd on Tuesday he had to hand over the general manager's office to a prominent Sheikh who needed a meeting room - that meant changing the carpets, repainting it and new pictures on the wall. All with just 12 hours' notice.\nSource: The Belvedere Hotel\nIt is Mr Buchs' first year running the hotel in Davos. He got the job in July and the very next week he started planning for it.\nHe had to arrange pre-meetings with representatives of next year's delegates, by September he needed to have hired an extra 150 staff and by November they were beginning to plan the parties.\nBut however much planning goes into it, there are always last-minute problems. This year the US delegation arrival clashed with another country (he's too tactful to say which).\nHe doesn't quite admit that the other country had to change its plans but that's the impression I get. \"Let's just say it's all good now - it's not in anyone's interest to have a clash on arrival,\" he says.\nOf course Mr Buchs is keen to point out that the hotel's success relies on the staff, all of whom are briefed not to ask for autographs from the many dignitaries and celebrities they will encounter.\nThe hotel's jovial sous-chef Maik Baatsch tells a story of having 20 minutes to arrange an unexpected party for 50 people. \"We had 40 chefs in the kitchen, each of them made a dish for five and that was that,\" he tells me.\nHe spent Tuesday night with 20 Korean chefs preparing for the Korean party, which included the country's president, top Samsung executives and the now international popstar Psy.\nGangnam Style was danced in the kitchen - though we're not sure whether the delegates at the party did.\nThe thing that surprised Mr Baatsch the most? How little salt they used.\nWhile I'm talking to him, one of his colleagues enters and confirms that new skewers for all the burgers have arrived - the last lot were just too big. It's all about the attention to detail they say.\nWhat about difficult clients? I ask. The real prima donnas?\nYes, he says, they have difficult clients but it's their job to accommodate them. And apparently not many complain.\nThey provide kosher food, gluten free, lactose free and import special spices when required. As if on cue, someone comes in to ask where the salmon ordered from Canada was.\nBut perhaps the man who has seen the most at the World Economic Forum is Femi Beluli.\nHe's now the in-house technician, in charge of logistics, but he started out buttering the toast in 1987 when, he remembers, Yasser Arafat just walked around like a tourist.\n\"No fences, no shuttle buses, much lighter security but that all changed after 9/11,\" he says.\nHis favourite guests include Pele and Muhammad Ali. And one of his most exciting moments was when former US President Bill Clinton decided to hold an impromptu Superbowl party - giving Mr Beluli three hours' notice.\nHe had to secure flatscreen TVs, antennas and satellites - but couldn't get reception from the US network, so he had to speak to Austrian television in order to get the connection, and then work out how to get it in English and not German.\nA switch was flicked and, hey presto, it worked.\nHis reward? A signed thank you letter from Bill Clinton himself.", "summary": "The World Economic Forum is, for most people, either an important arena in which global leaders discuss the ideas that shape the world, or, a talking shop for backslapping men in suits." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nHe thinks greater communication will improve relationships and the overall standard of officiating.\n\"It will be to the detriment of the quality of the game if the referees are not up to the mark.\n\"Young referees need established first-grade players to give them feedback,\" he told the BBC Super League Show.\n\"It's game sense they [officials] need to be provided with, the rules are easy, they're black and white, but learning game sense is important in situations and I feel that's where we're missing the point.\n\"After coming back from Australia and the National Rugby League to here, I've found there is a real animosity from coaches toward the lack of and quality of feedback. I think that's a bridge we need to bring closer together.\"\nClubs receive a visit from Rugby Football League representatives each season regarding rule changes, and are aware the referees are available to come into clubs at anytime to discuss themes and referee practice sessions if requested\nAustralia's NRL has appointed a prominent former coach in Daniel Anderson to undertake the guidance of its referees after Bill Harrigan and Stuart Raper stood down following some high-profile errors from officials in 2012.\nAmong the most critical was an incident where Manly were awarded a try in the play-off preliminary final against North Queensland last season despite video analysis at the time that failed to spot a knock-on in the build-up.\nAnderson, who coached at St Helens between 2005 and 2008 and the Exiles against England in 2012, met with the member clubs prior to the new campaign to address several issues.\nThe Rugby Football League has recently lost its figurehead in that role as Stuart Cummings, who was the match officials director and a conduit between coaches and officials, has departed, prompting a reshuffle of staff.\nTechnical assistant Jon Sharp and match officials coach Ian Smith have absorbed the responsibilities of that post, including discussions with coaches and liaison with clubs, an area former Saints and Wigan coach Millward is keen to develop in the future.\n\"We like to have reports so we can get some good feedback about our team and areas we need to improve,\" the 52-year-old Australian continued.\n\"We also want to give some feedback from our players to referees on areas that our players have thought about.\n\"For example, [Castleford second-row] Lee Gilmour, who is 34 years of age and has played international football, recently said the referee [in one game] was really quiet and it was hard to hear his calls in the tackle, and from that we conceded penalties.\"\nCas have been penalised by the RFL on several occasions this season, notably . Team-mates Weller Hauraki and Justin Carney have also faced disciplinary measures.", "summary": "Castleford Tigers head coach Ian Millward believes match officials would benefit from increased dialogue with players and coaches." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He exceeded expectations in his first campaign by securing a Europa League place after finishing third in the league behind champions Dundalk and Cork City.\nBut the 60-year-old former Kilmarnock boss believes Derry should have reached at least one final in 2016 - something he hopes to put right this time around.\n\"We let ourselves down a bit losing at home to Limerick in the League Cup semi-final and we were unfortunate to go out against Dundalk after a replay in the semi-final of the FAI Cup,\" said Shiels.\nIt has been a mixed bag for Shiels in the transfer market as they get ready to kick-off against Bohemians at Dalymount Park on Friday night.\nI want to win some silverware and our best hope is probably one of the two cups\nDefender Niclas Vemmulund and midfielder Conor McCormack have departed to join rivals Dundalk and Cork respectively.\nOn the plus side, Mark Timlin has returned after a year with St Patrick's Athletic and Northern Ireland Under-21 striker Mikhail Kennedy, along with Scottish midfielder Nicky Lowe, have joined on loan deals until the summer.\nIsraeli central defender Alon Netzer has become the latest arrival on Foyleside.\nPerhaps, Shiels' best piece of business was to retain the services of highly-rated central defender Aaron Barry despite interest from several other clubs.\nFormer Northern Ireland international Rory Patterson will be expected to provide the bulk of their goals.\nBut 20 years on from their last league championship success under manager Felix Healy, Shiels says a tilt at the title is unlikely.\n\"We are trying to grow a team, rather than purchase a team, to win the league,\" said Shiels.\n\"It is going to be difficult to reach the top four but we will try. I want to win some silverware and our best hope is probably one of the two cups.\"\nIn some respects, Derry City are about to embark on a season like never before.\nThe re-development of the Brandywell Stadium means the club have had to relocate to Maginn Park in Buncrana, County Donegal for the 2017 campaign. The first game there will be against newly-promoted Limerick on 3 March.\nWhen the club does return to the Lone Moor Road in 12 months' time, it will be transformed into a 3G pitch and new stand. The Showgrounds in Sligo would appear the most likely option to stage their Europa League game in July.\n\"The players are really looking forward to playing at Maginn\", said 21-year-old former Spurs trainee Aaron McEneff, the driving force in City's midfield.\n\"The surface is unbelievable there and, as it's a tight ground, the fans will be close to the pitch so it should create a good atmosphere.\n\"It is a change and I think we're all excited about it to be honest.\"\nThe decision by the FAI to go ahead with re-structuring plans for the 2018 season means the upcoming campaign will be fraught with danger for top-tier clubs.\nThe bottom three teams will be relegated automatically this term with only the First Division champions coming up in order to establish a two-division, 10-team structure.\nIt's been a contentious decision - which has not gone down well with a lot of clubs - but it will make for one of the most exciting campaigns in years.\nHalf the division could enter the final weeks of the campaign fighting for their lives.\nAt the other end, the race for the title will most likely be another duel between Dundalk and Cork which has developed into a fascinating rivalry in recent year.\nStephen Kenny's Lilywhites are on the brink of equalling Shamrock Rovers' four-in-a-row heroics of the 1980's.\nEuropean funds have strengthened their position although they have lost Daryl Horgan and Andy Boyle to Preston and Ronan Finn to the Hoops from their title-winning side.\nDerry would do well to match last season's third-place finish but fourth could be enough to ensure another European campaign when they return home to Brandywell in 2018.\nBohemians v Derry City will be live on BBC Radio Foyle 93.1FM on Friday night. Coverage starts at 19:30 GMT presented by Dessie McCallion with commentary from Eric White and former City striker Liam Coyle.", "summary": "Kenny Shiels embarks on his second season as Derry City manager aiming to land a major trophy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The heavily fortified barracks in Forkhill was a regular target for attacks.\nIt was sold by the Ministry of Defence to the Northern Ireland Executive and passed on to the local council.\nIt is now being developed as a community garden.\nThe tree planting is part of a wider project called the Peace Forest Ireland initiative.\nIt aims to plant 4,000 trees on both sides of the border in memory of those who died.\nChildren from St Oliver Plunkett's Primary School in Forkhill helped with the planting.\nJohn Haughton of Forest Friends Ireland came up with the idea of the living memorial.\n\"The dream of peace has been realised, and that's the most amazing thing,\" he said.\nThe project is being managed by the Ring of Gullion Partnership - a conservation group.\nDarren Rice said it was part of a wider initiative to increase the low density of tree cover in the area.\n\"Over the past two years we have planted around 120,00 trees in south Armagh,\" he said.\nOak, alder, willow and rowan trees are all being planted in the six acre site at Forkhill.\nMany myths grew up around the army base during the Troubles.\nAmong the stories the locals were told was that an underground nuclear bunker had been developed at the busy helipad.\nBut when contractors moved onto the site to clear it for this project they found plenty of reinforced concrete, but no evidence of any underground structure.", "summary": "A thousand trees are being planted at a former south Armagh security base as a memorial to those killed in the Troubles." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Gareth Willington died after his boat, Harvester, sank off St David's Head on 28 April and a pre-inquest hearing will be held in October.\nMr Willington's son Daniel, who was also on the boat, is still missing but the search has now been called off.\nFive lifeboats, a helicopter and fishing boats helped in the search.", "summary": "An investigation into the death of a fisherman whose boat sank off Pembrokeshire has been opened and adjourned by a coroner." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a report, it highlights \"pressing problems\" undermining the effectiveness of laws on buying and owning guns.\nIts recommendations - designed to make laws \"clearer\" and ensure they keep up with technology - include creating a new offence of possessing tools to turn imitation firearms into live ones.\nThe Home Office said it would \"carefully consider\" the report.\nThe commission is an independent body which reviews laws in England and Wales and can recommend reforms.\nCommenting on current laws, the commission said: \"There are over 30 pieces of overlapping legislation, some of the key terminology - such as 'lethal', 'component part' and 'antique' - is not clearly defined, and the law has fallen out of step with developments in technology.\"\nThe report calls for an \"approved standard\" on deactivating firearms, to reduce the risk that a weapon can be reactivated.\nThe commission says tools to convert imitation firearms to live ones are increasingly available, and it proposes a new offence of \"possessing an article with the intention of using it unlawfully to convert an imitation firearm into a live one\".\nTo clarify definitions, the commission says there should be:\nProf David Ormerod QC, law commissioner for criminal law, said existing laws were causing \"considerable difficulties\" for investigators, prosecutors and people involved with licensed firearms.\n\"The purpose of our recommendations for reform is to provide immediate solutions to the most pressing problems in firearms law, bringing clarity for those who own and use firearms, and those who investigate and prosecute their misuse,\" he said.\n\"We remain of the view that the entire legislative landscape requires fundamental reform and should be codified.\"\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The UK has some of the toughest gun laws in the world and we are determined to keep it that way.\"\nHe added: \"We recognise the importance of strengthening legislation to guard against misuse of firearms and will carefully consider the recommendations in the Law Commission's report.\"", "summary": "Firearms laws in England and Wales are \"confused, unclear and difficult to apply\", the Law Commission says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A group has raised more than £40,000 to build a bronze statue of the founder of the Tudor dynasty, who was born in Pembroke Castle in 1457.\nThe 2.4m (8ft) statue has been modelled in clay and is soon to be cast in bronze.\nBut a further £5,000 needs to be raised to install it on the bridge overlooking the castle.\nPembroke Castle attracts more than 100,000 visitors every year, but the group feels the town should have more to celebrate the king's birthplace.\nThey want it to be put on the Tudor trail alongside the likes of Hampton Court.\nThe campaign for a statue gathered pace in 2013 following the discovery of Richard III's remains in Leicester, who was defeated by Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.\nPembroke Cllr Linda Asman went to Richard III's reinterment at Leicester Cathedral and said the city has \"really grasped the power of heritage\", bringing \"massive attention.\"\nSince Richard III's tomb was officially unveiled in 2015, Leicester Cathedral has seen visitor number increase from 20,000 to 25,000 a year to around 220,000.\nCllr Asman said: \"In the end Richard III was defeated by Henry, and Henry should be getting far more attention.\"", "summary": "Plans to erect a statue of Henry VII in Pembrokeshire have moved a step forward." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It claims that the New Day is the first \"standalone\" national daily in 30 years.\nThe title, which has an \"optimistic approach\" and is politically neutral, is aimed at readers who no longer buy a paper.\nThe launch comes as Trinity reported a £14.4m fall in annual pre-tax profit to £67.2m in a \"challenging\" print market.\nTwo million copies of New Day are being distributed free on Monday. It will then cost 25p for two weeks before rising to 50p.\nTrinity Mirror hopes to sell about 200,000 copies a day.\nChief executive Simon Fox said the new title \"fills a gap in the market for a daily newspaper designed to co-exist in a digital age\". It will not have a website.\nThe New Day is being edited by Alison Phillips, the Mirror's weekend editor.\nShe said she aimed to \"cover important stories in a balanced way, without telling the reader what to think\".\nThe title would be a standalone product rather than a cut-down version of the Daily or Sunday Mirror, Ms Phillips said, although it will take content from those titles along with Trinity's regional papers and the Press Association news agency.\nIt has just 25 staff and the publisher hoped it could become profitable quickly.\nIt is the first new national paper since the launch of i, a slimmed-down version of the Independent, went on sale in October 2010.\nTrinity Mirror claims it is the first standalone title since the Independent's own debut in 1986.\nThe New Day arrives despite declining sales of newspapers as readers increasingly move online.\nEarlier this month the owner of the Independent titles said the print versions would close at the end of March with only its online edition surviving.\nGiven the shrinking market Mr Fox told BBC Radio 5 live that more national newspapers could close or merge.\n\"Although print is difficult it is still a key part of what we do and we still want to protect it,\" he said.\nMany newspaper publishers still make the bulk of their revenues from print editions despite the popularity of reading content online. Advertisers pay more for print rather than digital advertising and print titles also generate revenue from their cover price.\nHowever, print advertising has suffered a sharp slide in recent months, with the Daily Mail owner reporting a 20% fall in print revenues at the start of 2016.\nMr Fox said there was still a significant demand for local news, which was one reason why Trinity Mirror had bought rival publisher, Local World, last year for about £187m.\nThe company said annual revenues were down 6.9% to £592m, but the better than expected figure helped send Trinity Mirror shares up 3.6% in afternoon trading to 158.25p.\nHowever, the shares are still down about 20% over the past 12 months.\nTrinity Mirror also said it had put aside £29m in relation to civil claims arising from phone hacking charges.", "summary": "Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror, has launched another daily title." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 21-year-old was found dead in his hotel room on 19 July, less than 24 hours after arriving on the island.\nThe funeral for Mr Drennan has taken place at St Dorothea's Parish Church in Gilnahirk, east Belfast.\nMr Drennan, a mechanic and doorman, had gone to Ibiza on holiday with 10 friends.\nThe circumstances of the Newtownabbey man's death are unclear, but friends claim he was beaten by police after an incident on the flight to the Mediterranean island.\nA second post-mortem examination took place in Dublin on Wednesday.\nIn his funeral address, the Reverend Nigel Kirkpatrick told the mourners: \"It is hard to imagine that just two weeks ago today, Alan was getting ready to set off on holiday with his friends and here we are today in the same church where he was baptised, saying our farewells and wondering about the nature of it all.\n\"I have listened to the very lovely tributes made in this service, and one thing speaks very clearly to me - Alan wasn't finished with life.\n\"He had done so much and been through a fair bit in this life, but he still had much more to do. He had plans and ambitions; he had energy and vitality and a great love for life.\"\nHe added: \"We're here to celebrate the goodness and love Alan showed in his life. We're not here to say he was perfect, none of us are. Only God is perfect.\n\"But just as a little pond in the woods reflects some of the glory of the sky and brings down to earth a little bit of heaven for all to see, so a life full of love brings down to earth a little bit of heaven for all to see.\"", "summary": "Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of Alan Drennan from Newtownabbey, County Antrim, who died on holiday in Ibiza two weeks ago." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 31-year-old, who signed for the Millers from Nottingham Forest in September 2016, scored just one goal in 17 appearances last season.\nBlackstock spent seven years at the City Ground, scoring 43 league goals in 170 matches.\nHe also netted 30 times in 89 league games for Queens Park Rangers.", "summary": "Striker Dexter Blackstock has left League One Rotherham United after the club and player agreed to terminate his contract." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "1 February 2013 Last updated at 17:13 GMT\nShe performed the song when Barack Obama was officially sworn in to his second term as American president but lots of people noticed she wasn't singing live.\nInstead she pretended to sing to a pre-recorded backing track, something known as lip synching.\nShe says it is because she had not had enough time to rehearse the song.\nTo prove how good her voice is she sang the anthem live for journalists at a press conference and promised not to lip synch when she performs at the Superbowl.", "summary": "Singer Beyonce has admitted she mimed her performance at Obama's inauguration ceremony." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dr Glenys Williams, of Aberystwyth University, also claimed that fewer GPs were applying for jobs in rural areas.\nThe university is hosting the conference on the future of rural health services.\nThe Welsh government said it was committed to ensuring people in all areas could access health care.\nFormer Ceredigion MP Lord Elystan Morgan, who will chair the discussion, was asked in 2009 by the then Health Minister Edwina Hart to look into the provision of care in rural areas and how it could be improved.\nThe resulting report published a year later made a number of recommendations about how to improve rural healthcare.\nIt said doing nothing was not an option but it was essential to gain the trust and support of local communities.\nThe organiser of Wednesday's debate, Dr Williams, of the university's centre for Welsh legal affairs, said rural people did not receive the same care as those in urban areas.\nDr Williams said: \"This is because of things like problems with travel, lack of public transport.\n\"GPs, for example, don't want to work in the country and we're getting fewer and fewer GPs applying for surgeries that operate in rural areas, and indeed many surgeries that operate in rural areas are closing because of that very problem.\"\nLast month a family doctor service across parts of rural north Wales said it needed an urgent increase in GPs within 12 months.\nDr Phil White, secretary of the North Wales local medical committee, said current workloads for GPs were \"unsustainable\".\nDr Williams said the conference, at Aberystwyth University's international politics main hall between 16:00 and 18:00 BST on Wednesday, would discuss Lord Morgan's report.\nDr Williams added: \"Interest continues to be shown in the important issue of the delivery of healthcare services in rural Wales.\n\"This is especially pertinent in Ceredigion, where there has been protracted debate as to the future of Bronglais hospital and other cottage hospitals in the county.\n\"Debate also surrounds, for example, the shortage of doctors and dentists, out of hours services and the closure of rural surgeries.\n\"Matters have, of course, moved on since then, but this (Lord Elystan's) document remains the basis for continued discussion.\"\nA Welsh government spokesperson said the health minister met with the Institute of Rural Health over the summer to discuss the particular issues facing rural communities.\n\"We are committed to ensuring that people in all parts of Wales, including those in living in isolated areas, are able to access the healthcare they need.\n\"While we expect the quality of services to be consistent across Wales, the ways in which services are designed and delivered will vary according to local circumstances.\"\nThe spokesperson said \"exciting and cutting edge innovation\" was being used by the NHS in rural areas, including telemedicine, which could also benefit urban areas.\n\"We are aware that there are workforce trend and recruitment issues in certain areas of the country that need to be resolved.\n\"We are working closely with health boards, GPC Wales and the Wales Deanery to develop innovative training and recruitment initiatives for GPs in Wales.\"", "summary": "People in rural areas do not receive as good a service from the NHS as people in towns and cities, claims the organiser of a healthcare conference." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a televised address, Mr Maduro said that he wanted to set legal limits on businesses' profit margins.\nHis announcement followed the seizure on Saturday of shops accused of selling electronic goods at inflated prices.\nThe National Assembly is expected to vote this week on his request to govern temporarily by decree.\nThe president demanded there be \"zero tolerance with speculators\" in his speech broadcast on Sunday. \"This is beyond usury, this is theft,\" he added.\nOn the weekend, soldiers occupied a chain of shops selling electronic goods which, according to Mr Maduro, had sold items at vastly inflated prices.\nHundreds of people flocked to the Daka stores after they were forced by the government to sell their goods at lower prices, some of them at a quarter of the price listed earlier in the week.\n\"We're doing this for the good of the nation,\" the president said, accusing the managers of the stores of waging an \"economic war\" against Venezuela.\nHe also announced the arrest of five managers from the Daka, JVG and Krash electronics stores on suspicion of hiking up prices.\nFive more people were arrested for allegedly looting a Daka shop in the city of Valencia.\nBut President Maduro said reports of looting had been exaggerated by factions of the press, which he accused of \"complicity with the bourgeois parasites\".\nThe president announced that he would next turn his attention to stores selling toys, cars, food items, textiles and shoes.\nOpposition leader Henrique Capriles said the move proved that the president \"is a failed puppet of the Cuban government\".\n\"Every time he opens his mouth, he scares away the investments that create employment, and he worsens the crisis,\" said Mr Capriles, who narrowly lost to Mr Maduro in April's presidential election.\nOfficial figures suggest inflation is running at more than 50%. Price hikes have become an important issue in next month's local elections.\nMr Maduro blames most of Venezuela's economic woes on \"sabotage\" by opposition forces, but critics say government mismanagement is behind the country's problems.\nOpponents say the president's crackdown on price inflation is an attempt to boost his popularity with poor voters ahead of the local polls on 8 December.\nMr Maduro has asked the National Assembly to give him special powers to fight corruption and \"economic sabotage\". The measure is expected to be voted on this week.", "summary": "Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he plans to extend price controls to all consumer goods, if he is given powers to govern by decree." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Following the ill-fated Gallipoli landings in the Dardanelles, thousands of wounded Anzacs were evacuated to England. Weymouth was soon identified as an ideal site for their recuperation.\nThe influx of antipodean soldiers had an enduring impact on the resort which was affectionately dubbed \"Wey-Aussie\" by its wartime visitors.\nThe first hutted camp, complete with cook house, shower block, gymnasium and orthopaedic recovery unit was set up at Monte Video in Chickerell, near the site of the Granby Industrial estate today.\nBBC Local Radio stories from a global conflict\nHow Anzac training ground became a cemetery\nMapping WW1 - search for stories in your area\nHas history misjudged WW1 generals?\nWeymouth was chosen because of its existing army camp facilities, which were emptying as British soldiers completed their training and headed for the trenches in France.\nBut the seaside climate also lent itself to rest and recuperation - soldiers in their light blue uniforms, pushing others in wheelchairs became a common sight on the seafront.\nA reporter from the Melbourne Argos visited the Chickerell camp, describing it as \"an ideal place with warm sea breezes and slopes lined with purple heather that lay between the camp and the sea\".\n\"And the markets of Weymouth supply plenty of honest butter, vegetables and fruit for the convalescent man,\" he added.\nPhil Sherwood, of the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society, said: \"You can imagine, in a town of 40,000 population, it had a big impact.\"\nThe Weymouth public welcomed the first influx of troops with a huge strawberry and cream tea. They and their successors would also enjoy whist drives, concerts and dances.\nAustralia in World War One\nBattle for Gallipoli\nThe local church choir would also go into Chickerell camp to sing for those soldiers who could not get out.\nThere were fishing trips organised to Chesil beach while the Anzacs later formed their own band and performed at the Pavilion and Alexandra Gardens.\nHowever, many did not get the chance to enjoy the resort's pleasures for long.\nThe priority was to get men fit enough to fight again and by October 1915, having survived the horrors of Gallipoli, hundreds of men were being transferred to Weymouth train station, to begin their journey to other European battle fronts.\nThose who could not be restored to fighting fitness were sent back to Australia.\nFor those who did stay for longer there was a chance to get to know the Dorset population - 50 ended up marrying local women.\nFred Kelly, a member of the Goldfields Regiment had been brought to Weymouth after being wounded in action. He married a nurse and eventually they both moved to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.\nMr Sherwood has set up a Facebook group to bring together family stories of the descendants of the Anzacs.\nEighty six soldiers did not make it back to their homelands and died while in Dorset. They are buried in Weymouth and Melcombe Regis cemeteries.\nThe town observes Anzac Day on 25 April, with a service at the special memorial erected on the esplanade.\nAnne McCosker, a niece of Queenslander Lt Fred Martin, has researched her uncle's experiences convalescing at Westham Camp.\n\"You could hear the different accents - it was more relaxed and trying to pull the Pommeys' legs - it was just part of the relationship between the two people,\" she said.\n\"All the girls would be eyeing them, as they had the best overcoats and had more money.\n\"Every night apparently they used to have a punch up, up Boot Hill between the British soldiers and the Australians - it was never very serious.\n\"They would have loved the Fleet (lagoon behind Chesil Beach) as that reminded them of Queensland - with the lagoons and the more open skies, they felt very much at home here.\"\nAlthough little evidence remains of the hutted camps, street names nearby bear names including Queensland Road and Canberra Road.\nIt was 1919 by the time the last Anzac soldiers left Weymouth. Their farewell was marked by writer Thomas Hardy in an interview with the Anzac newsletter.\n\"Now that the Australians are going back home and will soon be leaving us, would you please tell them I wish them a safe return and very good luck wherever they may go.\n\"We shall always be glad to see them, to welcome them and hold out the hand of not only friendship, but kinship and fraternal greeting,\" he said.", "summary": "The Australia and New Zealand Army Corp (Anzac) suffered some of the worst losses of Allied forces during World War One, with tens of thousands of injured troops finding themselves billeted to the Dorset coast to recuperate." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is expected that the new owner will use Bolt for breeding more birds.\nThe buyers of nine of the ten most expensive pigeons sold at the auction were from China or Taiwan.\nBolt was bred by celebrated Belgian pigeon fancier Leo Heremans, who sold his entire collection at the same auction.\n\"A painting made by Picasso is worth more than one made by an unknown artist. It's the same with this pigeon,\" Nikolaas Gyselbrecht of pigeon auction site Pipa told Reuters.\nThe pigeon is named after the Olympic gold-winning Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.\nMr Heremans' entire collection of 530 birds sold for 4.3m euros at the auction.\nIn 2011, a UK record was set for the price of a racing pigeon when one was sold for £16,000, also to a Chinese buyer.", "summary": "A Belgian racing pigeon called Bolt has been sold to a Chinese businessman for a world record price of 310,000 euros (£260,000: $400,000)." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The man, dressed as a priest, stormed the stage of the Rose of Tralee International Festival in County Kerry on Monday night.\nHe held up a placard and shouted: \"Fathers for justice!\"\nTelevision cameras cut away from the stage while the protester was removed by security.\nThe Rose of Tralee International Festival is a week-long pageant in which women of Irish descent from around the world vie to be named the Rose of Tralee.\nThe festival's organisers confirmed the man had purchased a ticket and was removed by Irish police after being taken from the stage.\nThey were satisfied adequate security measures were in place, they said in a statement.\nThe man took to the stage while the Cavan Rose, Lisa Reilly, was speaking to presenter Dáithí Ó Sé.\nIrish Independent journalist Andrea Smith described the stage invasion as \"very shocking\".\n\"It was like something out of Father Ted, as suddenly a man dressed as a priest runs onto the stage, nobody knows what to do and he's shouting about Fathers 4 Justice,\" Ms Smith, who was live-blogging the event, told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\"It probably gave the organisers such a fright, but it's also probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened in the history of the Rose of Tralee,\" she said.\nIt is understood the man was Matt O'Connor, a founder of Fathers 4 Justice, who is originally from County Kerry but now lives in England.\nThe group are best known for a series of high-profile stunts.\nIn 2004, a campaigner dressed as Batman held a protest on a balcony of Buckingham Palace.\nEarlier that same year, two men threw packages of flour dyed purple at the then prime minister Tony Blair.", "summary": "A Fathers 4 Justice protester has been removed from the stage after interrupting a live-televised festival in the Republic of Ireland." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe club urged fans to pledge £100 each to help clear debts, as players were told they may not be paid in April.\nBradford say an impending tax bill and a changed banking lending arrangement has left them with virtually no cash.\nEx-Bulls stars Jamie Peacock and Stuart Fielden pledged support, along with the Lord Mayor of the City of London.\nThe four-time Super League champions sold the lease on their Odsal ground to the Rugby Football League in January to raise funds, with the RFL renting the ground back to the Bulls.\nThis dramatic announcement will frighten Bradford's fans who have already dug deep to help the club through its recent financial turmoil. To see one of Super League's powerhouses now appealing for supporters to cough up £100 each to keep them alive is remarkable. Director Andrew Bennett appears to be sending out mixed messages in saying Bradford are \"at death's door\" while also describing the crisis as a \"blip\". Whether there are shock tactics at play here or not, it is incredibly sad and very worrying for all fans of the game to see one of its great champions in such dire straits. Without a wealthy benefactor in the mould of David Hughes, who is keeping London afloat, the fans are the only option left to Bradford.\nA statement on the club's website read: \"The RFL stadium deal only enabled us to address our long-term liabilities but could not help us stave off the grave financial situation.\"\nBulls chief executive Ryan Duckett told BBC Radio Leeds a changed lending arrangement by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) on the stadium deal had \"brought things to a head\".\nRBS said it had not cut the Bulls' overdraft, but that the directors had failed to provide alternative security to secure credit since selling the lease on Odsal.\nEngland captain and Leeds Rhinos prop forward Peacock, who made over 200 appearances for the club, said on Twitter he would pledge £800 to the cause.\nWhile Fielden, whose sale to Wigan in 2006 raised a world transfer record £440,000 for the Bulls, offered to help out by manning the phones at the club during his rehabilitation from injury.\nFan Ralph Scott also stepped forward to pledge £5,000 before the deadline to raise funds at 1700 BST on 6 April.\nDuckett continued: \"It's a serious situation and it's taken a lot of people by surprise, including staff and players.\n\"But in the four or five hours since the news broke, the response has been fantastic, the phones have been red hot.\n\"Someone has just pledged £5,000 and we've had ex-players also pledging their support,\n\"It is those things that will help build the momentum.\n\"The passion people have showed so far and some of numbers pledged make me feel very confident we're going to get through it.\"\nEarlier he said he felt the club had to be \"pro-active to address some of the issues we've got rather than letting them escalate, and that's why we've gone out with this radical message\".\nHe added that if fans did not get behind it \"there might not be a Bradford Bulls\".\nBradford-born Lord Mayor of the City of London David Wootton has also backed the campaign, calling \"on all fans of rugby league to help support this great institution overcome its current problems\".\nEarlier, chairman Peter Hood told the Bradford Telegraph & Argus: \"If we haven't got cash then we can't stay alive and if we can't stay alive then we can't fulfil our fixtures. It's that serious.\"\nBradford won their last title in 2005 and have also won five Challenge Cups, but a lack of recent on-field success has compounded their financial problems.\nIf we haven't got cash then we can't stay alive and if we can't stay alive then we can't fulfil our fixtures. It's that serious\nRFL director of standards and licensing Blake Solly told BBC Radio Leeds: \"We're concerned as the governing body of the sport, but we're giving them all the help we can.\n\"We're working with them on a day-to-day basis to see how the pledge scheme is going and trying to give them all the logistical support possible.\"\nFans spokesman Mike Farren admitted the news about the club's precarious financial position had come as a shock to the supporters.\n\"We've always worked closely with the club, but I was unaware of how serious the situation was. This was a bombshell,\" he said.\n\"We are certainly concerned, but very much hope the club can pull through. But, to raise £500,000 in 10 days seems extremely ambitious.\"\nFigures from other Super League clubs have rallied support, with Leeds Rhinos half-back Rob Burrow using Twitter to urge supporters of rival teams to boost attendances at Odsal.\nWest Yorkshire neighbours Castleford released a statement from chief executive Richard Wright that offered his \"best wishes in their bid to survive\".\n\"It would be a tragedy for the game to lose any professional club, never mind one of such tradition and history.\"\nSt Helens interim coach Mike Rush added: \"It's sad that any club is struggling financially, hopefully the fans can rally round.\"", "summary": "Bradford Bulls say they have been inundated with pledges after revealing they need £1m to stay in business, with at least half needed within 10 days." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Kevin McDaid, 49, died after he was attacked outside his Somerset Drive home in Coleraine in May 2009.\nThere had been tensions in the Heights area over flags at the time.\nThe trial was told the serious charges would not be proceeded with, as the men had pleaded guilty to lesser offences.\nAll seven men were released on bail.\nThree of them pleaded guilty to charges including grievous bodily harm (GBH):\nFour of them pleaded guilty to affray:\nProsecution lawyers told Belfast Crown Court the more serious charges should be left on the books.\nThe trial of five other men on manslaughter and attempted murder charges has been getting under way.\nTwo other men had appeared in the dock to face lesser charges.\nOne of them, Johnathon Stirling, 25, of Windyhall Park, Coleraine, pleaded guilty to threats to harm.\nA charge of making threats to kill will be left on the books, and he was released on continuing bail.\nThe other, John Freeman, 24, of Sunderland Road, Belfast, changed his plea to guilty on charges of intimidation of a witness and common assault", "summary": "Seven out of 12 men charged in connection with the death of a Catholic community worker have had manslaughter and attempted murder charges dropped." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 27-year-old scored one and made another before limping off in the 80th minute at Stamford Bridge.\nSpeaking after the match, interim Blues boss Guus Hiddink said Costa had been \"in a lot of pain\" - although it is unclear how long Costa could be out.\nChelsea next play away to Premier League leaders Arsenal in a 16:00 GMT kick-off on Sunday.\nSpain international Costa has scored five goals in five games for Chelsea since Dutchman Hiddink was appointed in December.\nHe was their top scorer last season with 20 goals as Jose Mourinho led to the club to a Premier League and League Cup double, but had scored just four times before the Portuguese was sacked.", "summary": "Chelsea striker Diego Costa suffered a bruised tibia in Saturday's 3-3 draw with Everton, scans have shown." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They are accused of killing hundreds of Bosnian men and boys in a single day at a warehouse near Srebrenica.\nIt is the first time a Serbian court has charged anyone over the massacre of 8,000 people by Bosnian Serb forces.\nThe authorities in Bosnia and an international court in the Hague have carried out all previous prosecutions.\nThe men charged on Thursday belonged to a special Bosnian-Serb police unit that was operating in the eastern village of Kravica when the killings took place just over 20 years ago.\nThey herded the mainly Muslim victims into a warehouse where they were killed with machine guns and grenades in an assault that lasted all night, the prosecutor's statement said.\nThose charged included the unit's commander, Nedeljko Milidragovic, also known as Nedjo the Butcher, who was accused of giving the order for the killings and saying that \"nobody should get out alive\".\nMr Milidragovic is already facing genocide charges in Bosnia but has been able to live freely in Serbia because of the lack of an extradition treaty, says the BBC's Guy De Launey in Belgrade.\nBut this changed in March when he and the seven other suspects were arrested as a result of co-operation between the war crimes court in Belgrade and its counterpart in Sarajevo, our correspondent adds.\nProsecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said the charges were a \"message that there will be no impunity for war crimes and that the victims will not be forgotten\".\nThe eight men could face a maximum sentence of 20 years if found guilty.\nFourteen people have been convicted at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague in relation to the Srebrenica killings.\nFormer Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic are both on trial at The Hague, accused of crimes relating to the massacre.\nThe ICTY and the International Court of Justice have called the events genocide.\nThe Srebrenica massacre came amid the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia into independent states in the 1990s.\nSerbia backed Bosnian Serb forces fighting the Muslim-led Bosnian government during the conflict.\nIn July 1995, in what was supposed to have been a UN safe haven, Bosnian Serb forces took control of Srebrenica. They rounded up and killed about 8,000 men and boys and buried them in mass graves.", "summary": "War crimes prosecutors in Serbia have charged eight people over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating possible offences committed in the aftermath.\nOf the 132 of those yet to respond, 64 are from South Yorkshire Police and 68 from West Midlands Police.\nNinety-six Liverpool fans died as a result of the crush in April 1989.\nIn her latest update, IPCC Deputy Chair Rachel Cerfontyne said attempts to contact those \"who have not assisted our investigation so far\" was ongoing.\nShe added: \"Some were unable to provide an account for reasons such as poor health. Others have not responded to our contact and there are a number of individuals who couldn't be traced.\"\nThe potential witnesses had been identified because they may have useful information and further efforts would be made \"to persuade this group to engage with us\", she said.\nTo date, the IPCC said it has recorded over 4,000 witness accounts, with about 1,200 of those coming from police staff.\nBut while the watchdog can compel police witnesses who are still serving to give evidence it cannot compel retired officers to do so, Ms Cerfontyne said.\nA separate criminal investigation, Operation Resolve, is looking into the crush and the match day itself,\nA spokesman for Operation Resolve said the appeal had resulted in 41 possible identifications for 16 of the people.\nHe said those sought were not suspected of wrongdoing but may have helpful information.\nThe 19 people police want to trace were seen on CCTV at about 14:50 before the FA Cup semi-final, at the stadium's Leppings Lane end near exit gate C.\nIn April, the jury at the inquests into the deaths of the 96 Hillsborough victims concluded they were unlawfully killed.\nOperation Resolve is one of two criminal investigations ordered after the Hillsborough Independent Panel's report in 2012.", "summary": "More than 100 police officers and staff have not assisted an investigation into the Hillsborough disaster, the police watchdog has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Donor Arron Banks said he was \"extremely shocked and disappointed\" that Peter Bone and Tom Pursglove had profited from Grassroots Out.\nHe called on them to pay the money to a \"smaller Brexit\" campaign.\nBut in a joint statement, the MPs said employing them was \"clearly the most cost-effective way\" of campaigning.\nThe payments were revealed in the register of members' interests.\nGrassroots Out was founded in December by Mr Bone and Mr Pursglove, with backing from UKIP leader Nigel Farage and, later, Labour MP Kate Hoey.\nIt came close to being designated the official Leave campaign by the Electoral Commission, but lost out to Vote Leave.\nMr Bone's accountancy firm PWB received a total of £21,750 from Grassroots Out in the first four months of this year, according to his entry in the register of members' interests.\nThat was made up of two payments for accountancy services, of £17,500 and £2,500, at a rate of £42 an hour, and a £1,750 director's fee.\nMr Pursglove charged Grassroots Out a total of £19,250 - £17,500 for 450 hours' work as chief executive - between 16 December and 31 March - and £1,750 in director's fees, according to his entry.\nIn a statement, Arron Banks, who says he has given £4m of his own money to his Leave.EU campaign, a group which also funded Grassroots Out, criticised the pair.\nThe statement said: \"Leave.EU has raised £9m to fight the Brexit cause, £5m personally from Arron Banks, £4m from other donations including over 5,000 individuals.\n\"We are extremely shocked and disappointed to discover that two elected individuals have treated the GO Brexit campaign as a business, not a cause, and would urge them to do the honourable thing and donate the sum directly to a smaller Brexit group.\"\nBut the MPs said some individuals \"had jumped to conclusions without being in full possession of the facts\".\n\"Of all the major EU referendum campaigns, we have the cheapest and most efficient structure in place and our administrative and running costs are by far the lowest,\" they said.\nUsing the two MPs had allowed Grassroots Out to \"keep costs to a minimum, allowing us to spend the maximum amount on campaigning\", rather than hiring outside expertise, they added.\nThey said they had \"properly\" made the declaration in the Register of Members' Interests adding: \"It must also be clarified that both Peter Bone MP and Tom Pursglove MP have made donations to Grassroots Out Ltd that exceed the level of the payments received.\n\"These donations will be listed in the official return made to the Electoral Commission. Neither Peter Bone MP, or Tom Pursglove MP, have made any financial gain from this arrangement.\"", "summary": "Two Tory MPs have come under fire for paying themselves a total of £40,000 for running a not-for-profit campaign for a Leave vote in the EU referendum." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The all-rounder made 67 as the hosts posted a daunting 241-7 on a sluggish pitch at Worcester.\nPerry then took 2-16, claiming the early wickets of Charlotte Edwards and Sarah Taylor as England fell to 30-3.\nThe hosts lost their last six wickets for just 29 as they were bowled out for 152, with Kristen Beams taking 3-13.\nWith a Test and three T20s to follow over the next month, England will need to rectify their batting issues if they are to compete with an increasingly threatening Australian side.\nIf all those matches are completed, England must win the Test and one T20, draw the Test and win two T20s, or win all three T20s to retain the Ashes.\nThe ODIs also saw points for both sides given towards the ICC Women's Championship with Australia further extending their lead at the top of the table, while England sit fourth.\nMeg Lanning picked up from where she left off in Bristol as the Australia captain once again provided an injection of pace to her side's innings.\nFollowing days of rain, the visitors struggled to 83-1 from their first 25 overs on the slow New Road pitch.\nWicketkeeper Alyssa Healy was promoted up the batting order after the fall of Australia's second wicket, Nicole Bolton (40), making a quick-fire 17 off 18 balls before being caught-and-bowled by Heather Knight.\nIt brought Perry out and her 85-run fifth-wicket partnership with Lanning changed the course of the match.\nEngland vice-captain Knight had spoken of the importance of the hosts taking their chances to get the Australia captain out after the second ODI in Bristol.\nHowever, they failed to learn from their mistakes as a run-out chance with Lanning on five was missed, before Lydia Greenway dropped the 23-year-old on 46.\nJenny Gunn, picked in place of Kate Cross, finally had the right-handed batsman dismissed as she was caught at long-on for an impressive 85.\nPerry (67), who had been happy to rotate the strike, attacked the ball more aggressively and reached her seventh 50 in eight innings as Australia posted a daunting 241-7.\nAnd when Edwards was sent back to the pavilion after just two minutes when she was bowled out by Perry, the signs looked ominous for England.\nAll-rounder Perry picked up her second wicket in as many overs, removing Taylor before the recalled Lauren Winfield was run-out to reduce the home side to 30-3.\nKnight (38) dug in before being bowled by Jess Jonassen, having walked across her stumps when attempting to sweep.\nRequiring boundaries, Katherine Brunt (31) came out ahead of Natalie Sciver and hit the first maximum in the series, swiping across the line and clearing square-leg off Jonassen.\nBut, having shared a 51-run fifth-wicket partnership with Greenway (45), the pair perished in consecutive overs as Australia took complete control and finished the match in style.", "summary": "A superb performance from Ellyse Perry helped Australia claim an 89-run victory over England as they took a 4-2 lead in the seven-match Ashes series." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The figure is a \"trigger point\", but will not be publicly acknowledged, sources told the BBC's John Pienaar.\nProf John Curtice said it was the level the party should be thinking about.\nAn SNP spokesman said there would only be a second referendum if there was clear evidence of a shift of opinion.\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon will not be drawn on whether a second referendum will take place while she is in charge.\nBut sources close to Ms Sturgeon said the benchmark was vital to ensure support for independence had become the \"settled will\" of the Scottish people.\n\"Six months of polls won't be enough,\" said a senior SNP figure, involved in the discussions.\nSpeaking on 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics, Prof Curtice, who is president of the British Polling Council, said: \"It's entirely the kind of benchmark they should be thinking about.\n\"I think some of us said, not long after last year's referendum, that this was the kind of scenario the SNP needed to see in play before they could seriously contemplate a referendum.\"\nHe added: \"I think one of the things that's forgotten about the referendum last year is that there had never previously been a period in which the opinion polls had consistently pointed to a majority in favour of 'Yes'.\n\"There really isn't much point in the SNP holding a referendum until it's clear that there is a majority - a sustained majority - in favour of doing so, because otherwise the serious risk is loss.\n\"Why 60% - there clearly is a serious prospect that that figure will come down under the sustained barrage of attack that there will undoubtedly be on the independence project in the event of a second referendum.\"\nAn SNP spokesman said: \"As the FM set out there will only be a second referendum on independence if there is clear evidence of a shift of opinion.\n\"The far more urgent question is whether the UK government will honour the vow by strengthening the Scotland Act, end the unnecessary ideological austerity drive that is hurting low income households and act to protect Scotland's place in the EU.\"\nOn Thursday, Ms Sturgeon told the BBC that even a \"thumping win\" at next year's Scottish elections would not be enough to push for a second referendum.\nEarlier, she had opened her party's Aberdeen conference calling on those against independence to vote SNP.\nIn an interview with the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Ms Sturgeon said the timing of a referendum vote would be \"down to whether we judge, I judge, that people who voted 'No' last year have changed their minds\".\nAnd during her speech at the conference on Saturday, she reiterated that a second independence referendum would only come when the time was right.\nShe said the time for another Scottish independence referendum would be \"when there is clear evidence\" that opinion had changed and the majority of people in Scotland wanted it.\nShe added: \"Independence matters and we will never waver in our commitment to it. But what we say about jobs, schools and hospitals matters just as much to people across Scotland.\"", "summary": "A level of 60% support for Scottish independence over the period of a year has been identified as a benchmark in making the decision over a second referendum, senior SNP sources say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Goals either side of the interval by Sean Morrison and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing gave the Bluebirds a 2-0 win over Sheffield United.\nWinger Mendez-Laing took his season's tally to four with a superb strike.\nThe Blades went close through Billy Sharp and had a penalty shout turned down, but were comfortably beaten.\nCardiff came into the game on a high after an impressive 3-0 win over Aston Villa, with manager Neil Warnock relishing the challenge of the team he supported as a child - and managed for eight years.\nSheffield United suffered their first defeat in 20 games when beaten 1-0 by Middlesbrough at the weekend, and found the Bluebirds in irresistible mood on a calm Cardiff night.\nThe Bluebirds joined the Football League in 1910 and are top of the early-season table after ending a 107-year wait for maximum return from their opening three games.\nThey have nine points along with Ipswich and Wolves, who Cardiff play at Molineux on Saturday.\nThe Blades matched Cardiff in the early stages, but were let off when Jazz Richards hit a post and then Kenneth Zohore slid the ball past the post after being put through by Junior Hoilett.\nThe breakthrough came in the 44th minute when skipper Morrison headed in Joe Ralls' corner.\nMendez-Laing's stunning finish to a sweeping team move in the 55th minute put Warnock's team firmly in charge, and the Blades did well not to concede a third.\nChed Evans made an appearance off the bench for the Blades, but it was Sharp and David Brooks who had their best efforts, and Leon Clarke headed a good chance wide.\nBut it was United supporter Warnock who had the biggest smile as his Cardiff side kept their third successive Championship clean sheet.\nCardiff manager Neil Warnock told BBC Radio Wales:\n\"To start with three league wins on the bounce is great - I think it's lovely as a record like that because it takes the pressure off.\n\"I remember not winning for seven games and it was horrible.\n\"It's great for the fans, but we've got to go up to Wolves now and see if we can perform up there.\"\nSheffield United manager Chris Wilder:\n\"We're going to endure some tough nights, we totally understand that coming into the division after six years out of it, but we haven't been overrun against players who can hurt you.\n\"We've had two really tough games against Middlesbrough and Cardiff, but we haven't embarrassed ourselves.\n\"We competed well enough against the league leaders, we never folded and kept going to the end, but we do need to get better.\"\nMatch ends, Cardiff City 2, Sheffield United 0.\nSecond Half ends, Cardiff City 2, Sheffield United 0.\nCorner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Neil Etheridge.\nAttempt saved. John Fleck (Sheffield United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by David Brooks.\nCorner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Neil Etheridge.\nAttempt saved. Ched Evans (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by John Fleck.\nSubstitution, Cardiff City. Greg Halford replaces Kenneth Zohore.\nFoul by Chris Basham (Sheffield United).\nLoïc Damour (Cardiff City) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nChris Basham (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City).\nAttempt blocked. David Brooks (Sheffield United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by John Fleck.\nAttempt blocked. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by John Fleck.\nAttempt missed. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Sean Morrison with a headed pass following a set piece situation.\nFoul by Ched Evans (Sheffield United).\nJoe Ralls (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nSubstitution, Cardiff City. Danny Ward replaces David Junior Hoilett.\nAttempt missed. Leon Clarke (Sheffield United) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by John Fleck with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Neil Etheridge.\nAttempt saved. David Brooks (Sheffield United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieron Freeman.\nOffside, Cardiff City. Jazz Richards tries a through ball, but David Junior Hoilett is caught offside.\nAttempt missed. Bruno Ecuele Manga (Cardiff City) header from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jazz Richards with a cross.\nLeon Clarke (Sheffield United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Sol Bamba (Cardiff City).\nSubstitution, Sheffield United. David Brooks replaces Enda Stevens.\nAttempt missed. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Cardiff City) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Neil Etheridge following a fast break.\nCorner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Sol Bamba.\nChed Evans (Sheffield United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by David Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City).\nFoul by Ched Evans (Sheffield United).\nJoe Ralls (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt blocked. Leon Clarke (Sheffield United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Billy Sharp.\nPaul Coutts (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Loïc Damour (Cardiff City).\nOffside, Cardiff City. Sean Morrison tries a through ball, but Kenneth Zohore is caught offside.\nSubstitution, Cardiff City. Loïc Damour replaces Lee Tomlin.\nAttempt missed. David Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Joe Ralls.\nFoul by John Fleck (Sheffield United).\nLee Tomlin (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nAttempt blocked. John Fleck (Sheffield United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Billy Sharp.", "summary": "Cardiff City have won their opening three league games of a season for the first time in the Championship club's 107-year history." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 5-3 vote by the Bank's policymakers was the closest for a rate rise since 2007, and comes with inflation close to a four-year high of 2.9%.\nInflation is now well above the Bank's target rate of 2%.\nNews of the vote pushed the pound up by more than a cent against the dollar, although it fell back later.\nIan McCafferty, Michael Saunders and Kristin Forbes were the three members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) who voted for an increase. Ms Forbes had been the sole vote in favour of a rise at the MPC's previous two meetings.\nHowever, the decision of Mr Saunders and Mr McCafferty to back an increase as well surprised economists.\n\"The more hawkish tone of the MPC appears to reflect some concern about inflation - which has accelerated faster than it expected over recent months and is now forecast to exceed 3% this year - as well as the strength of employment that is continuing to erode slack in the labour market,\" Capital Economics said.\nHargreaves Lansdown senior economist Ben Brettell said it appeared that the \"willingness of the MPC to 'look through' higher inflation and leave rates on hold is wearing thin, and if inflation continues to surprise we could see higher rates by the end of the summer\".\nSterling, which had been trading below $1.27 before the minutes were released, surged to almost $1.28 in response, while the FTSE 100 share index was down more than 1%.\nIn the minutes of its meeting, the MPC said the \"driving force\" behind the recent pickup in inflation had remained the depreciation of sterling that followed the Brexit vote in June last year.\nHowever, it added that a \"number of indicators of domestically generated inflationary pressure\" had also increased in recent months.\nThe committee said inflation could exceed 3% by the autumn and was expected to remain above the 2% target for an \"extended period\" as the weaker pound pushed up prices while pay growth remained \"subdued\".\nThe three MPC members who voted to raise rates were swayed by the inflation fears, and also took into account growth in \"business investment and net trade\" which appear \"on track\" to compensate for weaker consumption. They also thought that interest rates would still leave monetary policy \"very supportive\".\nHowever, the five committee members who voted to leave rates unchanged took into account the recent slowdown in consumer spending and economic growth as a whole. They said \"it was too early to judge with confidence how large and persistent\", that would be.\n\"It is as yet unclear to what degree weaker consumption would be offset by other components of demand\". the minutes said.\nWhile different members of the MPC placed different weights on these arguments, the minutes said that \"all committee members agreed that any increases in Bank Rate would be expected to be at a gradual pace and to a limited extent\".\nKallum Pickering, senior UK economist at Berenberg, said: \"This gradual shift in stance represents the MPC's efforts to foretell and communicate a forthcoming hike. Don't ignore it.\"\nHowever, other economists said it could still be some time before the Bank votes to rise rates.\n\"It is far from certain that interest rates will rise in the near term,\" said Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club.\n\"There is the potential for the balance of views to alter, with the imminent changes in the MPC's membership. Kristin Forbes who has been a strong advocate of raising interest rates is now leaving the MPC, while another member is due to appointed as the committee is currently one short.\"", "summary": "UK interest rates have been kept on hold at 0.25%, but in a surprise move three of the Bank of England's rate-setting committee backed a rate rise." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 25-year-old, who scored 34 goals this season to help Fleetwood win promotion to the Football League, has signed a three-year contract.\nFoxes manager Nigel Pearson had a bid rejected for Vardy in January.\n\"I got to sit down for a chat with Nigel and this is where I wanted to come,\" Vardy told BBC Radio Leicester.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"You see the facilities and I thought, 'yes, I can see myself playing here'. And obviously because the manager wanted me as well it made the decision easier.\n\"He said he'd been watching me for quite a while, obviously if I've caught his eye I must have been doing something right.\"\nVardy scored three goals in four FA Cup appearances this season, including one against Premier League hopefuls Blackpool, and the striker thinks he is ready to play at a higher level.\n\"The standard of the players is going to be a lot better,\" he said. \"But I've played in the FA Cup a few times this year and managed to do well against the league clubs and hopefully I can carry that on.\"\nLeicester have already added Manchester United duo Ritchie de Laet and Matthew James to their squad as they aim for promotion to the Premier League next season, but Vardy is not scared of the competition.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"Competition for places can only benefit you,\" said the former Halifax player.\n\"If you know you've got that much competition then you're just going to have to work that extra bit harder so you can catch the gaffer's eye.\n\"If you're not playing with any confidence then you're not going to play well at all. You've always got to have that inner confidence and that comes with the goals.\"\nFleetwood chairman Andy Pilley admitted Vardy would be a big loss and difficult to replace, but also said that he could not stand in his way of playing at a higher level.\nPilley told BBC Radio Lancashire: \"We always knew that Jamie was going to move on this pre-season.\n\"We wish him well because he's been fantastic for the club. We've fought for good terms and we're pleased with the compensation that we've got.\n\"He's been absolutely amazing and a lot of supporters will say he's the best player ever that has ever played for Fleetwood.\"", "summary": "Leicester City have completed the signing of Fleetwood striker Jamie Vardy for an undisclosed fee, thought to be at least £1m." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She was speaking as parliament reopened on Tuesday for its last session before November's national elections.\nLast week Shwe Mann was dramatically removed from his position.\nHis dismissal was seen as an emphatic move by President Thein Sein to tighten his political grip ahead of the vote.\nSpeaking while MPs gathered in the capital Nay Pyi Taw for a final round of parliamentary meetings before the 8 November vote, Ms Suu Kyi said that Shwe Mann's dismissal by the president on Wednesday made it clear \"who is the enemy and who is the ally\".\nShe said that her National League for Democracy (NLD) party would work with the \"ally\".\nThe Nobel laureate joined the US and Britain in expressing concern over the removal of Shwe Mann before the elections, which are the first since democratic reforms began in 2011.\n\"This is not what you expect in a working democracy,\" she said in relation to the circumstances of Shwe Mann's removal, adding that divisions within the USDP were likely to result in increased electoral support for the NLD.\nCorrespondents say that the alliance between Mss Suu Kyi and Shwe Mann is significant because he has retained his influential role as parliamentary speaker, and has been widely seen as a possible compromise presidential candidate.\nMs Suu Kyi herself cannot run for the post under the terms of the constitution drafted by the military government.\nShe has not detailed how her alliance with Shwe Mann will work, but one likely area of collaboration might be amendment of the constitution to allow her to run for the presidency.\nThe government for its part on Tuesday has tried to downplay Shwe Mann's removal, which it described as \"part of a normal course of business\" for a political party.", "summary": "Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has announced that she will form an alliance with Shwe Mann, the ousted chairman of the governing Union Solidarity and Development Party." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Europe v Facebook is unhappy about \"half-hearted solutions\" following an audit by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.\nThe group says it will take the IDPC to court for what is sees as failures to implement the changes.\nIt believes the case could eventually go to the European Court of Justice.\n\"If we get these things before the courts, it is very likely that it goes all the way to the European Court of Justice. Such a case would be a landmark for the whole IT industry,\" said Max Schrems, the spokesman for Europe v Facebook.\nDespite the fact that, under Irish law, it will have to take the IDPC to court rather than Facebook, the group still sees it as a battle with the social network.\n\"In the end it will be us against Facebook because any outcome will affect how it can use data,\" Mr Schrems told the BBC.\nThe IDPC said that is waiting to hear from Europe v Facebook but that it would \"commence the process\" as soon as it did.\nThe group has been campaigning for better data protection for Facebook users for over a year and filed numerous complaints with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.\nIt triggered an audit which required Facebook to disclose more user data and, importantly , to turn off its facial recognition feature in Europe.\nThe feature put forward suggestions when registered users could be tagged in photographs.\nBut the group does not think the changes go far enough.\n\"The Irish authority is miles away from other European data protection authorities in its understanding of the law, and failed to investigate many things. Facebook also gave the authority the run-around,\" it said in a statement.\nIt feels that the social network has failed to fully implement the changes.\nSome 40,000 users have exercised their right to get a copy of all the data Facebook is holding on them but the group is unhappy about the tools the social network provides to users and is critical that, in 13 cases, the social network failed to meet the deadline for data delivery.\nIt is also questioning why facial recognition has only be deactivated for EU citizens given that Ireland is responsible for all users outside of the US and Canada.\nIn response Facebook issued a statement: \"The way Facebook Ireland handles personal data has been subject to thorough review by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner over the past year. The two detailed reports produced by the DPC demonstrate that Facebook Ireland complies with European data protection principles and Irish law,\n\"Nonetheless we have some vocal critics who will never be happy whatever we do and whatever the DPC concludes,\" it said.\nFacebook also faces a class-action lawsuit in the United States, where it is charged with violating privacy rights by publicising users' \"likes\" without giving them a way to opt out.\nA judge gave preliminary approval for the case to be settled by paying users up to $10 (£6.20; 7.60 euros) each out of a settlement fund of $20m.\nMeanwhile users are voting on whether they want proposed changes to privacy settings to go ahead. It could be the last user-generated vote on the network as Facebook is keen to scrap the system.\nSo far about 35,000 have voted. In order to change the plans, 30% of users - or 300 million - need to take part in the vote.", "summary": "Facebook's alleged violations of European data laws are to be scrutinised in court by a student group." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "John Gerrard Wynne, 61, of Exmouth, Devon, was walking with his 26-year-old daughter on 3,000ft (100m) Tryfan when he fell on Sunday.\nThey were descending down the South Gully when they decided to turn around but Mr Wynne slipped. He is believed to have fallen more than 200ft (60m).\nHe was airlifted to hospital in Bangor where he died.\nChris Lloyd, of Ogwen Valley mountain rescue team, said the pair had been walking in the area over the weekend when they took a wrong path down the mountain.\nAn inquest is expected to be held into Mr Wynne's death.", "summary": "A man who died after falling a \"considerable\" distance while walking in Snowdonia has been named." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Cardiff South and Penarth MP quit after Jeremy Corbyn sacked the party's Europe spokesman Pat McFadden.\nMr Doughty said his colleague was dismissed for his views on Islamic extremism and the Paris terror attacks.\nHe said national security should transcend \"personal score-settling\".\nAnnouncing his resignation live on the BBC's Daily Politics programme, Mr Doughty said: \"Fundamentally I agree with everything Pat McFadden said about terrorism, national security and about not being seen to develop a narrative that this is somehow the West that's responsible.\n\"And I have to look at my own conscience in that situation.\n\"And when an individual has been singled out for a sacking for words that I completely agree with I think it's only the honourable thing for me to do to also tender my resignation.\"\nMr Doughty also said \"lies\" were coming from the leader's office about the reasons behind the sacking of Mr McFadden.\nMr Corbyn's close ally, shadow chancellor John McDonnell, has said the sacking was due to \"issues about loyalty\".\n\"I think things are being said, that are simply not true,\" Mr Doughty said.\n\"One of the reasons I agreed to serve under Jeremy was his comments about 'new politics', about being open, being transparent, about being honest, about being straight-talking and certainly that seemed to be the case for the first weeks and months of his leadership.\n\"But unfortunately there is a tendency amongst those around him and in his team to be conducting some pretty unpleasant operations against people who've loyally served the party in government and in opposition\".\nMr Doughty's resignation sparked a war of words on twitter, with his fellow Welsh Labour MP Paul Flynn.\nNewport West MP Mr Flynn tweeted (but later deleted): \"Steve 'who?' Doughty resigns as part of Revolt of Unreformed Blairites uses wild divisive language. One Leader. One Party. One Enemy.\"\nHe added: \"Corbyn-Victory deniers in uber rant. Poor losers in denial on JC's victory. Celebrate departure of lightweights. Better replacements coming.\"\nMr Doughty responded: \"You've known me since I was 10 years old Paul ;) let alone that I am next door constituency to you.\n\"And you know full well I am hardly a lightweight...\"\nEarlier, Labour Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock said the party was \"going into uncharted territory\" following the reshuffle.\nAllies of Mr Corbyn have defended his right to make changes, saying the shadow cabinet had been out of line with the party as a whole on issues such as Syria.", "summary": "Shadow foreign office minister Stephen Doughty has resigned from the front bench accusing the Labour leader's office of telling \"lies\" about the shadow cabinet reshuffle." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe 27-year-old Birchfield Harrier's time of 9.96 seconds was also the quickest time by a Briton this year.\nOf Britons, only Linford Christie and James Dasaolu have run 100m faster.\nFearon, who will not be at Rio 2016, was part of the four-man bobsleigh team that came fifth in the 2014 Winter Olympics.\nThe Coventry-born athlete was part of the GB 4x100m relay squad at the 2013 World Championships but did not compete at the event.\nHe had improved his 100m personal best from 10.10 to 10.04 at a meeting in Loughborough two weeks ago.\nFearon becomes only the seventh British man to post an official sub-10-second time for the distance.\nDespite his impressive performance Fearon will not be competing at the Olympics in Rio.\nGB's male 100m representatives have already been selected, with Dasaolu and Ujah joined by James Ellington.\nDasaolu's personal best is 9.91secs, achieved in 2013, while Ujah ran 9.96s in 2014. Ellington's personal best is 10.04s.\nIn an interview with Athletics Weekly after Saturday's race, Fearon did not rule out pursuing his track ambitions before next year's Athletics World Championships in London, but said the 2018 Winter Olympics remained his focus.\n\"It's a year before our Olympics so it's up to [British Bobsleigh],\" he said.\n\"I'm their athlete so if they give me the freedom to go out and run, and if I'm in a position where I could make it, they'll allow me to go and do it. I'll work with the bobsleigh guys and see what we can put together.\n\"My focus is really on the bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics. We missed out on a medal in Sochi so I'm very focused on going and redeeming that and hopefully getting that medal that we should have got.\"\nFearon is not alone in taking his sprinting talents to the bobsleigh track.\nBritish sprinter Mark Lewis-Francis, who won Olympic gold as part of the 4x100m relay team at the 2004 Athens Games, joined the GB Bobsleigh set-up last year in a bid to reach the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.\nFellow 2004 Olympic gold medallist Jason Gardener also competed in the 2008 GB Bobsleigh championships, while other sprinters who have made the switch include Simeon Williamson, Marcus Adam, Allyn Condon and Beijing Olympian Craig Pickering.", "summary": "Bobsledder Joel Fearon ran the joint-third fastest 100m by a Briton at the English Athletics Championships on Saturday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales, has produced 50,000 of the special coins.\nThe coins, which contain 56 grams of silver, will be available at the value of £100.\nThe design was chosen in celebration of Big Ben's distinctive sound, which for many cues the start of the new year.\nThe design shows the clock tower from street level from the view of a person staring up towards the sky.\nThe coins have been designed as collector items and will not be something people will use to pay for things at the shops.", "summary": "A new £100 coin featuring London's Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben has been minted to mark the start of the new year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "His place in the back-row is taken by Dan Lydiate, with Justin Tipuric restored to the open-side and Taulupe Faletau on the bench after injury.\nLeigh Halfpenny moves to full-back after playing on the wing in the 33-30 win over Japan.\nScott Williams is preferred at centre to Jamie Roberts in a side showing one change from the win over Argentina.\nLoose-head Gethin Jenkins is captain after recovering from a shoulder injury.\nWarburton missed the opening game of the autumn series against Australia as he recovered from shoulder and neck injuries, but played in the wins over the Pumas and Japan.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nFaletau appears in the squad for the first time this autumn having played an hour for Bath against Bristol following a knee injury suffered in September.\nHalfpenny's return to the number 15 shirt sees Liam Williams move to the wing.\nDan Biggar returns at fly-half, with Sam Davies - whose last-minute drop goal clinched the win against Japan - getting the nod ahead of Gareth Anscombe on the bench.\n\"Sam [Warburton] had a stinger on Tuesday afternoon in training and it's the same injury he had when training with the Blues,\" said Howley.\n\"He felt he would get through the next 24-48 hours, but the medical staff saw him yesterday and this morning and it's just a wise decision that he won't be fit - it's much too early.\n\"We looked at the back-row and in light of playing against South Africa Dan Lydiate, who played well at the weekend has come into that number six position.\"\nHowley added he had not been tempted to start Faletau in the back row.\n\"Not really because he's played 45 minutes for Bath,\" said Howley.\n\"The impact he would have - he's a world class player - to come off the bench - it will be big from Toby and in terms of what we're expecting from South Africa we felt this was the best way to go.\"\nLiam Williams' move back to the left wing comes after the player was unimpressed with his own display against Japan, according to Howley.\n\"I spoke to Liam after the weekend. He was very disappointed with his performance,\" he added.\n\"I talked about him being a connection in the back field and the way we defend, I think the amount of work Leigh Halfpenny does on and off the ball [is significant] and Liam's a very intuitive player.\n\"There's an X-factor about Liam and probably in terms of his ability to add value in the wider channels, but Leigh Halfpenny is equally important and for me that is the best back three.\n\"Liam is probably a left wing who can play full-back, where I think Leigh Halfpenny can play both.\"\nWales: Halfpenny; North, J Davies, S Williams, Liam Williams; Biggar, G Davies; Jenkins (capt), Owens, Francis, Charteris, Wyn Jones, Lydiate, Moriarty, Tipuric.\nReplacements: Baldwin, Smith, Lee, Hill, Faletau, Lloyd Williams, S Davies, Roberts.", "summary": "Sam Warburton will miss Wales' game against South Africa on Saturday after suffering an injury in training." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A sexually explicit cartoon of the prophet Mohammed was sent from Chris Graham's Twitter account to a radical Islamist preacher in January.\nThe tweet was sent to Anjem Choudary on the day of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris.\nMr Graham was appointed as a non-executive director of the Ibrox club earlier this week.\nA spokesman for Police Scotland said: \"We are aware of the media reports in relation to comments made on a social media site. We are now carrying out inquiries into this matter.\"\nShortly after two gunmen had shot dead 12 people at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on 7 January, Mr Choudary sent a message on Twitter which read \"freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the prophets of Allah, whatever your views on the events in Paris today!\"\nMr Graham apparently replied by sending a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed engaged in an explicit homosexual act.\nMr Graham, 38, is well known among football fans for representing the Rangers Supporters Trust and running the Rangers Standard website.\nHis Twitter account is now restricted from public view.\nA spokesman for Rangers said on Wednesday that it was looking into the allegations.", "summary": "Police are \"carrying out inquiries\" into a tweet apparently sent by a newly-appointed Rangers director." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "30 September 2016 Last updated at 09:11 BST\nBut this hasn't been possible since a war started there more than five years ago.\nIn the country's biggest city Aleppo there are signs that the problems could be getting even worse.\nDespite that, children in Syria are trying to get by and do what they can to put a smile on their faces, as Leah's been finding out...", "summary": "Syria in the Middle East used to be a country where children lived normal lives, going to school, playing with friends and growing up in safety." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Black, who died in 2015, had a UK top 10 hit in 1964 with It's for You, written by McCartney and John Lennon.\nMcCartney recorded his own version earlier that year, which was delivered to Black while she was performing at the London Palladium.\nIt was believed to have been lost or destroyed until her nephew found it.\nThe disc fetched £18,000 at the Beatles Memorabilia Auction at Unity Theatre in Liverpool but with commission the unknown buyer will pay £21,060.\nSimon White said he believed his paternal aunt - whose birth name was Priscilla White - gave the disc to his late father in the mid-60s.\n\"My father was an avid record collector who took great care of his record collection, and he personally created the cardboard sleeve in which the acetate demo has been stored in his collection for more than 50 years.\"\nMr White assumed the copy was of his aunt's version and took it with other items to be valued at The Beatles Shop in Mathew Street, Liverpool.\nStephen Bailey, who has managed the store for 31 years, said they played what they thought were 21 demo discs by Black.\n\"We got to the last one and, as soon as I heard it, I thought: 'Oh God, that's not Cilla Black, it's Paul McCartney'.\"\n\"I was shaking with excitement and speechless.\"\nHe added: \"Apart from a few crackles, which you get with acetates, the quality is fine. It's a wonderful recording.\n\"I can't think of finding anything better unless I discover there is a sixth Beatle.\"\nSir Paul was allowed to make a copy of his recording to add to his personal archive, Mr White said.", "summary": "A long-lost demo disc recorded by Paul McCartney that was given to Cilla Black has sold for £18,000 at auction, the Beatles expert who found it has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Of 589 MPs, 122 employ a relative, according to the latest Register of Members' Financial Interests.\nThey include Gregory Campbell, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Ian Paisley, who employ their spouses in their offices.\nTheir DUP colleague, East Belfast MP Gavin Robinson, employs his father as an office manager.\nNone of the 61 new MPs who secured their seats at the general election on 8 June are allowed to employ a family member.\nCampaigners say there needs to be a clear end date for all MPs to stop the practice.\nAnnouncing the ban in March, the parliamentary watchdog, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, said employing family members was \"out of step\" with modern employment practices.\nHowever, MPs who served in the previous Parliament were allowed to continue their existing employment arrangements with relatives.", "summary": "Four DUP MPs continue to employ a family member using taxpayers' money, despite the practice being banned for new members of parliament." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lerwick Sheriff Court heard how police raided the Mossbank home of Stephen Bell last February.\nThey found several computers, recording devices and 35 hard drives containing child abuse images.\nBell was jailed for four years and four months.\nHe was also handed an additional non-custodial sentence of four years, placed on the sex offenders register for an indefinite period, and was issued with a sexual offences prevention order which will closely monitor his future use of the internet.\nHe had previously pled guilty to the charges, which took place over a five-year period between 1 February 2011 and 1 February 2016 at his home address and elsewhere.\nSheriff Philip Mann told Bell that his offending was of the most serious nature, had taken place over a considerable period of time and was further compounded by his \"difficulty in recognising the wrong\" he had done.\nProcurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie had earlier described Bell as a man whose life had over time been taken over by obtaining child pornography.\nThe court was told that the Crown took the decision to fully examine just six of the hard drives, while the remaining 29 drives - which also contained indecent images of children - were previewed.\nThe forensically examined hard drives revealed more than 100,000 indecent images of children, of which 5,300 were in the most serious category.\nOfficers also found almost 900 movies with child pornography stored on the devices.\nDefence solicitor Tommy Allan described his client as a \"loner\" who had allowed his obsession to take over his life.\nMr Allan added: \"It went out of control, and it was inevitable that at some point it would be discovered.\"\nDet Insp Richard Baird of Police Scotland said: \"This was an extremely complex investigation and Bell's system has been described as one of the most intricate ever seen by the specialist computer forensic examiners who worked on the case.\n\"Possessing indecent images is not a victimless crime and every day children are subjected to dreadful abuse in order to create these materials which are distributed around the world.\"", "summary": "A 58-year-old man from Shetland who admitted possessing hundreds of thousands of indecent images of children has been sent to jail for more than four years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 29-year-old man was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of assisting an offender in relation to the death of Assel Al-Essaie. He was later released on bail, South Yorkshire Police said.\nMr Al-Essaie, 23, died in hospital after being shot in the chest in Daniel Hill, Walkley.\nFour men, two women and two teenage boys, have previously been bailed.\nLive updates and more stories from Yorkshire\nMr Al-Essaie was believed to be in a black Mercedes C class car when he was shot on Saturday 18 February.\nArmed police sealed off surrounding streets and he was taken to hospital, where he died from his injuries.\nOfficers are still asking for anyone with information about Mr Al-Essaie's death to come forward.", "summary": "A ninth person has been arrested over the fatal shooting of a man in Sheffield in February." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Since regaining its independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Estonia has become one of the most economically successful of the European Union's newer eastern European members.\nRuled at various times during the middle ages by Denmark, the German knights of the Livonian Order, and Sweden, Estonia ended up part of the Russian Empire in the 18th century.\nIt experienced its first period of independence in 1918, following the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Russian Empire.\nPopulation 1.3 million\nArea 45,227 sq km (17,462 sq miles)\nMajor languages Estonian, Russian\nMajor religion Christianity\nLife expectancy 70 years (men), 80 years (women)\nCurrency euro\nPresident: Kersti Kaljulaid\nKersti Kaljulaid was elected by parliament as Estonia's first female president in October 2016.\nA biologist by training, Kaljulaid started her political career in 1999 as an economic adviser to Prime Minister Mart Laar. She served as Estonia's representative in the European Court of Auditors between 2004 and 2016.\nThe office is largely symbolic although it gained weight after outgoing President Toomas Hendrik Ilves carved a role as an outspoken critic of Russia and a campaigner for government digitalisation and cybersecurity.\nPrime minister: Juri Ratas\nJuri Ratas, whose party is popular among Estonia's large Russian-speaking minority, heads a coalition government which was sworn in in November 2016.\nHe was asked by the president to form a government after his predecessor Taavi Roivas lost a parliamentary vote on confidence when one of his junior coalition partners deserted.\nMr Ratas's Centre Party, which had been in opposition for a decade, has as partners the leftist Social Democrat SDE and conservative IRL.\nBefore taking office he indicated that his government would lean towards the West.\nTelevision is Estonia's most popular medium, while print media are losing ground to online outlets.\nThe broadcasting industry has attracted foreign media groups; the main privately-owned TVs are run by Swedish and Norwegian concerns.\nEesti Televisioon (ETV) and Eesti Raadio (ER) are public broadcasters. Take-up of cable and digital terrestrial TV is extensive; the offering includes stations in Finnish, Swedish, Russian and Latvian.\nSome key dates in Estonia's history:\n1918 - Independence proclaimed.\n1920- Peace treaty with Russia signed.\n1939 - The Soviet Union compels Estonia to accept Soviet military bases.\n1940 Soviet troops march in. Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union.\n1941 - German troops invade.\n1944 - Estonia reannexed by the Soviet Union. Tens of thousands of Estonians deported to Siberia and Central Asia.\n1988 - Popular Front campaigns for democracy. \"Singing revolution\" brings a third of the population together in a bid for national unity and self-determination.\n1991 - Communist rule collapses. Soviet government recognizes the independence of the Baltic republics.\n2004 - Estonia admitted to Nato and is one of 10 new states to join the EU.", "summary": "Estonia is the most northerly of the three Baltic states, and has linguistic ties with Finland." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But the tragedy at Grenfell Tower has thrown up a further horrible reality - two weeks on, the exact number of people who died is still unknown.\nOn Wednesday, Detective Superintendent Fiona McCormack announced that the number of dead and missing had risen to 80.\nShe also gave the most detailed account yet of how the police are trying to establish numbers.\nWhy is it so hard to arrive at a figure? Many of the details of the current investigation are being kept close to officials' chests, but we can combine what we do know and look at past incidents.\nThe first step is to set up a casualty bureau - a phone line the public can use to report people missing. The one for Grenfell Tower is on 0800 0961 233.\nPolice have been urging members of the public who know of people who are missing to get in touch and to put aside any reservations they may have about contacting the police.\nBut what about the people who aren't reported missing? This is much harder and in the case of Grenfell Tower the police say they are reviewing information from \"all imaginable sources\" to try to establish who was in the building that night.\nThe Tenant Management Organisation gave the police a list of tenants which turned out to contain inaccuracies. But in any case, it wouldn't have included visitors, many children or anyone illegally subletting. The electoral roll also helps to provide a picture, but again, not everyone living in the building or in each flat will be listed.\nSo the police turned to schools, nurseries, government agencies, even fast food delivery outlets. They asked residents about their friends and neighbours. And they used recordings of 999 calls made on the night of the fire.\nSocial media provides another source of intelligence. But this is like a jigsaw puzzle with so many people posting information about the missing.\nWith all these sources, if names are spelled differently or personal information is inaccurate, this can lead to confusion, delay and double-counting.\nThere is also often an international element, so the police will work with embassies according to a process supported by Interpol.\nThe lack of clarity over the number of bodies still inside Grenfell Tower has caused great distress among the local community, with many questioning why this is the case.\nThe police say they have done a full visual search of every flat on every floor. However, they say, \"utter devastation\" in the building is making a full forensic search difficult.\n\"It will be dusty, they will be witnessing harrowing things and of course there are no working lifts, so you have to climb up by foot,\" said Colin Sutton, a former police senior investigating officer.\nThe ferocity of the fire itself makes it harder to recover remains and it is the police's view that there may be people who will never be recovered or identified.\nWhere it's possible, identification will take place at the scene, using visual identification and DNA.\nIt is the local coroner who leads the investigation and decides what evidence is required to identify people.\nPolice are unwilling to estimate what the final number for those who died in Grenfell Tower will be, although Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said he hoped it wouldn't be triple figures.\nThis has frustrated families, friends and residents who think the number will be much higher than the current number of confirmed missing and dead.\nIn previous serious incidents, British authorities have overestimated numbers and a senior police officer has told the BBC they are now careful not to do this.\nAfter the Paddington rail crash in October 1999, police said they thought 61 people were dead, however the final figure was 31. And two weeks after the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004, the government said 453 people were \"highly likely\" to be lost. The final number of Britons confirmed dead was 149 (and thousands of others).\nOverestimating numbers can cause undue alarm to families waiting to hear about loved ones and it can damage confidence in the police.\nThe media has also been criticised for simply repeating the police figures, which is common practice.\nOn the day the fire broke out, BBC News and other news organisations began to gather their own information to independently verify the numbers of victims and survivors.\nOn 16 June when the police said the official number of confirmed dead was 30, the BBC estimated the number of dead and missing to be more than 70.\nPolice say the search and recovery process at Grenfell Tower will take at least until the end of the year and the identification process will take even longer.\nSo far, they say they have spoken to at least one person from 106 of the 129 flats in the building. But there are still 23 flats where they \"presume no-one survived\".", "summary": "We assume that in our hyper-connected world, we can always access the information we need and track down the people we want to find." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Boeing 737-800 crash in Rostov-on-Don killed all 62 people on board, including seven crew.\nPilots speaking anonymously to the BBC say fatigue was a contributory factor in the accident - claims FlyDubai says relate to \"confidential information\".\nOne pilot reported previously falling asleep at the controls from exhaustion.\n\"We are unable to disclose confidential information relating to our employees,\" a FlyDubai spokesperson said.\n\"It is important, not least out of respect for the families involved, that we do not speculate about the circumstances of this tragic accident, whilst the independent investigating authorities carry out their work.\"\nThe pilots who spoke to the BBC say their colleagues are at \"significant and obvious risk\" from fatigue. One of the sources has already resigned and another says he will quit.\nPoor visibility and high winds are being considered as the cause of the accident, which occurred after the passenger jet missed the runway as it attempted to land.\nReports say the plane abandoned its initial attempt to land and circled for two hours before crashing at the second attempt.\nThe three FlyDubai staff members said that the captain, Cypriot Aristos Sokratous, had already resigned and was serving out his three-month notice, stating fatigue and lifestyle as his main reasons for leaving.\n\"This crash was very close to home,\" a FlyDubai pilot told the BBC. \"I don't want to speculate on what caused the crash, but I think that fatigue must have been a contributory factor. I'm also not surprised it happened.\n\"Crew are overworked and suffering from fatigue. It is a significant risk.\n\"Staff are going from night to day shifts without enough rest in between. I would say 50% of the airline's workforce are suffering from acute fatigue.\n\"I raised it with a senior member of staff at the airline who said 'we don't have a fatigue issue at FlyDubai'.\"\nAir disasters timeline\nPilot fatigue has long been stated as a concern in the airline industry. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has previously proposed setting limits on the duration that pilots can fly.\n\"The attitude among crew before this crash was that it's a case of when, not if, there would be an accident,\" one of the pilots said.\n\"We were asking 'do we have to lose an aircraft' for things to change? So staff, while shocked, are not surprised.\n\"The writing was on the wall. Most crews are running on empty anyway. Everyone is tired.\n\"I am worried, but I wanted to speak out. Why should people have to lose their lives?\n\"Approximately 25 pilots out of 600 have resigned since the beginning of the year. From my understanding, most have cited fatigue, rosters and quality of life.\"\nAnother pilot who spoke to the BBC said he and colleagues had also raised the issue of fatigue with the airline's management and he had admitted falling asleep on the flight deck on one occasion due to exhaustion. He said he is going to resign from the airline.\n\"The degradation in performance is noticeable,\" the second pilot said.\n\"I have fallen asleep at the controls due to fatigue. I also didn't have full mental capabilities on approach, which is incredibly serious.\n\"I admitted it and raised it with senior staff but nothing was done about it.\n\"More of the travelling public should be questioning what's going on at the front of the airplane and should know more about the welfare of the people flying the plane.\n\"I am resigning because of constant fatigue. I am going to give my notice in the next couple of weeks.\"\nIn a further statement the airline said: \"For FlyDubai the safety and welfare of our flight crew and cabin crew is of primary importance. The whole aviation industry is heavily regulated.\n\"We strictly follow authorised flying duty time regulations in compiling duty rosters, with special attention paid to the variables which affect our crews including report times, previous duty and the number of days off.\n\"If a member of flight crew feels that, for whatever reason, they have not been able to get enough rest before starting a shift, our Safety Management Systems (SMS), encourages pilots to declare themselves unfit to fly.\"\nFatigue has been linked to a number of previous high profile aviation incidents. It was listed among the causes of a TransAsia flight which crashed in a heavy storm on Taiwan's Penghu island July 2014, leaving 48 dead.\nIt was also cited as causing a pilot to send an Air Canada passenger plane into a dive over the North Atlantic in 2011, injuring 16 people.\nOfficials say the cockpit voice and data recorders recovered from the crash scene have been badly damaged and are unlikely to reveal much data.\nFlyDubai is a low cost carrier airline, which launched in 2009. It has a hub in Dubai and operates flights to some 90 destinations.", "summary": "The captain of the FlyDubai jet which crashed in Russia last Saturday was due to leave the airline, citing fatigue, colleagues say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 34-year-old has been at Old Trafford since signing from Tottenham in July 2006 and made 42 appearances last season.\n\"I am delighted that this incredible journey is continuing. It's great to have the opportunity to work under Jose Mourinho,\" he said.\n\"I would like to thank the fans for their unwavering support.\"\nCarrick's previous deal - signed back in November 2013 - was set to expire at the end of this month and he had been approached by A-League side Perth Glory about a possible move to Australia.\nBut manager Mourinho sees Carrick as a useful asset as he prepares for his his first season at United.\n\"Michael has a wealth of experience from his many years at the club and that knowledge will be invaluable to me,\" said the Portuguese.\n\"I am really looking forward to working with him.\"\nCarrick shared the holding midfield role with Morgan Schneiderlin and Bastian Schweinsteiger last season.\nManchester United had been linked with midfielder Renato Sanches before the 18-year-old completed a move to Bayern Munich in May.\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "summary": "Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick has agreed a new one-year contract with the club." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Kensington and Chelsea's own analysis shows it has built a fraction of the social housing the borough needs.\nDevelopers can pay a fee if they can convince the council that affordable homes would make their plans unviable.\nThe council said it struggled to build affordable homes in a crowded area.\nKensington and Chelsea has been severely criticised for its failures over Grenfell Tower, including allegations that the regeneration of the tower was done on the cheap and that survivors of the blaze were not properly cared for.\nAt least 80 people died in the fire.\nThe disaster, in one of the richest areas in the country, has also thrown a spotlight on the council's attitude towards its poorest residents.\nThe council's policy is for half of homes in large housing schemes to be available for rent or sale at below market rates.\nThe official target is to build 200 affordable units - flats or houses - each year between 2011 and 2021.\nBut the council's own figures show that since 2011-12, just 336 units have been built; in 2012-13, just four were completed.\nAt the same time, Kensington and Chelsea struck deals with developers to pay it nearly £60m.\nSince 2011, the council has agreed payments worth £59.7m, in what are known as Section 106 agreements.\nThe council is allowed to charge developers a fee if their scheme would ordinarily be liable to include social housing but its backers can convince officials that to do so would make the proposal unviable.\nThat headline figure includes £47.3m in 2016 alone.\nThe figures have been calculated for BBC News by EG, a property consultancy firm, whose work includes researching planning committee reports for Section 106 payments.\nSenior analyst Graham Shone said payment to the council had undergone a \"step change\" on previous years.\n\"Maybe the council is a bit more receptive to those kinds of agreements going through as a way to encourage development across the borough,\" he said.\nDevelopers Chelsfield plan to \"reinvigorate, restore and celebrate\" the block above Knightsbridge Tube station.\nThe design includes retail outlets at street level, new offices, 35 residential apartments, an underground car park and a rooftop garden and restaurant.\nGiven the size of the development, to comply with the council's own policy, the scheme should include affordable housing.\nHowever, in their planning application, the architects say: \"The size of units [flats] are larger than what would normally be associated with affordable housing based on the London Housing Design Guide.\"\nThey also argue the service charge on the flats \"would far exceed what would be a sustainable level for affordable housing\".\nAnd while they had considered creating another lift to accommodate affordable housing, this would \"compromise\" the retail units on the ground floor.\nA mix of private and affordable homes, they say, is therefore \"not viable\".\nThe council accepted the arguments, passed the scheme, and will receive £12.1m in lieu of affordable housing at the development.\nThe payments are meant to help the council provide affordable housing in other parts of the borough or to renovate existing stock.\nA paper prepared for the council's cabinet last year shows that of the nearly £21m the council has received since 2009-10 for affordable homes, £9.2m remains unspent.\nDevelopers can also pay fees to off-set other impacts of their schemes. And the same paper shows that of the total £57.3m that Kensington and Chelsea has received since 2009-10, £36.7m has still not been spent.\nNone of the developers' contributions has been used to improve air quality, libraries, sports facilities or healthcare, and very little has been spent on employment initiatives or children's playgrounds.\nRobert Atkinson, head of the Labour group at Kensington and Chelsea, said he was shocked by the amount of money the council was receiving and how few affordable homes were being built.\n\"One of the beauties of living in London is you have a balanced population, and I do think we have a duty not to produce the prettiest ghost town in Western Europe.\n\"Our first loyalty should be to maintaining and strengthening our communities, and we have fallen down on that job terribly.\"\nThe need for affordable housing in Kensington and Chelsea is acute.\nA Freedom of Information request submitted by the BBC last year showed the council had spent £28m providing temporary accommodation to homeless residents in 2015-16, a figure that has doubled in five years.\nAlmost three-quarters of those people are being housed outside the borough - the highest proportion in London.\nThe council said that \"as the smallest London borough\", with the second highest population density in England and Wales and 4,000 listed buildings, \"the borough only has a limited capacity to deliver housing\".\nA spokesman said its policy of allowing developers to negotiate on affordable housing \"stems from government policy\".\n\"The council scrutinises any viability information provided by the applicants in detail and in some cases is able to secure higher proportions than those proposed by applicants,\" he added.", "summary": "The council that ran the Grenfell Tower block struck deals worth nearly £50m last year to allow developers to avoid having to build affordable homes, research for BBC News shows." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Famously, in a BBC television interview after his 2009 Aintree success on 100-1 shot Mon Mome, Treadwell flashed a gap-toothed smile prompting interviewer Clare Balding to comment: \"He hasn't got the best [teeth] in the world - but you can afford to go and get them 'done' now.\"\nThough the jockey took no offence - and ended up laughing all the way to a free dental makeover - Balding apologised for the remark, which became one of the sporting stories of that year.\nNow as he relaunches a riding career put on hold for six months by the side effects of \"cumulative\" concussion which made him fear for his future in the saddle, Treadwell, 30, says rewatching the incident, dubbed 'Col-gate' at the time, aided his return.\nHe said: \"The symptoms of concussion probably wore off after six weeks or two months, but I was mentally not very well and my brain was still a bit fragile when I exercised. If I ran 100 yards down the road, I felt like I'd been clobbered round the head.\n\"I didn't want to ride a horse as I felt so grim, so disillusioned, and I was shutting myself away, not talking to anyone; I wasn't diagnosed with depression, but in my own head, sitting on the sofa at home, I felt depressed.\n\"A sports psychologist encouraged me to watch the good days on TV - good times, successes, so Mon Mome and [2013 Cheltenham Festival winner] Carrickboy were two I watched and seeing Clare's comments about my teeth at Aintree definitely helped me to smile again.\"\nChatting in the car park at Kempton, on a rain-drenched Monday in November ahead of taking his first mount since late May, the winner of more than 250 races looked out on the soaking scene and insisted: \"After the six months I've had, I don't give a damn about the rain - I'm just very, very excited to be here.\"\nReflecting on his time on the sidelines, he told BBC Sport: \"I'd had a big bang [fall] in March, and then came back and had a couple of 'soft' falls but wasn't feeling myself.\n\"I'd be sat at home at night and I'd drop in and out of the conversation randomly, and couldn't remember the details of what had been said, and I was feeling very tired.\n\"My wife Emily and [fellow jockey] Robbie Dunne, who was living with us at the time, said I needed to see someone, and she actually filmed it one evening, on the quiet, to show me to make the point.\n\"I had some basic tests at [the Injured Jockeys Fund's rehabilitation centre] Oaksey House and a chat for 40 minutes or an hour to them. When I left the room, I was so emotionally and mentally drained I felt I'd been 10 rounds with Mike Tyson - I thought 'God, I've got some issues'.\n\"As one month came and went, and another, of course I was worried about what the future was going to hold for me as a jockey.\"\nWith the support of Mon Mome's trainer Venetia Williams, his main employer, who ordered him to \"take as long as you need\", he embarked on a lengthy period of complete rest - \"doing nothing, giving the brain a chance to heal\" - mixed with regular visits to his psychologist.\nThose visits are now due to continue, to help him to deal with what he sees as the \"railroad life of a jockey\", and he plans to encourage colleagues to make their own appointments.\n\"I'm going to be very open with the lads in the weighing room,\" he said, \"and tell them being able to speak to a specialist is an important thing for any sportsman or woman, especially when they feel like I did that they've got the weight of the world on their shoulders.\n\"Racing may be behind other sports like cricket or rugby where it's commonplace.\n\"I feel fitter and stronger than I probably ever have been - I hope that can transfer into the saddle - and I've got my mind back in order; I have a better understanding of myself I think.\"\nAt Kempton, it looked as though a fairytale return was on the cards for Treadwell on the Venetia Williams-trained Uhlan Bute as the pair took the lead at the third to last fence in the two-and-a-half-mile handicap chase, only for the horse to unseat its rider at the next with the race apparently at their mercy.\nDespite the tumble, a smile - of perfectly aligned teeth - lit up the gloom. Nothing was going to disrupt the sheer delight of being back.", "summary": "Liam Treadwell's teeth helped to make him one of the best known Grand National-winning jockeys of recent years, and those celebrated gnashers have again played a significant role in his life." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Second Half begins Forest Green Rovers 0, Boreham Wood 0.\nFirst Half ends, Forest Green Rovers 0, Boreham Wood 0.\nCharlie Cooper (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card.\nFirst Half begins.\nLineups are announced and players are warming up.", "summary": "Match details to follow." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Marco Pierre White Jr, 21, pleaded guilty to dishonestly making false representations when he appeared at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court.\nDistrict Judge Michael Snow told Pierre White Jr he was \"not an honest man\".\nPierre White Jr is expected to be sentenced at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 8 December.\nThe Court was told Pierre White Jr asked to borrow his ex-girlfriend's credit card to buy food and requested the card to be unblocked.\nThe former Celebrity Big Brother housemate, who gave his address as a hotel in Corsham near Bath, then made several unauthorised purchases to the sum of £2,500, including during a visit to an Apple Store.\nProsecutor Robert Chambers said the woman later received an email from her bank about a \"high volume of transactions\".\nWhen confronted, Pierre White Jr told her he had been accidentally overcharged at a store, the court heard.\nHe then claimed he needed the card to be unblocked because he had been arrested and needed to pay bail.\nThe woman accused Pierre White Jr of having a \"drug habit\" and claimed she had never been in a relationship with him.\nBut defence barrister Carl Newman said the pair had been in a relationship and she had given Pierre White Jr the card to make purchases in the past.\nThe judge said Pierre White had been given the card voluntarily but couldn't \"suggest he was given permission to go straight to the Apple Store\".", "summary": "The son of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White has admitted dishonestly using his ex-girlfriend's bank card to buy £2,500 worth of goods." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Greece's latest offer constituted \"some progress\". But she said more work was needed and \"time is short\".\nGreece must repay €1.6bn (£1.1bn) to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of the month.\nIf it fails to do so, it risks crashing out of the euro and possibly the EU.\nAlthough no deal has been struck, key obstacles appear to have been cleared, the BBC's Damian Grammaticas reports from Brussels.\nThe deal being formed is believed to include:\nThe move was received with cautious optimism by leaders of 18 other eurozone nations gathered for an emergency summit in Brussels.\nAnalysis: Robert Peston, BBC economics editor\nThere is a script which seemingly all eurozone leaders are urged to learn, which is that if the currency union is in the grips of crisis, no solution can or should be found till markets and economy are on the verge of a heart attack.\nWith almost no time left before a de facto default - and, more frighteningly perhaps, with a Greek banking system on the brink of total collapse because savers had lost all confidence that a rescue for their state could be found - Mr Tsipras has come up with a plan that his fellow eurozone leaders see, at last, as the basis for a deal.\nSo subject to technical talks, an actual deal to release life-saving additional loans for Greece may be reached at the end of the week.\nGreek tragedy: End of an act, not the whole play\nWhy should I care?\nWhat's behind the crisis?\nThe European Central Bank (ECB) approved additional emergency funding for Greek banks to cover withdrawals, allowing banks to stay open and providing breathing space for a deal to be reached.\nIt has acted repeatedly after anxious savers withdrew more than €4bn in recent days.\nThe Greek banking system is on the verge of collapse due to savers' loss of confidence.\nEurozone finance ministers meet again on Wednesday. They hope to approve a package to be put to eurozone leaders for final endorsement on Thursday morning.\nEven if eurozone finance ministers and the European Council agree to a deal, it still needs to be approved by the Greek parliament and eurozone governments by next Tuesday.\nOnly once agreement is reached will creditors unlock the final €7.2bn tranche of bailout funds.\nAfter talks ended on Monday evening, Mrs Merkel said that everyone taking part wanted Greece to stay in the eurozone, \"myself included\".\n\"The proposals offered by Greece today constitute some progress. However, it became clear during our discussions that there is a lot of work to be done and time is short,\" she said.\nMrs Merkel said she was open to considering debt relief - which Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says is needed to secure support for reforms at home - but only after the present negotiations are completed.\nCommentators say Greece's mountain of debt - worth almost 180% of its entire annual economic output - will need to be restructured if it is to escape the cycle of scrambling to secure funds to pay off looming bills to creditors.\nMr Tsipras also met the heads of Greece's three international creditors - the IMF, the European Commission and the ECB - in Brussels.\nFrench President Francois Hollande said Greece and its creditors were \"moving towards an accord\" but there was \"still work to be done\".\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU finance commissioner Pierre Moscovici both professed themselves \"convinced\" that a final agreement would be reached.\nBut there has been some pessimism from Greece, with deputy parliament speaker and Syriza lawmaker Alexis Mitropoulos reportedly telling Greek TV that lawmakers would find it \"difficult to pass\" the latest package of reforms.\nThe issue is highly contested in Greece - with anti-austerity and pro-European protesters clashing in Athens on Monday night.\nPensioners are due to stage another rally on Tuesday afternoon.\nGreece's left-wing Syriza government opposes reforms it says will impose unnecessary hardship.\nIt was elected in January 2015 on pledges it would end austerity.", "summary": "Eurozone leaders have broadly welcomed new proposals for Greek reforms amid hopes a deal can be struck within days to stop Greece defaulting on its debt." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sir Howard visited Libya to advise the regime about financial reforms and accepted a £300,000 donation from the Libyan leader's second son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi for research at the LSE.\nHis departure underlines just how politically toxic links with the Gaddafi regime have become ever since it began its brutal suppression of the Libyan uprising.\nSaif al-Islam's former friends and business associates in the west have become embarrassed to admit ever knowing him now his reputation as a liberal reformer has been scuttled.\nYet just a few weeks ago Saif was socialising with the creme de la creme of British society.\nSo how did so many respectable people get it so wrong?\nIn part this is because Saif makes such a good impression in the media. Tall and handsome, he speaks fluent English and presented himself as the acceptable face of the Gaddafi regime.\nWith few exceptions, he sided with the reformers in Libya and seemed prepared to go head-to-head with his father in an attempt to develop the fledgling Libyan private sector and open up the atrophied media.\nBut Saif's warm reception in influential business, academic and political circles in the West was also attributable to the eagerness in some quarters to gain access to Libya's oil wealth.\n\"If Libya was a country without an oil producing capacity, I don't think Saif would have convinced the West,\" said Dr Omar Ashur, a lecturer in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.\n\"Because of the interests [the West had in Libya] the moral dimension was pushed aside for a while or frozen for a while. But after what happened in Libya in the last few days I don't think this can continue anymore.\"\nLike the rest of Gaddafi's children, Saif lived a life of privilege and ease, although like his father he claimed to have no official position and denied having access large funds.\nBut now new evidence has emerged that despite his denials, Saif in fact controlled the multi-billion-pound Libyan sovereign wealth fund, the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA).\n\"I've seen the Godfather. This is the closest thing in real life,\" commented a Libyan investment banker familiar with how the LIA was run.\n\"It is as if it is his own private farm. This was almost like a mafia operation.\"\nThe ostensible purpose of the Libyan Investment Authority - known in Arabic as \"the mother of all funds\" - was to manage Libya's excess oil wealth for the benefit of future generations.\nIts assets were valued at around £50bn to £60bn ($80-100bn) and included shares in Juventus football club, Italian oil giant Eni, and Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times.\nSaif appointed an old college friend named Mustafa Zarti to manage the LIA on his behalf.\n\"Zarti wasn't made deputy chairman of the LIA because of his talent in investment. It was out of his loyalty and proximity to Saif. Saif put him there to ensure he implements whatever investment policy was required of him,\" said the banker.\nThe way the LIA worked was that Saif would cut opaque business deals with his super-wealthy friends at private parties, sometimes using middle men, and then Zarti would be instructed to push them through.\n\"It was very much top down. Saif would give the deals to Mustafa. Mustafa would give them to his team.\n\"Obviously he never would be held accountable because he never signed anything and to best of my knowledge Mustafa didn't sign anything,\" the banker said.\nMany of the deals Saif and Mustafa tried to push through made little financial sense and were met with strong objections by the staff at the LIA.\nSome of these bad deals fell through, including ones with Bernie Madoff and Saif's close friend Nat Rothschild, but other bad deals were done and ended up costing the LIA millions.\n\"The LIA was being pushed by Saif and Mustafa to invest in Rusal, a Russian aluminium company which had a lot of issues,\" said the banker.\n\"The deal was fought tooth and nail by the investment committee, by the board, but in the end it was done. You could say no some of the time to Saif's deals but you can't say no all of the time.\"\nFinancial corruption by the Gaddafi family and others linked to the regime has been one of the key drivers of the current Libyan uprising.\nThe LIA's funds have now been frozen under UN sanctions and on Tuesday the Austrian foreign ministry asked Austria's Central Bank to look into freezing Mustafa Zarti's Austrian assets.\nThe Gaddafi family tree\nHis future, like the future of Saif himself, remains uncertain.\n\"The right place for many of the leading figures in this regime is the International Criminal Court. To prolong the life of the regime there was a very successful strategy to provide another face and that face was of Saif al-Islam, the LSE graduate, a reformist leading development,\" said Omar Ashur.\n\"They were people who were trying to disguise themselves as doves, but in the end they were brutally repressive figures. I don't think there are doves within the Gaddafi regime - including Saif al-Islam.\"\nHugh Miles is an award winning writer and broadcaster, the author of Al Jazeera - How Arab TV News Challenged the World.\nYou can listen to this special edition of The Report on Libya via the BBC iPlayer now or download the podcast. It will be re-broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 6 March at 2100 GMT.", "summary": "The director of the London School of Economics Sir Howard Davies has submitted his resignation after admitting an \"error of judgment\" in establishing links with the regime of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cleethorpes Pier, which dates back to 1873 and was built at a cost of £8,000, has recently undergone a £5m renovation.\nIt now features a restaurant, tea-room and wedding venue.\nEarlier this year, the 335ft (100m) pier, one of the shortest in the UK, was voted Pier of the Year by the National Piers Society.\nCurrent owner Bryan Huxford, who bought it three years ago, said he wanted to return the pier to the community and see it develop under new owners.\nTim Mickleburgh, honorary vice-president of the National Piers Society, said its current owners had widened its appeal.\nHe said: \"In the past it was a nightclub and only had the evening clientele.\"\nThe venue is advertised as being open to offers.", "summary": "A refurbished Victorian pleasure pier voted the best in the country has been put up for sale." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The force has already said the number of police officers is to reduce from 1,230 to 1,150.\nA review has concluded a further 56 staff posts are also to be axed. The force employs 741 civilian staff.\nAdditional measures including departmental mergers and the introduction of new technology, is expected to save about £1.6m a year.\nChief Constable Craig Mackey said: \"Our challenge is to continue providing an excellent policing service to the people of Cumbria on a reduced budget, so we are making some difficult choices.\n\"I am very conscious that when we talk about making savings we are often talking about people's jobs, but we have got to make these savings, and we have got to deliver the best possible police service that we can with the amount of money available.\n\"To achieve this, we have had to prioritise our frontline services, and streamline our support functions, by being more innovative and creative and by using new technology.\n\"There is no doubt we will be a smaller organisation after we implement these changes, but we are firmly committed to providing frontline policing in local neighbourhoods and maintaining a good performance with low levels of crime and antisocial behaviour across Cumbria.\"", "summary": "Cumbria Police has announced further job cuts as part of plans to save more than £20m over the next five years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Scottish first minister has made her support for Hillary Clinton and disapproval of Donald Trump clear.\nBut as voting in the election continued, Ms Sturgeon said she would respect the outcome no matter who won.\nAnd she said she would seek to ensure that relationships between Scotland and the US remained in good health.\nMs Sturgeon has previously stripped Mr Trump, the Republican candidate, of his status as a business ambassador for Scotland despite his investment in two Scottish golf courses.\nMr Trump has also been involved in a high-profile war of words with the Scottish government - and in particular former first minister Alex Salmond - over its backing for plans to build an offshore wind farm near his course at Menie in Aberdeenshire.\nAt a press briefing at Bute House in Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon was asked how much of a problem it would be for US and Scottish relations if Mr Trump was elected, and whether he would be welcome as a business investor in Scotland regardless of the outcome.\nShe said: \"It's up to American voters who they want to choose as their president. I've made my views known, for what they are worth, in terms of the outcome.\n\"The ties between Scotland and America are long-standing, they are very deep and they are enduring.\n\"And whatever the outcome of the election I will respect that outcome and will continue to work to ensure that those relationships, which are not just relationships of family and culture but also very important business and economic relationships, continue to be in good health.\"\nShe said the Scottish government was \"in the business of trying to encourage investment in Scotland\", which she said was a \"separate matter to the issue of who is elected president of the United States.\"\nAsked why she was supporting Mrs Clinton, she added: \"I think her experience, her strength, her amazing resilience - which I think has been on show throughout this campaign - will make her a good president and somebody well able to face up to and address the challenges that America, in common with many other countries, faces.\n\"Above and beyond that though, I'm standing here as the first woman to hold the office of first minister and I think it would be great to see the world's biggest democracy elect the first woman leader.\n\"I think the message that would send to women and girls all across the world would be a very positive one.\n\"I think it would be good to see that perhaps biggest crack to date in the glass ceiling.\"\nVoting in the election began early on Tuesday morning - although a record 46 million Americans had voted early by post or at polling stations.\nResults are expected some time after 04:00 GMT on Wednesday once voting ends on the west coast.", "summary": "Nicola Sturgeon has said the \"deep and enduring\" ties between Scotland and the US will continue regardless of who wins the presidential election." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ibe, 20, has been given permission to speak to the Cherries after a 2015-16 season that saw him make 12 Premier League starts for the Reds.\nThe transfer would top the reported £10m Bournemouth paid Wolves for Benik Afobe in January.\nEngland Under-21 winger Ibe has made 58 appearances for Liverpool since signing from Wycombe Wanderers in 2011.\nIbe had been earmarked as the natural replacement at Anfield for Raheem Sterling after he made a £49m move to Manchester City last summer.\nThe youngster's form dipped, however, and he was not a regular under Jurgen Klopp after he succeeded Brendan Rodgers as manager.\nIbe did show a glimpse of his promise with a spectacular goal at West Bromwich Albion in Liverpool's final Premier League game of last season.\nBournemouth are seeking reinforcements after selling Matt Ritchie to Newcastle United in a deal that could eventually be worth £12m.", "summary": "Bournemouth have had a club record £15m offer for Liverpool winger Jordon Ibe accepted." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They will be helped to find their feet with a new orientation course that shows them how the parliament works.\nOffices will be allocated and security passes will be given out, but candidates will have to wait to see who will be the next presiding officer.\nThe election for that post is to be held on Thursday.\nThe post was previously held by Tricia Marwick of the SNP - but it is thought unlikely that the SNP will want to lose one of its 63 MSPs to the role this time around, given that they are two seats short of a majority in the 129-seat parliament.\nNicola Sturgeon, who is set to continue as first minister, has already ruled out forming a coalition with another party.\nInstead, she said the SNP would govern as a minority administration, as it did between 2007 and 2011.\nThat would see the SNP seek support from politicians in other parties in order to pass legislation in the parliament.\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said he was confident the SNP had \"common ground\" on a range of topics with other parties in the parliament.\nHe said: \"In that spirit, the government will enter the new parliamentary term with a determination to implement the manifesto on which it won the election, and to work with other parties to enable us to do so.\n\"Since 2007 the opposition have on occasions supported us and on occasions opposed us. When we were working without a majority back in 2007 we sought agreement on a whole range of different topics. As a majority government after 2011 we also sought agreement on a variety of subjects with other political parties.\n\"So really the working practice of the government will be no different in the period going forward - we will work with others to seek the maximum agreement around our policy programme.\"\nThe Conservatives came second in the election with 31 seats, Scottish Labour won 24 seats followed by the Scottish Greens on six and Liberal Democrats on five.\nScottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson told Good Morning Scotland that her objective for the next five years was to take the independence question \"off the table\" and to \"make the SNP focus on the things that matter to people\" such as education, the NHS and policing.\nShe added: \"Yes, absolutely there is a mandate for a third term SNP government, and I respect that. But the voters were pretty clear - that mandate is a qualified mandate, it is not a majority any more, and that does mean that the SNP has to find common cause with other parties too.\n\"I think particularly in yesterday's interview that the first minister did on the BBC, she seemed to suggest that she had a mandate to carry out everything in her manifesto without compromise whatsoever, and she would only seek common cause if it meant all of us changing our minds in order to fall in behind her.\n\"I understand the point she is making, but that is kind of not how it works. There's going to have to be serious people in the parliament that are making serious decisions about where compromises can be made in order to take our country forward, and that is healthy, that is democratic, that was always how our parliament was supposed to work.\"\nThe campaign over, it was back to work for our elected tribunes today. The old hands exuding confidence and familiarity. The new boys and girls anxiously finding their way around, constantly fearful that some brute is about to pinch their tuck.\nIt is, in truth, an elegant, genteel return. Thursday before we get a new presiding officer. Maybe Elaine Smith? Johann Lamont? Ken Macintosh? John Scott? Murdo Fraser? The retiring incumbent, Tricia Marwick, was on hand today, tendering helpful advice.\nAs things stand, the middle of next week before Nicola Sturgeon is confirmed as parliament's nominee to the Queen for first minister. To be clear, Ms Sturgeon can carry on governing for now with the previous mandate, Her Majesty being understandably disinclined to countenance a vacuum in Scottish governance.\nDespite the cheery chat today, there is some offstage growling already under way anent the power structure in parliament.\nFor example, the Greens, understandably buoyed by their advance, are prone to say that they now hold the balance of power. Up to a point, Lord Copper. They no more hold the balance than do Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Tories - or indeed any couple of rebellious MSPs within said parties.\nRead more from Brian", "summary": "The new MSPs elected in the Scottish Parliament election are spending their first day in the job at Holyrood." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Wojciech Tomaszewski, 75, from Warsaw, contacted Swansea council's archives team after his own search hit a wall.\nAfter liberation in 1945, his uncle Edmund Tomaszewski moved to Baglan Street in Port Tennant and worked for Skewen's DC William Press Ltd.\nBut what happened to him after this point remains unknown.\nHe lost touch with his brother, Wojciech Tomaszewski's father, as communications across the Iron Curtain became increasingly difficult.\n\"From the very scarce pieces of information I have, I learned that my uncle had a large family in Swansea - one of his daughters was Maria who had two children, Natasha and David,\" Wojciech Tomaszewski said.\n\"I have searched on the internet but could find neither a postal nor an email address for any of these relatives of mine.\n\"The surname is not found in the Swansea phone directory either.\"\nCounty archivist Kim Collis said: \"Records held in the archives tell us Edmund was originally from Warsaw and came to Britain after being liberated by American troops from a long period of wartime imprisonment by the Nazis, including a short spell in the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp, and then a period of service in the free Polish Forces.\n\"Being unable to return to his native Poland when it fell under communist control, he was officially resettled here and obtained work in a local steelworks.\n\"It'd be hugely satisfying if someone out there could help us trace any cousins or next generation relatives because it could help reunite two branches of a Polish family that's been split for 70 years.\"\nDescendants of Edmund and people who may remember him can contact the archive service.", "summary": "A Polish man has issued a plea for information on his uncle who settled in Swansea after surviving Auschwitz concentration camp." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ravi Babu said the piglet would star in his next film called Adhigo, which translates from the Telugu to \"there\".\nLong bank queues have become common after 500 and 1,000 rupee notes were banned in a crackdown on corruption.\n\"I was taking it to a computer graphics lab when I realised I didn't have money for fuel,\" Mr Babu told the BBC.\n\"I stopped at the ATM but had to carry it myself because it squealed when my production assistant tried carrying it.\n\"You have to hold it with your hand under its chest and hold it close to you to make it feel comfortable.\"\nThe picture is being widely circulated on Indian social media.\nThere have been chaotic scenes in India ever since the currency ban was announced as part of a crackdown on \"black money\" two weeks ago. People have been queuing up for hours outside banks and cash machines which often are fast running out of money.\nThis has brought India's largely cash economy to a virtual standstill.\nHow will India destroy 20 billion banknotes?\nWhy India wiped out 86% of its cash\nMeet the 'money mules' of India's cash crisis\nIndia's 'desperate housewives' scramble to change secret savings\nCan India's currency ban really curb the black economy?\nThe piglet, whose name is Bunty, is one of 25 pigs being reared to star in Babu's film.\n\"`They just grow too fast. So I am rearing quite a few to ensure the piglet's character looks the same size,\" he told the BBC.\nStanding in line at the ATM in the southern city of Hyderabad, Babu took only about 15 minutes to withdraw 2,000 rupees - with Bunty firmly in hand.\nThe four people ahead of the star in the queue did not seem too bothered about the piglet and were apparently more concerned about withdrawing money.\nIt was only when the impatient piglet started protesting that onlookers reacted with amusement.", "summary": "A south Indian film star has caused a sensation after being photographed standing in a bank queue with a live piglet tucked under his arm." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The fund, generated by members of the Single Malt Club China (SMCC), will be used to buy rare and valuable malts for the Chinese market.\nThe initiative was announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as she arrived in China for a trade mission.\nMs Sturgeon also revealed new figures showing food and drink exports to China totalled £85m last year.\nDuring the mission, the first minister will open the SMCC's new Whisky Experience Centre in Beijing, which will showcase the malt whisky production process with photographs and items from distilleries.\nIt will also display single malts that are available in China.\nThe SMCC, which was set up in 2005, imported 60,000 bottles of Scotch last year.\nThe new £3m Whisky Investment Fund is expected to help lift that figure by another 20% over the next year.\nMs Sturgeon said: \"The Single Malt Club China has worked hard to promote Scotch whisky for a decade and now has nearly 5,000 members throughout China.\n\"It also works with 31 of our distilleries, so the support for our industry is clear, and this fund will allow Chinese whisky connoisseurs to invest in some of Scotland's finest and rarest drams.\"\nThe move comes as Scotch whisky firms look to boost sales in China, which have been hit by an ongoing austerity campaign by the Chinese authorities.\nAccording to figures released recently by the Scotch Whisky Association, direct exports to the country fell by 23% to £39m last year, making it Scotch's 26th largest market by value.\nHowever, overall food and drink exports to China rose by 12% to £85m last year, according to new data announced by Ms Sturgeon.\nFish and seafood made up the bulk of exports, with £43m worth of products, followed by whisky (£39m), meat (£1.4m) and cereals (£1.1m).\nDuring her trade visit, Ms Sturgeon will promote Scottish business, including hosting an \"innovation showcase\" for Scottish companies to meet with Chinese investors.\nThe first minister will also undertake a series of cultural and educational engagements.", "summary": "A new £3m fund has been set up to allow whisky connoisseurs in China to invest in some of Scotland's rarest drams." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But fast forward 70 years and what a difference there is.\nBack in 1946, Arthur Rank companies had asked the British government for funds to shoot what later became the seminal film, Odd Man Out.\nIt starred James Mason, Kathleen Ryan and Cyril Cusack.\nIt also starred the moody backdrop of Belfast, with much of the film being shot in the city - although the Crown Bar's famous interior was recreated in a studio in Denham, Buckinghamshire.\nMason later said his leading role in Odd Man Out was the best performance of his career.\nAs Belfast celebrates its 2017 film festival, that letter, released by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (Proni), paints a black and gloomy picture of the city.\nThe permanent secretary for the ministry of commerce at that time said he could see no commercial opportunities for making a film in Belfast.\n\"This contrasts starkly with the position today where the film industry is a massive draw for tourists and Northern Ireland is home to internationally successful brands such as Game of Thrones,\" said Proni's Stephen Scarth.\n\"Even now, Odd Man Out remains a seminal movie in the history of film making.\"\nIn his letter, the permanent secretary redirected a query for funding from Arthur Rank Companies to the Stormont Cabinet Office.\n\"As the question of whether these people make a film with Belfast as a background has no commercial significance whatever, direct or indirect, such significance as there might be being political and propagandist, the minister feels that this is a matter for you rather than for us,\" the letter said.\nThere are other files in Proni including those in the Ministry of Home Affairs archive which also reference this request and include correspondence from the Inspector General who says that the minister would feel it undesirable to provide armoured cars as requested by the company.", "summary": "There's no money to be made from shooting a film in Belfast, a government letter dating from 1946 suggests." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The surprise leaders have 13 top-flight matches left to play, having already been knocked out of both domestic cups.\nPellegrini's side could play 27 times as they challenge for four trophies.\n\"Going forward, Leicester have an advantage,\" he said. \"But I don't think that will be the only thing they need from now to the end of the season.\"\nLeicester are five points clear of second-placed Tottenham following Saturday's 3-1 win over Pellegrini's team at Etihad Stadium.\nThe Blues have dropped to fourth but are still chasing success in the Premier League, League Cup, FA Cup and Champions League.\nTheir ambitions have been hampered by a fixture pile-up and a host of injury problems, with David Silva hurting his ankle against Leicester.\n\"We have seven players injured at the moment in the same positions - two centre-backs, Vincent Kompany and Eliaquim Mangala - and in attack - Kevin de Bruyne, Jesus Navas, Wilfried Bony, Samir Nasri and now Silva,\" said Pellegrini.\n\"That makes it more difficult. Let's hope we can recover.\"\nPellegrini's side host second-placed Spurs on Sunday - a key day in the title race as Leicester also travel to third-placed Arsenal.\nFormer Arsenal, Leicester and England defender Martin Keown:\n\"Apart from after one round of midweek Premier League games in March, Leicester will almost always have a full week between each fixture between now and the end of the season.\n\"That's something I don't think will suit them.\n\"They have just beaten Liverpool and won at Manchester City in the space of five days and I think the quick succession of games really helped them.\n\"They look like a team of high-energy players - we see that in their games - so Claudio Ranieri is going to have to gear training towards their fixture schedule - to keep them relaxed but ready to go at the right times.\"", "summary": "Leicester City have the advantage in the title race because they only have the Premier League to aim for, says Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Readings showed that the water level in the canal connecting the river to the plant was going down rapidly. Water is used to produce steam to run the turbines and for cooling vital equipment of coal-fired power stations.\nBy next day, authorities were forced to suspend generation at the 2,300-megawatt plant in Farakka town causing shortages in India's power grid. Next, the vast township on the river, where more than 1,000 families of plant workers live, ran out of water. Thousands of bottles of packaged drinking water were distributed to residents, and fire engines rushed to the river to extract water for cooking and cleaning.\nThe power station - one of the 41 run by the state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation, which generates a quarter of India's electricity - was shut for 10 days, unprecedented in its 30-year history.\n\"Never before have we shut down the plant because of a shortage of water,\" says Milan Kumar, a senior plant official.\n\"We are being told by the authorities that water levels in the river have receded, and that they can do very little.\"\nFurther downstream, say locals, ferries were suspended and sandbars emerged on the river. Some 13 barges carrying imported coal to the power station were stranded midstream because of insufficient water. Children were seen playing on a near-dry river bed.\nNobody is sure why the water level on the Ganges receded at Farakka, where India built a barrage in the 1970s to divert water away from Bangladesh. Much later, in the mid-1990s, the countries signed a 30-year agreement to share water. (The precipitous decline in water levels happened during a 10-day cycle when India is bound by the pact to divert most of the water to Bangladesh. The fall in level left India with much less water than usual.)\nMonsoon rains have been scanty in India for the second year in succession. The melting of snow in the Himalayas - the mountain holds the world's largest body of ice outside the polar caps and contributes up to 15% of the river flow - has been delayed this year, says SK Haldar, general manager of the barrage. \"There are fluctuations like this every year,\" he says.\nBut the evidence about the declining water levels and waning health of the 2,500km (1,553 miles)-long Ganges, which supports a quarter of India's 1.3 billion people, is mounting.\nPart of a river's water level is determined by the groundwater reserves in the area drained by it and the duration and intensity of monsoon rains. Water tables have been declining in the Ganges basin due to the reckless extraction of groundwater. Much of the groundwater is, anyway, already contaminated with arsenic and fluoride. A controversial UN climate report said the Himalayan glaciers could melt to a fifth of the current levels by 2035.\nEmmanuel Theophilus and his son, Theo, kayaked on the Ganges during their 87-day, 2,500km journey of India's rivers last year. They asked fishermen and people living on the river what had changed most about it.\n\"All of them said there had been a reduction in water levels over the years. Also when we were sailing on the Ganges, we did not find a single turtle. The river was so dirty that it stank. There were effluents, sewage and dead bodies floating,\" says Mr Theophilus.\nThe waning health of the sacred river underscores the rising crisis of water in India. Two successive bad monsoons have already led to a drought-like situation, and river basins are facing water shortages.\nThe three-month-long summer is barely weeks away but water availability in India's 91 reservoirs is at its lowest in a decade, with stocks at a paltry 29% of their total storage capacity, according to the Central Water Commission. Some 85% of the country's drinking water comes from aquifers, but their levels are falling, according to WaterAid.\nNo wonder then that conflicts over water are on the rise.\nThousands of villagers in drought-hit region of Maharashtra depend on tankers for water; and authorities in Latur district, fearing violence, have imposed prohibitory orders on gatherings of more than five people around storage tanks. Tens of thousands of farmers and livestock have moved to camps providing free fodder and water for animals in parched districts. The government has asked local municipalities to stop supplying water to swimming pools.\nStates like Punjab are squabbling over ownership of river waters. In water-scarce Orissa, farmers have reportedly breached embankments to save their crops.\nBack in Farakka, villagers are washing clothes in the shallow waters of the power station canal and children are crossing by foot.\n\"We would dive into the canal earlier for a swim,\" says a villager. Not far away, near the shores of the Ganges, fisherman Balai Haldar looks at his meagre catch of prawns and bemoans the lack of water.\n\"The river has very little water these days. It is also running out of fish. Tube wells in our village have run out of water,\" he says. \"There's too much of uncertainty. People in our villages have moved to the cities to look for work.\"\nIt is a concern you hear a lot on the river these days. At the power plant, Milan Kumar says he is \"afraid that this can happen again\".\n\"We are being told that water levels in the Ganges have declined by a fourth. Being located on the banks of one of the world's largest rivers, we never thought we would face a scarcity of water.\n\"The unthinkable is happening.\"", "summary": "On 11 March, panic struck engineers at a giant power station on the banks of the Ganges river in West Bengal state." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The book, The New Harvest, by Harvard University professor Calestous Juma, calls on African leaders to make agricultural expansion central to all decision-making.\nImprovements in infrastructure, mechanisation and GM crops could vastly increase production, he claims.\nThe findings are being presented to African leaders in Tanzania today.\nThe presidents of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi are holding an informal summit to discuss African food security and climate change.\nSpeaking to the BBC ahead of the meeting, Professor Juma said African leaders had to recognise that \"agriculture and economy for Africa are one and the same\".\n\"It is the responsibility of an African president to modernise the economy and that means essentially starting with the modernisation of agriculture,\" he said.\nGlobal food production has rocketed in recent decades but has stagnated in many parts of Africa, despite the continent having \"abundant\" arable land and labour, says Professor Juma.\nHe estimates that while food production has grown globally by 145% over the past 40 years, African food production has fallen by 10% since 1960, which he attributes to low investment.\nWhile 70% of Africans may be engaged in farming, those who are undernourished on the continent has risen by 100 million to 250 million since 1990, he estimates.\nThe professor's blueprint calls for the expansion of basic infrastructure, including new road, irrigation and energy schemes.\nFarms should be mechanised, storage and processing facilities built, while biotechnology and GM crops should be used where they can bring benefits.\nBut what was needed above all else was the political will at the highest level.\n\"You can modernise agriculture in an area by simply building roads, so that you can send in seed and move out produce,\" he told the BBC.\n\"The ministers for roads are not interested in connecting rural areas, they are mostly interested in connecting urban areas. It's going to take a president to go in and say I want a link between agricultural transportation and then it will happen.\"\nHe believes there is great scope to expand crops traditionally grown in Africa, such as millet, sorghum, cassava or yams.\nHe sees areas where farmers will need to adapt to tackle a changing climate - cereal farmers may switch into livestock, he says, while others may chose more radical options.\n\"Tree crops like breadfruit, which is from the Pacific, could be introduced in Africa because trees are more resistant to climate change.\"\nHe also envisages genetic modification playing a growing role in African agriculture, with GM cotton and GM maize, which are already being grown on the continent, just the start of things to come.\n\"You need to be able to breed new crops and adapt them to local conditions... and that is going to force more African countries to think about new genomics techniques.\"\nGeorge Mukkath, director of programmes at the charity Farm Africa, welcomed the study, but said with many African states investing less than 10% of their GDP in agriculture, politicians had to \"put their money where their mouths are\".\n\"It's what we've been shouting about for several years,\" he said. \"African productivity is low. If there's an investment then African farmers are very capable of producing enough food not only to feed themselves but also for the export market.\"\nBut Dr Steve Wiggins, a research fellow at a British think-tank, the Overseas Development Institute, said that modest practical changes were preferable to long wish-lists.\n\"It's perfectly possible to get Africa on a much higher growth rate but I wouldn't have such a long list of things to do, particularly if I thought it was going to pre-empt all government investment,\" he said. \"To make a difference, you don't need to throw the kitchen sink at the problem.\"\nHe also warned that Africa's urban centres could not be ignored, not least because they provide important markets for African farmers.", "summary": "A new book claims Africa could feed itself within a generation, and become a major agricultural exporter." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rumours are that this time Gru will battle against a former child star and get involved in a bit of sibling rivalry when he meets his long lost twin brother, Dru.\nNo doubt there'll be loads of Minion madness too!\nNewsround is going to be chatting to the man who voices Gru - Steve Carell - and we want to know what questions you'd like us to ask him!\nSend your comments to newsroundcomments@bbc.co.uk\nYou must ask your parent, teacher or guardian for permission before you send us a comment and a photo.\nWe may show your comment on our website or in our TV bulletins. We'll show your first name and which town you're from - but we won't use your details for anything else.", "summary": "Despicable Me 3 is likely to be one of the biggest films this year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cameron Comey, from Carmarthen, is believed to have fallen into the River Towy on 17 February after playing with his brother nearby.\nThe fire service, police, coastguard, mountain rescue and lifeboat teams were involved in the search operation.\nThe Welsh government said it plans to improve safety following the incident.\nA spokesperson said: \"As the registered owner of the land we intend to work with all interested parties to identify how to improve and manage safety in the area.\"", "summary": "Work to improve safety on a stretch of river where an 11-year-old-boy went missing is to take place, the Welsh government has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Otherwise, boss Chris Hughton has no new injury or suspension worries.\nLeeds midfielder Liam Bridcutt is set to return against his former club having missed the 1-1 draw with Fulham due to personal reasons.\nStriker Chris Wood (hamstring) remains sidelined, while centre-back Giuseppe Bellusci serves the second game of a two-match ban.", "summary": "Brighton will hope to have defenders Bruno (hamstring) and Gaetan Bong (thigh) back in contention." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Francis Saili's 76th-minute try clinched maximum points.\nIt leaves Blues trailing the Irish province by six points in the race for sixth place with two games to play.\nDanny Wilson's team are three points ahead of Ospreys, who they face in Judgement Day IV in Cardiff's Principality Stadium on Saturday.\nOspreys are now nine points off the pace and need a miracle to claim a Champions Cup place.\nBlues need to beat their Welsh rivals and then beat Edinburgh in their final match of the season on Saturday, 7 May to stand any chance of claiming a place in Europe's top flight competition next season.\nEven then, they will probably need Scarlets to beat Munster in Ireland in their last game.\nThe West Wales region are on the same number of points as Munster but have a game in hand.\nThey face Newport Gwent Dragons in Cardiff on Saturday before their trip to Thomond Park.\nIf results do not go the Blues' way, it will leave Wales with only one team in the Champions Cup next season - the same representation as Italy.", "summary": "Cardiff Blues face an uphill battle for European Champions Cup qualification after Munster's 27-19 bonus-point Pro12 win over Edinburgh." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Compare and contrast the treatment of 18-year-old Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, and 42-year-old Omar Gonzalez at the White House, and what does it tell us about the maintenance of law and order in the US?\nI am not going to write a windy treatise, full of careful annotations and sources and references listed at the end.\nInstead I am just going to give you what I would have written as the concluding sentence - one was shot dead who should not have been while the other was not shot but probably should have been.\nThe case of Omar Gonzalez becomes more and more fascinating. He is a troubled Iraq War veteran who two weeks ago scaled the fence outside the White House, ran across the lawn, round the fountain, across the North Portico entrance where he was finally confronted by a Secret Service agent.\nMr Gonzalez ignored the challenge and carried on inside - the doors were not locked. Initially we were told that he barely got through the entrance.\nBut now we know that he managed to cross the marbled entrance hall, turning left past the staircase that leads to the Obama family's private quarters, and then into the East Room. It was there that he was eventually overpowered.\nIn the immediate aftermath, the former head of the Secret Service, Julia Pierson, praised the officers on duty that night at the White House for their extraordinary restraint.\n\"Restraint?\" some commentators and lawmakers have exclaimed in disbelief.\nIn the era of the suicide bomber is restraint really what you want when an intruder armed with a knife has penetrated into the inner sanctum of the leader of the free world?\nAnd you can see their point - if something awful had happened it's hard to believe those same officers would have been commended for keeping their guns holstered.\nOn Wednesday, Ms Pierson resigned, following story after story about other Secret Service lapses, including an armed man in the same lift as Mr Obama.\nAt a hearing on Capitol Hill this week at least one congressman seemed to suggest the Secret Service should have shot Mr Gonzalez dead.\n\"If a would-be intruder cannot be stopped by a dog or intercepted by a person, perhaps more lethal force is necessary,\" Republican Jason Chaffetz told Secret Service director Julia Pierson.\n\"And I want those Secret Service agents and officers to know at least this member of Congress has their back.\"\nSo did they follow the correct operating procedure, or did they bottle it? Did they follow the rules of engagement, or did something go wrong?\n\"It's clear,\" Ms Pierson admitted, \"that our security plan was not properly executed\".\nIt is hard not to contrast the \"restraint\" shown to Mr Gonzalez with what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson in August.\nThe black teenager was shot by a police officer six times after a suspected robbery at a nearby convenience store, even though no evidence has been offered that he posed a danger to the public or to the policeman who opened fire.\nIn all discussions like this, one rather ugly word is used - proportionality.\nWhat is proportional use of force? Inevitably the answer to that depends on who you are, and what your vantage point is.\nOutside the White House an extra low fence has gone up with a poster on it proclaiming \"police line, do not cross\". In the grounds there seems to be a lot more heavily armed Secret Service officers in the grounds. Is that proportionate?\nWell here's the thing. If you've ever encountered a US presidential motorcade - or tried to get into the White House via conventional means - you would be a strange person who concluded what's needed was more security.\nThe security is immense, extensive, oppressive, intimidating - and probably quite right too, given the threat levels.\nResidents of Washington must put up with regular indignities at the hands of the often surly Secret Service agents and police who seemingly at a whim will shut down a street, block an intersection or demand to search one's bag as the price of access to a block one walks every day.\nBut they were unable to lock the White House door and set the alarm.\nSo would an extra 50, 100, 500 agents make a difference? You can have as many rings of steel as you like around the White House, but if the officers charged with protecting the president aren't being vigilant, then he won't be any safer.\nNot the happiest hour for the US Secret Service.", "summary": "How about this as an essay question for the future." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lewis Elwin, from Wandsworth, was found injured in Penwortham Road, Tooting, at 15:47 BST on Monday.\nHe died at the scene despite the efforts of paramedics. A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out.\nDet Ch Insp Diane Tudway appealed for witnesses to the attack in the residential street and said Mr Elwin's next-of-kin had been informed.", "summary": "A 20-year-old man has been fatally stabbed in south London prompting a murder inquiry." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Irish actress will have a \"recurring guest role\" as Charlie Cotton's mother, Yvonne.\nMcLynn, who played housekeeper Mrs Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom, will make her first appearance next month.\n\"I know that viewers are going to both love and be intrigued by Yvonne Cotton,\" Dominic Treadwell-Collins, the show's executive producer, said.\n\"I have always been a little in love with Pauline McLynn, so I'm so excited that she's joining the Cotton family.\"\nHe added it was \"about time Albert Square had another Irish character\".\nMcLynn, who also starred in Channel 4 drama Shameless and BBC sitcom Jam and Jerusalem, is best known as the scatty Mrs Doyle in Father Ted, a role she played over the duration of the show from 1995-1998.\n\"It is a thrill to join EastEnders, my favourite soap, and in particular any chance to be part of a Dot Cotton storyline is not to be passed up - June Brown is a legend and I feel privileged to act with her,\" the actress said.\nHer on-screen son, Charlie (Declan Bennett), arrived on the square earlier this year following the death of his father Nick - Dot Cotton's troublesome son.\nThere have been a number of shifts in the soap's cast in recent months - Danny Dyer led the charge, joining the show as new Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter in December 2013, alongside Timothy West as his on-screen father Stan.\nOn Good Friday, cast regular Lucy Beale - played by Hetti Bywater - was killed off in a dramatic \"whodunnit\" storyline, while earlier this month Patsy Palmer - Albert Square stalwart Bianca - announced she would be leaving the show this autumn.", "summary": "Father Ted star Pauline McLynn is joining the cast of BBC One soap EastEnders." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "I wonder if anyone's mentioned this to the European Court of Human Rights, who seem to be in the process of setting rather an interesting precedent.\nThe Grand Chamber of the ECHR has issued what amounts to a preliminary judgement overturning disciplinary action by the Parliament of Hungary against two groups of opposition MPs who staged demonstrations against the ruling FIDESZ party. Among other things they unfurled banners, used megaphones in the chamber and placed a small wheelbarrow full of soil in front of the prime minister.\nThe Parliament punished them with fines ranging from 170 to 600 euros - and the MPs complained to the court that the decision violated their rights under Article 10 of the European Convention (Freedom of Speech) and under Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) because they had no mechanism to appeal against their fines.\nThe Court upheld their complaints and ordered the fines to be repaid.\nNow, this may all have taken place in a faraway country, of which we know nothing, but imagine the fun if the ECHR did something similar to an MP who had been named by the Speaker, sent out of the Chamber and \"suspended from the service of the House\"; a punishment which includes a loss of salary.\nFor centuries, Parliament and the UK courts have gone to some trouble to avoid treading on each others' toes; it's hard to imagine an incursion by the ECHR not causing quite a detonation.", "summary": "One of the over-arching constitutional principles of the UK - set down in the 1688 Bill of Rights is this: \"That the Freedome of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parlyament.\"" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Juraj Kucka put Milan ahead just before half-time with a 25-yard shot into the top corner before M'Baye Niang drove home the second in the 46th minute.\nEx-Milan midfielder Valter Birsa curled home a free-kick to pull a goal back.\nBut Dario Dainelli's own goal in injury-time sealed the win for Milan, who last lost to Chievo in 2005.\nChievo, who would have gone third in the table themselves with a victory, had failed to score in their five previous home games against Milan in a barren run stretching back to 2011.\nBirsa's third goal of the season ended that sequence but Milan would have won more comfortably but for fine second-half saves from Stefano Sorrentino, who kept out a Niang free-kick and denied Gianluca Lapadula a first Serie A goal.\nSorrentino was finally beaten again in stoppage time when a wayward shot from Carlos Bacca hit Dainelli and rebounded into the net as Milan moved to within five points of league leaders Juventus.\nMatch ends, Chievo 1, Milan 3.\nSecond Half ends, Chievo 1, Milan 3.\nOwn Goal by Dario Dainelli, Chievo. Chievo 1, Milan 3.\nAttempt missed. Carlos Bacca (Milan) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Andrea Poli.\nFabrizio Cacciatore (Chievo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nGiacomo Bonaventura (Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Fabrizio Cacciatore (Chievo).\nOffside, Milan. Gianluigi Donnarumma tries a through ball, but Carlos Bacca is caught offside.\nGiacomo Bonaventura (Milan) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Fabrizio Cacciatore (Chievo).\nSubstitution, Milan. Carlos Bacca replaces M'Baye Niang.\nAttempt saved. Valter Birsa (Chievo) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dario Dainelli.\nCorner, Chievo. Conceded by Alessio Romagnoli.\nAttempt missed. Gabriel Paletta (Milan) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Giacomo Bonaventura with a cross following a set piece situation.\nM'Baye Niang (Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Jonathan de Guzmán (Chievo).\nAttempt blocked. José Sosa (Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nAndrea Poli (Milan) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Ivan Radovanovic (Chievo).\nSubstitution, Milan. Andrea Poli replaces Suso.\nSuso (Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Massimo Gobbi (Chievo).\nFoul by Ignazio Abate (Milan).\nJonathan de Guzmán (Chievo) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nRiccardo Meggiorini (Chievo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nSuso (Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Riccardo Meggiorini (Chievo).\nSubstitution, Chievo. Sergio Pellissier replaces Antonio Floro Flores.\nGoal! Chievo 1, Milan 2. Valter Birsa (Chievo) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\nGabriel Paletta (Milan) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Gabriel Paletta (Milan).\nAntonio Floro Flores (Chievo) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nGiacomo Bonaventura (Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Fabrizio Cacciatore (Chievo).\nOffside, Chievo. Fabrizio Cacciatore tries a through ball, but Riccardo Meggiorini is caught offside.\nFoul by Suso (Milan).\nMassimo Gobbi (Chievo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nSubstitution, Milan. José Sosa replaces Gianluca Lapadula.\nGianluigi Donnarumma (Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Lucas Castro (Chievo).", "summary": "AC Milan ended Chievo's 12-match unbeaten home run to move up to third place in Serie A with a fourth win in five games." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The disturbance in Pill, on 20 October, also saw wheelie bins set alight and \"Molotov cocktails\" being thrown.\nThe Newport men pleaded guilty to violent disorder at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.\nGrant Cuthbert, 32, was jailed for 34 months, Gary Radford, 23, received a 24-month sentence and Ahbil Hussain Ahmed, 23, was jailed for 18 months.\nIn November, sentences were handed to five teenagers for their involvement in the same incident, with three of them given five months in custody.\nProsecutors described a riot on Commercial Road, with more than 20 people throwing stones at cars and one motorist having to perform a three-point turn to escape.\nSocial media footage was shown of a man throwing a flaming bottle with police retreating after a PCSO \"narrowly missed being struck by a lit firework\".\nOther footage showed Cuthbert being encouraged to throw a lit bottle - described as a Molotov cocktail - from an alleyway, with flames erupting after it landed on the road.\nHe said it was to protect people around him, a claim Judge Michael Fitton described as \"utterly ridiculous\".\nRadford and Ahmed were also shown throwing stones at police vehicles and parked cars, while other people set fire to cars and a shop front.\nJudge Fitton said the fact missiles and Molotov cocktails were being thrown meant the situation was \"rapidly getting out of control\", adding: \"you are all men of an age to know better\".\nHe said they were \"surrounded by children\" and that Radford and Ahmed were \"encouraging\" those around them.\nMr Cuthbert said: \"I want to make it known to the culprits that this is a very dangerous game they are playing and that there will be consequences for their actions.\n\"I will be working in partnership with Newport City Council and Gwent Police to ensure the culprits are brought to justice and to prevent further incidents.\"", "summary": "Three men have been jailed following a \"riot\" in Newport, where lit fireworks were thrown at police." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Bulman made 141 appearances in three years with the Dons, helping them earn promotion to League One in the 2015-16 season.\nThe 38-year-old has played 298 games for Crawley in his two previous spells at the League Two club.\n\"I was gutted when I had to leave three years ago but it's great to be back,\" he told the club website.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "Crawley have signed midfielder Dannie Bulman for his third spell at the club following his release by AFC Wimbledon." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Athletic Stores building on Queen Street has been bought by a joint venture between Welsh firm Watkin Jones and Holywood's Lacuna Developments.\nThey are converting the former Belfast Metropolitan College building at College Square East into student flats.\nThe development will represent an investment of around £15m.\nThe Athletic Stores project will involve linking it to the former Parson & Parsons shop on Wellington Place.\nDetailed plans have yet to be produced but the development will mean retaining the buildings rather than demolishing them.\nThe scheme is likely to deliver around 300 accommodation places.\nThe developers have begun pre-planning application discussions and are holding a public engagement event at the former Parson & Parsons premises on 22 June.\nHeritage campaigners had fought to prevent the demolition of the Athletic Stores building after plans to replace it with an apartment block were drawn up in 2009.\nThe Ulster Architectural Heritage Society brought successful judicial review proceedings in 2010 and 2014.\nThe 19th century building, originally called Swanston's linen warehouse, sits in a conservation area but is not listed.\nThere are currently plans for almost 4,000 student 'beds' to be developed in Belfast over the next few years, but it is not certain that will all be delivered.\nThe first of the new purpose built student flats, a small scheme at Mark Royal House on Donegall Street, is due to completed by August.", "summary": "A Victorian warehouse in Belfast city centre that had been threatened with demolition is now set to be converted into student accommodation." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "\"It's not your satellite dish they're after. They just want to know if you have any chicken in your fridge.\"\nIn recent weeks the soaring price of chicken has become one of the hottest topics in Iran, even sparking unprecedented protests in one provincial town.\nSeveral hundred people took to the streets in Neishabour, in the north-east, when anger at price rises and shortages finally boiled over.\nEyewitnesses told the BBC that the crowds in this usually very quiet and uneventful town were shouting anti-government slogans and demanding an end to price rises.\nChicken is one of the staples of Iranian cooking, and the main ingredient in one of the country's most popular dishes - zereshk polo ba morgh - chicken with rice and barberries.\nIt is also much cheaper than lamb or beef, making it a big favourite in a country where the economy is under pressure and ordinary shoppers are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet.\nBut in the past few months chicken prices have almost doubled to the equivalent of almost $5 (£3) per kilo at the official exchange rate, and many shops have been running short of supplies.\nOne key reason for this is that because of international banking sanctions, it is becoming very difficult for Iranian chicken producers to import feed from abroad, or to buy in extra supplies of frozen chicken when domestic stocks run low.\n\"We used to pay the seller by bank transfer into an international account,\" one Iranian importer told BBC Persian.\n\"But that's impossible now. Our only option is to send the money via a bureau de change. That's a big risk for us trade wise so we've stopped importing feed.\"\nThe protests in Neishabour have sparked a huge debate on the Iranian blogosphere.\nAll the more so because the town has not seen any unrest in the past - even in 2009 when protests swept across the country after the disputed presidential election.\nObservers have pointed to the fact that the revolutions in many Arab countries began with protests over price rises.\nCould this be the start of an Iranian spring, they ask, as ordinary people from the provinces join the urban elite in calling for change?\n\"Last time the protests were about politics and I didn't take part,\" a caller from Shiraz told BBC Persian radio.\n\"But this time it's about food. If I can't feed my family then I will be much more likely to go out on the streets.\"\nThe Iranian authorities are certainly taking the situation very seriously.\nOn Tuesday MPs held a special closed door briefing on the impact of sanctions in various sectors of the economy.\nThis follows unusually frank warnings from a number of senior government officials and Revolutionary Guards commanders in recent months about the damage sanctions are doing and the possibility they could spark off social unrest.\nIn June, Tehran's chief of police Ahmadi Moghaddam advised local television channels not to upset hard-pressed consumers by showing people eating chicken.\nThis week a prominent cleric, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi suggested that it was actually more healthy to eat vegetables rather than meat.\nAnd even state television has been getting in on the act.\nAll week one of Iran's most popular TV chefs, Saman Golriz, has helpfully been showing people how to make vegetarian dishes on his hugely popular daily show.\nMr Golriz's efforts have prompted lots of wry comments on Iranian social media sites.\nFor weeks now people have been sharing online jokes about the chicken crisis.\nOne popular cartoon shows a chicken fitted with security cameras and a sign saying \"burglar alarm in operation\".\nAnother shows some surprised looking airline pilots watching a chicken sail by their cockpit window, propelled into the stratosphere by soaring prices.\nBut it is clear from the phone calls the BBC Persian service has received over the past few days that for many Iranians the price of chicken is no laughing matter.\n\"I haven't been able to afford either chicken or meat for the past four months\", said Ali from Ardabil.\n\"How can I expect my children to fast for Ramadan if I can't afford to feed them at the end of the day?\"\n\"I've heard that they're giving subsidised chicken to civil servants,\" said a woman from Tehran, breaking down in tears as she spoke.\n\"I work for a private company so that won't help me. I just can't afford the full price.\"\nIranian economists say they expect the government's immediate focus will be to contain price rises and deal with shortages in key areas in order to prevent a repeat of the Neishabour protests.\nAn industry insider told BBC Persian that plans are already under way to start importing frozen chicken from Venezuela.\nBut with sanctions limiting their room for manoeuvre, the challenge for the government will be how to spend money to improve things in one area without sparking off more price rises - and more possible public discontent - elsewhere.", "summary": "\"If the police come round to your house don't worry,\" says the latest wry joke doing the rounds in Tehran." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Both on Saturday.\nGreen told BBC North West Sport: \"Me and Matty were under the pump a bit from outsiders looking in at the club.\nWigan is the first town to hold both the FA Cup and Challenge Cup simultaneously.\nWarriors chairman Ian Lenagan and Latics counterpart Dave Whelan took both trophies into the Wigan dressing room at the conclusion of Saturday's game at Wembley.\n\"I was under a bit of criticism when the club first signed me because I wasn't a big-name Australian that the club were used to signing.\"\nin July 2012, with at the start of the 2013 season.\nThe pair, who were signed to replace the experienced outgoing duo of and were influential in the Warriors' Wembley win, with scrum-half Smith collecting the Lance Todd Trophy after being named as man of the match.\nStand-off Green, 26, also praised coaches Shaun Wane, Iestyn Harris and Paul Deacon for their assistance in helping the pair to settle in at Wigan, adding: \"They have done a great job with us.\n\"They've given us plenty of confidence and we've worked really hard at our game. As satisfying as it is for Matty and I, they're a massive part of that result as well.\n\"We've still got lots of improvement to go, but in big games like that it's important you complete your sets, stay composed and kick well.\n\"In the wet conditions, that was the most important thing. We were never going to score lots of tries with the slippery ball.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nWigan's 16-0 victory at Wembley has given them the opportunity to become the first team since St Helens in 2006 to claim a league and cup double.\nIn a repeat of the Challenge Cup final, they host Hull in Super League on Friday before rounding off their regular season with a home fixture against reigning champions Leeds Rhinos.\nWigan are unable to retain their League Leaders' Shield, having slipped five points behind Huddersfield Giants with just two games to play, but will be among the favourites to reach the Grand Final at Old Trafford on 5 October.\n\"Knowing the type of bloke 'Waney' is, he'll be straight into us to make sure our heads are on for the play-offs,\" said Green.\n\"Hopefully the victory springboards us into the play-offs with plenty of confidence.\"", "summary": "Blake Green hopes Wigan's Challenge Cup final win against Hull FC has answered any doubts about the effectiveness of his half-back pairing with Matty Smith." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Describing the €82bn-€86bn (£59bn-£62bn) in-principle bailout agreement in return for stringent austerity reforms as \"reasonable\", the conservative Spanish leader said that \"Europe has shown great solidarity with Greece\".\nBut does Mr Rajoy have other reasons to celebrate, notably a political victory over the Greek anti-austerity Syriza government that may help his Popular Party (PP) secure a second term in Spanish elections at the end of this year?\nMr Rajoy's term in office has seen the powerful rise of leftist anti-austerity party Podemos, which has galvanised a popular challenge to the government's insistence that tough economic medicine and tight spending controls are the only way for Spain to emerge from its own financial and economic meltdown.\nUnemployment reached 27% at the start of 2013 before falling back to the current rate of 22%.\nSpain, which received a eurozone bailout for its crippled banking sector in 2012, has been on the receiving end of its own dose of austerity medicine from Europe since the PSOE socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was required to cut pensions and state workers' salaries back in 2010.\nWhen Syriza won January's Greek elections, Podemos too seemed to be on the crest of an unstoppable wave against austerity politics in Spain only a year after being formed.\nWhen Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias travelled to Athens to join Syriza's Alexis Tsipras for his final campaign rally, the Spanish radical party was leading the polls with 28% support.\nMr Iglesias said then that Mr Tsipras' victory signalled \"the failure of austerity politics\" and that Greece would now have \"a real Greek prime minister and not a delegate of Angela Merkel\".\nBut the way the Syriza government caved in to pressure from eurozone leaders led by Germany's Chancellor, Mrs Merkel, may have burst Podemos's bubble.\nPodemos, challenged by the rise of another new anti-corruption party, the centrist Citizens, has slipped to third place on just 18%, according to a poll published by the newspaper El Pais last weekend. The poll put the PSOE in the lead on 23.5% with the PP on 23%.\nMarleen Rueda, 48, a consultant on international labour issues, from Madrid, says her enthusiasm for Podemos as a potential force for change has been jolted.\n\"What the Greek deal has done is to pour cold water over any hopes that there could be a change of European policy,\" she says. \"This has killed people's hopes.\n\"The emerging parties like Podemos have no sway in the formulation of European policy.\n\"I don't feel as a citizen that I can have any influence.\n\"Parties like Podemos led us to believe that they could change things in Europe, but this is not the reality.\"\nMs Rueda, who sees the new bailout deal as a \"punishment for the Greeks\", adds: \"Europe does not want any voices which question the sole European policy of austerity to emerge.\n\"It is an imposition by Europe which snubs a democratically elected government.\"\nPodemos, which has pledged to review Spain's ballooning public debt, decries what it considers a bad deal for Greece and a blow to democracy.\nBut Pablo Bustinduy, Podemos's international relations spokesman, believes Spaniards realise the fight against austerity is only just beginning and Spain is in a far stronger position than Greece to win it.\n\"The circumstances of the two countries are tremendously different,\" he says.\n\"Spain has not been formally bailed out and represents 11% of the eurozone economy compared to Greece's 2%.\n\"There will be a reaction; this is just the first stage, and there will be more battles.\"\nAs Podemos sees its grip on the Spanish electorate weaken, Jose Ignacio Torreblanca, head of the Madrid office of the European Council on Foreign Relations, believes the party has decided to cut itself free from its emotional connection with the Syriza government.\n\"In light of Tsipras's disastrous management of relations with the eurozone and the punishing deal finally reached, Podemos has subtly begun to distance itself from Greece,\" he says.\nMr Torreblanca, who has written a book on Podemos entitled Asaltar Los Cielos (Storm The Heavens), notes the party that greeted Syriza's electoral triumphs with euphoria is now choosing to ignore Mr Tsipras's pragmatic shift to the centre.\n\"They have cooled the rhetoric on Greece as Rajoy tries to turn the spotlight on the chaos outside Greek banks and how something similarly catastrophic could happen in Spain if Podemos comes to power.\"", "summary": "Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy celebrated the financial rescue deal struck between eurozone leaders and Greece earlier this month as \"good news\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "On Wednesday afternoon - as MPs debated air strikes in Syria - hundreds of student nurses (not to mention midwives, podiatrists, occupational therapists and radiographers) marched around Westminster.\nTheir gripe? The decision announced in last week's spending review to scrap bursaries and introduce tuition fees.\nThe government's rationale is that at a time when the NHS is under enormous financial pressure, providing financial assistance when other students pay their way is simply unaffordable.\nThe system also means the number of places has to be capped. As a result demand outstrips supply of places by two to one.\nMinisters believe by scrapping the bursaries they can save £800m a year as well as increasing the number of nurses and other professionals because there will be no need for a cap.\nBut - as the pictures above and below show - the move is being met with strong resistance. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Janet Davies has described it as a \"crushing blow\".\nHer argument - and it is one that is being made by others too - is that student nurses are different.\nThey spend half their time in clinical practice caring for patients and unlike other students do not get long breaks at Easter, Christmas and during the summer (denying them the opportunity to earn money pulling pints or waiting on tables).\nBursaries are, she says, a \"lifeline\" not a \"luxury\". She believes the move could even have the opposite effect the government wants, and actually discourage people from applying.\nAt a time when the NHS is already short of nurses - vacancies are proving hard to fill forcing the health service to rely on expensive agency staff or recruiting staf from abroad - that would be a disaster.\nWith the cuts due to be implemented in 2017, this is a dispute we could be hearing much more about.\nAnd, of course, it comes just days after a temporary truce has been called in the junior doctor dispute with both sides embarking on a fresh round of talks to try to find a solution.\nIf they unravel, and this dispute escalates, the government could find itself in a fight with two sets of staff. And that is before we even consider the possibility of the talks that are on-going over the consultants' contract collapsing.\nA quick scan of social media shows there is already a great deal of anger being directed towards Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.\nBut others are getting drawn in too. The well-respected and admired NHS medical director, Sir Bruce Keogh, recently found himself the subject of much ire when he raised concerns about the idea of junior doctors going on strike (although admittedly he was pretty inflammatory in questioning whether they would be available if there was a terrorist strike).\nSo why is the government so intent on picking a fight with staff? The truth is, it isn't. Ministers would probably happily leave many of these issues alone if they could.\nBut one of the problems they face is that to change the NHS or to save it money staff are the obvious target.\nHalf the NHS budget is spent on labour costs and unlike in other areas of public spending (I'm thinking libraries and bin collections) it's simply not possible to start closing or restricting services en masse.\nBattles between government and health staff could become a common theme of this Parliament.", "summary": "Health workers have been back on the streets protesting - but this time it isn't the junior doctors." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The meeting on Thursday morning comes as Mr Barnier prepares for the second round of negotiations between the UK and EU next week.\nHe will also hold talks with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Carwyn Jones, the Welsh first minister.\nBut speaking on Wednesday, he stressed that Brexit negotiations would only be done with the UK government.\nMr Barnier said: \"I have always made clear that I will listen to different points on view in the British debate.\n\"Of course, I will only negotiate with the UK government.\"\nHe also called on the UK to offer more clarity on its position on the \"divorce bill\" financial settlement with the EU - which estimates have put at anywhere between €60bn to €100bn (£53bn to £89bn).\nUK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told MPs earlier this week that the EU can \"go whistle\" for any \"extortionate\" final payment.\nMr Barnier said there were also major differences between the EU and UK on the rights of EU citizens living in Britain as well as on the \"divorce bill\".\nHe said those issues - along with the nature of the future border with the Republic of Ireland - must be dealt with before future UK-EU trade could be discussed.\nMs Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister, has consistently called for the Scottish government to have a \"seat at the table\" for the Brexit negotiations.\nShe has also called for a \"short pause\" in the Brexit process so consensus can be built across the UK on the best way forward.\nThe first minister wants membership of the European single market and the customs union to be at the heart of the process.\nBut Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted the UK will be leaving both.\nThe UK government has also previously rejected Ms Sturgeon's calls for the Scottish government to be involved in the Brexit talks, and for Scotland to keep its single market membership even if the rest of the UK leaves.\nBut it has pledged to \"consult\" with the UK's devolved administrations during the Brexit process.\nSpeaking ahead of Ms Sturgeon's meeting with Mr Barnier, the Scottish Liberal Democrats urged her to push for an acknowledgment that Brexit can be cancelled and that the British people should have the final say on whatever deal is negotiated with the EU.", "summary": "Nicola Sturgeon is to meet the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Russian president and former Italian premier spent last weekend in Crimea touring ancient ruins.\nProsecutors say they drank at Crimea's renowned Massandra winery.\nMassandra was Ukrainian government property before Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014.\nAny charges could not currently be pursued in Crimea, where Russia has full control.\nRussian media cited by Radio Free Europe reported that Berlusconi asked if he could sample the wine during a tour of Massandra.\nA witness said Massandra's new pro-Russian director Yanina Pavlenko in response uncorked a precious bottle of 1775 Jeres de la Frontera for her prestigious guests.\nRussian television last week showed Mr Berlusconi carefully surveying dust-covered bottles of wine while the Russian leader listened to Ms Pavlenko as she gave them the tour.\nLater, the Italian billionaire is seen looking at a bottle identified to be from the vintage of 1891, and asked in English: \"Is it possible to drink?\"\nThe director replied: \"Yes.\"\nIt is unclear what happened to that bottle, but Ukrainian prosecutors say the bottle they are concentrating on was worth more than $90,000 (£58,000). They say they are preparing embezzlement charges against Ms Pavlenko.\n\"This is one of the five bottles that constitute not only Massandra's or Crimea's heritage, but the heritage of all Ukrainian people,'' Nazar Kholodnytsky, first deputy prosecutor for Crimea told the Associated Press news agency in Kiev.\nHe said two bottles similar to the one allegedly consumed were auctioned in London in 2001 and one fetched nearly $49,700 (£32,000; €44,000).\n\"The funds went to the state coffers and supported the development of Massandra and wine-making in Crimea,\" Mr Kholodnytsky said.\nMs Pavlenko's predecessor as governor, Nikolay Boyko, was dismissed in February after Russian prosecutors filed fraud charges against him.\nThe new governor is herself wanted in Ukraine for treason after she voted in favour of Russian annexation in 2014.\n\"Now she's added one more crime to high treason,\" Mr Kholodnytsky said.\nMr Putin and Berlusconi enjoyed good personal relations when the Italian leader was in power, which they have maintained since he left office in 2011.", "summary": "Ukrainian prosecutors say they are preparing charges against the head of a Crimean winery for allegedly opening a 240-year-old bottle for Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Department for Education published recommendations for the settlement in England, within the 1% pay limit agreed by ministers in 2012.\nThe deal means schools will be able to award the most deserving teachers more, but only out of existing budgets.\nBut teaching unions said as there was no extra money, many teachers would not get the standard 1% rise at all.\nIn its submission to government, the School Teachers Review Body said evidence presented to it confirmed the need for a pay rise to support the competitiveness of the profession.\nIt said its recommendations had been made amid a \"challenging climate for schools, with tight budgets, demographics driving up pupil numbers and an increasingly competitive graduate labour market\".\nChristine Blower, general secretary of the NUT, said: \"The STRB has acknowledged the NUT's concerns about teacher supply.\n\"It told the government very clearly that schools are having problems recruiting NQTs [newly qualified teachers] and experienced teachers alike.\n\"The STRB also sent a clear signal that it would have increased teachers' pay by more, if the government were willing to fund it.\"\nShe added: \"The government's decision to freeze school funding means that even a 1% pay increase this year will lead to cuts elsewhere in schools - but its decision to allow schools to decide whether teachers get any increase means that many teachers may not even get 1%.\n\"The government has to reconsider its policy of cutting funding to schools.\n\"Schools need more funding and teachers' pay needs to rise.\n\"Otherwise, we simply won't have enough teachers to cope with growing pupil numbers.\"\nChristine Keates, head of the NASUWT teaching union, said: \"Whilst the review body may be acting with the best of intentions in seeking to introduce the opportunity for some teachers to receive up to 2%, unfortunately, this is still within the Treasury pay cap and takes no account of the fact that, thanks to the coalition government's changes to the pay structure, schools can use their pay flexibilities to seek to avoid paying teachers any award at all.\n\"Thousands of teachers face the prospect of being denied even the meagre cost-of-living award the review body is recommending.\"\nShe added: \"A survey of NASUWT members found that by December 2014, 51% of teachers had not received the 1% cost-of-living increase last year, which should have been paid in September.\n\"The profession is already in the grip of a recruitment and retention crisis due to the coalition's relentless attacks on pay, pensions and working conditions.\n\"Today's announcement will do nothing to address this.\"\nThe exact pay of teachers in the maintained sector is set by schools but within nationally agreed levels.\nTeachers received a 1% rise last year, in line with the two-year pay cap across the public sector introduced in 2012.\nThe 1% cap is to be extended to 2015-2016.", "summary": "Teaching unions have reacted angrily to a new pay deal, under which England's top teachers could get up to 2% rises." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former Ospreys number eight, from Newport, who retired last year, got a MSc (Master of Science) degree.\nHe follows Rugby World Cup referee Nigel Owens who got an honorary LLD (Doctor of Laws) from the College of Law on Monday.\nMr Jones said he was \"delighted\" to received the honour.", "summary": "Ex-Wales rugby captain Ryan Jones who won 75 caps for Wales and three Grand Slams has received an honorary degree from Swansea University." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mayor Rahman and his party face claims of corrupt practices and exerting undue spiritual influence on voters.\nA file obtained by the BBC now provides a raft of detail on the allegations Mr Rahman faces in court next month.\nThe mayor and his party Tower Hamlets First deny any wrongdoing.\nThe evidence will be heard over several weeks at the High Court by Richard Mawrey QC. He has the power to order a recount or ban the mayor from public office for up to five years.\nPart of the Statement of Case, collated by the members of the public who brought the legal action, details an array of alleged misdeeds in the run-up to the election last May, when he was re-elected as mayor.\nIt claims that in April last year, 30 council employees were asked to a meeting at a Bangladeshi restaurant.\nThe document continues: \"During the meeting both council managers and agents of the First Respondent [Mayor Rahman] instructed each of those attending to obtain 100 votes each for the First Respondent; and informed them that, if they did not do so, they may lose their jobs.\n\"It was made clear that these votes should be obtained by illegal means, including through postal voting fraud.\"\nThe petitioners allege that at another restaurant meeting in the period: \"The First Respondent attended together with all or almost all the Tower Hamlets First candidates for the Council elections and some activists.\n\"The First Respondent told all assembled activists that they must fill up to 250 postal vote application forms each.\n\"Each of the persons at the meeting was then given a bundle of 250 postal vote application forms.\"\nA spokesman for Mr Rahman denied either meeting ever happened.\nThe documents also claim Mr Rahman and his party tried to exert undue spiritual influence over voters, which is illegal.\nThey state that a letter was published by a newspaper in Bengali with a circulation in the borough of about 20,000 entitled \"Be United Against Injustice; Make Lutfur Rahman Victorious\".\nThis was signed by 101 leaders of the Islamic community in the borough, including chairmen of Mosques and the head teachers of religious schools.\nThe petitioners allege the effect was to indicate that a vote against Mayor Rahman would be un-Islamic and sinful.\nThey claim Mr Rahman corruptly attempted to influence these religious leaders by giving them grants of public money ranging from £8,000 to £25,000, alleging that a total of £278,000 was given out in this way.\nA spokesman for the mayor responded: \"At no point did religious authority figures use spiritual coercion to procure votes. We believe such claims to be entirely spurious.\n\"Unless we are now in the business of disenfranchising the Muslim community, local leaders have a right to canvass for their preferred candidate.\"\nThere are also claims that during the count corrupt council officers deliberately miscounted votes.\nThe documents state: \"In one instance a bundle of ballot papers purportedly containing only votes cast for the First Respondent was assembled by corrupt members of the counting staff and actually consisted mostly of votes for other candidates, with only the top few ballot papers containing votes for the First Respondent.\"\nA spokesman for the mayor said: \"All these allegations are characterised by an utter lack of substantial evidence.\n\"The police and Electoral Commission have already investigated and found nothing of merit, as has been the case when similar allegations have been made in the past by politicians.\n\"It is a shame that some elements of the local political establishment cannot cope with losing a free and fair election.\"\nTower Hamlets Council has made no comment.\nMr Rahman was previously Labour leader in the borough, before leaving during a split within the local party. He received 43.38% of first preference votes in May's election.\nNumerous functions of the council have since been taken over by government commissioners after a report found numerous financial failings and what Communities Secretary Eric Pickles called a \"culture of cronyism\" within the authority.", "summary": "Employees of Tower Hamlets Council were warned they may lose their jobs if they did not each illegally obtain 100 votes for Mayor Lutfur Rahman, according to court documents seen by BBC London." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But in an interview, he warned that the state was not serious about reform and meaningful dialogue with its opponents.\nMonths of talks between the government and opposition to resolve ongoing unrest were suspended in January.\nMr Rajab was freed on Saturday after completing a two-year sentence for organising \"unauthorised\" protests.\nFellow human rights activists considered him a prisoner of conscience whose legitimate work the Gulf kingdom had attempted to silence.\nBefore his imprisonment in July 2012, Mr Rajab was repeatedly detained in connection with the pro-democracy protests that erupted the previous year.\nWhile Mr Rajab was in detention, the Sunni-led government continued clamp down on peaceful protests and to arrest and intimidate leaders of the Shia-dominated opposition. At the same time, bombings and other attacks on security forces personnel became more frequent.\nAsked if he would speak with officials to help break the deadlock, Mr Rajab replied: \"I am a human rights activist and that determines my relationship with the government, so I would not refuse to meet anybody if that would help the situation.\"\nBut he warned: \"There is no attempt to have a proper dialogue with the opposition. The government is not serious. It is just playing for time.\"\n\"The royal family does not want to see a balance of power. They want everything in their hands and as long as that is their attitude we are not likely to reach a solution,\" he added.\nThe opposition's demands include judicial reform, electoral reform, release of opposition political prisoners, and an elected government with full legislative powers.\nMr Rajab said the situation in Bahrain was worse now than when he was jailed, citing legislation aimed at stopping online criticism and the increased violence.\nThe majority still believed in a peaceful struggle, but a minority calling for violence was \"a normal reaction when you detain all who call for peaceful change\", he warned.\nDespite the restrictions on dissent and the risk of being imprisoned, Mr Rajab insisted he would continue to speak out on human rights issues.\n\"Laws were made while I was in prison that gave the king, the army, and the ministry of the interior immunity from criticism. The country has turned into a dictatorship. I know that I will have to be more careful but I also know I am going to talk.\"\nMr Rajab argued that the key to stopping violence was to end the ban on peaceful demonstrations and restrictions on freedom of expression.\n\"Some of the people who have come to my home say that the peaceful struggle has failed. But I say that we have to redouble our efforts, show them that peaceful struggle has not failed and by doing so we can slowly, slowly lower the level of violence.\"", "summary": "Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab says he would talk to the government to end the political deadlock in Bahrain, following his release from prison." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Jalal Uddin, 71, died after suffering head injuries in an attack in a children's play area in Rochdale.\nMohammed Hussain Syeedy, 21, of Ramsay Street, Rochdale, denies murder and being the getaway driver for Mohammed Kadir, 24, who is alleged to have killed Mr Uddin, in February.\nManchester Crown Court has heard claims they hated the imam's form of Islam.\nThe prosecution alleged they believed Mr Uddin was performing \"black magic\" because of his practising of Ruqya healing, which involves the use of amulets known as taweez.\nIt was also claimed they supported the so-called Islamic State (IS) and sought to punish the imam with death for this practice, in line with the group's beliefs.\nMr Syeedy, a former Manchester United steward, admitted he disagreed with Mr Uddin's beliefs but denied any link to IS.\nHe also told the court he did not suspect Mr Kadir of planning or being involved in the imam's murder.\nMr Kadir, of Chamber Road, Oldham, boarded a flight to Denmark three days after Mr Uddin's death on 18 February, followed by a connecting flight to Istanbul.\nHis whereabouts are unknown, although it is thought he may have travelled to Syria.", "summary": "The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering an imam has retired to consider its verdict." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Odom will continue his recovery in Los Angeles and is making \"miraculous\" progress, even taking a few steps, according to a family statement.\nHis estranged wife Khloe Kardashian, his father and two of his children are with the former Lakers star.\nPolice are conducting tests to establish what happened.\nOdom, who married reality television star Kardashian in 2009, has long struggled with addiction.\nHe told brothel employees he had taken cocaine before arriving, police said.\nNye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly said that a worker at the brothel reported Odom was found unresponsive with blood coming from his nose and mouth.\nUS media had reported that although Ms Kardashian filed for divorce from Mr Odom in 2013, it had yet to be processed and she was making decisions about his medical care.\nOdom won the NBA championship with the Lakers in 2009 and 2010 and was named NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2011.\nHe last played in the NBA in 2013 with the Clippers.", "summary": "Ex-NBA star Lamar Odom is back in Los Angeles after receiving treatment at a Las Vegas hospital, a week after being found unconscious at a Nevada brothel." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ceredigion was the best-performing authority with a 68% recycling rate and Blaenau Gwent was the worst with 49%.\nThe target for 2015-16 was 58%, rising to 64% by 2020 and 70% by 2025.\nIn previous years, fines for councils which did not hit targets were waived but ministers will decide on issuing penalties once final figures are published in October.\nThe overall recycling rate in the 12 months to March 2015 was 56% as Welsh councils strive to meet the Welsh Government's zero landfill waste target by 2050.\nCabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths, said: \"This is the first year recycling targets have increased beyond the ambitious level of 58%, up from the previous year's target of 52%. The fact these figures not only achieve the target but, in fact, exceed it is highly encouraging, showing we are continually improving our recycling rate.\"\n\"It's clear that local authorities and householders are working hard to recycle and we are well on the way to achieving our 70% recycling target set for 2025. I am proud that we lead the rest of the UK in our recycling rate but I want us to do even better and become Europe's best recycling nation.\"\nOf Wales' 22 councils, only Newport, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen failed to hit this 58% target in these provisional figures.\nNeighbouring councils Monmouthshire and Blaenau Gwent were the only authorities which recorded a drop in recycling rates when compared to their 2014-15 figures.\nMonmouthshire fell from 63% to 62% and Blaenau Gwent dropped from 50% to 49%.\nHowever, Monmouthshire recorded a 1% increase when compared to its last 12-month figures, the year to December, whereas Blaenau Gwent remained static in this period.\nProtests were held in Blaenau Gwent last year when the council changed bin collections and gave people large plastic boxes for their recycling instead of bags.\nThe council has defended its position, saying it is still in transition from the old system to the new one.\nThe Welsh Government said a decision on whether to issue fines to failing councils would be taken in October once final validated figures were available.\nConservative environment spokesman David Melding AM said the overall picture was promising, but added: \"There are pockets of Wales and in particular the south east, where recycling rates remain stubbornly low and that requires investigation from the Welsh Government.\"\nCaerphilly council, one of the local authorities which struggled to meet the 56% recycling target previously, saw its rates hit 62%, up from 59% in the 2015 calendar year.\nIn a bid to tackle the problem, the authority is visiting every home in the county to encourage uptake.\nIt is halfway through the visiting process and said so far, most people were responding positively to the advice.\nColette Price is one of the Caerphilly team visiting the council's 74,000 homes.\nShe will hand out free replacement food waste bins if people do not have one already, give advice and leaflets about what can be recycled and when it is collected and ask if they have any issues.\nShe said: \"I like to go down the route of trying to encourage, not boss them and say 'you've got to do this, you've got to do that'.\n\"I think it's important that the residents know that we are there to inform them and if they've got any issues there is a telephone number on the leaflet, and they can contact us.\"", "summary": "The amount of waste being recycled across Welsh councils hit 60% in the 12 months to the end of March." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The deal for the 24-year-old Belgium international, initially reported by BBC Sport on Thursday, is believed to include £15m in add-ons.\nChampions Chelsea had matched the Red Devils' bid, but missed out on re-signing their former player.\n\"Romelu is a natural fit for Manchester United. He is a big personality and a big player,\" said boss Jose Mourinho.\n\"It is only natural that he wants to develop his career at the biggest club.\n\"He will be a great addition to the group. I am really looking forward to working with him again.\"\nLukaku, whose contract includes an option for a sixth year, said: \"When Manchester United and Jose Mourinho come knocking at the door, it is an opportunity of a lifetime and one that I could not turn down.\n\"I cannot wait to run out at Old Trafford in front of 75,000 fans.\"\nSpeaking to MUTV, he said midfielder Paul Pogba had played a \"big role\" in him signing for United.\nLukaku sent a farewell message to Everton on Monday in which he thanked the club and said it was \"an honour\" to play in front of their fans.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nMourinho was manager of Chelsea when they sold Lukaku to Everton for £28m in July 2014.\nThe striker spent the 2013-14 season on loan at the Merseyside club before signing a five-year deal that summer.\nHe netted 68 Premier League goals across his two spells, scoring 25 times in the Premier League last season.\nLukaku turned down the most lucrative contract offer in Everton's history, thought to be worth £140,000 a week, in March and later said: \"I don't want to stay at the same level. I want to improve and I know where I want to do that.\"\nThe Belgian had been on holiday in the United States, and linked up there with United's squad for their pre-season tour.\nLukaku was arrested in Los Angeles last week following a noise complaint and is due is due to appear in court on 2 October.\nHis arrival at Old Trafford follows Wayne Rooney's departure to rejoin Everton, after 13 years with United.\nThat deal, which was confirmed on Sunday, was not connected with the Lukaku transfer.\nDespite matching United's bid, Chelsea were not willing to match the fees Lukaku's agent Mino Raiola will earn from the move to Old Trafford.\nTop five world record transfers\nTop five British transfer records\nMourinho on Lukaku expressing surprise he was released by Chelsea to join Everton on loan in 2013:\n\"Romelu likes to speak. He's a young boy who likes to speak. But the only thing he didn't say is why he went to Everton on loan. That's the only thing he never says. And my last contact with him was to tell him exactly that - 'why do you never say why you are not here?'\"\nLukaku on Mourinho in December 2015:\n\"Everyone says it is Mourinho's fault but it is not his fault because I made the decision [to leave Chelsea]. I went to his office to ask if I could go.\n\"I signed the deal with Everton at 11 o'clock and the first text message I got on my old BlackBerry was from Mourinho saying 'Good luck, do your best and I will see you next season'.\"\nMourinho on selling Lukaku to Everton:\n\"Romelu was always very clear with us with his mentality and his approach was not highly motivated to come to a competitive situation with Chelsea.\n\"He wanted to play for Chelsea but he clearly wanted to be first-choice striker - but for a club of our dimension it is very difficult to promise to a player.\"\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "Manchester United have signed striker Romelu Lukaku from Everton for an initial £75m on a five-year contract." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "An extremely divisive race.\nThe traditional centre-left and centre-right parties - which have governed Austria in one form or another since 1945 - were decimated during the first round.\nAnd the poll nearly, so very nearly resulted in a head of state from a right-wing populist party.\nThe rest of Europe watched and gawped.\nIs Europe lurching to the far right?\nEurope's nationalist surge, country by country\nTV debate turns to 'slugfest'\nCould this be a portentous sign of things to come elsewhere in Europe - Italy, France or Denmark for example, where right-wing populists are gaining in strength and influence?\nWas this Austria returning to its \"far-right\" past?\nJoerg Haider, who led Austria's Freedom Party until 2005, was well-known for his Nazi-praising comments.\nIn the end, the prospect of a Freedom Party president disturbed (just) enough Austrians to induce them to vote for the Green-Party-backed Independent candidate.\nBut are the now-defeated presidential hopeful, Norbert Hofer, and his Freedom Party actually 'far right'?\nNot even Austrians can agree, never mind the international media covering this story.\nFormer Austrian vice chancellor Hannes Androsch told me it was a nonsensical over-simplification - \"far too black and white\".\nThe Freedom Party has a far-right core that doesn't reflect the opinions of all its members, he told me, and, he insisted, is not at all representative of all its voters.\n\"They come to the Freedom Party out of protest. For a number of different reasons.\"\nOne large one is migration: Austria is struggling to integrate the tens of thousands of asylum seekers who moved here last year.\nOfficials say their country took in more refugees per capita than any other EU nation.\nPublic resentments have been heightened by rising unemployment.\n\"The Austrian boat is full,\" one Hofer voter told me. \"We're a small country. We can't be like [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel, saying: 'Come in, come in!'\n\"We have our own poor, Austrian poor, who need help.\"\n\"Austria First\" is the Freedom Party slogan. They describe themselves as a party of the centre, of the Austrian people, neither right nor left wing.\nThat's something Marine Le Pen of France likes to say about her National Front party too.\nAnd like the French National Front, the Freedom Party has invested in a makeover in order to appeal to discontented mainstream voters.\nDespite failing to make it to the presidential palace, it will interpret this vote as a huge success.\nOnce relegated to the far-right fringes, the Freedom Party is now deemed politically viable by half of all Austrian voters.\n\"This is far more a European problem than an Austrian problem, Austrian diplomat Wolfgang Petritsch told me. \"These parties have managed to make it OK, normal to vote for them. It's not a big deal anymore. And that is what is so dangerous.\"\nThe Freedom Party is now looking ahead to Austria's general election.\nIt is currently polling as the country's most popular party.\nConceding defeat today, Mr Hofer said his party would live to fight another day.\n\"Of course I am saddened,\" he said on Facebook. \"But please don't be disheartened. The effort in this election campaign is not wasted. It is an investment for the future.\"\nBut Hannes Androsch is dismissive.\n\"Yes, they've made it to the mainstream as a party of protest,\" he told me \"But building up Austria to be a fairytale castle that needs to be defended is no plan for the future.\n\"This is a wake-up call for the traditional parties in Austria - and in Europe as a whole - to address their voters' concerns.\n\"But the window of opportunity to do this is a narrow one.\"", "summary": "Austrians are now digesting the drama surrounding the election of their new president." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Shirley Oaks Survivors Association told the BBC it would recommend withdrawing from the Lambeth strand of the inquiry because it was not \"truly independent\".\nEx-inquiry chair Justice Lowell Goddard has said she was prevented from picking her own staff, and that civil servants were prioritised by the Home Office.\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd denied this.\nThe treatment of children in care in Lambeth, south London, during the second half of the 20th Century is one of 13 areas that the inquiry is looking at.\nBut the Shirley Oaks group said the Home Office was one of the institutions that had failed children in care in Lambeth in the past - and that the scale of its presence in the inquiry staff represented a conflict of interest.\nRaymond Stevenson, from the survivors' group, told BBC Newsnight there had been a sea change in the way the inquiry was operating.\n\"We have to recommend at this moment in time that we pull out. We have given the inquiry an opportunity to meet us. We contacted them two weeks ago and we are still waiting for a meeting,\" he said.\n\"Some of our members have been through investigations before which had Home Office members and staff part of it so we have been through that.\n\"This is about the third investigation Lambeth has been through so what we wanted from this was for it to be truly independent. We were sold a theory it would be truly independent.\"\nIn a written submission to the Commons Home Affairs Committee, Dame Lowell said: \"The panel and I have had little or no input into either the composition of the senior management team or the recruitment of secretariat staff during the lifetime of the current inquiry.\n\"The administrative arrangements made by the Home Office as the inquiry's sponsor meant that in the recruitment of staff priority was given to civil servants.\n\"Their approach has been bureaucratic and the inquiry's progress has been impeded by a lack of adequate systems and personnel, leading to critical delays.\n\"I felt as chair handicapped by not being given a free hand to recruit staff of the type that I judged to be essential.\"\nMs Rudd denied that Dame Lowell had been unable to choose her own staff, and has also said the scope of the inquiry will not change despite Dame Lowell's claim it was too big and bureaucratic and should focus on current child protection and future changes.\nThe inquiry was set up in 2014 and announced that 13 initial investigations would look into allegations against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces, public and private institutions and people in the public eye.\nIt has been beset by problems, and last month Dame Lowell became the third chair to quit the inquiry.\nProf Alexis Jay, who led the Rotherham abuse inquiry, is to be the new chairwoman of the inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales.", "summary": "A 600-strong survivors' group has lost faith in the independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse, its leaders have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "About two hectares (five acres) of heather is alight along the Panorama Walk below the Eglwyseg escarpment, above Llangollen.\nThe area is a Site of Special Scientific interest.\nThe fire is ongoing, with firefighters from Llangollen, Wrexham, Buckley and Chirk using hosereel jets and beaters to try to control the blaze.", "summary": "Firefighters are dealing with a large mountain fire in Denbighshire which broke out on Wednesday evening." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But use of the messaging app appears to vary widely between countries.\nIn Malaysia, more than 50% of those surveyed said they used WhatsApp for news at least once a week. But in the US, the figure was only 3%, and in the UK it was 5%.\nThe Digital News Report also indicates the Brexit debate has led to growing mistrust of the UK's media.\nIt said only 43% of respondents declared that the news could be trusted - down from 50% last year - with the BBC in particular criticised for having both a pro-EU bias and failing to expose the \"distortions\" of the leave campaign.\nThe research was carried out by the Reuters Institute For The Study of Journalism and covered 34 countries in Europe, the Americas and Asia, in addition to Taiwan and Hong Kong. It was sponsored by the BBC and Google among others.\nA total of 71,805 people were questioned by YouGov in January and February to generate its data.\nThe results indicate that Facebook remains the most popular social media and messaging service for news engagement in all but two countries - Japan and South Korea - where, respectively, YouTube and Kakao Talk dominate.\nBut it adds that use of Facebook for news had dipped in more than half of all the territories where a year-on-year comparison was possible.\nBy contrast, sharing news stories and chatting about them appears to be on the rise within private instant messaging apps, and WhatsApp in particular.\nAccording to the report, WhatsApp is now the second most popular social service for news in nine of the 36 locations, and the third most popular platform in a further five countries.\nThe authors provide several potential explanations for WhatsApp's rise.\nIts use of end-to-end encryption means messages can only be seen by their senders and recipients, offering users protection against being monitored by the authorities.\n\"Some of the biggest growth we've seen is in places like Turkey, where it's positively dangerous for people to express anti-government preferences on open networks like Facebook,\" explained one of the study's authors, Nic Newman.\n\"As a result people are using closed groups where they are more confident of expressing their views.\"\nWhatsApp has also benefited from the fact that in much of Latin America and elsewhere mobile networks are offering unlimited data use within the program, so encouraging its use.\nFurthermore, several Spanish and Chilean media outlets have embraced the app. Radio stations commonly ask listeners to send in short voice recordings via the service, and local news sites have added share-to-WhatsApp buttons to their pages.\nHowever, Mr Newman said beyond that, it was difficult for the media to take advantage of the app's popularity beyond publishing stories that people want to share.\n\"You can set up branded areas or groups of people on your own, but it's incredibly clunky and time consuming, and there are few tools to help,\" he explained.\n\"And part of WhatsApp's appeal is that users don't get interrupted by brands, making it a very pure form of messaging. That's something [its developers] will really try to hold to.\"\nThe report also highlights widespread concerns about so-called \"fake news\".\nIt highlights users' suspicions that social media's lack of rules and use of viral algorithms have helped low-quality false stories spread quickly.\nBut it says there is also strong distrust of the mainstream media, in particular in Asian and central, southern and eastern European countries, where the industry is perceived as being too close to government.\nThis year's Digital News Report is even more sobering than usual.\nMany of the institutions that contribute to democracy in the West are undergoing a crisis of trust. News providers are no exception. UK citizens' trust in news \"in general\" has fallen by 7% since the Brexit referendum, the report suggests.\nThat is a worrying drop. Combine it with Reuters' revelation that the proportion of people paying for online news in the UK remains \"among the lowest of all countries\" surveyed, and alarm bells should ring.\nOne reason for this could be the BBC, whose dominance in our news ecosystem might mean fewer people feel the need to pay for good information.\nThere is currently a problem with an interactive element on this page. Please try loading this page again in a little while.\nFor a new generation, the link between high-quality general news and payment for that news might be breaking.\nThe internet has made general, daily news a very common commodity. With tech giants like Facebook and Google eating ever more of the advertising pie, news providers may find they have to specialise if they are to get audiences to part with cash. And those audiences won't pay for content they don't trust.\nRebuilding that trust, in an era of digital echo chambers and fake news, is going to be tough. But it must be done.\nYahoo News remains the most popular online news brand, in terms of the numbers of people using it at least once a week, across the 36 markets as a whole.\nIt also ranked as the top online source of online news in the US, Japan and Taiwan.\nIts success may have been driven in part by the fact many users said it was better at delivering \"amusing and entertaining\" content than the competition.\nOther findings reported include:\nMaking money from online news remains problematic.\nThe study said 84% of respondents had not paid for content in the past year.\nHowever, it highlighted that there had been a \"Trump bump\" in the US, where several newspapers had attracted hundreds of thousands of new digital subscribers, many of whom have left-wing views and are under 35.\nAnother development that will be welcomed by the industry is that the use of ad blockers on desktop PCs appears to have stalled and remains low on smartphones, with only 7% of respondents saying they had installed advert removing software on their handset.\nMoreover, a \"tough love\" approach taken by some publishers - whereby they block access to their content if an ad blocker is in use - appears to have convinced many users to at least temporarily suspend the plug-in's use.", "summary": "WhatsApp is becoming one of the prevailing ways people discover and discuss news, according to a study." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Forward Porter, 24, and defender Johnson, 21, both joined the club at the start of the season and have agreed extensions after helping secure a 10th-place finish in the National League.\n\"I'm delighted to have Daniel on board for next season, he's had a fantastic season,\" manager Neil Smith said.\n\"George has been brilliant in every position we've asked him to play, he gives 100% and deserves his new deal.\"\nAlan Dunne, Jack Holland and Jordan Higgs are the other players to remain contracted to Bromley for the 2017-18 season, but Connor Dymond and Lee Minshull have left the club.", "summary": "George Porter and Daniel Johnson have signed new contracts with Bromley." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Find out how you can join in and submit your images and videos below.\nIf you are looking for inspiration, view some top tips from three of England's Big Picture photographers.\nIf you have a picture you'd like to share, email us at england@bbc.co.uk, post it on Facebook or tweet it to @BBCEngland. You can also find us on Instagram - use #englandsbigpicture to share an image there. You can also see a recent archive of pictures on our England's Big Picture board on Pinterest.\nWhen emailing pictures, please make sure you include the following information:\nPlease note that whilst we welcome all your pictures, we are more likely to use those which have been taken in the past week.\nIf you submit a picture, you do so in accordance with the BBC's Terms and Conditions.\nIn contributing to England's Big Picture you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media worldwide.\nIt's important to note, however, that you still own the copyright to everything you contribute to England's Big Picture, and that if your image is accepted, we will publish your name alongside.\nThe BBC cannot guarantee that all pictures will be used and we reserve the right to edit your comments.\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws while collecting any kind of media.", "summary": "Each day we feature a photograph sent in from across England." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The latest two statues are by Peter Firmin, who co-created the children's TV character Bagpuss in the 1970s, and fashion designer Wayne Hemingway.\nBagpuss Shaun will be on display at Cabot Circus and Mr Hemingway's Sheepish at Temple Church Gardens.\nThe trail, featuring 70 statues, starts on 6 July and ends on 31 August.\nIt is the first time Peter Firmin and his daughter Emily, an artist and sculptor, have worked together. Ms Firmin also played the part of \"Emily\" - the daughter of Bagpuss's owner - in the 1970s children's TV series, when she was eight years old.\nMr Firmin said: \"Emily helped me work out how to paint such a large sculpture, and helped paint the legs, as I found it difficult at my age to bend down to reach them.\"\nHemingway, who created fashion label Red or Dead, said designing the sculpture had been a \"blast\".\nThe statues will be auctioned later this year to raise funds for Bristol Children's Hospital's Grand Appeal.\nA previous trail in Bristol in 2013, based on another Aardman character, Gromit, raised £4.5m for sick children after the sculptures were auctioned.", "summary": "The first giant sculptures of Shaun the Sheep, designed by celebrities, are being revealed ahead of a free public art trail in Bristol next month." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Services were disrupted because of the angle of the sun in Lewisham, south-east London, train operator Southeastern said.\nIt apologised and tweeted: \"We had severe congestion through Lewisham due to dispatching issues as a result of strong sunlight.\"\nPassengers also took to Twitter - to share their disbelief at the excuse.\nPaul Malyon described it as \"the weakest excuse ever\".\nRob List wrote: \"I can't have heard properly because if I did, I believe my train's been delayed due to SUNLIGHT?!?\"\nZuzanna Sojka tweeted: \"Canon Street train delayed due to sunlight! @Se_Railway i admire your creativity!\"\nMore on this story and headlines from London\nA spokesman at Southeastern said: \"We know that sometimes it seems that if it is not leaves on the line or snow on the track then it is some other weather issue.\n\"But actually glare this morning made it impossible for some drivers to see the full length of their train in their mirrors before leaving stations.\n\"When this happens they have to get out and check to ensure everybody has got on or off their train safely before they can move.\n\"This can take a little more time but thankfully for all it doesn't happen very often.\"\nThere have been additional problems following a landslip at Barnehurst on Monday evening.\nAll services between Lewisham and Dartford via Bexleyheath were cancelled for the rest of the day as a result.\nThere were also difficulties on the Southern network when a sinkhole caused trains between Redhill in Surrey and Tonbridge in Kent to be suspended.", "summary": "Rail passengers were left angry after being told trains were delayed due to \"strong sunlight\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "More than 2,600 names were released on dormantaccounts.ch.\nNew Swiss banking regulations mean that if an account containing more the 500 Swiss Francs ($505; £335) has been left dormant for 60 years, ownership of the funds reverts to the state.\nAround 80 safety deposit boxes have also been gathering dust since 1955.\nThe deadline for submitting a claim is one year from the date of publication of the account holder's name.\n\"By publishing this information, the banks are making a last attempt to re-establish contact with the customer,\" said Claude-Alain Margelisch, chief executive of the Swiss Bankers Association.\nHe added that the new regulations - which took effect in January - also create legal clarity about dormant assets.\nThe banking lobby group said that banks may charge their costs to claimants who file clearly unfounded requests.", "summary": "The Swiss banking industry has released the names of holders of dormant accounts, in the hope they will come forward to claim over $44m." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Robert Pilott, 65, of Woking, Surrey, died following the pile-up between junction nine and 10 on the northbound M40 in Oxfordshire in February.\nThe Oxfordshire coroner said he would write to Highways England about the issue of fog sensors.\nThames Valley Police has said no drivers will face criminal proceedings.\nThe inquest heard how drivers on a stretch of the motorway near Weston-on-the-Green hurtled into each other at 70mph at 07:45 GMT on Saturday 14 February.\nCollision investigator Terry Anderson said weather conditions on the day were \"exceptional\".\nHe said: \"The fog was patchy but then came on suddenly and they would have only had about a second to respond.\n\"There is no fog detection equipment between junctions nine and 10 of the M40, which would be needed for the matrix signs to warn of fog.\"\nRecording a conclusion of accidental death, coroner Darren Salter said he would be writing to Highways England to see if there is a case for a fog detector and if it is being reviewed.\nA Highways England spokesperson said: \"Safety is a top priority and we keep safety on our network continually under review. We will support any review the coroner requests.\"\nA Thames Valley Police spokesman said: \"A thorough and complex investigation has concluded and no criminal proceedings will be taken against any of the drivers involved.\"\nThe motorway was closed northbound for more than eight hours after the crash in which six people were seriously injured and 55 had minor injuries.", "summary": "There were no fog sensors on a stretch of the M40 at which a fatal crash involving more than 30 cars occurred, an inquest heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Khurram Rahi, 27, of Rosefield Road, Smethwick, was arrested by police investigating the assault of the girl at Witton station. He is due before Birmingham magistrates on Monday.\nA second man, aged 34, who was also arrested on Saturday, has been released while police inquiries continue.\nThe girl told police she was raped a second time when she left the station.\nShe flagged down a van for help, police said, but was attacked by the driver, in the early hours of Wednesday.\nDet Ch Insp Tony Fitzpatrick, from British Transport Police, said: \"This case has gained national interest and I am pleased we are now in a position to charge a man.\n\"However, we still have a suspect outstanding for the offence in the vehicle.\n\"I would urge anyone who may have any information regarding this attack to get in touch as soon as possible.\"\nHe said the second attack happened at about 02:00 BST near Witton station.\nThe suspect sought over that assault is described as thick-set Asian man, about 5ft 6in tall with large biceps.", "summary": "A man has been charged with rape after a 14-year-old girl was attacked twice on the same night in Birmingham." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Dudley Business Loan Fund is aimed at businesses in the borough with fewer than 250 staff that have struggled to secure bank loans.\nThe scheme is a partnership between Dudley Council and the Black Country Reinvestment Society (BCRS).\nCouncillor Shaukat Ali said he believed it could play a \"vital role\" in stimulating the local economy.\nHe said there were some 9,000 businesses in the area that could be eligible.\nThe scheme, offering loans of £10,000 to £50,000, is open to small and medium-sized businesses with a turnover of less than £5m.\nThe scheme has been joint funded by the council and BCRS through a European grant.\nPaul Kalinaucas, chief executive of the BCRS not-for-profit lender, said the fund would help Dudley \"develop, grow and prosper\".\nCradley Heath manufacturer Sealco benefited from a £50,000 BCRS loan in 2008 and said small sums could sometimes make a big difference.\nManaging Director Rob Fowkes said: \"In that year it helped us maintain staffing levels and got us through the very sticky parts that were 2008 and 2009.\"\nSince 2009, the company has doubled its workforce and doubled its turnover to more than £2m.\nDudley Council said it expected the new loan scheme to create 30 jobs and secure 60 more.", "summary": "Small businesses in the Black Country are being given access to a £1m council fund, in a bid to secure jobs." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Australia's police head earlier warned the terror threat was getting worse, saying a 12-year-old boy was being monitored in relation to the attack.\nPolice accountant Curtis Cheng, 58, was shot dead on 2 October outside his office in Sydney.\nPolice shot dead his attacker, 15-year-old Farhad Jabar, at the scene.\nJabar, an Australian born in Iran and of Iraqi-Kurdish heritage, is reported to have shouted religious slogans as he killed Mr Cheng, a police accountant.\nMore than 200 officers later raided several properties, detaining four people in relation to the killing in Sydney's Parramatta area. They were all males aged between 16 and 22, officials said.\nMr Turnbull is holding the meeting with top intelligence and police officials - as well as senior education officials - in the capital Canberra.\nOpening the summit, he said the recent attack proved that radicalisation was spreading among the country's youths.\n\"We are dealing with an evolving threat. The shocking murder of Curtis Cheng, the shocking act of terrorism perpetrated by a 15-year-old boy reminds us yet again that radicalisation, extremism can be seen in the very young.\n\"This is a real home grown threat. And it appals all Australians, and it appals all Muslim Australians,\" he said, adding that engaging with the Muslim community \"is absolutely critical\".\n\"The most critically important Australian value in all of this is that of mutual respect. We are the most successful multicultural society in the world.\"\nThe prime minister also stressed that sharing information between the country's security agencies and frontline workers - such as teachers - was important to tackle the problem.\nThe summit is expected to discuss in detail what measures should be implemented to counter violent extremism and prevent further radicalisation.\nAhead of the talks, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin admitted that the problem \"is getting worse for Australia, not better\".\n\"We're shocked that a 12-year-old is on the police radar for these type of matters,\" he told the ABC's 7.30 programme.\nMr Colvin said the boy was being watched because he was part of a group of extremists who may have helped Jabar.\nThe identity of the juvenile has not been revealed because of his age.\nMr Turnbull has said the attack \"appears to have been an act of terrorism\".\nThe killing has shocked Australians, amid concerns about the radicalisation of young people.\nDozens of Australians are thought to be fighting with Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria and the Australian government has introduced new national security laws in response.\nExperts are worried about the effect of returnees - and on those who support them - on security.\nIn September last year, police in Melbourne shot a man they called a \"known terror suspect\" a day after IS called for Muslims to kill Australians.", "summary": "Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull is meeting security chiefs following the recent killing of a police worker in what officials say was a terror attack." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The golf club at the foot of the Mourne Mountains was founded in 1889 after the development of a railway line from Belfast, and the emergence of Newcastle as a popular seaside resort.\nThe initial nine-hole layout, which opened on 23 March 1889, was created by George L Baillie, a Scottish schoolteacher who came to Belfast and embarked on a personal crusade to establish golf courses.\nIt was so successful that golf pioneer, Old Tom Morris, travelled from his home in St Andrews, Scotland, to advise on constructing a further nine holes \"for a sum not to exceed £4\".\nOld Tom, whose real name was Thomas Mitchell Morris, spent two days at Royal County Down in July 1889.\nThree new holes were added immediately, then a further six, and the full 18-hole championship course was ready to play by July 1890.\nDuring the next two decades, George Combe, captain in 1896 and convenor of the green, 1900 to 1913, and other famous golfers of the time made further recommendations after visiting the course.\nIn 1908, King Edward VII bestowed royal patronage on the club.\nIn 1925, golf course architect, Harry Colt (who also created Royal Portrush), was asked to advise on further improvements.\nThe alterations that ensued created the present 4th and 9th holes, which are two of the most photographed holes in world golf, due to the stunning mountain backdrop.\nThese days, the club has two 18-hole links courses, the Championship Course and the Annesley Links.\nWorld number one Rory McIlroy describes the championship course as his favourite in the world.\nThe Irish Open returns to Royal County Down this year after 76 years. The course previously hosted the event three times, all prior to World War II.\nMore than 125 years after the club first began, the words of respected golf writer Bernard Darwin (grandson of Charles), written more than 70 years ago, still ring true.\nHe described the Royal County Down course as: \"One of big and glorious carries, nestling greens, entertainingly blind shots, local knowledge and beautiful turf.\n\"The kind of golf that people play in their most ecstatic dreams.\"", "summary": "The world's golfing superstars may be competing for prize money of 2.5m euros (£178m) at this year's Irish Open, but the host course at Royal County Down cost a mere £4 to create." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Turkey forward Turan also set up Lionel Messi for the first goal of the dead rubber Champions League match.\nHe then scored a 17-minute second-half hat-trick, as Barcelona underscored their position as Group C winners.\nManchester City finished second, after their 1-1 draw against Celtic.\nBorussia Monchengladbach qualified for the Europa League in third despite the loss.\nKlopp's Liverpool squad, third in the Premier League after Sunday's dramatic 4-3 defeat at Bournemouth, were on a group-bonding trip.\nMatch ends, Barcelona 4, Borussia Mönchengladbach 0.\nSecond Half ends, Barcelona 4, Borussia Mönchengladbach 0.\nAttempt missed. Lucas Digne (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.\nCorner, Barcelona. Conceded by Tobias Strobl.\nDenis Suárez (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Tobias Strobl (Borussia Mönchengladbach).\nFoul by André Gomes (Barcelona).\nRaffael (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nSubstitution, Barcelona. Marc Cardona replaces Arda Turan.\nAttempt saved. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lucas Digne with a cross.\nSubstitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Raffael replaces Thorgan Hazard.\nCorner, Barcelona. Conceded by Tony Jantschke.\nFoul by Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona).\nThorgan Hazard (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nGoal! Barcelona 4, Borussia Mönchengladbach 0. Arda Turan (Barcelona) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Paco Alcácer.\nJavier Mascherano (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Fabian Johnson (Borussia Mönchengladbach).\nAttempt blocked. Rafinha (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lionel Messi.\nFoul by Lucas Digne (Barcelona).\nThorgan Hazard (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nSubstitution, Barcelona. Rafinha replaces Andrés Iniesta.\nFoul by Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona).\nAndré Hahn (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nSubstitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Fabian Johnson replaces Nico Schulz.\nSubstitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Christoph Kramer replaces Mahmoud Dahoud.\nAttempt saved. Paco Alcácer (Barcelona) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Andrés Iniesta.\nMahmoud Dahoud (Borussia Mönchengladbach) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nSamuel Umtiti (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Mahmoud Dahoud (Borussia Mönchengladbach).\nGoal! Barcelona 3, Borussia Mönchengladbach 0. Arda Turan (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Aleix Vidal.\nGoal! Barcelona 2, Borussia Mönchengladbach 0. Arda Turan (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.\nCorner, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Conceded by Arda Turan.\nAttempt blocked. André Hahn (Borussia Mönchengladbach) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thorgan Hazard with a cross.\nCorner, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Conceded by Samuel Umtiti.\nSecond Half begins Barcelona 1, Borussia Mönchengladbach 0.\nFirst Half ends, Barcelona 1, Borussia Mönchengladbach 0.\nCorner, Barcelona. Conceded by Tony Jantschke.\nFoul by André Gomes (Barcelona).\nThorgan Hazard (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAleix Vidal (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the right wing.", "summary": "Jurgen Klopp and his Liverpool squad were in attendance at the Nou Camp, as Arda Turan scored a hat-trick in Barcelona's 4-0 victory against Borussia Monchengladbach." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The £48,000 boat will be called \"Mary & Archie Hooper\" in memory of a couple from Llandanwg Beach, near Harlech.\nMr Hooper, a former commander in the Royal Navy, and his wife were keen RNLI fundraisers who left behind funding for the new boat.\nThe naming ceremony and a service of dedication will take place in Holyhead on Saturday.\nThe boat, which has already launched, will be handed over to the RNLI by the donor's representatives Dr Susan Hooper and James Hooper.\nLee Firman, RNLI divisional operations manager, said: \"As a charity, we are so very grateful for this most generous legacy which has made this kind gift possible.\"", "summary": "A new RNLI lifeboat is set to be named at a ceremony on Anglesey." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The woman, in her 70s, suffered a fractured skull when the stone smashed through the glass and hit her.\nShe was in the back seat of the vehicle as it drove along Bellevue Avenue, Edgbaston, Birmingham, on the evening of 25 May.\nTwo boys aged 17 and three aged 15 have been held on suspicion of wounding.\nAll have been bailed while police inquiries continue.", "summary": "Five teenagers have been arrested after an elderly woman was hit in the head and injured by a stone thrown through a taxi window." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sean Corrigan, 31, died in hospital after he was found at a flat in St Mary's Gardens in September 2014.\nPost mortem results indicated he may have died in suspicious circumstances.\nThe woman, who was arrested in west Belfast on Thursday, was released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.\nLast month, police renewed their appeal for information about Mr Corrigan's death.", "summary": "A 50-year-old woman, who was arrested by police investigating the death of a man in west Belfast last year, has been released." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is one of only two left in the world to have been restored to its original specification and is airworthy.\nThe fighter, based at Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire, could fetch up to £2.5m at auction in July.\nProceeds will go to the RAF Benevolent Fund and Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit.\nThe Mk I Vickers Supermarine Spitfire was originally piloted by Old Etonian Flying Officer Peter Cazenove during the evacuation of Dunkirk.\nDespite radioing-in to say \"Tell mother I'll be home for tea,\" he was shot down on 24 May 1940, crashed on the Calais coast and was captured.\nHe ended up in the Stulag Luft III prisoner of war camp, where British airmen launched their famous Great Escape in 1944.\nBut despite failing to escape, he survived and returned to the UK after the war.\nThe plane remained hidden in the sandy beach of Calais until the 1980s when strong tides exposed the wreckage.\nHowever, it was not until the parts were bought by an American collector and shipped to the UK that the mammoth task of restoring it began at the former home of RAF Duxford.\nNow the Spitfire has been returned to its original glory and is going under the hammer at Christie's in London on 9 July.\nJohn Romain, chief engineer at the Aircraft Restoration Company, which undertook the project, said: \"It came to us quite literally in boxes of parts that had been removed from the beach in France.\n\"We spent five years restoring it back to its original state.\n\"This one is particularly special. It is very unusual to see a Spitfire like this go to auction.\"", "summary": "A rare RAF Spitfire once flown by a Great Escape veteran and painstakingly restored over five years could fetch millions of pounds for charity." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nWilliams scored the opening try as his village side won the competition for the first time, 43-31 over Caerphilly.\n\"If I feel like this every time I play, I definitely will [carry on],\" the 40-year-old told BBC Wales Sport.\n\"I'm going to remain involved, coaching or helping out in some form.\"\nThe wing scored a record 58 tries in 87 caps for Wales, also playing four Tests for the British and Irish Lions, before ending his professional career in Japan.\nHe made his comeback this season, playing several league games and also came on as a replacement in the semi-final win over Cilfynydd.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"You never know, it might not be finished - what a place to play!\" said Williams as he soaked up the applause of a noisy support, having his photograph taken with anyone close enough to the front of the stand.\n\"I started my career against France back in 2000, I've had a number of 'final' matches here, one against Australia, one against Wales [for the Barbarians], which was superb.\n\"But I never thought in a million years I'd be back here. I've been fully retired three years and apart from helping coaching, I haven't really touched a rugby ball.\n\"Playing at the Principality Stadium today in front of a great crowd, they were superb, even the Caerphilly lot - it's very fitting and I've loved it.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nWilliams, who lined up with brother Dean and brother-in-law Gavin Lewis in the United back three, scored from 20 metres out with his first touch, gave the scoring pass to Lewis for his team's second, and had a hand in the other two touch-downs.\n\"The boys have been taking the mick out of me all season for not scoring, so it's nice to get involved early and I got a touch early on and scored. But it was tough out there and I got steamrollered I don't know how many times - I'll have to work on my tackling!\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"It's superb for the town. The boys have worked their socks off all season and today wasn't about me, it was about 'the Amman' being successful.\n\"We played a very good Caerphilly side. At times I thought they were going to run away with it, but it's like Christmas for these guys - they may not get this opportunity again.\n\"The boys were having a sing-song before the match and I've never done that before, but they've been so nervous, they've been like kids and with the season they've had, they thoroughly deserve this.\"", "summary": "Former Wales and Lions wing Shane Williams says he may keep playing after helping Amman United to the National Bowl trophy at the Principality Stadium." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nBut the Welshman has one stellar memory from his time at his home club Wrexham - scoring the goal that beat Arsenal 2-1 in the third round of the FA Cup in 1992.\nAnd on the 25th anniversary of the famous day at the Racecourse Ground, his memories are as vivid as ever.\n\"It was fantastic to play the league champions and nobody expected us to win,\" he said.\n\"We probably should have lost the game to be honest, we rode our luck especially in the first half - we could have been 5-0 down at half-time.\n\"But it was one of those days when we took our bit of luck and got the two goals in the second half.\"\nAt the end of the previous season, the teams were separated by 91 places in the Football League.\nGeorge Graham's Gunners won the 1990-91 title while Wrexham finished bottom of the old Fourth Division.\nAnd on 4 January, 1992 things were going to plan when an Arsenal team including winger Paul Merson, Tony Adams and David Seaman took the lead through Alan Smith just before half-time.\nBut Mickey Thomas' stunning free-kick brought Wrexham level and two minutes later Watkin pounced on some slack defending to fire the winner past England goalkeeper Seaman.\n\"It's got to be the highlight of my career,\" said Watkin, now 45.\n\"I played lower leagues all my career and it can be tough at times and you get plenty of disappointments along the way, but playing in games like that makes it all worthwhile.\n\"Obviously Mickey's goal set us off.\n\"Up until then I don't think we'd looked like scoring so that was the catalyst if you like and a few minutes later I managed to get the winner which was great for me, obviously, being born in Wrexham as well.\"\nSteve Watkin is a guest on BBC Radio Wales Sport, 19:00 GMT on Wednesday, 4 January", "summary": "By his own admission Steve Watkin had a modest career in the lower leagues." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The trial of two South Yorkshire Police officers and two pilots has begun at Sheffield Crown Court.\nMatthew Lucas, 42, Lee Walls, 47, Matthew Loosemore, 45, and Malcolm Reeves, 64, all deny misconduct in a public office.\nOn other occasions people sunbathing naked and naturists at a campsite were filmed, the court was told.\nLive updates on this story and others from across South Yorkshire\nRichard Wright QC prosecuting, said the crew used their \"unique viewing position [and] powerful video camera\" to film people \"in a gross violation of privacy.\"\nThe court heard that five people were filmed sunbathing naked, as well as naturists on a campsite, and a couple having sex in their garden.\nPilots Mr Reeves, of Farfield Avenue, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, denies two counts of misconduct in a public office, and Mr Loosemore, of Briar Close, Auckley, Doncaster, denies one count.\nPolice officers Mr Walls, of Southlands Way, Aston, Sheffield, denies one count, and Mr Lucas, of Coppice Rise, Chapeltown, Sheffield, denies three counts.\nA fifth man, former police officer Adrian Pogmore, 50, of Whiston in Rotherham, has admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office.\nFootage showed a couple having sex on their patio in July 2008 and at one point the naked woman waves at the aircraft.\nMr Wright said the couple shared Pogmore's interest in swinging and added it was \"no coincidence\" that the helicopter flew above \"while they brazenly put on a show.\"\nThe accused deny the charges and, \"in short\", blame Pogmore for what happened, Mr Wright said.\nA couple sitting naked by a caravan were also filmed unawares in July 2008, and the aircraft filmed a garden where a woman was sunbathing naked with her daughters in 2007.\nThe court heard the woman felt the filming was \"a complete and utter violation of my privacy\" and added: \"It makes me feel sick to think that this took place.\"\nIn 2012 other naked sunbathers were filmed, the jury were told.\nStatements from all except the couple filmed having sex on the patio - who did not make a statement to police - said their privacy had been invaded.\nMr Wright told the court it was a \"gross waste of valuable resource\".\nThe trial continues and is expected to last three weeks.", "summary": "A police helicopter was used to film two people \"brazenly\" having sex in their garden, a court heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A statement by several Jewish groups said he met community representatives to discuss the cartoon.\n\"On behalf of the paper I'd like to apologise unreservedly for the offence we clearly caused. This was a terrible mistake,\" Mr Ivens said.\nMr Scarfe has apologised for the timing of the publication.\nThe cartoon depicts Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu building a brick wall containing the blood and limbs of Palestinians.\nIt was captioned: \"Israeli elections. Will cementing peace continue?\"\nMr Ivens said: \"You will know that the Sunday Times abhors anti-Semitism and would never set out to cause offence to the Jewish people - or any other ethnic or religious group. That was not the intention last Sunday.\n\"Everyone knows that Gerald Scarfe is consistently brutal and bloody in his depictions, but last weekend - by his own admission - he crossed a line.\"\nThe apology was welcomed by the chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council, Mick Davis.\n\"We have voiced our concern in response to the strength of the feeling from all sections of the Jewish Community.\n\"I appreciate the urgency and respect with which the Sunday Times have treated Jewish communal concerns and now look forward to constructively moving on from this affair.\"\nMr Scarfe has also apologised for the timing of publication.\nOn his website, he said: \"First of all I am not, and never have been, anti-Semitic.\n\"This drawing was a criticism of Netanyahu, and not of the Jewish people: there was no slight whatsoever intended against them.\nI was, however, stupidly completely unaware that it would be printed on Holocaust Day, and I apologise for the very unfortunate timing.\"\nAt the meeting with Mr Ivens were members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, the Community Security Trust and the Jewish Leadership Council.\nVivian Wineman, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: \"The meeting showed a unified and effective community and we were gratified to see the positive response from the Sunday Times to our community's concerns.\"\nJewish community leaders said that Jewish people and others reacted to the cartoon \"with a visceral disgust that is unprecedented in recent years.\n\"This was due to the gratuitous and offensive nature of the image, made worse by its use of blood and its being published by Britain's leading Sunday newspaper on Holocaust Memorial Day.\"\nThey emphasised that blood \"has a long and ugly tradition within the history of anti-Semitism, premised upon the notorious medieval Blood Libel, with Jews being alleged to steal the blood of others for religious purposes.\"\nNews International chairman Rupert Murdoch earlier apologised.\nMr Murdoch wrote in a tweet: \"Gerald Scarfe has never reflected the opinions of the Sunday Times. Nevertheless, we owe major apology for grotesque, offensive cartoon.\"\nChief Rabbi Lord Sacks said it had \"caused immense pain to the Jewish community in the UK and around the world\".\n\"Whatever the intention, the danger of such images is that they reinforce a great slander of our time: that Jews, victims of the Holocaust, are now perpetrators of a similar crime against the Palestinians,\" he said in a statement.\nBut writing in liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz, journalist Anshel Pfeffer said the cartoon was \"not anti-Semitic by any standard\".\nMr Pfeffer said it neither identified its subject as Jewish nor used Holocaust imagery, writing: \"Netanyahu's depiction is grossly offensive and unfair, but that is only par for the course for any politician when Scarfe is at his drawing-board.\"\nHe also dismissed suggestions of \"blood libel\" that had focused on the drawing's \"blood-red cement\".\n\"This is not what a blood libel looks like,\" he wrote. \"Well, of course it's blood, but is anyone seriously demanding that no cartoon reference to Israeli or Jewish figures can contain a red fluid?\"", "summary": "Sunday Times acting editor Martin Ivens has apologised for a Gerald Scarfe cartoon which prompted complaints of anti-Semitism." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Senior sources very close to the process have told the BBC that there needs to be more \"confidence building\" about the environmental impact of a new runway at Heathrow, if the government backs it.\nAnd that means yet another review.\nAnd that expansion at Gatwick will not be ruled out.\nOne source told me that keeping both options on the table means that the airport operators can have their feet \"held to the fire\" over dealing with environmental concerns.\nThat may mean demanding that Heathrow bans staff from driving to work.\nOr saying that all \"airside\" vehicles (that is vehicles that operate within the airport's perimeter) have to be electric.\nThe government also wants to be able to force more money out of Heathrow or Gatwick - if either are given the go-ahead - to pay compensation to local people who are affected.\nKeeping both options on the table increases the government's leverage.\nThe decision that there will be yet another delay is likely to go down very badly with businesses which have demanded that the government \"get on\" with expanding Britain's aviation capacity.\nBut the politics of this decision appears to have held sway.\nDavid Cameron is still concerned that any decision to back Heathrow will put his \"no ifs, no buts\" pledge in 2009 that there will be no third runway at Heathrow in sharp relief.\nAnd that he will face a barrage of criticism that he is not a man of his word.\nFurther, if a decision is not taken until next summer, that means it will come after the election for the next mayor of London, which is in May.\nWhich is convenient, given that the Conservative candidate, Zac Goldsmith, is implacably opposed to Heathrow expansion.\nAs is the Labour candidate, Sadiq Khan.\nThe decision on the new environmental review is set to be taken by the Economic and Domestic Cabinet sub-committee on Thursday, which the prime minister chairs.\nAnd it's likely to be announced on the same day.\nOf course, we are still three days away from that committee meeting and, as with all things Heathrow (and, frankly, government on issues of aviation policy) things could change. The meeting was initially due to be held last week but was derailed by the crisis in Syria.\nIt was only a week ago that most were predicting a favourable outcome for Heathrow, including the airport itself.\nThat now appears to have been over-optimistic. More delays are ahead.", "summary": "It looks like the major decision on whether to build a new runway at Heathrow or Gatwick is going to be delayed for at least six months." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The protest was organised by a group called the People's Assembly Against Austerity.\nDemonstrators met outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, before marching past Downing Street and on to Parliament Square.\nThe Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was among the speakers who addressed crowds at The Not One Day More protest.\nSpeaking in Parliament Square, Mr Corbyn said: \"The Tories are in retreat, austerity is in retreat, the economic arguments of austerity are in retreat.\n\"It's those of social justice, of unity, of people coming together to oppose racism and all those that would divide us, that are the ones that are moving forward.\"\nThe crowd chanted \"oh Jeremy Corbyn\" and \"Tories out\" during the rally, while many carried banners saying Justice For Grenfell.\nOne protester told BBC News that \"anger\" had motivated her to join the protest, saying: \"What's going on isn't good enough under the Tory government.\n\"There have been cuts to every single service you can think of. It's just the pure negligence. How can you be cutting vital services?\"\nThe organisers said on Facebook that they \"invite everyone - from campaigns and community groups across the country, from the trade unions, from political parties and any individual - to come together in one massive show of strength and solidarity\".\nThe statement added: \"We're marching against a government committed to austerity, cuts and privatisation.\n\"We're marching for a decent health service, education system, housing, jobs and living standards for all.\"\nDowning Street did not want to comment on the protest.\nGet news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning", "summary": "Thousands of people gathered in central London to demonstrate against the UK government's economic policies." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A company spokeswoman said the service did not have a launch date as it was still recruiting a Cardiff-based team.\nThe GMB union said Uber would make it difficult for other drivers to earn a living and the city's Hackney Carriage Association said it would take legal action.\nCardiff council said the application had been considered \"in accordance with legislation\".\nIn a statement, Uber said it was looking forward to offering a \"safe, reliable and affordable choice for people in Cardiff\".\nCardiff Hackney Carriage Association chairman Mathab Khan said: \"If Cardiff goes ahead with Uber we will have no option but to take legal action because the council aren't capable of controlling all these drivers.\n\"We have already lodged hundreds of complains to Cardiff council's licensing section… there are drivers who are just flouting the law and we have considered taking them to court ourselves but the council just refuses to pass their details on to us.\"\nSteve Garelick, GMB professional drivers's branch secretary said: \"Things have worked perfectly well in Cardiff until now.\n\"This will over saturate the market place. It will force rates down.\n\"We are concerned Uber will continue to work on the very edge of what is acceptable by law.\"\nIn October, the High Court found the company does not break the law.\nThe court had been asked to decide whether the company's smartphones were considered meters, which are outlawed for private hire vehicles.\nUber currently operates in 15 cities and towns across the UK including London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Glasgow.", "summary": "Taxi booking app Uber has been granted an operator's licence for Cardiff." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Liberal government's first budget, to be announced next week, will include the policy, he told Bloomberg TV.\nHe called former Prime Minster Stephen Harper's policy a \"simplistic solution to a complex problem that won't work\".\nHe said the budget will also include investment for \"much-needed\" infrastructure projects.\nMoving the retirement age up to 67, which was not set to kick in until 2023, was a \"mistake\", Mr Trudeau said.\n\"How we care for our most vulnerable in society is really important,\" he said, and the challenge of encouraging people to stay healthy and stay in the workforce longer is a more complex issue.\nIn the US, the opposite is being discussed and some Republicans are calling for cuts to the programme or to privatize it.\nConservative employment, workforce and labour critic, Gerard Deltell, said Mr Trudeau's decision was made for \"bad political reasons,\" according to the CBC.\n\"It's the wrong call for the economy and the wrong call for the people because at 65 years old people are still in good shape and many of them would like to continue to work... Putting the retirement age at 67 was the most responsible way.\"\nThe Liberal budget is bucking austerity for the idea that the government can move the economy, he said.\n\"What we're looking at is not so much trying to jolt the economy into life, as trying to lay the groundwork, the foundation for better productivity over the long term, and not just an influx of cash,\" he said during the televised town hall.\nMr Trudeau ran his election on the promise of running deficits, which he said helped secure his win.\n\"We had made that announcement, and the left-wing New Democratic Party had announced they were going to balance the budget at all costs, just like the Conservative government,\" he said. \"The day we said, 'No, it's time to invest in the future of our country' and they confirmed they weren't, I got home to my wife and I said: 'I'm pretty sure we just won the election.'\"\nHe said that Canada will lead on climate change despite its important oil-producing sector.\nAsk about the US presidential election and Republican front-runner Donald Trump, Mr Trudeau said \"we're going to see what Americans are made of in this upcoming election\".\n\"I have tremendous confidence in Americans' capacity to get the right result through their electoral system,\" he said.", "summary": "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that he will lower eligibility for Old Age Security to age 65 from 67, reversing his predecessor's policy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The method, reported in Reproductive BioMedicine Online, can be used to select embryos at low risk of defects.\nScientists at the CARE fertility group say such informed selection can improve birth rates by 56%.\nOther experts say the result is exciting, but the study of 69 couples is too small to be definitive.\nThe research followed the couples at the CARE fertility clinic in Manchester last year, when 88 embryos were imaged and implanted.\nThe embryos were put into an incubator and imaged every 10-20 minutes.\nContinual embryo monitoring through time-lapse imaging is aimed at selecting those with the lowest risk of aneuploidy - where the cells have chromosome abnormalities. Aneuploidy is the single biggest cause of IVF failure.\nBut this form of embryo screening is a predictive rather than diagnostic tool.\nCouples at high risk of passing on a chromosomal abnormality may prefer to have Pre-implantation Genetic Screening. This invasive test removes cells from the early embryo for analysis. It costs around £2,500 on top of the £3,000 charged for conventional IVF.\nThe researchers classified the embryos as low, medium or high risk of chromosome abnormalities based on their development at certain key points.\nEleven babies were born from the low risk group (61% success rate) compared to five from the medium risk group (19% success rate) and none from those deemed high risk.\n\"In the 35 years I have been in this field this is probably the most exciting and significant development that can be of value to all patients seeking IVF,\" said Prof Simon Fishel, managing director of CARE Fertility Group.\n\"This technology can tell us which embryo is the most viable and has the highest potential to deliver a live birth - it will have huge potential. This is almost like having the embryo in the womb with a camera on them.\"\nIn standard IVF, embryos are removed from the incubator once a day to be checked under the microscope. This means they briefly leave their temperature-controlled environment and single daily snapshots of their development are possible.\nUsing the time-lapse method embryos don't leave the incubator until they are implanted allowing 5,000 images to be taken.\n\"Removing embryos from the incubator potentially exposes them to damage, so it must be a good thing to be able to look at the pattern of development over time.\n\"These results are very interesting but this is is a very small study and any interpretation of the findings must be made with caution as we are dealing with the hopes and expectations of patients,\" said Dr Virginia Bolton from the assisted conception unit at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.\nSheena Lewis, professor of reproductive medicine at Queen's University, Belfast, said: \"This may well be the technique we have been waiting for to improve embryo selection and thus success in fertility treatment.\n\"However, this is a small study with just 46 embryos being followed through to birth. Much more research will be needed before this becomes a routine clinical tool.\"\nAround a dozen private and NHS clinics are using time-lapse embryo imaging. It costs around £750 in addition to about £3,000 for IVF.", "summary": "Time-lapse imaging which takes thousands of pictures of developing embryos can boost the success rate of IVF, according to British research." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But for the man steering the doomed liner when it hit an iceberg, the disaster would ruin his dreams and overshadow the rest of his life.\nHichens survived the sinking, arriving in New York aboard Carpathia.\nHe had been ordered to leave the wheel of the liner less than an hour after the collision and put in charge of lifeboat six.\nHe rowed more than 40 people to safety but his great granddaughter, Sally Nilsson, believes the disaster blighted the rest of his life and \"cartwheeled him to a very tragic end\".\nHis marriage broke up, he became a heavy drinker and twice tried to kill himself, eventually ending up in jail for attempted murder.\n\"There were two inquiries at the time - one in the US and one in the UK,\" said Ms Nilsson, from Reigate in Surrey.\n\"Robert Hichens was one of the most vital witnesses and it is his testimony that forms part of the traditional story that we know today.\n\"The problem was that his fellow crewmen saw him as jinxed.\"\nIt has been suggested that helmsman Hichens misinterpreted the steering orders and steered Titanic the wrong way, into the iceberg.\n\"I dispute this because he had been at sea since he was 14 and he was 30 when he was on the Titanic,\" said Ms Nilsson.\n\"He had worked as a quartermaster for seven years and he would never have made a glaring error like that.\"\nHichens was played by Paul Brightwell in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic, where he was shown in a confrontation with one of the passengers, Molly Brown, played by Kathy Bates.\nShe urges him to turn the lifeboat back to the ship to rescue other survivors, but he refuses.\n\"Robert Hichens had been given direct orders by his captain to drop off passengers and then return,\" said Ms Nilsson.\n\"Molly Brown went to the papers when they were rescued and put the nail in the coffin for Robert, by saying he was a coward and a bully.\n\"But it was awful, the stuff of nightmares really.\n\"Robert didn't know which way to go, and there were 16 lifeboats in the same position.\"\nMs Nilsson, whose grandmother was born just weeks after the disaster and became known as the \"Titanic baby\", researched her ancestor's life for a biography, The Man Who Sank Titanic.\nShe discovered the family moved to Torquay in Devon, but did not stay together. Hichens's wife subsequently left to return to Southampton with the children.\nMs Nilsson said Hichens had developed neurasthenia, a nervous condition which would now be termed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\nHe set up a boat charter business but later acquired a gun and shot Harry Henley, the man who sold him the boat, during a dispute over money. Mr Henley lived, but Hichens was jailed.\nHe was freed four years later in 1937, but died in 1940.\n\"Robert ended up as third mate on a cargo ship in the Second World War, taking coal over to Africa,\" said Ms Nilsson.\n\"They delivered the coal and came back but it was his final voyage.\"\nAs the ship docked outside Aberdeen, one of the crew members found him dead in his bunk from heart failure.\n\"For me he died of a broken heart,\" said Ms Nilsson.\n\"With all the research I did I discovered a man who was very caring, funny, incredibly loving and totally loyal.\"\nTitanic enthusiast Mandy Le Boutillier said many of Titanic's 705 survivors were affected by what would now be classed as PTSD.\n\"In those days it was not understood,\" she said. \"They got no back-up at all.\n\"For a lot of survivors it was such a horrendous experience that it did blight their lives.\n\"Hichens has been portrayed as a gruff sort, argumentative and quite a sharp character. He has been misrepresented.\"\nIn the last few weeks Ms Nilsson tracked down her great-grandfather's grave after a three-year search.\nHe lies in Trinity Cemetery in Aberdeen and on Thursday she was finally able to go and pay her respects and plant a wooden cross on the communal grave.\n\"This has been a long journey,\" she said. \"I never met the guy but it means everything. I grew to love him so much.\"", "summary": "When Robert Hichens became a quartermaster on the Titanic he was at the peak of his career." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The tanks and other equipment were being carried on a landing craft which capsized and lost its cargo as it was heading for the D-Day landings in 1944.\nThey sit on the seabed between the east of the island and Selsey, West Sussex.\nHampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology is looking at how land legislation can be applied to the sea.\nThe project has been funded by English Heritage.\nThe charity is working together with Southsea Sub-Aqua Club, which discovered the crafts in 2008, to investigate and chart the site.\nVictoria Millership, from the trust, said it was not just ancient wrecks such as the Mary Rose that should be protected.\n\"The nature of seawater and the underwater environment preserves a lot more material than is often available on land and the things that are under water are often in a better state of preservation.\"\nThe Mark V landing craft tank (LCT) 2428 set off for Normandy on the evening of 5 June 1944 but developed engine trouble in the Channel and was taken under tow by the rescue tug HMS Jaunty.\nOn its way back to Portsmouth the landing craft capsized and lost its cargo.\nHMS Jaunty fired upon the upturned hull until it sank to make sure it did not cause an obstruction. None of the crew were lost.\nThe vessel was carrying two Centaur CS IV tanks, two armoured bulldozers designed to destroy any anti-tank devices on the beach, a jeep and other military equipment for the Royal Marines armoured support group.\nThe lost cargo and the sunken craft created two sites on the seabed 20m (66ft) below the surface.\nThe hull was later located about 6km (3.7 miles) to the east of the vehicle site. Both vessels have been preserved on the sea-floor for more than 60 years.\nHampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology hopes the project and case study will lead to better protection for underwater archaeology around England, specifically shipwrecks.", "summary": "Maritime archaeologists have investigated ways for World War II tanks at the bottom of the sea near the Isle of Wight to be protected." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday there was \"insufficient evidence to prosecute\" the 75-year-old singer.\nSir Cliff told ITV's Good Morning Britain he disliked the terminology.\n\"Insufficient suggests that maybe there's something there and I know there wasn't,\" he said.\n\"There are certain terminologies [the CPS] have to use, and in this case, they never say there is no evidence, they just say insufficient evidence.\"\nThe singer said he felt like \"collateral damage\" resulting from the wave of police investigations into high-profile sex abuse allegations sparked by the Jimmy Savile scandal.\nSir Cliff said he believed suspects in sexual abuse cases should not be publicly named unless they are formally charged and questioned if accusers should have anonymity for life.\n\"I can understand protecting children, but my accusers are all men, grown up men. I don't see why they should be protected,\" he said.\nWhen the allegations first came to light in 2014, a police raid on the singer's home was shown during the BBC's initial reporting of the story.\nSir Cliff said he believed the corporation knew about the raid in advance as a result of contact with South Yorkshire Police at the time.\nHe said there \"must have been illegal collusion\" between the BBC and police and he believed he had a \"every right to sue... definitely for gross invasion of my privacy\".\nAn independent investigation concluded in 2015 that police should not have released \"highly confidential\" information to the BBC about a planned search of the singer's home.\nThe BBC and South Yorkshire Police have both apologised to Sir Cliff.\nThe singer also said the investigation had made him rethink his attitude to fans.\n\"I am very cagey now when I am having pictures taken with people,\" he said.\n\"I don't like that feeling, because I've always had photographs taken with grandparents and their grandchildren.\n\"That's my life, I'm a family entertainer and that's what I have done, but that's one thing I am going to have to try and get rid of.\"\nSpeaking to Gloria Hunniford in a second interview broadcast by ITV on Wednesday, Sir Cliff said it had been a \"costly\" 22 months.\nWhen pressed further as to how much he had spent on legal fees, the singer replied: \"Over a million pounds.\"\nBut he added: \"I can afford to do that. If you were a plumber or teacher or doctor and somebody makes a false accusation, I don't think they would have the ability to do that.\"\nSir Cliff also spoke about the toll the process has taken on his health.\n\"I've had in the course of this year shingles, I got hit by shingles,\" he said. \"I got it on my face and my head.\"\nThe entertainer also told Hunniford he \"probably will have to\" sue the BBC.\n\"I was first against the idea of suing people who are institutions of our country... I have listened to the BBC everywhere in the world wherever I go, it's a great institution,\" he said.\n\"It's the men at the top that should be sacked.\"\nAn updated statement from the BBC, released on Wednesday morning, responded to Sir Cliff's suggestion that sexual abuse suspects should not be publicly named unless charged.\n\"Deciding whether people should remain anonymous while the subject of a Police investigation is a matter for Parliament,\" it said.\nThe BBC repeated its apology to Sir Cliff but also defended the initial decision to cover the story.\n\"Police investigations into prominent figures in public life are squarely in the public interest,\" the statement said.", "summary": "Sir Cliff Richard has said he feels \"tarnished\" by allegations of historical sexual abuse, after being told he will not face charges." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The charges are connected to a bomb explosion in a housing estate at Irvinestown, County Fermanagh, on 30 January.\nA man was treated for shock after a bomb damaged a van in the incident at Sally's Wood.\nSean McVeigh, 32, of Glencara Park, Letterkenny, was remanded in custody.\nHe is to appear in court again on 10 April.", "summary": "A man has appeared in court in Omagh charged with attempted murder and possession of a pipe bomb with intent to endanger life." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ms Kelly will host her own daytime news and discussion program at NBC, as well as presenting an in-depth Sunday night news show.\nThe move deprives Fox News of its second most-popular host after Bill O'Reilly.\nMs Kelly's contract with Fox was due to end later this year.\nShe was pushed into the international spotlight in 2015 when she accused Donald Trump of misogyny during a Republican presidential debate.\nShe later said that she would \"not apologise for doing good journalism\", following criticism from Mr Trump's supporters.\nNBC News chairman Andrew Lack called Ms Kelly \"an exceptional journalist\" who has \"demonstrated tremendous skill and poise\".\n\"We're lucky to have her,\" he said.\nFurther details of Ms Kelly's news programmes will be unveiled by NBC in the coming months, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.\nMs Kelly, a lawyer-turned-journalist, joined Fox News' Washington bureau as a correspondent before being given her own prime-time show, the Kelly File.\nThe mother-of-three, from New York, began her career as a local news reporter in 2003, after nine years in law.\nDuring the US election campaign, Ms Kelly challenged now President-elect Donald Trump on his statements about women.\nHer accusation of misogyny against the New York billionaire made her a target for his supporters and the subject of attacks from Mr Trump himself.\nHe accused the presenter of having \"blood coming out of her wherever\", later denying he was referring to menstruation.\nIn a move described by Fox News as \"unprecedented\", Mr Trump later refused to participate in shows hosted by Ms Kelly.", "summary": "Fox News presenter Megyn Kelly, who has worked at the channel for 12 years, is leaving the network to join NBC, her publicist has confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Johnny Sexton (hamstring), Robbie Henshaw, CJ Stander and Rob Kearney (all head injuries) are major doubts for next weekend's game with Australia.\nNew Zealand's approach appeared to step over the line at times but Schmidt was circumspect after Saturday's defeat.\n\"We don't control that,\" the New Zealand-born Ireland coach told RTE.\n\"We've just got to forge ahead with who we had left once once those guys had been knocked around. That's all we can do.\n\"Jonathan Sexton has a hamstring issue and we will have an update on his situation either on Sunday or Monday.\n\"Rob Kearney, Robbie Henshaw and CJ Stander will all undergo HIA [head injury assessment].\"\nSchmidt added that the contest had been a \"pretty physical encounter\" but that was the extent of his verdict on New Zealand's physicality.\nCentre Henshaw had to be carried off with his neck in a brace after only 10 minutes following a high shoulder from New Zealand flanker Sam Cane.\nA number of other Irish players were also on the receiving end of high challenges, and captain Rory Best queried several referee calls out on the field.\nThese included Jaco Peyper's decision to award New Zealand's second try, in spite of the suspicion that Sexton had prevented Beauden Barrett from grounding the ball.\nHowever, both Schmidt and Best refused to be drawn into a critique of Peyper's performance following the game.\n\"I thought we probably didn't get the rub of the green on one or two calls, but that's something that can be a distraction,\" said Schmidt.\n\"We'll leave that to the authorities, we'll feed our feedback through the appropriate channels.\"\nSchmidt added that he was \"proud\" of his players efforts to earn a second win over the All Blacks in two weeks but skipper Best spoke of his \"frustration and annoyance\".\nIreland dominated possession and territory during most the contest but could not turn that into sufficient points.\n\"We couldn't score that try,\" added the Ireland captain.\n\"When we look back on it though we'll feel we didn't attack them enough.\"\nAll Blacks coach Steve Hansen claimed that the penalty count of 14 for his team as opposed to only four for Ireland was not an accurate reflection of the play.\n\"I'd like to see some consistency throughout the game. I saw the same things happening to us,\" said the New Zealand coach.\nAs for double try-scorer Malakai Fekitoa's yellow card, when he swung his arm into Simon Zebo's neck as the Irish winger sprinted down the left touchline, Hansen called it \"sloppy play, not malicious\".", "summary": "Ireland coach Joe Schmidt kept his own counsel on New Zealand's physicality as the All Blacks avenged their defeat in Chicago by winning 21-9 in Dublin." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews from Ely and Caerphilly were called to the incident at 15:45 GMT.\nA fire service rescue team boat from Barry was also at the scene.\nIt follows a major rescue operation in Glynneath, Neath Port Talbot, on Wednesday after reports a person was in the River Neath. A body was later found.\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the incident was now being handled by the police.", "summary": "Fire crews have been stood down following a water search in the River Taff in Cardiff." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Halliday was part of a police firearms team that mistook the Brazilian national for a terror suspect at Stockwell Tube station, two weeks after the 7 July London bombings.\n\"Following advice, it was agreed with Andy that he would not travel to Brazil as a member of hockey's management team,\" GB Hockey said in a statement.\nHalliday, formerly a specialist firearms officer in the Metropolitan Police, played what GB Hockey called a \"peripheral role\" in the operation on the London Underground.\nIn the statement, Great Britain Hockey said both it and the British Olympic Association had \"been aware of the sensitivities of this matter in relation to Team GB competing in the Rio Olympics\".\n\"Andy has continued in his role as team manager and will be working with the rest of the management team to help prepare the athletes for the event.\"\nHalliday said: \"Whilst I am obviously disappointed not to be going to the Olympic Games, I have known of this decision since last November and respect the process that has been followed and the decision itself.\n\"The performance interests of the team continue to be of paramount importance and I am focused purely on helping the team prepare for Rio 2016.\"\nGreat Britain Hockey's chief operating officer Sally Munday thanked Halliday \"for the dignity and professionalism which he has shown throughout this process\".", "summary": "Great Britain manager Andy Halliday will miss the Rio Olympics due to \"sensitivities\" over his involvement in the operation that led to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A probate judge in Alabama signed the order for the will to be sealed after a request from lawyers for Lee's personal representative, Tonja Carter.\nThe family of Lee, who died last month aged 89, agreed to the request.\n\"As the court is no doubt aware, Ms Lee highly valued her privacy,\" the lawyers for Ms Carter said.\n\"She did not wish for her private financial affairs to be matters of public discussion.\n\"Ms Lee left a considerable legacy for the public in her published works; it is not the public's business what private legacy she left for the beneficiaries of her will.\"\nMs Carter represented the author for several years and once practised law with Lee's sister, Alice Lee.\nObituary: Harper Lee\nTributes paid to Harper Lee\nWhy is To Kill a Mockingbird so popular?\nFive Mockingbird quotes people are sharing\nThe release of the ruling by Judge Greg Norris came after he agreed last week there was a threat of public intrusion and harassment for Lee's heirs.\nThe judge wrote that Lee's heirs and next of kin alone had the right to inspect the contents of the will and the accompanying file.\nHe ordered that a label be put on the file saying: \"Under seal: Do not allow public inspection.\"\nHe added that the town of Monroeville, Alabama, Lee's hometown, was happy to protect the privacy of its most famous citizen.\nLee published just two books, both of which brought her huge success. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best-selling books of all time, having sold 40 million copies worldwide since its publication in 1960.\nLee's second book, Go Set a Watchman, published last year, was also a best-seller. Many bookshops in the US and the UK remained open all night to cope with demand.\nThe book is set 20 years after the events described in Lee's earlier Pulitzer Prize-winning work.\nLee never married and had no children. Her closest living relatives are nieces and nephews.\nThe author died on 19 February in Monroeville and was buried the next day in a private funeral ceremony. Monroeville was the inspiration for Maycomb, the small town in which To Kill A Mockingbird was set.", "summary": "The will of To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee is to remain private, according to US court records released on Monday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Many marchers and five police officers were also injured, Police Commissioner Rabiu Yusuf said.\nThe group behind the procession, the Iran-backed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), has a history of tension with the security forces.\nLast December troops killed 349 of its members during a crackdown.\nAfrica Live: Updates on this and other stories\nInvestigating clashes between Nigeria's Shia and the army\nThe cause of the latest violence, which took place on the outskirts of Kano, is disputed.\nPolice officials said Shia procession participants attacked police with weapons including machetes and bows and arrows and seized a police rifle, which was later recovered.\nWitnesses say the police fired live ammunition and tear gas into a crowd of hundreds of Shia members in an attempt to stop the march.\nThe sect says many of its members were killed but this has not been independently verified.\nThe Islamic movement was marking this year's \"Arbaeen\" - an annual religious event during which its members trek for many miles from various towns to Zaria - their spiritual headquarters.\nThe IMN has abandoned the seven-day procession and told followers to return home, the organisation told the BBC.\nThe IMN is Nigeria's biggest Shia organisation and has its headquarters in Zaria. It has been outlawed in Kaduna state for carrying out unlawful processions.\nIts followers have been involved in a series of clashes with the security forces as well as attacks by Sunni militants.\nIn October, 10 IMN members were reported to have been killed in northern Katsina state following clashes with security forces during a religious celebration.\nIn August, a judicial review said Nigerian troops should be prosecuted for the killings in Zaria last December. IMN leader Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky was shot and then detained during the crackdown and remains in custody.\nAnd last year's Shia procession from Kano to Zaria saw more than 20 people killed in an attack by a suicide bomber from the Boko Haram Sunni Islamist militant group.\nSecurity forces were ordered to stay away from last year's procession following deadly clashes in previous years.\nMeeting Sheikh Zakzaky", "summary": "At least eight Nigerian Shia Muslims and one police officer have been killed in clashes with police at a religious procession in Kano city, police say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "John and Shirley Thomas from Sketty have no idea how the 12ft (3.6m) tall flower arrived on their lawn as they never planted it.\nAfter some research they found it was an echium pininana - native to the heat of the Canary Islands.\n\"It absolutely towers over every other plant in the garden,\" said Mr Thomas, \"you couldn't miss it\".\nThe couple, who are in their 70s, said birds may have carried the seeds over from another garden.\n\"It's lucky we went on holiday as we probably would have pulled it up,\" added Mrs Thomas.", "summary": "A Swansea couple returned from their two week holiday to find a giant flower had shot up in their front garden." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "John Fahy, 25, of Groagagh Grange, Sligo, denies careless driving causing the death of 19-month-old Ryan John Cox on 14 January 2013 and injuring his mother, Katriona.\nThe former University of Ulster student was giving evidence at a trial in Dungannon Crown Court on Tuesday.\nThe crash happened at Boa Island Road, Fermanagh, nearly three years ago.\nHis defence lawyer said Mr Fahy had suffered fractures and a brain injury in the crash.\nThis would have left him confused, both at the scene of the accident and in hospital.\nMr Fahy told the court that he had no previous convictions of any kind. He said he had been in his final year as a student at the time of the crash and could not do his finals. But he intends to go back.\nOn the day of the accident he was driving a car that was on loan from a local garage, but he said he had found nothing wrong with it.\nMr Fahy said he was returning to Belfast but was in \"no hurry\".\nHe remembered slowing down to about 45-50mph. Initially, he said he remembered seeing a car, flashing his lights and his car spinning and him ending up in hospital.\nLater, he said: \"I rounded the bend going towards Castle Caldwell ... I noticed a Peugeot apparently in my lane and I remember flashing my lights, and I remember I had nowhere to go ... I remember someone asking me about my phone, but I remember nothing after that\".\nUnder cross-examination by a prosecution lawyer, Mr Fahy said he \"wasn't looking at the speedo\". He said when he talked to police, he was \"giving them a general ballpark figure\", of his speed at the time.\nHe denied this was \"just a pure guess\".\nMr Fahy repeated that he could not recall the point of impact, but that he did remember \"someone being in my lane\".\nThe prosecution argued that if the accident had happened on Mr Fahy's side of the road, then the debris field should have been in and around that area. Pointing to police photographs of the scene, the lawyer asked why the vast amount of the wreckage was in Mrs Cox's carriageway.\nThe prosecution suggested that there was a \"very simple explanation\" for the accident.\nHe told Mr Fahy that \"either through inexperience or over steering, you lost control of your car and crashed into the other car.\n\"And you know how this accident happened\".\nThe student rejected and refuted knowing how the accident had happened and that he knew he was responsible for it.\n\"That's not true,\" Mr Fahy replied.\nThe jury of six men and six women is due to hear final submissions on Wednesday.", "summary": "A former student has denied causing the crash that claimed the life of a toddler and knowing he was responsible." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "10 December 2015 Last updated at 08:31 GMT\nThe team used ladders, ropes and even a slide in their attempt to rescue the feline in distress.\nBut after several failed attempts, a week later they managed to set up a scaffold with a cage containing food and water to attract the cat.\nAfter a lot of patience, the cat was finally tempted down, and rushed to a nearby vet to receive food and fluids.\nVeterinarian Victor Mellado said he was surprised by the cat's good health after such a long period without food or water.\n\"It was really nervous when it got here, feeling a bit scared because of the entire operation, but in a pretty good condition compared to what we expected,\" he said.", "summary": "Residents of a small town in Chile, South America, organised a massive rescue to save a cat that had been stuck on top of a 20-metre-tall palm tree for two weeks." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The visitors started well with Ade Azeez and Chris Erskine drawing fine saves from Owain Fon Williams.\nLiam Polworth, Iain Vigurs and Aaron Doran threatened for Inverness and Carl Tremarco had two efforts narrowly off target.\nChances dried up as the match wore one, with Inverness going level on points with Hamilton Academical.\nHamilton remain ahead of Caley Thistle on goal difference while Partick Thistle move above Ross County into sixth.\nRichie Foran had set out his stall and described the match as one his Inverness side had to win.\nCloser analysis of that might suggest he meant in order to achieve his aim of a top-six finish this season, perhaps not how it was widely interpreted.\nHis side did look nervy and hesitant at times early on but the first-half withdrawal of Lonsana Doumbouya for Iain Vigurs made them appear more competitive.\nOverall they did not generate enough sustained pressure to feel deserving of the points, although substitute Doran had a fantastic chance late on which he curled just wide.\nOne positive was a much-needed clean sheet. Another is they can overtake Hamilton when they meet on Tuesday. That game now becomes vital.\nThe Caley Thistle goalkeeper has been criticised recently after conceding soft goals against Elgin City and Hamilton.\nAgainst Partick, he was crucial for his side and kept them level as the Glasgow side looked very strong.\nAzeez must have been planning his celebration as he fired in from close range but Fon Williams got a fabulous touch which took the ball on to the bar. He really had no right to keep it out.\nMoments later he produced another wonderful save to deny Erskine, who had curled in from distance.\nClean sheets have been sorely lacking for Inverness and Fon Williams produced to give them that chance, with the keeper also denying Ryan Edwards.\nIt was a good all-round display from Alan Archibald's side and they will feel they might have got more.\nMost impressive was their ability to control periods of the match and build pressure.\nThey limited Inverness to few chances with Tremarco the main threat.\nPartick, with new signing Niall Keown in defence, look strong, they are on a good run of consistent results and seem to have the confidence to keep that run going.\nInverness CT manager Richie Foran: \"I'm delighted with the point. The players were out on their feet. We had Greg Tansey and Gary Warren up all night with a vomiting bug getting sick.\n\"They've had injections before the game to help with that. It's a big point for us. I'm delighted with the point with the boys struggling with injuries and sickness.\n\"It's probably a fair result. Going into the game I probably would've taken that point.\n\"It's too early to talk about a relegation fight. Our aim is top six, we're six points away from top six. I fully believe we'll get there.\"\nPartick Thistle manager Alan Archibald: \"I thought we played a lot of good stuff, moved the ball well. It took a great save from their goalkeeper to stop us going ahead in the first half.\n\"We maybe just edged it, it was that final ball that was just a wee bit slack at times. It's a hard place to come and we're delighted with the clean sheet.\n\"We played against a determined Caley Thistle team that were desperate to go and win the game. We're a bit disappointed not to get the victory and go nine points clear of them but we've got a home game on Wednesday [against St Johnstone].\"\nMatch ends, Inverness CT 0, Partick Thistle 0.\nSecond Half ends, Inverness CT 0, Partick Thistle 0.\nAttempt missed. Callum Booth (Partick Thistle) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.\nFoul by Henri Anier (Inverness CT).\nAdam Barton (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nAttempt missed. Aaron Doran (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.\nAttempt saved. Kris Doolan (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nAttempt saved. Aaron Doran (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nSubstitution, Inverness CT. Aaron Doran replaces Ross Draper.\nHenri Anier (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Henri Anier (Inverness CT).\nNiall Keown (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nHand ball by Steven Lawless (Partick Thistle).\nHenri Anier (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Liam Lindsay (Partick Thistle).\nFoul by Henri Anier (Inverness CT).\nLiam Lindsay (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Henri Anier (Inverness CT).\nLiam Lindsay (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Ross Draper (Inverness CT).\nAdam Barton (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nSubstitution, Partick Thistle. Kris Doolan replaces Adebayo Azeez.\nGary Warren (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Gary Warren (Inverness CT).\nLiam Lindsay (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nRoss Draper (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Chris Erskine (Partick Thistle).\nAttempt saved. Steven Lawless (Partick Thistle) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nFoul by Ross Draper (Inverness CT).\nSean Welsh (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nSubstitution, Inverness CT. Jake Mulraney replaces Larnell Cole.\nAttempt missed. Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.\nFoul by Gary Warren (Inverness CT).\nSean Welsh (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nCorner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Niall Keown.\nFoul by Ross Draper (Inverness CT).\nAdam Barton (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nHenri Anier (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Niall Keown (Partick Thistle).\nAttempt missed. Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.", "summary": "Bottom side Inverness CT drew a blank with Partick Thistle in the Scottish Premiership." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "His future as coach of The Cranes had been the source of much speculation all week which led to him meeting Uganda FA (Fufa) officials on Monday.\nOn Saturday, Micho confirmed to BBC Sport that he was leaving his position.\n\"It is a notice of termination due to non payment of salaries,\" the Serbian stated.\nIt has gone too far now, the point of no return has been reached\nThe 47 year old had been in his position as Uganda coach since his appointment in May 2013.\nDuring his tenure, he famously guided The Cranes to their first Africa Cup of Nations finals in 39 years when they qualified for Gabon 2017.\nUganda's FA issued a statement on Saturday saying they \"will forever keep those memories with them.\"\nThey thanked the coach for his services and wished him well for the future.\nThe past year has been dogged by issues surrounding Micho's salary arrears and he had recently admitted on his social media that other offers had starting coming his way.\nNow he says the issue over his wages has taken too long to resolve and he could not stay in the Uganda post any longer.\n\"It has gone too far now, the point of no return has been reached,\" Micho told BBC Sport when asked if there was any chance he might change his mind.\nMicho has a long history in African football having also coached in Ethiopia, Sudan, South Africa, Tanzania and Rwanda.\nHe proved a popular figure as Uganda coach and said he is upset at leaving the post.\nHe does not, however, want to dwell on his exit for too long and hinted he may be ready to move forward.\n\"It is like someone died to me or a break up with a woman.\n\"If you stay you think so much, but if you work you forget about it all and move on,\" Micho told BBC Sport.\nUganda's FA will be keen to get a coach in place for their next set of 2018 World Cup qualifiers.\nThe Cranes, who are currently second in Group E, take on Egypt at home on 31 August and then away on 5 September.", "summary": "Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic has terminated his contract as coach of Uganda's national team over the issue of unpaid wages." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Trott, 33, was unbeaten on 176 at stumps on the third day against South Africa A in Paarl.\nIt continued the skipper's good form after he hit 79 from 127 balls in the opening tour match.\nThe batsman's century took the Lions to 507-6 in response to South Africa's first innings 504-8 declared.\nJames Vince and Adil Rashid both hit 78 as the Lions recovered well from being reduced to 67-3.\nThe four-day match is the first unofficial Test of England Lions' tour.\nTrott's last three-figure score for England was an unbeaten 109 against New Zealand in a one-day international in June 2013.\nMatch scorecard.", "summary": "Jonathan Trott has hit his first century in international cricket since leaving the 2013-2014 Ashes series with a \"stress-related illness\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Norwich's Kyle Lafferty fired in before Sergi Canos' curling shot made it 2-0.\nRuben Lameiras pulled one back with a penalty after the break, but Russell Martin poked in and Jacob Murphy extended the lead from 18 yards.\nSpanish teenager Canos rolled in his second, before debutant Ben Godfrey completed the rout late on to leave Coventry without a win this season.\nMatch ends, Norwich City 6, Coventry City 1.\nSecond Half ends, Norwich City 6, Coventry City 1.\nFoul by Ben Godfrey (Norwich City).\nLewis Page (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nAttempt missed. Vladimir Gadzhev (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.\nFoul by Russell Martin (Norwich City).\nKyle Spence (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nCorner, Coventry City. Conceded by Paul Jones.\nAttempt saved. Kyle Spence (Coventry City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\nJosh Murphy (Norwich City) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box.\nAttempt saved. Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nGoal! Norwich City 6, Coventry City 1. Ben Godfrey (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.\nAttempt blocked. Lewis Page (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nCorner, Coventry City. Conceded by Sebastien Bassong.\nGoal! Norwich City 5, Coventry City 1. Sergi Canos (Norwich City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Josh Murphy.\nAttempt saved. Josh Murphy (Norwich City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\nSubstitution, Norwich City. Youssouf Mulumbu replaces Kyle Lafferty.\nDion Kelly-Evans (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Josh Murphy (Norwich City).\nAttempt missed. James Maddison (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\nFoul by Dion Kelly-Evans (Coventry City).\nJames Maddison (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Ben Godfrey (Norwich City) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.\nCorner, Norwich City. Conceded by Dion Kelly-Evans.\nSubstitution, Coventry City. Devon Kelly-Evans replaces Ben Stevenson.\nSubstitution, Coventry City. Kyle Spence replaces Daniel Agyei.\nDaniel Agyei (Coventry City) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box.\nSubstitution, Norwich City. Josh Murphy replaces Jacob Murphy.\nSubstitution, Norwich City. Ben Godfrey replaces Steven Whittaker.\nGoal! Norwich City 4, Coventry City 1. Jacob Murphy (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by James Maddison.\nCorner, Coventry City. Conceded by Steven Whittaker.\nAttempt missed. Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\nGoal! Norwich City 3, Coventry City 1. Russell Martin (Norwich City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Maddison with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, Norwich City. Conceded by Dion Kelly-Evans.\nFoul by Jacob Murphy (Norwich City).\nBen Stevenson (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nGoal! Norwich City 2, Coventry City 1. Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\nPenalty conceded by Harry Toffolo (Norwich City) after a foul in the penalty area.\nPenalty Coventry City. Dion Kelly-Evans draws a foul in the penalty area.\nAttempt missed. Louis Thompson (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.", "summary": "Norwich City thumped struggling League One side Coventry at Carrow Road to reach round three of the EFL Cup." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The flaws in the Lightify products could give attackers access to a home wi-fi network, and potentially operate the lights without permission.\nOsram said a \"majority\" of the problems would be fixed in a software update in August, but four remained unpatched.\nOne security expert said Osram had made an \"elementary\" mistake.\nOsram's Lightify range features internet-connected light bulbs that can be controlled using a smartphone app.\nResearcher Deral Heiland from Rapid7 discovered nine vulnerabilities in the Home and Pro range and reported them to the manufacturer.\nOne problem was that the Osram smartphone app stored an unencrypted copy of the user's wi-fi password.\nThat could give an attacker access to a user's home wi-fi network and the devices connected to it, if the password was extracted from the app.\n\"In this day and age, you would regard that as an unacceptable security flaw,\" said Professor Angela Sasse, a cybersecurity expert at University College London.\n\"It's a well known thing that you don't store passwords like that - it's really elementary.\"\nAnother flaw could let an attacker compromise the light bulbs and switch them on or off without permission.\n\"This is not just about being able to manipulate the light bulbs,\" said Prof Sasse.\n\"The vulnerabilities here could give somebody access to control the network itself and that's a very serious issue.\"\nOsram said in a statement: \"Since being notified about the vulnerabilities identified by Rapid7, Osram has taken actions to analyse, validate and implement a risk-based remediation strategy.\n\"The majority of vulnerabilities will be patched in the next version update, currently planned for release in August.\"\nThe firm said the remaining unpatched problems involved the ZigBee hub - a device that sits between the light bulbs and a home wi-fi router to relay commands to the lamps.\n\"Osram is in ongoing coordination with the ZigBee Alliance in relation to known and newly discovered vulnerabilities,\" the firm told the BBC.\nA number of companies including Amazon, Apple, Blackberry and Google are developing platforms to support internet-connected devices in the home.\nProf Sasse said consumers would need to feel confident about the security of smart devices before adopting them.\n\"What we've seen with many companies that are hardware specialists, is that their quality control may not be on top of the software side of things,\" she told the BBC.\n\"They may be able to test that the software does what it's supposed to do - but they don't always test the things it is not supposed to do.\n\"I think it highlights something that consumers should be concerned about.\n\"For devices embedded in the home, there should be basic security checks.\"", "summary": "Security researchers have discovered nine vulnerabilities in a range of internet-connected light bulbs made by Osram." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Between 10cm and 50cm of rain has fallen in seven provinces, and storms stretching 1,600km (1,000 miles) are sweeping across central and southern China.\nAt least 45 people are missing and 33 million are affected, officials say.\nThe rain has also washed away railway lines and shut down road networks.\nThe dead included 23 people who were killed in a mudslide in Guizhou Province and eight who died in the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province when a section of a wall collapsed, state media said.\nHeavy rain is forecast to continue until Wednesday across parts of southern and western China, the South China Morning Post reported.", "summary": "More than 180 people have been killed in flooding along the Yangtze River in China following torrential rain, officials say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The guidelines, which come into force from July, reflect 2014 changes to the law that increased maximum sentences.\nThe Sentencing Council said sentences were \"likely to be higher than in the past\" but must be \"proportionate\".\nA council member said some irresponsible owners' dogs \"put people at risk of injury and... even death\".\nThe 2014 changes raised the maximum jail sentence for a fatal dog attack from two years to 14.\nThe amendments to the Dangerous Dogs Act also extended the law to include attacks which happen on private property, and introduced a new offence of attacks on assistance dogs such as guide dogs.\nThe changes to the sentencing guidelines cover offences where a dog injures or kills a person, injures an assistance dog, or where someone possesses a banned breed.\nThe banned breeds are:\nDistrict Judge Richard Williams, a member of the Sentencing Council, said the guidelines \"allow for a broad range of sentences to be given, depending on the seriousness of each offence\".\nHe said: \"We know that the majority of dog owners are responsible and ensure their pets do not put anyone in danger, but there are some irresponsible owners whose dogs do put people at risk of injury and in some cases even death.\"\nAmanda Peynado, from Salisbury in Wiltshire, lost her left arm when she was attacked in 2007 by a Rottweiler that had been taken in by the kennel where she worked.\nShe told BBC Two's Victoria Derbyshire programme she had been exercising the dog, a stray, when \"out of the blue, for no reason, he just attacked me\".\nShe said the dog attacked her for an hour and a half during which it \"kept coming back and taking chunks out of me\".\n\"I lost my left arm, I nearly lost my right arm, he ripped a big hole in my back, he took muscle from my leg. Not a very nice experience in all,\" she said.\n\"I knew if he could have got my throat that would have been the end of me.\"\nSpeaking about changes to the sentencing guidelines, she said \"99% of the time there's not a bad dog there's a bad owner\".\nShe said it was important for irresponsible owners to be targeted before their animals attacked anyone.\nMr Williams said those in charge of a dangerous dog, where a victim died, would be deemed to have \"high culpability\", with sentences ranging from six to 14 years.\nOther factors where an offender is deemed to have \"high culpability\" include the dog being used as a weapon, being trained to be aggressive or where someone has a banned breed.\nThose who are already disqualified from owning a dog will also face the toughest penalties.\nThe same factors will also be used to assess blameworthiness in cases where a victim is injured.\nThe Dog's Trust, which \"broadly welcomes\" the new guidelines, said: \"We hope that with the increased maximum sentences for dog attacks, dog owners will be encouraged to ensure they act responsibly and that ultimately there will be a reduction in the number of dangerous dog attacks, although it is more likely that prevention will come from education.\"\nJames White, of the charity Guide Dogs, welcomed the guidelines and said: \"Sadly, every year we hear of more than 100 guide dogs being attacked by other dogs.\"\nHe said such attacks were \"traumatic\" and might stop dogs from working, meaning their owner \"may find it impossible to leave home on their own\".\nThe Kennel Club said owners needed to take responsibility for training their dogs.\nIt added that the breed of a dog \"plays only a small part\" in its temperament, with breeding socialisation and environment having a \"far greater influence\".", "summary": "Pet owners convicted of dangerous dogs offences will face harsher punishments under new sentencing guidelines in England and Wales." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police say the bullet ricocheted off the animal's hard armour, entered the woman's mobile home, and hit her in the back as she sat in a reclining chair.\nThe 74-year-old woman was taken to the hospital where she is expected to recover, local police told US media.\nThey said people should use a shotgun when shooting armadillos.\nLarry McElroy was about 100 yards (90 metres) away from the mobile home when he shot and killed the animal Sunday night.\nThe 9mm bullet bounced off the hard shell, hit a fence, went through a backdoor and struck his seated mother-in-law.\nInvestigator Bill Smith of the sheriff's office told WALB-TV: \"I really think if they're going to shoot at 'varmints' and whatnot, maybe use a shotgun.\"\nArmadillos are considered pests in the US South.", "summary": "Authorities in the US state of Georgia say a woman was accidentally shot by her son-in-law as he was trying to kill an armadillo with a handgun." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He is facing seven charges, including one of rape, relating to two attacks in Spondon and one in Darley Abbey between September 2014 and December 2015.\nIlija High, from Chaddesden, appeared before Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody.\nThe charges follow a high-profile police appeal for information which saw thousands of leaflets handed out over the past few days.", "summary": "A 23-year-old man has been charged with a series of sex assaults in Derby." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 23-year-old left the field during the first half of the Dragons' defeat by Ospreys on New Year's Day.\n\"Dorian has had a pectoral injury, which looks quite serious,\" said Dragons director of rugby Lyn Jones.\n\"It could be a few months, which is a blow to us because he's right on top of his game, starting to challenge for national honours behind Dan Biggar.\"\nScrum-half Sarel Pretorius was also forced off at the Liberty Stadium with a recurrence of a calf injury.\nBut the Dragons will welcome back Hallam Amos and Tyler Morgan later this month.\nThe Wales internationals have not played since suffering shoulder injuries during the World Cup but at least one could be fit in time for the crucial European Challenge Cup ties at home to Castres on 15 January.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"They are big-time players who can offer something different,\" added Dragons boss Jones.\n\"There's a good chance one of them will be back [to face Castres], which one I'm not sure.\n\"They've made really good progress and the medical department need to be congratulated for getting them back with such speed.\n\"They've recovered very well and we expected both of them to be playing some part in the European competition shortly.\"", "summary": "Newport Gwent Dragons fly-half Dorian Jones is expected to be out for several months with a chest muscle injury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The attack happened almost at the exact spot where four officers were killed in a similar attack yesterday, which has been claimed by al-Shabab militants.\nFive other officers were killed in a separate bombing incident on Monday in neighbouring Mandera county.\nAl-Shabab has staged numerous attacks in Kenya in recent years.\nThe Islamist militants want Kenya to withdraw its troops who are serving under the AU mission to Somalia (Amisom).\nKenya sent its troops across the border in 2011 to pursue al-Shabab.\nThe BBC's Mohammud Ali in Nairobi reports that the Mandera attack had targeted a convoy carrying local politicians including the county governor Ali Roba.\nMr Roba posted on Facebook on Monday that he had also lost his bodyguard in the attack.\nIt is the third attack that has targeted Mr Roba in three years.", "summary": "Five Kenyan policemen have been killed after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the north-eastern town of Liboi, near the border with Somalia." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The German financial services giant said its net income was 755m euros (£608m), hit by a larger tax bill, compared to 777m euros in the same quarter last year.\nFor the year so far, Deutsche Bank's profits have declined from 2011.\nNet revenues grew by 18% to 8.7bn euros due to \"improved market conditions and increased market activity\".\nMuch of that came from corporate banking and securities trading.\n\"The European markets saw marked stabilisation in the third quarter of 2012 - compared with a very tense environment in the first half of the year,\" the bank said.\nThe results come as a European Union advisory group said earlier this month that Europe's banks should be split into separate legal entities, in order to protect ordinary retail banking from risky trading.\nThe EU is also moving towards banking union within the eurozone and is planning to have a eurozone-wide regulatory system, the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), which it hopes will begin its work by the start of next year.\nIt would allow the ECB to assume full supervisory responsibility over any credit institution, particularly those which have received or requested public funding, with all banks covered by the SSM by the start of 2014.\nShares in Deutsche Bank are up 13% so far this year.\nSeparately, London-listed bank Standard Chartered said its income this year grew at a \"high single-digit rate\".\n\"Whilst the global economy is slowing, and within that the Asian economies are now showing signs of lower growth, the group has delivered a strong third quarter performance with good income growth,\" it added.\nIt said that its income growth excluded the impact of the UK bank levy - increased to 0.105% by Chancellor George Osborne this year - but includes its settlement of $340m (£212m) made to the New York State Department of Financial Services.\nThe regulator had accused it of hiding $250bn of transactions with Iran.", "summary": "Deutsche Bank shares have risen more than 3% after its profits beat analyst expectations." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Butt scored 135 runs and Asif returned bowling figures of 2-22, both for Water and Power Development Authority in Pakistan's domestic one-day tournament.\nButt, 31, and Asif, 33, were exiled from the sport, along with bowler Mohammad Amir, after Pakistan bowled no-balls to order at Lord's.\n\"It's a sort of rebirth,\" said Butt.\n\"I will do my best to perform and return to Pakistan team.\"\nThe duo finished on the winning side, with Water and Power Development Authority beating Federally Administered Tribal Areas by 141 runs.\nAmir, 18 at the time of the offence, was recalled by Pakistan earlier in January.\nAlthough his ban - like Butt and Asif's - was originally from all forms of cricket for five years, Amir was cleared to play domestic cricket in January 2015 and is part of the Pakistan tour of New Zealand which begins with a Twenty20 match on Friday.\nPakistan head coach Waqar Younis has said there would be no reason to deny Butt and Asif their international comebacks if their form justifies selection.\nAfter their series against New Zealand, Pakistan will play four Tests, five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 international on a tour of England that begins in June.\nBatsman Umar Akmal will miss the first meeting with the Kiwis after he breached tournament rules by wearing two, rather than one, sponsorship logo in the final of Pakistan's domestic Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.", "summary": "Former Pakistan internationals Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif have returned to cricket after five-year bans for spot-fixing in a 2010 Test against England." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "While some parts of the UK have seen rain heavy enough to cause flash flooding, other areas are drenched in a summer downpour.\nThe southeast of England has been issued with a yellow weather warning for rain by the Met Office, and there are 14 warnings of flooding across England (at time of writing).\nITV London even shared a live stream of the London Eye to show more than 350,000 Facebook viewers the wet weather.\nOn Twitter, the offending precipitation has seen the tongue-in-cheek #BritishSummerTime hashtag trending in the UK for much of the day.\nThere is, perhaps, little more British than moaning about the weather, after all.\nEnd of Twitter post by @GoSkippyNews\nSome, responding to the rain with weary resignation, pointed out it was ever thus.", "summary": "It's raining in the UK and many on social media are having fun with it." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Comic race - check. \"Some say... he's called the Stig.\" - check (word for word). Supercars speeding through exotic locations - check.\nPower lap times - check (leader board is unchanged). Clarkson? \"We don't talk about catering on this show.\"\nJokes? Not so many.\nChris Evans said he wasn't going to mess with a winning formula and he was right. Shows are normally relaunched in an attempt to revive a flagging format - but this was all about trying to hang on to the magic with different people.\nThe Guardian was so interested, it live blogged the show.\nTheir reaction? I won't spoil the surprise - you can read it for yourself. The post-show online discussion on the BBC Worldwide site also wasn't impressed.\nEveryone knows the only reason there were two new faces in the Top Gear studio was because of an incident at a Yorkshire hotel in which Jeremy Clarkson gave a producer a swollen bleeding lip and a torrent of abuse.\nThe question is how much the success was down to the formula developed by Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman, and how much it was the personal chemistry of the team who are now creating a motoring programme for Amazon.\nI think Top Gear fans can now hazard a guess.\nCertain things cannot be denied. Evans was born to stand in a crowded studio exchanging larky banter. The reinvention of Top Gear in 2002 by Clarkson probably owes something to the atmosphere and irreverent energy of a show like Evans's TFI Friday.\nBut the running around in the studio, the shouting - there was more than a touch of eager puppy here.\nThe first race was classic Top Gear across the country between Evans and Matt LeBlanc in Reliant Rialtos, but the race came to an end with a breakdown after a few minutes. However, the film carried on.\nChecking on Twitter reassured me that I was not the only one who was surprised when we returned later in the show to more from Blackpool. At least Blackpool's mayor was funny.\nOne of the things that is overlooked in Top Gear is just how much work goes in to the script. The filming, editing and post-production is obvious from even a casual viewing but the construction of the narrative of the stories, the interactions, the jokes and the resolutions were what made it stand out.\nWhat seemed spontaneous and effortlessly funny, wasn't. If watching people driving cars was inherently entertaining then the world would be filled with internationally successful car programmes. In many ways Top Gear was a sitcom pretending to be a car programme.\nClarkson spent more than 10 years working on Top Gear car films before truly cracking it. In the late '90s Top Gear was a dead format - even the relaunched Top Gear before James May was introduced was far from the show it was to become.\nThis, however, isn't being allowed a long run-up time in which it can tinker and experiment.", "summary": "Star in a car - check (it does have a new water splash and jump)." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Liam Quinn's goal helped Magherafelt lead 1-7 to 0-8 at the break and they extended their lead to 1-11 to 0-9.\nHowever, Dean Hanrahan's 51st-minute goal sparked Bessbrook to hit 1-2 without reply to level the contest.\nKevin Small restored Magherafelt's lead but Shea Loye levelled in injury-time.\nLoye finished with 0-5 for St Paul's after hitting the south Armagh school's last two points.\nPoints from Ryan Hughes and Loye gave St Paul's an early 0-2 to 0-0 advantage and with Liam Kerr also on target, they led by three points on three occasions in the first half.\nHowever, Quinn's 21st-minute goal levelled the contest at 1-5 to 0-8 before points from the impressive Daniel Bradley and Simon McErlean put Mary's two up at the interval.\nMary's looked set for victory as they hit four out of the first five second-half scores to extend their lead to 1-11 to 0-9, helped by three consecutive Bradley points.\nHowever, Hanrahan's goal got St Paul's back into the game and they missed a chance to lead when Mary's keeper Odhran Lynch saved a Kerr penalty, although the Bessbrook man did manage to slot the rebound over the bar.\nAfter Loye's fourth point levelled the game, Small's score regained Magherafelt the lead only for Loye to level with the last kick in injury-time.\nThe second semi-final in the Danske Bank sponsored competition between St Ronan's Lurgan and St Colman's Newry will take place on Thursday evening at the Athletic Grounds in Armagh (19:30 GMT) with the Magherafelt and Bessbrook replaying their semi-final next Wednesday, at a venue yet to be confirmed.", "summary": "St Paul's Bessbrook fought back from five points down with nine minutes left to snatch a 1-12 to 1-12 draw against St Mary's Magherafelt in the opening MacRory Cup semi-final at the Dub." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "21 February 2016 Last updated at 19:34 GMT\nThe Cat S60 can measure the temperate of objects and take thermal selfies in complete darkness.\nBBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones asked product manager Pete Cunningham what people would use the device for.", "summary": "A smartphone with a built-in thermal camera is on show at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He said a conductor had overheard a radio conversation between the Amtrak's driver and another driver, in which both said their trains had been struck.\nBut Amtrak driver Brandon Bostian said he could not remember what happened.\nThe train derailed as it hit a curve while travelling at more than twice the speed limit, killing eight people.\nMore than 200 people on board the Washington-New York train were wounded.\nNational Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Robert Sumwalt said the assistant conductor had heard Mr Bostian talking by radio with the driver of another train from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (Septa).\nThe Septa train driver reportedly said his train - which was in the same area - was hit by a rock or some other projectile.\nMr Bostian said the same had happened to the Amtrak train, according to the assistant conductor.\nThe investigators said they had found an area of glass which might indicate damage from a flying object, and have called in the FBI for technical assistance.\nNTSB officials earlier interviewed Mr Bostian, saying he was \"extremely co-operative\", but could not remember what happened.\nThe 32-year-old driver had called for stricter rail safety.\nOn various posts to Trainorders.com, Mr Bostian lamented Amtrak's lack of Positive Train Control, an automatic braking and warning system which was not fully operational on that section of line.\nSafety experts have said it could have prevented the crash.\nFriends said Mr Bostian talked about trains all the time and always wanted to be a train driver or conductor.\nHe has worked for Amtrak for nine years and was promoted to train driver in 2010.\nOn his Facebook page, friends wrote that he is a \"great person and a great engineer [driver]\".\nInvestigators said the train sped up from 70mph (113km/h) to over 100mph in the minute before hitting the sharp bend.\nAmtrak boss Joseph Boardman said on Thursday that the agency's goal is to \"fully understand what happened and how we can prevent a similar tragedy from happening in the future\".\nThe last wrecked coaches were pulled from the scene on Friday and taken away for further examination.\nThe rail service remains suspended between New York and Philadelphia until at least early next week.", "summary": "The Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia on Tuesday may have been hit by an object shortly before the crash, a US investigator has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The plan is outlined in an email from IAAF deputy general secretary Nick Davies to Papa Massata Diack.\nDiack, who worked as an IAAF marketing consultant at the time, is the son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack.\nDavies wrote he needed to \"sit down\" with the anti-doping team to discuss \"Russian skeletons in the cupboard\".\nThe Englishman went on to suggest that \"we now need to be smart\" about releasing names.\nThe IAAF announced sanctions against 16 Russian athletes in the four months following the event, which saw Russia top the medal table.\nThe email, which has been obtained by the BBC and contains a \"very secret\" five-point plan, was sent on 19 July, 22 days before the start of the 2013 World Athletics Championships, which were held in the Russian capital Moscow.\nAnother suggestion from Davies was that CSM, the sports marketing firm chaired by current IAAF president Lord Coe, then a vice-president, could be hired as part of an \"'unofficial' PR campaign\" to deal with negative stories in the British media in the build-up to the championships.\nBut it is the section on stalling the publication of bad news about Russian doping that will cause the most alarm for an organisation already in crisis.\nDavies stressed in the email that any Russians already caught cheating \"should NOT\" be in the Russian team in Moscow and that this should be made clear to Valentin Balakhnichev, then president of the Russian athletics federation (ARAF) and IAAF treasurer.\n\"If the guilty ones are not competing, then we might as well wait until the event is over to announce them,\" continued Davies.\n\"Or, we announce one or two BUT AT SAME TIME as athletes from other countries.\n\"Also, we can prepare a special dossier on IAAF testing which will show that one of reasons why these Russian athletes come up positive is that they get tested a lot!!!\"\nAt the time of the email, Russia's suitability to host the championships was being questioned following a series of doping allegations.\nIn regards to the \"'unofficial' PR campaign\", Davies singled out the British media for special attention, indicating that was \"where the worst of the articles (are) coming from\".\nHe added: \"This will require specialist PR skills… but I believe if we consider using CSM we can also benefit from Seb's [Lord Coe] political influence in the UK.\n\"It is in his personal interest to ensure that the Moscow World Championships is a success and that people do not think that the media of his own country are trying to destroy it.\"\nDavies denies any wrongdoing and in a statement to the BBC said: \"As director of IAAF communications it was one of my responsibilities to manage and promote the reputation of the IAAF.\n\"My email to the IAAF's then marketing consultant Papa Massata Diack, less than a month before the start of the Moscow World Championship, was brainstorming around media handling strategies to deal with the serious challenges we were facing.\n\"No plan was implemented following that email and there is no possibility any media strategy could ever interfere with the conduct of the anti-doping process.\n\"I did not discuss these ideas with CSM and there has never been any agreement between the IAAF and CSM for any PR campaigns.\n\"CSM has never worked for the IAAF in any capacity since Sebastian Coe joined the company.\"\nLast month, Russia became the first country to be banned from international competition because of doping after an independent report uncovered systemic, state-sponsored cheating.\nThe 11-month investigation, led by former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound, also alleged \"corruption and bribery practices\" at the federation itself.\nThis followed news that French financial prosecutors are investigating both Lamine Diack and his son Papa, Balakhnichev, former IAAF anti-doping chief Gabriel Dolle and Lamine Diack's special legal adviser Habib Cisse for allegedly taking bribes to cover up positive tests by Russians.\nPapa Diack, Dolle and Balakhnichev are among those to have been charged by the IAAF's ethics committee and are awaiting the decision of last week's hearing in London on charges of extorting money from Russian marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova to hide her doping.\nThey deny the charges but face life bans if found guilty.\nEarlier this month, Coe stepped down from a paid ambassadorial role with Nike after the BBC obtained an email which appeared to show his involvement in discussions about the awarding of the 2021 World Championships to the American city of Eugene, which has close links with the sportswear giant.\nCoe denied he had been involved in lobbying but, amid mounting criticism over a potential conflict of interest, agreed to relinquish his role and said that CSM would not tender for any IAAF work.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nCoe was also called to Westminster to provide evidence to a select committee of MPs looking into allegations that athletes with suspicious blood tests were not properly pursued by the IAAF.\nCoe, a former Conservative MP who replaced Lamine Diack as IAAF president in August, denied it was a \"corrupt organisation\".\nThe IAAF is bracing itself for the second part of Pound's damaging report, which will focus on allegations of bribery and cover-ups at athletics' world governing body.\nIn September, Coe, chairman of London 2012's organising committee, appointed Davies as the IAAF's director of the president's office.\nMP Damian Collins has previously questioned Lord Coe about doping in athletics at a Media & Sport Select Committee hearing.\nHe said: \"I think it's really damaging. It suggests that they've prioritised their own reputation over dealing with the serious issue of drug cheats competing at major championships.\n\"I think it also adds weight to the argument that has been made against the IAAF that, rather than moving quickly to identify cheats and have them exposed and removed from competition, they have moved too slowly and put up barriers to making that progress.\"", "summary": "A senior athletics world governing body figure was planning to delay naming Russian drug cheats in the run-up to the 2013 World Championships in Moscow." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A studio, run by eleven teachers from north west Wales, has opened for one week in a shop in the high street that would otherwise be empty.\nThey hope it will help them grow their businesses and attract more people to the city centre.\nIt is part of a Gwynedd council scheme to bring empty shops back into use.\n\"The great thing about yoga is that it brings balance,\" Porthmadog yoga teacher teacher Claire Mace told BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad programme.\n\"If your Christmas shopping is making you feel sluggish and tired, it might help you feel more energised. If you're really stressed and hyper at this time of year, it can calm you down.\n\"In December, we're all running round getting very excited about Christmas, buying presents and food, but maybe this will also give people ideas about things they could do as a new year's resolution as well.\"\nJosie Ryan from Menai Bridge, who joined the class, said: \"I feel really relaxed after that - not stressed at all. This may be the most Zen Christmas shopping I've ever done.\"\nFfion Rowlinson, from Bethesda, added: \"It was marvellous, really relaxing. It was funny doing yoga on the floor while stressed people walked past the window with their umbrellas doing their Christmas shopping.\"", "summary": "Shoppers in Bangor are being offered free yoga classes to help reduce their stress levels while Christmas shopping." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Anne Nagle, from Shrewsbury, bought the £323 helmet - which inflates on impact - online but posted it back because it was uncomfortable.\nBut the teacher received an email from Royal Mail saying her package \"had been disposed of\" because a gas cylinder inside made it a fire risk.\nMrs Nagle said she should have been contacted before any action was taken.\n\"What surprised me is Royal Mail opened the parcel and then destroyed it,\" said the mother-of-three.\n\"My address was on the parcel, it was a regular parcel. I thought it would have been reasonable... to contact me and say you shouldn't have posted this.\"\nTony Marsh, the Royal Mail's director of group security, said: \"Compressed gas cylinders - whatever the contents - are prohibited items under dangerous goods regulations.\n\"Many of the compressed gasses can be flammable so that represents a fire as well as an explosion risk.\"\nThe Hovding's airbag-style helmet is worn as a neck collar but inflates when it detects an accident.", "summary": "Royal Mail has been criticised for disposing of a special cycling helmet because it \"breached safety rules\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Financial Assistance for Political Parties scheme distributes funding to parties to help assembly members perform their duties.\nIt includes payments to help run whips' offices and employ party staff.\nMLAs have approved the assembly commission's proposals to reduce the payments by 3%.\nIt forms part of an overall cut in the assembly's budget of 5% this financial year.\nUnder the new arrangements, parties will be able to claim about £25,600 if they have one MLA.\nParties with two or more MLAs will be able to claim about £51,100, plus about £3,300 for each MLA who is not a minister or junior minister.\nParties with between three and 10 MLAs will be able to claim about £16,000 for their whips' office.\nThe payment for parties with between 11 and 20 MLAs will be just under £24,000, while parties with more than 20 MLAs will be able to claim about £32,000.", "summary": "The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted for a 3% cut in a scheme that provides money to parties with MLAs." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 32-year-old will challenge IBF bantamweight world champion Caballero at the Mandalay Bay Hotel on Saturday.\nCaballero is unbeaten in 22 fights, but the American has been out of the ring for more than a year.\n\"I have worked as hard as I could possibly have worked and on the night I will give 110 per cent,\" said Haskins.\n\"If I am at my best, I can beat anybody. I have done a lot of fitness, a lot of cardio, a lot of weight-making and everything is on track.\n\"It's been great to be out here training with a bit of sun beaming down on me.\"\nThe fight was added to the undercard of the WBC middleweight title contest fight between Miguel Cotto and Saul Alvarez last month.\nAnd Haskins said that while he has had some time to take in the magical surroundings, his focus has remained firmly on the fight.\nHaskins, who has won 32 of his 35 contests, with three defeats, added: \"I have had a little look around, but I have been very serious and my head is on the game.\n\"We are in Vegas so we have to have a little look around and do a bit of shopping.\"", "summary": "Bristol boxer Lee Haskins says he has done all the preparation possible ahead of his Las Vegas debut against Randy Caballero." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Nesbitt announced he is to quit as soon as a new leader is appointed, after the party's disappointing performance in Thursday's election.\nThe UUP is now the fourth biggest party, having been overtaken by the nationalist SDLP for the first time.\nMr Swann said he was discussing a potential bid with his wife, Jennifer.\nThe UUP is due to elect Mr Nesbitt's successor at its annual general meeting on 8 April.\n\"Jenny's actually a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, so she'll have a vote at our AGM,\" Mr Swann told the BBC's Sunday Politics.\n\"If my name is on the ballot paper, I hope she will be voting for me.\"\nThe 45-year-old father of two was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2011 and he represents North Antrim.\nHe chaired the Public Accounts Committee during the last assembly's mandate and is former president of the Young Farmers' Clubs of Ulster.\nMr Swann was one of 10 UUP members who won seats in Thursday's poll, but he said the new leader did not necessarily have to be an MLA.\n\"Our party rules actually allow anybody who is in good standing, and a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, to put their name forward, so there is a misconception out there,\" he said.\nOne high-profile UUP member who has already declined the job is Upper Bann UUP member Doug Beattie.\nSpeaking live to the BBC minutes after Mr Nesbitt's resignation on Friday, Mr Beattie said he did not yet have the \"depth of political knowledge\" required to lead the UUP.\n\"I was only elected into the assembly last year, I've only been an MLA for about nine months and I've just been re-elected now.\"\nMr Beattie added: \"It would not be right for me to lead the party, I do not have the political nuances that many other people have.\n\"I will be there to support whoever is the leader.\"", "summary": "Robin Swann has said he is not ruling himself out of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leadership contest following Mike Nesbitt's resignation." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Oisin Tymon was working on the programme when the incident happened, after Clarkson was told there was no hot food available at the end of a day's filming.\nIt led to Jeremy Clarkson being dropped by the BBC following the assault.\n\"I would like to say sorry, once again, to Oisin Tymon for the incident and its regrettable aftermath,\" Clarkson said.\n\"I want to reiterate that none of this was in any way his fault.\n\"I would also like to make it clear that the abuse he has suffered since the incident is unwarranted and I am sorry too that he has had to go through that.\n\"I am pleased that this matter is now resolved. Oisin was always a creatively exciting part of Top Gear and I wish him every success with his future projects.\"\nFollowing Clarkson being dropped from the show, his co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond also left the programme.\nTop Gear now has a new presenting line-up including Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc.\nClarkson, May and Hammond have since signed up to launch a rival motoring show on Amazon's streaming TV service.", "summary": "Jeremy Clarkson has apologised to a Top Gear producer who he hit in an incident last year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lydiate's ruptured knee ligaments suffered in Wales' win over South Africa mean he will also miss out on the chance to challenge for a place on the 2017 Lions tour to New Zealand.\n\"I have absolutely no doubt he'll get back to where he was,\" said Davis.\n\"So much of it comes down to the determination of the player.\"\nThe Australian defence coach, a product of rugby league, likens Lydiate's chances of returning to the full capacity of his fitness to the experiences of former South Africa and Bath fly-half Butch James.\nDavis coached James at Bath before the player returned to South Africa, for whom he made his final Test appearance against Wales at the 2011 World Cup.\n\"I worked with Butch James at Bath for three years and I think he'd had four knee reconstructions,\" Davis said.\n\"Each time he was able to come back, still represent South Africa and still play fantastic rugby for Bath and in South Africa.\n\"Most rugby players are competitive beasts. Most international players have got there because they are determined and love playing the game.\n\"Dan is going to be no different. He's going to apply himself to his rehab as he would to a training field.\n\"We have excellent medical staff here who will support him. I'm 100% sure he's going to come back good, fit and firing.\"\nDavis said Lydiate was \"getting back to some of his top form\" when he was injured.\n\"We are going to give the best support and the best treatment and try to get him back on the park as quickly as possible,\" he said.\n\"Saying that, we have a pretty decent back-row roster that we can pick from.\"\nOspreys travel to French Top 14 side Grenoble in the European Challenge Cup third round on Thursday looking for a third successive win in the competition.\nDavis said he was unaware of Wales hooker Scott Baldwin's progress amid Head Injury Assessment protocols after a blow he suffered in their win over Edinburgh last Friday.", "summary": "Wales flanker Dan Lydiate can make a full recovery from the injury that has ended his season, says Ospreys defence coach Brad Davis." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Democrat Party had argued that the poll violated the constitution for several reasons, including that it was not completed in one day.\nThe government blamed the delay on the opposition blocking polling stations.\nThailand has been in a political crisis since mass anti-government protests kicked off in November.\nThey were sparked by a controversial amnesty bill which critics said would allow former leader Thaksin Shinawatra to return to Thailand without serving time in jail for his corruption conviction.\nBy Jonathan HeadBBC News, Bangkok\nIt is not easy to fathom the reasoning behind a constitutional court that once sacked a prime minister for appearing on a TV cooking programme, and which recently stated Thailand was not ready for high-speed rail while it still had unsealed roads.\nBut this important institution, created to check the power of elected governments, has played a central role in recent Thai history. Almost all its major rulings have been unfavourable to the ruling Pheu Thai party and its overlord, Thaksin Shinawatra.\nLeaders of the opposition Democrat party told me they were confident the election, certain to be won by Pheu Thai, would be annulled by the court. So the rejection of their petition must have come as a surprise.\nBut the top courts are sure to be called on again to challenge the governing party's legitimacy. And another notionally independent institution, the Election Commission, is infuriating the government by its clear reluctance to restage voting in areas disrupted by anti-government protesters. The result is a prolonged political vacuum that almost invites judicial intervention.\nThe demonstrators have since called for the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin's sister, to make way for an interim replacement that will bring in anti-corruption reforms.\nMs Shinawatra had called the election in the hope of defusing the crisis.\nBut the Democrats refused to contest the election - which they were almost certain to lose - arguing that reform of Thailand's political system must come first.\nThe government was understandably nervous about this ruling, the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head reports from Bangkok.\nThe constitutional court annulled a previous election seven years ago for seemingly trifling irregularities, he says.\nIt has also twice dissolved previous incarnations of the ruling Pheu Thai party and twice forced prime ministers from office.\nThis time though, the court dismissed the petition saying there was no credible evidence that the election had violated the constitution.\nIt also rejected a request by the Pheu Thai party to find the Democrat Party's behaviour toward the election unconstitutional.\nThe opposition movement has not exhausted legal avenues for blocking the government, our correspondent says.\nCrisis explained in 60 seconds\nThe battle for Thailand's soul\nIn pictures: Thailand votes\nQ&A: Thailand protests\nThey are still hoping an official corruption investigation into Ms Yingluck and other ministers will prevent her from forming a new government.\nWiratana Kalayasiri, a former opposition lawmaker and head of the Democrat Party's legal team, who brought the opposition petition to court, said: \"This case is over\".\n\"But if the government does anything wrong again, we will make another complaint,\" he told the AFP news agency.\nMillions were prevented from voting because anti-government protesters forced the closure of hundreds of polling stations in Bangkok and in the south on election day.\nIt means the results of the election cannot be announced until special polls have been held in the constituencies that missed out on the 2 February vote.\nThe Election Commission said on Tuesday that those elections will be held on 27 April.\nHowever, no decision has yet been made on the 28 constituencies where no candidates stood in the election.", "summary": "Thailand's constitutional court has rejected an opposition request to annul the 2 February election, citing insufficient grounds." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Staff at Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow turned up to work on Friday to learn most of the 77-strong workforce were being made redundant immediately.\nJoint administrators from KPMG said the business had gone bust due to a lack of orders and mounting cash flow pressure.\nGMB official Alex Logan said staff were \"shocked\". The Scottish government is to set up a task force to help workers.\nMr Logan said: \"There was no warning about this at all and it has come as a complete shock to the workforce.\n\"We've had an idea since before the summer that something was going on but have been unable to get any information from the management.\n\"We thought that maybe the yard was going to be sold but there was no indication it was going to close.\"\nThe GMB said a \"skeleton staff\" had been retained to finish work on existing projects and help maintain the yard.\nMr Logan was attempting to organise a mass meeting of staff to discuss their options.\nBlair Nimmo, joint administrator and head of restructuring for KPMG, said: \"Ferguson Shipbuilders is a leading name in the industry with a rich heritage dating back more than 110 years and is the last commercial shipbuilder operating on the River Clyde.\n\"However, a lack of significant orders and mounting cash flow pressure has led to the group's inability to continue trading.\n\"We would like to thank staff for their co-operation during this difficult period. We will be working with employees and the relevant government agencies to ensure that the full range of support is available to all those affected.\"\nMr Nimmo added: \"We would encourage any party who has an interest in acquiring the group's business and facilities to contact us as soon as possible.\"\nOriginally formed in 1902, Ferguson Shipbuilders employed 77 staff at the time of the administration appointments.\nWhilst best known for its shipbuilding capability, the yard is also known for engineering and joinery, materials handling, fluids distributions, system hydraulics, power distribution and management and civil engineering.\nKPMG said the business had \"experienced significant cash flow pressure in recent months\" and a \"lack of financial strength\" had effectively \"hindered its ability to secure new vessel contracts from its core customer base\".\nRecent attempts to secure investment into the business have proved unsuccessful, the administrators said.\nThey are now \"assessing all available options\" to complete the yard's remaining work and are aiming to determine \"whether an early sale of its business, infrastructure, and assets can be secured\".\nJim Moohan, GMB Scotland senior organiser and chair of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions (CSEU), called on First Minister Alex Salmond to intervene.\nHe said: \"This is the last remaining commercial shipbuilding yard in Scotland. It has now locked its doors to the workforce.\n\"Unless the Scottish government intervenes this puts the final key in the door of commercial shipbuilding which has a history of several hundred years in Scotland.\n\"Not to intervene will be an utter betrayal by the Scottish government and the First Minister, Alex Salmond.\"\nFinance Secretary John Swinney said the Scottish government would set up a task force to help workers affected by the closure.\n\"The loss of any jobs in Port Glasgow is a devastating blow and we will work closely with the administrator to deliver an integrated service to those losing their jobs,\" he said.\n\"We will also convene a task force which will aim to secure new opportunities for this commercial shipyard on the Clyde.\n\"I have spoken to the leader of the council and we have agreed to work together on the task force to secure these opportunities. I will visit Port Glasgow on Monday to start this process.\"\nMr Swinney described the yards facilities and workforce as \"significant assets\".\nNews of the firm's financial failure has brought strong responses from the local community and across Scotland.\nScottish Labour leader Johann Lamont said: \"My sympathy goes out to all the workers at the Ferguson shipyard whose jobs are threatened and we will do all we can to prevent the closure of the yard.\n\"Scotland's shipbuilding industry is a vital part of our economy and supports many well paid jobs but it is still largely dependent on defence contracts and this latest blow highlights just how difficult it is to win other contracts.\n\"But I believe we can still save this shipyard and every avenue must be explored. We stand ready to work with the Scottish government and do all we can to prevent job losses as a matter of priority.\"\nScottish Conservative west of Scotland MSP Jackson Carlaw said: \"The Scottish government certainly has some serious questions to answer on this.\n\"They must have been alerted to this situation coming down the tracks.\n\"Dithering when dozens of jobs are at stake is completely unacceptable, and the workers deserve a full explanation.\"\nInverclyde Council leader Stephen McCabe said: \"I am shocked by this news about Fergusons but can assure the workforce and community that we will do all that we can to help.\n\"I am setting up a dedicated task force to support the workforce at Fergusons and to engage with the owners, union and both the Scottish and UK governments.\"\nDavid Watt from the Institute of Directors said: \"Given the proud heritage Scotland, and particularly the Clyde, has in shipbuilding, it's sad to see one of the few remaining yards in jeopardy, potentially significantly reducing Scotland's capabilities in the future.\"\nIn recent years, Ferguson Shipyard completed work to deliver two sea-going roll-on roll-off vehicle and passenger diesel-electric hybrid ferries for CalMac.\nThe yard also completed work for Babcock related to the contracts for two huge Royal Navy aircraft carriers.\nGMB official Mr Logan said that at the time of the administration, work was also ongoing to convert a boat into a fish factory - for a company based in the north of Scotland.", "summary": "Administrators have been called in to the last remaining shipyard on the lower Clyde with the loss of 70 jobs." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The service's rating was increased to \"requires improvement\" in a report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).\nCrews were also praised for their \"care and compassion\" during the Grenfell Tower fire and recent terror attacks.\nThe service \"should exit special measures within a few months\" the CQC report said.\nThe Chief Inspector of Hospitals Sir Mike Richards said: \"The events of the last few months have underlined what a crucial service London Ambulance provide to the capital.\n\"Overall, the trust has made sustained progress since our last inspection.\"\nBut \"there is more work still to do\" he added.\nThe CQC will undertake a \"well-led review in about six months' time\" once a newly appointed leadership teams has had a chance to \"settle in\".", "summary": "The London Ambulance Service has made \"significant progress\" since being put into special measures eighteen months ago, according to the health watchdog." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A study from the Institute of Education has examined why these children of Chinese migrants are so high-achieving.\nIt examined Australian schools, where 15-year olds from Chinese families are the equivalent of two years ahead of their Australian classmates.\nThe study pointed to factors such as hard work and parental engagement.\nThe high performance of Chinese and other East Asian pupils has become a feature of international education comparisons - dominating international rankings such as the Pisa tests.\nBut if this reflects the success of Asian school systems, it does not explain why second-generation Chinese pupils are so successful academically when they have migrated to other countries.\nThe study from the Institute of Education in London examined the maths results in Pisa tests of 14,000 teenagers in Australia - which showed that children from East Asian families, mostly Chinese, were much higher performing than those from Australian families or other migrants, such as from the UK.\nIf the Chinese in Australia had been counted in the Pisa tests as a separate country, they would have been among the highest performing in the world - only beaten by pupils in Shanghai.\nBut the researchers suggest there is not a simplistic explanation for this success - and that family background and parental involvement in choices about education is very significant.\nThe biggest single factor is that East Asian families, from China, South Korea and Japan, seem to be very successful in getting their children into good schools.\nThis gives pupils a substantial advantage in boosting their results. The parents of the East Asian families were also better educated than the average for Australia.\nBut there were also differences in how the children behaved.\nThe East Asian pupils put in an extra six hours of study at home each week, compared with their peers from Australian families.\n\"They had a very strong work ethic and were more likely to believe that they could succeed if they tried hard enough,\" says the research.\nThere were 94% of East Asian pupils who expected to go to university, much higher than the average in Australia.\nJohn Jerrim, reader in educational and social statistics at the Institute of Education, said the study showed how pupils could develop high-level maths skills within an otherwise average school system.\nHe said it also showed the extent of the impact of the family background and how improving school standards could mean changes outside the classroom.\n\"The reality is that this may only be possible over the very long term, and will require a widespread cultural shift. All families would have to instil in their children a strong belief in the value of education - along with the realisation that hard work and sacrifice may be needed to achieve it,\" said Dr Jerrim.\nBut the analysis did not account for all the difference between the results of East Asian and other pupils in Australia. The family factors, school choice and hard work was estimated to represent about 85% of the advantage.\nDr Jerrim suggested that this could reflect the quality of pre-school education or else it could be that these pupils have \"higher inherent ability\".\n\"The influence of such factors remains an important area for future research.\"", "summary": "Pupils from Chinese families are often successful in Western school systems - in the UK they have better exam results than any other ethnic group." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "There are 50 new nationalist members at Westminster, joining six SNP MPs who were re-elected from the 2010 intake.\nThe MPs took their oaths in the Scottish style, which involves holding the right hand in the air.\nEach was required to read the passage in English, but a number also performed it in Gaelic and Scots.\nThe first MP to swear in at the second Commons session of oath taking was the Conservatives' Europe minister David Lidington.\nThe first of the new SNP intake was Ian Blackford, representing Ross, Skye and Lochaber, followed by Angela Crawley, MP for Lanark and Hamilton East.\nLivingston MP Hannah Bardell had to retake her oath after the \"genuine mistake\" of omitting the word \"Queen\" while reading the passage of allegiance.\nThe vast majority of the nationalist MPs read the non-religious version: \"I do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law.\"\nAmong the new intake:\nThe traditional Scottish swearing in, or \"oath in the Scot's form\", was a traditional feature in courts in Scotland, although it is rarely used nowadays.\nNon-Scottish MPs asked the female clerk if they needed to raise their hand during the oath. She informed them it was not necessary and only the Scottish MPs were opting for that gesture.\nFormer BBC journalist John Nicolson - now SNP MP for East Dunbartonshire - was just behind former Tory minister Ken Clarke in the chamber. They shake hands and speak. Here is their exchange....\nJN: \"I am John Nicolson.\" [Offers his hand]\nKC: \"Pleased to meet you, I have met you before. Been here before?\"\nJN: \"No, I have interviewed you before, I am a journalist. I presented BBC breakfast news, saw you a few times.\"\nKC: \"Whose side are you on?\"\nJN: \"I am Jo Swinson [former Lib Dem MP], for the new parliament - I am SNP.\"\nKC: \"I am going to get that reply from an awful lot of people.\"\nJN: \"Yes you are Mr Clarke.\"", "summary": "Scotland's new SNP MPs have sworn allegiance to the Queen during the traditional oath taking ceremony at the House of Commons." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The £150m scheme in East Tullos would provide low cost energy and reduce the amount of waste to landfill, but concerns have been raised about the possible environmental impact\nMembers of the planning committee had been set to discuss the plans.\nThe matter will now be discussed on Thursday.", "summary": "A decision on plans for an energy from waste plant in Aberdeen has been deferred to full council." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 58-year old fell close to Fanad Head lighthouse at 15:00 BST on Sunday.\nMr McCourt was recovered from the sea and received first aid at the scene.\nHe was then airlifted to Letterkenny Hospital, but was later pronounced dead.\nIan Scott, station officer at Malin Head Coast Guard in County Donegal, said Irish Coast Guard staff made an emergency broadcast when they received the 999 call. A local boat that was in the area responded and went to the man's aid.\n\"We also tasked our coast guard helicopter from Sligo, both Lough Swilly lifeboats and also our fast response coast guard team from Mulroy,\" he said.\nThe station officer added: \"All the search and rescue units arrived on the scene and our coast guard team from Mulroy managed to recover the man from the water, they administered CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation).\n\"He was then transferred to the coast guard helicopter and flown to Letterkenny Hospital.\"", "summary": "The man who died after falling from a cliff into the sea in County Donegal has been named locally as John McCourt from Antrim." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Romelu Lukaku put the visitors in front with a penalty after keeper Jack Butland had brought down Tom Cleverley.\nSeamus Coleman headed in a Cleverley corner and Aaron Lennon intercepted a pass before slotting in as Everton went 3-0 up at the break.\nLukaku also had a header tipped on to the crossbar by Butland, while a poor Stoke struggled to create chances.\nRelive Everton's win against Stoke\nFollow reaction to Saturday's games\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nA lot was made about Everton boss Roberto Martinez's dance moves at a Jason Derulo concert in the week, but it was his team impressing with their performance at the Britannia Stadium.\nEngland manager Roy Hodgson was at the game and he will have liked what he saw from Toffees midfielders Cleverley and Ross Barkley.\nThe industrious Cleverley burst through before being brought down for Everton's penalty, while his delivery from corners was a constant threat and led to Coleman's goal.\nBarkley's attacking instincts also played a part in the win and he could have had an assist when he crossed for Lukaku, whose header from close range was brilliantly saved by Butland.\n\"I thought we were very strong in every department,\" said Martinez. \"Cleverley had a big influence in the game throughout.\"\nStoke have endured a month to forget since their last league win against Norwich on 13 January.\nMark Hughes' side have been knocked out the Capital One Cup after a semi-final defeat on penalties by Liverpool, while they were beaten by Crystal Palace in the FA Cup.\nThe Potters have gained just one point from 12 in the league, dropping from seventh to 11th, and scored just one goal in six games.\nThe home side gave a debut to record £18.3m signing Gianelli Imbula but, like the rest of his team-mates, the midfielder struggled to make any kind of impact.\n\"I thought Imbila did OK. I felt sorry for him because as a debut that was a hard one to come into,\" said Hughes.\nStoke boss Mark Hughes: \"We huffed and puffed and didn't really create again and that is a concern for us.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"A disappointing day. We made mistakes at key times in the game and couldn't recover.\n\"We have to pick ourselves up and start doing the fundamentals and basics.\"\nEverton manager Roberto Martinez: \"We defended really well when we had to but the amount of opportunities we created is pleasing. If anything we should have scored three or four more in the second half.\n\"We have to make sure we don't drop our standards now.\"\nStoke's next game is at Bournemouth on 13 February, while Everton host West Brom on the same day with both games kicking off at 15:00 GMT.\nMatch ends, Stoke City 0, Everton 3.\nSecond Half ends, Stoke City 0, Everton 3.\nAttempt saved. Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Joselu with a cross.\nFoul by Peter Odemwingie (Stoke City).\nBryan Oviedo (Everton) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nSubstitution, Everton. Leon Osman replaces James McCarthy.\nCorner, Everton. Conceded by Marc Muniesa.\nSubstitution, Everton. Kevin Mirallas replaces Ross Barkley.\nAttempt missed. Stephen Ireland (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Joselu.\nCorner, Stoke City. Conceded by Phil Jagielka.\nOffside, Stoke City. Joselu tries a through ball, but Glen Johnson is caught offside.\nAttempt missed. Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Tom Cleverley with a cross.\nCorner, Everton. Conceded by Jack Butland.\nAttempt saved. Arouna Koné (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\nSubstitution, Stoke City. Joselu replaces Marko Arnautovic.\nSubstitution, Everton. Arouna Koné replaces Romelu Lukaku.\nGiannelli Imbula (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Gareth Barry (Everton).\nCorner, Stoke City. Conceded by Ramiro Funes Mori.\nAttempt blocked. Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Ireland.\nAttempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\nAttempt saved. Glen Johnson (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.\nAttempt missed. James McCarthy (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\nAttempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\nAttempt blocked. Peter Odemwingie (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\nOffside, Everton. Seamus Coleman tries a through ball, but Aaron Lennon is caught offside.\nAttempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gareth Barry with a cross.\nAttempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nAttempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Lennon.\nSubstitution, Stoke City. Peter Odemwingie replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.\nSubstitution, Stoke City. Stephen Ireland replaces Ibrahim Afellay.\nXherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Bryan Oviedo (Everton).\nMame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).\nAaron Lennon (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nAttempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley with a cross.\nFoul by Erik Pieters (Stoke City).\nSeamus Coleman (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nCorner, Stoke City. Conceded by Gareth Barry.", "summary": "Everton moved up to seventh after beating Stoke, who suffered a third successive Premier League defeat." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Colombia's highest administrative court, the State Council, ruled that the military command at the time had not done enough to prevent the attack.\nAround 600 Farc rebels attacked Las Delicias base in Putumayo, in southern Colombia in August 1996.\nThirty-one soldiers died and 60 were kidnapped in the attack.\nThe court ordered the Ministry of Defence to pay $933,000 to three of the injured soldiers and the family of one of those killed.\nThe court ruled that \"the state created a risky situation by placing Las Delicias army base in a location with limited protection and defences without providing the support and protection required under the constitution.\"\n'Unjust ruling'\nThe magistrates said the soldiers stationed at Las Delicias lacked the necessary training and preparation to repel the guerrilla attack.\nThe base was not strategically located and the military command failed to send back-up once the attack was under way, the magistrates added.\nColombian Defence Minister Rodrigo Rivera said his ministry was looking into the legal implications of the case.\nHe said it was worrying that the court had ruled against the state in a case based on the actions perpetrated by a group of \"narcoterrorists\".\nRetired Gen Harold Bedoya, who headed the Colombian army at the time of the attack, called the ruling unjust.\nHe said the magistrates failed to take into account the difficult security situation the country was living at the time.\nGen Bedoya said the day of the attack on Las Delicias, the rebels staged 20 other offensives in different parts of the country, leaving the army thinly stretched.\nFarc offensive\nFormer President Ernesto Samper also criticised the ruling.\nMr Samper, who was in office from 1994-1998, said it set a precedent which could lead to any type of military operation coming under scrutiny.\n\"No matter how well-prepared the soldiers could have been, it still would have been very difficult for them to repel the attack by the 600 to 800 guerrillas,\" he added.\nMr Samper negotiated a prisoner exchange with the Farc after the attack, which resulted in the release of the 60 kidnapped soldiers.\nLas Delicias was the first of a series of high-profile offensives by Farc rebels.\nIn December 1997, they overran a military base on Patascoy mountain, killing 10 soldiers and kidnapping 18.\nAnd in March 1998, they launched an offensive against El Billar base in southern Caqueta province, killing 65 soldiers and taking 43 hostage.\nThe rebels have lost much of its strength since, with their numbers dropping from 16,000 fighters in 2001 to about 8,000.", "summary": "A Colombian court has ordered the state to pay $1m in damages to three soldiers injured in a 1996 left-wing rebel attack on a military base." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Alastair Main, 35, a City lawyer and ex-London Rowing Club captain, is accused of assaulting the woman at a Christmas dinner on 16 December 2015.\nHe said he was \"acting like a fool\" but denies racially aggravated common assault and sexual assault.\nThe woman said he had called her an offensive name before the assault.\nSpeaking behind a screen at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court, the woman, in her 20s, said she had turned down Mr Main's request for a hug before the incident.\nBut Mr Main, who was captain of the rowing club between 2013 and 2014, denied this claiming the pair had had a conversation during which they both became \"upset\".\nHe alleged the woman \"slapped\" him in the face after the exchange.\n\"I followed her\" before \"pouring what remained of my beer on top of her\", Mr Main told the court.\nMr Main, from Kingston upon Thames, accepted he was drunk on the night of the incident.\nMr Main claimed he later tried to apologise but the woman was \"dismissive\" of his attempts to \"make amends\".\nHe denied lifting her skirt and slapping her bottom several times, as well as the woman's claims he began slapping her head, pushing her around and asking if she was \"wearing any knickers\".\nMr Main said he did put his hands on the woman's waist.\nHe broke down in tears in the dock as character references were read to the court, suggesting he was \"not racist\" and \"always respectful to women\".\nEloise Marshall, acting for Mr Main, suggested the woman may have \"exaggerated\" the incident.\nThe victim strongly denied the allegation when giving evidence in October.\nThe case continues.", "summary": "A former England rower has admitted pouring beer over a woman following an argument but denies pulling her skirt up and repeatedly slapping her bottom." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "There was also a small drop in turnover, from £11.7m to £11.5m.\nThe figure represents a large change in fortunes for the county, who posted a £327,000 profit for 2011.\nEdgbaston's 2012 summer schedule was severely affected by rain - three days of the Test between England and West Indies and the one-day international against Australia were washed out.\nThe county believe that last summer's dreadful weather and the difference in popularity of England's international opponents were the major reasons for the drop from the previous year.\n\"The relative attractiveness of staging the Test Match against India in 2011, compared with the West Indies in 2012, meant that a reduction in revenue and profits was always expected and budgeted for,\" said Craig Flindall, Warwickshire's financial director.\n\"The exceptionally bad weather did nothing to improve this situation.\n\"However, the club mitigated the impact of the weather by reducing costs where possible and taking out insurance to cover the catering revenue for the ODI and international T20 matches.\"", "summary": "Reigning county champions Warwickshire have announced operating losses of £668,000 for 2012." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Explosives packed into a car went off near a bus station as a police minibus drove by. More than 20 people were injured in the attack.\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed \"terrorists\" for the attack.\nThe army is locked in an operation against rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the region.\nA ceasefire between the government and the PKK collapsed in July last year.\nSince then violence has surged, with militants attacking security forces and the army besieging Kurdish-dominated towns.\nThe explosion was powerful enough to shatter glass in nearby buildings. Both civilians and police were among the wounded.\n\"The terrorist organisation shows its heinous face through this attack,\" said Mr Erdogan, who is visiting Washington.\n\"We cannot tolerate this any more. European countries and other countries, I hope they will see the true face of the PKK and other terrorist organisations in these attacks.\"\nNo group has yet said it was behind the blast.\nThe attack comes a day before a planned visit to Diyarbakir by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.\nThe TAK, an offshoot of the PKK, has claimed two bombings in Ankara this year that killed more than 60 people.\nTurkey is also part of the coalition battling so-called Islamic State (IS) and has also been attacked by the militant group.\nIn Syria, the US has been supporting the YPG, a Kurdish militia Turkey regards as an offshoot of the PKK, in their battle against IS.", "summary": "Seven police officers have been killed in a bomb blast that rocked the Kurdish-dominated south-eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The court on Tuesday struck down the law which allowed police to arrest people for comments on social networks and other internet sites.\nThe court ruled that Section 66A of the Information Technology Act was unconstitutional.\nPapers have praised the court in their editorials on Wednesday.\nThe Times of India says the law \"skewed the constitutional balance between freedom of expression and public good\".\n\"The internet has become a part of everyday life. To see this as a danger is wrong. On the contrary IT communication platforms empower citizens and shore up accountability in democracy,\" it says.\nThe Tribune says the court has \"upheld the right to speak up\".\n\"The right to freedom of speech on the Internet has been upheld. Nobody can be arrested for any online post or get content removed without a court or judicial order,\" says the paper in its editorial.\nFor the Hindustan Times, the apex court has \"resolutely set in stone the freedom to express ourselves, without the fear of the state\".\n\"It is almost as if we were fighting for basic civil rights all over again and won the battle,\" it says.\nPapers have severely criticised India's political parties for defending the law.\n\"This unpopular legislation was endorsed by the political class, including the Congress and the BJP, which passed it without adequate discussion and continued to back it,\" says the Hindustan Times.\nThe Times of India criticises the ruling Bharatiya Jana Party (BJP) for changing its stance on the law.\n\"BJP had opposed Section 66A when it was in opposition. It was illogical to reverse that position when the party came to power, especially since its 2014 Lok Sabha [parliament] campaign relied heavily on IT communication,\" it says.\nThe Asian Age says the court has given more rights to ordinary citizens.\n\"The court has rendered signal service not only to freedom of speech and expression on the Internet but also towards rescuing the common man from misuse of the law in brazen authoritarianism on the part of politicians and the state machinery they control,\" it says.\nMoving to some sports news, papers have reflected the excitement ahead of India's semi-final clash with host Australia in the cricket World Cup on Thursday.\nThe winner of this match will take on New Zealand in the final on Sunday.\nDefending champions India have not lost a single match in the tournament so far. Australia have also performed well, but do not have a clean slate because the Kiwis beat them in the group stages.\nAn article in Times of India describes the clash as \"the biggest match of the competition\".\nThe article by cricket analyst Boria Majumdar rejects criticisms that India may not be able to beat a well-balanced side like Australia.\n\"India have turned it around in the most unexpected of ways and to expect them to surrender tamely isn't real. They will want to put their best foot forward making it a cracker of a contest, something this world cup very badly needs,\" he writes.\nThe NDTV website puts faith in India's batting prowess and the bowlers' ability to take wickets.\n\"Amazingly, India have piled up 300-plus scores every time they have batted first and dismissed the opposition in all seven matches so far,\" it writes.\nAnd finally, federal minister Maneka Gandhi has backed the use of \"natural disinfectant'' made from extracts of cow urine instead of the \"chemically bad'' one in government offices, The Times of India reports.\n\"In a letter to her colleagues in the council of ministers, Ms Gandhi has proposed a switch to 'gaunyle' - cleaning liquid made from cow urine extracts, arguing that it's environment-friendly,\" the paper reports.\nOther ministers in the current BJP government have also backed the use of products made from cow urine. Many Hindus consider cow a sacred animal and BJP draws its support mainly from Hindu groups.\nThe paper reports that federal minister Sripad Naik had \"vouched for the number of ayurvedic drug companies that were manufacturing medicinal formulations made from 'panchgavya', a collective name of five products obtained from cow including its urine and dung\".\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "summary": "Papers are ecstatic over the Supreme Court's decision to scrap a controversial law which \"curbed\" freedom of speech on the internet." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Springboks star's leg was in a brace when he returned to Belfast with the Ulster squad on Sunday night.\nHowever, Ulster director of rugby Les Kiss said on Monday scans had revealed \"no damage of major proportions\".\n\"We had really good news about Ruan earlier today,\" said Kiss.\n\"The scan just showed a couple of things that you would expect with a jar on the knee.\n\"We'll just need to see how the next 24 or 48 hours go and then we'll take a decision but it looks very positive.\"\nThe scrum-half, 32, will leave Ulster at the end of this season after the IRFU refused the province's request to extend his contract for another contract extension after seven years with the club.\nUlster need a victory to get their European hopes back on track after the concession of three late tries saw them losing Sunday's opener 28-13.\nKiss felt the turning point in Sunday's contest was just before half-time when prop Andrew Warwick knocked on when he seemed certain to score a second Ulster try which would have extended their lead to 15-3.\n\"If we put that try over the line, it's game over,\" added the Ulster boss.\n\"We've got to be a little more clinical and desperate to win those moments.\"\nThe Australian had no complaints with his team's commitment on Sunday but said the failure to clear their lines on a few occasions in the second half, when faced with Bordeaux pressure, had been punished.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"We were never going to put a big scoreline on them.\n\"We just gave them the access to our try-line for too long and when we tried to get out, we did it poorly a few times.\n\"That kept giving them a chance with their big forwards who hurt us.\"\nKiss knows that Ulster must regroup with a win in Saturday's second European game against Exeter to maintain realistic hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages with two games against French giants Clermont coming up later in Pool Five.\nClermont hammered the English Premiership side 35-8 at Sandy Park on Sunday as Exeter's early-season struggles continued.\nExeter reached last season's Premiership final but they have lost three of their opening six games in their domestic competition.", "summary": "Ruan Pienaar could still feature in Ulster's European game against Exeter on Saturday after fears that he sustained a knee injury in Sunday's defeat by Bordeaux eased." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Michael Spink, 24, died in an accident in New Zealand in January.\nThe 24-year-old member of Knaresborough Young Farmers has been honoured by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society with an accolade in his name.\nThe Michael Spink Memorial Perpetual Trophy will be presented at the 159th Great Yorkshire Show on 11 July. The event attracts about 130,000 visitors.\nThe cup is to be given to the winner of the Ayrshire Heifer Champion exhibit.\nJane Spink, his mother, said: \"Mike absolutely loved the Great Yorkshire Show and he would have loved to have had his name on an Ayrshire trophy.\n\"This is something really positive for us and we are so honoured to have a trophy dedicated to him.\"\nMr Spink had travelled to work on a diary farm in New Zealand in June 2016.\nHe died when he was hit by a car while walking along State Highway 27 near Matamata in the country's North Island after his car went into a ditch, according to the New Zealand Herald.\nThe Great Yorkshire Show will be held between 11 and 13 July on the Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, North Yorkshire.\nShow director Charles Mills, said: \"It has been incredible to see how the farming community has come together to support Mike's family.\"", "summary": "A new trophy in memory of a North Yorkshire farmer is to be presented at this year's Great Yorkshire Show." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Christopher McMultan, 40, and Brian Martin, 57, are accused of entering the Kinfauns House home of Sarah Gloag in January, assaulting her and her husband and stealing £4,000 in cash and jewellery.\nLawyers for the pair entered not guilty pleas on their behalf.\nThey will stand trial on 11 November at the High Court in Edinburgh.\nProsecutors alleged McMultan and Martin tied up Mrs Gloag - step-daughter of Scotland's richest woman Ann Gloag - along with her husband Sundeep Salins and two children, and brandished knives at them during the raid on 19 January.\nThey are also accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice, by failing to stop their car when ordered to by police and throwing a bag of jewellery from the alleged raid out of the window.\nProsecutors also claim they refused to leave their cells at Perth police station to have their fingerprints and photographs taken.\nThe men are further charged with carrying out a similar assault and robbery a day earlier in Crieff, allegedly tying up a man and a woman before taking a bank card and using it to obtain £200 from an ATM.\nDuring a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Lord Burns continued the case for trial in November. The trial is expected to last up to nine days.", "summary": "Two men are to stand trial accused of robbing relatives of Stagecoach tycoon Ann Gloag in their Perthshire home." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Army spokesman Maj Gen Wuryanto said the halt came into force in December and a broad range of activities were affected, including joint training.\nAustralian Defence officials confirmed Indonesia had halted all defence co-operation over \"teaching materials\".\nBilateral relations have been tense at times in recent years, although there were recent signs of improvement.\n\"All forms of co-operation with the Australian military, including joint training, have been temporarily withheld. I hope it can be resolved as soon as possible,\" Maj Gen Wuryanto said.\nAustralia's Defence Minister Marise Payne said later in a statement: \"Late last year concerns were raised by an Indonesian TNI (Indonesian National Armed Forces) officer about some teaching materials and remarks at an Army language training facility in Australia.\"\n\"The Australian Army has looked into the serious concerns that were raised and the investigation into the incident is being finalised.\"\n'Offensive material'\nIndonesian special forces group Kopassus trains with the Special Air Service in Perth, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).\nAn Indonesian newspaper, Kompas, reported that a Kopassus instructor had found \"laminated material\" at the training facility which he considered to be offensive to the Indonesia's founding principle of Pancasila.\nWhen asked about this, Maj Gen Wuryanto said there were many reasons for the suspension, without giving further details.\nThe countries' navies had been expected to take part in multinational training exercises next month.\n\"Whether or not we will continue with the joint exercise, I will have to get back to you on that,\" First Admiral Jonias Mozes Sipasulta, from the Indonesian navy, told the ABC.\nAustralia has stopped conducting joint training exercises with the Kopassus before, after accusations of abuses by the unit in East Timor in 1999 in the lead-up to the former Indonesian territory's independence.\nThe co-operation resumed in 2006 amid a renewed focus on counterterrorism after two Bali nightclubs were bombed in 2002, killing 202 people including 88 Australians.\nIn addition to the 2013 allegations of Australian spying, ties were also strained in 2015 following Indonesia's executions of Australian drug smugglers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, and its criticism of Australia's border protection policy.\nIn December 2015, the nations signed a \"memorandum of understanding\" after Indonesia arrested nine people over an alleged terror threat following a tip-off that reportedly came from Australian Federal Police.\nIn September last year, the first joint training exercise on Australian soil since 1995 was staged in the northern city of Darwin.\nIn November, the nations flagged the prospect of joint military patrols in the South China Sea - something Australia already does with the US and India.\nAustralian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said at the time that maritime co-operation between the nations was strong and included training and personnel exchanges.", "summary": "Indonesia has suspended all military co-operation with Australia, saying \"a lot of things needed to be improved\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former Oasis star will be joined by electronic music band Hot Chip and former Brit Award winners Bastille, the organisers have revealed.\nDavid Bowie Reimagined is also set to perform songs spanning the iconic singer's career.\nThe festival in the Italianate village of Portmeirion will mark its fifth birthday in September.\nOrganisers said Bastille will headline on Friday and Hot Chip on Saturday night, while Gallagher will close the festival on Sunday.\nFestival founder Gareth Cooper said: \"This is year five and it just keeps getting better and better.\"\nThe event runs from 1-4 September.", "summary": "Noel Gallagher has been named as one of the headline acts for this year's Festival No.6 in Gwynedd." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In Wales, 56% of GPs either planned on reducing their hours or quitting during the next five years, a poll by the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) found.\nWhen the long hours, intensity and pressure got too much for Dr Rachael Watson, 48, she quit her surgery to become a baker and part-time GP locum.\nShe was about to become a partner in a GP practice in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, when the reality of what she was about to commit to hit her.\n\"I felt like I was going to jump into a black hole where my family life and personal life would get swallowed up,\" said Dr Watson.\n\"I never wanted to give being a GP up, I wanted something to run in parallel to get a bit more balance.\n\"When I started there was time to speak to the other GPs to discuss complicated issues, but now that has gone.\n\"On one day I worked out I had some kind of contact with 107 patients. That's seven minutes a patient.\"\nThe Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in Wales has pointed to a \"desperate workplace crisis\" with too many GPs leaving on the one hand and a slump in the young medical graduates looking to train as GPs.\nAs doctors retire, six GP partnerships in north Wales have already had to be taken over by the local health board.\nDr Watson said the long hours and stresses placed on GPs are putting off young doctors from going into the job.\n\"You work exceedingly long days, which can be 12-and-a-half hours long,\" said Dr Watson.\n\"I was doing two-and-a-half days, and on the days I was doing half days I started at 8.30am and finished at 3pm. That's a part of general practice.\n\"Mine was a generation of GPs who just get on and do it, the new generation of GPs can see that a life and work balance is really important.\n\"But it is not just the long days, it is the intensity and pressure on those ten minute appointments. There is no time for reflection. Some of the decisions you make there were difficult and there was no time for that level of consideration.\n\"There is so little time to discuss or reflect. There is very little time to deal with the sadness you come across as a GP, and you end up taking more home with you than is healthy.\n\"Part of the thing I loved about being a GP was really listening to patients and feeling that they had been listened to and sorted out and treating them as I would want my family to be treated. But if you do that you end up going home late and being tired.\"\nNow Dr Watson does one-and-a-half days as a GP locum and runs a business teaching bread baking.\n\"I have always loved food, and my sister taught me how to bake bread when I was a teenager,\" said Dr Watson.\n\"But I really enjoy being a locum too. I don't have to do any of the paperwork, I'm finished by 6.30pm rather than 8pm or 9pm. I go in and do my job and the enjoyment has returned.\n\"Now I have the freedom to go in and be a really nice GP.\"", "summary": "With 84% of GPs concerned they may miss a serious problem with a patient due to their workload, it is not surprising some choose to leave the profession." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "At least 35 firefighters tackled the blaze which broke out in a roof just before 19:00 on Tuesday.\nThere was nobody in the building at the time. Crews worked through the night to bring the fire under control and to assess the damage.\nEdinburgh city council said funerals have been postponed for the rest of the week.", "summary": "A fire at the Mortonhall Crematorium in Edinburgh has badly damaged one of its buildings, firefighters have confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Laidlaw, 31, suffered an ankle injury in the first half of the 22-16 defeat by France last weekend.\nThe Gloucester scrum-half left the Stade de France on crutches on Sunday and his injury was assessed following his return.\nScottish Rugby confirmed the 58-time capped player sustained ligament damage against the French.\n\"The extent of the damage is such that he will take no further part in the current championship,\" Scottish Rugby added in a statement.\n\"Laidlaw will see a specialist later in the week to determine the best course of management and estimated time out of the sport.\"\nLaidlaw was replaced by Glasgow's Ali Price in Paris. John Barclay, who took over as captain, also departed with a head knock before half-time, only for his replacement John Hardie to suffer the same fate early in the second half.\nScotland hooker Ross Ford believes the side will be able to \"shoulder the burden\" without their injured captain.\n\"Greig's a massive part of the squad and he's a great leader,\" said Ford.\n\"But we've got a leadership group together that's been there helping Greig out.\n\"Whatever does happen, the boys will be able to step up and take that role on and move forward.\n\"We do it as a group and Greig's the focal point, but we've got a group of leaders there who can shoulder the burden and take it on.\"\nSpeaking on Saturday before he knew the extent of his injury, Scotland head coach Vern Cotter said: \"Greig has a big part to play as captain and half-back, but Ali played well when he came on and the guys behind adapted well.\n\"These things do happen and we had trained for it. John Barclay and John Hardie both had head injury assessments so we will have to wait and see how they come through the return-to-play protocols.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device", "summary": "Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw has been ruled out for the rest of the Six Nations through injury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "After a rain-delayed start, an innings-best partnership of 91 between Will Smith (93) and Gareth Berg (50) carried the hosts' score past 400.\nNeil Dexter claimed four of the five wickets to fall in the day with his medium pace to achieve figures of 5-64.\nJoe Burns (38) edged the penultimate ball of the day behind to leave Middlesex 102-3, still 311 runs behind.\nRain meant that play got under way at 14:15 BST and Hampshire lost Sean Ervine early on when he was bowled by Toby Roland-Jones after adding just one run.\nThat brought Gareth Berg to the crease and the former Middlesex man hit five fours and one six on his way to a first fifty for his new side, before he was caught in the deep trying to take on Dexter.\nThe medium-pacer then removed Smith with a bouncer seven runs short of his first Championship century of the season to expose Hampshire's tail.\nDexter dismissed Fidel Edwards and James Tomlinson to complete his third first-class five wicket haul and end the innings.\nHampshire began brightly with the ball and debutant Brad Wheal produced a quick delivery which nipped back to bowl Sam Robson, before Edwards struck with his first delivery to pin Nick Gubbins lbw.\nThe away side appeared to have weathered the early pressure but with the partnership worth 69 runs and Nick Compton 32 not out, Burns edged Ervine to Adam Wheater to underline the hosts' ascendency.", "summary": "Division One table-toppers Middlesex endured a difficult second day against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The city authorities signed a deal with start-up nuTonomy to test autonomous vehicles in March.\nNow Delphi Automotive will also offer a small fleet of automated taxis to carry passengers around a business park.\nThe driverless cabs could reduce an average $3-a-mile ride to 90 cents, the firm said.\nInitially, the cars will have drivers, ready to take over if the system fails but the plan is to gradually phase the human out in 2019.\nThe small fleet of six Audi vehicles will travel along a 3.5 mile (5.6km) route in One North, a business district in the city.\nBy 2019, the plan is to have fully autonomous cars without steering wheels but they will only be tested with a \"controlled group of people,\" according to the firm.\nThe pilot ends in 2020 with a view to rolling out a wider deployment after that.\nThe cars will be fitted with software that will allow commuters to book them, in a similar way to ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft.\nDelphi Automotive is a vehicle electronics supplier and last year conducted a coast-to-coast demonstration of self-driving cars in the US.\nIt plans to announce similar pilot programmes in the US and Europe, later this year, it said.\n\"We are starting in a fairly small controlled manner but the expectation is we will continue to build. Starting with a small pilot and then moving to an operational fleet of 30, 40 or 50 vehicles with that continuing to expand,\" said Delphi's vice-president of services Glen De Vos.\n\"It will get a lot of attention and that is good because it helps socialise the technology.\"\nThe Singapore authorities are looking to driverless vehicles to address the growing problems of congestion in the city.\nStart-up nuTonomy, which is an offshoot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hopes to have a fleet of between five and 10 electric cars running in the same business district by 2018.", "summary": "Singapore is gearing up to become the world's first \"smart nation\", with another deal to bring self-drive taxis to the city." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ministers decided in an emergency meeting to give local municipalities the authority to treat local waste.\nProtests triggered by rotting rubbish in Beirut quickly grew into a wider attack on the perceived corruption and incompetence of politicians.\nDemonstrators earlier pelted eggs at politicians' cars outside parliament.\nBreaking the deadlock, Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayeb approved on Wednesday a deal that devolves waste management duties to municipalities - a central demand of the protesters - and authorises the opening of two new landfills.\nThe rubbish crisis began after the country's largest landfill in Naameh, south of Beirut, shut down in July with no ready alternative. The government has been unable to agree on another site until now.\nAs part of Wednesday's agreement, Naameh landfill will also be temporarily reopened to dispose of any rubbish that remains there.\nBut political parties meeting at an earlier \"national dialogue\" session could not come to agreement on how to elect a new president. The post has been vacant since May 2014, contributing to the months-long political paralysis. Another meeting was scheduled for next week.\nProtesters gathered outside the parliament building as politicians arrived for the meeting, some of them pelting eggs at their vehicles shouting \"thieves, thieves, get out!\"\nSecurity was heightened in anticipation of the protests, with metal barricades erected outside parliament and armoured vehicles lining the streets.\nOutside the parliament building, activists pinned a large banner onto barbed wire showing the photos of the 128 members of parliament with the words in Arabic: \"You have failed in everything...Go home.\"\nDemonstrators also blockaded a major coastal road leading into Beirut.\nThousands of people have joined the \"You Stink\" campaign in recent weeks, blaming political paralysis and corruption for the government's failure to resolve the rubbish crisis.\nLebanon has been without a president for more than a year, while members of parliament have extended their own terms until 2017 after failing to agree on a law on fresh elections.\nThe conflict in neighbouring Syria has also exacerbated political and sectarian divisions, and resulted in the arrival of 1.1 million refugees, putting a strain on the economy and public services.", "summary": "The Lebanese government has agreed to resume waste disposal after weeks of protests over piles of rubbish left in the streets of the capital Beirut." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Cameron said it would be better not to have to resort to new taxes but said that \"what matters is we do make progress\" on obesity.\nThe PM was speaking to journalists following reports a tax on sugary drinks was being considered.\nNumber 10 previously said he \"doesn't see a need for a tax on sugar\".\nIn October a report by Public Health England recommended a tax of between 10 and 20% on high-sugar products as one of the measures needed to achieve a \"meaningful\" reduction in sugar consumption.\nCelebrity chef Jamie Oliver has also campaigned for such a move, while a new study in the British Medical Journal said Mexico's sugary drinks tax led to a 12% reduction in sales.\nAsked at a press conference in Hungary whether he was ready to reverse his previous opposition to the policy, Mr Cameron said: \"I don't really want to put new taxes onto anything but we do have to recognise that we face potentially in Britain something of an obesity crisis when we look at the effect of obesity on not just diabetes but the effect on heart disease, potentially on cancer.\"\nThe PM said the government would come up with a \"fully worked-up programme\" to tackle obesity, with details announced later this year.\nHe added: \"We shouldn't be in the business of ruling things out but obviously putting extra taxes on things is not something I aim to do, it's something I would rather avoid.\"\nA Downing Street spokeswoman said more needed to be done to reduce obesity and urged the food and drink industry to develop more alternative products that do not have high sugar levels.\nThe Food and Drink Federation has said it does not agree evidence supports the introduction of a tax on sugary products and that industry is \"determined\" to help tackle childhood obesity.", "summary": "Prime Minister David Cameron says he does not want to rule out introducing a sugar tax in order to tackle Britain's \"obesity crisis\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Here's Tom Katsumi's election night (and morning) in 10 tweets.\nThe team settles in...\nParty colours are allocated.\nHoughton and Sunderland South becomes the first constituency to declare, announcing at 22:48 BST.\nThe evening's stitching starts off at a slow and steady pace...\nBut it quickly becomes hard to keep up with the flurry of results...\nLabour held many of the first seats, with successes in the north continuing to come in.\nThe unprecedented shift to the SNP in Scotland became clear - they ended up with 56 of Scotland's 59 seats.\nMuch of London went to Labour.\nA quick nap...\nCatching up on the Conservative south.", "summary": "As the political map of the UK changes colour, one man has made it his mission to cross-stitch the election." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Peter Stuart McElroy, 29, appeared before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\nMcElroy, of no fixed abode, was arrested in March, after police were called to Donegall Place following reports of a man begging in the street.\nHe admitted four charges linked to two separate incidents he was involved in earlier this year.\nA prosecuting lawyer said that McElroy was observed approaching a number of females, some of whom opened their bags and gave him items.\nWhen he was arrested and cautioned, he made no reply.\nPolice were called to the same area of the city centre in April. It was reported that a group of men were acting suspiciously outside McDonald's restaurant.\nOfficers saw an object being dropped on the ground.\nMcElroy was standing beside the object, which the court heard was a knife with a four-inch blade, and as he was being arrested, tried to headbutt an officer.\nHe continued to struggle as he was being handcuffed and tried to spit in an officer's face.\nThe prosecutor said the incident occurred in a busy area of the city where \"members of the public were present, including children.\"\nHe was charged with disorderly behaviour, assaulting police and resisting police.\nHis defence lawyer said his client was a heroin addict who was currently on the waiting list for a place in rehabilitation and that he was not charged with any offences linked to the knife.\nThe judge handed McElroy concurrent two-month sentences on each of the four charges. A three-month suspended sentence was also activated, meaning he will serve a sentence of three months.", "summary": "A heroin addict who was caught begging in Belfast city centre has been jailed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "15 February 2017 Last updated at 12:48 GMT\nThe new trilogy is called The Book of Dust and the first novel will come out in October although the title of that book hasn't been released yet.\nPhillip Pullman's first book in the His Dark Materials series was Northern Lights which came out in 1995.\nThe His Dark Materials trilogy sold more than 17.5 million copies and was translated into 40 languages.\nThe new series will once again be about the story of Lyra Belacqua and will begin when she is a baby and move on to when she is 20 years old later in the series.\nClick on the video and to watch Mr Pullman talking about it...", "summary": "After 17 years author Phillip Pullman has announced that he will be releasing a follow-up to the His Dark Materials books." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Kaikai scored five goals in 14 League One games for Shrewsbury earlier this term after joining on a four-month loan deal in September.\nThe 20-year-old has made one appearance for Premier League club Palace, but has not featured this season.\n\"We have got a really talented player in the building,\" Shrewsbury manager Micky Mellon told BBC Radio Shropshire.\n\"He's still our top goalscorer- that's how valuable he was to us.\n\"He's a good kid, he was very, very keen to come back.\"\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "Shrewsbury Town have re-signed winger Sullay Kaikai on loan from Crystal Palace until the end of the season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hamilton was 0.291 seconds slower than Rosberg, with Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo splitting the Mercedes.\nRosberg heads Hamilton by 33 points in the championship with 100 still available in the remaining four races.\nHamilton badly needs to win in Austin in Sunday to revive his rapidly faltering hopes of retaining his title.\nFinal practice is at 16:00 BST on Saturday, with qualifying at 19:00.\nThe world champion was fastest in first practice, in which he was impressive in setting a rapid initial pace and maintaining an advantage throughout as Rosberg closed in.\nHamilton looked quick in the first stages of second practice, lapping within 0.3secs of Rosberg on the first runs, despite using the slower medium tyre while the German was on the soft.\nBut his qualifying simulation run on the super-soft tyre did not go as well.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nHowever, Hamilton was evenly matched with Rosberg on the race-simulation runs in the second part of the session, when Ricciardo was marginally faster than both Mercedes drivers on the super-soft tyres.\n\"Ricciardo has had a great day,\" said team principal Christian Horner. \"His short-run pace has been very strong, his long-run pace has been strong.\n\"Mercedes are favourites going into the grand prix but if we can get within 0.1secs or so we can put a bit of pressure on in the race.\"\nFerrari's Sebastian Vettel was fourth fastest, ahead of Ricciardo's team-mate Max Verstappen and the Force Indias of Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez.\nMcLaren drivers Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso were eighth and ninth, ahead of Vettel's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, who made a mistake on his flying lap.\nThe Finn incurred the wrath of both Alonso and Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat, who both felt he was obstructive on track at various points of the session.\nRenault's Jolyon Palmer, fighting for his future in F1, had a spin and managed 17th fastest time, five places and 0.2secs behind team-mate Kevin Magnussen.\nUS Grand Prix Second practice\nUS Grand Prix coverage details", "summary": "Lewis Hamilton was only third fastest in second practice at the US Grand Prix as Mercedes team-mate and title rival Nico Rosberg set the pace." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hall is expected to be sidelined for six to nine months and will return to Bolton for treatment.\nThe 22-year-old, who has spent this season with the Dons, sustained the injury during a training session.\nHe has scored twice in 32 appearances during his loan spell and previously played 35 times for Bolton.", "summary": "MK Dons' on-loan Bolton midfielder Rob Hall faces a long spell out of action after suffering a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Simon Buckden, 44, got more than £7,500 in money and services after pretending to have rectal cancer.\nHe also claimed to have served in the SAS and seen active duty in Bosnia and both Gulf Wars.\nBuckden, from Leeds, denied six counts of fraud but on the fifth day of his trial changed his plea to guilty.\nLive updates and more from across West Yorkshire\nBuckden hit the headlines after announcing he would run 100 marathons in 100 weeks to raise awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and money for Help for Heroes.\nDuring the challenge he announced he had cancer but would continue running.\nHowever, medical records revealed he had never been diagnosed with the disease.\nLeeds Crown Court heard Buckden, who took part in the Olympic torch relay in the run up to the 2012 London Olympic Games, was a military clerk and had never experienced frontline duty.\nAmong those he defrauded, Richard McCann - whose mother, Wilma, was killed by the Yorkshire Ripper - gave Buckden a free place on a speaking course.\nHe was also given free therapy sessions, a publicity film, and received £2,000 for a holiday and around £1,500 to set up a social enterprise.\nProsecutor Craig Hassell said \"people were, naturally, moved by his story and moved to try to help him\".\nEx-serviceman Phil Lee, who was also conned, said Buckden's actions were damaging to genuine veterans.\n\"Lots of guys who I served with, who are genuine veterans, are deeply offended by these characters who proclaim to have served in many parts of the world or worked with special forces when it's fairly clear they were nowhere near,\" he said.\n\"It brings the reputation of veterans down and it's something we can genuinely do without.\"\nBuckden, of of Landseer Way, Bramley, Leeds, is due to be sentenced on Monday.", "summary": "A former military clerk who fabricated tales of frontline service has admitted he lied about having cancer to swindle thousands of pounds." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Reverend Jeffrey Steenson, a former Episcopalian Bishop, will head the Personal Ordinariate based in Texas, the Vatican announced.\nThe body was set up to allow Anglicans to join the Catholic Church, whilst keeping some Anglican traditions.\nThe first Ordinariate was established in Britain last year.\nThe Personal Ordinariate was created by the Pope mainly for Anglicans who oppose the direction Anglicanism was taking, such as moves in some countries to allow the ordination of women and gay bishops.\nIt allows Anglicans to become Catholic in groups or as parishes, where previously, converts were accepted on a case-by-case basis.\nRev Steenson, a father of three, was an Episcopalian Bishop in New Mexico before stepping down in 2007 after the Church elected its first openly gay bishop.\nMarried Anglican priests who convert to Catholicism are exempted from the Catholic Church's celibacy rule, but cannot be bishops in the Catholic Church.\nOther ordinariates are being considered in Australia and Canada.", "summary": "Pope Benedict XVI has appointed an American married priest to head the first US structure for Anglicans converting to Roman Catholicism." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "As well as a nightly news bulletin, there will be entertainment pieces from the area covering things such as lifestyle, sport and the Welsh language.\nMade in North Wales follows the launch of other regional networks, such as those in Cardiff and Liverpool.\nIt will be available on Freeview channel eight and Virgin 159.", "summary": "A new 24-hour television channel dedicated to north Wales is set to launch on 26 April." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The cache - thought to date from about 30-50 BC - was found in Jersey by two metal detector enthusiasts after a 30-year search sparked by a tip-off.\nExperts from Jersey Heritage removed the coins one by one from the field in Grouville for three years, with the last set extracted on Friday.\nThey said there was still work to do, such as cleaning and logging the finds.\nMore on the coin story, and other news from around the Channel Islands\n\"This is a significant milestone for the team,\" said Neil Mahrer, senior conservator. \"It has been painstaking but thoroughly intriguing work, which has delivered some very unexpected and amazing finds along the way.\n\"There is still plenty to do, and I am sure the hoard will continue to surprise us as we clean and record the material.\"\nThe hoard is believed to have been buried by the Coriosolitae tribe of Celts as they fled from the invading forces of the Roman Empire.\nIt was excavated by a team from the Societe Jersiais, Jersey Heritage and Guernsey Museum in 2012.\nKnown as Catillon II, the Iron Age coin hoard is about six times bigger than any other Celtic hoard found in the world.\nIt also includes a large number of gold neck torques and other pieces of jewellery, as well as glass beads, a leather purse and a woven bag of silver and gold work.\nNow the hoard has been separated, it will be valued and Jersey's government will vote on whether to pay to keep it on the island.\nWhen it was first discovered, its value was estimated at about £10m.\nReg Mead and Richard Miles spent three decades searching in fields near where it was found after being told folk tales of ancient coins being found nearby.\nIt was unearthed in 2012 and quickly made headlines around the world because it was said it could change the way experts view Iron Age trade.\nMr Miles said: \"There was something there that drew us to it. Every Sunday, we would give it a try.\n\"The original story said the pot had been discovered on the tree line and we saw on old maps an old boundary that had been taken out.\n\"I found the first coin - and by the end of the first day we found 20 coins.\n\"Gradually, the tally began to climb.\"\nThat led them to find the hoard even deeper in the ground.\n\"We were literally scooping out the earth it was so deep,\" said Mr Miles.\n\"Reg said 'Give it one final try' and he forced the spade into the ground as deeply as he could and it struck something solid.\n\"You could hear the metal [striking the] hoard.\"", "summary": "The last of nearly 70,000 coins has been removed from one of the largest Celtic hoards in the world." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "This summer my husband and I spent some time in Spain.\nThe day we arrived, a really good friend took us to the beach.\nShe's a hijabi but as a fellow lover of the sea, she wouldn't let that get in the way.\nAnd why should it?\nHer children and I changed into our swimsuits, and she into her burkini, which was basically a surfing wet suit.\nShe covered her hair and off we went. We swam, raced, dived and laughed our hearts out.\nThen we came out to dry up.\nThere were people all around us lying on the sand - sunbathing in their bikinis, tankini one-piece suits and some chose to take their tops off completely.\nBut guess who got the most looks on the beach that day?\nYes, my friend in the burkini.\nSome looks were inquisitive; others were just unfriendly.\nFortunately, she's strong and confident and brushed it all off with a laugh.\nWe were out having fun. And the burkini meant that my friend and I could go swimming together.\nThat was it. She wasn't making a political or religious statement.\nShe wanted to swim and she did.\nBut somehow being a covered woman on the beach for religious reasons still grants you negative attention and not just in Western countries.\nThe burkini has been in my life for years, except that it wasn't called a burkini when I was growing up in Egypt.\nI was born in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.\nI remember fun summer days on the beach either in my hometown or somewhere on the north coast of Egypt long before it became trendy, exclusive and ridiculously expensive.\nFor a while, it would be me my father, my uncles and my cousins swimming.\nMy mother and aunties, all of whom wore the hijab or head cover, would never swim.\nUntil one time they did.\nThey'd all put on what looked to me like gym clothes with long T-shirts and head covers.\nIt didn't matter - what mattered to us was that they joined us in the water.\nBut it wasn't really that simple.\nWhat I hadn't realised as a child was that they only did that when we were on a fairly empty beach.\nI also hadn't realised at the time that there was a class divide between women who went to swim \"in their clothes\", as a friend described it to me, and others who wore bathing suits.\nSomehow, being a hijabi on the beach put you in a lower class.\nYou weren't as open-minded - you were part of the Saudi-isation or Islamisation of Egypt.\nBut the number of women who wore the hijab grew all over the world.\nI'd seen endless variations of the burkini before it actually had a name. I wore the hijab for 10 years before I took it off two years ago.\nI certainly tried one or two of those variations before I bought my first burkini.\nSomeone had finally clocked the gap in the market.\nI remember covering a story about halal holidays in Turkey. I followed a British Muslim family as they enjoyed the sun and sea, and how the mother wearing her burkini had, for the first time, enjoyed swimming with her children.\n\"We can't do that back in the UK,\" she told me. \"I wouldn't feel comfortable. I'd stand out,\" she said.\nSo this summer, apart from the looks and the general feeling of awkwardness that women in burkinis feel, the Mayor of Cannes David Lisnard took it up a notch.\nHe banned the thing altogether.\nHe said: \"Beachwear which displays religious affiliation is liable to create risks of disrupting public order.\"\nA strong statement for a garment with some extra bits of Lycra, I thought.\nWhat kind of risks to public order would my friend pose if she decided to swim in Cannes?\nWhat risk to public order did she pose when she went swimming in Spain?\nI kept thinking.\nWhy would sitting next to someone in a burkini be more offensive than sitting next to someone in a bikini?\nNo one has come up with a convincing answer yet.\nBut living your life while female-covered-and-Muslim has yet again become a political issue - an issue of public order, which has eventually become a cause of public disorder.\nIt was reported that when young men in Corsica decided to take photos of women in burkinis, violence erupted.\nI don't know how beachgoers in the French Riviera see the burkini.\nThey may see it as a form of oppression.\nIt may disturb the vast canvas of sun-kissed skin around them.\nBut to me, as someone who wore it for years, it has always meant that I could swim, and in that was a freedom that I still remember and am still grateful for.\nYou can hear Shaimaa Khalil's report on The World This Week on BBC World Service. The programme is also available as a podcast.", "summary": "As the row over the ban on burkinis - full-body swimsuits - on some French beaches continues, the BBC's Pakistan correspondent asks why some people find the garment so offensive." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She stares in silent protest, a symbol of the estimated 200,000 women were forced to work for the prostitution corps of the Japanese army during World War Two.\nBut the 1.5m (5ft) statue is suddenly drawing international anger.\nLast week, a Japanese lobby group lodged a racial discrimination complaint with the Human Rights Commission in a bid to remove the statue from Ashfield Uniting Church in Sydney's inner west.\nYou might also like:\nThe complaint states: \"This hurtful historical symbol is detrimental to the local community and will only result in generating offence and racial hate.\"\nBut the Reverend Bill Crews, who agreed to host the statue this year, says he will not be intimidated by legal threats.\n\"I just say bring it on,\" he says. \"It's about the way women get treated in war. It's not anti-Japanese.\"\nTensions between Japan and South Korea over the so-called comfort women reignited in 2011 when activists installed an identical statue opposite the Japanese embassy in Seoul.\nMemorials have since been placed in 40 cities in South Korea, seven in the United States and one in Canada. This is the first erected in Australia.\nThe Japanese government has repeatedly apologised and offered compensation for its painful legacy.\nThe group opposed to the statue, the Australia-Japan Community Network (AJCN), does not dispute historical facts. But it argues the memorial inflames racial tensions.\n\"We are taking action only because the statue is designed to be a symbol of anti-Japan demonstrations,\" said the network's president, Tetsuhide Yamaoka, in a statement from Tokyo.\n\"We are a totally independent local group of mothers and fathers worried about the welfare of their children in Australia.\"\nMr Yamaoka claimed similar statues had spurred bullying in the United States, giving examples of Japanese children being spat at or told they were an \"evil race\".\nThe Korean community group behind the statue, the Peace Statue Establishing Committee, denies having an anti-Japan agenda.\n\"I don't think the Japanese are willing to accept what they've done in the past,\" said Vivian Pak, the committee's president.\n\"All we want is to let the world know the truth and that these crimes, these atrocities, should never be repeated.\"\nThe statue was originally meant for a park in nearby Strathfield, but the council rejected it following a petition that gained more than 16,000 signatures.\nThe AJCN is pursuing its claim through a controversial section of Australia's Racial Discrimination Act.\nThe law outlaws behaviour likely to \"offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate\" people on the basis of race, colour or ethnic origin.\nBut Prof Simon Rice, from the Australian National University, says only a \"tiny percentage\" of such cases make it to court.\n\"The law has been there for 20 years,\" he says. \"Even if there is a spike in complaints, if those complaints are vexatious or frivolous, they are just not going to get anywhere.\"\nMeanwhile, Mr Crews says lawyers have offered to defend the case pro-bono.\nHe also said the statue would not be moved.\n\"It's finally found a home.\"", "summary": "Outside a church in suburban Sydney sits a bronze sculpture of a young Korean girl in traditional dress." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Smokers caught flicking their stub on the pavement now face a €68 (£50) fine.\nAn estimated 350 tonnes of cigarettes are discarded on the streets of Paris each year, city officials say.\nFrance's ban on smoking in public places was extended to include bars and restaurants in 2008. About 28% of people in France are regular smokers - a relatively high rate for the EU.\nSome observers say the ban in bars and restaurants has increased littering as smokers are forced outside.\nCigarette butts can take years to decompose, during which time they release heavy metals and pollutants.\n\"These toxic substances are harmful to surrounding flora and fauna, and when swept or thrown into gutters they also pollute the water,\" the city authorities said in a statement.\nOn Thursday, the fine for dropping cigarette butts increased from €35 to €68.\nOther measures planned for the city include distributing some 15,000 pocket ashtrays free of charge to Parisians and visitors.\nParis mayor Anne Hidalgo has made it her mission to target \"incivility\" on the capital's streets, boosting powers for officials to fine people for anti-social behaviour and setting out plans to banish cars in certain areas.\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the high rate of tobacco use in Europe means that it has one of the highest proportions globally of deaths caused by smoking.\nIt says more people smoke in France than EU member states including Italy, Portugal and the UK.\nSpain and Greece have higher rates, according to its report.\nTobacco kills more than 73,000 people in France every year, according to the ministry of health.", "summary": "Stricter measures to stop people dropping cigarette butts on the streets of Paris have come into force." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The number 91 bus hit the trees on Kingsway, near the London School of Economics (LSE) building, in Holborn.\nLondon Ambulance Service said two people were taken to hospital with facial injuries. Two others were treated for minor injuries.\nKingsway was closed between the Great Queen Street and A4 Aldwych junctions, but has since re-opened.\nAt the scene, London Fire Brigade station manager, Gary Squires, said: \"Those involved were very lucky to escape serious injury.\"\nLSE student Ethan Meade said he turned around when he heard a crash.\n\"I saw the roof fall down off the side of the bus and the glass shatter everywhere.\n\"The passengers seemed to be sitting there pretty stunned, as you'd expect. Police seemed to handle it very well.\"", "summary": "The roof of a bus has been ripped off after it hit overhanging trees in central London." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Families, students and mosque leaders joined the #notinmyname demonstration, in the city centre.\nFormer government diversity advisor Dr Waqar Azmi, told them: \"For far too long now we have had terrorists from all countries trying to define us.\n\"We refuse to allow them to represent us. This is not in our name.\"\nKhalid Masood killed four people and injured 50 when he drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster bridge before stabbing PC Keith Palmer on Wednesday.\nThe 52-year-old, who was born in Kent, had most recently been living in Birmingham and, with seven people from the city arrested in the wake of the killings, much has been made of the area's links to terrorism.\nBut, former councillor Salma Yaqoob, who helped organise the demonstration, told the crowds the city did not deserve such a reputation.\nShe spoke of the fatal stabbing of MP Jo Cox by Thomas Mair, in Birstall, West Yorkshire.\n\"No one asked the question, 'What's wrong with Yorkshire, producing these terrorists?'\n\"Stop bashing Birmingham, and stop bashing Muslims,\" she added, to a huge round of applause.\nIt was organised by the Muslim community, but the rally attracted people from a range of faiths.\nRecalling the events outside Westminster on Wednesday, Mona Elshazly said she had wondered how to tell her daughters, aged five and six, what had happened.\n\"We talk about things as a family. I picked them up from school, and I told them that a police officer had been stabbed trying to save people.\n\"They were sad. They like the police. They visit them in school.\" It was enough for her youngest daughter to pen PC Palmer a letter, which Ms Elshazly, 37, carried on her placard in Victoria Square alongside her eldest's tribute to Aysha Frade, who died after being hit by the car Masood drove.\n\"We are here to show solidarity,\" said the mother of two. \"It doesn't matter about religion - we are all human.\n\"We must come together as a community, we are stronger. These crimes are like a disease and together, we are the immune system.\"\nYasser Siddique, 32, of Alum Rock, said: \"What has happened, it is not from the teachings of Islam. These people are brainwashed.\n\"It does worry me that Birmingham is getting a bad reputation. But I think we can do more as a community and speak to faith leaders and the police.\n\"The faith leaders need to do all they can to educate and show the true message of Islam.\"\nThe event took place after more than 200 mosque and community leaders in the West Midlands signed an open letter condemning the attacks.\nIt reads: \"We in the Muslim community were shocked and saddened by the hatred we saw in the attack at the heart of our democracy.\n\"As a community we stand united in condemnation of those who sought to bring fear and division to the UK through this terrorist act.\n\"Now more than ever, it is crucial for community and faith leaders from across this diverse city to stand united against hatred and division.\"", "summary": "Hundreds of Muslims gathered in Birmingham to condemn the Westminster terror attack, which organisers vowed \"will not define us\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The writer, who has been based in Scotland since 1993, won the prize for The Book of Strange New Things.\nThe novel tells the story of a Christian pastor sent to a colonised planet to carry out missionary work among aliens.\nFaber previously won the Saltire First Book of the Year award in 2000 for his debut novel Under The Skin.\nThat book was adapted into a critically-acclaimed feature film in 2013, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Scarlett Johansson.\nHis 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White was dramatised as a four-part BBC television series in 2011, starring Romola Garai and Richard E Grant.\nCommenting on his win, Faber said: \"When I emigrated from Australia to a remote part of Scotland in 1993, I never expected that it would be the beginning rather than the end of my literary career.\n\"I'm so moved and grateful that this honour has been bestowed on my work. You've made an alien feel very welcome.\"\nThe Saltire Society Literary Awards celebrate \"literary and academic excellence\" across seven categories, with the winners of individual book categories going forward to be considered for the Saltire Book of the Year award.\nThe Book of Strange New Things has also won the 2015 Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year, beating competition from a shortlist that included the latest works from Irvine Welsh, Kate Atkinson and Gaelic language writer Norma Nicleoid.\nThe winners in other categories were:\nFaber collected both awards and a cash prize of £8,000 at a ceremony at the Central Hall in Edinburgh on Thursday.", "summary": "Dutch-born author Michel Faber has been named as the winner of this year's Saltire Book of the Year award." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Following the conclusion of her 17-month Prismatic World Tour, she earned $135m (£90m), which saw her jump from 23rd place last year.\nOne Direction lead the British top-earners at number two after their On the Road Again Tour and album release, with earnings of $130m (£86.7m)\nLast year's number one, Dr Dre, has dropped to 28.\nDre's earnings of $620m (£413m) in 2014 was the highest total amount by a musician ever, thanks to the sale of headphone maker Beats - which he co-founded - to Apple for $3 billion (£2 billion).\nOne Direction have been joined in the 2015 list by fellow Brits Calvin Harris and Fleetwood Mac.\nForbes has made the estimates based on industry information as well as interviews with managers and agents, along with data given by the artists themselves. It covers the period June 2014 to June 2015.\nMany of the artists on the list have earned their place thanks to extensive live tours which have taken place across the year.\nHere are the top 10 celebrities on the Forbes list:\n1. Katy Perry: $135m (£90m)\n2. One Direction: $130m (£86.7m)\n3. Garth Brooks: $90m (£60m)\n4. Taylor Swift: $80m (£53m)\n5. The Eagles: $73.5m (£49m)\n6. Calvin Harris: $66m (£44m)\n7. Justin Timberlake: $63.5m (£42m)\n8. Diddy: $60m (£40m)\n9. Fleetwood Mac: $59.5m (£39.6m)\n10. Lady Gaga: $59m (£39.3m)", "summary": "Katy Perry is the top-earning musician of 2015, according to Forbes' annual list." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Tweddle, 30, who retired from gymnastics in 2013, hit a barrier on landing and has quit the show.\nA family statement read: \"Beth had a fall on the slopes whilst in training for The Jump. She is stable and due to undergo routine surgery on her back.\"\nFellow Olympian Rebecca Adlington has also withdrawn because of injury.\nAdlington, 26, who won two swimming golds for Britain at the 2008 Olympics, suffered a shoulder injury and said she was \"so sad to be leaving\".\nHolby City actress Tina Hobley, 44, also pulled out of the show after dislocating her elbow and suffering two fractures to her arm.", "summary": "Olympic bronze medal-winning gymnast Beth Tweddle is \"stable\" in hospital after suffering a back injury on the Channel 4 reality show The Jump." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Already the chairman of the influential 1922 committee of Conservative MPs, Graham Brady, had warned ministers it would not get through parliament.\nThere was a danger of the political damage escalating.\nGeorge Osborne put these plans at the centre of his Budget in March.\nJust last week they were defended by David Cameron in Parliament.\nToday, when election results around the UK were dominating the news, Nicky Morgan had to front up the U-turn.\nAt her constituency office, on the aptly named School Street, she told me that, on reflection, it was right that schools should have the choice to become academies.\nThe 2022 deadline still stands she insisted, but schools will be persuaded, not pushed, to convert.\nThe end result will still be many more academies by 2020 when the next general election is due.\nThe government will press on with using its recent acquired powers to make schools classed as \"coasting\" into academies.\nThey will also consult on new powers to be brought forward in draft legislation in the autumn.\nAny local authority area where just a handful of schools are still not academies will be given no option but to convert.\nCouncils which are deemed to be chronically underperforming will also have their schools pushed over the line by the Regional Schools Commissioners who oversee the process.\nSo the arguments aren't over, but the government has turned the heat down from a rolling boil, to a simmer.", "summary": "The chorus of opposition was getting louder, the climbdown, when it came, was massive but inevitable." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Environment Department has received \"considerable public feedback\" in the past 18 months.\nBut any further suggestions will be explored before a contract to run the service from April is signed.\nThe contract of CT Plus ends in March and the tendering process for a five-year contract to take over the service begins at the end of the month.\nThe introduction of a two-tier fare system in May 2013 was heavily criticised and scrapped earlier this month.\nUnder the States transport strategy the bus service will be free for 18 months as a trial.\nComments have to be submitted by 4 July and can be emailed to env@gov.gg.", "summary": "Islanders are being asked to suggest ideas to improve the bus service in Guernsey." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Newcastle City Council refused planning permission to the development near Kenton School in September 2014.\nMcDonald's had launched an appeal but has now withdrawn it after the council changed its planning policy.\nHundreds opposed the restaurant saying it would encourage children from the school to eat unhealthily.\nA McDonald's spokeswoman said the firm was made aware the authority had amended its policy to take into consideration the proximity of certain businesses to schools, meaning the plans no longer adhered to planning guidelines.\n\"We have withdrawn our appeal as a direct consequence. We are genuinely disappointed and frustrated by this development at such a late stage,\" she said.\nThe company claimed the new restaurant would have created about 70 jobs and made a \"positive contribution\" to the area.\nCampaigners said they were delighted the plans were at an end.\nJocasta Williams told BBC Newcastle: \"We always thought it was a really long shot, they are a multi-national company, we just had a group of committed people that were prepared to give up their own time and a small amount of money.\n\"We always doubted we could do it but we have, we kept on fighting.\"\nNewcastle City Council welcomed McDonald's decision and said a Planning Inspection scheduled for Tuesday would not now go ahead.\nA city council spokesman said: \"Newcastle is a city which welcomes business and investment. We will always work constructively with big business to find solutions that work for them to bring jobs and growth.\n\"But we must also always strike the right balance to ensure that investments are in the best interests of our local residents.\"", "summary": "Fast-food chain McDonald's has dropped its appeal against a decision to reject plans for a new restaurant in Newcastle." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Based on the Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray film A Private Function, the show will close on 24 September, six months after making its debut.\nThe musical sees Sarah Lancashire and Reece Shearsmith perform alongside an animatronic pig.\n\"I am enormously proud of Betty,\" said Mackintosh. \"I know she will eventually have her day and another life.\"\nThe show tells of a small community in post-war Britain raising a pig to slaughter in honour of the 1947 royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten.\nLeague of Gentlemen star Shearsmith plays a meek chiropodist who steals the swine at the behest of his social-climbing wife, played by Lancashire.\n\"It is very curious,\" said Sir Cameron. \"After such amazing reviews and positive word of mouth, no-one knows the real reason why Betty couldn't find a bigger audience.\n\"We have been consistently playing to just over 50%, but it just isn't enough to cover the costs. Of course I am disappointed, but I'm not despondent.\"\nFour-star reviews\nThe Guardian's Michael Billington praised the show when it opened in April, saying Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman's adaptation of Bennett's script was \"better than the original\".\nThe Telegraph and The Independent both gave the musical comedy positive four-star reviews.\nBut the BBC's Neil Smith had reservations, calling it \"a musical without enough meat on its bones\".\n\"This is a brave and unusual addition to the West End landscape,\" he wrote in April. \"How long it will remain a part of it is anyone's guess.\"\nTheatre impresario Mackintosh has produced some of the world's best-known musicals, among them Cats, Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera.\nBetty Blue Eyes, which continues at London's Novello Theatre, was his first original musical for 10 years.", "summary": "Sir Cameron Mackintosh's musical Betty Blue Eyes will close in the West End next month following poor ticket sales." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Retired Egyptian police general Reda al-Hamamy accused the soldier who shot him of \"using brute force with a poor young man\".\nThe French authorities say his son Abdullah, 29, was shot when he attacked the soldiers, injuring one of them.\nThey say he shouted the Islamic phrase \"Allahu Akbar\" (\"God is greatest\").\nA French police source said Abdullah Hamamy was no longer in a critical condition but was still unable to communicate and could not yet be questioned.\nFrench officials have not confirmed the identity of the injured man but Egyptian security sources named him.\nPresident Francois Hollande praised the soldiers' actions, saying they had \"prevented an attack whose terrorist nature leaves little doubt\".\nThe Louvre, which is home to numerous celebrated art works, including the Mona Lisa, reopened on Saturday.\nThe suspect arrived in France on 26 January after obtaining a tourist visa in Dubai, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Friday. He is believed to have bought two machetes after arriving.\nCans of spray paint, but no explosives, were found in his backpack, Mr Molins added.\nThe injured man's father told Reuters news agency his son had not been radicalised and that it was \"nonsense\" to call him a terrorist.\n\"This is a cover-up so they don't have to apologise or justify the acts of this soldier who used brute force with a poor young man of 29,\" he said, speaking in Daqahliya, Egypt.\nThe incident at the Louvre occurred at the entrance of an underground shopping centre leading to the museum.\nHundreds of visitors were inside the museum at the time of the attack and were evacuated.\nArmed police and soldiers patrolled the site on Saturday as international tourists lined up to gain entrance.\nThe guards on patrol outside the museum were just some of the thousands of troops lining the streets as part of the stepped-up response to a series of attacks in France in recent years:\nSecurity has become a theme of the French presidential election in April, which sees far-right leader Marine Le Pen and centrist independent Emmanuel Macron leading the polls.", "summary": "The father of a man shot by a French soldier as he carried out a machete attack at the Louvre museum in Paris says his son is not a terrorist." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mandeville's effort from the spot, after Mansfield goalkeeper Scott Shearer brought down Tommy Rowe, was Rovers' first shot on target.\nMatt Green volleyed the Stags ahead, having earlier escaped punishment after twice clashing with Andy Butler.\nAfter Mandeville levelled, Jordan Houghton went close to winning it for Rovers, hitting the post with a header.\nThe draw meant Doncaster ended 2016 in third place, with Plymouth and Carlisle climbing above them by virtue of their victories.\nMatch ends, Mansfield Town 1, Doncaster Rovers 1.\nSecond Half ends, Mansfield Town 1, Doncaster Rovers 1.\nHand ball by Mitch Rose (Mansfield Town).\nHand ball by John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers).\nJordan Houghton (Doncaster Rovers) hits the left post with a header from the left side of the box.\nCorner, Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Lee Collins.\nSubstitution, Mansfield Town. Kevan Hurst replaces James Baxendale.\nSubstitution, Mansfield Town. Mitch Rose replaces Chris Clements.\nSubstitution, Doncaster Rovers. Paul Keegan replaces Liam Mandeville.\nFoul by Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town).\nHarry Middleton (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt blocked. Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers) header from the centre of the box is blocked.\nCorner, Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Malvind Benning.\nFoul by Chris Clements (Mansfield Town).\nJordan Houghton (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nSubstitution, Mansfield Town. Pat Hoban replaces Danny Rose.\nGoal! Mansfield Town 1, Doncaster Rovers 1. Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\nPenalty conceded by Scott Shearer (Mansfield Town) after a foul in the penalty area.\nPenalty Doncaster Rovers. Tommy Rowe draws a foul in the penalty area.\nMatt Green (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nHarry Middleton (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Harry Middleton (Doncaster Rovers).\nAttempt missed. Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.\nDanny Rose (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card.\nAttempt missed. Danny Rose (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\nAttempt missed. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.\nRhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers).\nCorner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Matty Blair.\nFoul by Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town).\nTommy Rowe (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nSubstitution, Doncaster Rovers. Harry Middleton replaces Craig Alcock.\nAttempt saved. CJ Hamilton (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\nGoal! Mansfield Town 1, Doncaster Rovers 0. Matt Green (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Malvind Benning.\nCorner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Craig Alcock.\nAttempt blocked. Matt Green (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\nCorner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Mathieu Baudry.\nAttempt missed. Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.\nAttempt saved. CJ Hamilton (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\nCorner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Marko Marosi.", "summary": "Liam Mandeville rescued a point for League Two high-fliers Doncaster with a second-half penalty against Mansfield." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Sex and the City star will take the title role in Linda, written by Penelope Skinner, at the Royal Court from 25 November.\nShe'll play a top marketing executive with a beauty company who realises her career has hit a brick wall.\nRoyal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone described Linda as a \"bold, beautifully written play\".\nShe said it was about \"a 55-year-old woman and her fight to remain visible in her world\".\nShe also told the Daily Mail that Cattrall and Skinner wanted a play that featured a female character as \"flawed and mythic\" as Johnny \"Rooster\" Byron, played by Mark Rylance in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem - which also started life at the Court.\nFeatherstone said Greek tragedies - such as Medea and Antigone - had epic roles for a leading actress, but few contemporary dramas did.\nCattrall was last on the London stage two years ago playing a faded Hollywood star in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic.\nLinda will be directed by Michael Longhurst, whose credits for the Royal Court include hit drama Constellations, now back in London after a UK tour.\nOther casting announced for the Royal Court's autumn season includes David Morrissey, Graeme Hawley, Ralph Ineson, Sally Rogers, Simon Rouse and Reece Shearsmith in Hangmen by Martin McDonagh.", "summary": "Kim Cattrall is to return to the London stage in a new play set in the \"vicious\" world of the beauty industry." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) survey suggested construction was slowing in the three months to 30 June.\nTourism's performance was found to be \"markedly\" worse than a year ago.\nThere was also little sign of improvement in manufacturing, retail and financial and business services.\nSCC said it remained to be seen how the Brexit vote had impacted on this already \"muted\" economic performance.\nIt called for the UK and Scottish governments to take measures to head off a further slowdown.\nThe SCC report said: \"Over the second quarter of 2016, business performance across the Scottish economy was more consistent than in the first quarter of the year, though both performance and optimism were generally lower than during the same period of 2015.\"\nNeil Amner, chairman of the SCC economic advisory group, said: \"The burning questions are how the vote for the UK to leave the European Union will affect businesses and what steps our governments in the UK and in Scotland should take to ensure that Scotland's businesses continue to be the dynamo of economic growth.\n\"The Brexit vote does not come without its opportunities but business must be in the driving seat if we are to take advantage of these and, indeed, secure the stability that is needed to foster investment and deliver future growth.\n\"Central to future planning is the need for clarity on the future of talented individuals currently working in Scotland.\n\"Everyone must have the confidence that they will be able to fulfil their long-term ambitions in Scotland, whether they currently live here or not.\n\"Scotland must become an even more attractive place to do business and must actively reach out to the world to create new trading and investment opportunities.\"\nMr Amner called on government \"to reconsider policies which have sought to impose greater burdens on business\" and use their \"levers of power\" to boost growth, with measures such as a cut in business rates, an accelerated reduction in Air Passenger Duty and shelving the Apprenticeship Levy.", "summary": "Business leaders have called for tax breaks and certainty on the future of foreign workers amid signs that Scotland's economy was slowing down ahead of the Brexit vote." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Here is how the narrative goes: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is the establishment figure. He has gambled on holding a referendum to win backing for his reforms. He loses, and resigns.\nTo some, this is the fall of the third domino: first Brexit, then Trump, now Italy. It marks, so it is argued, the onward march of the populists.\nRenzi has had strong support from global leaders. President Obama rolled out White House pageantry for him and even the Germans, with whom Renzi has rowed over austerity, have been singing his praises.\nThe concern is that now Renzi has said he'll go, Italy's politicians will squabble, the country's fragile economy will suffer, borrowing costs will spike and once again Europe will be facing a crisis in the eurozone.\nWaiting in the wings are anti-establishment parties like the Five Star Movement, which is promising that if it eventually wins power, it will offer a referendum on retaining the euro. The very idea of another vote sends shivers down the spines of Europe's leaders.\nFive Star's leader, the former comedian Beppe Grillo, has spoken of an \"era going up in flames\". It is a similar sentiment to that expressed by Nigel Farage, UKIP's former leader, who declared after Mr Trump's victory that the \"democratic revolution\" was only just beginning.\nThere is no doubt that Italy needs reforming. The tangle of bureaucracy and judicial delays snares investment projects, reforms get diluted or blocked in the two houses of parliament, and the Senate, with its 315 members, needs shrinking.\nBut there were legitimate concerns that Renzi's plan would have led to a centralising of power. The winning party would have gained a premium of seats, ensuring an absolute majority. Five Star campaigners successfully argued that the \"reforms serve to give more power to those who are already in power\".\nIt would be wrong to see this referendum as a Brexit-style campaign about the EU. Some passionate pro-Europeans are among those who opposed Renzi's reforms.\nThe Italian prime minister's big miscalculation was to make the vote about himself. Many voters saw the referendum as an opportunity to punish a serving prime minister. Some critics say that he put Italy in danger unnecessarily.\nThe fear is that Renzi's resignation could tip Italy into an early election. And that might give the Five Star Movement and the anti-establishment Northern League an opportunity of success at the polls.\nThe prospect of two Eurosceptic parties gaining ground in the eurozone's third-biggest economy might well rattle the markets.\nGovernment ministers will tell you that unemployment is inching down, that the deficit is falling and that labour markets have become more flexible. But the economy is 12% smaller than when the financial crisis began in 2008.\nItaly's banks remain weak. The problem of non-performing loans has not been sorted out and the country's debt-to-GDP ratio, at 133%, is second only to Greece's.\nIt is not clear what follows Mr Renzi's defeat. Fresh elections will not automatically follow.\nIf uncertainty forces up borrowing costs, then the European Central Bank (ECB) stands ready to purchase government bonds. But any political vacuum will bring renewed focus on weak banks - and not only in Italy.\nAn early election could come in late spring, just as the British government triggers Article 50 and begins negotiations to leave the EU.\nIf there is a risk of further upheaval, the instinct of Europe's leaders will be to circle the wagons, to make life as difficult as possible for the UK. The past 10 days have witnessed a succession of warnings that the coming year for Britain will be \"a tough ride\" and \"you cannot pick and choose what you want\".\nPolitical instability in Italy could, of course, prompt Europe's leaders to address what voters in Europe are saying but there has been little evidence of that so far.\nThe Italian vote is not about Europe or the EU but it will be interpreted as an indicator of the strength of the anti-establishment winds blowing through Europe in the aftermath of Mr Trump's unexpected victory.", "summary": "In the year of political upheavals, there has been another popular uprising - this time in Italy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Karrissa Cox and Richard Carter, of Guildford, faced assault charges after health staff found bruises on the baby and X-rays appeared to show fractures.\nDefence lawyers argued the X-rays were consistent with rickets and the prosecution later said one of their experts could not be sure of fractures.\nJurors were told to record not guilty verdicts at Guildford Crown Court.\nThe couple had maintained their innocence for three years, but the adoption went ahead while the case continued against them.\nIn April 2012, the couple took their six-week-old baby to hospital after they spotted blood in the child's mouth.\nBut hospital staff noticed bruising and marks on the child's body, and X-rays were carried out which a radiologist said showed healing fractures on the baby's limbs.\nThe injuries were considered to be non-accidental, the court heard.\nThe child was first removed into foster care and then later adopted.\nDuring the court case, defence lawyers said the X-rays were consistent with rickets, and the bruising with von Willebrand's disease.\nThree weeks into the trial, the prosecution said one of their own medical experts could not be sure that X-rays showed fractures and therefore it would not be possible for a jury to reach a conclusion.\nBBC reporter Sarah Campbell said the couple planned to appeal against their child's adoption, but legal experts believed it was extremely unlikely the pair would be successful.\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said the prosecution's case was based on \"expert medical evidence which supported the original charges of cruelty\".\nA spokesman said: \"The case was then reviewed following new medical evidence which concluded that there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction on any of the charges.\"\nA Surrey County Council spokesman said: \"With any case like this we only have one thing in mind and that's the welfare of the child.\n\"This case was examined carefully by the family court and having heard all the evidence, it took the view that it was appropriate for the child to be removed from their parents.\"", "summary": "A couple whose baby was adopted when they were charged with child abuse have had the charges against them dropped." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nSouthgate was effectively handed a four-game trial period by the Football Association after the abrupt end to Sam Allardyce's 67-day spell in charge.\nAnd the meeting with 'The Auld Enemy' at Wembley was always going to be the defining moment when it came to measuring Southgate's suitability to take England towards the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\nSo, after a 3-0 win that soothed concerns following the drab goalless draw in Slovenia, is Southgate now a certainty for England's top job on a permanent basis?\nIt is a fair bet the FA's decision-makers will have had everything crossed for an uneventful, victorious night at Wembley as they consider the decision on England's next manager.\nAnd as chairman Greg Clarke and chief executive Martin Glenn made their retreat from Wembley, there was every chance that what they had seen in a routine England win had made up their minds.\nThe 46-year-old Southgate, who has built his reputation within the FA with his work with the England Under-21 team, is the obvious and favoured choice to calm the turbulence that followed the conclusion of Allardyce's short reign.\nSouthgate has the background of working at St George's Park, won the Toulon tournament with the under-21s and is the sort of measured, mature personality who is regarded as a good fit to take England forward.\nAll he needed to do was win some football matches during his short audition.\nAnd, by any measure, this 3-0 win will probably prove enough to seal the deal, even after a performance that never rose above average against a poor Scotland team.\nThere was nothing revolutionary about Southgate's England on this night, nothing to send their fans out of Wembley with an extra spring in their step - but he showed enough of a sure touch to make his coronation little more than a formality.\nSouthgate chose well when it came to deciding between Daniel Sturridge and Harry Kane. He showed understanding to resist the temptation to throw the Spurs striker in after only 72 minutes of action at Arsenal following a seven-week absence, despite the obvious attractions of his goalscoring ability.\nHe went for Sturridge, short of action at Liverpool but fit and determined to prove his worth. He was rewarded with a fine opening goal from the striker to settle any nerves Southgate and England might have been feeling.\nSouthgate brought Wayne Rooney back in as captain and a steadying influence after dropping him in Slovenia, although that decision was made much easier by Dele Alli's injury. It was a conservative team selection, with players Southgate knew he could rely on - but the end justified the means.\nEngland's ploy of playing out from the back looked like an alien activity for much of the first half, but this was a night when the result was everything for both team and manager.\nThe smart money was on victory assuring Southgate of his elevation to England manager - should he be happy with the terms of reference of course - and the only questions might have been posed if they had failed to beat a Scotland team who have won just 11 of their past 32 qualifiers, drawing eight and losing 13.\nEngland have had no trouble racking up qualifying victories, winning 24 and drawing eight of their past 32. This meant victory was essential to ensure Southgate's credibility was not damaged and to make life much easier for the FA.\nThis can be regarded as mission accomplished.\nEngland's win against Scotland means that Southgate and the FA can tick all the boxes after this three-game public interview for the manager's job.\nSouthgate, as was his intention, has left England top of their group after the three qualifiers he has overseen - with this game the most important - while also looking a perfect fit off the pitch after the fiasco of Allardyce's departure.\nResults in competitive games are ultimately the only currency Southgate has to deal in, but he has also shown a sure touch off the field which has greatly impressed the FA.\nSouthgate dealt diplomatically and calmly with the landmark decision to drop Rooney for the last qualifier in Slovenia. He showed a sensitivity and understanding to the Manchester United forward's reputation and feelings, with the deposed captain even feeling comfortable enough to sit alongside the man who had excluded him at the pre-match news conference.\nIf the FA needed evidence of how Southgate would handle a potentially incendiary issue, this was it. It was a pressure point and the former Middlesbrough manager proved he had the confidence and self-belief not just to make the big decision, but to handle the fallout in an assured manner.\nSouthgate has also looked at ease with the pressures of managing England. The real pinch points will come in the heat of a tournament, but he has performed impressively so far.\nThe players have also looked at ease with Southgate around the England camp. He looks like the sort of figure, 20 years younger than Allardyce and his predecessor Roy Hodgson, who may well be more on the wavelength of younger players, such as Manchester City's 21-year-old winger Raheem Sterling.\nFA chairman Clarke wrote in the match programme notes, looking ahead to the period after this game: \"We then have a break until next March and, as we have said, we will consider our options for the permanent England manager's role. I must again pay tribute to Gareth for his professionalism and diligent work.\"\nA clue? It read like one. It is unlikely Clarke's high opinion of Southgate would have been decreased by England's biggest win over Scotland in 41 years.\nIf this was an examination, Southgate's three games would probably have earned him a seven out of 10 - and that is likely to mean a pass mark from the FA.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nSouthgate's four-game spell in temporary charge ends after Tuesday's friendly against Spain (20:00 GMT kick-off), where a win would simply strengthen his case and anything else is unlikely to have any impact on the decision-making process.\nAs Clarke stated, the FA does now have this gap and a period of grace before a friendly away to World Cup holders Germany in March.\nAll roads appear to be leading to an announcement that Southgate has got the job well before then - but should the FA take advantage of that break to explore every other option?\nBBC Sport pundit and former Scotland international Pat Nevin insists there should be no hurry on the FA's part.\nHe said: \"Why do you have to give him the job now? There is no reason to do it. Wait until the summer and you have all sorts of options, one being Gareth still.\n\"England are going through anyway but you might be turning down the opportunity to get Arsene Wenger or someone of that ilk.\"\nShould the FA decide to wait, which seems unlikely, then Southgate may well wonder why. Would it be a signal that the FA still harbours doubts about his capability? Would that effect his willingness to take the job?\nAnd a wait for Wenger is a gamble. There is no guarantee the Frenchman would accept, with Arsenal still very much his complete commitment and a growing likelihood he will sign a new contract at Emirates Stadium.\nAfter the shock to the FA's system brought about by the speed and manner of Allardyce's departure, Southgate represents the candidate of stability and continuity, complete with FA background and the sort of character that is their ideal for the footballing figurehead of the organisation.\nAnd that quick appointment is still the most likely outcome.", "summary": "Gareth Southgate passed the most vital stage of his audition to be England manager as his side eased to a World Cup qualifying win over Scotland at Wembley." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is unsupported on your device\n15 September 2015 Last updated at 13:21 BST\nNigel Wilson, 42, from Nottinghamshire, admitted nine breaches of the Air Navigation Order by flying the small aircraft over stadiums in September and October last year.\nThe venues included Derby's iPro Stadium (shown above), Liverpool's Anfield home and Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.", "summary": "A man has been fined for flying a drone over football grounds during matches." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Powys council will start closing the gates at Maesgwastad Cemetery in Welshpool from 3 January.\nIt said motor homes had been parking in the cemetery for several days without moving, and hearses had not been able to exit and enter for funerals.\nMourners are also having to park a considerable distance away, it said.", "summary": "Unauthorised parking at a Powys cemetery, meaning hearses struggle to enter, has prompted the council to shut its gates overnight." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It has published a set of guidelines to prevent disputes arising if staff want to watch their team in the competition.\nAcas said firms should have agreements in place to cover requests for time off, website use during working hours, or watching TV during the tournament.\nSome games, including Wales v England, are being played in the daytime.\nEuro 2016: Everything you need to know in 90 seconds\nSir Brendan Barber, who chairs Acas, said: \"The Euro 2016 tournament is an exciting event for many football fans but staff should avoid getting a red card for unreasonable demands or behaviour in the workplace during this period.\n\"Many businesses need to maintain a certain staffing level in order to survive. Employers should have a set of simple workplace agreements in place before kick off to help ensure their businesses remain productive whilst keeping staff happy too.\"\nAcas said employees and employers should discuss time off well in advance. Another possible option is to have a more flexible working day, with staff starting work later or finishing early and then agreeing when this time can be made up.\nEmployers could also allow staff to take a break during match times, it was suggested.\nIt is the first time Wales and Northern Ireland have qualified for the tournament.\nMany of the games, being held in France, have evening kick offs but some - including the game between England and Wales - start in the early afternoon.\nSir Brendan said staff may also need to be reminded about the companies' attitude to being under the influence of alcohol or using social media whilst at work.", "summary": "Firms should be flexible with staffing during the Euro 2016 football tournament, which begins on 10 June, the conciliation service Acas says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Chairwoman Lady Smith will use the hearing to explain the approach of the inquiry and provide an update on its current investigations.\nThe probe is expected to last four years, and will look in detail at historical abuse of children in care.\nEducation Secretary John Swinney has rejected calls for the remit of the inquiry to be broadened.\nNo witnesses are expected to appear at what is a procedural hearing, at which Lady Smith will set out how people and interested parties can participate in the inquiry.\nThe inquiry states its purpose as being \"to investigate the nature and extent of abuse of children whilst in care in Scotland\", while considering \"the extent to which institutions and bodies with legal responsibility for the care of children failed in their duty\", in particular seeking any \"systemic failures\".\nIts terms of reference say it covers a time period \"within living memory of any person who suffered such abuse\", up until the point the inquiry was announced in December 2014, and will consider if \"changes in practice, policy or legislation are necessary\" to protect children in care from abuse in future.\nThe inquiry has been plagued by problems since it was set up in October 2015. More than £3.5m has been spent on it during this period.\nIts original chairwoman Susan O'Brien quit the post in July 2016, complaining of government interference, while a second panel member, Prof Michael Lamb, also resigned claiming the inquiry was \"doomed\".\nLady Smith was appointed to replace Ms O'Brien, but Mr Swinney said he was confident a replacement for Prof Lamb was not needed - although he added that experts could be called in to assist Lady Smith and remaining panel member Glenn Houston.\nThere were also complaints about the remit of the inquiry, with survivors' groups claiming some abusers could be could be \"let off the hook\" if children's' organisations, clubs and local parish churches were not specifically included in the probe.\nHowever, Mr Swinney told MSPs that it was clear there was \"not unanimity on this issue\", concluding that the probe should focus only on in-care settings so that it remained \"deliverable within a reasonable timescale\".\nHe said \"terrible crimes\" had been committed in other settings, such as day schools and youth groups, but said criminal behaviour should be referred to the police and would be \"energetically pursued through the criminal courts\" where evidence exists.\nA bill has been introduced at Holyrood removing any time bar on people seeking damages over childhood abuse.", "summary": "The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to hold its first preliminary hearing in Edinburgh." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 78-year-old man suffered \"massive\" fatal injuries from the 9 June collision in Palm Beach Gardens city, an attorney for his widow says.\nAccording to police, Ms Williams was at fault for the traffic accident, which caused the death of Jerome Barson.\nThe 37-year-old is due to make her 20th appearance at Wimbledon on Monday.\nAccording to the police report, Linda Barson told police she was driving with her husband, Jerome, in the passenger seat of their 2016 Hyundai Accent at the time of the collision.\nMrs Barson told police that as they passed through an intersection on a green light, Ms Williams' 2010 Toyota Sequoia cut across in front of their car.\nMs Williams told police she became stuck in the middle of the intersection because of other traffic, according to the report.\n\"Mrs Barson is suffering intense grief and doesn't know how she will go on,\" her lawyer, Michael Steinger, told ABC television's Good Morning America.\n\"Her husband of 35 years was struck by Venus Williams, who was at fault in a car accident, which ultimately resulted in Mr Barson being hospitalised 14 days with multiple surgeries which resulted in his death.\"\nThe lawsuit, filed by the couple's daughter, Audrey Gassner-Dunayer, asserts that her father's injuries included \"severed main arteries, massive internal bleeding, a fractured spine, and massive internal organ damage\".\nThe Barsons' car was \"crushed, the front windshield shattered, the airbags deployed, there was crush damage to the rear on the driver's side, and the back window was shattered\", the lawsuit states.\nThe lawyer added: \"At this point, we are attempting to both preserve the evidence and gain access to evidence.\"\nMr Barson died in hospital on 22 June, his wife Linda's 68th birthday.\nMrs Barson was also admitted to hospital after the crash.\nMs Williams was not hurt.\nAccording to a police report obtained by US media, Ms Williams \"is at fault for violating the right of way of\" the Barsons' vehicle.\nMs Williams' car suddenly darted into their path and was unable to clear the junction in time due to traffic jams, witnesses told police.\nThe police incident report says that the estimated speed of Ms Williams' vehicle at the time was 5mph (8km/h).\nIn a statement to US media, the tennis star's lawyer, Malcolm Cunningham, said: \"Ms Williams entered the intersection on a green light.\n\"Authorities did not issue Ms Williams with any citations or traffic violations.\n\"This is an unfortunate accident and Venus expresses her deepest condolences to the family who lost a loved one.\"\nThe accident occurred just days after the seven-time Grand Slam champion was eliminated from the French Open.\nShe has not been criminally charged.\nMs Williams is currently in London to train for the Wimbledon tournament, which she has won five times - most recently in 2008.\nThe All England Club tournament begins on Monday.", "summary": "Venus Williams faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the family of a man who died in a Florida car crash involving the tennis star, says a lawyer." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "There are hopes microalgae, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, could replace synthetic sunscreens.\nThe natural products, found in the sea, have a high absorbance of damaging sun rays.\nDr Carole Llewellyn, who has led the research, said algae sunscreen would be better for the environment.\n\"What we found is that algae have their own process of protecting themselves against the damaging ultra-violet rays,\" said Dr Llewellyn, an associate professor in applied aquatic bioscience.\n\"We're really interested in finding out how they do this and applying it to products we want to use.\n\"There's increasing evidence that some of the synthetic sunscreens are quite harmful to the environment when they wash off in the sea.\n\"Many sunscreens are produced from petroleum sources and the industry is looking for something more sustainable.\"\nMicroalgae can be cultivated in a laboratory and the university has a facility where they are grown in photobioreactors or small flasks.\nOnce the quantities are large enough, the algae are removed from the water they are growing in and concentrated up.\nThe cells are then broken down - a process known as down streaming - to extract the colourless sunscreen compounds.\nIt comes at a time when increasing numbers of consumers are looking to natural products.\nFor anyone who might initially seem squeamish at the idea of using an algae-based product, Dr Llewellyn said: \"Think about the sunscreen you are currently using and where the ingredients have come from.\n\"To use a natural alternative seems like a much better way forward.\"\nWhile companies have expressed interest in the product, Dr Llewellyn said it does face certain challenges.\nThe main one is making it a commercial reality, as synthetic sunscreens are cheap to produce in large quantities.\n\"That doesn't mean to say in the future the cost of the process [with algae] won't come down and then it will look like an economically viable product,\" she added.", "summary": "UV protective algae could be used as a sustainable alternative to sunscreen, research at Swansea University has discovered." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "As festival guest director, she will have a major input into the event which is to take place from 5 to 27 May 2012.\nMs Redgrave said that although she had been involved in important arts events before, this was her first festival.\n\"It's a wonderful thing to me that I've been asked to really be part of this festival,\" she said.\nMs Redgrave is well-known for her political activism and campaigning for human rights and follows last years guest director, the Burmese pro-Democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi, in that tradition.\nShe is also a Unicef goodwill ambassador and wants the festival to inspire all ages.\n\"It will bring the young together with the old and the young people with their new visions and their new perspectives, their new ideas,\" she said.\n\"It will be giving them a chance to see some of the very best work they can possibly see.\"\nThis year's Brighton Festival, which was launched on Wednesday evening, will include 143 events and 351 performances, some of which will include Vanessa Redgrave herself.\nAndrew Comben, who is chief executive of the festival, said: \"One thing that Vanessa is particularly passionate about is the work for children and so that is really representative in the festival this year.\n\"I am really delighted that she will lead the children's parade. It's a fantastic symbol of everything that is important for Brighton Festival and its basis in the community.\"", "summary": "Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave is to lead the children's parade which will open this year's Brighton Festival." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Several parts of Scotland have experienced April snow showers as an icy blast blew in from the north.\nThe Highlands, Aberdeenshire coast and Shetland were among areas where snow fell overnight and into Monday.\nThe Met Office later issued a yellow warning for between 22:00 on Monday and 09:00 on Tuesday.\nIt said wintry showers could hit almost anywhere in the UK as the Arctic air began to move further south.\nSpokesman Grahame Madge said: \"As we go over the next 36 hours, those wintry showers will become quite frequent.\n\"There's a possibility of wintry showers just about anywhere in the UK but more likely is that people anywhere, really, could see hail.\"\n\"In the south, it's possible that people could see sleety rain or hail for some time but we're not likely to see any accumulation or settling.\n\"The more at-risk areas for seeing snow are obviously the northern hills.\n\"But, generally, what we'll see in those very showery conditions is that when it starts to rain, it'll drop the temperature maybe enough to trigger the development of sleet or even the odd snow shower for a time.\"\nMr Madge said the colder weather will also bring plummeting temperatures at night.\nThe BBC Scotland Weather team said on Twitter: \"Based on records from 1981 to 2010 the UK average is for 2.3 days of snow in April.\"\nThey added: \"Snow is more likely at the beginning of April than the end, however, there have been a number of notable snow events this late on in the UK.\"", "summary": "All pictures from BBC Weather Watchers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said three services at Kettering General Hospital were inadequate, including children's services and emergency care.\nThe CQC's chief inspector said there were \"a number of serious problems\", with staff struggling under pressure.\nThe hospital said it had already taken steps to improve its services.\nOutpatients and diagnostic imaging were also rated as inadequate, with medical care, surgery, maternity and gynaecology requiring improvement.\nCQC inspectors identified concerns across a number of services. They said:\nChief Inspector Prof Sir Mike Richards recommended the trust be placed into special measures on the basis of the inspection last October.\nHe said: \"My team found that the majority of staff were hard working, passionate and caring but had to struggle against the pressures they faced.\n\"One of the reasons we rated the trust as inadequate for being well-led and safe was because risks to patients were not always identified and, when they were identified, there was a lack of adequate management of these.\"\nThe report said: \"All staff were passionate about providing high quality patient care - patients we spoke to described staff as caring and professional.\"\nThe trust said the recommendation to put the hospital in special measures would enable it \"to receive additional expert support\".\nKettering General Hospital's director of nursing and quality Leanne Hackshall said: \"We welcome the CQC's very detailed inspection of the trust and are disappointed that we did not do better in it.\n\"We have an improvement plan underway which is addressing the areas highlighted by the CQC.\n\"Some actions are already complete and others are in process.\n\"Clearly it will take some time to address all of the issues listed in the report and bring them up to standard.\"", "summary": "Inspectors have found safety was \"not a sufficient priority\" at a hospital which they recommended should be placed in special measures." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The study by the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) is being released during the group's annual assembly in Geneva.\nJust 55 female MPs took part in the survey, but they represent parliaments from across the globe.\nOver 80% said they had experienced some form of psychological or sexual harassment or violence.\nThe report from the IPU comes at a time when US Presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments about his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and his alleged sexual harassment of other women over the years, have been making headlines.\nIt reveals some of the abuse female politicians around the world face while fulfilling their roles in elected positions.\nA European member of parliament reported receiving more than 500 threats of rape on Twitter in the space of just four days.\nAnother, from Asia, received threats of violence to her son, detailing his school, his class, and his age.\nOf the women who took part in the survey, 65.5% said they had been the target of insults using sexual language and imagery. The report suggested humiliating remarks from male colleagues were commonplace.\n\"In my part of the world… there is all sorts of language that is associated with female parliamentarians,\" says Prof Nkandu Luo, currently minister of gender in Zambia.\nShe recalls a male member of parliament publicly recounting that he liked to go to parliament because \"all the women are there and I can just point and choose which one I want\".\nThe remarks, Professor Luo said, were reported in the press as something amusing and acceptable. \"It's the way they demean women.\"\nMeanwhile Senator Salma Ataullahjan of Canada said she at first thought the survey would not be relevant to her. \"I said, I'm from Canada, I don't need to take part in this.\"\nBut answering the survey questions was, she said, enlightening. \"You know as parliamentarians, we go out, we meet people, and I remember this one gentlemen getting up very close to me.\"\nThe 'gentlemen' went on to make suggestive comments to Sen Ataullahjan, which at the time she brushed off.\nBut recounting the incident for the survey brought it home that she had experienced inappropriate, even threatening, behaviour.\nNow, she says, she has become much more open with her male colleagues.\n\"We have to change the mindset about what is acceptable language, and what is acceptable behaviour and what is not,\" she says.\nThe report concludes that the sheer pervasiveness of sexual discrimination, from humiliating language to harassment to real violence is preventing many elected women from carrying out their duties in freedom and safety.\nThat, according to the IPU's chief, Martin Chungong, is one of the report's most worrying aspects.\n\"Members of parliament are supposed to be leaders in society,\" he says. \"But we see women members of parliament, the elite, as it were, are not immune.\n\"So if the elite are victims of sexual aggression, what about the underprivileged?\"", "summary": "Sexual harassment and even violence against female parliamentarians is widespread, a report from a global parliamentary grouping suggests." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Howard League for Penal Reform said figures showed about 19,140 inmates on average were made to share a cell designed for one person.\nIt said overcrowding was \"far worse than anyone imagined\".\nThe prisons minister said: \"Prison is not somewhere that anyone should be comfortable about going back to.\"\nFigures published by the Ministry of Justice show that jails held an average of just over 85,000 prisoners between April 2012 and March this year.\nBut the Howard League said those statistics did not state how many cells were holding more prisoners than they were designed to, and the figures it obtained via a Freedom of Information request revealed the full extent of overcrowding.\nThe worst-affected prison in England and Wales was said to be HMP Wandsworth, where on a typical day 835 prisoners shared cells designed for one person, which the charity also pointed out contained an open toilet.\nOther prisons which held several inmates in a single cell included HMP Doncaster, where 729 prisoners were affected, and Birmingham where 670 shared.\nThe figures show HMP Altcourse in Liverpool and London's HMP Pentonville each had 659 inmates on average sharing cells designed for one person, while prisons in Preston, Manchester, Nottingham, Durham, and Elmley in Kent were also highlighted.\nSome 777 prisoners were made to sleep three to a cell in rooms designed for two.\nThe 13 prisons which saw inmates sharing cells designed for two included HMP Belmarsh, HMP Altcourse and HMP Elmley.\nFrances Crook, Howard League chief executive, said the \"real state\" of overcrowding was \"far worse than anyone imagined\".\nShe said: \"It should come as little surprise that such crowded conditions leave staff hugely overstretched, especially as more are being laid off. This means there are little to no opportunities for prisoners to work, learn or take courses to turn them away from crime.\n\"If the Ministry of Justice is serious about reducing reoffending it must tackle overcrowding now. Successive governments have peddled the lie that you can build your way out of a prisons overcrowding problem.\n\"While public services are being cut, ministers should look at more effective and affordable solutions. They need to address the fact the prison population has doubled in just 20 years and move people on to community sentences.\"\nPrisons Minister Jeremy Wright said older prisons were being replaced with newer accommodation that was cheaper to run and the government was tackling reoffending.\nHe added: \"Let's be clear what overcrowding in prison actually means. Typically it means having to share a cell rather than have one to yourself. Prisoners are treated humanely but prison is not somewhere that anyone should be comfortable about going back to.\n\"All prisons have safe population levels and have capacity to take those sent there by the courts.\"", "summary": "Close to a quarter of all prisoners in England and Wales were kept in overcrowded cells in the year to April, a prison reform charity has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "By a vote of 86-12, the Senate approved a 90-day extension of wiretaps, access to business records and surveillance of terror suspects.\nThe move came one day after the House of Representatives voted to extend the provisions until 8 December.\nThe White House backed the bill, but would have favoured a longer extension.\nThe House and Senate must now reach a compromise on extending the surveillance powers, which are set to expire on 28 February.\nThe brief extension gives those in Congress a chance to review the measures that some claim are unconstitutional infringements on personal liberties.\nThe provisions covered under the bill give the US government the authority for \"roving surveillance\" of suspects who might be able to thwart investigative methods that ordinarily require a judge's warrant.\nThey also give federal investigators access to business records with a warrant from a secret national security court and grant federal law enforcement greater power to watch foreign so-called \"lone wolf\" terror suspects.\nThe Patriot Act was shepherded through Congress by President George W Bush shortly after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001.\nMr Bush and other supporters argued that the legal safeguards traditionally granted to criminal suspects left the US ill-protected against further attacks.", "summary": "The US Senate has voted to extend controversial surveillance powers granted by the Patriot Act law, put in place after the 9/11 attacks." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Scotland Yard is seeking the order under the Football Spectators Act 1989, which applies to England and Wales.\nRichard Barklie, who lives in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, is one of five Chelsea supporters facing the order.\nA judge at Thames Magistrates' Court said he would hear the point on 7 July.\nDistrict Judge Gareth Branston said this would happen ahead of a full hearing at Waltham Forest Magistrates' Court on 15 and 16 July.\nIn February some Chelsea fans were filmed singing racist chants and refusing to let a black man on the Paris Metro ahead of the west London club's match against Paris St Germain.\nSeveral Chelsea supporters chanted: \"We're racist, we're racist and that's the way we like it.\"\nPolice are applying for banning orders to be imposed on five men who they believe were involved.\nThey are: Mr Barklie, 50, of Victoria Street, Carrickfergus; Dean Callis, 32, of Liverpool Road, Islington, north London; Jordan Munday, 30, of Ellenborough Road, Sidcup, south-east London; Josh Parsons, 20, of Woodhouse Place, Dorking and William Simpson, 26, of Hengrove Crescent, Ashford, Surrey.\nAn earlier hearing at Waltham Forest was told the men oppose the orders, which are designed as a preventative measure to stop potential troublemakers from travelling to football matches at home and abroad.\nThe man kept off the train, Souleymane S, has claimed what happened \"destroyed\" him and left him unable to work or travel on public transport.\nMr Barklie's lawyer Nick Scott said: \"He vehemently denies all the allegations made against him.\n\"His work in human rights healing the scars of the troubles in Northern Ireland shows what a man of compassion he is.\"", "summary": "A Chelsea supporter suspected of racist chanting on the Paris Metro is challenging a possible football banning order on the grounds of jurisdiction." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "George Osborne added that it would be \"extraordinary\" not to engage with US pharmaceutical giant.\nPfizer's chairman Ian Read says the proposal is a \"win-win for society\".\nLabour said the firm's promises regarding the proposed deal were \"not worth the paper they are written on\".\nSome fear the currently-rejected deal could jeopardise Britain's science and medical industries.\nFour British scientific bodies - the Society of Biology, Biochemical Society, British Pharmacological Society and Royal Society of Chemistry - have warned that recent mergers and acquisitions have led to lab closures, threatening the research base.\nAstraZeneca has eight sites in the UK and about 6,700 employees.\nPfizer offered £63bn for the UK pharmaceutical firm on 2 May. If the deal were to go ahead, it would be the biggest takeover in UK corporate history.\nAstraZeneca's board said the offer - the second Pfizer has made - was too low, and that it believed a major driver for the takeover was the move to establish a tax residence in the UK by changing its company structure.\nMPs will investigate the proposed takeover deal next week.\nMr Osborne told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"My job is to create both a really competitive place for businesses to come to Britain and create jobs in Britain. And we're seeing those jobs being created.\n\"But I'm also, on the specifics, prepared to get in the room and have a hard negotiation with very large companies and be very, very, hard-nosed about what we want to deliver in terms of good British science and good British jobs.\"\nPfizer has said it would relocate large parts of its business to the UK if the deal goes through. It has also suggested it wants to invest in research which could create more jobs.\nBBC business editor Kamal Ahmed said Britain was highly attractive because of its low corporation tax levels and the tax incentives for scientific research.\nIn a series of videos posted on Pfizer's website, Mr Read said the proposed takeover was motivated by \"three components of value\", including combining some of the companies' products and improving efficiency.\n\"I think both companies have strategies that are aimed at growing and aimed at meeting patients' needs,\" he said.\n\"I believe that by combining these two companies we strengthen those possibilities. We strengthen the ability to bring products to patients. We strengthen the financial aspects of the company.\"\nHe added: \"We can invest in science. I see this as a win-win for society, a win-win for shareholders, and a win-win for stakeholders.\"\nThe government has powers to veto certain deals, such as those involving defence and media companies, and apply a \"public interest test\". But this is rare, and its scope to intervene is also limited by the European Commission.\nPrime Minister David Cameron told the Commons this week that Pfizer's assurances - including retaining at least 20% of the combined companies' research and development workforce in the UK for at least five years and basing its European HQ in Britain - were \"encouraging\".\nBut he said he was \"not satisfied\" with them and wanted the firm to do more.\nShadow business secretary Chuka Umunna MP said the assurances Pfizer had given ministers were \"not worth the paper they are written on,\" as it had refused to rule out breaking up AstraZeneca in the future.\n\"The government could act immediately to work to put in place a stronger public interest test encompassing cases with an impact on strategic elements of our science base and seek a proper, independent assessment of the potential takeover as Labour has called for. Instead, ministers have sat on their hands,\" he said.\nMr Read and AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot will be questioned by the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee on Tuesday morning.\nThey will then face MPs on the Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday, when Science Minister David Willetts will also be asked about the government's position.\nAstraZeneca employs more than 51,000 staff worldwide, with 6,700 in the UK. Pfizer - whose drugs include Viagra - has a global workforce of more than 70,000, with 2,500 in the UK.", "summary": "The chancellor says he will take a \"hard-nosed approach\" to determine whether Pfizer's proposed £60bn takeover of UK firm AstraZeneca will deliver for UK jobs and science." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) - the major contributor to climate change - rose by 2.3 parts per million between 2009 and 2010.\nThat exceeds the average for the past decade of 2.0 parts per million, the World Meteorological Organization says.\nThe latest round of UN climate talks begin in South Africa in two weeks.\n\"The atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases due to human activities has yet again reached record levels since pre-industrial time,\" said World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud.\nConcentrations of CO2 reached 389 parts per million in 2010 - the highest such concentrations since the start of the industrial era in 1750.\nCO2 is the greenhouse gas of greatest concern to policy makers looking to stem human-induced climate change.\nThe WMO said levels of methane - considered the second most important greenhouse gas - had risen after a period of relative stabilisation from 1999 to 2006.\nThis could be due to the thawing of the Northern permafrost and increased emissions from tropical wetlands.\nNitrous oxide, emitted into the atmosphere from natural and man-made sources, including biomass burning and fertiliser use, was 323.2 parts per billion in 2010 - 20%higher than in the pre-industrial era.\nThe WMO numbers follow the recent release of data from the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory, showing a huge surge in carbon dioxide emissions from 2009 to 2010.\nThe climate talks in Durban, South Africa, run from 28 November to 9 December and are likely to test global resolve to tackle greenhouse emissions.", "summary": "Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rose to yet another high in 2010, according to the UN's weather agency." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Striker Diafra Sakho scored twice and James Tomkins added a third to put the Hammers in control of the first qualifying-round tie.\nThey were watched by a capacity crowd of about 35,000, as well as new manager Slaven Bilic, who was in the stands but not in charge.\nThe second leg takes place on 9 July.\nThe Hammers qualified for the Europa League via the Fair Play League and their reward was a first match of the 2015-16 season 40 days after the final Premier League match of the 2014-15 campaign.\nBut despite the lack of a significant summer break, there was an upbeat atmosphere at Upton Park, with Bilic receiving a rousing reception when he was presented to the crowd before kick-off.\nWith the 46-year-old Croat assuming a watching brief, academy manager Terry Westley took charge, and he had to endure a frustrating wait before seeing his side make the breakthrough.\nDespite their dominance, it took until the 40th minute for the Hammers to take the lead, Senegal striker Sakho heading in from six yards after Mauro Zarate's cross from the right.\nThey doubled their advantage just before half-time when Sakho converted Morgan Amalfitano's cutback from close range.\nSakho and Zarate were two of the more senior players in a line-up which mixed experience and youth. Midfielder Reece Oxford was given his debut and, in the process, the 16-year-old became the youngest player to represent the club.\nBut it was experience which made the difference, Tomkins adding the third goal from a Matt Jarvis cross just before the hour mark with a close-range header to put West Ham in control of the tie.", "summary": "West Ham began their long journey towards the Europa League group stage with a comfortable first-leg victory over Andorran side Lusitanos." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said authorities had fingerprints and a basic description, and vowed to \"speedily\" identify the suspect.\nSome 600 revellers were in the Reina nightclub early on Sunday when the gunman attacked.\nSo-called Islamic State said it was behind the attack.\nMr Kurtulmus told reporters: \"Information about the fingerprints and basic appearance of the terrorist have been found.\n\"The next step will be to try to identify him as quickly as we can. We hope we will not only find the terrorist but also his connections and those people who gave him support inside and outside the club,\" he said.\nMr Kurtulmus confirmed eight arrests. Later in the evening special forces police backed by a helicopter launched an operation on a house in the Zeytinburnu district following a tip.\nThe attacker was not found. Four more arrests have been made elsewhere.\nTurkish police also released new images said to be of the suspect, but without giving any more information about the time or location.\nTurkish media also showed video purported to be of the suspect at an unidentified date and location where he is seen handing over identification documents to an official behind a glass window. The video cannot be independently verified.\nTurkish media reports quote police sources as saying he may have been from Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan.\nPolice are investigating whether the suspect belongs to an IS cell blamed for an attack in June on Ataturk airport in Istanbul.\nMr Kurtulmus said the nightclub attack was a \"message\" against Turkey's operations in Syria but that they would not be affected.\nTurkey launched a military operation in August aimed at pushing back IS and Kurdish forces, with some of the most intensive recent fighting against IS around the northern town of al-Bab.\nIS said in a statement that the attack was carried out by \"a heroic soldier\".\nIt accused Turkey of shedding the blood of Muslims through \"its air strikes and mortar attacks\" in Syria.\nAlthough IS has been linked to other attacks in Turkey, it has not claimed responsibility before.\nEarly on Sunday, the gunman arrived at the club by taxi before rushing through the entrance with a long-barrelled gun he had taken from the boot of the car.\nThe attacker fired randomly at people in an assault lasting seven minutes, starting with a security guard and a travel agent near the entrance. Both were killed.\nThe gunman is reported to have changed clothes before fleeing the chaos.\nSome two-thirds of those killed were foreign, according to local media, among them citizens from Israel, Russia, France, Tunisia, Lebanon, India, Belgium, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.\nThe victims\nThe body of one of those who died has yet to be identified.\nAt least 69 people are being treated in hospital, officials said, with three in a serious condition.\nBarman Mehmet Yilan, 36, said the gunman \"stormed in and immediately headed for the people to the left, which is always more crowded... he seemed to know where to go.\n\"He was shooting randomly but aiming for their upper bodies. He didn't want to just injure them.\"\nThe nightclub, which sits on the banks of the Bosphorus, is one of Istanbul's most fashionable venues - popular with foreigners and often frequented by singers and sports stars.\nIstanbul was already on high alert with some 17,000 police officers on duty in the city, following a string of terror attacks in recent months.\n10 December: Twin bomb attack outside a football stadium in Istanbul kills 44 people, Kurdish militant group claims responsibility\n20 August: Bomb attack on wedding party in Gaziantep kills at least 30 people, IS suspected\n30 July: 35 Kurdish fighters try to storm a military base and are killed by the Turkish army\n28 June: A gun and bomb attack on Ataturk airport in Istanbul kills 41 people, in an attack blamed on IS militants\n13 March: 37 people are killed by Kurdish militants in a suicide car bombing in Ankara\n17 February: 28 people die in an attack on a military convoy in Ankara", "summary": "Turkish police have launched raids in Istanbul and arrested 12 people, as the hunt for an attacker who killed 39 people in a nightclub intensifies." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Patrick O'Flynn told The Times Mr Farage risked turning the party into a \"personality cult\".\nBut he said later he was not trying to launch a coup against Mr Farage and he wanted him to remain leader.\nMr Farage has said it his not his fault the party asked him to remain leader.\nHe stood down as party leader after failing to win the South Thanet seat in the general election, but was reinstated three days later when the party refused to accept his resignation.\nIn other developments:\nMr O'Flynn wrote in The Times that Mr Farage had moved away from being a \"cheerful, ebullient... daring\" politician.\nHe also attacked senior aides within the party and told The Times \"aggressive\" and \"inexperienced\" staffers must be cleared out.\nBut he later said: \"If anyone thinks or supposes that I'm planning some kind of coup against Nigel they couldn't be more wrong. He is my political hero and will remain so and he's done amazing things.\"\nThere is now a very clear divide at the top of UKIP. On one side there is Patrick O'Flynn, Douglas Carswell and another senior official who was prominent during the election campaign.\nOn the other side is Nigel Farage, a tight circle of senior aides and the millionaire donor Arron Banks.\nThe key moment that led to this was the leader's decision to stay on.\nMr Farage said he was \"persuaded\" by \"overwhelming\" evidence from UKIP members that they wanted him at the top.\nIt surprised some, including the party's only MP Mr Carswell. It's what lies behind Mr O'Flynn's claims that UKIP could be seen as an \"absolute monarchy\".\nThe dispute is now very public and very nasty. Close allies of Mr Farage have used unprintable four and five letter words in texts to me to describe Mr O'Flynn and Mr Carswell.\nAll this just days after the party amassed a massive four million votes in the general election and installed itself as the challenger to Labour in the north of England.\nBut a senior UKIP source described Mr Farage's decision to remain leader without a contest as \"a tragedy of self destruction\".\nThe source said Mr Farage's authority risked \"draining away\" without a contest. He compared it with the plight of Gordon Brown after he was elected without a contest.\nAnother senior official, who was prominent during the election campaign, told BBC political correspondent Robin Brant they believed Nigel Farage's chief of staff and one other adviser were \"out of control\" and \"dragging Nigel down\".\nAnd former UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom called for the party to make Douglas Carswell its new leader.\nHe told the BBC: \"He's a man of extraordinary presence and I think naturally should step forward now.\"\nHe added: \"But I don't think he wants it. It's a poisoned chalice\".\nBusinessman Arron Banks, who gave UKIP £1m last year, told the BBC that Mr Farage had \"given his all\" to building UKIP and he \"deserved a rest rather than petty squabbling from lesser people\".\nHe said Mr O'Flynn \"could take a few lessons from Nigel on presentation and communication\".\nBut he conceded UKIP's internal party machinery \"needs to be sorted\" saying it \"no doubt will be looked at\".\nThe attack on Mr Farage comes amid a separate row after UKIP's only MP, Douglas Carswell, resisted pressure from the party to claim £650,000 of taxpayers' money to fund up to 15 additional members of staff.\nIn a meeting with Mr Farage, Mr Carswell refused to budge from his position on the funds, which are available from public Short money allocated to opposition parties to help cover their parliamentary costs.\nParty sources said the meeting ended without a final decision being reached on what to do about the money.\nParties in the House of Commons receive about £16,700 per seat, as well as an additional £33.33 for every 200 votes won nationally in the general election.\nUnder the system, operating since 1975, the money can be claimed by any party with two or more seats in the Commons, or parties with one seat that won more than 150,000 votes across the country.\nBecause UKIP secured almost 3.9 million votes, but only one Commons seat, Mr Carswell is entitled to far more short money than any other MP.\nBut the MP said it would be \"completely inappropriate\" to take the money.", "summary": "UKIP's economic spokesman has insisted Nigel Farage is his \"political hero\" after warning the UKIP leader had become a \"snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive\" man." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "\"She\" may boast an encyclopaedic knowledge, but research by consumer behaviour analysts Canvas8 reveals that some users are more interested in a virtual hook-up than fact finding.\nAnd she's not the only target: the equally smooth voice of Microsoft's Cortana is getting customers just as hot under the collar apparently.\nFrom perma-smiling avatars in traditionally female support roles, to hyper-sexualised \"fembots\" pandering to male fantasies, the female form is everywhere in techno-world - attractive, servile and at your command.\nSvedka - a pneumatic, strutting sexpot - fronted the eponymous Swedish vodka brand for years, boasting of \"stimulating V-spots\".\nA little more conservative, but just as eager to please, is virtual personal assistant Amy Ingram, the brainchild of New York start-up X.ai.\n\"Always at your service\", Amy the meeting scheduler has received gifts of flowers and chocolates from happy customers seemingly unaware that she's just a learning algorithm.\nThen there's Amelia, IPSoft's mellifluous chatbot. And a swell of female banking bots - the Ericas, Cleos, Pennys and Ninas - dispensing information about opening hours and your bank balance.\nWhy does the tech industry appear so sexist?\nWomen account for just 30% of the technology workforce, according to figures released collectively by Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. Is this imbalance being reflected in the products the industry is coming out with?\nDr Ileana Stigliani, assistant professor of design and innovation at London's Imperial College Business School, says the answer is a resounding yes.\n\"If those teaching computers to act like humans are only men, there is a strong likelihood that the resulting products will be gender biased,\" she says.\n\"This could explain why we're seeing sexualised fembots with a view of the world that reflects the social norms of the group who created them - white men, for instance.\"\nNoel Sharkey, emeritus professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield, agrees.\n\"It's actually not a great leap between some of the mainstream AI personas and the growing popularity of sexbots; one trend is definitely feeding the other,\" he says.\n\"It objectifies women and perpetuates gender stereotypes, none of which is helpful in terms of getting more women into the industry, which we need to bring more balance and diversity.\"\nMissy Kelley, an AI product design director at New York-based digital agency Huge, believes young girls often have an appetite for technology but are let down by a male-centric learning culture in the classroom.\nBetween 2000 and 2012, there was a 64% decline in undergraduate women interested in majoring in computer science, according to figures from the US-based National Center for Women and Information Technology.\n\"From the start, AI was designed to prove something could be done, with a focus on the process. Men have been driving the way it is taught and continuing to inform it.\n\"A lot of women, however, want to see a greater purpose in terms of how technology impacts others. Therefore the teaching needs to evolve from task-focused goals to one that looks at how AI can solve broader social issues.\"\nEducational institutions obviously have a role to play in trying to redress this gender imbalance.\nLondon's Imperial College Business School runs an MBA [Master of Business Administration] programme that considers the social impact of AI and how it can address fundamental human needs.\nThis is backed by an annual competition in which female science and technology students compete for a £10,000 prize to devise business ideas that solve real societal issues.\nBut the onus will also fall on tech companies to take a more gender-neutral approach to the robots they build.\nAnd a number of start-ups are already taking up the challenge.\nFor example, cognitive reasoning platform Rainbird has decided not to give its company's chatbot a personality or avatar, having seen first-hand the offence that can be caused by cliched female personas.\n\"Most progressive tech companies accept that if a bot is doing its job properly then there is no need to sell it as a blonde, smiling woman,\" says Rainbird chairman James Duez.\n\"It just puts distance between the software we're creating and large swathes of the population, and as a tech provider we carry a great responsibility in terms of how we influence the younger generation.\"\nLeaving appearances aside, a learning machine pumped with sexist data is only ever going to be sexist.\n\"Teaching the robot to ignore the bad ideas is critical,\" says Kriti Sharma, vice-president of bots and AI at financial services firm Sage Group.\nMs Sharma led the design team that created Sage Peg, the firm's first chatbot that reminds customers if they're late paying a bill or blowing the budget.\nShe made it clear from the outset that the bot would not have a female persona.\n\"I didn't meet any resistance from male designers,\" she says. \"I think the issue is more that people just follow the norm and do what they've always done without really thinking about the impact of certain AI personas.\n\"But once a cultural framework was set, everyone was very receptive.\"\nAnd unlike some of the chatbots known to flirt and play along with sexual banter, Sage Peg directs any such digressions swiftly back to finances.\nAnd that's enough to dampen anyone's ardour.\nFollow Technology of Business editor Matthew Wall on Twitter\nClick here for more Technology of Business features", "summary": "When Amazon first coined the strapline \"Ask Alexa\" for its virtual assistant, it couldn't have predicted the X-rated nature of some of the requests." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Stevens, 39, has had the cue since becoming a professional in 1994 and it has helped him win the 2000 Masters and 2003 UK titles.\nIt was taken from his white BMW between 20:00 BST on Sunday and 08:30 on Monday while it was parked on Gilbert Crescent in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.\nStevens has promised a reward for the safe return of his cue.\nIt was in a black case with the word MAXIMUS written in gold on the case.\nDyfed-Powys Police is investigating the theft.\nStevens, from Carmarthen, has twice been a World Championship finalist, losing to Mark Williams in 2000 and Shaun Murphy in 2005.", "summary": "Double snooker World Championship finalist Matthew Stevens has had his cue stolen from his car." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "And fans were left wondering if he fell or he was he pushed.\nLong-running Street resident Barlow suffered a stroke in the autumn, so many wondered if he was ill again.\nBut with Barlow having rubbed up family members, neighbours and acquaintances the wrong way in recent weeks, could he have been shoved?\nWe take a look back at some of the best of TV's whodunnits from over the past few years.\nWho could forget this long-running saga involving the Dallas oil baron we all loved to hate?\nIt took eight months for viewers to discover that JR's sister-in-law and former mistress, Kristin Shepard. But not before JR's long-suffering wife Sue Ellen got the blame first and was jailed.\nT-shirts printed with the slogans \"Who Shot JR?\" and \"I Shot JR\" flew off the shelves in the summer of 1980.\nThe storyline became one of television's first big water-cooler moments and prompted pretty much every soap going to get in on the cliffhanger act.\nSo it didn't have the glamorous Dallas backdrop but the British answer to the JR mystery was, of course, who shot Phil Mitchell?\nThe EastEnders bad boy came under fire in 2001 but fans only had to wait a month to find out who it was, although many suspects had come under the spotlight during that time, including Mark Fowler, Ian Beale, Steve Owen and Dan Sullivan.\nBut in April 2001, it transpired that Phil's ex, Lisa, had pulled the trigger. She confessed to Phil himself - while also admitting that she still loved him.\nEastEnders followed up its successful storyline with several other whodunnits, including who killed Lucy Beale and who killed Archie Mitchell.\nAnother twist on the whodunnit, this device was first used by EastEnders back in 1985.\nThis time, the mystery surrounded teenager Michelle Fowler who had become pregnant. But who was the father? There were several suspects, including Tony Carpenter and Ali Osman but of course, we all now know that it was Dirty Den. Her best friend's dad.\nOf course, it's not just soaps and their fans who love a good old whodunit. Many crime dramas have centred entire series' on finding an elusive killer.\nScandinavian drama The Killing (2007) saw Sophie Grabol's detective Sarah Lund investigating the rape and murder of teenager Nanna Birk Larsen, whose body was found in the boot of a car submerged in a lake.\nUnder suspicion on this occasion were Copenhagen mayoral candidate Troels Hartmann, along with his campaign manager Morten Weber, while Larson's teacher Rama also found himself on Lund's radar.\nIn the end, it turned out to be family friend Vagn Saerbaek - and it wasn't the first time he had killed either, having also murdered Lund's partner and a former girlfriend, too.\nDavid Lynch's cult 1990s hit series was entirely based on this question.\nWas it Laura's psychiatrist Dr Lawrence Jacoby, who was infatuated with the teen? Her boyfriend Bobby? What about Benjamin Horne, who had hired Laura as a prostitute? Drug dealers Leo Johnson and Jaques Renault also came under the spotlight.\nBut it was Laura's father who murdered her, while possessed by the demon Killer Bob.\nNow fans are excited about series three arriving in May, 27 years after the first season aired. Watch this space.\nThe first series of Broadchurch in 2013 was a huge hit for ITV, as crime-fighting duo DI Hardy and DS Miller tried to solve the mystery of who murdered a local schoolboy. Viewers were addicted to the twists and turns of the plotline as Danny's dad and the local vicar were among those under investigation. The moment when DS Miller (Olivia Coleman) discovered her husband was the murderer was one of television's scenes of the year.\nSeries two couldn't quite match the original's dizzy heights but the current third and final series is gripping viewers once again as Hardy (David Tennant) and Miller try to catch a serial rapist.\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Corrie fans were left with a classic soap cliffhanger on Monday after Ken Barlow (William Roache) was found at the bottom of his stairs unconscious." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Jamaican, 27, has been with Puma since 2003, and last renewed what is considered to be the biggest sponsorship deal in athletics in 2010.\nBolt said he was proud to continue with Puma \"for the years ahead\".\nHe had earlier indicated he may retire after the 2016 Games, but recently said he may compete for a year after that.\nThere was no mention in the Puma announcement about any retirement plans.\nBolt has won six Olympic gold and eight World Championship gold medals to date. In addition, his time of 9.58 seconds in the 100 metres is the fastest run to date.\nPuma chief executive Bjoern Gulden said the firm had supported Bolt since he was 16.\n\"He will play a crucial role in our future product concepts, as well as brand communications leading towards the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 and beyond,\" Mr Gulden added.\nIn addition to its contract with Usain Bolt, Puma has a longstanding commitment to Jamaican Track & Field.\nThe deal is a boost for Puma as it continues to take on bigger sportswear rivals Adidas and Nike.", "summary": "Multiple Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt has renewed his sponsorship deal with German kit-maker Puma until after the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Swan, Britain's youngest ever Fed Cup player at 16 years old, won 6-3 6-3 in the opening contest of the best-of-three tie in Eilat, Israel.\nHeather Watson then beat Sofia Shapatava 6-2 6-0 to ensure Britain top Pool B in Europe/Africa Group 1.\nBritain will play Belgium in Saturday's play-off.\nAnother victory there would see Judy Murray's side progress to a World Group II play-off in April, and the possibility of a first home tie for Britain's women since 1993.\nIn the four years since Murray took over the captaincy they have twice come through Europe/Africa Group 1, only to lose away ties against Sweden in 2012 and Argentina in 2013.\nMurray's hopes were dealt a blow before the tournament started this year when Australian Open semi-finalist and British number one Johanna Konta withdrew because of illness, prompting the captain to call on Swan.\nThe US-based teenager made her Fed Cup debut on Thursday with a victory against South Africa, but Gorgodze - ranked 197 places higher than the Briton - was a significant step up in class.\nThe Georgian broke serve at the first opportunity for a 2-0 lead but Swan then took 10 of the next 12 games to build a decisive advantage.\nLeading 6-3 4-1, Swan held off a fightback and saved break points before closing it out after one hour and 31 minutes.\nWatson, ranked 85th, was far too strong for world number 226 Sofia Shapatava in the second singles match as she won in one hour.\nJocelyn Rae and Anna Smith were beaten 6-2 6-4 by Shapatava and Oksana Kalashnikova in the doubles match.\n\"Joss had a back injury which restricted her, especially on serve, and of course that's a little bit of a worry for Saturday,\" Murray told the LTA.\nBelgium will go into Saturday's decider as the favourites in terms of rankings, with Alison van Uytvanck their number one at 43 in the world.\nMurray added: \"They have a strong team but I know enough about Fed Cup to know that rankings can go out of the window when you're playing for your country.\"", "summary": "Teenager Katie Swan upset world number 327 Ekaterine Gorgodze as Great Britain beat Georgia 2-1 to set up a Fed Cup promotion play-off on Saturday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "PSNI Craigavon has even mocked up a wanted poster with one of their own officers, jokingly claiming he is charged with the heinous crime of stealing hair gel.\nDet Insp Jon Burrows is obviously not wanted for stealing hair gel, but is \"leading the charge\" against suspects who are wanted on bench warrants.\nBench warrants are issued when someone fails to appear at court.\nDubbed \"Operation Relentless\", the idea is to share pictures of offenders with Facebook followers in a bid to locate the missing suspects.\nPSNI Craigavon explained: \"Sometimes this is a first time failure to appear, sometimes they know what verdict is coming and do a runner. Either way, they're now wanted!\n\"If that is you, consider yourself on notice. We are coming for you.\"\nFrom Monday 20 February anyone who still has an active bench warrant against them will be \"fair game\" for having their face and details shared online, the PSNI say.\nThe police have said until then they will be \"knocking doors, phoning suspects, speaking to solicitors and following any other leads we have\".\nA final warning shot comes from the team behind the Facebook page: \"The clue is in the name. We will be Relentless. Give it up.\"", "summary": "The PSNI has announced it will post Wild West-style pictures of suspects who fail to appear in court on its Facebook page." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It ruled that his convictions had been proved beyond doubt.\nTaylor appeared impassive in court as the judge upheld his convictions and 50-year sentence.\nHe was sentenced in May 2012 for aiding rebels who committed atrocities in Sierra Leone during its civil war.\nHis lawyers had argued that there were legal errors during his trial.\nBy Chris MorrisBBC News, The Hague\nCharles Taylor listened intently in court, as his appeal against his conviction for war crimes was rejected point by point. Dressed in a dark suit and light yellow tie, he began taking notes in the back of a small desk diary.\nBut he wrote less as it became clear that his appeal was going to be unsuccessful. At one stage, there was a small shake of the head as the chief judge outlined the wide range of Mr Taylor's support for rebel groups in Sierra Leone.\nHe stood to hear a summary of the appeal decision, his hands resting on the desk below him. But there was no other visible display of emotion, even when the judge listed some of the horrific crimes for which he has been convicted, crimes that had 'shocked the conscience of mankind'.\nCharles Taylor has no further grounds for appeal before this court, and he was given no opportunity to speak. He will serve his sentence in a foreign country, possibly the UK. Sweden and Rwanda have also offered to find a cell to house him.\nTaylor, 65, was found to have supplied weapons to the Revolutionary United Front rebels in exchange for a constant flow of so-called blood diamonds.\nHe was found guilty at his trial of 11 crimes including terrorism, rape, murder and the use of child soldiers by rebel groups in neighbouring Sierra Leone during the vicious civil war of 1991-2002.\nJudge Richard Lussick said at his trial that they were \"some of the most heinous crimes in human history\".\nTaylor has always insisted he is innocent and his only contact with the rebels was to urge them to stop fighting.\nHe became the first former head of state convicted by an international war crimes court since World War II.\n\"The appeals chamber... affirms the sentence of 50 years in prison and orders that the sentence be imposed immediately,\" Judge George King told the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Thursday.\nThe BBC's Chris Morris in The Hague says the court's decision has been closely watched because the guilty verdict was hailed as a landmark, proving that even people at the highest level of power can be held to account.\n• 1989: Launches rebellion in Liberia\n• 1991: RUF rebellion starts in Sierra Leone\n• 1997: Elected president after a 1995 peace deal\n• 1999: Liberia's Lurd rebels start an insurrection to oust Mr Taylor\n• June 2003: Arrest warrant issued; two months later he steps down and goes into exile to Nigeria\n• March 2006: Arrested after a failed escape bid and sent to Sierra Leone\n• June 2007: His trial opens - hosted in The Hague for security reasons\n• April 2012: Convicted of aiding and abetting the commission of war crimes\n• May 2012: Sentenced to 50 years in jail\n• September 2013: Conviction and sentence upheld by the SCSL\nCharles Taylor profile\nWhy Taylor will be jailed in UK\nIn its ruling, the special court said that Mr Taylor's personal conduct had a \"significant effect on the commission of crimes in Sierra Leone\".\nIt said that he unleashed a campaign of terror against the Sierra Leonean opposition \"using terror as its modus operandi\".\n\"The Appeals Chamber is of the opinion that the sentence imposed by the trial chamber is fair in the light of the totality of the crimes committed,\" Judge King said.\nHe said that Taylor's lawyers had \"failed to demonstrate any errors in the trial chamber's reasoning\".\nThe BBC's Umaru Fofana in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, says the hearing was broadcast live on national television.\nPresidential spokesman Unisa Sesay told the BBC: \"The end of the Charles Taylor trial presents a final closure to a long and sad episode in our nation's history.\n\"It's fair and open nature, although torturous, is a practical demonstration of accountability and rule of law in state governance.\"\nCorrespondents say that Taylor is now expected immediately to serve his sentence in a foreign jail. The UK has offered to accept him at a British prison - other possible destinations include Sweden or Rwanda.\nIt is likely to take about a week to organise his transfer from The Hague.\nHuman rights groups have welcomed the outcome of the appeal.\nIn a statement Amnesty International said that it sent a clear message to leaders across the world that no-one is immune from justice.\n\"The conviction of those responsible for crimes committed during Sierra Leone's conflict has brought some measure of justice for the tens of thousands of victims,\" said Stephanie Barbour, head of Amnesty's Centre for International Justice in The Hague.\n\"The conviction of Charles Taylor must pave the way for further prosecutions.\"", "summary": "A UN-backed special court in The Hague has rejected an appeal against war crimes convictions by lawyers representing former Liberian President Charles Taylor." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A third of GP surgeries have been told to contact people who may have been given an inaccurate assessment of their future risk of heart disease.\nThe alert follows the discovery of a problem with a digital calculator for assessing heart risk and the need to prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs.\nThe medicines regulator said the clinical risk to patients was low.\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has launched an investigation.\n\"We are working closely with the company responsible for the software to establish the problem and address any issues identified,\" said a spokesperson.\n\"Clinical advice is that the risk to patients is low and only a limited number of patients are potentially affected.\n\"GPs have been informed and they will contact individual patients should any further action be necessary.\"\nThe MHRA said the issue had resulted in incorrect results being produced for a proportion of patients.\nFor the affected patients, the potential risk of cardiovascular disease could have been under or overstated, it said.\nThe computer tool is used to help GPs assess the potential risk of cardiovascular disease in patients.\nGPs type in details including the patient's age, body mass index, whether they smoke and other health conditions, and the system calculates a percentage score stating their risk of having a heart attack in a decade.\nThe IT company that makes the software, TPP, said it was working with the MHRA to ensure that clinicians were informed of any patients that may have been affected as soon as possible.\n\"TPP is dealing with the issue involving the QRISK2 Calculator in SystmOne,\" TPP said in a statement.\n\"The tool is intended to support GPs in assessing patients at risk of developing cardiovascular disease and in developing treatment plans.\"\nThe Royal College of GPs said the decision to prescribe statins to patients is never taken lightly and those who are prescribed them will undertake regular medication reviews.\n\"We would advise our patients who take statins, and those who have cardiovascular problems but don't, not to panic as a result of this news,\" said Dr Imran Rafi.\n\"But if they are concerned they should make a non-urgent appointment with their GP to discuss this.\"", "summary": "Thousands of patients in England may have been wrongly given or denied statins due to a computer glitch." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Benitez was certainly in the mood to add the Europa League to the Champions League he won at Liverpool in 2005 and the Uefa Cup claimed when coach at Valencia 12 months earlier.\nIf many Chelsea fans refuse to remember Benitez's short interim reign at Stamford Bridge once he has gone, the Spaniard is at least determined to leave a trophy behind with his name alongside it.\nChelsea's supporters may not wish to recall Benitez with any fondness, but you suspect this most divisive of managers may just take added pleasure in giving them no option by delivering success.\nBenitez has made much of his reputation on the one-off European set-piece, proving a successful strategist while taking Liverpool to two Champions League finals - and it was clear this stage suits him as he faced the media in Amsterdam.\nHaving secured owner Roman Abramovich's main priority of a place in next season's Champions League, Benitez can provide an added bonus and add weight to his carefully cultivated CV by beating Benfica on Wednesday.\nMuch has been made of Benitez's desire to add a trophy to his own list of honours before taking his leave after Sunday's final home game against Everton, in the manner of a personal vanity project - but a coach wanting to add to his reputation by winning honours is hardly a crime.\nBenitez was relaxed in familiar surroundings, once more declining to offer any apology when asked about comments relating to Chelsea before his arrival. Smiling he replied: \"A manager has to defend his club and I'm defending Chelsea now.\"\nAnd as Chelsea trained, he was in his element, although there was a certain irony at the ineligible Demba Ba hitting the back of the net from all angles while Fernando Torres looked out of sorts.\nBenitez spent a long spell in conversation with Torres during training, no doubt reminding the rather sullen striker he has been Chelsea's specialist since they dropped out of the Champions League and into the Europa League after a dismal defence of their crown.\nRarely has Benitez looked more relaxed, observing from the sidelines before a lengthy and animated discussion with Ramires and David Luiz. And even when Chelsea's players returned to the dressing room he stayed behind to pose for pictures and sign autographs with observers inside this magnificent stadium.\nBenfica will present dangerous opponents under coach Jorge Jesus, a man on a personal mission to end the Eagles' run of 51 years without a European trophy, which has included six defeats in major finals.\nJesus wants that curse ended and the quality they have displayed in this tournament marks them out as formidable opposition, but Benitez has a list of victims in European combat that stands the closest scrutiny. AC Milan, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Inter Milan all fell to his Liverpool sides.\nFor Benitez, there is the possibility of forcing Chelsea's followers into accepting his time at Stamford Bridge was fruitful by presenting tangible evidence, while making himself more attractive to prospective employers. He wishes to stay in the Premier League but he also had to deal with inquiries about possible interest from Napoli when he faced the media.\nBenitez's history, his ability to craft victories in one-off European games, has been much of his stock in trade. And, while there was not exactly warmth towards him from Chelsea fans gathering in Amsterdam, there was a quiet, almost whispered, acceptance that he is due some credit should they beat Benfica.\nOne man less likely to be coming to the end of his Chelsea career is Frank Lampard. The expected arrival of Jose Mourinho has increased the prospect of him staying after he became the club's all-time record goalscorer, taking his tally to 203 with both goals in Saturday's 2-1 win at Aston Villa.\nFew would bet against this remarkable player adding goal number 204 in his 607th appearance for Chelsea and he is likely to lead them, as he did in last season's Champions League final win, because John Terry has an ankle injury.\nLampard and goalkeeper Petr Cech were at pains to point out Chelsea were not in pursuit of a consolation prize in the shape of the Europa League. These serious professionals are chasing a serious trophy. As Lampard said: \"The more we have been in it the more we have grown to love it.\"\nNo-one loves the stern challenges and examinations of European football more than Rafael Benitez. Benfica will provide him with both in the majestic surroundings of the Amsterdam Arena.", "summary": "As the strains of Glenn Miller's classic \"In The Mood\" echoed around the Amsterdam Arena, Rafael Benitez was planning a leaving present for the Chelsea fans who have almost grown to tolerate him." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Gunfire was heard and streets were barricaded in parts of the capital, Bujumbura, in the third day of protests, witnesses told the BBC.\nPolice are blocking about students in the second city, Gitega, from joining the demonstrations, residents said.\nThe protests are the biggest in Burundi since the civil war ended in 2005.\nFor the latest news, views and analysis see the BBC Africa Live page.\nThe army and police have been deployed to quell the protests, which have been described by government officials as an insurrection.\nUN chief Ban Ki-moon said, in a statement, that he had despatched his special envoy for the region, Said Djinnit, to Burundi for talks with Mr Nkurunziza.\nAfrican Union commission head Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said she welcomed a decision by Burundi's Senate to ask the Constitutional Court to rule whether Mr Nkurunziza could stand for re-election.\nBBC Burundi analyst Prime Ndikumagenge says the phone lines of private radio stations have been cut, a decision apparently taken by the authorities to prevent news of protests from spreading.\nThe ruling party's Vice-President Joseph Ntakirutimana has compared one radio station to a former Rwandan broadcaster, accused of fuelling the 1994 genocide.\nThe Red Cross says at least six people have been killed in the demonstrations since Sunday.\nMore than 24,000 people have fled Burundi this month, as tensions mount ahead of presidential elections in June, the UN refugee agency said.\nThis includes 5,000 who crossed into Rwanda at the weekend, it added.\nBurundi's ex-President Pierre Buyoya, who was involved in the peace process that ended more than a decade of ethnic conflict, has warned that Burundi could return to war if the crisis is not resolved.\nBurundi has a majority Hutu and a minority Tutsi population.\nThe opposition says Mr Nkurunziza, a former rebel who took power after the civil war ended, should step down.\nThey say his bid to extend his term is in defiance of the constitution, as it bars the president from running for a third term.\nHowever, Mr Nkurunziza's allies say his first term does not count as he was appointed by parliament and not directly by the people.\nMore than 300,000 people died in the civil war between the minority Tutsi-dominated army and mainly Hutu rebel groups, including Mr Nkurunziza's CNDD-FDD.", "summary": "Burundi has been hit by a new wave of protests as opposition to President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term grows." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The poet, who was born near Toomebridge, but moved to Bellaghy as a child, died at a Dublin hospital on 30 August 2013, at the age of 74.\nThe Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is providing funding of £688,700 towards the project.\nThe trail is expected to include the eel factory at Toome and Lagan's Road Anahorish.\nMany of Heaney's most-loved poems, set in his native South Derry, evoked a landscape of fields, farms, bogs and rural traditions, many of which are dying out.\nThe money is being given to Mid Ulster Council for The Living Past Project.\nIts aim is to showcase and preserve the places, sights, sounds and traditional ways of life celebrated in many of Heaney's greatest poems.\nPaul Mullan, head of HLF Northern Ireland, said: \"Heaney is our greatest poet, a literary giant.\n\"His inspiration came from the people, the landscape and the rural traditions of this beautiful part of Northern Ireland.\n\"What better way to celebrate his legacy than to reconnect local people to his work and make many of the sites that millions all over the world have been mesmerised by through his poems accessible for all to see.\"\nFunding from the National Lottery will also help to preserve the traditional crafts Heaney often wrote about, such as hedge-laying, butter-churning and 'the hammered anvil's short-pitched ring'.\nPlans to honour the late poet are already underway.\nThe Seamus Heaney Arts and Literary Centre is being set up in the Nobel laureate's home village of Bellaghy.\nThe Heaney family have donated his first writing desk, books and manuscripts to the centre, where the items will be put on public display.\nMr Heaney was a teacher and then had a distinguished career in poetry, winning the Nobel prize for literature in 1995.\nHe was internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats.", "summary": "A literary trail is being created in County Londonderry to showcase the area celebrated in Seamus Heaney's poetry." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sterling's move this year has been dominated by the impact of the referendum.\nAgainst the dollar it is down more than 15%.\nYes, there have been other factors at play. There always are many strands to what happens to financial market process. But the currency fell very sharply in the early hours of 24 June as it became clear which way the vote had gone.\nWhy a weaker currency? It's partly about the Bank of England and its policies. The Bank's governor Mark Carney had signalled strongly that he expected leaving the EU to lead to weaker economic growth.\nThe markets took that as meaning that there would be cuts in interest rates and perhaps a resumption of the Bank's \"quantitative easing\" programme - buying financial assets with newly created money. The Bank duly met the market's expectation in August.\nLower interest rates mean lower returns for investors in the currency where rates are reduced so its value tends to fall. QE has the same effect, partly because it also tends to drive down interest rates across the economy.\nThe decline against the dollar also reflects expectations about the US Central Bank moving in the opposite direction.\nAll year financial markets have been wondering when will the Federal Reserve raise interest rates again - after last year's move, the first since 2008 at the depths of the financial crisis.\nThe Fed did eventually take action in December.\nThe EU referendum has also created uncertainty about the outlook for the British economy, though the most pessimistic expectations about the immediate aftermath of a no vote have been proved wrong. The uncertainty may also have contributed to the decline in the value of sterling.\nIt has certainly helped the London stock market that the British economy has continued to grow reasonably well this year.\nBut the fall in sterling was also an important factor supporting shares. It does make it easier for exporters to compete internationally.\nFor some, the biggest companies on the market there is another advantage. Many of them - miners and oil producers for example - earn a lot of revenue in foreign currency especially dollars.\nThe fall in sterling means that is worth more when converted into pounds, boosting both the profits and share price of the companies concerned.\nSo we had a strong gain, 14%, in the FTSE 100 share index. The less international 250 index - gained a more modest 3%.\nThe price of crude oil is now about double the low it reached in January. The market has been driven to a large extent by the rather laborious return to the stage of OPEC, group that includes most of the leading oil exporters.\nOften in the past a fall in the price of oil led to an OPEC attempt to reverse the development by agreeing to cut production - though it's another question how effectively the member countries would implement any such deal.\nThe fall that began in mid-2014 met no immediate response. Saudi Arabia, OPEC's biggest player, was thought to welcome the pressure that falling prices put on shale oil producers in the United States.\nThe Saudis also wanted a bigger contribution from other OPEC countries, notably Iran. Eventually though, the response came.\nIn September the group agreed in principle to act and then in November a new production ceiling was agreed with some non-OPEC members agreeing to take part.\nThe result: oil prices are still around half the June 2014 level, but a lot healthier for oil exporters than there were a few months ago.\nThe precious metal is ending the year with a price rise of about 9%.\nBut it was a lot higher mid-year - more than a third higher than at the start of 2016.\nEarlier in the year, things in the US looked rather different.\nExpectations of an interest rate rise receded and some even wondered if the Fed might join the European and Japanese move towards negative rates.\nThe prospect that investors might have had to pay to keep money on deposit made gold look more attractive.\nAs the US economy gathered some strength later in the year that concern receded and the gold price turned down.\nFar from going down, US rates were eventually increased.\nTraditionally gold has been seen as an investment offering protection against inflation.\nSince Donald Trump won the US Presidential election markets have thought there might be more inflation coming as he seeks to boost the economy with tax cuts and perhaps spending on infrastructure.\nThe gold price has moved up moderately in the last couple of weeks, though if it was a response to the election it was a delayed one.\nIn any event inflation in many developed economies is gradually picking up a little from very low levels.\nSo perhaps that suggests there is more room for gold to gain too if some investors think they want an anti-inflation hedge.", "summary": "Massive political events have made 2016 a standout year - what impact have these had on the pound, shares and the price of oil?" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The report, in Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, looked at the Soviet leader's role in the 1940 massacre of Polish prisoners at Katyn.\nThe grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, said it violated his right to privacy.\nBut the court said Stalin remained \"inevitably\" open to criticism.\nNovaya Gazeta, a frequent critic of the Kremlin, published the article in 2009.\nIt accused wartime Soviet leaders, including Stalin, of being \"bound by much blood\" by ordering the execution of some 20,000 Polish prisoners of war at Katyn.\nStalin, who died in 1953, was described as a \"bloodthirsty cannibal\".\nMr Dzhugashvili considered the article defamatory and sought damages in a Moscow court, which ruled against him.\nA further claim, made after Novaya Gazeta published an article discussing the defamation hearing, was also rejected.\nHe then lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights, saying the Russian courts had failed to protect his grandfather from attacks on his reputation.\nThe court agreed that in some circumstances, attacks on a dead person could affect a living relative's rights.\nBut it ruled the Russian institutions had successfully balanced journalistic freedom of expression and Mr Dzhugashvili's right to privacy.\nThe court said the articles \"concerned an event of significant historical importance and that both the event and historical figures involved, such as the applicant's grandfather, inevitably remain open to public scrutiny and criticism\".\nFor years, the Soviet Union said the Nazis were responsible for the massacre at Katyn.\nFormer leader Mikhail Gorbachev admitted Soviet responsibility in 1990, and in 2010 Russian President Vladimir Putin joined his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk at a memorial - the first time a Russian leader had publicly commemorated the killings.", "summary": "The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a complaint brought by one of Joseph Stalin's grandsons over an article accusing the Soviet dictator of being a \"bloodthirsty cannibal\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Igor Sechin has been added to a list of individuals thought to be in Vladimir Putin's \"inner circle\", whose assets will be blocked in the US.\nHowever, no sanctions were imposed against Rosneft itself.\nBritish oil company BP, which owns almost 20% of Rosneft, said it would not sever ties with the Russian firm.\nIn a statement reported by the privately-owned Russian news agency Interfax, Mr Sechin was defiant, assuring Rosneft's shareholders and partners that \"effectiveness\" and \"cooperation\" would not be affected by the US announcement.\n\"I consider Washington's latest steps as high assessment of the effectiveness of our work,\" he added.\nOn Monday, US officials released a list of seven individuals and 17 companies that it said it was adding to its sanctions list.\nThe sanctions, which prevent US companies from engaging with those named, are in response to Russia's intervention in Crimea and Ukraine.\nThose added to the sanctions list will have their US assets blocked and US citizens are generally prohibited from doing business with them.\nBP, one of Rosneft's largest shareholders, said it would continue to work with the company, despite the sanctions.\n\"We are committed to our investment in Rosneft, and we intend to remain a successful, long-term investor in Russia,\" a BP spokesman said.\nBut, he added, the company was \"studying today's announcement in order to understand what exactly it might mean for BP\".\nBP's share price fell on the news, ending the day down 1% at 488.35p.\nHowever another oil giant, Shell, which often trades with Rosneft, said it would comply with US regulations.\nIn a separate announcement on Monday, Rosneft's credit rating was cut to \"near junk\" by Standard and Poor's.\nThe ratings agency downgraded Rosneft to a BBB- credit category, just one notch above \"junk\" status.\nThe agency had already cut Russia's overall rating to BBB- on Friday.", "summary": "The chief executive of Russia's state-controlled energy giant, Rosneft, has said sanctions imposed on him by the US will not affect the company's trade." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He was speaking at the Irish Open golf tournament in Newcastle, County Down, a day after he was discharged from hospital.\nMr Robinson said he was \"feeling fine\" after having stents inserted following his heart attack last Monday.\nHe said his health issues were nothing to do with the stress of his job, but blamed his diet and lack of exercise.\n\"I blame myself and nobody else but myself. The last emails that I was sending were at about four minutes to four in the morning and my men were timed to come at 7.30 to pick me up on that Monday morning, even though it was a bank holiday,\" he said.\n\"If you looked at my diet you would cringe - it's all around snacking and fast foods and all the things that you shouldn't do.\n\"Exercise? You're picked up from the door and dropped at the door, so it's all the worst lifestyle things.\"\nThe 66-year-old paid tribute to the health professionals who treated him during his stay in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\"It's been a difficult time obviously, but it really is tremendous what they're capable of doing now in the RVH,\" he said.\n\"I really am thankful, right from the ambulance staff who had to work on [me] probably for about an hour before I was taken to Dundonald hospital, they tried to stabilise me and send me on to the Royal Victoria.\n\"I was given three stents that helped the flow of blood around the heart and had a further procedure on Thursday.\"\nHe said he would accept the secretary of state's invitation for talks at Stormont on Tuesday on the welfare reform crisis.\n\"I'll take it easy for the next couple of weeks. I've got a good team around me,\" he said.\n\"But I want to concentrate on the crisis issues. The secretary of state has asked party leaders to meet her. With respect to her I will go, but I do make it clear that we will not be renegotiating [the Stormont House Agreement].\"", "summary": "Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has blamed his lifestyle for the heart attack he suffered last week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Six criminal investigations have failed to identify who killed him with an axe.\nIt has been alleged police corruption prevented the Metropolitan Police from solving the Welshman's murder.\nThe review will look at documents gathered by police and is likely to focus on informing public understanding of the case.\nHowever, any new leads would be followed up by Scotland Yard.\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Discussions are continuing with the family and we hope to make an announcement shortly.\"\nThe body of Daniel Morgan, originally from Llanfrechfa, near Cwmbran, Torfaen, was found in Sydenham, London, in 1987.\nHe had been attacked in a pub car park with an axe, which was found in his head.\nIt is believed Mr Morgan was about to expose police corruption when he was killed. A trial of four men charged with his murder in 2008 collapsed in 2011, following alleged failures by the police and prosecutors.\nMr Morgan's family have campaigned for a judicial inquiry into his death.\nHis mother Isobel Hulsmann, from Hay-on-Wye in Powys, met Home Secretary Theresa May at the end of 2011 to press the case.\nThey were not satisfied with her offer of an investigation into police failings.", "summary": "The Home Office is to announce an independent review into the murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Scott Kouebitra was found with knife wounds along with four other other men in Gloucester Road at 20:00 GMT.\nTwo of the men were taken to hospital but Mr Kouebitra died at the scene.\nA 16-year-old boy arrested on Tuesday appeared at Croydon Youth Court on Thursday. He was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 14 November.\nThe defendant was also charged with four counts of robbery, two counts of attempted robbery, two counts of theft and one count of possession of an offensive weapon.", "summary": "A teenage boy has been charged with the murder of a 22-year-old man in Croydon on 31 October." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Broadwick Live hope to grow the Abersoch festival from its current 5,000 attendees to 15,000.\nThe London-based festival group also owns Croatia's Electric Elephant and Austria's Snowbombing festivals.\nA spokesman said they would keep the name but \"invest in the line-up and ramp up the quality.\"\nGlass Butter Beach festival started life as Wakestock, and was founded by the Sensation Group, which also owns Abersoch Life magazine.\nAlex Barratt, festivals director at Broadwick Live, said: \"We love the Glass Butter Beach name and we love the concept.\n\"It had lost a bit of money in the past so we thought we could go in there and make it a success.\"\nHe said the company wanted to develop an event with an 18 to 23-year-old demographic.\n\"We are going to keep the Glass Butter Beach concept and name but we will invest in the line-up and ramp up the quality to the next level.\n\"With that will come a better production and sound quality. We hope to increase the number of people attending to 15,000, but it will be a gradual growth.\"", "summary": "The owners of Portmeirion's Festival No. 6 have bought a controlling 65% stake in Gwynedd surf festival Glass Butter Beach." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A painter, Lucia lives in Corleone and gave birth earlier this month.\nSalvatore \"Toto\" Riina, former boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra, was jailed in 1993 and now has terminal cancer.\nItaly's top court ruled this month that he had a right to \"die with dignity\" under house arrest but there were protests and he may not be let out.\nA parole board will have to decide in the northern city of Bologna, where 86-year-old Riina is in jail for his role in dozens of Cosa Nostra murders.\nTwo anti-Mafia judges - Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino - were killed in 1992, in Riina's \"war against the state\".\nCorleone was the hometown of the fictional \"Godfather\" in Francis Ford Coppola's blockbuster films.\nLucia and her mother are the only Riina family members still living in the town, which is run by special commissioners because the previous administration was found to have Mafia connections.\nThe baby bonus is an allowance paid to poor families in Italy - €160 (£140; $180) a month for those with income not exceeding €7,000 a year, and €80 a month for those earning no more than €25,000.\nThe Corleone authorities said Lucia had put in an incomplete claim for the bonus. Her husband Vincenzo Bellomo had submitted a new claim, but the deadline had expired.\nThe monthly allowance covers a baby's first three years.\nToto Riina has another daughter, Maria, who lives in the southern Puglia region.\nHis son Giovanni is doing a life sentence in jail, and his other son, Salvo, is confined by law to Padua. Salvo wrote a controversial book, called Riina Family Life.\nSome Italians expressed outrage at the court ruling on Toto Riina, which could move him to house arrest, like any other terminally ill prisoner.\nSalvatore Borsellino, brother of the murdered judge, said: \"The court should have remembered that the person before them is the same one who blew to bits servants of the state...\"", "summary": "Sicilian authorities have refused to pay Italy's \"baby bonus\" to the youngest daughter of jailed Mafia boss Toto Riina, 36-year-old Lucia." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "South Africa-born Jennings, 24, replaces Haseeb Hameed, who required surgery on a broken left hand suffered in the third Test.\nBowler Stuart Broad is rated at 50-50 for the fourth Test after missing the match in Mohali with a foot injury.\nEngland are 2-0 down in the five-match series.\nJennings will become Cook's 11th different opening partner since the retirement of Andrew Strauss in 2012.\nA former captain of South Africa Under-19s, he said he feels \"very comfortable and very English, despite my accent\".\nThis year he completed a four-year qualification period to be eligible for England, and celebrated his call-up with an unbeaten century as England Lions beat the United Arab Emirates in Dubai.\nCook said: \"He is in good touch, has spent some time in the middle for the Lions - making a hundred - and it is a very special day for him on Thursday.\"\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew\nEngland have options to consider but the quality of the alternatives is an issue.\nWe know that Jennings will partner Cook, and at least he scored a century for the Lions last week, but with the middle order looking light, neither Ben Duckett nor Gary Ballance would fill one with confidence.\nEither could play instead of Gareth Batty, whose place is also under threat from an extra quick bowler, ideally Broad but he is only rated 50-50 so Jake Ball and Steven Finn are on standby.\nBatty could retain his place if England believe the pitch will turn square, but none have so far and this seems the least likely option.\nBut they've got pop guns really and they are up against some very heavy artillery in India, who have their lead and are determined to win this series.\nCook is still speaking optimistically but the reality is that apart from one session in the first Test, India have been entirely dominant.", "summary": "Durham batsman Keaton Jennings will become Alastair Cook's latest opening partner when England face India in the fourth Test in Mumbai on Thursday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The footballer went into the studio to lay down a new version of the England squad's 1982 recording of \"This Time We'll Get It Right\".\nKeegan, who featured on the original which reached number two in the charts, declared the remake with athletes from north-east England \"much better\".\nThe Special Olympics GB National Summer Games begins in August in Sheffield.\nKeegan, who lives at Wynyard on Teesside and captained both Newcastle and England's 1982 squad in Spain, said: \"I think it's a better song now. These guys are definitely better singers than the England football team were.\n\"Sport's all inclusive, that's what everyone says. Sometimes you wonder, but the Special Olympics follows through on that.\"\nHeld every four years, the Special Olympics is the largest multi-sports competition for athletes with learning disabilities.\nKeith Hogan, chair of Special Olympics Gateshead Tyne and Wear, added: \"Our athletes are already incredibly excited about Sheffield. Recording this song with Kevin's help is the icing on the cake.\n\"We're extremely grateful to him helping with the song. Kevin was wonderful, really enthusiastic and interested in what we're doing here.\"\nAbout 130 athletes have been selected to represent the Northern Region at the 10th National Summer Games, where a total of 2,600 athletes will compete in 20 sports across a dozen venues in Sheffield between 7th and 12th August.", "summary": "Former England and Newcastle star Kevin Keegan has re-recorded a World Cup anthem to support the Special Olympics." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Too many empty seats and increasing competition from mainland Chinese carriers contributed to the poor results, the airline said.\nThe net loss of HK$575m ($74m; £60.1m) for 2016, was down from a HK$6bn profit the previous year.\nIt is only the third time the company has posted a full-year loss since it was founded in 1946.\nThe airline's shares fell by 7% in early trading, but then recovered.\nCathay Pacific is facing fierce rivalry from mainland Chinese and Middle Eastern airlines that are expanding rapidly in the region.\nCarriers such as Air China and China Eastern are offering more direct services from the mainland, making it less attractive for passengers to travel via Hong Kong.\nThe airline said \"intense competition\" from those rival carriers contributed to sales dropping by 9.4%.\nDemand for lucrative business and first class seats had also gone down, said chairman John Slosar.\nPassenger yield - the average fare paid per mile per customer - is a closely watched indicator of an airline's financial health.\nFor Cathay Pacific that figure fell by 9.2% in 2016, while yield on cargo services fell by 16.3%.\nMr Slosar warned that 2017 would be similarly \"challenging\".\nIn January, the airline announced a major restructuring programme which would see jobs axed, although it remains unclear how many roles will be affected.\n\"Our organisation will become leaner,\" the carrier said in a statement to the Hong Kong exchange on Wednesday.", "summary": "Hong Kong's flag carrier Cathay Pacific has reported its first annual loss since the global financial crisis." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The idea was to reduce glasses being used as weapons in alcohol-related violence, but opponents said drinkers would not accept the change.\nHowever, since then, more and more places have been using them.\nIt is arguably the most-well known change to have come out of a scheme to reduce night-time violence which was pioneered in Cardiff and adopted by cities across the world.\nThe Cardiff Model for Violence Prevention was launched in 1997 to fill gaps in police knowledge by anonymously gathering information at hospitals from victims of violence.\nIt was started by Prof Jonathan Shepherd, who came up with the idea while researching for his PHD, after learning up to two thirds of incidents which resulted in hospital treatment were not known to police.\nHe said reasons for not reporting incidents included people being afraid of reprisals and nightspots fearing they may lose their licence.\nAnd the solution was very straightforward.\n\"It is a simple process but those are the best ideas,\" he said.\n\"But it certainly wasn't obvious before we did this research that the police don't know about a whole lot of violence which results in emergency treatment.\nProf Shepherd explained the three elements to the \"Cardiff Model\".\n\"First it's collecting information in accident and emergency departments about precisely where people are getting injured, which street location, which school, which park, which licensed premises, which weapon was used and times and date,\" he said.\n\"The second element is the anonymisation of that information. So it's not about sharing information about individual patients with local authorities and the police.\n\"The third element of the Cardiff Model is a violence prevention board which brings people together from police, health, local authorities and voluntary sector to turn this unique information into practical prevention action.\"\nAs well as plastic glasses, other changes introduced by the Cardiff Violence Prevention Board have included real-time CCTV usage to help police respond quicker to incidents along with pedestrianised areas around nightlife and better licensing for bars and clubs.\nHe added: \"The most important thing from the evaluations is that this way of preventing violence on a collaborative basis actually works.\n\"The studies that have been published show that where this is done, violence that puts people in hospital is reduced by 40% compared to cities where this model is not implemented.\n\"The same goes for serious violence recorded by police where this model is introduced.\"\nThe model has been so successful, the UK government made it part of its crime prevention programme which has led to more towns, cities and A&E departments taking it on.\n\"The thing I'm most proud of is the violence falling across England and Wales,\" said Mr Shepherd who is a professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.\n\"In Cardiff, there have been almost 1,000 fewer hospital admissions following violence between 2002 and 2016 and around 65,000 fewer A&E attendances following violence.\n\"As a surgeon myself, clearly that's fantastic news as it takes a lot of work away and it's very costly to deal with 65,000 people who are injured especially when most of this happens at nights and weekends when most health services are stretched.\"\nIt has also been used in parts of United States, Australia, South Africa and Netherlands.\nThe first international interest came from Amsterdam in 2009 and was followed up in the United States in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.\nSince then, the leading national public health institute in the US - Centers for Disease Control - has recommended towns and cities implement the Cardiff Model.\nAnd about 18 months ago, the Australian government funded the implementation of the model at hospitals in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and two other smaller cities.\n\"It's very gratifying that this started in Wales, in Cardiff, so this is known as the Cardiff Model,\" Prof Shepherd said.\n\"It's extraordinary to go to meetings in Philadelphia and Sydney where the label on the door is 'Cardiff Model implementation'.\"\nProf Shepherd would like to see the model being used more widely across the world in the longer term, but said the focus should be on key areas first.\nHe added: \"Because this is a low-tech enterprise, it's particularly relevant to low and middle-income countries.\n\"This is not about treating people with a fancy new drug or a technological piece of surgical kit. It's about simple information sharing and use.\n\"That can be done in a poor town in a poor country just as much as in a western country.\n\"I think it's relevant pretty much everywhere but it's particularly relevant where violence rates are high - so in South American countries, in African countries, for example.\n\"Although it would be clearly nice to see this implemented everywhere, there are priority areas and I think focusing effort - at least to start with - over the next number of years should be on those countries which have a real problem with violence.\"", "summary": "The introduction of plastic glasses in pubs and clubs was a hot topic of debate when first mooted about 15 years ago." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The move to axe PCSOs will be discussed at the next Management Board meeting.\nThe proposal comes at a time when the force is planning savings of at least £800m by 2019.\nThe Met said all PCSOs who could be affected have been informed. Labour said the move would be the \"nail in the coffin\" for neighbourhood policing.\nThe three options to be presented to senior officers are axing 1,017 PCSO posts, retaining 629 dedicated ward PCSOs to leave the equivalent of one in each London ward or keeping the existing structure.\nPCSOs funded by other organisations, such as Transport for London, and PCSOs who work in Aviation Security (SO18) are not under threat.\nCdr Lucy D'Orsi, who is leading the neighbourhood policing project, said: \"Like local communities we very much value PCSOs and their role in community engagement. They have been an integral part of the Safer Neighbourhoods model from the start.\n\"However, the financial pressures we are facing mean that we have a duty to consider all options available in order to meet those challenges and to ensure we deliver a quality policing service to London's communities.\"\nMetropolitan Police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has previously said there were \"hard choices\" to be made over whether the number of PCSOs could be maintained.\nPCSOs were introduced in London in 2002 to provide increased police presence and to enable regular police officers to make more effective use of their specialist skills tackling crime.\nThey are not police officers, but are civilian members of police staff who have different powers to police officers.\nUntil a few years ago there were three PCSOs in every ward in every borough in London, but that was reduced in a shake-up of neighbourhood policing initiated by Sir Bernard.\nLabour London Assembly member Joanne McCartney said: \"Axing all of London's PCSOs would be the final nail in the coffin for neighbourhood policing and mean far fewer officers on the beat in our communities acting as the eyes and ears of the Met.\"\nStephen Greenhalgh, deputy mayor for policing and crime, said no decision had been made, but he suggested losing all neighbourhood PCSOs would be a step too far.\n\"The case for any change would have to be made powerfully, alongside a public consultation.\n\"It is likely that tough choices will need to be made, and we are aware that the Met are considering ways in which they can balance the books and manage possible reductions in their budget beyond 2016,\" he said.\nThe Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said PCSOs were crucial in developing and maintaining trust and were more representative of the capital's population than police officers.\nPCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"We don't believe this is in the best interests of Londoners and we are calling on the Met to halt the plans and allow for proper negotiations around the alternatives.\"Met considers scrapping 1,000 PCSOs\nSource: Met Police", "summary": "The Met is considering scrapping all 1,000 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) working in neighbourhoods in London, the BBC understands." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 60-year-old died suddenly on 17 April, collapsing while walking his dog on the Isle of Man.\nMr Lambden represented the island at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and had a personal best at the London Marathon of two hours 43 minutes.\nHe has been descried as a \"true ambassador for Manx athletics\".\nA spokesman for the Manx Harriers Athletics Club said he was \"not only a fabulous athlete but... a giant of Manx athletics\".\nHis sister Margaid Gosschalk is planning to stand with a Manx flag at the five-mile point, where he would have been standing to cheer his fellow athletes on.\nShe said: \"As he won't be there, we have ordered a Manx flag and I will be there. It's the least we can do in Murray's memory.\n\"He was proud to represent both the Isle of Man and GB and the incredible tributes I have been reading on so many sites from athletes and friends shows just how much people appreciated all he did to support and encourage others.\"\nThe married father of two's achievements included winning the 85-mile Parish Walk.\nIn recent years he was an ever-present at sporting events with his camera and administered the Parish Walk website.", "summary": "More than 100 Manx runners will wear a red bow while competing in the London Marathon, in memory of Murray Lambden who died last week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Contactless cards allow people to wave a card near a retailer's reader to pay without entering a four-digit Pin.\nResearchers for consumer group Which? used a reader and decoding software to grab a card number and expiry date from cards, raising concern about theft.\nBut a card industry trade body said fraud levels on contactless were low.\nThe Which? researchers said they gathered enough detail to buy items, including a £3,000 TV, on the internet using these card details.\nThey said that although the risks were low, it would be possible for somebody standing very close to \"lift\" card details without the owner knowing.\nHowever, wrapping the card in tin foil, or putting it in a foil-lined wallet would guard against this.\nRichard Koch, head of policy at the UK Cards Association, said: \"The method shown by Which? is not a new discovery and was first reported two years ago. However, any such technology can only obtain the card number and expiry date - information that has always been available simply by looking at the front of a card.\n\"The vast majority of online retailers require additional data such as the card security code, along with the cardholder's address, which cannot be harvested electronically. Any retailers that do not will do so at their own risk and will be liable for any fraudulent transactions.\"\nSome retailers ask for other information, other than the three-digit security code on the back of a card.\n\"Instances of fraud on contactless cards are in fact extremely rare, with losses of less than a penny for every £100 spent on contactless - far lower even than overall card fraud,\" Mr Koch said.\nHe added that consumers were fully protected against any fraud losses on contactless cards and would never be left out of pocket.\nCard providers should reimburse victims of contactless fraud, assuming victims acted reasonably to keep their card safe.\nNew technology is allowing consumers to use a smartphone or smartwatch to make tap-and-go payments.\nFirms adopting the technology are also marketing it as being a more secure alternative to physical payment cards because of their use of a technique called \"tokenization\".\nApple Pay is based on the system, and both Google Pay and Samsung Pay are set to adopt it when they launch soon.\nSo how does it work?\nIn the case of Apple Pay, the US firm requires participating banks and payment networks involved to create two new elements:\nThe token and encryption key are installed into a dedicated chip on the devices, which their operating systems cannot access.\nTo authorise an in-store sale, the device's token and an associated cryptogram are transmitted via the contactless terminal to the payment provider, who checks they belong together.\nEven if a thief did manage to intercept the information, they could not re-use the token without knowing a way to make new matching cryptograms.\nThis is similar to way banks protect their online accounts by issuing customers with card readers that generate time-limited codes.\nJust as criminals are not able to access online accounts by typing in a user's membership number without a corresponding authentication code, so are they unable to use a stolen smartphone token without a related cryptogram.\nFurthermore, there is no easy way to reverse-engineer a token to reveal the original payment card's details.\nEven if Apple's own servers were hacked, it does not store the complete account number itself.", "summary": "Putting a contactless payment card in a foil-lined wallet should prevent it being \"read\" by accident or fraud, a consumer body has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Joko Widodo won a closely fought presidential election in July 2014 on promises to break with the authoritarian past, improve welfare for the poor and take on corruption.\nThe election commission declared the Jakarta governor the winner with 53% of the vote.\nHis rival, former army general Prabowo Subianto, who won 47%, alleged widespread fraud and said he would challenge the result in court.\nMr Widodo is seen by many as relatively untainted by the county's endemic corruption and in touch with ordinary Indonesians as a result of his humble background.\nKnown as \"Jokowi\", the former furniture maker is especially popular with the urban and rural young.\nHis campaign platform called for \"mind-set revolution\" to end the corruption, nepotism and intolerance Mr Widodo believes flourished during the 31-year-long dictatorship of former President Suharto.\nHe also promised a strong focus on education and modern technology, including e-governance.\nCritics said he lacked political experience and would struggle to push through his agenda, as his Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P), has only 37% of seats in parliament.\nOpponents claimed he would be the puppet of the PDI-P's veteran leader, Megawati Sukarnoputri, a former president and daughter of Indonesia's independence leader, Sukarno. Mr Widodo's allies insist he will be his own man.\nBorn in 1961 in Solo as the son of a wood-seller, Mr Widodo was elected mayor of Solo - a city in the centre of Java - in 2005 and gained popularity with policies aimed at boosting small and local businesses.\nMr Widodo then went on to run for the position of governor of Jakarta, winning an emphatic victory in 2012.", "summary": "President: Joko Widodo" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rowe, 25, was part of the Team Sky team which helped Chris Froome win a second Tour de France title in 2015.\nCardiff-born Rowe hopes to join Froome and fellow Welshman Geraint Thomas in Great Britain's five-man team for the road race in Rio - a 256.4km race which starts and ends in Rio's Flamengo Park.\n\"I would really like to get a place in that squad,\" Rowe told BBC Wales Sport.\n\"We've only got five spots but I've put my hand up nice and early.\n\"It's still a massive thing on my radar, something I really want to do in my career.\"\nRowe played a supporting role for Froome and Thomas during last year's Tour de France, and he would be expected to fulfil similar duties in Brazil.\nAlthough classic races on the professional circuit such as the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana are widely regarded as the most prestigious for road cyclists, Rowe still dreams of competing at the Olympics.\n\"The road race in the Olympics is not looked upon as big as some of the traditional cycling races on the pro-tour calendar,\" he added.\n\"If you were to say to someone [road cyclist] if they wanted to win Paris-Roubaix or Flanders or the Olympics, they'd say Paris-Roubaix or Flanders.\n\"I think it's slightly lower ranked in the cycling world but, in the UK, it's absolutely massive.\n\"You mention the word Olympics and people get goose-pimples. It's that big, so to be part of that would be pretty special.\"", "summary": "Welsh cyclist Luke Rowe hopes to make his Olympic debut at this year's Games in Rio." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In 18 months in charge, the former Real midfielder has won the Champions League twice and La Liga once.\nSpeaking on the eve of their Spanish Super Cup first leg at Barcelona, he said: \"My story with Real Madrid is deeper than contracts and signatures.\n\"I'm happy to be linked with the club. But the contract doesn't mean anything.\"\nThe 45-year-old former France international, who managed Real's B team before replacing Rafael Benitez in January 2016, added: \"You can sign for 10, 20 years. I know where I am and what to do.\n\"In one year, maybe I won't be here. Real Madrid and I are not going to argue, never.\"\nReal visit Barca on Sunday with the game kicking off at 21:00 BST, with the second leg on Wednesday at the Bernabeu (22:00 BST).", "summary": "Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane has agreed a new three-year deal with the European and Spanish champions." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Buses came to Muadhamiya on Friday to pick up displaced residents of nearby Darayya, another rebel bastion that was evacuated after surrendering last week.\nThey will go to a temporary housing area in government-controlled Harjaleh.\nThere are unconfirmed reports that once the last person from Darayya has left, Muadhamiya will itself surrender.\nSources told the AFP news agency that negotiations were under way to secure a deal under which rebels would leave the suburb but civilians would remain.\nMuadhamiya has been under siege since 2012, and an estimated 28,000 people are trapped there with dwindling supplies of food and medicine.\nA limited truce deal signed in late 2013 has seen the suburb spared the heavy fighting that has ravaged other rebel-held areas, including Darayya.\nUnder the deal that resulted in their surrender eight days ago, some 4,000 Darayya residents were moved to shelters in Harjaleh and 700 rebel fighters and their families were transported by bus to the north-western rebel-held city of Idlib.\nThe 303 people from Darayya who began leaving Muadhamiya on Friday were being relocated after benefitting from a presidential amnesty declared in late July, the official Sana news agency reported.\n\"The heroic acts of the Syrian army in Darayya led to the achievement in Muadhamiya,\" declared Damascus Countryside Governor Alaa Munir Ibrahim.\nOn Thursday, the UN special envoy to Syria warned that the forced displacement of Darayya's entire population had set an alarming precedent.\nStaffan de Mistura said there were \"indications that after Darayya we may have other Darayyas\", adding that the government clearly had a \"strategy\".\nMr de Mistura's humanitarian adviser, Jan Egeland, said the UN had received urgent pleas from people in Muadhamiya, as well as Madaya, a town in the mountains west of Damascus, and the Homs suburb of al-Waer.\nSyrian National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar said earlier this week that \"isolated cantons that pose a threat to the state\" could not be allowed to remain.\nRebels still control large parts of the Ghouta agricultural belt around Damascus.", "summary": "Three hundred people are leaving a besieged rebel-held suburb of Syria's capital, Damascus, as part of what the government has described as an amnesty." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A vaccine for meningitis B will be made available for all babies from September.\nThere were nine cases in Wales in the first five months of 2015.\nMeanwhile, students under the age of 25 who are attending university for the first time will get ACWY - a replacement for the existing meningitis C jab - in August.\nHealth Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"Wales is one of the first countries in the world to introduce a nationwide MenB vaccination programme to help tackle the effects of this disease, which can be devastating for children and their families.\n\"I am very pleased to be able to approve the introduction of the MenACWY vaccine, which will protect teenagers against a number of forms of this disease, ensuring young people are protected at such an important time in their lives.\"\nThere will also be a catch-up programme for all 14 to 18-year-olds over the next two years for ACWY and for those children born between 1 May and 30 June, 2015.\nQ&A: Meningitis B vaccine", "summary": "Two new vaccines against meningitis are to be launched later this year, the Welsh government has confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rabeni represented Fiji at the 2003 and 2007 World Cups and Premiership side Leicester between 2004-2009, before joining Leeds.\nNicknamed 'Rambo' because of his marriage of pace and brutal tackling, he also played in New Zealand and France and was a noted sevens exponent.\nFiji media reported Rabeni died at his home in Nausori, just outside the capital, Suva, on Tuesday.\nThe Fiji Village website said the cause of death was unknown but quoted his father-in-law as saying he had been \"sick for a while\".\nRabeni, who played as a centre or wing, is survived by his wife and two children.\n\"We are shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of Seru Rabeni. Our thoughts go to all his friends and family,\" tweeted Leicester.\n\"Incredibly sad news to hear Seru Rabeni has passed away. Rest in peace big man,\" Fiji Sevens coach Ben Ryan tweeted.\nFiji-born former Wallaby Lote Tuqiri said Rabeni was \"a great man taken away too young\", while ex-Samoa centre Eliota Faumaono-Sapolu said Pacific rugby had lost one of its greats.\n\"Stunned! RIP Seru Rabeni,\" tweeted Faumaono-Sapolu. \"Absolutely hated every minute playing against you constantly smashing and stepping me.\"\nScotland's James Hamilton, a former team-mate at Leicester, described Rabeni as \"an incredible player and lovely man\".", "summary": "Former Fiji and Leicester back Seru Rabeni has died at the age of 37." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Turnout was low, 32.2%, but above the 30% threshold for the vote to be valid. The deal was rejected by 61.1% of votes, compared with 38.1% in favour.\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte said the government might have to reconsider the deal, although the vote is not binding.\nUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko insisted his country would \"continue our movement towards the EU\".\nA foreign ministry official in Kiev told the BBC that the result was disappointing, adding that Dutch Eurosceptics could not take Ukraine hostage to express dissatisfaction with the EU.\nThe vote was widely seen in the Netherlands as a test of public opinion towards the EU.\nIt was triggered by an internet petition begun by Eurosceptic activists that attracted more than 400,000 signatures.\nThe result creates a headache for the Dutch government, as the Dutch parliament approved the EU association agreement with Ukraine last year. All the other 27 EU member states have already ratified the deal.\n\"My view is that if the turnout is more than 30%, with such a victory for the 'No' camp, ratification cannot go ahead without discussion,\" Mr Rutte said in a televised reaction. It is also an embarrassment for a Dutch government that currently holds the EU presidency.\nGeert Wilders, who leads the anti-EU and anti-Islam Freedom Party, said the result was the \"beginning of the end for the EU\".\nDutch result difficult for Ukraine and EU\nThe Dutch have delivered a resounding no, with caveats.\nThe referendum was ostensibly about Ukraine - but the No campaigners weren't concerned with the intricacies of the trade deal. Two-thirds of the electorate didn't cast their ballot, so some argue the result cannot be taken as a true reflection of anti-EU sentiment.\nDutch PM Mark Rutte has promised to at least acknowledge the result, and politically it will be hard to ignore. Expect weeks or months of protracted discussions in The Hague, and Brussels.\nThe Ukrainian government is adamant that its wide-ranging deal to align itself with the EU will remain on course, despite the Dutch No vote.\nThere is a huge amount of political will, both among top EU officials and powerful EU member states, namely Germany, for Ukraine's post-revolutionary political order to succeed.\nUkraine's President Petro Poroshenko has insisted the referendum result will \"not be a strategic obstacle for Ukraine on the path to Europe\". And Dmytro Kuleba, a senior foreign ministry official, told me that \"Dutch Eurosceptics cannot take Ukraine hostage to express dissatisfaction about the EU\".\nThe vote comes less than three months before British citizens decide in their own referendum whether to leave the EU altogether.\nA spokesman for campaign group Leave.EU, Brian Monteith, said: \"This humiliating rejection of the Ukraine agreement demonstrates that people don't have to support the EU and its expansionist agenda to feel European.\"\nRussian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also appeared to welcome the result, tweeting that it was an indication of the European attitude to Ukraine's political system.\nThe Russian government was vehemently opposed to the EU deal with Ukraine and was widely thought to have pressed then-President Viktor Yanukovych to reject it in November 2013. Mr Yanukovych's decision prompted protests in Kiev that ultimately led to his downfall.\nPro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have widely been blamed for the killing of 298 people when a Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam was shot down in July 2014. The Netherlands lost 193 of its citizens.\nThe Ukrainian president stressed the non-binding nature of the vote.\n\"I am sure that strategically this event is not an obstacle on Ukraine's path towards Europe,\" Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Mr Poroshenko as saying.\nDutch Interior Minister Ronald Plasterk accepted the cabinet would need to consider the result but added that the government might need to look again at the 2015 referendum law that triggered Wednesday's vote. The minimum threshold could be based on the number of voters rather than the percentage, he suggested.\nOne of the Dutch Eurosceptics behind the referendum, Thierry Baudet, said there could be more votes in the future, covering the euro, open borders and any future EU trade deal with the United States.\nEU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had described the stakes in the run-up to the vote as being high, warning that a No vote could trigger a wider crisis in the 28-member bloc.", "summary": "Voters in the Netherlands have rejected in a referendum an EU partnership deal to remove trade barriers with Ukraine." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Up to now most train companies have only offered vouchers as compensation.\nThe voucher system has long been criticised by consumer groups, as vouchers cannot always be used online or to access the cheapest fares.\nThe Rail Delivery Group, representing train operators and Network Rail, said the change would come in this summer.\n\"Planned changes to the National Rail Conditions of Carriage will enable passengers to claim their compensation in cash, instead of rail vouchers,\" said a spokesman.\n\"This will be a welcome move for passengers.\"\nIt is not yet known whether customers with existing vouchers will be able to swap them for cash.\nThe move marks a major change in policy, as the current voucher system has been in place for around 20 years.\nThe news was welcomed by Transport Focus, which has campaigned on the issue for some time.\nJames Daley, a consumer expert with Fairer Finance, called it \"a victory for common sense\".\nIt was also welcomed by Budd Shenkin and his wife Ann, two Californian tourists who were frustrated by the voucher system.\nAfter paying for first-class tickets on a train from Inverness to Edinburgh last month, they boarded the train to find no first class available.\nWhen they tried to get a refund at the ticket office, they were told they could only have vouchers - of little use to a couple only in the UK on holiday.\n\"They sold us seats that didn't exist - and then wouldn't give us our money back,\" said Ann, a retired lawyer.\nBut her husband Budd said he was pleased to see that good sense had now prevailed.\n\"Implementation is always an issue, however,\" he told the BBC.\n\"Nothing short of putting a credit onto the customer's credit card without a physical visit to the office should be acceptable.\"\nAfter being approached by the BBC, ScotRail eventually agreed to refund their money.\nHowever, Transport Focus is still concerned that too few people claim refunds when their trains are delayed.\nIn a survey published in 2013, it found that 88% of passengers entitled to compensation did not bother to ask for it.\nAnd that's despite the fact that the rules on compensation have been widely toughened up.\nNearly half of the 26 train operators have adopted the so-called Delay Repay guarantee, which means passengers are entitled to redress after a delay of as little as 30 minutes.\nFurthermore, those train companies cannot get out of paying by claiming that the delay was not their fault, because they, in their turn, can claim compensation from Network Rail if the delay was caused by signalling problems or other network issues.\nThe companies not signed up to Delay Repay usually offer compensation when a train is at least 60 minutes late.", "summary": "Millions of rail passengers who suffer travel delays will soon be able to claim refunds in cash, after a major policy change, the BBC has learned." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nMurray and Soares, seeded fourth, beat Spain's unseeded Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2 6-3.\nIt gives Murray and Soares a second major title after they won their first Grand Slam together at the Australian Open in January.\nScot Murray, 30, also held the number one ranking earlier this year.\nMurray is the first British man to win the US Open doubles title since Roger Taylor, alongside South African Cliff Drysdale, in 1972, while Soares, 34, becomes the first Brazilian to win more than one Grand Slam doubles title.\nIt is amazing what we've been able to do from a country of no history of tennis at all\n\"These tournaments are the hardest to win,\" said Murray.\n\"I've got a great partner in Bruno who makes a lot of returns for me and long may it continue.\"\nMurray now has three Grand Slam titles, having also won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 2007, which matches the tally of his younger brother Andy in singles.\n\"I think we have been able to do a lot of amazing things in our lives on a tennis court,\" said Jamie Murray.\n\"I guess when you're kind of living in the moment you don't always think about all that stuff. But it is amazing what we've been able to do from a country of no history of tennis at all.\n\"It's just, it's quite amazing thinking about it. I get quite emotional kind of talking about it. My mum has done some amazing things.\"\nMurray and Soares went into the final in confident mood after beating defending champions and top seeds Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in the semi-finals, and they outclassed surprise finalists Carreno Busta and Garcia-Lopez.\nThe Spaniards broke serve in the opening game but Murray and Soares levelled immediately and went on a run of seven straight games to take a grip on the contest.\nThere was some concern for Murray when he called the trainer to work on his neck midway through the first set, but it did not have any visible effect on his performance.\nAn interception volley at the net by the British Davis Cup winner earned an early break in the second set and, with Soares dictating matters from the back of the court, they left little for Carreno Busta and Garcia-Lopez to attack.\nMurray had failed to serve out the match at this year's Australian Open, but he showed no nerves this time as he wrapped up victory after only 78 minutes.\n\"I am glad we got together,\" said Soares. \"It is our first season. To win in Australia and here is extremely special.\"\nMurray will now head to Glasgow for next week's Davis Cup semi-final against Argentina, and he does not expect his neck problem to be a factor.\n\"I will be fine for Davis Cup,\" he said. \"The physio said it's probably going to be sore for a couple of days. It's not that comfortable now, but thankfully it didn't really affect me playing.\"", "summary": "Jamie Murray became the first British man for 44 years to win the US Open doubles title as he and Brazil's Bruno Soares dominated the final in New York." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Waves from the surge in the Humber estuary on 5 December have washed away parts of the road and punched holes in the sea defences.\nThe damage is still being assessed by the land's owners, the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.\nIt has appealed for volunteers to help tidy up the area.\nTerry Smithson, regional director for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, said: \"I couldn't believe my eyes when I visited Spurn; a new landscape has emerged following the tidal surge in addition to all manner of litter and debris.\n\"We are asking everyone who loves Spurn to come and help us with what will be the largest litter picking challenge we have ever faced.\"\nThe 3.5 miles (6km) long spit of land, which is a nature reserve, has remained closed to the public since the tidal surge.\nA RNLI lifeboat crew based at the tip has had to move some of its operations to the port of Grimsby on the opposite side of the estuary.\nLifeboat coxswain Dave Steenvoorden said he had not seen such a level of damage before.\n\"On the actual operational side of the boat, no affect at all. It's everything else. It's the living, the shopping, the rubbish, the fuel, the electricity the water.\"\nHe added:\" I don't think we'll beat nature, but we might claw a little bit back.\"", "summary": "Parts of the Spurn Point peninsula are still cut off at high tide after sections of the the land were swept away by last month's tidal surge." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The drivers union Aslef said hundreds of it members had decided \"overwhelmingly\" to take industrial action after rejecting a pay offer from the rail operator.\nUnion bosses plan to meet representatives from Southern on Thursday to discuss the ballot.\nSouthern runs services between London, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Kent.", "summary": "Train drivers at Southern Railway have voted to go on strike in a row over pay." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Bristol Sport Ltd wants to replace two of the ground's stands to increase its capacity.\nIt plans to redevelop Ashton Gate as an alternative to building a new ground at nearby Ashton Vale.\nBristol City Council planning officials have recommended the proposal for approval. It will go before a council vote on 27 November.\nIf approved, the revamp will increase capacity from 21,500 to 27,000 and could be finished in time for the 2016-17 season.\nThe Williams and Wedlock stands will be replaced and there will be a new conference, exhibition and entertainment centre for the city.\n\"It is essential that the basis on which any planning is granted must be implementable and financially viable,\" a spokesman for Bristol Sport Ltd said.\n\"The redevelopment of Ashton Gate would be a major catalyst for south Bristol in generating a significant number of full and part-time jobs during construction and on completion, thanks to the significant investment of private funds.\"\nThe proposal, following a public consultation exercise in July, also includes enhanced disabled facilities, improved public transport links and the addition of rail seating.\nThe newly-redeveloped stadium would be used by both Bristol City FC and Bristol Rugby Club, both run by Bristol Sport Ltd.\nAlthough the club has planning permission for a move to Ashton Vale, it has been held up by a row over a bid for town green status for the area.\nPlanners also recommended the approval of the South Bristol link road which councillors will vote on in a meeting on the same day as the Ashton Gate vote.\nA Bristol Sport Ltd spokesman said: \"At the conclusion of this planning process the Board of Bristol City Football Club will be in a position to make a considered choice between stadium construction at either Ashton Gate or Ashton Vale.\"", "summary": "Plans for Bristol City FC's £40m redevelopment of Ashton Gate stadium have been recommended for approval." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "More than 20 raptors were discovered at various locations in March and April.\nPolice Scotland confirmed that 16 of them - 12 red kites and four buzzards - were probably accidentally killed by pest control measures.\nA reward is being offered for witnesses or further information which could help with the ongoing inquiry.\nA criminal investigation into the deaths remains ongoing.\nDet Supt Colin Carey said: \"Investigations into the suspicious deaths of wildlife and especially raptors can be difficult and prolonged.\n\"The areas covered can be vast and it is seldom immediately apparent why a bird may have died.\n\"We work closely with partners to identify and thoroughly investigate all wildlife crime.\"\nHe added: \"The death of the raptors in Ross-shire remains an on-going investigation during which we are endeavouring to establish all of the circumstances around this crime.\n\"We would ask anyone who may have further information to come forward.\"", "summary": "Birds of prey found dead in Ross-shire in the Highlands earlier this year were most likely not targeted deliberately, police have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Howard Beverland's sixth-minute own goal gave the Ports the lead at Seaview but he atoned by levelling on 20 before Colin Coates' headed winner on 53.\nLinfield failed to join the Crues on 11 points as Mark Haughey's header was cancelled out by Kris Lowe's goal.\nCliftonville ended a two-game losing run with an unconvincing 2-1 win over 10-man Ballinamallard United.\nDarren Murray put the Reds ahead on 32 minutes shortly after Ballinamallard's Liam Flatley had received a straight red card for a challenge on Jason McGuinness.\nThe home side levelled in first-half injury-time as Adam Lecky poked home after Reds keeper Jason Mooney had dropped a cross.\nA Ryan McConnell own goal restored Cliftonville's advantage before Jason McCartney missed a 78th-minute Ballinamallard penalty.\nCrusaders were far from their best against Portadown but were still deserving winners at Seaview.\nThe Crues started at a high tempo with Gavin Whyte blazing wide an immediate chance but were shocked on six minutes as former Coleraine man Beverland headed a Mark Carson cross past his own keeper O'Neill.\nBeverland was on the scoresheet at the other end 14 minutes later as he looped a header over a flat-footed David Miskelly.\nThe Ports keeper was possibly at fault for the equaliser but he made two great saves before the break to deny Michael Carvill as the home side dominated.\nCoates was left totally unmarked to emphatically head a Carvill corner past Miskelly in the 53rd minute but the home side were unconvincing for most of the remainder of the contest.\nCrusaders did produce some late pressure as Philip Lowry somehow steered wide after Miskelly had denied Jordan Owens before the Ports keeper beat away a fierce Whyte free-kick.\nIn injury-time, Portadown had a penalty shout turned down as referee Tim Marshall waved aside claims that Michael Gault had handled.\nDungannon Swifts were full value for their point at Windsor Park and almost snatched victory late on as Roy Carroll had to save with his legs to deny Alan Teggart after the keeper's own poor clearance.\nLinfield manager David Healy was scathing about his team's efforts in what he described as an \"unacceptable performance\".\n\"We didn't play well enough, didn't move the ball quickly enough, didn't create chances and were defensively poor,\" said Healy.\n\"Dungannon worked harder than us and wanted a positive result more than we did. We didn't show enough quality to break them down. We had no spark and no creativity.\"\nMark Haughey headed the Blues into the lead on 38 minutes as he connected with a Josh Carson corner but Kris Lowe was able to tap in an equaliser just after the restart after a superb run and cross by Andy Mitchell.\nBlues boss Healy introduced midweek signing Kris Bright, Paul Smyth and Ross Gaynor in the second half but the trio made little impact.\nSwifts manager Rodney McAree was delighted with his team's display.\n\"We were brave, tried to keep our foot on the ball and a lot of credit must go to our players for being as confident as they were,\" said McAree.\n\"We had a plan, kept our shape and gave the players a chance to express themselves.\"\nCliftonville manager Gerard Lyttle's main emotion was relief after his team had to work hard to overcome 10-man Ballinamallard United at Ferney Park.\n\"We didn't use the pitch to our full capabilities. (But) This result gives us something to build on at least,\" said Lyttle after his side's 2-1 victory.\nBallinamallard, who now have only one point from their opening five games, competed well throughout despite Flatley's 27th-minute dismissal.\nMurray put the Reds ahead five minutes after Flatley's departure but the Mallards were on terms in first-half injury-time as Cliftonville keeper Mooney's dash to field the ball on the edge of the box saw him dropping the ball to the feet of the grateful Lecky, who made no mistake.\nWith midfielder Shane McCabe marshalling Ballinamallard superbly, Cliftonville appeared to be running out of the ideas in the second half but they got the break they needed on 65 minutes as the unlucky McConnell header a cross from Reds substitute Chris Curran into his own net.\nBallinamallard were then presented with a glorious chance to equalise for a second time but McCartney appeared to be out-psyched by the sight of giant Reds keeper Mooney as he steered the penalty wide after a stuttering run-up.", "summary": "Crusaders beat Portadown to move back to the top of the Irish Premiership as Linfield were held by Dungannon Swifts." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop), part of the National Crime Agency, took a year to alert police to information provided by Canadian authorities in July 2012.\nThe tip-offs about video purchases led to a number of investigations.\nThe referral to the Independent Police Complaints Commission was made in 2014.\nThe IPCC will examine how Ceop received and dealt with the intelligence. It will also look at why the NCA took until last September to refer the case.\nThe intelligence about 2,345 UK individuals provided by Toronto Police under an operation called Project Spade has resulted in the jailing of Cambridge doctor Myles Bradbury, who abused young cancer patients, and Cardiff deputy head teacher Gareth Williams, who secretly filmed pupils.\nAnother person named was Essex deputy head teacher teacher Martin Goldberg, was found dead a day after police questioned him.\nThe watchdog says it is separately probing how Essex, North Yorkshire and North Wales police acted on Project Spade intelligence sent to them by the NCA.", "summary": "The police complaints watchdog has said it will investigate child protection staff's handling of intelligence about potential paedophiles in the UK." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He said Paralympians were not put on an equal footing with Olympic medallists and that was a \"missed opportunity\".\nWheelchair athlete David Weir, who was made a CBE after winning four gold medals, has suggested Paralympians have to work harder to earn recognition.\nCyclist Sarah Storey became a dame, the top award to a Paralympian this year.\nOlympic cyclist Bradley Wiggins and sailor Ben Ainslie were knighted\nCycling and rowing performance directors Dave Brailsford and David Tanner were knighted for their services to both Olympic and Paralympic Games.\nFour Olympians were made CBEs.\nIn total, 29 athletes from ParalympicsGB were recognised following their achievements in the summer.\nMr Sutcliffe told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend: \"If you remember, at the start of the year there was confusion over whether the Olympians and Paralympians would get honours; the committee said it was unlikely. We managed to get them to change their mind and have a separate category for Olympians and Paralympians.\"\nSaying they had had made a \"big mistake\" in not awarding the highest honour to Paralympians like Weir, he said: \"There was an opportunity to be consistent and if you look at his record over several Olympics I think the least he should have got is a knighthood.\n\"Because the whole purpose of the Games was to inspire a generation - and how better to inspire a generation of Paralympians than to give somebody a knighthood?\"\nCommenting on his Twitter account, Jonnie Peacock - who has become an MBE after winning gold in the Paralympics T44 100m sprint - asked \"how much more\" does Weir have to do \"to get a knighting?!\".\nSix-time Paralympic gold medallist Weir told the Daily Telegraph he would have been disappointed if Storey had not been made a dame, which she had deserved after winning 11 gold medals.\n\"It's a weird one, how they choose it. Sometimes it seems that Paralympians have to win lots and lots of medals to get a damehood or a knighthood.\n\"Kelly Holmes was made a dame when she won two gold medals, but it seems we have to get into double figures to get it. Sarah Storey should have been awarded this years ago, and I just feel that sometimes we are left out, perhaps because we are not in the public eye.\nThe sporting honours committee has four criteria:\nSource: Cabinet Office\n\"It is a bit strange, but I am just honoured to get anything from the Queen for doing a sport I love.\"\nOn his Twitter account, Weir later emphasised that he was \"extremely happy\" with his CBE, and had been saying he was surprised that Storey had been overlooked in the past.\nDressage rider Lee Pearson OBE told The Independent on Sunday he was \"disappointed\" not to get a knighthood after winning his 10th gold medal at the Paralympics this summer.\nPearson said: \"Obviously, 10 gold, one silver and one bronze just isn't enough. I'm disappointed because I do feel I've given a lot to Paralympic sport and equestrianism. I think 10 gold medals is quite an achievement.\"\nSophie Christiansen, who won three golds in the London Paralympics to add to her two gold medals from 2008, said she was delighted to have been made an OBE.\n\"It's amazing. Aged 25 to be recognised in such a way, I really am honoured so I'm not complaining.\"", "summary": "Former sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe says members of the New Year honours committee made a \"big mistake\" in not recognising more Paralympic athletes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A resident said it was the worst flooding he had seen in 18 years of living next to the River N'djili.\nA tributary to the Congo River, it overflowed after heavy rain on Sunday night causing extensive damage.\nA UN-backed radio station said a water treatment plant was affected, cutting off most residents' drinking water.\nGervais Ntariba Bahimba, provincial director of Regideso, the firm responsible for water distribution in DR Congo, told Radio Okapi it could take two to three days to fix the facility.\nAfrica Live: BBC news updates\nEmmanuel Akweti, the local minister for the capital's inner city, told the BBC's Poly Muzalia that around 20 people have died since 29 November.\nBBC Meteorologist Alex Deakin says satellite images from the area suggest that as much a month's worth of rain may have fallen in the past week.\nIt is the rainy season and further heavy showers are expected in the coming few days, which may exacerbate the situation, he adds.", "summary": "An estimated 20 people have died in floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa, over the last 10 days, the authorities say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hundreds of thousands of Russians are proudly sporting symbols which honour war veterans and hail their country's military might.\nBut some of the displays have proved controversial, while others have prompted accusations of trivialising the memory of one of the greatest sacrifices in human history.\nThere are also fears that war memories are being exploited to justify Russian belligerence towards Ukraine and the West.\nThe St George's ribbon is by far the most popular symbol of victory displayed by Russians. It represents military valour, and was previously used with medals in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. It only came into widespread use in 2005 - apparently in reaction to orange ribbons which pro-democracy demonstrators in Ukraine had adopted as their symbol.\nMotorists in Russia put the ribbons on their cars, and women tie them to their handbags. They are also widely used on products, ranging from shoes and sofas to packs of frozen food and bottles of vodka. In Moscow, a grooming salon even offered to paint St George's ribbons on dogs' backsides.\nThe ribbons' ubiquity and use in the unlikeliest of places has provoked a backlash from those who think it insults the memory of war veterans. Several MPs have urged restrictions. \"You can't touch religious symbols, you can't put them on consumer goods,\" said Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a prominent nationalist MP.\nRussia's Great Patriotic War 1941-1945\nSome World War Two remembrance displays have caused controversy. Particularly contentious is the use of portraits of Joseph Stalin, as rights activists argue that he was responsible for the deaths of millions of Russians, and other Soviet nationalities.\nOne portrait shows the Soviet wartime leader offering Victory Day greetings from huge billboards in the southern town of Mineralnye Vody.\nIn Kaluga, central Russia, a banner threatened that Rome would be next for annexation after Crimea - the two names rhyme in Russian. It also listed the recent battle of Ilovaysk in Ukraine among the major victories scored by the Russian military over the centuries. Yet the Kremlin insists that no Russian regular troops are involved in the Ukraine crisis.\nInmates at a St Petersburg prison were made to line up and form lines spelling Victory Day messages seen from the air. To mark the war anniversary, seals in a zoo in the Siberian city of Irkutsk were made to wear paratroopers' caps and swim with toy guns.\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "summary": "Russia is gripped by memories of World War Two on the eve of Victory Day, marking 70 years since Soviet forces and their Western allies defeated Nazi Germany." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "7 January 2016 Last updated at 03:29 GMT\nReed Hastings announced on Tuesday that his internet-streamed TV and movie service had added 130 countries to its tally, meaning it now covers most parts of the world.\nHe sat down with BBC Click's Spencer Kelly at the CES tech show in Vegas, where he also discussed future technologies that might come to Netflix.\nRead and watch more from CES and follow the BBC team covering the event on Twitter.", "summary": "Netflix's chief executive has told the BBC that he is not in a hurry to expand into China, but will get there eventually by following Apple and Disney's lead." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "\"Good\", or HDL, cholesterol normally helps to keep arteries clear and is good for heart health.\nBut the team at the Cleveland Clinic showed it can become abnormal and lead to blocked blood vessels.\nThey say people should still eat healthily, but that the good cholesterol story is a more complex tale than previously thought.\nLow-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is \"bad\" because it is deposited in the walls of arteries and causes hard plaques to build up that can cause blockages, resulting in heart attacks and stroke.\nHigh-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol is \"good\" because the cholesterol is instead shipped to the liver.\nThe evidence shows that having a high ratio of good to bad cholesterol is good for health.\nHowever, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic say trials aimed at boosting levels of HDL have \"not been successful\" and the role of good cholesterol is clearly more complicated.\nIn their study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, they showed how HDL cholesterol could become abnormal.\nOne of the researchers, Dr Stanley Hazen, said HDL cholesterol was being modified in the walls of the artery.\nHe told the BBC: \"In the artery walls it is acting very differently to in the circulation. It can become dysfunctional, and contributes to the development of heart disease.\"\nSmall quantities of the abnormal HDL seep back into the bloodstream and this can be detected.\nTests on 627 patients showed that levels of abnormal HDL in the blood could be used to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease.\nDr Hazen added: \"This data does not change the message of eat healthily.\"\nInstead, he said the findings would be used to develop new tests for abnormal HDL cholesterol and research on drugs to help block its formation.\nDr Shannon Amoils, a senior research adviser for the British Heart Foundation, said: \"Although traditionally we think of HDL as 'good' cholesterol, the reality is much more complex.\n\"We now know that under certain conditions HDL can become dysfunctional, potentially helping to clog blocked arteries.\n\"This interesting research pins down the exact chemical change that causes the 'good' HDL cholesterol to become bad.\n\"This knowledge could allow scientists to monitor coronary artery disease more closely or even target the 'bad' HDL with drugs.\"", "summary": "Good cholesterol also has a nasty side that can increase the risk of heart attacks, according to US doctors." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He wasn't a major figure in the Easter Rising.\nHe wasn't a leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), the rising's driving force, or one of the names written on the Irish proclamation.\nBut, as a volunteer who travelled 70 perilous miles by bike from County Down to join the fighting against the will of his family, Patrick Rankin's story is one that takes in all the major milestones of the Easter Rising.\nIt's a story that saw him fighting side-by-side with some of the Rising's most prominent figures, like Tom Clarke and Willie Pearse, brother of Pádraig.\nAnd it's a story we know thanks to witness statements compiled by the man himself, held by the Irish Military Archive, and the memories of his own family.\n\"My grandfather was a gentle, thoughtful man,\" says Carol Rankin. \"He was extremely well-read, self-educated and loved books.\"\n\"To fight in a rising like that, it would have been a lifelong dream of his,\" adds Joe Murray, his grandson.\n\"To do something for Ireland, contribute something to freeing Ireland. He would have considered it the main purpose of his life.\n\"However, Paddy never spoke about his experiences to his family. He never even spoke about it even to my father, as far as I know.\"\nA painter-decorator by trade, based in Newry, Patrick Rankin first joined the IRB in 1907.\nHe emigrated to North America in 1913 and trained as a marksman with the United States Home Guard while living in Philadelphia, an skill that came in useful for the aspiring Irish rebel.\n\"At every shooting session, he would pocketed left-over rounds,\" said Joe. \"He ended up with 600, and when he moved home in 1915 he put them at the bottom of his suitcase under a pile of books.\n\"Unfortunately, a customs official in Liverpool took a great interest in the books and was rifling through them. Another officer told him to hurry my grandfather along, thankfully, before he discovered the ammo.\"\nThat close shave was the first of many for young Patrick Rankin on the road to the Rising, an event he heard about in the week leading up to Easter in 1916.\n\"He was told it would start on 24 April,\" says Joe. \"He was given a code. I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was something like: 'The butter will be delivered on the 24th'.\"\nPatrick resolved to travel to Dublin on the Tuesday, 25 April, with his brother.\n\"However, he decided it was enough for one Rankin to fight for Ireland,\" says Carol. \"So, he got up early and left without his brother.\"\nArmed with a six-inch revolver and some ammunition, he made his way along the back roads to Dublin by bike, dodging Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) patrols before arriving at his sister's house, soaking wet.\nIf he was hoping for a warm, family welcome, he was mistaken.\n\"His sister, brother-in-law and, as far as we know, his mother were there - but they would've been disappointed,\" said Joe.\n\"He had arrived without his brother. And they particularly would've been disappointed he arrived armed.\"\nSo disappointed, in fact, that they tried to stop him joining the fighting.\nThe morning after he arrived, Patrick woke to find his gun and ammo missing - Carol and Joe believe one of his family members threw them into the nearby Royal Canal.\nUndeterred, Patrick told them he was going outside to clean his bicycle after breakfast - and promptly hopped a wall to begin his journey to the General Post Office (GPO), the nerve centre of the rising.\nThis was no easy journey - particularly for someone with a northern accent - but Patrick made it to a barricade just north of the GPO and was ushered inside.\nSoon, he was talking to Tom Clarke - one of the Rising's main leaders and a co-signatory of the Irish proclamation.\nIn his witness statement, Patrick's wrote: \"Clarke looked about 30 years younger and seemed so happy.\n\"You would imagine you were talking to him in his old shop in Parnell Street.\"\nWith his training as a marksman, Patrick soon found himself installed on the GPO roof as a sniper.\nHowever, Joe said that his grandfather's statements do not mention using the rifle at all, although they do note \"a bullet whizzing past his head\".\n\"That was almost the end of young Patrick Rankin,\" added Joe.\nBy Friday, 28 April, after the heavy onslaught of British forces, the rebels left the GPO.\nIt was here that Patrick's notes recall the moment a young man, Lieutenant Macken, died in his arms after being shot near Moore Lane.\nThe next day - after Patrick and some fellow fighters stayed the night in an abandoned house near the GPO - the rebels surrendered.\nAlong with hundreds of others, Patrick was marched onto a ship bound for Stafford Prison and Frongoch internment camp in Wales.\nJoe says that Patrick's notes recount how a \"drunken brute\" of an officer cut the epaulettes from the uniform of Willie Pearse.\nDays later, Willie would become one of 16 executed Rising leaders.\nPatrick Rankin died in 1964, two years before the commemorations of the Rising's 50th anniversary.\nCarol says this will be an \"emotional time\" for the entire Rankin family, and a reunion event has been organised in Dublin on Easter Sunday.\n\"Family are coming from many corners of the world,\" she says. \"It'll be a celebration of our grandfather's fight for freedom. We'll all raise a glass to him.\"\nJoe, meanwhile, says his grandfather remained patriotic despite some \"disappointment\" with how the Irish Republic progressed after independence in 1922.\n\"He discovered in 1939 that he'd been overpaid in his 1916 veterans' pension,\" said Joe. \"It was about 70 or 80 pounds in five years, a lot of money to repay for a man earning £5 or £6 pounds a week\n\"But he wrote a letter apologising for what had happened. \"He wrote: 'I'm an old 1916 veteran and would feel very sorry for giving any offence to my country'.\"\n\"That sums him up.\"", "summary": "You won't have heard of Patrick Rankin." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Klopp, 48, missed seeing his side lose a 2-0 lead before drawing 2-2 with Sunderland at Anfield.\nThe German's coaching staff, including Zeljko Buvac, Peter Krawietz, Pepijn Lijnders and John Achterberg took over.\nLiverpool say Klopp \"or a member of the first team coaching staff\" will hold a media briefing on Monday ahead of the FA Cup fourth round replay at West Ham.\nYou can read a full report of Liverpool's game with Sunderland here.", "summary": "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has had surgery to remove his appendix after being admitted to hospital on Saturday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The fee was agreed 11 days ago and the deal includes a buy-back clause of 10m euros after one year and 15m euros after two for the Spanish champions.\nRomeu will arrive at Stamford Bridge once he has finished playing for Spain at the Under-20 World Cup in Colombia.\nThe 19-year-old has played in both of their games so far, a 4-1 victory over Costa Rica and 2-0 win over Ecuador.\nThe 19-year-old made two first-team appearances for Barca last season, making his first-team debut at the end of last season, but he was not part of boss Pep Guardiola's long-term plans at the Nou Camp.\nRomeu, who spent most of the campaign playing for their B team in the Spanish second division, said earlier this week: \"Chelsea is a great option for me.\n\"Leaving Barca hurts, but you have to take your chances.\"\nThe signing is a boost for new Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas who will be without Michael Essien for six months.\nThe Ghana international, 28, ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus during pre-season training.", "summary": "Chelsea have signed midfielder Oriol Romeu on a four-year contract from Barcelona for £4.35m." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The national team are once again bidding to qualify for a first tournament finals since the 1998 World Cup in France.\nThey got their campaign for the 2018 World Cup up and running with victory in their opening qualifier away to Malta.\nOn Saturday they face Lithuania at Hampden before a trip to face Slovakia on Tuesday.\nAhead of those crucial encounters, BBC Scotland caught up with the Scotland manager Gordon Strachan to get an insight into the job which can influence the mood of the nation like few others.\n\"I suppose Real Madrid would be the dream job!\n\"I never set out to be the Scotland manager, it just so happens that my career has ended up here and I've got to say I'm very, very lucky.\n\"I wish I could take this group of players and take them to a club side and I think they'd be a fantastic club side.\n\"What a group of players to work with, there's absolutely never any problems with them. It really is a joy to work with them.\"\n\"I don't get paid for what I do in the coaching field and being with the players, talking to them and enjoying their company. I really get paid for the stress that goes with it.\n\"I have to keep myself to the reality that the stress is just to win games of football. I don't get involved in the fantasy stress. I just have to qualify for the World Cup - that's the real stress.\n\"There's other stress which you can put on yourself if you listen to everybody who has an opinion. I understand that, I've not got a problem with that.\n\"What I do to protect myself and to protect my family is to make sure I'm in a good mood because it can affect you. It can affect the people round about me if I feel we've been unjustly treated, it can affect how I train with the players, how I treat the players, how I treat the staff.\"\n\"It's a battlefield out there. People don't realise that's it's usually 32 versus one, and the 32 are looking for a headline and I've got to protect my players at all times. They're the ones you have to look after more than anything else. As a manager you need their respect.\n\"You don't need the respect - you would like it - from fans and journalists and anybody else, but you need that respect your players.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"It's a bit of a game. Sometimes you guys (the media) win and you get that headline that you want and it makes me feel terrible for two days, or I win and you get nothing. I hope at the end of the day we put our hands up and go, 'right, that was a good fight, let's get on with it and I'll see you next week for the next round'.\n\"I try my best to make it different. After 45 years doing this, you'll find it hard to ask original questions, we all find it hard, and to get original answers is hard.\n\"I sometimes go on a tangent somewhere because it entertains me and keeps me from answering the question and it's a bit different.\"\n\"If I could have the rest of my life doing this it's great, but it's results-based.\n\"I was a bit annoyed with myself taking on that extra game against France. That was a misjudgement by me. I was down that I'd kept the players another week when they could have been with their families.\n\"There was never going to be any doubts (about staying on). Not at all. Far from it.\"", "summary": "Qualifying campaigns for major tournaments have often seemed like a form of slow torture for Scotland fans for the best part of two decades." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In March the government announced plans for one East Anglian mayor but this was rejected by a number of councils.\nNow the leaders of local councils and the government have put forward the new proposal, the BBC understands.\nBut the plan still needs to be approved by all 23 councils in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.\nThe government has said that if one part of the region chooses to reject the deal but the other accepts it, devolution will go ahead in that area.\nThe plans are set to be officially announced on Friday.\nUnder the deal there will be two separate authorities each under a mayors, with both authorities promising to work together on matters of regional importance.\nIt is thought the mayors will be in charge of housing, transport and other strategic planning issues, although no final decision has been taken.\nEach mayor is expected to be in charge of a multi-million pound budget.\nIf approved, councils and government officials will work on the finer details of the scheme over the summer with a final announcement being made in the late Autumn.\nElections for the new mayors are expected to take place next May.", "summary": "Plans for two elected mayors - one for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and one for Norfolk and Suffolk - have been backed by council leaders." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Jon and Jennifer Sharpe, of Featherstone, West Yorkshire, have raised about £20,000 for a nearby hospice in the past five years.\nThey decided to pull the plug on future events when Mr Sharpe had cancer tests.\nMr Sharpe said the 2014 lights were turned off on New Year's Eve as a final £130 was donated during the day.\n\"That's it, the last time, and I'm quite upset,\" he said.\nMr Sharpe, 74, said he could no longer physically cope with all the large Christmas decorations.\n\"My grandson won't understand why we haven't got lights all over the garden,\" he added.\nHe would be \"keeping a few lights on the house\" next Christmas but the large display items are to be used by a nearby farm shop to continue to raise charity funds.\nThe couple had been decorating their house in Featherstone Lane for about 20 years with recent fundraising benefiting the Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract.", "summary": "A couple who decorate their house and garden with about 30,000 Christmas lights for charity raised more than £5,300 with a final festive display." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police took action against Matthew Adams, Daniel Batchelor, Javier Centeno-Gomez and a 17-year-old youth, all from Suffolk, after concerns were raised.\nThe four pleaded guilty to a public order offence of threatening behaviour.\nThey were each fined £100 and banned from climbing manmade buildings.\nPolice said Adams, 23, of Raglan Street, Batchelor, 26, of Newark Road and a 17-year-old boy, all from Lowestoft, and Centeno-Gomez, 24, of Benacre Road, Ellough, near Beccles.\nThey were prosecuted following reports of a number of incidents where men were reported to be climbing on structures around Lowestoft.\nThe ban, which is active for two years, prohibits the four from climbing any structure more than 3m above the ground, unless it is specifically designed to be climbed, or unless they have written permission of the structure's owner and safety equipment is used.\nOfficers showed footage to court from the quartet's head cameras, including images of two of the group lowering themselves over the edge of the roof and hanging off the side of St Peters Court in the town - 15 storeys above the ground.\nIt also showed one of them parachuting from the wind turbine at Kessingland.\nA Suffolk Police spokesman said the threatening behaviour offence relates to them causing alarm and distress to residents of Lowestoft through their climbing and posting footage of their exploits on the internet.\n\"Police felt they had no alternative but to take action due to the extreme danger of their actions. As was pointed out during sentencing, they may have fallen and not only killed themselves but innocent passers-by on the ground,\" he said.\nAdams disputed whether they put lives at risk.\n\"What people don't understand is that we put a lot of training into this. I accept what I am doing is dangerous, but we prepare for it and we don't encourage other people to do it,\" he said.\nThe four appeared at Lowestoft Magistrates' Court on 10 March, where they all pleaded guilty.\nThey were also ordered to pay £20 victim compensation and £85 costs.", "summary": "Four so-called \"urban explorers\" who scaled buildings in Lowestoft have been banned from climbing manmade structures in England and Wales." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police said Andrew Evans, 26, from Wigan, claimed he needed the money to buy a present for his dying daughter.\nHe bundled the couple, who are in their late 70s, into their own car to get the cash - and then crashed it having been seen speeding at up to 70mph.\nEvans is wanted for robbery and kidnap over the raid, which police said left the couple \"petrified\".\nAfter the incident - which happened between 0300 and 0400 GMT on 16 March - he dropped them back at their home in Stone Cross Lane North, Wigan, saying he would leave their car in a supermarket car park to be collected later, police said.\nHe also kissed the woman on her hand.\nRevealing details of the robbery for the first time, Det Insp Paul Rollinson of Greater Manchester Police said Evans, who was armed with a gun and a knife, had subjected them to a \"prolonged and harrowing ordeal\".", "summary": "An armed man broke into a couple's home then forced them to take hundreds of pounds out of a nearby cash machine." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Warriors beat the Wire 12-6 to win their fourth Super League title earlier this month at Old Trafford.\nAll 12 Super League clubs will play at Newcastle United's St James' Park ground over 20 and 21 May.\nLeigh play their first Magic Weekend fixture against 'Million Pound Game' winners Salford, while St Helens face Challenge Cup winners Hull FC.\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "summary": "Super League winners Wigan will face Warrington at the 2017 Magic Weekend in a repeat of this year's Grand Final." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In April, the body of Colin Dunford, 81, was found at his Middlesbrough home. Julie Davison, 50, was discovered dead in her Whitby flat two days later.\nJames Allen, 36, attacked Mr Dunford while lying low at a friend's house after being accused of a serious crime.\nHe was found guilty at Newcastle Crown Court and told to serve at least 37 years in prison.\nMr Justice Openshaw said the murders were of \"quite exceptional brutality\".\nAllen, who had denied both murders, ransacked Mr Dunford's home, eventually trying but failing to use the pensioner's bank card at a cash machine.\nThe next night friends from the social club over the road grew worried after Mr Dunford failed to turn up for his usual two pints.\nThey found him dead in his home in Leven Street on 23 April. He had died of head injuries.\nBy then, Allen had disposed of his bloodied clothes and cycled 30 miles to Whitby and then on to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, where he sold a stolen gold ring.\nA day later, he was back in Whitby and was spotted outside Ms Davison's flat.\nPolice believe he talked his way into her home, attacked her and ransacked the property looking for things to steal.\nMs Davison, who had epilepsy and was the mother of a 28-year-old son, had suffered from serious head and neck injuries.\nInvestigators linked the two killings and a major manhunt was launched.\nAllen - who was caught on CCTV wearing some of Ms Davison's clothes - caught a bus to Leeds after the murder.\nHe later sold her laptop to a market trader, the court heard.\nThe manhunt ended on 29 April, when Blackpool-born Allen was spotted by an off-duty officer and arrested.\nThe court heard that he had numerous previous convictions, including an eight-year jail sentence for grievous bodily harm.\nJudge Openshaw added: \"Allen has shown not the slightest bit of remorse or regret.\n\"Both victims were innocent and murdered in their own homes during the course of a robbery.\"\nA statement from Julie Davison's family said: \"Julie meant the world to us and we are still struggling to come to terms with what happened to her on that awful day.\n\"On hearing the evidence of how Julie died we consider this was an act carried out in a way that was cruel, wicked and so totally unnecessary.\n\"It causes the family great pain and anguish thinking of what Julie went through in the moment leading to her death.\"\nTemporary Supt Steve Smith, of North Yorkshire Police, said: \"The evidence gathered during the course of the investigation left us in no doubt of Allen's guilt.\n\"We are satisfied that a very dangerous man has been taken off the streets.\"", "summary": "A man is jailed for life for murdering a Teesside man and a North Yorkshire woman while on the run." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Brian Conroy, 30, claimed he was not responsible for stabbing 26-year-old David Mair at the flat in Dennistoun on 18 November 2012.\nBut a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh convicted him of attempted murder after hearing how he apparently admitted the attack in a text message.\nThe court heard that the attack had left Mr Mair permanently scarred.\nThe jury heard about an exchange of text messages in which Conroy was asked: \"Why did you do it?\" His reply had apparently agreed he was responsible.\nDuring the trial Conroy claimed he had only taken part in banter and had only agreed he was the one who had spilled beer on a carpet.\nHe denied going into the kitchen of the flat in Findlay Drive and arming himself with a knife after arguing with Mr Mair.\nConroy, from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, was found guilty of attacking Mr Mair, brandishing a knife and striking him repeatedly on the body.", "summary": "A man who attacked a fellow party-goer with a knife at a flat in Glasgow has been jailed for seven years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Flybe service from Glasgow to Belfast on 16 December 2014 made an emergency landing when its left engine caught fire.\nSome of the 76 passengers sustained minor injuries escaping the plane.\nThe fire was extinguished by firefighters at Belfast International Airport.\nA report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said a cracked washer on the aircraft's Pratt and Whitney Canada PW150A turboprop engine became loose, causing the oil pump to fail.\nThis resulted in the engine overheating and a fire starting.\nThe pilots on the Bombardier DHC-8-402 plane noticed a warning light and audio warning during the flight to Belfast City Airport.\nAfter feeling a \"judder through the airframe\" they began to turn the aircraft back towards Scotland.\nPassengers and cabin crew heard three \"whooshing\" noises and saw a large blue flame coming from the engine.\nAfter a fire warning sounded again, the pilots diverted to the nearest airfield, Belfast International Airport.\nThe report said some passengers had to jump to the ground after the plane made an emergency landing because rear exits were not equipped with slides.\nA number fell, receiving \"minor cuts and bruises\".\nNo-one was seriously injured.", "summary": "Accident investigators have said an engine fire which forced an aircraft to make an emergency landing was caused by an oil supply failure." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A mere 18% of all delegates at the conference are female, and women under 30 are rarer still - especially if they are from Saudi Arabia.\nBut the 28-year-old is unusual for other reasons, too.\nShe's a leading financial analyst at the world's biggest oil and gas company, Aramco, managing a multi-billion dollar budget, and she is one of the Forum's \"Global Shapers\" - a title awarded for her work in encouraging more young women to enter Saudi Arabia's male-dominated workforce.\nWhat's more, she's currently in training for the Rio Olympics later this year. where she will be competing as part of the kingdom's first ever female fencing team.\nBy her own admission, she's an \"outlier\" in the country.\nOnly one in five women of working age in Saudi Arabia is employed, according to the World Bank, and the collapse in the oil price has added further pressure, as many companies now cannot afford to nurture talent.\nRawan puts her success down to her \"very progressive family\".\n\"My dad taught us independence since we were very young,\" she explains.\nTwo of her older sisters went through the traditional Saudi education system, but Rawan wasn't impressed with the results, wanting \"something more\".\nLuckily, she was one of the first to benefit from the late King Abdullah's scholarship programme, launched in 2005 to help young, ambitious Saudis study in the United States.\nThe University of Maine, where she studied finance, was a culture shock.\nUndergraduates quizzed her on why she didn't wear a hijab, whether women were really banned from driving in the Kingdom, and whether she would ever accept an arranged marriage.\nShe also learnt to fence, and travelled widely within the US.\nBut ultimately, home beckoned. \"I missed my family, so I decided to come back to Saudi,\" she says, without a hint of regret.\"If you see the campus of Aramco, you wouldn't blame anyone for wanting to work there\".\nThrough the Al-Khobar Global Shapers hub, which she founded, Rawan works with local schools (only girls' schools, she's not allowed in boys' schools) visiting classes and trying to inspire others to follow career paths such as her own.\n\"You can see it in their eyes; they want to be engineers, they want to be lawyers, but they lack the guidance, they lack the resources,\" she says.\n\"It's so heartbreaking.\"\nBut despite the obvious barriers for enterprising young girls in Saudi Arabia, such as the ban on women driving or on leaving the house unaccompanied, Rawan argues it's more what happens in homes that matters.\n\"Unfortunately, a lot of girls, their career path is not only determined by who they think they want to be, but also the culture, their background.\n\"We try and push them, but it's how they push their parents, to get them to agree.\"\nPerhaps unsurprisingly, Rawan is guarded in her criticism of the Saudi administration, nor would she be drawn on the debate about over-supply in the global oil market.\nShe insists the government are \"trying their best\" to expose young people to role models like her, and to get more women into work.\nOne example she cites is the Nitaqat scheme - or \"Saudization\" as it's colloquially known - designed to encourage firms to employ fellow citizens, rather than foreigners.\n\"If you hire a Saudi male, you get a point into your programme,\" says Rawan, \"but if you hire a female, you get two points\".\nShe is also keen to point out that, at least at her workplace, women are given equal opportunities.\n\"The only difference is that we wear Abaya (black robes). I spoke to a couple of people who work at Exxon Mobil and Shell, and we do exactly the same thing!\"\nAs for driving, Rawan is content to have a chauffeur, although she'd \"prefer to have the option\" to have her own car, and is convinced the regulations will be relaxed in the next few years.\nShe also says many of her contemporaries flout the law, and leaving the house unattended is commonplace.\nBut you get the sense that Rawan plays down the harsher aspects of the kingdom, out of the belief that taking on the authorities would distract from the advances being made by women like her.\n\"I truly believe that change is happening,\" she says.\nFor now, however, Rawan's immediate focus is on fencing. The next few months will bring several training sessions and tournaments, all while holding down a demanding full time job.\nIs she confident of making it all the way at Rio 2016?\nRawan chuckles nervously - \"Hopefully, Insha'Allah!\"", "summary": "Rawan Albutairi wouldn't have to do much to get noticed at the World Economic Forum in Davos." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Holdsworth's Sports Shield BWFC Limited and Anderson's Inner Circle Investments Ltd took over the club in March 2016.\nThe pair has since had a public falling out, including a disagreement concerning the sale of striker Zack Clough to Nottingham Forest.\nHoldsworth, who scored 52 goals for the club between 1997 and 2003, will stay on as club ambassador.\nA Bolton statement said: \"Both parties acknowledge that certain public statements each has made about the integrity and conduct of the other may have been inappropriate and, on reflection, regrettable.\n\"Both Dean and Ken are delighted that they have reached this arrangement and have done so with the best interests of the club and its fans in mind.\n\"Part of the arrangement has seen both parties agree that Dean will continue his involvement with the club as club ambassador.\"\nHoldsworth and Anderson took over the Trotters in a £7.5m deal in March 2016.\nIn November, it was reported that Bolton faced administration unless a deal could be struck between the two where Anderson would take sole control at the Macron Stadium.", "summary": "Dean Holdsworth has sold his shares in Bolton to leave Ken Anderson as the majority owner of the League One club." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The archipelago is officially part of Tanzania but has its own government.\nZanzibar was given unanimous approval at Caf's general assembly on Thursday and its Football Association will now have a vote on continental issues.\nIt means Caf now has 55 full members and is equal with Uefa as the biggest of Fifa's six confederations.\nZanzibar was previously an associate member, allowing its clubs to play in Caf competitions but its national team was excluded.\nTanzania soccer federation president Jamal Malinzi had called for Zanzibar to be admitted.", "summary": "Zanzibar has been admitted as a full member of the Confederation of African Football and will be able to play in Africa Cup of Nations qualifying." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 25-year-old, who can play at left-back or centre-back, made 91 appearances for the Lions, including 23 last season.\nLowry started his career at Aston Villa and has had spells at Sheffield United, Plymouth and Leeds on loan.\nMeanwhile, Orient winger Dean Cox, 26, has signed a new deal, keeping him with the O's until June 2017.\nCox is the club's longest-serving player, with 210 appearances and 46 goals in all competitions since signing from Brighton & Hove Albion in 2010.\n\"I'm very pleased - it was quite an easy process and I'm over the moon to get it sorted,\" Cox told the club's website.\n\"There were a couple of other options but I think we've got a really strong unit here and I want to go one better than last year and go up.\"", "summary": "Leyton Orient have signed former Millwall defender Shane Lowry on a two-year contract." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Department for Education is proposing that national curriculum tests taken by seven-year-olds in England could be ditched.\nInstead there would be an assessment of five-year-olds by a teacher - a so-called \"baseline test\" - which would be used as a starting point for measuring progress through primary school.\nIt represents a step backwards from more and more testing - a shift in attitude as much as policy.\nAnd it raises again the thorny question of what kind of tests young children should face in primary school.\nAre such tests a helpful indicator for identifying pupils' needs? Or are they an unnecessary pressure - a case of too much, too young? And are such tests going to mean a paper mountain of extra bureaucracy for teachers, hindering rather than helping learning?\nThe teachers' unions have broadly given their support to the government's announcement to row back on the tests for seven year olds in reading, writing, maths and science.\nBut the National Union of Teachers still says the idea of a baseline test for four or five-year-olds remains a \"triumph of hope over experience\".\nThe teachers' union questions whether this can ever be a sufficiently reliable test to be used as a fixed point against which to measure all the following years of a child's progress.\nBut the counter-argument to this is that you have to start somewhere.\nIf schools are to be held to account for how much progress children have made by the age of 11 - then it has to be measured against a starting point.\nAnd isn't the natural starting point in the first year?\nThere is also a strong argument that it is the low achievers and the disadvantaged who will be most in need of the extra help that a test might identify.\nAnd at the last general election, all three main political parties were sympathetic to the principle of baseline testing.\nBut the announcement on testing also raises another great back and forth of the education pendulum. How much data is too much?\nParents' evenings, with spreadsheets and targets, can feel like a chat with the accountants.\nAnd for the schools themselves, the accumulation and analysis of data has become a major part of their working lives.\nIt is make or break too, because Ofsted inspectors will also be using the same crowded panel of charts and indicators, tracking progress on computer screens like mission control following a space probe or some trader overseeing the foreign exchange markets.\nThis has often prompted the accusation that an over-emphasis on testing undermines those cultural and mind-expanding things that can't be tested - like putting on plays, debating ideas and playing sport.\nAnd there is an argument that tests shape all around them. Once a test is set, with rewards and penalties, then that metric becomes the priority that overrides everything else. It isn't so much the testing, as the use to which it is put and the consequences built upon it.\nBut Sats tests have been part of primary school life in England for more than 25 years - and there is little chance of them completely disappearing.\nSupporters of testing will point to the importance of holding schools to account for all their pupils.\nTests have been seen as a way of focusing attention. It means that schools that are failing their pupils can be identified and improved.\nIf there were no tests and targets, wouldn't it be easier for an underachieving youngster to drift through school without recognition of the support and intervention they might need?\nEngland's relative success in education rankings compared with Wales has been claimed as being linked to the absence of Sats tests and league tables in Wales.\nBut the battle over testing will continue - often as much about perception as anything else.\nThe international TIMSS tests - the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study - which have been measuring international education standards since the 1990s, recently examined the almost universally-accepted truth that testing had becoming increasingly frequent and pupils were under more scrutiny and pressure.\nExcept, when this was investigated across a wide range of countries, it was broadly speaking untrue. Testing was not particularly more common than in the 1990s.\nThe Sats tests in England were once at the ages of seven, 11 and 14 - with the test for 14 year olds scrapped when Ed Balls was education secretary.\nAnd in striking out the test for seven-year-olds, the education secretary has pushed the pendulum a little further away from testing.", "summary": "If news stories could have a soundtrack, then this scrapping of tests in the early years of primary school would have the unmistakable sound of a pendulum slowly swinging back." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Ballygawley man has guided the senior team to three All-Ireland titles, winning its first ever Sam Maguire trophy in his debut season in 2003 - defeating Ulster rivals Armagh.\nThey would repeat that triumph in 2005 and 2008, both times defeating Munster giants Kerry in the Croke Park final.\nHarte has also led Tyrone to four Ulster titles and one National League.\nThe former pupil of Omagh Christian Brothers School, who was born in 1952 and became a teacher, also represented his county as a player between 1975 and 1982.\nHarte was appointed manager of Tyrone minors (under-18s) in 1991 and guided them to victory in the Ulster minor championship two years later.\nHowever, tragedy hit the team in 1997 when player Paul McGirr collided with the goalkeeper of another team.\nMickey Harte helped stretcher him off the field, but he died that evening.\nVowing to win the all-Ireland minor championship in McGirr's memory, Harte achieved that honour in 1998, and was named manager of the county's under-21s a year later.\nHe guided the Under 21 team to two All-Ireland titles and three Ulster titles.\nHarte's success meant it was no surprise that he was named senior manager in 2002 after the departure of Art McRory and Eugene McKenna.\nThe team regained the National Football League title that April, defeating Laois in the final, before their historic victory against reigning champions Armagh in the All-Ireland final.\nBut tragedy would strike the county again a year later when its young captain Cormac McAnallen - a former minor teammate of Paul McGirr - died suddenly due to an undetected heart condition.\nAt the time Mickey Harte spoke of his shock at the tragedy.\n\"It's simply unbelievable and no words could explain what has happened,\" he said.\n''He was just a gem of a man, and it's going to be very difficult to pick up the pieces.''\nIn October 2008, Harte was hospitalised after suffering a broken rib, as well as cuts and bruises, after his car left the road and crashed near Carrickmore.\nThe following year the Tyrone legend, who is also a member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, wrote his autobiography 'Harte'.\nIn the book Harte wrote of his daughter Michaela: \"She loved her football.\n\"She was with me and my Tyrone teams from the beginning, helping with little jobs at training sessions, shredding tissues and rosary beads in the stands during matches.\"\nSpeaking after news of Michaela's murder in Mauritius, Father Gerard McAleer, a life-long friend of Mickey Harte said: \"She would be the first person he would hug when that final whistle would go.\"", "summary": "Mickey Harte's time as manager of Tyrone gaelic football teams has seen unprecedented success for the county, but also great tragedy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Gunners looked to have been handed a favourable draw but a display that plumbed the depths of incompetence and naivety leaves them facing a last-16 exit once more.\nMonaco, resilient at the back and capable of punishing Arsenal's shoddy defence, took the lead in the first half through Geoffrey Kondogbia's deflected shot.\nTo add insult to injury, former Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov added the second just after the break. There was even time for Arsenal to cast away the lifeline substitute Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's stoppage-time goal had given them as they were caught hopelessly on the counter once more as Yannick Ferreira Carrasco added a third goal.\nAs Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim did a Jose Mourinho-style celebration sprint down the touchline, Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger looked crestfallen and no wonder.\nThis stage has become Arsenal's perennial stumbling block but Wenger would have had high hopes of clearing the hurdle against his former club, even though they had lost only once in their last 17 games.\nBut Arsenal were devoid of ideas and when they did create chances they fell to the hapless, and on this night hopeless, Olivier Giroud, who missed every one that came his way.\nThe eternal optimist Wenger will still believe they can escape from this hazardous position - but they will need to produce something on a different level from this dreadful performance to complete the salvage job.\nAfter a bright opening in which Danny Welbeck threatened and Arsenal had a penalty claim ignored when Wallace appeared to handle, Monaco kept the Gunners at bay in relative comfort.\nAs Arsenal's frustration grew, Monaco felt confident enough to move forward with increased ambition and the away goal they would have craved came seven minutes before the break.\nWelbeck conceded possession and as Joao Moutinho moved forward he found the impressive Kondogbia, whose 25-yard shot took a decisive deflection off Per Mertesacker to leave keeper David Ospina helpless.\nGiroud had been presented with Arsenal's best opportunities but time and again the striker failed to hit the target. In the first half he scooped Hector Bellerin's cross over then he turned Alexis Sanchez's cross wide from six yards.\nAnd how Arsenal paid the price for his profligacy and their own defensive naivety as Monaco doubled their lead after 53 minutes. From their own attack, Mertesacker in particular deserted his defensive post leaving Anthony Martial free to set up the unmarked Berbatov, who steadied himself before thumping a finish high past Ospina.\nGiroud's night got worse when he somehow tapped a simple finish over the top after keeper Danijel Subasic fumbled Sanchez's shot - and with the fury of Arsenal's fans ringing in his ears, it was a merciful release when he was replaced by Theo Walcott on the hour.\nAs Emirates Stadium emptied, Oxlade-Chamberlain, on for Francis Coquelin, curled in a goal from 20 yards that at least offered Arsenal some sort of hope for the second leg.\nIt was typical of how poor they were, however, that they somehow found themselves caught upfield once more to allow the speedy Ferreira-Carrasco to race clear and beat Ospina for what could be the decisive blow.\nMatch ends, Arsenal 1, Monaco 3.\nSecond Half ends, Arsenal 1, Monaco 3.\nGoal! Arsenal 1, Monaco 3. Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco (Monaco) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\nAttempt saved. Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\nFoul by Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal).\nLayvin Kurzawa (Monaco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nJoão Moutinho (Monaco) is shown the yellow card.\nFoul by Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal).\nJoão Moutinho (Monaco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nGoal! Arsenal 1, Monaco 2. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner following a corner.\nCorner, Arsenal. Conceded by João Moutinho.\nCorner, Arsenal. Conceded by Danijel Subasic.\nAttempt saved. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the top left corner.\nAttempt saved. Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco (Monaco) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Fabinho.\nMesut Özil (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card.\nCorner, Arsenal. Conceded by Aymen Abdennour.\nSubstitution, Monaco. Bernardo Silva replaces Anthony Martial.\nAttempt missed. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.\nSubstitution, Monaco. Layvin Kurzawa replaces Nabil Dirar.\nSubstitution, Arsenal. Tomas Rosicky replaces Santiago Cazorla.\nCorner, Arsenal. Conceded by Geoffrey Kondogbia.\nAttempt saved. Anthony Martial (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Geoffrey Kondogbia.\nSubstitution, Monaco. Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco replaces Dimitar Berbatov.\nHéctor Bellerín (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal).\nAnthony Martial (Monaco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nSubstitution, Arsenal. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain replaces Francis Coquelin.\nDangerous play by Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal).\nDimitar Berbatov (Monaco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nAttempt blocked. Danny Welbeck (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\nAttempt saved. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alexis Sánchez with a through ball.\nAlexis Sánchez (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Nabil Dirar (Monaco).\nAttempt missed. João Moutinho (Monaco) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is just a bit too high. Assisted by Wallace.\nCorner, Monaco. Conceded by David Ospina.\nAttempt saved. Anthony Martial (Monaco) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by João Moutinho.\nSubstitution, Arsenal. Theo Walcott replaces Olivier Giroud.\nFoul by Olivier Giroud (Arsenal).\nWallace (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.", "summary": "Arsenal's hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 2010 suffered a stunning blow as they slumped to a shock 3-1 home defeat by Monaco." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The attorney general's office said he was suspected of signing a contract that was \"unfavourable to Fifa\" and making a \"disloyal payment\" to European football chief Michel Platini.\nMr Blatter was being questioned, and his office was searched, it added.\nThe 79-year-old, who has run Fifa since 1998, has always denied any wrongdoing.\nFifa, which has been hit by a string of corruption allegations in recent years, said it was co-operating with the investigation.\n\"Swiss criminal proceedings against the president of Fifa, Mr Joseph Blatter, have been opened... on suspicion of criminal mismanagement... and - alternatively - misappropriation,\" the Swiss attorney general's office said in a statement.\nIt said Mr Blatter was suspected of signing a contract with former Caribbean football chief Jack Warner in 2005 that was \"unfavourable to Fifa\" and in doing so \"violated his fiduciary duties and acted against the interest of Fifa...\"\nThe contract they mention is thought to refer to a TV rights deal agreed between Fifa and Mr Warner's organisation Concacaf which, according to an investigation by a Swiss broadcaster earlier this month, allegedly resulted in a multi-million pound profit for Mr Warner's own company.\nFifa owns the TV rights to the World Cup and sells them to regional federations which then sell them on to broadcasters.\nMr Blatter's lawyer, Richard Cullen, said he was confident the inquiry would clear Mr Blatter of any wrongdoing.\n\"We are confident that when the Swiss authorities have a chance to review the documents and the evidence, they will see that the contract was properly prepared and negotiated by the appropriate staff members of Fifa who were routinely responsible for such contracts, and certainly no mismanagement occurred,\" he said.\nAccording to the Swiss attorney general, Mr Blatter is also suspected of making a \"disloyal payment\" of two million Swiss francs ($2m; £1.3m) in 2011 to Mr Platini, the statement said.\nIt said the payment was \"at the expense of Fifa, which was allegedly made for work performed between January 1999 and June 2002\".\nMr Blatter is due to step down in February and Mr Platini is widely expected to replace him.\nMr Platini, for his part, issued a statement on Friday evening, saying the money he received from Mr Blatter \"relates to work which I carried out under a contract with Fifa\" and he had clarified matters with the authorities.\nEver since May, when the arrest of senior Fifa officials in dawn raids in Zurich plunged world football's governing body into crisis, the sport has wondered whether the scandal would lead directly to President Sepp Blatter.\nOn Friday - finally - it did. On the one hand, perhaps it should come as no surprise.\nAfter all, Mr Blatter has been at the helm of Fifa for 17 years. He's become symbolic of the many corruption allegations that have blighted the body and some thought it a matter of time until investigations by the FBI and Swiss criminal authorities would implicate him.\nIn fact, such was the perceived threat facing Mr Blatter that his lawyers advised him not to travel abroad.\nHowever, this is still a stunning development, with criminal proceedings opened against the man who still runs world football.\nAlthough Mr Blatter announced he was stepping down back in June, he decided to hang on as president until February in a bid to influence the choice of his successor and reforms. That now seems highly unlikely, with calls for him to resign immediately bound to intensify.\nUefa supremo Michel Platini - the favourite to replace Blatter - has also been dragged into the scandal, and many will argue that he cannot now be the answer to the organisation's battered credibility.\nIn fact, critics will insist that so tarnished has Fifa become, the time has come for it to be run by an external company.\nAnd inevitably this latest development will raise more questions over the process that led to Russia and Qatar becoming hosts of the World Cup.\nSport's biggest ever scandal has just got bigger.\nFollow Dan on Twitter\nIn May, Swiss authorities arrested seven Fifa officials in Zurich at the request of the US. One, Fifa Vice-President Jeffrey Webb, has already been extradited.\nThe US then unveiled indictments against seven other people in their corruption case.\nNine of those accused were high-ranking current or former Fifa officials. They include Jack Warner who is currently fighting extradition from Trinidad.\nThe Swiss opened their own investigation into Fifa hours after the initial arrests.\nThe BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says the timing of the announcement of the investigation into Sepp Blatter was no accident, coming as it did while the world's media were gathered in Zurich for a Fifa news conference.\nShe says that ever since the first arrests in May, the Swiss attorney general's office has told her it is serious about investigating Fifa, and proving to a sceptical world that Switzerland can get tough on financial corruption.\nMr Blatter won a fifth consecutive Fifa presidential election on 29 May but, following claims of corruption, announced his decision to step down on 2 June. He is due to finish his term at a Fifa extraordinary congress on 26 February.\nFifa cancelled its news conference on Friday only minutes before it was due to start.\nMr Blatter would have been speaking in public for the first time since general secretary Jerome Valcke was suspended last week amid allegations regarding ticket sales at the 2014 World Cup.\nMr Valcke, who describes the allegations as \"fabricated\", has been released from his duties pending an investigation.", "summary": "Swiss prosecutors say they are investigating Sepp Blatter, the head of football's world governing body Fifa, on suspicion of criminal mismanagement." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Costa had become the first woman to manage a men's professional football team in the top two tiers of any European league when she was appointed last month.\nBut the 36-year-old quit on Monday, claiming players had been hired without her authority.\nDiacre, 39, has signed a two-year deal.\n\"Corinne Diacre has accepted the position of coach of Clermont Foot for the next two seasons and will take up the post early next week,\" read a club statement\nClermont play in the French second division.\nDiacre has been assistant coach to the national team for the last seven years, as well as managing her former club Soyaux since 2010.\nShe made 121 appearances for France between 1993 and 2005.\nIn 1999, Carolina Morace was appointed coach of Serie C1 club Viterbese in Italy but quit after two matches, blaming media pressure.", "summary": "Clermont Foot have appointed a second female coach - former France captain Corinne Diacre - as a replacement for Helena Costa." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Some 1.7 million drawers made from 1999 to 2016 will be recalled over safety concerns, China's regulator said.\nThe decision comes after six children were crushed to death in North America when the chests toppled on them.\nIkea recalled 36 million dressers in the US and Canada last month and has since stopped selling the drawers.\nChina's official Xinhua news agency criticised Ikea last week for showing \"arrogance\" after it initially refused to extend the recall.\n\"The potential danger to household safety from furniture toppling over is a serious problem for the entire homewares industry,\" Ikea said on its website.\n\"Ikea promises to serve as a model in responding to this challenge.\"\nThe US Consumer Product Safety Commission found the Malm drawers can topple over and crush children if not anchored to the wall with screws.\nIkea has warned customers to ensure the drawers are properly fixed to walls and last year launched an awareness campaign.\nHowever, the firm refused to extend the product recall to China, the UK or the EU, saying the products met local industry standards.\nFollowing an online backlash in China over the issue, Ikea offered free home installation and an optional refund.\nChina's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the safety watchdog, said Ikea had changed its mind after a meeting with them.", "summary": "Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has extended a recall of its popular Malm chests of drawers to China following pressure from regulators." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It's early evening and as the hot sun begins to fade on a particularly hot and humid summer day, a constant stream of buyers begins to troop into liquor shops dotting a busy commercial area in the north of the city.\nMost customers at these government-run Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) stores are daily-wage workers, rickshaw drivers and low-level government employees.\nMost buy small bottles of whiskey, crank them open right there and drink up, throwing empty bottles and plastic cups on the nearby pavements or streets.\nOutside one shop, we find a man lying on the pavement, too drunk to move a muscle, another sits nearby, in drunken stupor, holding his head between his hands.\nThe first Tasmac store was set up in 1983 - in just over three decades, their numbers have risen to over 6,800 and locals say every single village in the state has one within walking distance.\nBut campaigners say this ease of accessibility has fuelled massive alcohol addiction in the state with nearly 10 million addicts.\nAccording to the government's own admission, more than seven million people in the state drink daily.\n\"The addicts include farmers, labourers, women and children. I have seen even three-year-olds drinking,\" S Raju, state coordinator of campaign group Makkal Adhikaram (People's Power) told the BBC.\nTasmac stores are everywhere, near schools, near churches and temples and near hospitals, he says.\n\"Major crimes and accidents are fuelled by alcohol, it is also leading to cases of sexual harassment of women and robberies. Alcohol abuse is also the reason why the state has the largest number of widows under 30 years of age,\" he says.\nOver the past two years, protests have been held all over the state in support of prohibition and the campaign has received huge support from women.\nA group of women flower sellers in Rattan Bazar area say they support prohibition because their husbands spend all their daily earnings on alcohol.\nAmong them is V Bharathi, a 40-year-old mother of two girls.\n\"My husband earns 200 rupees ($2.9; £2) a day, but he brings home only 100 rupees. He drinks all the time and if I object, he beats me up,\" she says.\nIn the past few weeks, the state's main regional parties DMK and the AIADMK vowed to introduce prohibition if voted to power in the ongoing assembly elections.\nIn their election manifesto, the DMK said it would halt sales in one fell swoop, the AIADMK announced it would introduce the ban in \"a phased manner\".\nVoting was held on Monday and counting is due on Thursday, but all exit polls are already predicting a victory for the DMK and it's being suggested that the alcohol ban may have had something to do with the DMK's fortunes.\nHowever, this is not the first time the state is considering prohibition - it was first introduced in Salem district in 1937 and later expanded to cover the entire state.\nBut years later, the ban was lifted. Since then, there have been several instances when the state has banned alcohol, only to lift it again.\nThat, analysts say, is because alcohol sales fetch the state exchequer billions of rupees annually in sales tax and excise duty - this year, the earnings are pegged at 300bn rupees ($4.5bn; £3bn) - and no government is happy to forego this considerable sum of money.\nCampaigner, however, point out that prohibition has been successful in several other states.\nAlcohol is completely banned in the western Indian state of Gujarat while the southern state of Kerala and some other Indian states have imposed a partial ban.\nIn April, the eastern state of Bihar announced a complete ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol.\nReports coming out of the state, however, suggest that the ban has just pushed the alcohol trade underground, and that illegal sales are rampant.\nThere are also reports that many have been travelling to alcohol shops in border districts in the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand to buy alcohol.\nSome of the Tasmac customers I spoke to in Chennai told me that once the ban was imposed, they would just have to travel to the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh state to get their fix.\nMr Raju, however, believes that shutting down Tasmac shops will go a long way in curbing alcoholism in the state.\n\"It is the government's moral responsibility to bring in prohibition. Making it harder for people to buy alcohol will definitely help.\n\"Can students and women go to Andhra Pradesh every day?\"", "summary": "Tamil Nadu may soon become the latest Indian state to impose a complete ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Chennai." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sarah Sands, 32, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Michael Pleasted, 77, after learning he had been charged with sexually assaulting young boys.\nHe was stabbed eight times and bled to death, the trial heard.\nThe Court of Appeal ruled the sentence was too lenient and increased it to seven-and-a-half years.\nSands was found guilty of his death by reason of loss of control.\nPleasted, who had previous convictions, was on bail awaiting trial when he was killed at his Canning Town flat in east London.\nThe original case heard the mother-of-five, who was cleared of murder, had originally befriended Pleasted and taken him food.\nHowever, when she found out his past she armed herself with a knife and carried out a \"determined and sustained attack\" at his flat.\nAfter handing herself in, Sands told a police officer the victim had touched some children \"so I took care of it - I stabbed him\".\nShe told the court she had not intended to hurt Pleasted but he \"smirked\" when he answered the door and told her the boys were all liars who had ruined his life.\nDuring the trial Judge Nicholas Cooke QC said the case was \"unique\" as Sands had lost control rather than taken the law into her own hands and engage in \"vigilante conduct\".\nHe said: \"This was a case in which the defendant promptly gave herself up to the police in a highly stressed state, never disputed responsibility for the killing as a matter of fact, did not take the opportunity to get rid of evidence and demonstrated remorse.\"\nBut Sands' sentence was referred by the Attorney General after 30 members of the public complained about its original length.\nAt the time he took into account the fact she was a mother, had shown remorse and had never denied the killing.\nBut the three judges sitting at the Court of Appeal ruled that because Sands had taken a knife with her when she went to Pleasted's flat it meant the starting point for sentencing should have been 10 years.\nMitigating factors reduced it to seven-and-a-half years.\nPleasted, who also went by the name of Robin Moult, had 24 previous convictions for sexual offences spanning three decades.\nHe was not on the sex offenders register as he committed his offences before it was introduced in 1997.\nAt the time of the attack, Pleasted was on bail awaiting trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court on two charges of sexual assault on two children aged under 13.\nOfficers were also investigating a further allegation he had abused a third boy.", "summary": "A woman who stabbed a paedophile to death in east London has had her three-and-a-half-year jail sentence more than doubled." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It was an emotional farewell for the crews of the 12 yachts as thousands of people waved them off from the City's quay.\nThe home crew, the Derry-Londonderry-Doire, sit second overall after finishing runners up in the 12th stage.\nIt is the last planned visit of the yacht race to the city.\nMore than 163,000 people are estimated to have enjoyed the nine-day Foyle Maritime Festival and the Clipper events.\nIt was the third time the race has included Derry as a stopover city.\nDeputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said he was confident the event could return in two years time.\n\"There's such a connection between the city and indeed the region with Clipper that I think it would be a huge mistake on our part not to do everything in our power [to bring it back].\n\"That doesn't mean there aren't big challenges, there are, of course. It is a very expensive event to host.\n\"I just think that the argument is so powerful for them to come back to the city that we can't fail.\"\nMr McGuinness said he had a positive and constructive conversation with the race organisers, but that the event could cost about £2m to host in two years.\nClipper race chairman and founder Sir Robin Knox Johnston said this year's stop over had been the best yet.\n\"It's just enormous and this stop over has got better every time we have come here,\" he said.\n\"This has definitely been the best yet given the reception the crew have had here all week, it's been fantastic to see the crowds and support. Frankly, you can't help but enjoy it.\"\nThe maritime festival concluded on Saturday evening with an outdoor performance featuring aerial performers, an illuminated flotilla of boats on the Foyle, fireworks and the story of the medieval maritime heroine Sunniva.\nMayor Hilary McClintock said the festival had been a major success for the region.\n\"It was a sad moment as we waved farewell to the Clipper race fleet today after an eventful week of celebration.\n\"Once again, we've demonstrated our ability to stage an international event generating substantial revenue for the local economy, and enhancing the region's profile as an exciting and unique visitor destination.\"", "summary": "The Clipper Round the World yacht fleet has left Londonderry after the Foyle Maritime Festival came to a close on Sunday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Premiership leaders beat the Irish province in successive quarter-finals of the continent's premier club competition in 2013 and 2014.\n\"There is no element of revenge. It's a new competition, a new team with new personnel,\" said the back-row forward.\n\"We'll leave the past where it is and let the future take care of itself.\"\nHe added: \"We've had some good tussles with them in the past and they are an outstanding outfit - well organised in all areas of the pitch and well directed by Owen Farrell at 10.\"\nSaracens began their campaign with a resounding 32-7 win at home to Toulouse on Saturday, and the New Zealander said the 2014 runners-up were \"on top of their game\".\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"They have a very physical pack, they like to play a direct style and they are always tough to play against,\" he said.\n\"You look for a weakness in their team but you struggle to find one.\n\"Toulouse were maybe a bit emotional given the events that occurred in France and they maybe played the way Saracens wanted them to.\"\nUlster's scheduled opening fixture against Oyannax on Saturday was postponed just over an hour before kick-off following the deadly attacks in Paris on Friday night and Williams believes \"the right call was made\".\n\"There was an eeriness and sadness in France and it was the right thing to do to postpone the match and put what was best for France before rugby,\" he said.\n\"We were four hours away from Paris, which seems a wee bit away, but when something like this happens, the whole country descends into mourning.\n\"The lads were all hyped up to play and I know a lot of fans paid good money to come and watch us play but at the end of the day there are things more important than rugby.\"", "summary": "Ulster's Nick Williams insists revenge will not be an incentive for his side in Friday's European Champions Cup Pool 1 game against Saracens in Belfast." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Concerns have been raised about its financial health and the bank's shares are down more than 50% this year.\nFocus magazine also said that Ms Merkel would not get involved in its dispute with the US over a $14bn bill regarding the sale of mortgage products.\nDeutsche Bank said it had not expected Ms Merkel to intervene in the US case.\n\"At no point has [chief executive] John Cryan asked Chancellor Merkel to intervene in the RMBS [residential mortgage-backed securities] issue with the US Department of Justice,\" it said in a statement. \"Deutsche Bank is determined to meet the challenges on its own.\"\nOf the $14bn bill, which relates to products sold in the run-up to the financial crisis, Deutsche Bank has previously said it has \"no intent to settle these potential civil claims anywhere near the number cited. The negotiations are only just beginning.\"\nThe Focus magazine report had quoted unidentified government sources.\nDuring a regular news conference on Monday, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said: \"There is no reason for such speculation [about state aid] and the federal government doesn't engage in such speculation.\"\nSimon Jack: Deutsche Bank threat has grown\nUS seeks $14bn from Deutsche Bank\nDeutsche: World's most dangerous bank?\nRegarding its financial position, the bank said: \"The question of a capital increase is currently not on the agenda, we comply with all capital requirements.\"\nOn Monday, shares in Deutsche - which is one of Germany's biggest banks - finished down 7.54% to 10.55 euros, its lowest level since the 1980s.\nMichael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK, said: \"While one can understand the reticence of German politicians to bailout yet another bank, particularly in the lead up to an election next year, one has to question the wisdom of articulating that reluctance out loud when markets are already nervous about Deutsche Bank's capital position.\n\"It's akin to a red rag to a bull... given that due to its size Deutsche Bank is arguably too big to fail,\" he added.\n\"Markets could well look to test the German government's resolve on that as we head into next year, with further falls in the share price below €10 looking increasingly possible, which will increase the pressure on regulators and politicians to step in, and shore up confidence.\"", "summary": "Shares in Deutsche Bank have closed down 7.54% to a new low after a weekend report said Chancellor Angela Merkel had ruled out giving it state aid." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Hamilton met with First Minister Arlene Foster at Stormont on Monday.\nCharter NI, an east Belfast community organisation, received £1.7m from Stormont's Social Investment Fund.\nAssistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin last week said some individuals in Charter NI had \"connections\" to the UDA.\nHe said he believed these individuals had taken part in paramilitary activity \"in the past year\".\nMr Hamilton said ACC Martin's comments were \"an accurate assessment of the PSNI's position\".\n\"At an operational and community level Charter NI do some very meaningful and positive work.\n\"However, it remains our view that an individual or individuals connected to that organisation continue to be associated with paramilitarism.\"\nThe meeting at Stormont was also attended by Health Minister Michelle O'Neill and Justice Minister Claire Sugden.\nIn a statement, the executive said that it had been assured by the PSNI there are \"no concerns\" over the work of Charter NI and that it would continue to work with the community organisation.\nThe executive statement added that \"where there is any evidence of criminal activity police should investigate thoroughly and bring those responsible before the courts\".\n\"We have also emphasised that any individuals associated with Charter NI or any community enterprise must make a clear choice between paramilitarism and legitimate community work.\"\nThe board of Charter NI said ACC Martin's comments had \"come as a surprise\" and they added \"we do not condone illegal or criminal activity of any kind\".\nThe community organisation has been under scrutiny since October, when its chief executive Dee Stitt gave a controversial interview to the Guardian newspaper.\nMr Stitt, a leading member of the UDA, referred to his loyalist band the North Down Defenders as \"our homeland security\" who were \"here to defend North Down from anybody\".\nHe also launched a foul-mouthed verbal attack on the government, saying politicians did not care about Northern Ireland.\nMr Stitt later apologised for his comments, but resisted calls for his resignation.\nHe took a three-week break from his role while Charter NI completed an \"internal review process\", but he resumed his job in November.\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster was photographed with Mr Stitt when the £1.7m award was made, but later said he had become a \"distraction\" to the work being carried out by Charter NI.", "summary": "Chief Constable George Hamilton has stood by a PSNI claim that people linked to Charter NI have been involved in recent paramilitary activity." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "13 June 2016 Last updated at 08:43 BST\nLabour's Mr Hunt, for Remain, told the West Midlands EU referendum debate in Birmingham that in order to trade with the EU, the UK would \"have to accept the free movement of labour\".\nHowever, Lord Jones said no-one knew the conditions of any future trade deals.\nThe Leave campaigner, who served as a trade minister in Gordon Brown's Labour government, told the MP: \"There's a very good BBC word for this; it's called disingenuous, which means you're lying.\"", "summary": "Stoke MP Tristram Hunt demanded an apology from Lord Digby Jones after being accused of lying about immigration during an EU debate." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "And it has said it will write off some $300m in its 2014 results, due out next month.\nDevelopment spending on new oil fields next year, already cut to $600m, will be \"subject to further review\".\nThe cuts mean the company is already in negotiations to reduce costs with a number of key contractors.\nPremier said 2014 revenues are 6% up on 2013, but profits will be hit by an impairment charge estimated at $300m.\nTony Durrant, chief executive, said: \"Premier is in a strong position to weather a period of oil price weakness due to its long-term cash flow generation.\n\"Premier has also responded to the sharp fall in the oil price with a broad programme of cost reductions and the postponement of discretionary spend.\"\nLast year, Premier Oil, which has oil and gas interests in the North Sea, south-east Asia, Pakistan and the Falkland Islands, hit the upper end of its production target, reaching 63,600 barrels of oil a day.\nIt expects production to fall to 55,000 barrels in 2015, excluding contribution from its North Sea Solan project that is expected to come on stream this year.\nOil prices are at their lowest in about six years, after plummeting 60% in the last six months from more than $100 a barrel.\nThe European benchmark, Brent crude, was trading just above $45 a barrel, on Wednesday after falling to $45.19, its lowest since March 2009.", "summary": "The crash in oil prices has forced oil and gas explorer Premier Oil to cut spending on development next year by 40%." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Bundesliga leaders overwhelmed their Serie A counterparts in the first half, and took the lead when Thomas Muller slotted in before Arjen Robben curled in the second.\nJuve pulled a goal back in the 63rd minute when Paulo Dybala tucked home.\nThe comeback was complete when Stefano Sturaro poked in from close range.\nAt half-time, Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri must have thought \"let's keep this respectable\".\nHis team were pummelled in the first half. The graphic shows that they were camped in their own half by wave after wave of Bayern attacks.\nJuve went into the match having conceded only once in the 11 matches they had played since the start of 2016 - however, they had yet to play a team of Bayern's potency.\nArturo Vidal and Juan Bernat tested veteran keeper Gianluigi Buffon and Muller went close, before they took the lead. It came when defender Andrea Barzagli's clearance from Douglas Costa's volleyed cross fell at the feet of Muller, who did the rest from 10 yards,\nBayern went again and this time it was a three-man break. Striker Robert Lewandowski appeared to send Robben too far wide with his pass into the area, but the Dutchman - in customary style - cut in and feigned to shoot before sending his effort past the reach of Buffon.\nEven the most adventurous punter would have hesitated putting money on Juve to turn this around.\nThe key to the change in fortunes were the substitutions. Hernanes, Sturaro and Alvaro Morata provided more energy to the attack, as Allegri experimented with his tactics.\nThere was a bit of luck with the first as Joshua Kimmich lost the ball 25 yards from goal. This allowed Mario Mandzukic to play in Dybala, who converted with a composed finish.\nThe Bayern defence was breached again when Morata's headed pass into the six-yard area was slammed in by fellow substitute Sturaro.\nBayern are still favourites to go through because of their two away goals, but Juve's second-half display makes this next match an intriguing prospect.", "summary": "Juventus produced a remarkable second-half fightback against Bayern Munich to give themselves hope going into the Champions League last 16 second leg." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former Finland international, 41, is currently working as an assistant manager with his national team.\nJohansson spent three successful years at Ibrox between 1997 and 2000, scoring 25 times in 71 appearances.\nHe was chosen by Caixinha ahead of other former Rangers players such as Barry Ferguson, John Brown, Kevin Thomson and Alex Rae.\nJohansson, who spent three years in charge of Motherwell's under-20 side between 2012 and 2015, will join Caixinha's right-hand man Helder Baptista, fitness coach Pedro Malta and goalkeeper coach Jose Belman on the Rangers staff.\nHe won 106 caps for Finland and played in the English Premier League with Charlton Athletic after leaving Ibrox.\nJohansson also had a loan period at Norwich City before a two-year spell at Malmo in Sweden.\nHe returned to Scotland for brief spells with Hibernian and St Johnstone before winding down his playing career at one of his former clubs, TPS, back in Finland.\nAs a coach, Johansson worked with Greenock Morton's reserves before joining Motherwell and coaching their under-20 side.", "summary": "Rangers have appointed former striker Jonatan Johansson as an assistant coach in Pedro Caixinha's backroom team." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former prime minister did so against advice from officials, an investigation by the National Audit Office (NAO) found.\nThe NAO said nearly £23m of taxpayer money was now at risk of being lost.\nTransport Minister Lord Ahmad said the government remained supportive of the project.\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan has ordered a full review of the proposals for the Thames river crossing.\nThe Whitehall spending watchdog said government ministers ignored the advice of civil servants on at least two occasions not to extend funding to the Garden Bridge Trust.\nOn the second occasion that they did so Conservative party chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin, who was then transport secretary, issued a formal ministerial direction to civil servants requiring them to extend the taxpayers' exposure and underwrite liabilities of £15m if the project did not go ahead.\nThat ministerial direction was issued after cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood wrote to the Department for Transport (DfT) expressing the \"frustration\" of Mr Cameron and then chancellor George Osborne at perceived hold-ups to the funding.\nThe NAO said the initial commitment to provide £30m of taxpayers' money was made by Mr Osborne to Mr Khan's predecessor, Boris Johnson, without any involvement of the DfT.\nUnder the agreement in autumn 2013 the mayor would contribute a further £30m while the remainder - then estimated at £115m - was to come from private funding.\nThe DfT agreed to make that investment, despite an assessment of the business case finding there was a \"significant risk\" that the bridge could represent \"poor value for money\".\nIt did so by increasing its block grant to Transport for London (TfL).\nThe DfT also sought to protect taxpayers' money by capping the amount which could be spent by the trust before construction began at £8.2m.\nBut on three separate occasions - between June 2015 and May 2016 - this was relaxed by the DfT.\n\"Officials from the department advised ministers against increasing the department's exposure for the second and third increases,\" the NAO said.\nThe watchdog said there was now \"significant risk\" the project would not go ahead, pointing out the Garden Bridge Trust had still not secured the land for its southern landing.\nThe mayor has promised no more public money would be provided for the bridge's construction and tasked the former chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of MPs, Dame Margaret Hodge, with analysing the proposals to ensure taxpayers' money was not being wasted.\nMeg Hillier MP, the current chair of the PAC, said: \"It worries me that whenever the Garden Bridge Trust runs into financial trouble, the Department for Transport releases more taxpayers' money before construction has even started.\n\"If the project collapses, taxpayers stand to lose £22.5 million. If it goes ahead, who is going to pick up the bill to maintain it?\"\nThe Garden Bridge Trust said it had raised nearly £70m of private money and was working on finalising the land deals required to build the south landing.\nIt pointed out that 78% of the project cost would be raised from private finance.\nWhile £60m of taxpayers' money was being invested initially, this was being treated as money to kick start the project, with £20m being treated as a repayable loan and roughly the same amount to be repaid to the Treasury in VAT, leaving the taxpayer with a net contribution of £20m if construction of the bridge did go ahead.\nTransport Minister Lord Ahmad said ministers had taken into account many factors before deciding whether to make funding available.\nHe added: \"The taxpayer, however, must not be exposed to any further risks and it is now for the trust to find private-sector backers to invest in the delivery of this project. We will consider the NAO's findings carefully.\"", "summary": "David Cameron personally intervened to approve extra taxpayer funding for London's controversial Garden Bridge project, it has emerged." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The My Life, My Death, My Choice campaign has handed in a 2,500 signature petition to the Scottish Parliament.\nThe group claimed support for a change in the law was at an all-time high.\nBut opponents of the bill said supporters of assisted suicide were losing the battle of public opinion.\nSheila Duffy of My Life, My Death, My Choice, said: \"The petition handover today demonstrates the level of support there is for the bill across Scotland.\n\"As our campaign has progressed it has become increasingly clear that public support for a change in the law is at an all-time high and this issue is very much something that needs to be looked at closely.\"\nMy Life, My Death, My Choice was launched on the back of a poll that suggested that 69% of Scots wanted the Assisted Suicide bill to become law.\nThe group's petition in favour of the bill is the latest stage in a campaign that began at the start of the year.\nMs Duffy said: \"Over the last few months we have spoken to people across Scotland, people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds, from across the political spectrum, of different social and ethnic groups and of different religious beliefs.\n\"They have all told us the same thing: they want to have this choice should they ever find themselves in this intolerable position.\n\"We want to ensure that people are provided with appropriate information to make their own, individual, choices and, in certain limited circumstances, given assistance to end their life.\"\nBut a spokesman for the umbrella group Care not Killing said that the petition showed \"only a fraction of 1% of the population backs the idea - hardly a groundswell of support\".\nHe added: \"Allied to this, their own recent poll showed fewer people - 4% less - support the concept now than when they launched a similar bill in 2010, the last time MSPs discussed assisted suicide.\n\"The current law we have is clear and right. Through its blanket prohibition of assisted suicide it provides a strong disincentive to abuse and exploitation whilst allowing prosecutors and judges discretion in hard cases.\"\nThe Green MSP Patrick Harvie will take the legislation forward after the public consultation finishes on Friday.\nA previous attempt by Ms MacDonald to pass a right-to-die bill was voted down by MSPs in 2010.", "summary": "Campaigners have urged MSPs to pass the Assisted Suicide Bill which was introduced to Holyrood by the late MSP Margo Macdonald." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The IS advance forced thousands from their homes in the north-west cities of Qaraqosh and Sinjar, seeking safety in nearby Kurdish provinces.\nIslamic State fighters take control of the town of Zumar, which Kurdish forces had held since the Iraqi army retreated from the area in June. Eyewitnesses said militants also seized control of two small oilfields near Zumar.\nIS militants take over the town of Sinjar, home to a large community of the Kurdish Yazidi religious minority community.\nThe UN warns that up to 200,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in recent days.\nAt least 50,000 members of the Yazidi religious minority community are trapped on Mount Sinjar.\nThe militants also take control of Mosul's hydroelectric dam after the withdrawal of Kurdish forces.\nThe dam is of huge strategic significance in terms of water and power resources.\nIn Baghdad a series of car bombs strike crowded markets in Shia districts, killing at least 47 people.\nThe Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, comes under pressure to step down due to his handling of the crisis.\nIraqi and Kurdish forces attack Mosul, which IS has declared the capital of its Islamic caliphate.\nAt least 60 people are reported killed in an Iraqi air strike on a building in Mosul, while Kurdish forces shell the city's northern and eastern districts.\nIslamic State militants capture Qaraqosh, considered the centre of Iraq's Christian community.\nAs many as 100,000 people in the surrounding province of Nineveh are believed to be fleeing toward the autonomous Kurdistan Region.\nUS military aircraft drop food and water to Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar by IS fighters.\n30,000\npeople trapped on Mount Sinjar surrounded by Islamic militants\n85,928 ready-to eat meals have been dropped by US flights along with\n20,151 gallons of fresh water\n528 shelter kits have been dropped by RAF along with water containers and\n1,056 solar lanterns which can be used to recharge mobile phones\nThe United Nations Security Council meets in an emergency session to discuss the situation.\nPope Francis makes an impassioned appeal to the international community to do much more to address the crisis.\nThe US launches air strikes against IS militants - the first time the US has been directly involved in a military operation in Iraq since American troops withdrew in late 2011.\nThe Pentagon reports that drones and F/A-18 Hornets aircraft, operating from a carrier in the Gulf, dropped laser-guided bombs on mobile artillery near the city of Irbil.\nThe United Nations says it is working on opening a humanitarian corridor in northern Iraq to allow stranded people to flee.\nThe US make a third air-drop of food and water to refugees on Mount Sinjar, as Britain and France join the relief effort.\nPresident Obama says the US would consider broader use of military strikes, but puts pressure on Iraq's political leaders to figure out how to work with each other.\nThere is no American military solution to the larger crisis in Iraq\nUS launches a fourth round of air strikes and Kurdish forces claim to have regained control of Gwer and Makhmur after heavy fighting.\nThe political leader of Iraq's Kurds, Massoud Barzani, appeals for international military aid to help defeat Islamist militants.\nIS fighters seize the town of Jalawla, north-east of Baghdad.\nThe US is reported to have begun supplying weapons to Kurdish fighters. This follows three plane-loads of ammunition already delivered by Iraqi security forces.\nIraq's president asks Haider al-Abadi to form a new cabinet. Mr Abadi's appointment comes after months of political infighting, which analysts say is partially to blame for Iraq's inability to effectively fight the IS threat.\nA Kurdish government helicopter delivering aid crashes on Mount Sinjar, killing the pilot and injuring a journalist.\nThe US government says its planes have air-dropped nearly 100,000 meals and more than 27,000 gallons (123,000 litres) of fresh drinking water to the area, with the latest operation taking place on Tuesday.\nHowever, tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped on the mountain and need \"life-saving assistance\", the UN warns.\nThe US says it is unlikely to launch a mission to evacuate people trapped on Mount Sinjar, following an assessment that there are fewer people on the mountain than previously thought.\nUS officials suggested that air-strikes in the region had created an escape route for thousands, who had managed to leave the mountain over the past few nights, helped by Kurdish fighters.", "summary": "Fighters from the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as Isis, expanded their areas of control in northern Iraq between 2 and 14 August." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Gascoigne \"humiliated\" a black security guard assigned to protect him during An Evening With Gazza in Wolverhampton, Dudley Magistrates' Court heard.\nThe ex-player was fined £1,000 after he admitted using \"threatening or abusive words or behaviour\".\nGascoigne, 49, asked Errol Rowe \"can you smile please, because I can't see you?\"\nDistrict Judge Graham Wilkinson also ordered Gascoigne to pay Mr Rowe £1,000 in compensation.\nMr Wilkinson told Gascoigne \"You sought to get a laugh from an audience of over 1,000 people because of the colour of Mr Rowe's skin.\"\nThe triumphs and tears of Paul Gascoigne\nHe praised the Crown Prosecution Service for taking the case to court, saying Gascoigne's comment at Wolverhampton Civic Hall on 30 November was an example of \"insidious\" racism which needed to be challenged.\nFor more on this story and other Birmingham and Black Country news\nThe judge told Gascoigne: \"Mr Rowe was clearly humiliated on stage, as part of an act.\n\"As a society it is important that we challenge racially-aggravated behaviour in all its forms.\n\"It is the creeping 'low-level' racism that society still needs to challenge.\n\"A message needs to be sent that in the 21st century society that we live in, such action, such words will not be tolerated.\n\"It is not acceptable to laugh words like this off as some form of joke.\"\nHe told Gascoigne what happened was a \"stain on his character\".\nGascoigne, whose career included spells at Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and Rangers, changed his plea to guilty before the first witness was called to give evidence.\nOn his way into court, the retired star stopped to sign autographs, including on a man's chest.", "summary": "Ex-England footballer Paul Gascoigne has pleaded guilty to racially aggravated abuse over a joke at a show." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Bee Gees singer died of kidney failure in May, aged 62, following a battle with cancer and pneumonia.\nThe Heritage Foundation and Thame Town Council have installed the plaque at Gibb's home The Prebendal, in Priestend, Thame.\nGibb, who was appointed CBE in 2004, was president of the Heritage Foundation from 2008 to 2011.\nFans from all over the world, including Canada, America and New Zealand, had travelled to be at the unveiling, along with Sir Tim Rice and DJ Mike Read, and other friends of the singer.\nDavid Graham, chairman of the Heritage Foundation, said: \"It's a chance for them to come over to say a final goodbye to Robin and it's a very nice way of remembering Robin.\n\"There's a great deal of feeling there and a great deal of affection.\"\nVicki Michelle, who took over as president from Gibb, unveiled the plaque on the gatehouse wall at the entrance to the property at 14:20 BST.\nThe ceremony was followed by a charity garden party for 400 people in the grounds of The Prebendal, with all money raised going to the Bomber Command Memorial Maintenance Appeal Fund.\nIn 2008, Gibb was at the forefront of the campaign for a permanent memorial in London to the men of Bomber Command.\nBut he never lived to see it being unveiled in Green Park, in June.\n\"If the measure of man's life is what he achieved, Robin achieved so much it's immeasurable,\" continued Mr Graham.\n\"I hoped we would never have had to put up a plaque for Robin in my lifetime. He put up such a fight.\"", "summary": "A blue plaque has been unveiled at the Oxfordshire home of the late musician Robin Gibb." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The digital cards' text reads: \"We've got a little more to show you.\"\nRumours suggest the new model will feature a display that is 7-8in (18-20cm) in size.\nAmazon's Kindle Fire and Asus's Google-branded Nexus 7 have already proved popular with users who want a tablet they can hold with one hand.\nBut Apple continues to dominate sales, according to research by iHS iSuppli.\nA study it published in August suggested that Apple shipped 17 million tablets over the April-to-June quarter capturing close to 70% of the market.\nThe event will take place at California Theatre in San Jose, California.\nApple's former boss, the late Steve Jobs, had previously attacked the idea of releasing a smaller iPad.\n\"There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touchscreen before users cannot reliably tap, flick or pinch them,\" he told analysts in October 2010, according to a transcript of a conference call provided by news site Seeking Alpha.\n\"This is one of the key reasons we think the 10in screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps... 7in tablets are tweeners, too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with an iPad.\"\nHe added that he believed the concept would prove \"dead on arrival\" when trialled by others.\nHowever, in a recent patent battle with Samsung an email from Apple's head of iTunes business, Eddy Cue, revealed that Mr Jobs' views might have later changed.\n\"I believe there will be a 7in market and we should do one,\" Mr Cue wrote on 24 January 2011.\n\"I expressed this to Steve several times since Thanksgiving and he seemed very receptive the last time.\"\nApple's success might be determined by the price it decides to sell its new devices at.\nAmazon's chief executive, Jeff Bezos, recently revealed to the BBC that his firm sold Kindle tablets at break-even prices, seeking to make money from customers who then made other purchases from his store.\nThe Google Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy Tab2 7, Barnes & Noble Nook HD, Blackberry Playbook, Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Kobo Arc tablets can all be bought for less than £200 in the UK.\nBy contrast, Apple currently sells its cheapest tablet - the iPad 2 - for £329.\nCompetition will intensify when Microsoft puts its Surface tablets - including its much-used Office software - on sale on 26 October, alongside a range of other Windows 8-powered models from other manufacturers.\nMicrosoft has said the low-end Windows RT-based version of the Surface will be priced at £399 at launch. The cover with a built-in keyboard will cost an extra £100.", "summary": "Apple has sent out invitations for what is widely speculated to be the launch of the iPad mini - a smaller version of its bestselling tablet computer." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Jaber al-Bakr, 22, strangled himself in a jail in Leipzig with his shirt and the government has demanded an immediate inquiry.\nHis lawyer said the prison was aware Bakr was a suicide risk after he was captured on Monday.\nHowever, regional authorities said he had not been considered an acute risk.\nJaber al-Bakr was detained on Monday on suspicion of plotting to bomb an airport in Berlin, possibly in the coming days.\nWhen police raided his flat in the eastern city of Chemnitz early on Saturday, they found 1.5kg of TATP, a home-made explosive used in the deadly jihadist attacks in Paris last year and in Brussels last March.\nSebastian Gemkow, justice minister in the eastern state of Saxony, told reporters a psychological assessment of the prisoner had been made and safety measures had been taken. And the head of the prison described Bakr during the day as \"calm and on an even keel\".\n\"It shouldn't have happened, but it did,\" the justice minister said, adding that he took responsibility for the suicide but would not resign.\nPrison officials rejected reports that Bakr was only being checked on an hourly basis.\nOriginally, he was given top-level supervision, involving 15-minute intervals, but a panel of experts agreed hours before he died, to lower the regular checks to every 30 minutes.\nThere is no video monitoring of prisoners held in remand cells in Saxony, said prison governor Rolf Jacob. A guard stationed outside the cell door would have been more appropriate, he acknowledged.\nJabr al-Bakr's body was found at 19:45 (17:45 GMT) on Wednesday evening 15 minutes after a regular check, the prison governor said. Attempts to resuscitate him failed.\nDefence lawyer Alexander Huebner was adamant his client was a risk as he had already broken light bulbs and tampered with power sockets. He had also been refusing food and drink.\nThe prison governor said later that the damage had been assessed as vandalism rather than an indication of potential suicide.\n\"How could this happen?\" Mr Huebner asked. \"He must have been the best-guarded prisoner in Germany.\"\nGerman Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere demanded a \"rapid and comprehensive inquiry\".\nHe told German TV that Bakr's death had made the task of investigating the possible Berlin airport bomb plot much harder.\nCentre-right CDU politician Wolfgang Bosbach said it was a tragedy to lose such an important source of intelligence.\nLeading centre-left SPD politician Burkhard Lischka blamed the Saxony authorities for the death in custody and said years of underfunding were to blame.\nFamily Affairs Minister Manuela Schwesig simply tweeted: \"What on earth's going on?\"\nGranted asylum last year after coming to Germany in February 2015, he had been under surveillance for months on suspicion of being linked to jihadist group Islamic State.\nBut when police raided his flat early on Saturday, he escaped. Police fired a warning shot but were wary of harming neighbours.\nAfter a two-day manhunt Bakr made his way to Leipzig, where he asked three Syrian asylum seekers for help.\nThe three told police they had heard about the manhunt and tied him up while one of them knelt on him. One of the men took a photo of the captive to a police station and he was detained in the early hours of Monday.\nWidely hailed as heroes in Germany, the three men were apparently implicated by Bakr in the bomb plot, German media reported, citing security officials in Leipzig.\nCall to reward Syrian refugees who arrested fugitive", "summary": "The death in a prison cell of a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack in Germany is a judicial scandal, his lawyer has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Economy spokesman Adam Price told BBC Wales that health and education could be the main beneficiaries of the idea.\nHe said the money could \"transform\" health and social care through a new integrated service.\nIt could also boost education, where he said spending in primary schools was £600 less per pupil than in England.\n\"We're beginning our preparations for the programme of government we're going to be putting in front of the Welsh people in the 2021 election,\" said Mr Price.\n\"We'll be consulting on this key question of what we should do with those new income tax powers.\n\"We'll be the first political party in Wales openly exploring the idea of having a dedicated penny for health and social care, which actually invests in this transition to a new integrated health and social care service.\n\"Creating that additional capacity so that we can transform the level and quality of care is something we could do.\n\"We'll also be asking the same question about education as well.\n\"A dedicated penny increase in income tax. What could that do in terms of our schools?\"\nMr Price added: \"We know relatively speaking, when the last time we had comparative figures, £600 less per pupil in the primary sector in Wales compared to England.\n\"If we were to decide as a society we wanted to actually achieve world class quality of an education system, would there be an appetite out there for actually using the income tax powers that we have as a nation?\"\nOn Friday, leader Leanne Wood told the conference that voting Plaid was the only way for people in Wales to \"be in control\" of their lives.", "summary": "People in Wales could be asked to pay an extra 1p in the basic rate of income tax to boost public services, the Plaid Cymru conference will be told later." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "So, the day after she passed away, he made the multiple telephone calls required, hoping that her affairs could be tied up swiftly to allow the family time to grieve.\n\"Everybody could not have been more helpful,\" he says.\nEveryone, that is, except the cable and telephone company.\nIt wrote a letter addressed to Mr Stevenson's late mother, Jean Campbell, which was then followed up with a email asking why she was leaving. Staff were sent to the wrong address to pick up the TV box, and a rebate cheque was made out to her instead of her son.\nIt took weeks and many telephone calls to get these mistakes corrected. The company never replied to Mr Stevenson's letter of complaint at the end of the whole saga.\n\"Things like this are a one-off for people like us, but companies have to deal with these situations every day,\" he says. \"It could have been so much easier if they got it right first time.\"\nMr Stevenson, from Falkirk, was one of many BBC News website readers who shared their stories of poor customer service after losing a loved one, having read about the case of Jim Boyden.\nMr Boyden had posted a photograph on Facebook of a broadband bill sent to his late father-in-law by Virgin Media, which included a fine for late payment even though the direct debit note said \"payer deceased\". The company apologised.\nSome of these stories appear to be the result of computers generating the letters in a world of big business dealing with millions of customers.\nOne reader told of how his family was sent a final bill by a communications company, while they were still grieving, demanding a payment of 1p.\nOther cases seem beyond belief. Jean Barton, of Stockport, rang a company to explain that her mother had died and the account needed to be closed.\nThey sent an invoice, addressed to her late mother, which said \"Sorry you have chosen to leave\".\nIt is not just those who have suffered the loss of a loved one who have been on the receiving end of insensitive letters and calls.\nReader Andrew Wilson, of Wigan, writes: \"My mum called me to say her [cable] services had been disconnected. When we called we were informed that the account had been closed as my mum had passed away.\n\"We informed them that my mother was very much alive.\"\nIn the highly automated and regulated world of customer services, mistakes like this do occur. Yet, Jo Causon, chief executive of the Institute of Customer Service, says this should never be used as an excuse during brief contact with families who are bereaved and often feeling vulnerable.\nSource: Money Advice Service\n\"This is a moment of truth in terms of getting it right,\" she says.\n\"The process can be seen to be quite mechanical, cold and insensitive.\"\nShe says operators, who have to keep to certain rules regarding sensitive personal data, still need to show \"emotional intelligence\" by appreciating the position the caller is in and respond with empathy and respect.\nEven if they are just doing their job, some understanding of the vulnerability of customers might prevent people being offended.\nChris Pratt, of Nottingham, outlined a case of this kind. He was sent an \"insensitive and ironically prompt\" request to send part of a pension payment back because his father, who had retired after 38 years of service, had died halfway through the month.\nIn some cases, the bereaved family might want the matter just to be dealt with in a functional and prompt way, Ms Causon says.\nWith the internet and social media pushing the balance of power further towards the consumer, the consequences of getting it wrong may now have a wider effect, as Mr Boyden's case proved.\nSo, Ms Causon says, the key to avoiding such mistakes is good training.\nKristina Hultgren, a lecturer in English language and applied linguistics at the Open University, has conducted research into how call centre staff are coached to talk to customers.\nShe says staff receive \"empathy training\" and need to compensate for the personal relationship being diluted in the name of call centre efficiency.\nFirst Direct, the online and telephone bank, employs nearly 3,000 people at its enormous call centre in Leeds, and has won various awards for customer service.\nIt has a team who are trained specifically in taking calls from bereaved relatives of customers. They sit in a quieter corner of the call centre.\nAs soon as it is clear that the caller is a bereaved relative, then the call is diverted to one of at least two of these specialist staff members who are on shift at any one time.\nBut mistakes still occur, and like many other institutions, the bank has a \"grovel list\" that staff can use if a mistake has been made.\nCall operators can offer wine, chocolate, flowers or a cheque up to the value of £50 to compensate people left upset or distressed.\nStaff make the call depending on what is said on the phone, but can also refer the case to senior management in more serious circumstances.\nSo, what can customers do to save themselves from this extra upset if they lose a loved one?\nThe paperwork involved after a death can be cumbersome and confusing, and lead to bigger problems. This was illustrated in the case, sent to BBC News, of Kathryn Dewar's newly widowed mother. She was pursued by debt collectors for an unpaid bill of £11, despite her belief all the outstanding bills had been paid.\nRebecca Hirst, of First Direct, suggests that it is important to keep a will up to date. Loved ones should also be aware of their close family members' financial affairs, such as knowing which accounts they hold.\nThere are lots of guides for those who are recently bereaved, such as the Money Advice Service's checklist of dealing with money after a death, which includes tips on clearing up tax and pension issues, and meeting the immediate costs of funerals.\nCitizens Advice also has help on financial affairs when somebody dies, and specific information on redirecting post of a late family member.\nAnd among the paperwork, there is the expense.\nMatthew Kelly told the BBC of how his mother was told she would be charged to insert her name on an account in place of that of her late husband - the fee was greater than that for a death certificate.\nThe company eventually waived the charge. Given the chance, these companies and their staff want to make amends for any upset they have caused.", "summary": "Walter Stevenson had been looking after his elderly mother's financial concerns for a while before she died at the age of 96." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ms Dugdale received 90% of the support from constituency Labour parties who nominated a candidate.\nShe is also backed by 80% of the local councillors who nominated a leadership candidate, and 10 trade union and affiliate groups.\nShe is standing against Ken Macintosh in the contest to replace Jim Murphy.\nMSP Richard Baker has secured the most constituency Labour party nominations in the contest for deputy leader.\nMs Dugdale, a Lothians MSP, is supported by 30 of her fellow parliamentarians, while Mr Macintosh, currently the party's social justice spokesman, is backed by seven and the Scottish Co-Op group.\nHe has 10% of the support from constituency Labour parties, and 20% of the support from councillors.\nFollowing the close of supporting nominations, Ms Dugdale said: \"To have the support of the overwhelming number of local party members, councillors and trade unions is an honour.\n\"I take nothing for granted and will work hard to change this support into votes when the ballot opens a week on Monday.\n\"The support I have received so far shows I am winning the argument amongst party members, but the real task is to win back people across the country.\"\nMr Macintosh has previously said he offers \"a change in direction\" for the Scottish Labour party.\nHe said: \"I want to break up the party machine and put the members and supporters in charge of this party.\"\nMr Baker secured 20 constituency Labour Party nominations, compared with 18 for rival deputy leader candidate MSP Alex Rowley and 11 for Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson.\nMr Baker said: \"I'm grateful to members across the country who have put their trust in me through constituency nominations.\n\"My platform is clear: I want us to be a strong, united party in next year's election, with policy formed by members across Scotland.\"", "summary": "Kezia Dugdale has secured the majority of supporting nominations in her bid to become Scottish Labour leader." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The claim: The attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is reduced to almost zero for children in selective schools.\nReality Check verdict: In 2015, there was a smaller gap in selective schools at GCSE between children eligible for free school meals and those not eligible for free school meals than there was in England as a whole. But there is still a gap. Whether that gap counts as \"almost zero\" is a matter of opinion.\nOne of the pieces of evidence she used to support this decision was that there was little gap between the performance of rich and poor children in selective schools.\nThis claim is not concerned with the problems that children from less privileged backgrounds have getting into selective schools, which Reality Check discussed on Thursday.\nWhat we're looking for is a measure of how well the poorer children who have been admitted to selective schools perform.\nResearchers at Teach First looked at the figures from GCSE results for 2015.\nThis is a slightly tricky comparison to make because the government performance tables exclude categories in which there are fewer than five pupils, so about 50 of the 164 grammar schools in the country that entered fewer than five pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) for GCSEs that year are excluded from the analysis.\nLooking at the rest, though, you can look at the headline measure: the proportion of pupils who get at least five GCSE between grades A* and C including English and maths.\nOn that measure, 96.4% of non-FSM pupils are successful, compared with 92.7% of FSM pupils. That gap of 3.7 percentage points is considerably lower than the gap across all schools of 27 percentage points, but is it almost zero?\nAn alternative measure is to look at what proportion achieved the English Baccalaureate, which requires candidates to achieve C grade or better in English, maths, history or geography, two sciences and a language.\nOn that measure 72% of non-FSM pupils achieved the EBacc, compared with 60% of FSM candidates. That 12 percentage point gap compares with the national 17 point gap.\nBear in mind that these are figures for a single year and that the number of pupils involved is relatively small. There are about 9,000 children eligible for FSM in years 7 to 11 at the 164 grammar schools in England. That means they only have an average of about 11 FSM pupils taking GCSEs each year.", "summary": "Unveiling her new policies for the future of the education system, on Friday, Prime Minister Theresa May announced she had decided to relax restrictions on selective schools." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She is accused of hitting a 20-year-old woman over the head with an extension cord in a hotel room near Johannesburg.\nPolice expected Mrs Mugabe, 52, to turn herself in on Tuesday, but she failed to show up.\nThe first lady's whereabouts are not known but she is believed to still be in South Africa.\nZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is now also in the country ahead of a southern African heads of state meeting due to start on Friday.\nMrs Mugabe has not commented on the allegation.\nAfrica Live: Updates on this and other stories\nPolice Minister Fikile Mbalula said: \"We, in terms of South African police, [have] already put tabs on the borders in relation to her leaving the country, so there is no question about that.\n\"So tabs have been put, a red alert has been put, so she is not somebody who has been running away.\"\nOn Wednesday, South Africa's police ministry said Zimbabwe's government had sought diplomatic immunity for Mrs Mugabe.\nMeanwhile, South African lawyer Gerrie Nel, who successfully prosecuted Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, is supporting the woman making the allegation, Gabriella Engels.\nMr Nel is now working with the Afriforum group, which mainly lobbies for the rights of Afrikaners in South Africa.\nAfriforum said if the police failed to act in the case then it would take up a private prosecution.\nIt also said that it would fight any move to grant Mrs Mugabe diplomatic immunity.\nMs Engels told the BBC that she was attacked by Mrs Mugabe who believed she knew the whereabouts of her son, Bellarmine.\n\"We kept telling her 'we do not know where he is... we haven't seen him for the night'... She cornered me… and started beating the hell out of me.\n\"That's when she hit me with the plug and the extension cord. And I just remember being curled down on the floor with blood rushing down my face and down my neck.\n\"She hit us with so much hate.\"\nMs Engels has now laid an assault charge and added that she wants Grace Mugabe to \"go to jail\".\nFarouk Chothia, BBC Africa\nSouth Africa's government risks a public backlash if it lets Mrs Mugabe go scot-free.\nThis happened in 2015, when it failed to execute an international arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir who was wanted by the International Criminal Court.\nThe government argued that he qualified for diplomatic immunity, but the country's judges disagreed. The government was then strongly criticised for undermining the rule of law.\nIt seems that ministers want to avoid a similar backlash and are therefore insisting that Mrs Mugabe must appear in court.\nBut by taking such an approach it risks a diplomatic row with Zimbabwe's government - a staunch ally whom it has resolutely defended over the years, despite international criticism of President Mugabe's human rights record.\nSo the two governments, including Mr Mugabe and his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, are bound to be in talks to resolve the crisis over the first lady.\nOne option being mentioned in the South African media is that Mrs Mugabe should plead guilty during a short court appearance, and pay a fine.\nBut it is unclear whether Mr and Mrs Mugabe - known for their uncompromising nature - will agree to this, especially after Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party said in a tweet on Tuesday that the first lady had been \"attacked\", contradicting her accuser's version of events.", "summary": "South African police have issued a \"red alert\" at the country's borders for Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe, the police minister has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Charlie's parents wanted a private medical team to care for their son in a hospice so they could have more time with him.\nBut Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) said it was not in his best interests.\nMr Justice Francis approved a plan which will see Charlie \"inevitably\" die shortly after being moved.\nThe judge added that no details about when he would be moved and where could be made public.\nThe story of Charlie Gard\nParents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, and GOSH had until 12:00 BST to agree Charlie's end-of-life care. However, an agreement was not reached by the noon deadline.\nThe parents' lawyer, Grant Armstrong said they wanted to spend days with Charlie at a hospice before his death.\nBut hospital bosses said they could not agree to the arrangement as his parents had not found a hospice or a paediatric intensive care specialist.\nThe High Court order says Charlie will continue to be treated in hospital for a \"period\" of time before being moved to the hospice, which cannot be named for legal reasons.\nIt says doctors can then withdraw \"artificial ventilation\" after a period of time.\nEveryone involved has agreed that the \"arrangements\" will \"inevitably result in Charlie's death within a short period thereafter\", the order adds.\nGOSH said it deeply regretted \"that profound and heartfelt differences between\" Charlie's doctors and parents \"have had to be played out in court over such a protracted period\".", "summary": "Terminally-ill Charlie Gard will be moved to a hospice and have his life support withdrawn soon after, a High Court judge has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "On 7 July 2005 she left her home in Wood Green, north London, and set off to Hammersmith, where she worked as a cleaner.\nShe took the Piccadilly Line underground train at 0800 BST heading towards Gunnersbury.\nBut she never arrived at work, sparking a desperate search by her brother Pawel Iskrzynski.\nHe spent several days searching for her, holding a picture of his sister.\nPolice took his DNA sample and subsequently confirmed that she had died near Russell Square, with 25 others and the suicide bomber.\nIn a police statement read out at the inquest into her death, Mr Iskryzinski described his sister as a very private person who did not smoke or drink alcohol and had just two close friends.\n\"She would normally return home from her job and stay indoors and did not pursue leisure activities,\" he said.\nIn 1981, straight out of school, she ran her own restaurant business and a couple of years later, she married Arek Brandt. Together, they had two children, Hubert and Natalie.\nIn 2002, after the restaurant closed, Ms Brandt moved to London, leaving her husband in Poland to look after their children.\nThe couple separated a year before Ms Brandt's death.\nWhile in London, Ms Brandt shared a house with her brother and dabbled in bar work before becoming a cleaner.\nMost of her earnings were sent back to Poland to help pay for her children's education.\nHer daughter Natalie had arrived in the UK on the day of the explosions to visit her mother. Hubert is thought to have been living in Sweden when his mother died.", "summary": "Anna Brandt, a 41-year-old, had been living in London for three years after leaving her hometown of Wagrowiec in western Poland." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "McIlroy, who returns to the PGA Tour in Mexico this week after nearly two months out with a rib injury, says he was called \"a fascist and a bigot\".\n\"It's not as if we were talking foreign policy out there,\" said the Northern Irishman. \"We were talking golf.\"\nMcIlroy also met Tiger Woods, and said the American was \"in a good place\".\nFormer world number one Woods has been plagued by injury in recent years, and has not played since pulling out of the second round of February's Dubai Desert Classic because of back spasms.\nMcIlroy said the 41-year-old could still play in the Masters - which he has won four times - in April.\n\"It's a possibility,\" said McIlroy, who had lunch with Woods last week. \"Mentally, he's in a good place.\n\"He struggled with his body over the past couple years and it's unfortunate because it just won't allow him to do what he wants to do.\"\nMcIlroy was speaking at a news conference streamed on the PGA Tour's Facebook page.\nAsked about his round with Trump at the president's Trump International course in Florida last week, he said: \"I was just doing what I felt was respectful.\n\"The president of the United States phones you up and wants to play golf with you. I wasn't going to say no.\n\"I don't agree with everything he says but it is what it is. I'm not an American. I can't vote. Even if I could vote I don't think I would have.\"\nMcIlroy said he had a \"good time\" and seeing \"30 secret service and 30 cops and snipers in the trees\" was \"a surreal experience\".\nMcIlroy is preparing to compete in the WGC-Mexico Championship, which begins on Thursday.\nAnd he hopes his injury lay-off is actually \"a blessing in disguise\".\nThe former world number one, who won the last of his four majors in 2014, said: \"I feel like I'm probably stronger now than I was in November, December last year.\"\nMcIlroy can reclaim top spot in the rankings if he wins at the Club de Golf Chapultepec and Dustin Johnson finishes in a two-way tie for third or worse.\n\"I don't think we make too big a deal of it,\" he said. \"It's not as if I earn any more money as the world number one, it's just nice to be able to say you're the best in the world at what you do.\n\"It's been a really great group of guys that have won the last few weeks and it's been a little tough for me.\"", "summary": "World number three Rory McIlroy says he was \"taken aback\" by the extent of the criticism he received for playing golf with US President Donald Trump." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Centre Mallinder, 19, crossed as Saints beat Scarlets to take them through to the European Champions Cup last eight.\n\"He was pretty good. He's not played in the Premiership yet so it was a big ask to play in Europe,\" said Jim Mallinder.\n\"But we've seen what he can do, I've seen it in [reserve] games, he's been doing it for a long time but matured, particularly over the last year.\"\nMallinder Jr, who stands 6ft 5ins tall, is a former pupil of Rugby School and has progressed to the Saints first-team squad after playing for them at the World Club Sevens as a 17-year-old.\nHis father told BBC Radio Northampton: \"I think he's really enjoyed being around good players who have helped him in training.\n\"It's nice to have a 12 who can kick, can take the ball to the line and can distribute.\"\nNorthampton's 22-10 win over their Welsh opponents was enough to see them through as runners-up in Pool Three, as other results went their way.\n\"We were very aware we needed the bonus point,\" said boss Mallinder.\n\"We refused to go out and play sevens rugby from the start because that doesn't get you anywhere.\n\"We knew we needed a disciplined performance, the scrum and our forwards to get on top, to play territory because handling wasn't easy.\"", "summary": "Northampton Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder is delighted with how his son Harry is maturing as a player." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Thirty five firefighters attended the BMW Mercedes garage in Woodham Road, Barry at 17:15 BST on Wednesday.\nA wall and roof of the building collapsed and the five vehicles inside were all damaged.\nA spokeswoman for South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said: \"The fire has been extinguished now, but it is expected to smoulder overnight.\"\nThe cause of the fire is believed to be accidental at this stage.", "summary": "Firefighters have been tackling a commercial garage fire in Vale of Glamorgan." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 11 Plus was scrapped in Northern Ireland in 2008.\nHowever, grammar schools started using new tests to select pupils.\nResults of the contentious tests are due on Saturday.\nThe department has told teachers in the past that they they should not coach pupils for the tests.\nThe figure of 11 schools being sent letters by the department emerged in a reply to a request by Radio Ulster's Nolan Show.\nIn a statement, the department said: \"The department wrote to some primary schools following reports that these schools may have been involved in coaching pupils for the unregulated tests during core teaching hours.\n\"This was to provide the school principals with an opportunity to confirm that the board of governors had complied with their legal duty to have regard to the department's guidance, and that the school was meeting its statutory obligation to deliver the curriculum to all pupils.\n\"The fact that the department writes to a school does not indicate that the school has been engaging in preparing children for unregulated tests, or indeed that the school is failing to deliver the statutory curriculum.\n\"It is intended to enable the schools to provide the department with the assurance that the pupils' educational needs are being appropriately met.\"\nMark Langhammer, from the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said the coaching was acceptable outside school hours.\n\"Many of the schools, either from their own resources or paid for by parents, do offer coaching sessions outside of school either at weekends or after school,\" he said.\n\"Our advice to our teachers - some other unions simply tell their teachers not to do it - we say if the school is going to employ you on a secondary contract and pay you, that's fine outside school.\"\nUlster Unionist Party education spokesman Danny Kinahan criticised the department over the letters.\n\"I completely abhor the actions of the Department of Education in naming, through the media, primary schools which they have sent warning letters to over allegedly 'coaching' Year 6 and 7 pupils in repairing for the transfer test,\" he said.\n\"It is totally unfair to single out schools in such a manner. The principals of all primary schools have been placed in this invidious situation because the AQE and GL tests have become increasingly popular with parents.\n\"The simple fact is that as unofficial tests have become embedded, a large proportion of parents want their children to sit them and have an opportunity of gaining a place at a grammar school.\"\nThere are two unofficial replacement systems for the 11-plus in operation.\nThe single, multiple choice GL Assessment is used mostly by Catholic schools and the AQE sets a different exam for other schools.", "summary": "The Department of Education has sent letters to 11 primary schools since May 2012 over concerns at the possible coaching of pupils for unregulated transfer tests." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Maaxi is designed to match up to five strangers travelling in the same direction, so that they can share a ride and split the bill.\nAlternatively, users can opt to ride solo when they make their booking.\nThe start-up already has the support of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association.\nIts backing is in large part down to the fact that Maaxi promotes itself as a black cab-only facility, unlike rival apps that also offer private hire cars.\nAs well as attracting extra business, the start-up says drivers will earn more money per ride if they carry more passengers than they would do via a traditional pick-up.\nUnder normal circumstances, black cabs do not charge extra for carrying two, three, four or five people rather than just one, but this is not the case with Maaxi.\n\"The taxi driver charges each person less than the meter fare but overall gets more, when aggregating all the partial fares - a true win-win,\" explained Gabi Campos, the firm's chief executive.\n\"The fares are distributed according to the distance and time the person spends in the taxi, so that if five people share a journey they split the fare for that portion in five, and if in a subsequent shared journey only four are sitting in the taxi, the fare is shared by four.\n\"Maaxi takes the hassle out of the hands of the driver and the passenger, and uses technology for everything to be automatically calculated.\"\nOne tech writer questioned the business model.\n\"You have to be really keen to save money to want to stop to pick up strangers,\" commented Chris Hall, editor of Pocket-lint.com.\n\"I think the people already using Uber will stick with it because the prices are very affordable, and so far the service is acting smoothly.\"\nBut another expert welcomed the company's entry into the market.\n\"Competition is always a good thing because it increases quality,\" said Dr Stefania Zerbinati from Cass Business school.\n\"And because the company's registered in the UK, if it succeeds it will pay money back to the government.\n\"Uber, instead, is registered outside.\"\nUber says that it complies with local tax laws, but the UK version of its app is registered to an entity based in Amsterdam, meaning the company's cut of each ride is taxed in the Netherlands.\nMaaxi is funded by the financier Nathaniel Rothschild. It uses software developed in London, which is run off Amazon's Web Services cloud computing platform, to match customers and cars.\nThe system integrates with Transport for London and National Rail's timetables to allow travellers to co-ordinate the \"last mile\" of their journeys.\nIn addition, it can arrange passenger pick-ups to be \"daisy-chained\", so that drivers can continue picking up and dropping passengers as they go, rather than transporting one group at a time.\nThe firm makes money by taking a cut of the fee for shared rides, but not those of passengers travelling alone.\nUsers are given a quoted fee before entering the cab, which is based on earlier taxi journeys along a similar route.\n\"If Maaxi identifies sudden severe traffic which can impact a journey, it alerts passengers and allows them to choose not to continue the journey,\" said Mr Campos.\n\"However even if passengers choose to stay in severe traffic, the costs are much smaller when shared between several users.\"\nHe said that approximately 1,500 cabs had already signed up to be part of the service ahead of its launch in a few weeks time.\nUber began its own shared-trips service, UberPool, last month. But the facility is only available in San Francisco.\nThe Google-backed company has been the target of black cabbies' ire in recent months.\nThey claim that allowing a smartphone to work out the cost of a ride is similar to using a taxi meter, which only black taxis are allowed to do in the UK. Minicabs, by contrast, quote a fixed fee ahead of the journey.\nAn online advert for Maaxi notably features a passenger wearing a t-shirt that features the Google logo alongside a swear word.\nThere has also been tension between the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association and Hailo, after the app added private hire vehicles.\nThe head of the LTDA, Steve McNamara, told the BBC he had been promised Maaxi would not do the same.\n\"[This was] the major concern that the taxi trade had, following what can only be described as the sell-out by Hailo, who went to the dark side,\" said Mr McNamara. \"Nat Rothschild has personally assured the taxi trade that this is a black cab app and we're very excited by it. We actually think it could be a real game changer.\"", "summary": "A new app is recruiting London's black cab taxi drivers with the promise that it can help them compete against Uber, Hailo and other car pick-up services." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The winger, who turns 23 on Sunday, is yet to make his debut for the Exiles after joining from Yeovil last summer.\nRalph began his professional career at Peterborough after spending time in the youth set-ups at Tottenham Hotspur and Ipswich Town.\nHe scored two goals in 41 appearances for Yeovil during a three-year spell with the Glovers.", "summary": "National League side Aldershot Town have signed Newport's Nathan Ralph on loan until the end of the season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nIslam Slimani ran onto a long ball to flick in the first and a Rafick Halliche header put Algeria 2-0 up.\nAbdelmoumene Djabou sidefooted in a third, before Song Heung-min's low shot pulled one back as South Korea rallied.\nYacine Brahimi added Algeria's fourth and, despite Koo Ja-cheol scoring a second for Korea, Algeria held on for their first World Cup win since 1982.\n\"South Korea were absolutely woeful in the first half. That kind of performance is not acceptable at this level of football and they paid the price. In the second half they freshened it up and looked better but Algeria definitely deserved to win.\n\"In the first half Algeria came out with a really high tempo, they played some nice football and the fourth goal was a really good team goal.\"\nAlgeria, narrowly beaten by group leaders Belgium in their opening game, knew a second defeat would end their hopes of getting out of the group stage for the first time. They responded in emphatic fashion, becoming the first African team to score four goals in a World Cup game.\nA win for the Desert Foxes against Russia will now secure a last-16 spot, and a draw could be enough if South Korea fail to beat Belgium.\nAlgeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic made five changes from the opening defeat by Belgium and his reshuffle had the desired impact.\nSofiane Feghouli had a strong shout for a penalty turned down when he appeared to have been tripped by Kim Young-gwon before the ball fell for Brahimi to hook over.\nSlimani then found space at the far post only to head wide and also badly mistimed a first-time shot from six yards as he met an inviting cross from Aissa Mandi.\nBut the Portugal-based striker, who was his side's top scorer in qualifying, did not take long to atone as he outpaced two defenders to get to a long Carl Medjani pass and flick the ball past on-rushing keeper Jung Sung-ryong.\nDefender Halliche extended the lead two minutes later with his second goal for his country, a thumping header from an Djabou corner.\nAnd Djabou turned from provider to goalscorer when Slimani slipped a ball across for him to sidefoot home.\nSouth Korea had not managed a shot on target in the first half but pulled a goal back shortly after the break - a mistake from Madjid Bougherra allowing Song to send a shot through the legs of keeper Rais Mbohli.\nIt was now Algeria's turn to be penned back and they survived a further scare when Ki Sung-yueng had a long range shot palmed over by Mbohli.\nHowever, Brahimi restored his side's three-goal advantage when he played a one-two with Feghouli before slotting past Jung.\nBut a much-improved South Korea were not finished, and after the Desert Foxes failed to clear their lines, Lee Keun-ho played the ball across the box for Koo to slot in, before a tiring Algeria managed to regroup and close out the win.\nAlgeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic:\n\"We played an almost perfect first period.\n\"We played very well, very effectively and then it went down a little bit - maybe it was psychological, maybe it was physical - we will have to talk about this.\n\"But I think that this was a real feat this afternoon and I would like to congratulate my players.\"\nSouth Korea coach Hong Myung-bo:\n\"In the stadium, there were a lot of Korean fans and I would like to apologise to them.\n\"We have one game left and I would just like to promise that we will do our best for the next match.\"\nMatch ends, South Korea 2, Algeria 4.\nSecond Half ends, South Korea 2, Algeria 4.\nFoul by Ji Dong-Won (South Korea).\nAissa Mandi (Algeria) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nCorner, South Korea. Conceded by Essaïd Belkalem.\nFoul by Ji Dong-Won (South Korea).\nCarl Medjani (Algeria) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nSubstitution, Algeria. Essaïd Belkalem replaces Madjid Bougherra.\nAttempt missed. Ji Dong-Won (South Korea) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kim Shin-Wook with a headed pass.\nAttempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (South Korea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nKim Shin-Wook (South Korea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Carl Medjani (Algeria).\nAttempt missed. Lee Keun-Ho (South Korea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Islam Slimani (Algeria) because of an injury.\nFoul by Nabil Bentaleb (Algeria).\nKoo Ja-Cheol (South Korea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nCorner, South Korea. Conceded by Nabil Ghilas.\nLee Keun-Ho (South Korea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Mehdi Lacen (Algeria).\nFoul by Son Heung-Min (South Korea).\nDjamel Mesbah (Algeria) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nAttempt missed. Nabil Ghilas (Algeria) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Djamel Mesbah with a cross.\nSubstitution, South Korea. Ji Dong-Won replaces Han Kook-Young.\nSubstitution, Algeria. Mehdi Lacen replaces Yacine Brahimi.\nAttempt missed. Kim Shin-Wook (South Korea) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Son Heung-Min with a cross.\nCorner, South Korea. Conceded by Rais M'Bolhi.\nSubstitution, Algeria. Nabil Ghilas replaces Abdelmoumene Djabou.\nGoal! South Korea 2, Algeria 4. Koo Ja-Cheol (South Korea) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lee Keun-Ho.\nFoul by Aissa Mandi (Algeria).\nSon Heung-Min (South Korea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nIslam Slimani (Algeria) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Kim Young-Gwon (South Korea).\nFoul by Yacine Brahimi (Algeria).\nLee Yong (South Korea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nHan Kook-Young (South Korea) is shown the yellow card.\nMadjid Bougherra (Algeria) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Madjid Bougherra (Algeria).\nSon Heung-Min (South Korea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nSubstitution, South Korea. Lee Keun-Ho replaces Lee Chung-Yong.", "summary": "Algeria moved up to second in World Cup Group H as they overcame South Korea in a six-goal thriller in Porto Alegre." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The city centre road was closed from Waverley Bridge to the Mound for more than an hour.\nOfficers were called to the 200ft Gothic tower in East Princes Street Gardens at about 14:00.\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"We were called because of reports of concern for a person at the monument.\"\nA woman involved in the incident was said to be safe and well.\nA spokesman for Police Scotland said: \"We can confirm that the incident at the Scott Monument came to a peaceful conclusion at around 15:30.\"\n\"Officers are now working to reinstate traffic in and around the area of Princes Street.\"", "summary": "A section of Edinburgh's Princes Street has reopened following an incident at the Scott Monument." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Research by Edinburgh University found there were 64 searches per 1,000 people in 2010, compared with 17 south of the border.\nThe figures also suggested that young people were the most likely to be searched.\nPolice Scotland has insisted that the policy helps reduce crime.\nFigures released this week suggested that the number of stop and searches in Scotland had continued to rise over the last three years, to a rate of 131 searches per thousand people in 2013.\nThe Scottish Human Rights Commission has warned that such widespread use could cause long-term damage to community relations with the police.\nThe Edinburgh University study said most of the Scottish searches were \"consensual\" and did not require \"reasonable suspicion\".\nThat policy is not allowed in England, where officers must be able to demonstrate there was a reasonable suspicion for a search to take place.\nBefore Scotland's police forces were amalgamated, officers in Strathclyde were identified as the most likely force to use stop and search powers.\nDespite having a 43% of Scotland's population and accounting for a 53% share of Scotland's drug and weapons offences, Strathclyde Police carried out 84% of stop searches.\nThe figure, at 372,900, was 10 times higher than the next nearest force, Lothian and Borders, which carried out 37,700 searches.\nVerbal consent\nThe research also showed that Central Scotland Police conducted 39 searches per 1,000 people, compared to 30 in Lothian and Borders.\nThe authors of the report also highlighted the extensive use of non-statutory stop and search, which is premised on verbal consent rather than legislation.\nIn 2010, nearly three-quarters of searches in Scotland were carried out on this basis.\nThe report recommends that non-statutory stop and search should be phased out as they impact disproportionately on young people and lack important safeguards.\nAccording to the figures, young people aged between 15 and 20 years were nearly three times more likely to be searched than those in their early 20s.\nIn 2010, approximately 500 children aged 10 years and under were also stopped and searched.\nApproximately 80% of the searches carried out on under-10 year olds were non-statutory.\n'Ideal position'\nReport author Kath Murray, said: \"While it is concerning that the use of stop and search has continued to increase under the single service, Police Scotland is now in an ideal position to make sure that stop and search is used fairly, consistently and on the basis of reasonable suspicion.\n\"Transparency and accountability are also essential to fair policing, which means that it's important to ensure that accurate and detailed data on stop and search is routinely published.\"\nProfessor Alan Miller, chairman of the Scottish Human Rights Commission said the increase in the use of stop and search where there was no reasonable suspicion was \"particularly concerning\".\nHe said: \"Such an increased and extensive use of this form of stop and search power can, dependent upon the circumstances, be unlawful, be carried out without informed and freely given consent, and have a longer-term adverse impact upon police and community relations.\n\"Scotland should not be repeating the mistakes and lessons learned in England and Wales, where the use of stop and search is reducing.\"\nPolice Scotland Assistant Chief Constable Wayne Mossan said cross-border comparisons of the policy were unfair.\nHe added: \"We're using really good analytical products, intelligence products to be in the right places at the right time and actually there is a positive hit rate.\n\"One in five people [stopped and searched] has either got a knife, a weapon, stolen goods, drugs or alcohol and that is actually very positive.\"", "summary": "Police in Scotland carry out four times more stop and searches than their colleagues in England and Wales, according to a new report." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Nicholas Anthony Churton, 67, was found dead at an address in Crescent Close at about 08:20 BST on Monday.\nNorth Wales Police is searching for Jordan Davidson, 25, on suspicion of murder.\nDet Supt Iestyn Davies warned Mr Davidson must not be approached as he may have weapons.\nA post-mortem examination showed Mr Churton died of significant head injuries between 14.45 on Thursday and midnight on Friday 24 March.\nDet Supt Davies said Mr Churton, former owner of Churtons wine bar in Rossett, lived alone at the property and was a \"vulnerable man\". His family have been informed.\n\"If anyone sees Mr Davidson or knows of his whereabouts, I'd ask that they contact police immediately, but under no circumstances should anyone approach him as he may be in possession of weapons,\" he said.\n\"I also want to reassure the public that every effort is being made to locate the suspect. There are increased reassurance patrols in and around the town and people will notice an active police presence as we carry out enquiries.\"\nProperties in Vernon Street, in Rhosddu, and Lysfaen Road, in Old Colwyn, have been searched as part of the investigation.\nA man, 35, and woman, 27, both from the Old Colwyn area, and a 27-year-old man from Wrexham were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.", "summary": "Police are searching for a 25-year-old man wanted on suspicion of murder after a disabled man's body was found in Wrexham." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hannah Blythyn, the Labour AM for Delyn, made her comments as an exhibition celebrating historical LGBT figures opens at the Senedd.\nShe said while growing up in north Wales 20 years ago, she had had few people she could identify with.\n\"I'm grateful to those who put their head above the parapet,\" she added.\nSome of the 20 figures selected in the exhibition include politician Leo Abse and former miner and union activist Dai Donovan, who liaised with the gay rights' group who supported miners during the 1984-5 strike and whose story was included in the 2014 film Pride.\nMs Blythyn told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales Programme: \"I was shocked about how little I knew about these people and I think it's really important... particularly for LGBT young people growing up in Wales to have these people they can look to.\n\"For me it was incredibly important to be open about who I was because of the lack of people I had to identify with growing up.\"\nShe described her feelings at being called a role model for young people herself at an event shortly after she had been elected.\nSomebody said to her: \"'There's two teenagers who are gay and they saw what you were on social media and it's made a massive difference to them.'\n\"That really took my breath away, not because what they were saying about me but because how far things have come since I was that age, that people feel a lot more confident and open about their sexuality,\" she said.\nAs well as the exhibition Icons and Allies, the assembly is holding a debate on Wednesday to mark LGBT history month which will look at education and tackling homophobic bullying.", "summary": "One of three gay politicians elected to the Welsh Assembly last year has spoken of the importance of having role models for LGBT people in Wales." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Premiership champions began the defence of their title with a thumping 6-0 demolition of Ballymena United and travel to Taylor's Avenue on Wednesday.\n\"We lost at Carrick the last time we were there near the end of last season so we have to be careful,\" said Baxter.\n\"After that it's Linfield at home so it's a big week to open the season.\"\nWatch action and analysis from the opening day of the season on The Irish League Show\nThe Crues will again be without skipper Colin Coates, who serves the last of his two-game suspension, while Matthew Snoddy and Andy Mitchell are both recovering from injury.\n\"It was a pleasing opening day and our performance levels were high but we have to keep them high. It's still early days and we must continue in the vein we have started.\n\"We looked good pre-season and I enjoyed what I was seeing. We've worked hard in all the training sessions but it's about taking that onto the pitch on a consistent basis,\" added the Crues boss.\nLast season's runners-up Linfield began their campaign with a 2-1 success over Ballinamallard and now entertain Oran Kearney's Coleraine, whose scheduled opening game against Portadown on Saturday was called off.\nThe south Belfast side won all four league encounters against the Bannisders last season.\nGlenavon are another club with title aspirations and they will aim to build on their victory over Carrick when they face Ballymena at the Showgrounds.\n\"We are putting together a brand new side and it will take time. Wednesday's game offers a good opportunity for the players to respond to the defeat at Seaview,\" argued Ballymena boss David Jeffrey.\nThe Lurgan Blues are unbeaten in their last seven meetings with the Braidmen.\nBelfast sides Cliftonville and Glentoran will hope to continue their winning starts to the season when they meet at Solitude, while Dungannon Swifts entertain newly-promoted Ards.\nPortadown get their campaign underway by hosting Ballinamallard, whose manager Gavin Dykes was impressed by his side's display in the 2-1 reverse at the hands of the Blues at the weekend.\n\"I was disappointed with the result but thrilled with the performance against Linfield. We are undergoing a rebuilding process and hope to add another forward player to our squad before the end of the week.\nThe players are working hard and I'm pleased with their application and attitude,\" said Dykes.\nThere will be live coverage of Wednesday night's full programme of games on BBC Radio Ulster medium wave and the BBC Sport website from 19:30 BST.", "summary": "Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter has emphasised that he will be taking nothing for granted ahead of his side's league game against Carrick Rangers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Keep up with all the days events on our live page.\nOn Thursday's debate\nLabour leader Ed Miliband on David Cameron not taking part: \"I think if you are applying for the job of prime minister, the very least people expect if for you to turn up to the job interview.\"\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon: \"\"I am hugely looking forward to this debate, because it is another opportunity to take the SNP's positive message on the progressive policies we believe in to people right across the whole of the UK.\"\nPlaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood: \"I'm looking forward to the opportunity to go in there and put the case again for Wales, but also make clear that we've got a message that will resonate with other communities right throughout the UK, especially in terms of putting the alternative to austerity.\"\nGreen leader Natalie Bennett: \"I'm very much looking forward to tonight. We went through the last one which I actually really enjoyed. Lots of people were telling me to enjoy it beforehand. I wasn't sure if I would, but I did, and so really looking forward to tonight.\"\nConservative leader David Cameron: \"Together, they pose a clear threat to the future of our United Kingdom. A coalition of chaos. The SNP acting as the chain to Labour's wrecking ball, running right through our economic recovery - and it will be you who pays the price.\"\nLib Dem leader Nick Clegg: \"Instead of Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power and using it to keep the government in the centre ground, Nigel Farage and his friends in the Conservatives and the DUP would drag Britain further and further to the right.\"\nPicture of the day\nImagine you had your own political party? What would be in your manifesto? Build your own programme for government here.\n* Subscribe to the BBC Election 2015 newsletter to get a round-up of the day's campaign news sent to your inbox every weekday afternoon.", "summary": "A daily guide to the key stories, newspaper headlines and quotes from the campaign for the 7 May general election." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "William Joyner was born without fingers on his left hand.\nThe Reading FC fan's blue and white prosthetic has been made by a senior lecturer and a PhD student at the University of Bedfordshire.\n\"My friends are really excited for me, I can't wait to take it home and show everyone,\" he said.\nWilliam from Towcester, Northamptonshire, aspires to play football in the British Paralympic team one day.\nHis mum Jo said: \"That will really help him, especially with his football.\n\"It will help build his confidence and strengthen his left side because as the moment he doesn't use it much.\n\"Instead of people feeling sorry for him because of his hand, now they will be really impressed by his new one.\"\nThe hand was developed by senior lecturer David Jazani and technician Mark Hooper.\nMr Jazani said: \"As engineers we are always looking for solutions to help people. This is only the beginning, we are looking to develop the hand as Will grows.\"\nMr Hooper added: \"It's been brilliant watching him take to the hand so quickly and seeing the smile on his face.\n\"As the technology progresses, we hope to be able to help more people in the future.\"\nWilliam had a fitting on Tuesday for his permanent hand and will be able to take it home once some adjustments are made.", "summary": "An eight-year-old boy can hold a pen for the first time after being fitted with a new hand printed in the colours of his favourite football team." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The proposed trail will follow the 129 miles (207km) of the Heart of Wales railway line between Shrewsbury and Swansea.\nA feasibility study has been carried out and a new walking route between Craven Arms and Llanelli is being developed.\nA crowd funding campaign has been set up to help fund the next stage.\nOrganisers said work on the first sections of the trail - from Craven Arms to Knighton and Garnswllt to Pontarddulais joining the Wales Coast Path to the National Wetland Centre Wales in Llanelli - is expected to begin in early 2017.\nThe route is designed to make use of existing public rights of way and to join established walks such as the Shropshire Way, Offa's Dyke Path and Beacons Way.\nMoney raised from the crowd funding campaign will help pay for gates, footbridges and signs as well as route maintenance.", "summary": "Plans for a new long-distance walking route from south Wales to Shropshire have been unveiled." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Almost unanimously they agree that the 10-year prison term was unjust, because in both the original trial and then December's appeal, insufficient account was taken of the defendant's many years of suffering.\nCertainly that was the case made by Jacqueline Sauvage's lawyers, and then in the online petition, signed by some 400,000 people in the last few weeks.\nBut there are dissenting voices. These people, mainly in the judiciary, are concerned about the precedent that Francois Hollande has set in exercising his rarely used right to pardon.\nHollande to free abused murderer\nWriter and former judge Philippe Bilger said it was worrying to see a media campaign wielding such influence on the conduct of justice. On two occasions, after due trial, juries consisting of professional magistrates and members of the public had examined the evidence against Sauvage.\nWhy should their conclusions be gainsaid by clicks on the internet?\n\"It is pretty dramatic… when political personalities of all types involve themselves in matters they do not know, and amid demagogy and confusion launch an attack on one of the fundamental institutions of our country,\" Mr Bilger wrote in Le Figaro.\n\"Those who know the facts passed judgment. Those who judge the judges know nothing.\"\nMany in the magistrature feel that the act of presidential pardon has no place in a system where there is supposed to be a separation of powers.\nIn the case of Jacqueline Sauvage, Mr Hollande was careful to make a nuanced decision. Even after his pardon, she remains guilty of the crime of murder, and it will be up to magistrates to decide exactly when she is freed.\nNonetheless, the president intervened personally to have her sentence reduced to a minimum, reacting in so doing to what he perceived to be a groundswell of popular outrage.\nFor some, this right to pardon, enshrined in Article 17 of the constitution, is a throwback to a monarchical age and should be abolished.\nThe danger, for some jurists, is that emotion and public relations have become the arbiters in a complex criminal affair.\nLawyer Florence Rault said that a political cause, feminism, had trumped dispassionate dissection of the facts.\nShe said the case for the prosecution had received virtually no coverage in the media, so the public perception was shaped solely by Jacqueline Sauvage's defence.\n\"The aim is simple: to instrumentalise the justice system for purposes which are foreign to the justice system. To wit in this instance: promoting the idea of women as victims, and denying the possibility of violence done by women.\"\nNo-one denies that Jacqueline Sauvage suffered at the hands of her husband, though there were certainly questions raised in court about the reality of the relationship.\nFor Le Monde's justice commentator Pascale Robert-Diard, the truth of the matter is that her lawyers conducted a disastrous defence. And when it failed, instead of going to the high court of appeal, they turned to the media.\nAccording to Robert-Diard, the lawyers should have admitted guilt and asked for a minimal sentence, pleading Jacqueline Sauvage's years of misery.\nInstead they pushed for acquittal, based on the legally-unacknowledged argument of \"deferred self-defence\".\nTwice this tactic proved unavailing. And in the end it was left to the head of state \"to give to the defendant the kind of effective defence that she never got in court\".", "summary": "A presidential pardon granted to Jacqueline Sauvage, the Frenchwoman who murdered her abusive husband, has been welcomed by politicians and commentators of all stripes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Northern Irishman, 30, finished ahead of Kawasaki team-mate Tom Sykes, who won the first race on Saturday.\nEnglish rider Sykes, 31, remains second in the 2017 standings on 205 points.\nLeon Haslam, who was second on Saturday, crashed out early, while Italy's Marco Melandri also failed to finish due to a mechanical issue.\nWales' Chaz Davies claimed a podium finish after securing third spot and is third in the standings on 185 points.\n\"I was happy this weekend, although in the races the ball didn't bounce our way, because this was the first time I actually felt that we might actually be able to do something about the green bikes around here,\" Davies told BBC Wales Sport.\nRea's win, 24 hours after crashing out with three laps left in the first race, was Kawasaki's 100th World Superbikes triumph.\nIt was an emotional weekend as Superbike fans paid tribute to former MotoGP world champion Nicky Hayden.\nAmerican Hayden died at the age of 35 in an Italian hospital last Monday following a cycling accident on the Rimini coastline.\nThere was a minute's silence before the opening race on Saturday, with Hayden's bike and helmet standing on the start/finish straight.", "summary": "Jonathan Rea won the second race of the World Superbikes UK round at Donington Park on Sunday to extend his lead to 55 points in the series." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "State forces withdrew from the Mastouma base after days of fighting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.\nThe assault on Idlib is run by a coalition of Islamist rebels, including the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.\nMeanwhile Islamic State (IS) militants are again reported to be threatening the town of Palmyra.\nResidents reported that IS militants had moved into the town's northern quarters, after being driven out late last week.\nSyrian state media implicitly acknowledged the loss of the Mastouma base, saying its forces had heavily pounded \"terrorist formations\" which had infiltrated the camp.\nGovernment forces have headed to Ariha, one of the few towns they still hold in the province, according the British-based Observatory.\nThe capture tightens rebel control on Idlib. The grouping seized the provincial capital in March.\nIt also brings them closer to the coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Assad.\nThe rebels are thought to have been aided by a new alliance between Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, all of whom want Mr Assad ousted.\nHis forces are also under pressure in the south, having lost the main crossing-point on the Jordanian border at Nassib.\nBut he received support on Tuesday from key ally Iran.\nAfter visiting Damascus, Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, pledged to \"continue to support Syria by all means\", Iranian state media reported.", "summary": "Syrian rebels have reportedly seized the last major army base in north-western Idlib province, in a fresh setback for President Bashar al-Assad." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 26-year-old Belgium international, who joined Spurs from FC Twente in July 2013, damaged ankle ligaments in Saturday's 0-0 draw with Liverpool.\nHe was taken off after eight minutes following a collision.\nSpurs are already without Ryan Mason, who has a knee injury, Nabil Bentaleb, who has an ankle problem, and Son Heung-min, who has an injured foot.", "summary": "Tottenham winger Nacer Chadli will be out for about six weeks with an ankle injury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The overcrowded boat was carrying about 500 migrants when it suddenly listed, sending about 200 people into the water, a spokesman said.\nIt triggered a frantic operation to search for survivors.\nThe central Mediterranean route for illegal migration to Europe is currently the busiest.\nMore than 50,000 migrants have reached Italy this year.\nThe route is also the most deadly, accounting for the vast majority of the 1,364 people who the UN estimates have drowned in the Mediterranean this year.\nThe waiting game: Aboard the Mediterranean's migrant rescue boats\nAfrican migrants sold in Libya 'slave markets', IOM says\nOne report suggested a private humanitarian group, Moas, had begun lifting people from the crowded wooden boat about 30 nautical miles off Libya, when many fell into the water.\nIt is thought they may have been knocked off balance by a wave.\nChris Catrambone of Moas tweeted pictures from the scene and said bodies were still in the water - including those of toddlers.\nThe Italian coastguard directed other boats to the scene - including Italian, British and Spanish navy vessels - while a helicopter and military aircraft dropped lifeboats, said AFP.\nMeanwhile, the Italian coastguard said operations in the area had rescued a total of 1,800 people from 10 separate vessels on Wednesday.\nLeaders of the world's wealthiest nations, the G7, are meeting on the Italian island of Sicily on Friday and the deputy executive director of the UN's children's organisation Unicef urged them to address the continuing tragedy in the seas around them.\n\"The tragedy of children dying in the Mediterranean is a wake-up call to leaders meeting in Sicily,\" said Justin Forsyth.\n\"These extremely vulnerable children need action now.\"\nGood weather conditions off Libya have prompted an increase in the number of migrants leaving for Italy.\nThe waters in the area are busy with boats from the Italian and Libyan coastguards, humanitarian vessels and even scavenger boats hoping to recover abandoned equipment.\nGerman NGO Jugend Rettet said on its Facebook page that on Tuesday a Libyan coastguard vessel had fired gunshots as it conducted a rescue.\nIt said the boat was already carrying migrants, presumably picked up from other vessels, who had panicked and thrown themselves overboard only to be shot at themselves.\n\"We can not say whether and how many dead there were in the shooting,\" the 25-year-old captain, named only Jonas, was quoted as saying.\n\"We had to be careful not to get a bullet ourselves. We are speechless against this crude violence.\"\nIt said two boats had then been towed illegally back to Libya where captured migrants can be housed in camps notorious for human right abuses.\nEarlier this year, human rights groups voiced concern after EU leaders agreed a deal with Libya's UN-backed government to reinforce its coastguard and curb more attempted migrant crossings.\nLibya is a gateway to Europe for migrants from across sub-Saharan Africa and also from the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, Syria and Bangladesh. Many are fleeing war, poverty or persecution.\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "summary": "At least 34 migrants, some of them young children, have drowned after falling into the sea off the Libyan coast, Italy's coastguard says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The county's police force said feedback from both farmers and those caught hare coursing said it was the greatest deterrent.\nTraditionally offences start to rise in the autumn after crops have been harvested and continue until spring.\nLast season, 176 men were arrested or reported for summons.\nDuring the busiest months of November and December an average of 15 calls a day were received with the South Holland area the hardest hit, the force said.\nLincolnshire Police said it would also focus on working with neighbouring forces as part of its clampdown.\nThe National Farmer's Union's Lincolnshire advisor for the Holland region, Gordon Corner, welcomed the move.\nHe said many farmers had been threatened with violence and threats when facing gangs of hare coursers.\nSource: Lincolnshire Police", "summary": "A police team set up to combat hare coursing in Lincolnshire has said it will focus on seizing dogs and vehicles as part of its annual clampdown." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The researchers say the knowledge will lead to new drugs targeting the Achilles' heel of each patient's cancer and that they have already seen some \"exceptional\" results.\nCancer charities said the findings were \"incredibly exciting\".\nThe analysis, published in the journal Nature, looked at 456 patients' cancer.\nTumours are caused by mutations in DNA that make healthy tissue turn cancerous - but there is more than one way to make a cancer.\nWhile all the pancreatic cancers looked similar, there were four classes of genetic error that led to tumour formation.\nAnd these four cancers have been labelled:\nOne example of how different the cancers are is the average survival time from diagnosis with squamous-type cancers was just four months - roughly half that of the other types.\nBut crucially, the knowledge could lead to new treatments.\nDr Andrew Biankin, one of the researchers at the University of Glasgow, told the BBC News website: \"This is the most comprehensive analysis of the blueprint of pancreatic cancer.\n\"So this knowledge reveals what makes these cancers tick and which ones may be vulnerable to particular treatments by defining the Achilles' heel of every cancer.\"\nIt would be a much needed breakthrough for a type of cancer stubbornly difficult to treat.\nMost people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are told they have less than a year to live.\nAnd just 1% of them are alive 10 years after being diagnosed - a survival rate unchanged for four decades.\nMeanwhile, dramatic improvements in breast, prostate and colon cancer care mean pancreatic tumours are predicted to kill more people than any other cancer, apart from lung, in some countries.\n\"It's just a really tough cancer,\" Dr Biankin said.\nBut he hopes matching drugs to specific errors in tumours will help patients.\nHe said: \"The fact that we see, through chance, that some patients respond exceptionally to a particular therapy allows us to expand these insights so we can treat more patients with similar cancers at a genetic level.\"\nIt is thought the \"immunogenic\" pancreatic cancers may be vulnerable to a new wave of immunotherapies already transforming cancer, and clinical trials are already under way.\nLeanne Reynolds, the head of research at Pancreatic Cancer UK, said: \"The findings of this research are incredibly exciting for anyone affected by pancreatic cancer, as they should mean that in the future the right patients can be given the right treatment at the right time.\n\"If we can predict more accurately which treatment would be most effective for each patient, we can ensure patients have the best chance of living for as long as possible, as well as possible.\"\nDr Emma Smith, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"Identifying different types of pancreatic cancer and revealing the disease's complexity is an important step towards finding more effective treatments.\n\"This will help to ensure patients are given the therapies that are most likely to help.\"\nFollow James on Twitter.", "summary": "Pancreatic cancer is at least four separate diseases each with a different cause and needing a different treatment, scientists have discovered." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Argentine Messi, aged 29, was also fined €2m euros (£1.7m; $2.2m) by the court in Barcelona.\nIn addition to the prison term, Messi's father, Jorge, was fined €1.5m for defrauding Spain of €4.1m in 2007-09.\nHowever, neither man is expected to serve time in jail.\nUnder the Spanish legal system, prison terms of under two years can be served under probation.\nThe pair also face millions of euros in fines for using tax havens in Belize and Uruguay to conceal earnings from image rights.\n'I knew nothing', Messi tells court\nMessi retires from international football\nIs Messi best of all time?\nHow Messi reached his 500-goal milestone\nQuiz: How well do you know Messi?\n\"The sentence is not correct and we are confident the appeal will show the defence was right,\" Messi's lawyers said in a statement several hours after the guilty verdict was delivered.\nThe lawyers said that \"there is a good chance that the appeal will succeed\", adding that Messi had always acted in good faith.\nThe sentence can be appealed against via the Spanish supreme court.\nThe footballer and his father were found guilty of three counts of tax fraud.\nAs well as the jail terms, Messi and Jorge were also fined. They made a voluntary €5m \"corrective payment\", equal to the alleged unpaid tax plus interest, in August 2013.\nMessi earns an estimated €36m per year at Barcelona, and his income of about €315m in the past decade has placed him 10th of Forbes magazine's list of the highest-earning athletes in the world.\nLionel Messi's career in photos\nMessi statue unveiled in Buenos Aires\n\"FC Barcelona expresses its full support to Leo Messi and his father in relation to the conviction for tax fraud...\n\"The club... considers that the player, who has corrected his position with the Spanish tax office, is in no way criminally responsible with regards to the facts underlined in this case.\"\nStatement in full (in Spanish)", "summary": "Barcelona football star Lionel Messi and his father will appeal against a Spanish court decision to sentence them each to 21 months in jail for tax fraud, the player's lawyers say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 47-year-old victim suffered head injuries in the attack outside a Costcutter store in the Lancashire town, at about 14:30 BST on Saturday.\nHe is thought to have been involved in an argument with a group outside the shop in Exchange Street, police said.\nLancashire Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.\nThe teenage suspect from Blackpool is being questioned on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm with intent.", "summary": "A 16-year-old boy has been arrested following an assault which left a man in a critical condition in Blackpool." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A regional official told the BBC that 8,000 people were given precautionary evacuation orders late on Monday, in addition to some 4,000 who had already been advised to leave.\nMore than 80,000 people fled the fire that hit Fort McMurray two weeks ago.\nAir pollution in the Alberta city is still at dangerously high levels.\nA reading on Monday found the level to be 38 - far exceeding the provincial index's most dangerous level of 10.\nThe vast fire had moved away from Fort McMurray but in recent days it has started to threaten the area again.\nA number of oil workers had begun in recent days to return to the oil facilities north and south of Fort McMurray to restart production.\nBut on Monday, they were warned that the wildfire was travelling at 30-40 metres per minute north of Fort McMurray.\nOver the course of the day, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo extended its precautionary evacuation orders to all camps north of Fort McMurray and south of Fort McKay.\nThese include the large Suncor and Syncrude sites.\nSuncor confirmed, in a statement, it had \"started a staged and orderly shutdown of our base plant operations\" and its staff were being transported to camps further north.\n\"Suncor has enhanced fire mitigation and protection around all of its facilities,\" it said. \"When it is safe to do so, we will continue implementing our restart plans.\"\nThick smoke and ash over a wide area are said to be hampering the fire-fighting operation and hot-dry winds have been fanning the flames.\nFire crews were also trying to control a blaze south-east of Fort McMurray that is threatening an oil installation, and another fire is burning not far from the Fort McMurray neighbourhood of Timberlea.\nSource: Alberta government\nCanada's black gold oil rush\nMeanwhile, work is under way to restore essential services to Fort McMurray, paving the way for the return of the 80,000 residents.\nAlberta Premier Rachel Notley said on Monday that electricity had been restored to most of the city, the water-treatment plant was working and the airport was ready to reopen.\nBut she has warned against anyone trying to return until air quality readings drop significantly. \"This is something that could potentially delay recovery work and a return to the community,\" she added.\nCanadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau told CBC News that the cost of the disaster was still being evaluated.\n\"We're obviously going to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people in Fort McMurray and rebuild the city,\" he said.\nThe wildfire still covers about 2,410 sq km (930 sq miles) and is expected to burn for a few more weeks.", "summary": "Around 12,000 people have been urged to leave Canada's oil sands camps near the fire-hit town of Fort McMurray as a resurgent wildfire heads towards them." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ministers said they had taken action following \"repeated incidences of failure relating to governance\".\nEducation Secretary Angela Constance said the board's relationship with students had broken down.\nIn a statement to MSPs, she added that it had breached rules on spending public money and \"mismanaged its finances\".\nThe college's principal, Susan Walsh, has been suspended by the board since February on full pay, pending a review.\nThe government has appointed new board members and named former West Lothian Council chief executive Alex Linkston as the new chairman.\nSome members of staff and students had claimed that Ms Walsh had a robust management style, but others praised her performance and dedication and denied there was a culture of bullying.\nThis is the first time that the government has used its powers to remove a college's chairman and board.\nGlasgow Clyde College, which was established two years ago, employs about 1,000 people. It has three separate large campuses in Langside, Anniesland and Cardonald.\nMs Constance said the outgoing board had \"failed to discharge its duties on a number of counts\".\n\"Having considered all the information, and taken into account what is in the best interests and needs of students and staff at the college, I am clear that a new board is needed to take Glasgow Clyde College forward,\" she said.\n\"I am confident the new board will act quickly to forge a positive relationship with its 27,000 students and staff so the college can fully focus on supporting learners to achieve their ambitions and ensuring the institution plays a key role in the life of Glasgow, its people and its economy.\"\nIn an emergency statement, she told MSPs that she had been involved in a series of meetings between May and September, which also involved Scottish government officials, the Scottish Funding Council and Glasgow Colleges' Regional Board.\nMs Constance said the board had allowed its relationship with student representatives and the wider student population to deteriorate.\nShe said: \"It did nothing to address that problem and does not accept there is a problem.\n\"The former board allowed its working relationship with student leaders to deteriorate until they no longer took an active role in the board.\n\"Indeed, the relationship with students broke down to the extent that none were prepared to stand for election to the board. Yet the board made no attempt to repair the relationship.\n\"It does not - even now - acknowledge that there has been a breakdown in its relationship with its student body.\"\nShe also said the board had breached \"clear rules\" on how colleges can spend public money.\n\"This includes limits on how much can be spent without a competitive tender. Beyond those limits, colleges must get approval from the Funding Council,\" she said.\n\"At Clyde, those rules were breached. In fact, the board committed to three times more expenditure than the rules allowed - over £90,000.\n\"In total, the board has committed over £200,000 on legal and professional fees. In short, it has mismanaged its finances.\"\nMSPs were also told that the board failed to consider serious concerns - covering matters of propriety, process, procedure, conflict of interest and behaviour - which were raised by the principal in February.\nAnd Ms Constance added that the board had failed to discharge a number of its functions appropriately.\n\"At important meetings, the board operated without proper agendas, without papers in advance of meetings, and without minutes that recorded discussions and decisions,\" she said.\n\"It operated without a board secretary in place. It improperly delegated an executive function to a member of the board.\"\nFormer board members have threatened to challenge the decision to dismiss them in court.\nA statement from the group said: \"The Glasgow Clyde College Board is stunned by today's decision to dismiss the board.\n\"All eight board members believe they have acted properly and with integrity in the best interests of the college, students and staff.\n\"The education secretary's decision today is unprecedented and unjustified. It is open to challenge in the courts.\n\"We call on the Scottish Parliament's education committee to conduct a full inquiry into the matter and we are ready to give our evidence.\"\nIn a statement, the college said it had been informed of the government's move on Thursday.\n\"An interim chair and board members have been appointed and senior college staff will work closely with them, as they take up their roles in ensuring that appropriate arrangements are in place for the future governance of the college.\"\nTeachers' union the EIS said it noted that the Scottish government had \"taken action to attempt to address a complex situation related to the management and governance of Glasgow Clyde College\".\nIt added: \"However, the announcement did come as something of a surprise and there seems to have been a lack of consultation with staff representatives.\n\"The EIS-FELA branch at the college will now wish to consider the impact of this change while seeking to ensure that lecturers and students are properly supported through this challenging time.\"\nEIS general secretary Larry Flanagan added: \"Recent concerns raised by the EIS in relation to college management were primarily focused on the role of principals rather than boards. It is imperative that these broader concerns that have been raised in relation to the management style of principals within colleges are addressed.\n\"It also remains essential that there is full staff engagement in any review of management operations within individual colleges and across the sector, and that lecturing staff should continue to be properly represented on all college boards.\"\nNew board chairman Alex Linkston said: \"I am very pleased to take on this role.\n\"Public confidence in the governance of the college is essential to its success.\n\"I'm looking forward to working with the new board, students and staff to ensure it is well run and delivers the best possible outcomes for all those studying, working and engaging in other ways with the college.\"", "summary": "The chairman and governing board of Glasgow Clyde College have been removed by the Scottish government." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Gene Palmer is the second prison worker detained over the jail break. Joyce Mitchell has already been charged with aiding the escape.\nThe prisoners, Richard Matt and David Sweat, used power tools to flee the Clinton Correctional Facility.\nA massive manhunt is still under way to find the pair, both convicted killers.\nMr Palmer has been held on bail, after appearing before a judge on charges of promoting prison contraband, tampering with physical evidence, and official misconduct.\nHis lawyer, Andrew Brockway, admitted his client delivered the meat but said he did not know it contained the tools, nor that the prisoners were trying to escape.\n\"He did pass the hamburger meat. He shouldn't have done it. He apologised for it,'' said Mr Brockway, who added his client plans to plead not guilty.\nClinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said Ms Mitchell placed hacksaw blades and other tools inside the meat, before Mr Palmer took it to Matt and Sweat, who were interred in a section of the jail where prisoners can cook their own meals.\nMeanwhile, officers are concentrating their search on a 75 sq mi (194 sq km) area of northern New York state.\nPolice found evidence the two men spent time at a hunting cabin near the prison, and it is believed they may be armed, given how heavily the area is stocked with weaponry.\n\"They are extremely dangerous, they're cunning,\" said New York State Police Major Charles Guess. \"Why wouldn't they try to arm themselves immediately upon escape?''", "summary": "A US prison guard believed to have smuggled tools hidden inside hamburger meat to two prisoners who escaped a New York state jail has been arrested." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The bases of some one-litre teapots have reportedly fractured and fallen out during normal use, according to Yorkshire Tea.\nThe products have the Harrogate part of the \"Taylors of Harrogate\" logo written in a lower case font.\nAnyone with one of these products is being urged to contact the company.\nThe products included in the recall are the Yorkshire Tea teapots - one litre and one cup - the Yorkshire Tea Big Tea Mug and the Yorkshire Tea Milk Jug.\nYorkshire Tea, founded in Harrogate in 1886, said the products were sold by Amazon and independent retailers from 2015.\nThe company said in a statement: \"When teapots from the same batch were tested against the relevant British Safety Standard they did not crack.\n\"However, more extensive testing revealed the potential for fracture or breakages during normal use.\n\"Therefore, in the interests of our customers' safety, we've taken the decision to implement a recall of all the ceramics made by the same manufacturer.\"", "summary": "Teapots and ceramics bearing the Yorkshire Tea logo are being recalled after customers reported they were breaking as they brewed up." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Australians vote on Saturdays and many booths are located at schools, churches and community halls.\nThese institutions take advantage of the country's high voter turnout by selling sausages, cakes and coffees to waiting voters.\nBoth the prime minister and opposition leader have been snagged in sausage-related controversies.\nOpposition Leader Bill Shorten committed a faux pas when he tried to eat his sausage-and-bun combination from the side, rather than from the end.\nHis unusual technique led to a round of condemnation on social media, with one wag calling it \"the lowest moment we have ever seen in politics\".\nPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, meanwhile, skipped the sausage altogether as he voted in Sydney, possibly wanting to avoid a potentially awkward photo opportunity.\nThe tradition is so popular that two websites have been created to tell voters where to find polling booths with sausage sizzles and cake stalls. The hashtag #democracysausage has been trending on Twitter.\nBrisbane man Grant Castner, who runs the Election Sausage Sizzles website, said Google and Twitter were using his data to inform hungry voters of their nearest cookout.\n\"The Australian Electoral Commission has a download of all the polling booth data … and then I just get schools and anyone holding a polling booth to register on the site, put a description in,\" he says.\n\"Since the last election in 2013 we have had a lot of media attention, so I didn't do too much finding on my own this time.\"\nAccording to the Election Sausage Sizzles site, sausage sizzles and cake stalls are being held at 1,992 polling booths across Australia - just under one-third of the total number.", "summary": "Barbecues have been fired up at polling booths across Australia for traditional election-day \"sausage sizzles\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Eric Schneiderman said his office wanted to ensure the foundation is \"complying with the laws that govern charities in New York\".\nThe Trump Foundation has been hit by a number of damaging media stories.\nMr Trump's team have dismissed Mr Schneiderman, a Democrat, as \"a partisan hack.\"\nThe attorney-general has endorsed Mr Trump's chief opponent, Hillary Clinton, for president.\nMr Trump's campaign spokesman Jason Miller said Mr Schneiderman had \"turned a blind eye to the Clinton Foundation for years\", and called the inquiry \"another left-wing hit job designed to distract from Crooked Hillary Clinton's disastrous week\".\n\"We have been concerned that the Trump Foundation may have engaged in some impropriety from that point of view,\" Mr Schneiderman told CNN.\n\"And we've inquired into it, and we've had correspondence with them. I didn't make a big deal out of it or hold a press conference, but we have been looking into the Trump Foundation to make sure it's complying with the laws that govern charities in New York.\"\nUS media say Mr Schneiderman's office has been investigating the Donald J Trump Foundation since at least June when it formally questioned a donation made to a group backing Republican Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi in 2013.\nThe $25,000 (£19,000, €22,000) payment was made at a time when Mrs Bondi's office was reportedly considering whether to open a fraud investigation into Trump University.\nThe fraud investigation never happened, although Mrs Bondi denies the decision was influenced by the donation she received.\nAides to Mr Trump have already admitted the donation was a mistake resulting from clerical errors, according to reports.\nThe US Justice Department has been asked by Democrats in the House of Representatives to investigate the $25,000 donation to Pam Bondi.\nOther newspaper investigations allege the Trump Foundation reported donations that the supposed recipients say they never received, and also spent money on the candidate himself.", "summary": "New York's attorney general says he is investigating Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's foundation over suspected \"impropriety\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Brent, 37, created a delicate, vibrantly coloured work featuring daubs of violet, blue and yellow on paper.\nThe entries were judged by noted primate researcher and conservationist, Jane Goodall.\nThe prize in the contest, sponsored by the Humane Society of the US will benefit Chimp Haven, Brent's sanctuary in the US state of Louisiana.\nCheetah and Ripley won second and third prizes in the competition that garnered 27,000 votes.\nBrent is a retired laboratory animal, and the Humane Society says he is protective of an elder companion, named Grandma, and \"loves to laugh and play\".\n\"All of the art was beautiful and unique, just like chimpanzees,\" Jane Goodall said, in a statement distributed by the Humane Society.\n\"It was difficult to choose. It's so important that the public support all of these sanctuaries in their mission to provide exceptional care to chimpanzees, and other primates, who have suffered through so much.\"\nSecond-place artist Cheetah won a total of $10,000, including a $5,000 judge's prize awarded by Mrs Goodall. He lives at Save the Chimps in Florida.\nRipley took $2,500 for the Center for Great Apes, also in Florida.\nOther artists won $500 grants for their sanctuaries for their participation.", "summary": "A US chimpanzee who paints with his tongue has won a $10,000 (£6,450) prize in a chimpanzee art competition." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 27-year-old left the club - who are also known as Anambra Warriors - in November, having rejected a lesser role after he had led them to the 2016 Nigerian FA Cup.\nHe has made a dramatic return following the exit of his successor, former Accra Hearts of Oak manager Kenichi Yatsuhashi, who left the club last month with the board citing \"unprofessional conduct\".\nFormer Ghana international forward Yaw Preko has been in temporary charge of the side following the exit of Yatsuhashi.\nEverton, the youngest manager to win the Nigerian FA Cup at 27, returns with Brazilian player Alberico Barbosa da Silva who also helped the team to fourth place in the Premier League last season.\nFC IfeanyiUbah, who have a partnership deal with English side West Ham and play in the same colours as the Premier League club, will face Egyptian club Al Masry in the Caf Confederation Cup first round next month.", "summary": "Brazilian Rafael Everton Lira has returned to FC IfeanyiUbah as manager of the Nigerian Premier League club." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They had been accused of taking part in the killings and torture of anti-government protesters in 2011, under then-leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.\nThe bodies of the 12 men were found in various parts of Tripoli last Friday, a day after their release.\nAll had been beaten and shot in the chest and head, their families say.\nOn Monday Martin Kobler, Special Representative of the UN Support Mission in Libya said he was \"utterly shocked\" by this \"vile crime\".\nHe called for the killings to \"be thoroughly and independently investigated\".\n\"I urge the relevant Libyan authorities to establish a joint national - international investigation and I will follow developments closely,\" Mr Kobler added.\nBBC North Africa correspondent Rana Jawad says that those killed had been granted conditional release.\nThe exact circumstances of the killings are unclear. Officials say the men left al-Baraka prison with their families on Thursday but this could not be independently verified.\nMost prisons in Libya are controlled by a combined force of militia groups and the judicial police.\nLibya still has rival regional administrations and armed forces in the east and west of the country, with each battling extremist militants in their territories.\nThe internationally-backed unity government in Tripoli has condemned the killings. It is also carrying out a big offensive against so-called Islamic State in the port city of Sirte.\nIn a statement, the rival government based in eastern Libya accused the prison authorities of carrying out the executions and dumping their bodies.\nThey described them as \"outlawed groups that control the jail\".\nThere are hundreds on inmates in al-Baraka, many of whom are accused of being Gaddafi loyalists imprisoned after he was overthrown in 2011.\nLast year inmates complained that prison guards regularly beat them and administered electric shocks, Human Rights Watch reported.\nThousands of people including children are arbitrarily detained in Libya, the UN says.", "summary": "The UN envoy to Libya has called for an investigation into the murders of 12 men soon after their release from jail in the capital Tripoli last week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Thomas Anthony Carlin has also instructed lawyers to seek bail as he seeks to overturn the three-month prison sentence imposed for his approach to Lord Justice Gillen.\nHis application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court will be dealt with at a specially arranged hearing in Belfast on Friday.\nOn Wednesday, the 43-year-old PSNI officer was found guilty of contempt of court in proceedings brought against him by the Attorney General.\nLord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan held that he had acted with premeditation and determination.\nSir Declan described him as a man driven by self-importance and attention seeking who \"revelled in being the spotlight\".\nThe judge told Mr Carlin that if he seeks to apologise after 28 days the rest of his sentence will be set aside.\nHe had tried to arrest Lord Justice Gillen following the verdict of a repossession matter between Mr Carlin and Santander.", "summary": "A serving policeman jailed for trying to arrest one of Northern Ireland's most senior judges is to attempt to appeal his conviction to the UK's highest court." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Details of future ideas and strategy were outlined by Mr Spiegel in emails to Michael Lynton, a Sony executive who sits on Snapchat's board.\nAlso included were details, including financial data, on previously unpublicised acquisitions.\n\"I felt like I was going to cry all morning,\" Mr Spiegel said in a memo.\n\"I went on a walk and thought through a couple things.\"\nMr Spiegel later shared on Twitter the emotional note he sent to Snapchat's employees, entitled Keeping Secrets.\n\"I've been feeling a lot of things since our business plans were made public last night,\" he wrote.\n\"Definitely angry. Definitely devastated.\n\"I want to give you all a huge hug because keeping secrets is exhausting.\n\"Keeping secrets means coming home late, after working all day and night. Curling up with your loved ones, hanging out with your friends, and not being able to share all of the incredible things you're working on. It's painful, it's tiring.\"\nThe leak detailed big ambitions for the popular app which allows users to send messages - images or video - that disappear after a short period of time.\nAccording to the emails, the company purchased Vergence Labs, an eyewear company that produced a product comparable to Google Glass.\nSnapchat also spent millions on Scan.me, a firm specialising in QR codes and advertising platform iBeacon.\nMr Spiegel's staff memo does not comment on the acquisitions, nor does it suggest the company planned to take any legal action against Sony or any other party.\nSony Pictures' legal woes are beginning to mount after the hack attack that has seen it cancel plans to release The Interview, a comedy about North Korea.\nEarlier this week, two former Sony Pictures employees filed a lawsuit accusing the company of not properly securing private data.\nAround 15,000 employees had personal information, including social security numbers, leaked following the hack.\nSony Pictures said the attack was \"unprecedented\", and that the threat was \"undetectable by industry-standard antivirus software\".\nMr Spiegel has said he will spend some time being \"angry and upset\" before getting back to work.\n\"It's not fair that the people who try to build us up and break us down get a glimpse of who we really are.\n\"It's not fair that people get to take away all the hard work we've done to surprise our community, family and friends.\"\nFollow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC", "summary": "Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel has said he is \"devastated\" and \"angry\" that plans for his messaging app were leaked as part of the Sony Pictures hack." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The German joined the team at the end of 2009 and has been runner-up in the championship for the past two seasons.\nThe 31-year-old's new deal means both he and Hamilton are under contract until the end of the 2018 season.\nRosberg leads the 2016 championship by one point from Hamilton going into Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.\nThe pair are dominating F1, having won nine of the opening 10 races, but their relationship is a fractious one, punctuated by a number of on-track clashes.\nRosberg said the new contract was a \"special moment for me\", adding: \"I look forward to the future.\"\nIn a statement, Mercedes said: \"Nico has been a core member of the Silver Arrows since the team returned to the sport in 2010 and has played a crucial role in the team's success in that time.\"\nMercedes team boss Toto Wolff told BBC Sport: \"Contract negotiations are never a formality because it is important for the driver and the team. It took a couple of months and we signed it last night.\n\"I am in for long-term stability especially with the regulations change. I am a faithful person and if it functions well with your wife you need to stay with your wife.\"\nWolff also said he had no concerns about Rosberg and Hamilton's contracts expiring at the same time.\n\"It means they will try to outperform each other and you have to think to the younger generation,\" he said. \"For me, there is more opportunity than risk in having both run out at the same time.\"\nBBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson:\nRosberg's new deal is no surprise given it has been telegraphed by both team and driver for some time.\nHe is also leading the world championship - and Mercedes could not afford to let a man who might win it leave at the end of the season.\nThe former Williams driver, who has 19 F1 wins in his career, has had a sometimes difficult relationship with Briton Hamilton, but it is a relationship Mercedes feel they can control.\nThe driver line-up is perfect for them. In Hamilton, they have arguably the fastest driver in F1. In Rosberg, they have a man who can win when Hamilton hits trouble and who is good enough to beat him on merit from time to time.\nRetaining both drivers gives the team stability ahead of 2017, when a new set of regulations will dramatically change the cars. It's the obvious choice.\nRosberg's deal means all three top teams have confirmed driver line-ups for 2017.\nRed Bull are retaining Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, while Ferrari have confirmed Kimi Raikkonen as partner for Sebastian Vettel.\nThe only active world champion without a drive at this stage is Britain's Jenson Button, whose McLaren contract expires at the end of this season.\nMcLaren are likely to promote their Belgian reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne to partner double world champion Fernando Alonso, although chairman Ron Dennis told BBC Sport two weeks ago they would not decide until September.\nButton also has interest from Williams, who are likely to drop Brazilian veteran Felipe Massa. Finn Valtteri Bottas is under option and is likely to be retained.", "summary": "Nico Rosberg has signed a new contract with Mercedes and will continue to partner triple world champion Lewis Hamilton for the next two years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 37-year-old suffered a punctured lung and six broken ribs in a fall from odds-on favourite Charli Parcs in the Adonis Juvenile Hurdle.\n\"I'm obviously devastated to miss the Festival,\" Geraghty told At The Races.\n\"There were so many good horses to look forward to as JP McManus' team all look in particularly good shape.\"\nThe Irishman said the evening of the fall had been \"pretty rough\".\n\"I've broken ribs individually before but never had six go all at the same time,\" he added.\n\"I'll be in hospital for a few more days but once the lung improves my recovery should be straightforward.\"\nThe jockey has ridden at least one winner at each of the past 15 stagings of the Cheltenham Festival, and is second on the top Festival jockeys' list on 34 wins, 18 behind Ruby Walsh.\nHe was due to ride a string of big-name horses owned by McManus, including hurdlers Unowhatimeanharry and Yanworth.\nGeraghty needs a drain to remove liquid from a punctured lung, but hopes to be back in time for Aintree in April.\nBBC Sport horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght.\nAfter a whole lot of four-legged stars were ruled out of Cheltenham, now a major two-legged casualty.\nWith major Festival wins on big-name runners like Moscow Flyer, Kicking King, Bobs Worth, Sprinter Sacre, Jezki and More Of That, Geraghty is one of the fixture's most reliable and consistent performers of recent years.\nAnd he's that rarity, a jockey who's lifted all of the fixture's 'Big 4' trophies - the Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase, Stayers Hurdle and Gold Cup - more than once.\nMcManus' number two jockey Mark Walsh is set to be the main beneficiary of Geraghty's misfortune.", "summary": "Jockey Barry Geraghty has been ruled out of the Cheltenham Festival after sustaining injuries in a heavy fall at Kempton on Saturday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But in September 2013, the process of switching became a lot less painful.\nThat was when Britain's 50m current account holders were first able to move their bank account to another provider within seven days.\nIt followed a recommendation from the Independent Commission on Banking, which said there should be more competition in the market.\nSo how easy is it to switch? What can go wrong? And what guarantees do you have if your bank makes a mistake?\nHow common is switching?\nBefore the 7 day switching service started, around a million people switched bank accounts every year. In the first two years of the service, 2.25m switched. But the number of switches declined by 14% between 2014 and 2015.\nWhere do we bank at the moment?\nThe big four High Street banks have a 77% share of the market, according to the Competition and Markets Authority. Lloyds Banking Group (which includes Halifax and Bank of Scotland) is the largest bank in the UK, with 27% of all current accounts. Both Barclays and RBS (which includes Nat West) have 18%, and HSBC has 12%, according to Cass Business School.\nHow can I switch?\nYou can contact your new bank, or choose a new one via www.simplerworld.co.uk. Once you have switched, payments in or out of your old account will be automatically re-directed for a period of 13 months, to cover once-a-year payments. So your employer, for example, will be notified, and payments will be automatically switched to your new account. No one whom you pay, or who pays you, will have to take any action.\nSo how long will switching take?\nOnce your new bank has acknowledged your application, the switching will take seven working days. Or the switch can happen on a date of your choosing.\nDo I have to notify my old bank?\nNo, you only need notify the new bank. It will tell your old bank, and transfer all your direct debits and standing orders automatically. You will be given a new bank account number, and a new sort code.\nWhat happens if I miss a payment as a result of the switch?\nIf anything goes wrong, and you miss a payment, your new bank will refund the charges, and make good any direct debits that did not go through.\nCan I still switch if I am overdrawn?\nThis is down to your new bank. Depending on the size of your overdraft, they will chose whether to still accept you. They might increase (or decrease) the overdraft charges.\nWhich banks can I switch to?\nForty banks are now participating in the switching scheme. Lloyds is the largest bank taking part. The Reliance Bank, part of the Salvation Army, is the smallest. New entrants into the market include Metro and Marks and Spencer. Tesco entered the market early in 2014. Virgin has also launched an account. Two building societies are taking part: Nationwide and the Cumberland.", "summary": "A survey for Santander found that 20% of those questioned would rather go to the dentist than switch their bank accounts." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Under the proposals, hosts renting out entire properties will be notified as they approach the limit and given details of where to seek an extension.\nThe announcement brings the home-sharing website into line with UK law.\nThe move, which comes into effect from Spring 2017, follows concerns that short-term lets were fuelling a London housing crisis.\nTom Copley, Labour's housing spokesman on the London assembly, called the move a \"huge step in the right direction\".\nIt is already against the law for landlords to let out their homes on short term lets for more than 90 days without planning permission.\nAccording to Mr Copley, councils did not have the resources or data to enforce the law.\nA similar scheme has been agreed in Amsterdam which has a 60-day limit for most short-term rentals.\nIn a statement the company, which has been valued at £24bn, said: \"We want to be good partners to London... and ensure home-sharing grows responsibly and sustainably.\"\nAirbnb, has faced a regulatory backlash in some cities where leaders have grown concerned about its impact on housing supply.\nLast Month Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wrote to MPs warning that legislation might be required to help councils regain \"lost\" housing supply.", "summary": "AirBnB is to block hosts in London from renting out homes for more than 90 days a year without official consent." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "After England's capitulation at Lord's, the 25-year-old struck two sixes and 39 fours in his 291 against Sussex.\nHe shared a partnership of 365 at Horsham with skipper Chris Read, who made 121, a club-record for the sixth wicket against Sussex.\nRead eventually declared on 570-7, and Sussex were 157-4 in reply at stumps.\nTaylor's innings finally came to an end when the persevering Steve Magoffin was finally rewarded with his first wicket of the innings, having only conceded 53 from 31.1 accurate overs.\nHe had not previously reached three figures in a Championship match this summer, but with Gary Ballance and Ian Bell both short of form in England's middle order, his name is likely to be discussed when the selectors meet to decide the squad for the third Test against Australia, which begins at Edgbaston on 29 July.\nTaylor, who batted for 501 minutes, won two Test caps against South Africa in 2012, but only managed a highest score of 34.\nRead, meanwhile, played the perfect supporting role and reached three figures for the third time this summer as Notts posted a total that must have far exceeded their expectations when they were 30-3 on the opening morning.\nSussex made a solid start in reply as Ed Joyce and Luke Wells, who both made 40, put on 79 for the first wicket.\nBut left-arm paceman Harry Gurney then took 3-54 and spinner Gary Keedy, playing his first Championship game of the summer, had Chris Nash caught at slip as he tried to drive.\nLuke Wright and Craig Cachopa halted the slide before bad light ended play with the pair on 21 and 13 not out respectively.\nNotts batsman James Taylor:\n\"It gave me a lot of pleasure. I was due some runs and I set my stall out when I got out there to bat for a long time.\n\"Sussex bowled exceptionally well to start with, which made it hard to score initially, but as my innings went on I got more fluent.\n\"As far as England is concerned I'd like to think I'll be talked about again after this innings. I feel I have matured as a player and I know my own game a lot better.\n\"I've got a lot more experience in terms of knowledge of the game too. I feel in a really good place after that knock and it's up to me to kick on now.\"\nSussex coach Mark Robinson:\n\"James Taylor had to fight hard for a long while yesterday and again this morning. He rode his luck a bit but he is a great player of spin and got better and better.\n\"He's got a fantastic appetite for scoring big runs which I've seen both against us and when I've worked with him with England Lions.\n\"Even after he reached 200 he was still running hard for quick singles and showing great fitness.\n\"There is something in the pitch for the bowlers but it's a good cricket wicket and, as Taylor showed, if you get in you can go big.\"", "summary": "Notts batsman James Taylor made the highest score of his career to boost his chances of a call-up to England's squad for the third Ashes Test." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Gran Fondo is run by RCS, the organisers of the Giro cycle race that visited Northern Ireland in May 2015.\nIt began at Belfast's Titanic Quarter, with two routes: A 173km route taking in the Mourne Mountains and a shorter 58km one that passed Strangford Lough.\nRoads were closed along the course, and police thanked motorists who faced delays for their patience.\n\"This was a significant event for Northern Ireland and yet again we have proved that we are more than capable of hosting international events and doing them well,\" said ACC Alan Todd.\n\"Thank you to everyone who worked behind the scenes to make the event a success including the many volunteers and marshals.\"\nNorthern Ireland rider Mark Kane was the first to cross the finishing line on the Mournes route, in a time of just over five hours. His brother Paul came in second.\nThe event for amateurs and professionals is being held in Northern Ireland until 2017 as a legacy of the Giro d'Italia.\nOrganisers said it was the largest ever mass participation sporting event to be staged in Northern Ireland.", "summary": "Thousands of cyclists in Northern Ireland have been taking part in a Giro d'Italia spin-off event on Sunday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The US Commerce Department revised its fourth quarter GDP to upward from an initial estimate of 0.7%.\nOverall, the US economy is estimated to have grown at a rate of 2.4% for all of 2015.\nOne reason for the revised figure was greater consumer spending than officials initially thought, boosted by an improving labour market.\nAnalysts had expected the fourth quarter growth rate to remain unchanged from the last estimate of 1%.\n\"It's especially good that we saw a boost in consumption, however we are only talking about 1.4% growth, which is still anaemic compared to the 3.5% we would like to see,\" said Dan North, chief economist at Euler Hermes North America.\n\"The economy is still running in low gear,\" he said.\nIncreased employment has helped to slowly boost wages and housing prices, while low oil prices have increased discretionary spending by US households.\nThe stronger growth rate could increase the chances of an interest rate hike when the Federal Reserve meets in April. The central bank left rates unchanged at its meeting in March, saying the slowing global economy raised risks for the US market.\nUS corporate profits dipped 11.5% for the fourth quarter compared to the same October through December period in the previous year.\nCompanies were hurt by low oil prices, with some industrial and petroleum linked companies forced to cut their workforces or file for bankruptcy.", "summary": "The US economy grew at an annualised rate of 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to official figures." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "European champion Steadman was top in the PTS5 category, while Paralympic hand-cycling champion Darke was victorious in the wheelchair category.\n\"After seven months out, training has picked up and I am really pleased,\" Steadman said.\nIn the men's PTS4 category, Britain's George Peasgood won a silver medal, but said he had struggled with the heat.\nAlison Patrick, guided by Nicole Walters (PTS5), and Ryan Taylor (PTS3) failed to finish their races in Iseo-Franciacorta.", "summary": "Britain's Lauren Steadman and Karen Darke won gold medals at the ITU Para-triathlon World Cup in Italy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 25-year-old, who had spent nearly two years out of the side, scored 342 runs in three one-day internationals against Pakistan in June.\n\"I was making sure I had other options away from cricket in case I didn't get another contract,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\"I was getting stuck at the 'I need another job' part. It usually starts with a gap year.\"\nBeaumont, named as player of the summer at Wednesday's Professional Cricketers' Association awards, was first recalled to England's Twenty20 side as Charlotte Edwards' opening partner for their tour of South Africa in February and the subsequent World Twenty20.\nShe then returned to the ODI team this summer, opening with Lauren Winfield, after Edwards was relieved of the captaincy and subsequently retired from internationals.\nAfter a maiden international century in the second ODI against Pakistan at Worcester, Beaumont's unbeaten 168 in the third at Taunton was England's second highest individual 50-over score.\n\"Mark Robinson has come in as coach and seen something in me,\" the right-hander explained.\n\"I had a pretty OK World T20 and took it into the Pakistan series. Hopefully I won't look back.\"\nBeaumont is part of the England squad that will play five one-day internationals in West Indies in October, with the final three forming part of the ICC Women's Championship which determines qualification for next summer's World Cup in England.\nWith the top four sides guaranteeing their place, leaders Australia have already qualified - while England sit third, a point behind West Indies.\n\"They are World T20 champions and there are three massive games,\" added Beaumont, who plays for Kent and lined up for the Surrey Stars in the summer's inaugural Super League.\n\"It's really important we get some points from those games and take what we started this summer into the winter.\"", "summary": "England's Women's Player of the Summer Tammy Beaumont says she was thinking of leaving cricket a year ago." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "John Atkinson, from Norton in North Yorkshire, faces charges of criminal damage with intent to endanger life and attempted grievous bodily harm.\nHe was also charged with dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and having no insurance.\nThe 26-year-old was remanded to appear at Lincoln Crown Court on 17 July.\nMore on this and other local stories from across Lincolnshire", "summary": "A man has appeared in court over an incident in which a car crashed into a row of holiday flats at Butlin's in Skegness." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lawro's opponents for this weekend Premier League fixtures is comedian and Brentford fan Nathan Caton.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nCaton told BBC Sport: \"The mighty Bees are my local club in west London and they are my team.\n\"The best moment I have had supporting them was either getting promoted to the Championship in 2014, or beating our neighbours Fulham 4-1 at Craven Cottage last season.\n\"I went to that game and it was brilliant to see all our goals go in.\"\nA correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.\nLast weekend, Lawro got three correct results and no perfect scores from seven Premier League matches, to give him a total of 30 points.\nHe drew with world heavyweight champion boxer Anthony Joshua, who also got three results correct, with no perfect scores.\nLawro also picked up 40 points for correctly predicting Arsenal's 3-0 win over West Brom on 21 April. Another world champion boxer, super-bantamweight Carl Frampton, also added 10 points to his score for choosing the right result.\nMake your own predictions now, compare them to Lawro and other fans and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.\nAll kick-offs 15:00 BST unless otherwise stated\nLawro's prediction: 2-1\nCaton's prediction: Everton lost at Wembley last week but they played really well in the second half against United. 2-0\nMatch report\nLawro's prediction: 2-0\nCaton's prediction: Palace will be on a high after winning their semi-final but they might be saving themselves for the final, while Newcastle are scrapping. 1-0\nMatch report\nLawro's prediction: 1-1\nCaton's prediction: I have a sneaky feeling Sunderland will get something. 1-1\nMatch report\nLawro's prediction: 2-0\nCaton's prediction: Villa could play a bit better now that relegation has taken the weight off their shoulders, but I'm backing Watford. 2-0\nMatch report\nLawro's prediction: 2-1\nCaton's prediction: West Ham are still going for a European spot and I think they will have too much for the Baggies. 1-3\nMatch report\nLawro's prediction: 2-0\nCaton's prediction: 3-0\nMatch report\nLawro's prediction: 1-1\nCaton's prediction: This was the Brendan Rodgers derby - I guess it is the Joe Allen derby now. 1-2\nMatch report\nLawro's prediction: 1-1\nCaton's prediction: Oh, this is a massive game. If United play like they did in the first half of their FA Cup semi-final against Everton then I can't see them losing. With Leicester striker Jamie Vardy still suspended I am going for United to shade it. 2-1\nMatch report\nLawro's prediction: 0-2\nCaton's prediction: Both teams are on form, but City might want it a bit more to cement a top-four place. 2-3\nMatch report\nIf Leicester draw at Old Trafford on Sunday and Tottenham drop points too then the title race is all over.\nIt is clear that Chelsea's fans would love Spurs to miss out - and so would the some of the Blues' players. In fact, Eden Hazard spoke out about it this week.\nI think they might get their wish.\nLawro's prediction: 1-1\nCaton's prediction: Chelsea will not let Tottenham beat them, I know that for a fact. So as good as Spurs are playing, Chelsea will be playing their hearts out to let Leicester win the league. 2-2\nMatch preview\nLawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.\n*Does not include score for postponed games\nLawro's best score: 160 points (week 19 v Guy Mowbray)\nLawro's worst score: 20 points (week one v Graeme Swann & week 23 v Ice Cube and Kevin Hart)", "summary": "BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The victim, aged in his 40s, was hit in the leg after two men forced their way into his home in Sible Hedingham, Essex, in the early hours of Saturday.\nThey threatened their victim before shooting him through a door after he locked himself in the bedroom, said police.\nThe men then fled the house without taking anything.\nPolice found the wounded man after being called just before 04:40 GMT.\n\"He locked himself in a bedroom and it is believed a gun was then fired through the door injuring him,\" said Det Sgt Mark Cadd, of Essex Police.\n\"This was an extremely distressing incident for the victim and he has suffered life-changing injuries which have left him in great pain.\n\"I urgently need to find the men responsible.\"\nAny witnesses who spotted anything suspicious in the village should contact police, he said.\nThe two suspects are white, in their 20s, of slim build and wore dark clothing. One is described as bald.\nOfficers are carrying out a forensic search at the scene and house-to-house inquiries are under way.", "summary": "A householder suffered \"life-changing injuries\" when he was shot by burglars through a bedroom door." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Church Stretton School in Shropshire agreed in April to show 'Brexit: The Movie' in its auditorium, but has since withdrawn permission.\nThe academy school said it wanted to avoid being seen as backing one side.\nBut Leave campaigners said other venues, including another Shropshire school, had no issue showing the film.\nThe film was to be screened to members of the public, not pupils of the school.\nMore on this and other stories from Shropshire\nAndrew Chapman, a Leave campaigner and former UKIP activist who helped organise the event, said there were \"no grounds for not showing\" the film, which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube.\n\"It was agreed that any legal film could be shown at the community element of the school, which is available for hire for that purpose,\" he said.\n\"The Electoral Commission informed us that there were no grounds for banning the film that they were aware of.\"\nMr Chapman claimed another UKIP member was told the school said it could not show the film due to purdah, rules designed to ensure neutrality from central and local government in the run-up to elections.\nIn a statement, the school, which has more than 600 pupils, said: \"At the time of the original booking it was not apparent to the school that this film was designed to present one side of the argument concerning the EU referendum.\n\"Upon discovering the nature of the film, the decision was taken to cancel the booking to avoid any concerns that might arise within the community that the school was being partial in its actions in hosting such an event.\"", "summary": "Campaigners calling for the UK to leave the EU have criticised a secondary school after it pulled out of showing a film backing an exit." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 25-year-old finished second with 84 points, 14 behind race winner Thomas Scully of New Zealand, with another Kiwi, Aaron Gate, taking bronze.\nKennaugh, the reigning British road race champion, adds Commonwealth silver to the Olympic gold he won in the team pursuit at London 2012.\nThe Isle of Man won two bronze medals at the 2010 Games in Delhi.\nOne of them came in the same event from Mark Christian, who qualified for Saturday's final but, along with fellow Manx rider Joe Kelly, was disqualified for collusion.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nTheir last gold was won in the scratch race by Mark Cavendish in Melbourne in 2006.\n\"It's pretty special,\" said Kennaugh. \"It's very different to the Olympics because on a global scale they are massive, but the Commonwealth Games is probably a bigger deal to the Isle of Man.\n\"To do it for the Isle of Man is incredible. It probably means more to some of the staff than it does to me because they are so passionately Manxmen. I'm happy to do it for them just to see the smiles on their faces.\"\nKennaugh did not race in the individual pursuit on Friday as it was felt his season on the roads with Team Sky would be better suited to the endurance events on the track.\nHe will also ride in the scratch race with either Christian or Joe Kelly on Sunday.", "summary": "Peter Kennaugh won silver in the men's 40km points race to earn the Isle of Man's first medal at Glasgow 2014." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nSwansea's Brett Johns was so poor he could not afford to travel home from the gym. So he stopped there.\nAs a man desperate to reach the top of MMA, there was no way he was letting a lack of money stop him from training.\n\"I went through a phase when I had nothing,\" he told BBC Wales Sport. \"I couldn't afford the bus ticket home.\n\"I lived in the gym for the winter where there was no heating and all I had was a sleeping bag.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThat might explain the outpouring of emotion when he was told he had been called up to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).\nHis manager filmed the video call he made to Johns and uploaded the Welsh fighter's moving reaction to Facebook.\n\"When I got the call, it just put me into tears,\" says Johns. \"That seven years of hard work I've had to put in all came out in that moment.\n\"I'd hate to see what I'm going to be like when I win that UFC title if I'm like that when I'm getting called up.\"\nThe 24-year-old, who trains in Fforestfach, will make his debut at UFC Fight Night 99 in Belfast on Saturday.\nHe brings with him a record of 12 wins from 12 professional fights and is a two-time MMA world champion. Johns says the call-up was \"a long time coming\".\n\"It was very frustrating,\" he admitted. \"I was thinking 'what more do I need to do?' Now I've achieved my dream.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nJohns was not the first Welsh fighter to be signed by the UFC. That title goes to a soldier from Monmouthshire.\nJack Marshman was signed just weeks earlier in October and he will debut on the same bill as Johns this weekend. Like his Welsh counterpart, the road to the top has been a long and difficult one.\nMarshman estimates he was locked up 30 times as a teenager, but joining the Tillery Combat MMA Academy in Blaina kept him \"on the straight and narrow\".\n\"I was on the wrong path,\" he confesses. \"But without a doubt MMA changed my life. I'm not trying to be cheesy but it genuinely did.\n\"Instead of going out on the weekend I was training Friday night and sparring Saturday morning.\"\nMarshman has served in the 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, for nearly a decade and he toured Afghanistan twice but the middleweight says his call-up means he will soon leave the forces to fight full time.\n\"You can't get any bigger than the UFC,\" he says, ahead of his fight against Sweden's Magnus Cedenblad. \"It's the highest we can go in our sport.\"\nWales waited a long time for its first UFC fighter. Now two have turned up at once.\nThe UFC calls itself the fastest-growing sports organisation in the world and both Welsh fighters believe it will transform the sport in their home country.\n\"It's huge for Welsh MMA and huge for Welsh sport,\" says Johns. \"Going back a few years, MMA in the UK was very basic. Then we had a bit of help from [Republic of Ireland's] Conor McGregor.\n\"They go wild about those Irish fans but the Welsh fans can be crazy as well. So I'm hoping they'll transfer from football and rugby fans into MMA.\"\nMarshman believes it will not be long before MMA becomes as popular in the UK as boxing.\n\"We've already got a massive cult following,\" he continues. \"But now it's starting to get a bit more mainstream more people are going to watch it.\n\"In America I think it already is [as big as boxing]. The UFC just had its first event in Madison Square Garden and that's an historic boxing venue. It just goes to show how big the sport's getting.\"\nFor Brett Johns, those cold nights in the gym will seem a long way away when he walks out to fight South Korean Kwan Ho Kwak in Belfast. The bantamweight has signed a four-fight deal, but wants to stay much longer than that.\n\"One of my idols was Joe Calzaghe. He fought Mikkel Kessler at the Millennium Stadium. I don't see why I can't do that too.\"", "summary": "It was more important to be at the place he could train than the place he could sleep." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Poole Housing Partnership (PHP), wants to build 62 flats at the site at Canford Heath Road, Poole.\nThe affordable housing development would see three four storey blocks made up of 30 one and 32 two bedroom flats.\nPHP said six flats would be set aside to house young people with severe mental and physical impairment. It is a joint project between Borough of Poole and PHP.", "summary": "Plans have been submitted to build flats at a former police station site." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Concerns over the electricity strike price - a government subsidy for the power generated - remained a \"problem\", he told a committee of MPs.\nThe UK government must give its \"full backing\", Welsh Liberal Democrats said.\nTidal Lagoon Power, the company behind the plan, said it was \"confident\" it could hit a \"viable\" price.\nIt warned in October that building work was being delayed by a year to 2017.\nQuestioned about tidal power on Tuesday, Mr Cameron said: \"The problem with tidal power, simply put, is that at the moment we have not seen any ideas come forward that can hit a strike price in terms of pounds per megawatt-hour that is very attractive.\n\"That is the challenge for tidal. Maybe they can come up with something.\n\"They are very long-term schemes with big investments up front, and they can last for many, many years, but right now my enthusiasm is reduced slightly by the fact that the cost would be quite high.\"\nIn response to Mr Cameron's comments, Peter Black, the Welsh Lib Dem AM for South Wales West, called for the UK government to \"stop playing games\" with the project.\n\"The Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon will bring undoubted benefits to our area and Wales as a whole, not just in terms of green energy but by creating thousands of new green jobs,\" he said.\n\"If we're going to increase our renewable energy generation, we must invest in these new technologies.\"\nIt comes after Swansea West MP Geraint Davies said in November it was vital for a \"greener future\", and accused ministers of \"back-pedalling\" on their commitment to the lagoon.\nTidal Lagoon Power said: \"The prime minister is spot on: tidal power will make a huge contribution to the UK economy, carrying with it a wide range of social and environmental benefits.\n\"Clearly there is a price at which this prospect becomes viable and through our ongoing negotiation with government we are very confident that we can hit that price.\"", "summary": "Prime Minister David Cameron's \"enthusiasm\" for the proposed £1bn tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay is cooling due to the cost, he has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He was one of the most prolific artists in music, releasing 39 studio albums, including four in the last 18 months.\nLast month, publisher Spiegel & Grau announced that it acquired Prince's memoir, set for release in fall of 2017. \"We're starting from the beginning from my first memory and hopefully we can go all the way up to the Super Bowl,\" Prince said.\nIt now seems unlikely we will ever get to read those words, from one of rock's most elusive and enigmatic performers.\nBorn Prince Rogers Nelson June 7, 1958, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was a child prodigy - self-taught on dozens of instruments, from the piano to the guitar, bass and drums.\nHe released his debut album, For You, in 1978, followed by Prince (1979), Dirty Mind (1980) and Controversy (1981).\nEach of them was laced with his trademark deep synth funk, a sound he constantly refined and stripped back until his breakthrough came in 1982 with the double album 1999.\nFrom the apocalyptic title track to the dance floor hit, Little Red Corvette (which he claimed to have written in his sleep), the album helped launch him into the mainstream.\nSpurred on by the success of his album, he persuaded Warner Bros to fund a film - Purple Rain, a loosely autobiographical story of a struggling musician from a broken home.\nAlthough the acting is corny and the plot contrived, critics raved over the incendiary concert footage and the film spawned some of his most memorable songs.\nFive singles were released from the soundtrack - two of which, When Doves Cry and Let's Go Crazy, went to number one on the Billboard chart.\nThe title track, a sprawling, impassioned ballad with a guitar solo as memorable as it's unimpeachable chorus reached number two, but remained his signature song, and one of the most recognisable rock anthems in history.\nPrince went on to win an Oscar for original score in 1985.\nHe faltered with his next album. The over-reaching, psychedelic pop of Around the World In A Day alienated fans who wanted another rock record, but it spawned a classic single in the shape of Raspberry Beret.\nThe musician continued to confound expectations with the sparse funk of Parade, featuring the hit song Kiss, and the social commentary of 1987's Sign O The Times.\nAnd he continued to make forays into the movies. He starred as a gigolo in 1986's Under the Cherry Moon, wooing Kristen Scott Thomas in the South of France, but the film floundered; while 1990's Graffiti Bridge - a sequel to Purple Rain - was nominated for five Golden Raspberries.\nBut the hits kept coming. Alphabet Street, U Got The Look, Diamonds and Pearls, Get Off, My Name Is Prince, Cream... He looked unstoppable.\nThen, in 1993, he announced he was retiring and changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol - designed to depict both male and female genders. He soon became known (somewhat mockingly) The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.\nThe move was down to a protest against his label. Warner Bros. Prince wanted to own the master tapes to his own songs, and to be allowed to release more material, more often.\nRelations deteriorated to the point where he appeared with the word \"Slave\" written on his face - while the success of The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (his only UK number one, released independently) only made matters worse.\nHe released five more records, lacklustre at best, as his contract bid him, before leaving the label and signing with Arista Records.\nBy the early 2000's, the symbol was no longer relevant and he reverted back to his original name. But his sales never recovered, and the quality of his albums never reached the peak of his 1980s peak.\nFamously flamboyant, he would stun dedicated audiences the world over with impromptu concerts, unlikely solo cover versions, and extravagant outfits.\nIt was often said that his incredible vocal range masked the fact that he was one of the greatest guitarists of his generation.\nOne of his most famous numbers was recorded by another artist. Originally a cast-off given for his side project, The Family, Nothing Compares 2 U was covered by Sinead O'Connor in 1990, catapulting her to the top of the charts and into the public eye, partly due to its accompanying music video which featured the protagonist breaking down in tears.\nPrince later joked that the song \"bought me a house\"- but he reclaimed it as his own, performing it on every tour from the mid-90s onwards.\nIn his final years, he played relentlessly - and still holds a record at London's O2 arena for his 21-night residency in 2007.\nDuring the run of shows (which more often than not were a prelude to intimate, late-night aftershows) he played more than 50 hours of music.\n\"We got so many hits we don't have time to play them all,\" he frequently told the audience - but he made a decent attempt. Journalists recorded that he played a total of 504 songs to audiences of half a million.\nProlific until his final days - he was working on yet another new album and played shows in the US just last week - the 57-year-old was said to have a cache of unreleased music in his sprawling Paisley Park mansion that would fill 100 records.", "summary": "Prince - who's died at his home in Minnesota near Minneapolis at the age of 57 - wrote hundreds of songs for himself and other artists." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The party said the commissioner could \"knock heads together\" and improve co-ordination of services.\nLib Dem election candidate Roger Williams said people putting \"their lives on the line\" should be supported.\nMeanwhile, Labour is continuing efforts to get supporters of other parties to vote tactically for Labour on 7 May.\nA Veterans Commissioner for Scotland was appointed last year, and the Lib Dems now want to give greater backing to the armed forces across the whole of the UK.\nMr Williams said it was \"only right\" to give veterans support \"for life, whether they remain in the armed services or after they leave\".\n\"The Liberal Democrats want to serve those who have served and ensure they get the right help,\" he added.\nPlaid Cymru has called for the establishment of special \"veterans' courts\" and more action to help service personnel in areas such as mental health, resettlement and welfare.\nThe Welsh Conservatives want to see a \"veterans card\" giving priority treatment for service-related conditions and free access to swimming pools and Cadw sites.\nThis election issue includes foreign policy and the role of UK’s defence forces at home and abroad.\nPolicy guide: Where the parties stand\nAfter urging the \"anti-Tory majority in Wales\" to back Labour in the general election on Friday, First Minister Carwyn Jones said there were \"seats right across Wales - particularly in north and west Wales - where a slight shift from Plaid Cymru, the greens and the liberals will give us a real chance of getting a vital handful more Labour MPs into Parliament.\n\"An extra two or three Welsh Labour MPs, with Welsh Labour values, could mean the difference between banning zero hours contracts or not, scrapping the bedroom tax or not, ending the war on Wales, or not.\"\nPlaid Cymru is focusing on attracting first-time voters.\nParty leader Leanne Wood said: \"The likelihood of a hung parliament means that every vote counts in this election and it's more important than ever for first-time voters to use their votes.\n\"A vote for Plaid Cymru is a vote for better funding for Wales, a vote to protect our public services and a vote for ambition and prosperity.\"\nElsewhere on the campaign trail, the Conservatives are concentrating on the economy, arguing that a change of government would come \"at the worst possible moment\" for the Wales.", "summary": "A veterans commissioner should be created to help those who have served in the military get the help they need, the Liberal Democrats have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rose Week is taking place at Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, with a host of competitions and children's activities to mark the occasion.\nThousands of visitors have already turned out to see the park's award-winning gardens.\nThis year also marks the 50th anniversary of the City of Belfast International Rose Garden.\nThe garden was established by Belfast City Council, in partnership with the Rose Society of Northern Ireland (RSNI).\nOn Thursday, judges from New Zealand, the United States and Norway will deliver their verdicts on this year's competing entries for the City of Belfast International Rose Trials.\nWith points awarded for flowering, fragrance, foliage, disease resistance and length of flowering period, the standard of entries is expected to be very high.\nBrian McKinley, from Belfast City Council's parks and leisure services, said visitors return to the event every year because of the number of activities on offer.\n\"The success of the rose garden and Rose Week is down to the beautiful smell and fragrance that you get from the garden, and the array of colours that you see in the park,\" he said.\nBelfast city councillor Gareth McKee said a plaque would be unveiled on Thursday to celebrate the rose garden's status as a \"garden of merit\".\n\"The garden is recognised by the World Federation of Rose Societies as a 'garden of merit' - meaning it is one of the best in the world,\" he said.", "summary": "International judges have arrived in Belfast for the city's annual horticultural event this week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Late last year members of both unions rejected an offer, claiming the proposals involved no wages increase and no changes to the conditions of contractors.\nThe OCA is now proposing a 2% increase in basic and sick pay.\nA consultative ballot is expected to take place over the next month.\nLast July, hundreds of North Sea workers went on strike over plans to cut their pay and allowances.\nThe action was taken by members of the RMT and Unite unions employed by the Wood Group on Shell platforms.\nIt was the first industrial action of its kind in the offshore oil and gas industry in almost 30 years.", "summary": "The Unite and GMB unions are to consult their members on a new pay deal from the Offshore Contractors Association (OCA)." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "What didn't happen can sometimes spook people as much as what did.\nThe initial market reaction appeared relatively sanguine, sparking bafflement in some quarters.\nBut this piece in the Telegraph argues that this is because the markets have yet to grasp the scale of the rift between EU creditors and the new Greek leaders, and that a showdown is inevitable.\nThis piece in the New York Times argues that the vote for Syriza highlights a deeper fault line in Europe.\nElsewhere, the question is what exactly happens now. Who blinks first?\nThe stage is set for a challenge to Europe's prevailing economic orthodoxy, according to this analysis in the Wall Street Journal.\nThe New Yorker maintains that it was only a matter of time before Greeks turned to Syriza and that the vote sends a clear warning to the rest of Europe's leaders.\nWith just 100 days to go to the General Election, the Independent takes a close look at what it says will be the 100 seats that decide the result.", "summary": "The implications of the vote in Greece continue to dominate in terms of analysis." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The move will mean the closure of surgical services in Edinburgh for the condition, which affects 100 babies born in Scotland every year.\nCampaigners against the proposal said it would make life more difficult for families on the east coast.\nBut Health Secretary Shona Robison insisted it would ensure a \"safe and sustainable service\" for patients.\nSurgery can help babies born with cleft lips or palates to eat and talk when they are older, with Scotland currently having two clinics - in Edinburgh and Glasgow - which specialise in the procedure.\nMs Robison said the two expert surgical teams would now work together as a single team, with all cleft surgery now performed at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\nThe new services will start early next year, with a transition period of six months towards a single surgical team.\nIt will only apply to surgical procedures, with no reduction in the number of local outreach clinics.\nThe wider teams involved in cleft care including speech therapy, orthodontists, ENT surgeons and paediatric dentistry will also continue to be delivered locally.\nThe recommendation from NHS board chief executives and experts has been accepted following a review into the current set-up.\nMs Robison said: \"We will have cleft surgeons working alongside one another and sharing best practice and knowledge, with an even distribution of surgical procedures, which means patients will get the treatment they need when they need it.\n\"In any scenario like this it's important to spend time listening to patients, families, stakeholders and experts, which is what I have done, so we can come to a fully informed decision that is in the best interests of cleft patients.\"\nSupporters of a 6,200-signature petition opposing the move staged a protest outside Holyrood ahead of a parliamentary debate on the issue in September.\nConservative MSP Miles Briggs, who backed the campaigners, said the centralisation decision was \"one of the worst decisions regarding our health service this SNP government has taken\".\nHe added: \"Ministers have completely failed to listen to the views of clinicians, patients and campaigners and have made the wrong decision.\n\"The Edinburgh surgical unit is led by an internationally renowned surgeon and the audited outcomes it achieves for babies and children are among the best, if not the best, in the whole of the UK. The health secretary's decision now risks the loss of all of this.\"\nDr David Stokes, chief executive of the Cleft Lip and Palate Association (Clapa), said he was pleased a decision had been made following a \"considerable period of uncertainty\" for parents and patients.\nAnd he said he was confident that the surgical teams involved will continue to provide first-class care to everyone born with a cleft in Scotland.\nDr Stokes added: \"Many people have valid concerns about what these changes might mean for them and their families, and it is important that these are addressed directly.\n\"We urge NHS Scotland to work with Clapa and the cleft community to ensure that everyone impacted by this change is well supported, both during the transition period and beyond, and that their voices are taken into account now just as they were throughout the lengthy consultation process.", "summary": "Plans to centralise cleft palate and lip surgeries in Glasgow have been approved by the Scottish government." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The state of emergency gives security forces more powers and limits the right of public assembly.\nAuthorities had already tightened security, deploying more than 1,400 armed officers at hotels and beaches.\nTunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said in a national address that \"exceptional measures\" were needed.\n\"In order to face up to this scourge we need to be prepared. We need to have enough troops, proper training and material means - we are in desperate need of material means,\" he said, appealing for international counter-terrorism support and co-operation.\nThe state of emergency will be in place for a renewable period of 30 days.\nAn official from the prime minister's office said several officials had been sacked in the wake of the attack, including the governor of Sousse.\n\"Just as there have been security failures, there have also been political failures,\" Dhafer Neji told AFP.\nSecurity forces were criticised for not responding more quickly to the attack on 26 June in Sousse, when a gunman opened fire on tourists on a beach and in a hotel before being shot dead by police.\nThose killed included 30 Britons.\nThe gunman has been identified as student Seifeddine Rezgui, who authorities say had trained in Libya.\nTunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid conceded in a BBC interview on Friday that the slow response of the police was a key problem.\nHe said Rezgui had probably trained with the Ansar al-Sharia group, though Islamic State (IS) earlier said it was behind the attack.\nEight people have been arrested on suspicion of collaborating with Rezgui, and the government says it has uncovered the network behind the Sousse attack.\nAuthorities have also pledged to close some 80 mosques that were operating outside government control and accused of spreading extremism.\nAnalysts say Tunisia has been put at risk by the chaotic situation in neighbouring Libya, and by the danger posed by Tunisians who have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq returning home.\nIn his speech on Saturday, Mr Essebsi spoke in general terms about the threat posed by Libya.\nHe also spoke at length about the economic and social challenges facing the country, including high unemployment and poverty in the country's interior.\nTunisian security forces had responded to security challenges \"gradually\", he said, \"because we did not have the culture of terrorism in Tunisia\".\nThe last time Tunisia declared a state of emergency was in 2011, in the uprising which overthrew President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. It was lifted in March 2014.\nOfficials are expected to pass a counter-terrorism bill that has been in parliament since early 2014 in the coming weeks.\nThe Sousse attack represented the second blow in three months to Tunisia's tourism industry, an important sector for the country.\nIn March, two gunmen killed 22 people at the renowned Bardo museum in Tunisia's capital, Tunis.", "summary": "Tunisia has declared a state of emergency, just over a week after 38 tourists, mainly Britons, died in an attack in the resort city of Sousse." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mark Richard Davis, 55, gained the trust of lone mothers to get close to boys and \"dazzled\" them with tricks before abusing them, Cardiff Crown Court heard.\nThe crimes came to light after three men told police they had been abused by him in the 1980s and 1990s in Cardiff.\nDavis, from Corby, Northamptonshire, was found guilty of 13 sex offences.\nJanet McDonald, prosecuting, said during his week-long trial Davis, also known as Mark Major, was a \"skilled groomer\" and \"sexual predator\" who targeted boys from fatherless homes.\nHe had worked both as a children's entertainer and was involved in youth theatre.\nMs McDonald said he \"wormed his way\" into the boys' lives. He promised them trips to London to visit the set of the EastEnders TV programme and gave them autographed pictures of celebrities, the court was told.\nDavis was found guilty of three counts of rape, nine indecent assaults and one charge of taking an indecent photograph of a child.\nAt a sentencing hearing on Friday, Judge Jonathan Furness told Davis: \"You enticed them with the lure of the theatre and the magic of your role as an entertainer.\n\"You befriended them and their families. They were vulnerable due to their circumstances. You were a father figure.\n\"They have experienced long lasting effects through their lives and have suffered for many years because of the memories of your abuse.\"\nAfter the hearing, Det Insp Dan Michel, from South Wales Police, said Davis, also known as Mark Major, abused his links to youth organisations across the UK and his position of trust as a children's entertainer.\n\"The victims have shown tremendous courage to come forward and tell us about the abuse they suffered,\" he said.\n\"We know reporting these crimes of this nature can be difficult, but we would urge anyone who has been a victim to report it to us, you will be supported.\"", "summary": "A former Cardiff magician has been jailed for 14 years for historical sex abuse on schoolboys." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The venue beat five other buildings to win the Royal Institute of British Architects' highest accolade.\nThe theatre helped launch the careers of household names including actors Stephen Graham and David Morrissey.\nMorrissey tweeted: \"Brilliant news. Can't wait to work there again!\"\nThe Everyman Theatre first opened in 1964 in the shell of a 19th Century chapel on one of Liverpool's main streets.\nThe likes of Bill Nighy, Julie Walters and Pete Postlethwaite are among other famous thespians to have performed on its stage.\nHowever over the years it fell into a state of disrepair and architects Haworth Tompkins were tasked with designing a new theatre as part of a nine-year £27m rebuilding project, retaining its theme of being a \"theatre for the people\".\nThe building's facade features 105 punched aluminium panels portraying life-size images of Liverpool residents. Thousands queued to have their pictures taken, with the successful applicants having digital versions of their pictures etched onto the metal sun shades.\nAmong them was BBC North West Tonight reporter Mark Edwardson. He said: \"My place on the fantastic new building's façade came about through happy circumstance.\n\"I went to one of the photoshoots as a reporter. After I'd filmed and interview some of the people who now also adorn the façade the photographer asked me if I had any Merseyside connections.\n\"I grew up on Merseyside and I told him about my many fond experiences and memories of Liverpool. After that he suggested I have a couple of pictures taken. I obliged, left and promptly forgot about the whole thing.\n\"A year later I got a letter saying I'd been chosen to be one of the 105! It's an absolute delight to be part of it.\n\"And I'm really pleased for the theatre that's now been recognised. The designers, builders and staff deserve it.\nI've been associated with the Everyman since the early 70s and I'm still a member of the board today.\nIt's taken 10 years for us to get to this point. I loved the old theatre and I argued that we should keep it, but it became patently obvious that we had to knock it down.\nGetting the right architect was extremely difficult, but we got a phenomenal architect who understood what we wanted.\nHe spoke to people and didn't design anything until he got a feel for the place. The bistro, the shape of the auditorium and the idea to keep the bricks were key.\nAs an accolade for the city it's brilliant. It's gone all over the world - even the Shanghai Times ran a piece today. This is what Liverpool is all about, it's a city of quality.\nLiverpool-born actor Cathy Tyson, currently starring in Bright Phoenix at the theatre, said: \"I feel quite moved for the people who have worked on this from the beginning of the process; the plans, the consultation, the building.\n\"What a wonderful thing.\"\nThe city's mayor Joe Anderson said: \"I'm delighted. There's absolutely no-one more chuffed than me. It's all credit to the architects and constructors.\n\"It's a fantastic building and the places we've beaten, like the Shard in London, show just what an amazing achievement it is.\n\"We've already got some Grade II-listed buildings which are the envy of the world. This puts Liverpool on the map even more.\"", "summary": "Actors, theatre-goers and local dignitaries have spoken of their pride after Liverpool's Everyman Theatre won the Riba Sterling Prize for best new building of the year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Armitstead, 27, will defend her road title against Olympic track champion Dani King and junior world champion Lucy Garner in the 26 June race.\nDame Sarah Storey and Emma Pooley will compete in the women's time trial.\nFormer world and British champion Mark Cavendish goes up against Team Sky contenders Ian Stannard, Luke Rowe and Ben Swift in the men's road race.\nAlex Dowsett will attempt to win a record fifth British time trial title, with both the men's and women's events taking place on 23 June.\nBoels Dolmans rider Armitstead will first face Olympic champion Marianne Vos in the Aviva Women's Tour, which begins in Southwold on Wednesday, 15 June.\nBritish Cycling has announced an eight-rider Great Britain team for the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships taking place in the Czech Republic from 29 June-3 July.\nUnder-23 cyclo-cross world champion Evie Richards is in the women's category alongside Beth Crumpton, while Iain Paton represents the under-23 men.\nGrant Ferguson, 22, will participate in the elite men's race.\nWill Gascoyne, Cameron Orr, Sophie Wright and Emily Wadsworth make up the juniors line-up.", "summary": "World champion Lizzie Armitstead heads the women's field for the British Championships in Stockton-on-Tees." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former Aston Villa and Leicester City boss hinted he may quit management after leading Jersey to victory over Guernsey in May's Muratti Vase final.\nLittle, 62, will not be in charge of the island side when they host Scottish League Two club Clyde in a friendly.\nBarry Ferguson's side will face Jersey on 25 June at St Brelade as part of a five-day training camp on the island.\nThe home side will be managed by Little's assistants Martin Cassidy and Paddy O'Toole.\nLittle was appointed as Jersey's director of football in November 2014 and stepped in to manage the side in January after his predecessor Jimmy Reilly left because of work commitments.\nHowever, he is currently working as an advisor to Aston Villa following their relegation to the Championship, and also has television commitments in Ireland.", "summary": "Brian Little will discuss his future as Jersey manager with the island Football Association in the next few weeks." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Wealthy Americans and businesses would also pay less in taxes under the plan.\nHis plan would eliminate income tax for people earning less than $25,000 (£16,000) and married couples jointly earning less than $50,000 (£33,000).\nThe real estate tycoon is coming under increasing pressure to outline specific policy goals beyond immigration reform.\nHe has previously put out papers, outlining his positions on immigration and gun rights.\n\"It will provide major tax relief for middle income and for most other Americans. There will be a major tax reduction,\" Mr Trump said on Monday.\n\"It will simplify the tax code, it'll grow the American economy at a level it hasn't seen for decades.\"\nAbout 31 million Americans would fall under the no-income-tax bracket, he said.\nThe economy would grow at least 3% a year under his plan, he predicts.\nOn average the US economy grows 1 to 2% per year.\nHe said the US would pay for the tax cuts without adding to the national debt through eliminating deductions and loopholes that have allowed some people, mostly wealthy ones, to save money on taxes.\n\"In other words, it's going to cost me a fortune,\" he said.\nUnder his plan, the highest individual tax rate would be lowered to 25% of income from the highest rate now, 39.6%.\nThe plan would also put a 10% tax on overseas profits and put a tax on overseas earnings, which now can be deferred.\nIt would lower the tax rate on businesses to 15% from 35%.\nThe so-called \"death tax\", in which the US government charges certain wealthy individuals to transfer the high-valued property of a deceased person to someone as outlined in a will, would also be eliminated under Mr Trump's plan.", "summary": "Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has unveiled his tax plan, which would eliminate income tax for millions of Americans." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 25-year-old has made 97 appearances and scored four goals since joining the Baggies from Rochdale in August 2011.\nDawson's current deal still had a year to run but his new contract will keep him at The Hawthorns until 2018.\n\"I'm really enjoying my football, especially over the last year and a half when I've been a regular in the first team,\" he told the club website.\n\"I've been down here a few years now, the family is settled in this area, so it was a very easy decision to extend my contract.\n\"It means I can just concentrate on playing and doing everything I can to stay in the team and carry on contributing to things.\"", "summary": "Defender Craig Dawson has signed an improved one-year contract extension at West Bromwich Albion." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He narrowly beat second placed Liberal Democrat candidate Dennis Brewer with a majority of 621 votes, securing his second term which will last four years.\nMr Oliver said his priorities would be job creation, investment and \"hope for a better tomorrow\".\nHe said a referendum on the mayoral system would be held in Torbay in 2016 because he did not agree with it.\nIn October 2014, Mr Oliver was sacked from his duties as head of the Conservative group after he received a vote of no confidence as leader of the council by colleagues in a private meeting with a secret ballot.\nOn Friday, former MP Lib Dem Adrian Sanders lost the Torbay constituency seat to Conservative Kevin Foster.", "summary": "Conservative Gordon Oliver has been re-elected as the mayor of Torbay in Devon." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Versatile forward Henderson, who scored a try in Ireland's 27-24 win over Australia in Dublin, is expected to overcome a slight shoulder problem.\nMcCloskey is set to return after suffering a fractured bone in his foot against Glasgow earlier in the season.\nAndrew Trimble and Jared Payne will miss the game through injury.\nBoth Irish internationals are major doubts for a crucial forthcoming series of fixtures, including the European Champions Cup double-header with Clermont Auvergne in December.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nTrimble and Payne sustained injuries in the hard-fought victory over the Wallabies at the Aviva Stadium and are still waiting to find out the full extent of their problems.\nTrimble is suffering from an ankle injury, while Payne has a rib injury which means he is likely to have played his last game of 2016.\nCentre Stuart Olding damaged a hamstring while training with the Ireland squad at Carton House, but his injury is regarded as the least serious of the three.\nRory Best and Paddy Jackson will miss the trip to Cardiff under the IRFU's player management programme, but prop Rodney Ah You is available after not featuring since the Champions Cup triumph over Exeter in October.\nFlanker Chris Henry is in line for his first appearance of the season after being named in the line-up for the home game against Zebre, which was called off on Friday night because of a frozen pitch.\nUlster have dropped to sixth in the Pro12 table after suffering four consecutive defeats, but have a game in hand over their rivals above them in the standings following the postponement of their game with the Italians.", "summary": "Ulster hope to have international pair Iain Henderson and Stuart McCloskey available for Saturday's Pro12 game against Cardiff Blues." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Australia's extinct marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex, was the continent's top predator at the time of human arrival 50,000 years ago.\nWeighing more than 100kg, the animal had sharp claws and a powerful jaw, and shearing teeth that could rip through the flesh of its prey, which included giant kangaroos, rhinoceros-sized herbivores known as diprotodon, and possibly humans.\nBut while experts agreed on the marsupial lion's fearsomeness, whether or not they could climb rocks and trees has been a source of contention.\nSome speculated that the lions' anatomy would lend itself to climbing, while others argued they would have been too heavy to clamber up to high places.\nNow palaeontologists at Flinders University say they have found the answer in a cave in Western Australia where marsupial lions left thousands of scratch marks.\nThe scratch marks, mostly made by juveniles and clustered on a near-vertical rock surface leading to a now-sealed exit, suggest two things about the lions: they were skilled climbers, and they reared their young inside caves.\n\"[Our findings indicate] the [marsupial] lions were running up and down these rock piles to get out of the cave, and they weren't using the lower-gradient, longer route,\" says associate professor Gavin Prideaux, who supervised the research.\n\"We can be confident now and say that they could climb.\n\"And if they could climb really well in the dark, underground, there's no reason they couldn't climb trees.\n\"They would have been a very significant threat to people when they first arrived in Australia.\n\"What we're dying for are different lines of evidence that shed light on the behaviour or ecology of these animals, and that's what we've been presented with in the form of these claw marks.\"\nThe team's findings, which reinforce some contentious ideas about the behaviour of these \"highly adapted\" and \"anatomically bizarre\" predators, have been published in Nature's open-access journal Scientific Reports.\nThe claw markings were found inside the Tight Entrance cave near the Margaret River.\nIn the mid-90s, bones inside the cave were identified as belonging to extinct megafauna, dating from 30,000 to 150,000 years old, says Prof Prideaux.\nBetween 1996 and 2008, he went on numerous expeditions to the cave to collect fossils, and during that work discovered the scratch marks.\n\"We had the feeling that they were probably Thylacoleo scratch marks, but we had to test it,\" he says.\nProf Prideaux and his honours student, lead author Samuel Arman, established a list of seven species of animal that could have been responsible.\nIt included the extinct marsupial lion, as well as Tasmanian tigers and Tasmanian devils, which used to live on the mainland, wallabies, koalas, possums and wombats.\nMr Arman left scratch pads inside zoos and wildlife parks, and collected tree bark to get sample claw markings from the living animals, which he compared to those inside the cave.\nThis helped the researchers narrow their list to two key suspects: marsupial lions and Tasmanian devils. But they needed another clue.\n\"We went through the more than 10,000 bones we collected from the cave to look for evidence for bite marks or little chewed-up bones [which are] absolute hallmarks of devil dens,\" says Prof Prideaux.\n\"We found zero of that.\"\n\"This is more consistent with what we've inferred about the behaviour of Thylacoleo from its dental morphology, and that is, it was primarily a meat eater and not a bone cruncher.\"\nMr Arman also reconstructed a skeletal hand of the marsupial lion and made mock scratches on modelling clay that \"perfectly matched\" the large ones found in the cave.\nThe animals, which became extinct around 46,000 years ago, lived all across the continent. Prof Prideaux suspects similar claw markings exist in caves elsewhere, but have yet to be discovered.\nDr Judith Field, an expert in megafaunal extinctions from the University of New South Wales, says \"the methods used to determine the size of the animal making the marks appear well conceived and well executed\".\n\"It is highly likely these marks were made by Thylacoleo,\" she told the BBC. \"They are probably the only animal with claws large enough to effect these scratch marks.\"\nStill, Dr Field expressed some reservations about the study: \"Most of the conclusions are speculation,\" she said. \"Great discovery, and a neat story, but these assertions about their behaviour have yet to be substantiated by empirical data.\"", "summary": "The discovery of claw marks in a bone-filled cave in Australia suggests an extinct, \"anatomically bizarre\" predator was able to climb trees and rocks, meaning it would have been a threat to humans, writes Myles Gough." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "When father-of-two Greg Gilbert, 39, from Southampton, was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer, thousands rallied to support him.\nSo far £132,000 has been raised by family and fans for treatment not available to him on the NHS.\nThe first of four fundraising gigs was held at The Joiners in Southampton.\nJoiners manager Pat Muldowney said Mr Gilbert was \"one of the family\" at the St Mary's venue and all artists and staff gave their services for nothing to stage the gig on Thursday night, which raised almost £2,000.\nIt comes after Mr Gilbert's fiancée Stacey Heale set up a crowdfunding appeal shortly before Christmas that reached its target of £100,000 in 48 hours.\nGoFundMe said the appeal was one of the \"fastest ever\" campaigns on its site and it received support from music stars including Craig David and Ellie Goulding.\nMiss Heale said the couple \"deeply appreciate\" the fundraising and although Mr Gilbert was not well enough to attend the gig she said he was \"amazed\" by the support.\n\"It was an amazing night. I went along with the rest of the guys from the band and we were overwhelmed by the amount of people who came together,\" she said.\nDelays were formed in Southampton in 2001 by brothers Greg and Aaron Gilbert with Colin Fox and Rowly and became popular on the indie rock scene while performing at venues across the city.\nMr Gilbert is currently receiving chemotherapy and his family are researching potential treatments available abroad, which they hope the money raised will pay for.\nMiss Heale added: \"We have been blown away by everything people are doing. This is money to save Greg's life, and it's going to be a very hard journey for all of us.\"\nFans and friends are now organising three other gigs to be held in Hampshire during February as well as a potential auction of rock memorabilia this year.", "summary": "An \"overwhelming\" fundraising concert held to help pay for cancer treatment for the lead singer of indie band Delays has taken place." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Daily Telegraph, which released the story, alleges that eight current or former Premier League managers have broken rules by taking bribes for buying or selling players.\nSam Allardyce left his job as England manager on Tuesday, after claims he gave advice to undercover reporters on how to get around certain transfer rules.\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has said football is \"rife\" with corruption and called for a full investigation to uncover any wrongdoing.\nThe Football Association said it's taking the allegations seriously and is investigating.\nCorruption is when a person in an important position of power makes a dishonest decision or tries to influence others for a personal reward.\nIn cases like this, football managers are being accused of taking money, known as \"bungs\". This is when they receive a secret payment that has not been agreed to by their club, in return for a favour.\nThere are different things that football managers have been accused of doing, in return for bungs.\nIt's suspected that some managers are telling their clubs to buy players, because they have secretly been promised, or given, money by an agent if they sign the player.\nFootball agents work for the players and are the people who help organise transfers. They will also negotiate how much players are paid.\nAgents have a huge influence in football - especially when it comes to money.\nIt's been suggested that managers have also been offering players higher wages in return for receiving some of that money themselves.\nOr they have offered players an appearance bonus, which is when a player gets extra money every time they play in a match. A corrupt manager can then ask for some of that appearance fee in return for picking the player.\nIt's also been claimed that managers have deliberately sold players in order to receive a slice of the transfer fee when the player moves club.\nThere is now more money to be made in football than ever before.\nIn the 2014-15 season alone, Premier League clubs earned more than £3.3 billion and spent over £950 million signing players. Because there is so much money in football, there are a lot more agents working in the game and their influence on football has grown a lot.\nBungs are bad because they influence people for the wrong reasons.\nRather than picking a player for their ability or performance, a manager who takes a bung is making decisions to make money for themselves.\nMaking money for yourself by convincing clubs to spend money on certain players is illegal.\nIf these claims are true then it is bad for football fans who spend their money on a club, only to see it line the pockets of greedy managers.", "summary": "A newspaper investigation has claimed that there is widespread corruption within football in the UK." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) was criticised after a former terror suspect was allowed on live television show Q&A two weeks ago.\nAgriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has cancelled his Monday night appearance, according to local media reports.\nMr Joyce's office cited the prime minister's order for why he cancelled his appearance, local media said.\n\"The Prime Minister has communicated that he does not want any frontbencher to appear on Q&A,\" a spokesman for Mr Joyce told the Sydney Morning Herald.\nThe Q&A program has become a lightning rod for debate in Australia about national security and freedom of speech.\nThe ABC last week conceded it was wrong to let Sydney man Zaky Mallah appear live on the programme to ask a question.\nIt is undertaking a review of the decision.\nIn 2005, Mallah was convicted of threatening to kill government officers but acquitted of terrorism charges.\nFrom his position in the Q&A audience, he confronted Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Steven Ciobo about the government's plans to strip dual nationals of citizenship if they supported terrorism.\nMr Ciobo, who was a panel guest, told Mallah he was pleased to be part of a government \"that would say that you were out of the country\".\nMallah angrily replied the government had \"just justified to many Australian Muslims in the community tonight to leave and go to Syria and join [Islamic State] because of ministers like him\".\nThe ABC show allows audience members to put questions to a panel of figures from various sides of Australian political and social life. High-profile politicians regularly appear on it.\nMr Joyce had said on Sunday he would be appearing on Q&A, before being told not to.\nSpeaking on Monday at a National Press Club address, Mr Joyce said \"no threat was made\" by Mr Abbott's office, but it would have been nice to have received more notice.\n\"That's life, you take it on the chin, he said, adding that Mr Abbott did not want ministers appearing on the show until the ABC's own review had been completed.\nAfter Mallah appeared on the programme Mr Abbott said \"heads should roll\" and questioned the ABC's allegiance.\nA self-styled media critic and Muslim activist, Mallah had previously been interviewed by several major Australian media outlets and international broadcasters, including the BBC.\nMore recently, his regular social media posts have attracted criticism, in part, because of crude and sexist references to several female journalists.\nA government review led by the Department of Communications found the producers were aware of his criminal convictions but not his more-recent derogatory social media posts when he was selected to ask a question.", "summary": "The Australian Prime Minister has told his cabinet to boycott a popular talk show on the national broadcaster." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Stuart Hamilton, from Gorgie, was captured on CCTV at Haymarket Station on 26 September.\nHe was spotted near Buckingham Palace in London a few days later by a former colleague, but had not been seen since.\nPolice Scotland said the 37-year-old was \"deemed to be safe and well\".", "summary": "A man who was reported missing from his home in Edinburgh almost two months ago has been found, police have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Managing director Daniel Kim said Peter Scott was looking at the move at its Buccleuch Street site.\nIt comes after a previous restructuring programme \"failed to produce the projected financial results\".\nThe proposal puts the majority of those employed by Peter Scott - owned by Northampton-based Gloverall - at risk of redundancy.\nA statement said: \"Trading has remained difficult and although there have been initial positive results this has not provided sufficient increases of income to maintain current staffing levels.\n\"Therefore the proposed job losses may become a necessary outcome to ensure that Peter Scott has a future in the golfing and High Street markets.\n\"The business strategy remains unchanged at this time as it continues to maintain the goal to supply the Peter Scott brand to its loyal customer base and increase its share in high value niche markets.\"\nIn an attempt to avoid compulsory redundancies, management said it would aim to meet with staff representatives \"in an effort to find a workable solution\".\nThe company currently employs 63 staff with 48 directly involved with production and affected by the change.", "summary": "A knitwear firm is considering ending its production operations in Hawick putting about 50 jobs at risk." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "So I began following Bank of America’s official account to see what would happen. Sure enough, the first message arrived in moments.\n“Hey are you interested ib [sic] making some extra cash.\"\nTo you and I, this message - which, let’s be honest, lacks any real salesmanship - seems highly dubious.\nBut be it because of gullibility, recklessness, or, most likely, desperation, others have been lured in.\nZeroFox, a security company specialising in social media, says it has found more than two million public Instagram posts that push this kind of scam, known as money-flipping.\nThe term refers to a con in which criminals convince their victims to hand over access to funds with the promise that they will multiply their value via a trick they know, in return for a share of the profits. They then abscond with the sum, leaving their target out of pocket.\nThe firm estimates that for every such account Instagram closes, three more appear in its place.\nMessages like the one I received begin a to-and-fro chain of messages, which can cost the banks dear - they often end up compensating affected customers and swallowing the cost of the fraud.\nSuch is the level of concern, ZeroFox told the BBC that one of its clients, a major US bank, had put in place a six-person team to deal with money-flipping on Instagram after reportedly losing more than $1m to the crime.\nIn one variation, designed to reassure the victim, the scammers say it doesn’t matter if the account is empty or even in negative credit. In these cases, the criminal uses the bank details to cash a fraudulent cheque and then deposits the cash before the bank spots the ruse.\nGreat lengths are gone to in order to look and sound genuine. As well as profiles full of images of flashy watches and piles of cash, scammers concoct elaborate back stories. After I followed the Chase Bank's account, one told me: “I’m a claim manager for Chase Bank but I have access to other banks.\n“What I do is find people who has an active bank account and the account can be negative 0 and what happen is after that I’ll look into the computer and fine some extra cash that someone hasn’t claimed and I’ll transfer it into your account.”\nFor his trouble, all he asked was that of the $15,000 (£11,350) I’d make, he’d like to take $3,000. In another message, I was assured it was “110% legit”.\nZeroFox recommends institutions use machine learning technology to weed out the problem. That’s not a surprising conclusion given that it is in the business of selling precisely that technology, and is using the report to advertise its services.\nBut even with that caveat in mind, the findings make interesting reading, not least because of the claim that the Facebook-owned service has a particular problem.\n\"It’s really easy to private message someone on Instagram,\" explains John Seymour, a data scientist at ZeroFox.\n\"Someone can initiate a direct message without having followed the original person.\"\nOf the two million posts it analysed, 80% were more than 45 days old, suggesting few were being reported or detected.\nHashtags connected to 37 different financial institutions were being targeted by 1,386 unique accounts created by criminals.\nInstagram, which did not see the report ahead of its publication, says scams are “pretty low volume” on the network. But it added that it would look at the report’s claims and recommendations.\n\"Generally speaking, it's easy for security firms do a one-off analysis and build a model to catch a specific kind of abuse,” Facebook's security spokeswoman Melanie Ensign explains.\n\"The challenge is doing it in a robust way so that it still works after bad actors change their approach a few times - and it's almost impossible for external parties to prove their approach is this robust.\"\nThe scammers typically operate many accounts.\nSome are used to approach potential victims, others to boost the illusion that their scam works.\n\"We saw these accounts engaging with each other and promoting and saying 'This is legit!' - and then trying to build up the credibility of specific scam posts,” explains Evan Blair, ZeroFox’s co-founder.\nThe firm says many of the accounts involved make references to the US military - an intentional, predatory tactic.\n\"Scammers are taking advantage of that predisposition to be willing to entertain offers that seem too good to be true,” Mr Blair said, referring to the types of offers and services companies give exclusively to military families.\n\"They say, ‘Yeah, this makes sense,’ because they’re used to that.\"\nOne account I saw shows a woman posing in a military uniform.\nIn a direct message, “she\" told me she was a “US army official\", adding: \"I help people who need it.”\nAfter telling her I was reporter writing about scams, she replied: “I believe you sweety.\"\nIt’s unlikely that I was having a conversation with an attractive model/soldier named Gina. But I was clearly talking to someone - the interactions were too human, too varied, to be some kind of automated bot or script.\nAs ever with cybercrime, it’s extremely difficult to pin down the source. But there are some clues.\nZeroFox attempted to turn the tables on scammers by getting them to click on links that would log their internet addresses.\n“We were able to flip the switch and social engineer them right back,” says Philip Tully, a ZeroFox researcher.\n\"We saw different IP addresses coming out of Chicago, some out of Detroit and some out of California.\"\nHowever, IP addresses can be masked in order to evade detection - meaning the real locations of the scammers is difficult to prove.\nZeroFox says it has not passed its research to Instagram or law enforcement agencies. But it is providing it to its financial institution clients to follow up if they choose.\nFollow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook", "summary": "A new report suggests thousands of Instagram users are falling for a scam that targets followers of financial institutions on the image-sharing platform." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a 2-1 vote, the court said Apple broke antitrust laws when it entered an e-book market which was then dominated by Amazon.\nCircuit Judge Debra Ann Livingston said the price-fixing meant Apple \"found an easy path to opening its iBookstore\".\n\"While we want to put this behind us, the case is about principles and values,\" Apple said.\n\"We know we did nothing wrong back in 2010 and are assessing next steps.\"\nThe US Justice Department said publishers involved in the conspiracy included Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster.\nThe department said that the price collusion meant that some e-book prices rose from $9.99 to up to $14.99.\nHowever, in a dissenting opinion, the judge who upheld Apple's appeal said the company's entry into the e-book market was pro-competitive as it challenged Amazon, which controlled about 90% of the sector.\n\"Apple took steps to compete with a monopolist and open the market to more entrants, generating only minor competitive restraints in the process,\" Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote.\nThe appeal followed a 2013 decision by US District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan that Apple played a \"central role\" in a conspiracy with publishers to eliminate retail price competition and raise e-book prices.\nThe Justice Department and 33 states and territories originally sued Apple and five publishers. The publishers all settled and signed consent decrees prohibiting them from restricting e-book retailers' ability to set prices.", "summary": "Apple conspired with publishers to fix the prices of electronic books, a US federal appeals court has ruled." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is unsupported on your device\n23 July 2014 Last updated at 14:48 BST\nMany businesses and homes in more remote parts of Wales are still struggling to get online - and say a poor internet connection can make or break a business when they are trying to do business online.\nBT says delivering broadband connections across Wales is a massive engineering project and the infrastructure cannot be rolled out overnight.\nMatt Murray reports.", "summary": "The future of Wales' communication networks has been discussed at the Royal Welsh Show in Builth Wells on Wednesday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "11 September 2014 Last updated at 06:45 BST\nJose Andre Montanho, who is blind, could play the drums by the age of four.\nHe then began playing the piano.\nJose Andre has played for fans in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.\nHe now hopes to perform for people in other countries.\nHayley has the story.", "summary": "A nine-year old jazz musician from Bolivia is entertaining audiences in South America." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Scott County, a poor area where needle-sharing by drug users is common, has seen 79 new cases in recent weeks - up from an annual average of five.\nGovernor Mike Pence has authorised health officials to implement a needle exchange programme - a remedy he has opposed in the past.\nHIV is the virus that causes Aids.\n\"Scott County is facing an epidemic of HIV, but this is not a Scott County problem; this is an Indiana problem,\" the governor said.\n\"With additional state resources and new tools provided by this emergency declaration, I am confident that together we will stop this HIV outbreak in its tracks.\"\nThe outbreak was first identified in late January. Since then, officials have diagnosed 79 people with the life-threatening virus - up from 26 cases just one month ago.\nState officials said the governor's emergency declaration provides additional resources for officials to coordinate a response to the \"outbreak of HIV that has reached epidemic proportions\".\nState epidemiologist Pam Pontones said almost all of the cases originated from illegal drug users sharing syringes.\nA large majority of the victims had shared a needle with an infected person while injecting Opana, a prescription painkiller.\nOfficials expect the number of infections to rise, and are working to contact as many as 100 other people linked to those with confirmed cases.\nThe order will authorise local health officials to create a temporary needle exchange programme under the supervision of the state health agency.\nMr Pence, a Republican, has opposed such programmes in the past on the grounds that they are not effective in controlling drug use.\nEd Clere, a member of the state's legislature and another Republican, said similar legislation was proposed last year but it became stalled in the state's Senate.\n\"Unfortunately we're back here, not just with needle exchange as a hypothetical theory, but with a real situation where a needle exchange could make a difference,\" he said.\nScott County is located about 30 miles (48km) north of Louisville, Kentucky.", "summary": "The governor of Indiana has declared a public health emergency after an HIV outbreak \"reached epidemic proportions\" in part of the state." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The nine-bedroom, 8.5-bathroom stone mansion in the upmarket Kalorama neighbourhood was sold for $8.1m (£6.2m), property records indicate.\nThe Obamas are remaining in Washington until their youngest daughter, 15-year-old Sasha, finishes high school.\nThe former first couple have been travelling the world since departing the White House in January.\nWashington neighbourhood welcomes Obamas\nMr Obama's spokesman, Kevin Lewis, confirmed the sale saying: \"Given that President and Mrs Obama will be in Washington for at least another two and a half years, it made sense for them to buy a home rather than continuing to rent the property.\"\nConcrete barriers restrict public access to the 8,300 sq ft (770 sq metre) home, which is protected round the clock by Secret Service officers.\nThe Obamas - who still own a home in Chicago - acquired their latest property from former Bill Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart, who purchased it in 2014 for $5.3m.\nThe home is not far from the $23m home owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post newspaper.\nAlso in the neighbourhood are US First Daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser.\nSecretary of State Rex Tillerson is another Kalorama resident - he bought a $5.6m house in February.", "summary": "The family of former US President Barack Obama has purchased the home they had been renting in Washington DC." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hundreds are known to have died and thousands injured. Aid in the form of temporary shelter, food, medical and cooking supplies has begun trickling into affected areas, but the presence of militants has hampered some efforts.", "summary": "Forty-eight hours after a massive earthquake struck in remote areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, relief is slowly being distributed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Archway Sheet Metal Works, in Paxton Road, Tottenham, north London, had asked a judge to quash a compulsory purchase order.\nBut the High Court upheld the Haringey Council order in February.\nThe deadline has passed for the firm to take the case to the Court of Appeal.\nSpurs can therefore press ahead with plans to build a new 56,000 capacity stadium.\nSolicitors for the Josif family, owners of the business that produces items for the catering and hospitality industry, have confirmed they will not be appealing.\nIn a statement on Facebook, a spokesman for the firm said efforts were ongoing to achieve \"a proper settlement\" with the club.\n\"Our other overriding objective is also to arrange for the relocation of our family business as quickly as possible and to preserve the jobs of those we employ,\" it read.\nA spokesman for the club said the next step would be to agree the compensation amount payable to Archway.\nIn November, a fire gutted the Archway premises, located yards from White Hart Lane. The cause of the blaze is still not known, but police were treating it as suspicious.", "summary": "A business standing in the way of Tottenham Hotspur's £400m stadium development will not appeal against a High Court ruling that will see it forced out." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Lee, who was 91, led Singapore's transformation from a small port city to one of the wealthiest nations in the world.\nWorld leaders have paid tribute to Mr Lee, who served as the city-state's prime minister for 31 years.\nUS President Barack Obama described him as a \"giant of history\" whose advice had been sought by other world leaders.\nChinese President Xi Jinping said Mr Lee was a widely respected strategist and statesman, and Russian President Vladimir Putin described him as one of the \"patriarchs\" of world politics.\nThe period of national mourning will culminate in a state funeral next Sunday and Mr Lee's body is to lie in state at parliament from Wednesday to Saturday.\nA private family wake is taking place on Monday and Tuesday.\nNews of Mr Lee's death came in a government statement that said he had \"passed away peacefully\" in the early hours of Monday at Singapore General Hospital. Mr Lee had been in hospital for several weeks with pneumonia and was on life support.\nState television broke away from its normal schedules and broadcast rolling tributes.\nAs evening fell, many Singaporeans were continuing to arrive at the Istana, the compound housing the president's official residence and the prime minister's office, where a book of condolence has been placed.\nEarlier, some chanted \"Mr Lee, Mr Lee\" as a hearse carrying the former leader's body arrived at the compound.\nAn area has also been set aside outside the hospital for flowers and other tributes.\n\"I'm so sad. He is my idol. He's been so good to me, my family and everyone,\" said resident Lua Su Yean, 64.\n\"His biggest achievement is that from zero he's built up today's Singapore.\"\nBooks of condolence have also been opened at all Singapore's overseas missions.\nIn an emotional televised address, Mr Lee's son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, paid tribute to him.\n\"He fought for our independence, built a nation where there was none, and made us proud to be Singaporeans. We won't see another man like him,\" he said.\nSingapore's Foreign Minister, K Shanmugam, told the BBC's Newsday programme that Mr Lee was \"George Washington and Churchill combined for Singaporeans\".\n\"There is deep sense of loss, a deep sense of grief,\" he said.\nBusiness in bustling Singapore carried on as normal. At the stock exchange, the normal stream of market prices displayed on a bank of screens instead read: Remembering Lee Kuan Yew, 16 September 1923 to 23 March 2015.\nLee Kuan Yew - widely known as LKY - oversaw Singapore's independence from Britain and separation from Malaysia and co-founded the People's Action Party (PAP), which has governed Singapore since 1959.\nI am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today (National Day Rally in 1986)\nIn quotes: Lee Kuan Yew\nMr Lee set about creating a highly educated work force fluent in English, and reached out to foreign investors to turn Singapore into a manufacturing hub.\nHe embarked on a programme of slum clearance, industrialisation and tackling corruption. He was a fierce advocate of a multi-racial Singapore.\nHowever, Mr Lee also introduced tight controls, and one of his legacies was a clampdown on the press - tight restrictions that remain in place today.\nDissent - and political opponents - were ruthlessly quashed. Today, PAP remains firmly in control. There are currently six opposition lawmakers in parliament.\nOther measures, such as corporal punishment, a ban on chewing gum and the government's foray into matchmaking for Singapore's brightest - to create smarter babies - led to perceptions of excessive state interference.\nMr Lee criticised what he saw as the overly liberal approach of the US and the West, saying it had \"come at the expense of orderly society\".", "summary": "Singapore has begun seven days of national mourning following the death of its founding father, Lee Kuan Yew." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The pair debuted alongside each other in Saturday's 19-14 win at Twickenham.\nLancaster is expected to name four centres in his squad on 31 August, with the hosts beginning their World Cup campaign on 18 September.\n\"There are a lot of decisions to be made but we still have two weeks to make them,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\nBrad Barritt and Jonathan Joseph are considered Lancaster's first-choice pairing at centre, with Luther Burrell also expected to make the final cut.\nIt has been thought that would leave Slade, 22, Burgess, 26, and Billy Twelvetrees contesting the final berth.\nBut the England boss said: \"I've never really bought that. That's been created in the last week or so.\"\nFormer rugby league player Burgess put in a tough-tackling performance on his England debut, but showed he is still adjusting to life in union when he was yellow-carded for pulling back France's Morgan Parra after a quick tap penalty.\n\"Obviously he was disappointed to be sin-binned. It was an instinctive reaction,\" said Lancaster. \"I've seen rugby union players who have played for years do the same thing.\"\nSam Burgess (Club: Bath, Position: Centre/flanker, Caps: One, Age: 26)\n\"You can't take him to the World Cup for me,\" said former England scrum-half Dawson.\n\"The great thing about Burgess is he doesn't make mistakes with ball in hand.\n\"But unfortunately, if you're going to be really picky, positionally he wasn't great. He played like a six rather than a 12. There are things that are instinctive that he doesn't know what to do.\"\nHenry Slade (Club: Exeter, Position: Fly-half/centre, Caps: One, Age: 22)\n\"Henry Slade looks like a young Brian O'Driscoll. He's talking to everyone. He fits really well,\" said Dawson.\n\"If Henry Slade is not in the World Cup squad I will call Stuart Lancaster and say 'what are you doing man?'\"\nAlex Goode (Club: Saracens, Position: Full-back/fly-half, Caps: 18, Age: 27)\n\"Alex Goode is pure class. He has an ability to dance on his feet and still see what is going on,\" said Dawson.\n\"There are players that have to impress and step up and Alex Goode has definitely made Stuart Lancaster think 'he's doing things that Mike Brown doesn't do'.\"", "summary": "England head coach Stuart Lancaster has insisted centres Henry Slade and Sam Burgess are not battling each other for a place at the World Cup." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Edinburgh's Dickinson, 32, lasted only a couple of minutes as the Scots opened their two-Test series with victory.\n\"We'll have to have a look at Al Dickinson,\" Cotter told BBC Scotland.\n\"Bit of a concern and we'll be looking at alternatives. If he can't take the field next week, we'll look at bringing somebody over.\"\nCotter is hopeful other knocks picked up at the Toyota Stadium can be managed before next Saturday's match in Tokyo.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"Huw Jones should be okay [to provide cover in the backs],\" said the New Zealander. \"Hopefully we'll be able to fill the absence of Duncan Taylor [at centre] if he can't play with what we've got.\n\"WP Nel was a little bit sore coming off, also. [We'll have] a full assessment, see if these guys can be back at 100% and we may have to rotate the team a bit.\"\nNel scored Scotland's second try in Toyota City after a penalty try had put the Scots in command before the break. There would be no further scores, with Shota Horie crossing for Japan early in the match.\nWhen Nel went over early in the second half, Japan were down to 13 men with Hendrik Tui and Rikiya Matsuda yellow-carded, the latter's knock-on giving the Scots their penalty try.\n\"First of all, I'm happy - the win is what we were after,\" said Cotter.\n\"The way we got it was probably done in a complicated fashion. We gave the ball back to them a number of times and had to work our defence. We did work our defence and I thought we defended reasonably well.\n\"Our set piece held up without being great but it was still holding up and gave us a platform.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"I thought our discipline was key. They gave away a couple of yellow cards, a penalty try and it was the pressure we put on them by getting down in there into the paddock. We managed to get, I think, 19 turnovers off them.\n\"The boys aren't particularly happy and next week we know Japan will lift their game. We'll have to lift ours.\"\nGreig Laidlaw's 16 points with the boot came from six kicks out of six and the captain said: \"We were pleased to win and we probably need to just tighten up a little more and be a little bit more accurate.\n\"At times in the second half we just gave the ball away and maybe let Japan off the hook.\"", "summary": "Scotland head coach Vern Cotter may call up a replacement for Alasdair Dickinson after the prop came off injured in the 26-13 win over Japan." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Health Minister Hermann Gröhe said it was necessary to tighten the law because of a measles epidemic.\nA mother of three died of measles in the city of Essen this week.\nThe government wants kindergartens to report any parents who cannot prove they have had a medical consultation.\nHowever, Germany is not yet making it an offence to refuse vaccinations - unlike Italy.\nSpeaking to the popular daily Bild, Mr Gröhe said: \"Continuing deaths from measles cannot leave anyone indifferent.\"\nUnder the plan, the children of parents who fail to seek vaccination advice could be expelled from their daycare centre. The law is expected to be adopted next month.\nThe upper house of the German parliament, the Bundesrat, said forcing kindergartens to report some parents to the health authorities might breach data protection laws.\nItaly has recorded nearly three times more measles cases so far this year than for all of 2016.\nLast week the Italian government ruled that parents must vaccinate their children against 12 common illnesses before enrolling them at state-run schools. The list includes measles, polio, whooping cough and hepatitis B.\nMeasles outbreak across Europe\nWHO information on measles\nBy mid-April this year Germany had 410 measles cases, compared with 325 for the whole of 2016, the Robert Koch Institute reported.\nThe institute said that besides children, all adults born since 1970 should get immunised against measles, if they had not had the measles jab or had had it only once.\nLast week a German court ruled that a father could insist on having his child vaccinated, over the objections of the mother. The case concerned a separated couple, and the child was living with the mother.\nItalian officials have attacked what they call \"anti-scientific\" theories which have led to vaccination rates falling well below levels deemed safe to prevent outbreaks.\nThose theories include a long discredited link between autism and the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine.\nA 2010 survey of vaccinations EU-wide and in Iceland and Norway found much variation in policy. The Venice project survey reported that 15 countries had no mandatory vaccinations, and the rest had at least one mandatory vaccination.\nThe level of compliance was high, including in countries where vaccinations were recommended, not mandatory.\nThe report concluded that \"the label 'mandatory' is not the only driver behind achieving a high vaccination coverage, and many other factors can play a role, such as the use of combined vaccines, prices for the recipient, kind of offer, information and promotional campaigns\".\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says that since the introduction of two doses of anti-measles vaccine across Europe the number of cases has dropped sharply. The total in 2016 - about 5,000 - was the lowest ever recorded.\nBut 14 European countries are described as \"endemic\" for measles, and most cases this year were reported in seven of them: France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Switzerland and Ukraine. The largest outbreaks are in Italy and Romania, the WHO says.\nThe second measles jab needs to be administered to at least 95% of the population, the WHO says - a level not reached in the endemic countries.\nChildren should be screened for their measles vaccination history when they start school, and those lacking evidence of receipt of two doses should be vaccinated, the WHO says.", "summary": "Parents in Germany who fail to seek medical advice on vaccinating their children could face fines of up to €2,500 (£2,175; $2,800)." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nMidfielder Ramsey, set to play a key role for Wales at Euro 2016 this summer, was replaced 16 minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute.\nArsenal have Laurent Koscielny out and fellow centre-backs Per Mertesacker and Gabriel also picked up injuries.\n\"The most serious looks to be Ramsey,\" said Wenger. \"I think it's a thigh strain.\"\nMertesacker was involved in a clash of heads with Hull midfielder Nick Powell as holders Arsenal won the fifth-round replay to book a home quarter-final against Watford on Sunday.\n\"Mertesacker is just a cut on his eye,\" added Wenger. \"That looks to be very short term. Gabriel is a hamstring.\"\nTwo goals each from France striker Olivier Giroud and England forward Theo Walcott secured Arsenal's first win in six games.\nThat run has included a 2-0 Champions League last-16 first-leg defeat by Barcelona and Premier League losses to Manchester United and Swansea.\nAgainst Hull, some Gunners fans held up a banner reading \"Arsene, thanks for the memories but it's time to say goodbye\".\nWenger said: \"There's nothing disappointing for me, I do my job. Look at the history of the club and you will see that I have nothing to be scared of.\"", "summary": "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is concerned by the injury Aaron Ramsey suffered in the 4-0 FA Cup win at Hull." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The workers were shot in the Qush Tepa area, the provincial governor said.\nTwo others are unaccounted for, feared abducted by IS, he told the BBC. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed the deaths but said it did not know who was to blame.\nThe ICRC said it was putting its work in Afghanistan on temporary hold.\n\"We need to understand more clearly what happened,\" ICRC Director of Operations Dominik Stillhart said.\n\"But... this is one of the most critical humanitarian contexts and we will definitely do everything to continue our operations there.\"\nIS has been in Afghanistan since 2015, claiming attacks in Kabul and the east. But there has been no immediate claim for the attack in Jowzjan.\nThe ICRC has had an uninterrupted presence in Afghanistan for 30 years and the organisation said in a tweet that it was \"shocked and devastated\" by the news. President Peter Maurer said it was a deliberate attack on his staff which \"we condemn in the strongest possible terms\".\nThe team which came under attack by \"unknown armed men\" comprised three drivers and five field officers, the statement said.\nGovernment officials said the staff were transporting supplies including livestock materials to areas affected by recent deadly snowstorms when their convoy was attacked.\nJowzjan governor Lutfullah Azizi confirmed to the BBC that all six employees who were killed were Afghan.\nThe bodies of the six workers - many with close-range multiple gunshot wounds - were taken to the provincial capital Sheberghan and from there to Mazar-e-Sharif, officials say. A search has begun to find the two ICRC employees who have not been accounted for.\nProvincial police chief Rahmatullah Turkistani said IS fighters were known to be active in the area where the attack took place and the ICRC had been warned about their presence.\nTaliban militants have also targeted the Red Cross in the past - its office in Jalalabad was attacked in 2013.\nIS announced it was expanding into Afghanistan in January 2015 and has secured footholds in parts of eastern Nangarhar province, on the border with Pakistan.\nBut Afghan troops and the Taliban have prevented them from moving permanently beyond that, observers say.\nSince mid-2016 the group appears to have switched tactics, launching a series of deadly attacks against Shia Muslims and others in Kabul and bombing a mosque in the northern province of Balkh, neighbouring Jowzjan, in October.\nOn Wednesday, IS said it had carried out an attack at the Supreme Court in Kabul a day earlier, killing at least 20 people.", "summary": "Six Afghans working for the Red Cross have been killed by suspected Islamic State (IS) group gunmen in the province of Jowzjan, officials say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Speaking at the Toronto Film Festival, he said film-making in the UK was \"essentially a bourgeois sport\".\nAs as result he said the film industry in the UK had \"almost been ghettoised\".\n\"You can make an expensive picture with a Redmayne or a Cumberbatch, or you can go down the estates and hug some hoodies and you've got no money and that's basically your choice.\"\n\"And it's a horrible reflection of our culture because there's a gazillion different stories.\n\"Unfortunately the middle class have this cultural choke-hold on what we get to make. If you want to make a film it's got to be one of them two.\n\"If I sound bitter, it's because I am,\" he added.\nCaton-Jones is known for films including Memphis Belle, Scandal and Rob Roy.\nHe is in Toronto to promote his low-budget drama Urban Hymn, about two disturbed teenagers and their social worker, set against the backdrop of the 2011 London riots.\nThe Scottish-born film-maker was one of six British directors speaking at a press conference for the festival's City to City strand, which is focusing on films from London.\nHe was particularly scathing about one strand of British movie-making.\n\"The most loathsome kind of film is this \"heritage Britain\" - it's basically schilling for tourists to get people to come and visit the place,\" he said.\n\"And it's a kind of cultural dead hand that really is a dead end - it's horrible.\n\"If you want to work you've got to do that kind of crap sometimes and it's kind of painful. You just have to kind of bruise your way through if you want to do something difficult. It really is taking the hard road.\"\nFellow panel member David Farr - whose debut film, The Ones Below, is about a middle class couple engaged in a battle of wits against their downstairs neighbours - agreed with Caton-Jones's analysis.\n\"The films that really drive me mad are the posh films made by posh people about posh people,\" he said.\n\"Most of them are set in about 1930 and there's always a king. And they're the ones that create the problem and we all shuffle around underneath this dreadful, awful thing. And that's the bit [of the industry] you need to blow up.\"\nElaine Constantine, who is at the festival with her film Northern Soul, said the problem with the UK film industry was that \"we're playing poor relative to the US market\".\n\"Everything that we produce, or everything that's backed... has to be appealing to the American audience because of our language.\n\"I've been in so many meetings where people say 'You can't do a film about the north... because the Americans won't understand them'.\n\"A lot of my experience of trying to get funds was all about making a homogenised product.\"\nFilm London and the British Film Commission responded to the film-makers' comments saying that the UK \"has a rich output of filmmaking across a huge range of films and genres, with a multiplicity of voices\".\n\"Through our various production and training schemes at Film London we support a broad range of film-makers contributing to evolving the industry and embracing new audiences,\" chief executive officer Adrian Wootton told the BBC.\nBut they did \"not dispute there could be a richer diversity\".\n\"Our criteria is based on the strength of the story and belief in the talent bringing that story to the screen. We are, however, addressing the fact the number of diverse talent working in the industry is falling, so run a shorts scheme for black, Asian and minority ethnic talent.\n\"Funding talent who have a track record, London Calling Plus aims to ensure more diverse talent comes into the industry which will also have a powerful and positive impact on the output and a broader range of films.\"", "summary": "The middle class has a \"cultural choke-hold\" on UK film production, according to director Michael Caton-Jones." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Deputy secretary general Harun Khan told BBC Radio 5 live the Prevent scheme was having a \"negative impact\".\nThe scheme seeks to lessen the influence of extremism - but Mr Khan said it alienated young Muslims and pushed them towards radical groups.\nThe government said it was supporting the vast majority of UK Muslims in combating extremism.\nPrevent, which is part of the government's broader counter-terrorism strategy, aims to \"stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism\".\nWork carried out as part of Prevent includes stopping \"apologists for terrorism\" coming to the UK, supporting community campaigns which oppose extremism and mentoring for individuals who are \"at risk of being drawn into terrorist activity\".\nThe strategy covers \"all forms\" of terrorism, including far-right extremism.\nMr Khan said Prevent had \"really failed\" when it came to Muslim communities, and said many young Muslims were \"not interested in engaging for anything to do with Prevent\".\n\"Most young people are seeing this [as] a target on them and the institutions they associate with,\" he said.\nHe said many felt they would be viewed by authorities as potential terrorists if they went to mosques or joined other organised Muslim groups.\nMr Khan said this left some people \"lost and disenfranchised\" and vulnerable to radicalisation.\n\"They will be picked up by the smaller groups, fringe elements, on the street and targeted specifically,\" he said.\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was that many young Muslims were \"disillusioned\" but felt they could not express their views.\nMr Khan said people needed a \"safe space\" where they could \"speak freely without being labelled as extremists\".\n\"One of those views, as an example, is how do they respond to seeing continuous oppression of Muslims on the media, on the news, on the internet,\" he said.\nHe said the government only wanted to engage with people whose views matched their own.\nImmigration and security minister James Brokenshire said the government was supporting \"the vast majority of British Muslims in condemning those who advocate violence, intolerance and division\".\n\"As part of our Prevent counter-terrorism programme we work with a wide range of organisations to raise awareness of the dangers of travelling to areas of conflict such as Syria and Iraq and the risk of exploitation by extremist groups.\"\nFunding from Prevent has been given to:\nAs part of Prevent, the UK also works \"closely with countries where those who support terrorism and promote extremism are most active\", focusing on Pakistan, the Middle East and East Africa.\nOn Friday, Home Secretary Theresa May proposed changes to the law to tackle extremism and radicalisation in the UK.\nShe said she was \"looking again at the case for new banning orders for extremist groups\" and considering new civil powers to \"target extremists who seek to radicalise others\".", "summary": "A senior figure in the Muslim Council of Britain says a key government anti-terrorism strategy has \"failed\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "If women know they have BRCA gene mutations, they can choose to take action before cancer develops.\nBut weighing the risk of cancer that might never grow against the very real trauma of surgery to remove healthy tissue as a preventive measure is an incredibly difficult conundrum, as Angelina Jolie explains.\n\"I did not do this solely because I carry the BRCA1 gene mutation, and I want other women to hear this.\n\"A positive BRCA test does not mean a leap to surgery,\" she says in her diary in the New York Times.\n\"In my case, the Eastern and Western doctors I met agreed that surgery to remove my tubes and ovaries was the best option, because on top of the BRCA gene, three women in my family have died from cancer.\"\nBRCA1 and BRCA2 are genes that help repair damage to the DNA in our cells. If people inherit a mutated version of either of these genes it puts them at greater risk of certain cancers.\nJolie learned some time ago that she had inherited a faulty BRCA1 gene from her mother.\nShe had already lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer, which alerted doctors that she might also be at risk.\nIn the UK, around one in every 500 people will carry a BRCA mutation.\nGenerally, experts only recommend screening if a person has a strong family history of breast or ovarian cancer.\nFor example:\nFor women carriers of BRCA1, it means their lifetime risk of breast cancer will range from 65-85% and their risk of ovarian cancer from 40-50%.\nMen with BRCA mutations also have a slightly elevated risk of breast cancer.\nJolie's doctors estimated that she had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer in her lifetime unless she underwent surgery.\nIn 2013, award-winning actress decided to have both breasts removed. And now in 2015 she has had her next preventive surgery - the removal of her ovaries and fallopian tubes.\nHer doctors advised that she should have this surgery about a decade before the earliest onset of cancer in her female relatives. Her mother's ovarian cancer was diagnosed when she was 49. Jolie is now 39.\nNo, but it does greatly reduce the risk.\nSurgery does not completely guarantee that cancer will not develop - it is impossible to remove all of the at-risk tissue.\nAnd there are side effects to consider - taking out the ovaries removes a woman's fertility and puts her into the menopause, for example.\nFaulty BRCA genes are responsible for around 5% of all breast cancer cases and 10% of ovarian cancers, meaning the rest are caused by other factors.\nAlthough Jolie says surgery was the right choice for her, she says it may not be for others faced with the same dilemma.\n\"There is more than one way to deal with any health issue. The most important thing is to learn about the options and choose what is right for you personally.\"\nSome people may opt instead for enhanced screening - frequent check-ups to make sure no cancer is growing.\nDoctors may also prescribe drugs like tamoxifen to reduce the risk of cancer developing.\nAs Jolie says: \"There is more than one way to deal with any health issue. The most important thing is to learn about the options and choose what is right for you personally.\"", "summary": "While most women in the UK have a one in 54 chance of developing ovarian cancer in their lifetime, for those who inherit faulty genes, like Angelina Jolie, the risk increases to one in two." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Wood's brother Chris Foote Wood said the donation from Dame Judi, who played M in the Bond movies, was a \"massive boost\" to the appeal fund.\nHe said it meant the appeal to erect a statue of his sister in Bury, Greater Manchester, where she grew up, was halfway towards its £20,000 target.\nThe Bafta-winning comedian and writer died aged 62 in April.\nMr Foote Wood said he was delighted by the donation from Dame Judi and hoped it would encourage other stars to make pledges to the appeal.\nHe said his sister once dismissed the idea of being a national treasure - nominating Dame Judi rather than herself.\nMr Foote Wood, who has the backing of Bury Council, wants to show his sister \"in typical pose\" seated at a piano in the statue.\nWood was born in Prestwich and lived in Bury until she was 18.", "summary": "Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench has donated £1,000 towards a fund for a statue of entertainer Victoria Wood." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The improvised vessel washed up on Cliffoney beach in County Sligo.\nIt is made from a metal frame partly covered in yellow tarpaulin, with expanded foam and water bottles used for buoyancy.\nA closer inspection beneath the overturned hull, now covered in barnacles, reveals a car engine connected to a broken propeller.\nThe boat caught the interest of Gordon Fallis, who saw it as he was walking his dogs along the beach.\n\"I didn't really know what it was to be honest, so I took a few photographs of it and when I got home I posted it on a Facebook page called Lost at Sea which tracks marine debris and cargo spills and things that get washed up on beaches,\" he said.\nHe was contacted by a man from Florida who recognised the design as being similar to Cuban refugee boats.\n\"He advised me to have a look at the bottles again to see where they came from so I came back down and looked at the labels and indeed they were from Cuba, exactly the same brand that he had predicted, so it seems that it is actually a boat that the refugees have used to try and get to America from Cuba,\" he said.\nSince 1995, under a policy known as \"wet foot, dry foot\", if Cubans are picked up at sea they are returned home or taken to a third country, but if they make it to American soil they get the opportunity to stay and become legal residents.\nBetween November 2015 and October 2016 the US Coast Guard apprehended 5,263 Cubans at sea.\nIt is thought that hundreds of thousands of Cubans attempted the journey before the policy was ended last month just before President Obama left office.\nAmerican photographer Bill Klipp has seen many similar boats that have been abandoned on small remote islands around the Florida Keys.\nHe is sure the boat washed up in Ireland is what is known as a Cuban \"chug\" - named after the sound of the crude motors as they make the slow journey across the sea.\n\"They're surely not moving very fast and I think it just comes from that notion that they're just barely making it, they're chugging as best as they can to get across the ocean,\" he said.\n\"Key West, where I live, is only 90 miles for Havana so it's a relatively short distance to landfall although the Florida Straits can be a pretty treacherous body of water to cross.\"\nWhile it is possible that the occupants of this vessel were picked up at sea and the boat was left to drift, Bill Klipp believes it is more likely that the weather and ocean currents took it off course.\n\"If that boat could tell its story it would tell a story of real despair and desperation, that's for sure,\" he said.\n\"Obviously the occupants didn't make it and that's kind of a sad story there but that's unfortunately a story that's happened too much over the last couple of decades.\"\nIt is the first time such a vessel has been recorded being washed up in Europe according to Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a retired oceanographer based in Seattle who tracks ocean debris.\nHe said it could take months or years for it to make the journey of more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic.\n\"The drift rate depends on how much the vessel is sticking out of the water and the rate could be a matter of six months or it could be a matter of years depending on whether the vessel drifted around some of the garbage patches in the Atlantic or made a straight journey across,\" he said.\nMr Ebbesmeyer said the vessels \"symbolise what price people are willing to pay to gain their freedom in the United States\".\n\"I would reflect on questions. Did the people make it? Are they in the United States? Did they die? Did they perish a terrible death out in the middle of the Atlantic?\"\n\"They're really worth moments of reflection as you walk by,\" he said.\nStanding on Cliffoney beach as the waves of the north Atlantic break beneath a grey sky, Gordon Fallis said he is glad he discovered more about the boat.\n\"It's just great to be able to contact people who are able to identify it for me otherwise I would have just walked on past it thinking \"that's a strange boat on the beach\" and that would have been the last I would have heard of it,\" he said.\nWhile the fate of those on board may never be known, the discovery has helped to bring the story of the Cuban refugees to people thousands of miles away.", "summary": "On a sandy beach on the west coast of Ireland lies the remains of a strange looking boat." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "This counter-intuitive contrast is all about the parties' own perceptions of their respective weaknesses - that the public finances would return in short order to chaos under Labour, and that the NHS would collapse under the Tories.\nThere is of course a risk in Labour's promise to be hairshirted in a fiscal sense, and the Tories' pledge to splash the cash in hospitals - that Labour will reinforce the anti-austerity vote of the SNP and the Greens, and that the Tories will sacrifice their fiscal credibility and drive waverers into the arms of Ed Miliband.\nBut what is perhaps slightly odd about both Labour and Tories is that neither side are having an argument today about which side is best to promote growth.\nLabour, if it wanted to, could make the case that although it is trying to be austere, it is less austere than the Tories - and that therefore the lesser spending cuts or lower tax increases that its fiscal rules require would be less of a brake on economic growth than Tory plans require.\nJust to remind you, the Tories are committed to achieving a surplus on the overall budget, including investment, and Labour's pledge is simply for a surplus on the current budget, excluding investment.\nSo if the Tories stuck to plans set out in the last budget, Labour could spend £39bn more per annum than the Tories in 2020 (more or less equivalent to the entire defence budget) and still meet the fiscal rules set out in its manifesto today.\nAnd a good number of economists would argue that Labour's approach would not only protect funding of important public services but would also reinforce the momentum of growth in the economy.\nSo why isn't Labour making that case?\nIt is for two reasons.\nFirst, they fear that most voters don't agree with economists that public spending delivers economic growth.\nAnd second, the Tory approach would accelerate the reduction of the national debt as a share of national income or GDP, and Labour does not want its commitment to reduce the national debt slower than the Tories up in lights - since they know that many voters are concerned about the doubling of the national debt to a record 80% of GDP since the Crash.\nThat said, this silence on growth cuts both ways.\nThere is also a credible argument to be made that Labour's determination to force private equity partners and hedge funds pay more tax will damage the growth prospects of the City of London - and therefore kill off what some see as a British golden goose.\nTo be clear, it is what the Treasury of Gordon Brown passionately believed a decade ago.\nBut a Tory Party that receives millions of pounds in donations from hedge funds and investment bankers presumably feels nervous about making the case that the tax privileges of its super-rich chums in the City should be protected - even if failure to do so leads to a successful British industry being driven offshore.", "summary": "There is something a bit surreal about a Labour manifesto whose first page is a promise to borrow and spend as little as possible, in contrast to the Tories' weekend claim that they would spend £8bn more on the health service but won't say how to finance that spending." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Thursday's doodle depicts the Mangalyaan probe, which has been studying the planet's atmosphere.\nOnly the US, Russia and Europe have previously sent missions to Mars.\nIndia has succeeded on its first attempt - an achievement that eluded even the Americans and the Soviets.\nMangalyaan - more formally referred to as Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) - was launched from the Sriharikota spaceport on the coast of the Bay of Bengal on 5 November 2013.\nLast month the satellite joined four other missions that are circling the planet: Maven (US), Mars Odyssey (US), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (US) and Mars Express (Europe).\nAt 4.5bn rupees ($74m; £45m), Mangalyaan is also one of the cheapest interplanetary space missions ever.\nGoogle doodles, which began in 1998, depict famous and lesser known notable people, events, anniversaries and tributes.\nGoogle has done a number of doodles on a variety of Indian subjects, including marking the country's Independence and Republic Days, the festivals of Holi and Diwali, the cricket World Cup and the birth anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.", "summary": "Google has marked the success of India's Mars mission in its famous daily doodle, exactly one month after a robotic probe went into orbit around the red planet." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "16 May 2017 Last updated at 11:48 BST\nAs well as the usual places to visit like art galleries and museums, there are also extra events being put on to bring more visitors to the area.\nSo what should you make sure you don't miss out on?\nKatie has been giving us a tour of the places in her city she loves most.", "summary": "This year the city of Hull, in East Yorkshire, has been given a special opportunity to show off what it has to offer." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Nicole Bailey, 23, picked up the cash at a branch of One Stop, in Blurton, Stoke-on-Trent, after it was dropped by a customer who withdrew it from a nearby cash point, police said.\nBailey pleaded guilty at North Staffordshire Justice Centre after seeing CCTV evidence.\nHer defence team reportedly argued the case should have been dealt with through a police caution.\nBailey, of Highfield Drive, Blurton, must also pay £20 compensation, a £20 victim surcharge and £135 in court costs.\nMore updates on this and other stories in Staffordshire\nThe theft occurred on 8 August last year.\nCh Insp Karen Stevenson, from Staffordshire Police, urged anyone who finds lost money to \"do the right thing\".\n\"Morally, the right thing to do is hand in any found property so that the person who has lost out has every opportunity to be reunited with it.\"\n\"This was someone's hard-earned money and we are committed to supporting all victims in our community.\"", "summary": "A woman who kept a £20 note she found in a shop has been convicted of theft." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 25-year-old Iceland international was substituted in the 2-0 win over Leicester and missed the 2-1 Capital Cup defeat at Liverpool.\nManager Garry Monk praised the player who has scored once and has seven assists in eight Premier League appearance this season.\n\"He's been brilliant, his contribution is there for everyone to see,\" he said.\nSigurdsson was signed from Tottenham in the summer having previously played 18 times for the Swans on loan from German side Hoffenheim in 2012.\nHe has been a key player in Swansea's rise to sixth place in the Premier League, and had a hand in both goals against Leicester.\nHe suffered a groin injury in that match, with the Swans hoping his early substitution will help him make the starting line-up at Goodison Park on Saturday.\n\"Gylfi's done very well for us,\" added Monk.\n\"He's come in and started very well from the first game - like all the squad.\n\"I think they're growing in confidence and hopefully they can only get better. I think he can only get better.\"\nSwansea are also hopeful that South Korea international Ki Sung-Yueng will shrug off the shoulder injury he suffered at Anfield.\nMonk concedes that Everton will be a stern test after making a poor start to the season.\nThe Toffees - under former Swans boss Roberto Martinez - picked up only one point from their opening three matches in the Premier League, but have won their last two outings against Aston Villa and Burnley, scoring six goals in the process.\nAnd that recovery does not surprise Monk,\n\"I know they had a difficult start adjusting to playing in Europe, having to cope with the demands of that like we did last season and I think they were adjusting to that really,\" said Monk.\n\"The bottom line is they've got a very good squad, people they've bought for a lot of money and those people are showing what they can do right now, so we have to be right on our game.\"", "summary": "Swansea City are hoping midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson will be fit to face Everton in the Premier League." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 32-year-old knelt down to spar with two-year-old Harry Phillips, at the UK team trials at the University of Bath sports training village.\nThe prince, who founded the games, joined servicemen and women competing for a place in Toronto in September.\nIn total, 306 athletes have applied for the 2017 games.\nThe injured military personnel and veterans at the trials hope to be selected as part of the 90-strong UK team that will head to Canada.\nDan Phillips, 35, from Seaford near Brighton, brought son Harry to cheer him on as he tried out for a place in the shot put, discus and archery events.\n\"He was more talking to the little man,\" said Mr Phillips, who was medically discharged from his role as a corporal due to a spinal cord injury.\n\"I wanted to introduce Harry to Harry. Big Harry was teaching little Harry to box.\n\"I was absolutely chuffed to bits. We call him our Prince Harry so getting the chance to meet the real thing is amazing.\n\"He certainly loved it. Prince Harry told us 'he has to come to the games' so fingers crossed.\"\nWhen asked who won the boxing, two-year-old Harry replied: \"Me.\"\nOf the 306 hopefuls who have applied to take part in the 2017 games, 212 have not taken part before.\nOver three days, they will contest in athletics, archery, wheelchair basketball, road cycling, powerlifting, indoor rowing, wheelchair rugby, swimming, sitting volleyball and wheelchair tennis.\nThe prince, wearing an I AM badge for the games, cheered on those aiming for a place on the teams during a short speech at the university.\n\"Thank you so much for putting in the effort up until this point,\" he told them.\n\"This is the Invictus family so make the most of it and enjoy it.\"\nPrince Harry also visited the Rugby Football Union Injured Players Foundation and watched demonstrations of research aimed at preventing injuries in the sport.\nFormer professional player Matt Attwood, 33, was clad only in a pair of underpants and a hat - along with 50 sensors - when he met Prince Harry to discuss the work.\nMajor Bruce Ekman, 37, who serves with 16 Air Assault Brigade in Colchester, Essex, also spoke to Prince Harry.\n\"He is so personal - he talks to someone about what he has seen on their Twitter page,\" Major Ekman said.\n\"He is a prince for everyone, he is so approachable. All of us serving or ex-military - everyone holds him in such high esteem.\"\nMajor Ekman suffered a shattered ankle and heel in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Afghanistan in 2011.", "summary": "Prince Harry was challenged to an impromptu boxing session with a toddler as he visited athletes vying for a place at this year's Invictus Games." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Roger Hirst is to become the UK's first combined police and fire commissioner in October.\nHe proposed the step to the Home Office following a public consultation and endorsement from all three local authorities in the county.\nThe government hopes the changes will result in better collaboration between the police and fire service.\nPolice and crime commissioners in other areas have said they were considering the idea of taking responsibility for their local fire services.\nThe Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said the plans were \"dangerous\" , when first proposed by government in 2015.\nPolicing and Fire Service Minister Nick Hurd met Mr Hirst on Tuesday and said: \"I want to see our emergency services continue to drive closer collaboration to encourage joint working, the sharing of best practice and more innovative thinking.\n\"Having a directly accountable leader overseeing policing and fire will help both services enhance their effectiveness, maximise available resources, boost local resilience and improve the services delivered to the public.\"\nThe move will include the sharing of administrative functions and premises, though no details were given about any job losses in the services.\nMr Hirst will not be getting an increased salary for his new role.\nHe said: \"By ensuring a more joined-up response to incidents, providing crime and fire prevention advice, creating community safety hubs, and sharing buildings we can improve how we work and generate significant savings which can then be reinvested back into front line services.\"", "summary": "Essex's police and crime commissioner is to take on responsibility for the county's fire and rescue service too." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The visitors opened the scoring in the first half with Jason Cummings producing a fine finish from 12 yards.\nMorton's equaliser came from the spot, Shankland netting after Jamie McDonagh was brought down by Darren McGregor.\nHibs can wrap up the title next week with a win at home to Queen of the South but they would also require Falkirk and Morton to drop points.\nWhen these two sides met 10 days ago the match ended in drama with the managers of both sides coming close to blows in a pitch-side tussle. There was no animosity between Jim Duffy and Neil Lennon today, though, with the pair shaking hands and hugging when they met before kick-off.\nA crowd of 4229 fans turned up for this one and the 2000 travelling supporters were treated to a bright start by their side. John McGinn had a glorious chance to open the scoring after latching on to a knockdown by Brian Graham, but he scuffed his shot just wide.\nScotland international McGinn then warmed the palms of Morton keeper Derek Gaston with a shot from 25 yards.\nHibernian keeper Ofir Marciano did well to parry away an Aidan Nesbitt cross and within seconds the visitors took the lead.\nCummings found space on the angle inside the Morton penalty box and as the home defence stood off the striker he curled a left foot shot into the bottom corner.\nMorton midfielder Jamie Lindsay was standing at the side of the pitch waiting to come on after receiving treatment as the goal went in. The home players were outraged but referee Bobby Madden was having none of it.\nGraham was leading the line well for Hibernian and was only inches away with a header from a Dylan McGeouch cross.\nMorton boss Duffy made a crucial switch when he introduced McDonagh for Michael Tidser. Within seconds of coming on McDonagh drove into the box and was brought down by McGregor for a spot-kick.\nShankland sent Marciano the wrong way for a deserved equaliser for the Greenock side.\nHibernian then had a golden opportunity to regain the lead when Graham was sent clean through on goal by McGinn but the striker delayed his effort and Gaston saved with ease.\nBoth teams tried to find a way through in the closing stages with Shankland going close with a 30 yarder that drifted just over.\nMatch ends, Morton 1, Hibernian 1.\nSecond Half ends, Morton 1, Hibernian 1.\nAttempt missed. Lawrence Shankland (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.\nAttempt blocked. Jamie McDonagh (Morton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\nAttempt blocked. Jamie McDonagh (Morton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\nCorner, Morton. Conceded by Andrew Shinnie.\nThomas O'Ware (Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Grant Holt (Hibernian).\nSubstitution, Hibernian. Andrew Shinnie replaces Dylan McGeouch.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDavid Gray (Hibernian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nJamie McDonagh (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by David Gray (Hibernian).\nAttempt missed. Marvin Bartley (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.\nSubstitution, Hibernian. Alex Harris replaces Martin Boyle.\nSubstitution, Hibernian. Grant Holt replaces Brian Graham.\nAttempt blocked. John McGinn (Hibernian) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nFoul by Lawrence Shankland (Morton).\nMarvin Bartley (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nAndy Murdoch (Morton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Andy Murdoch (Morton).\nJohn McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nLawrence Shankland (Morton) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Lewis Stevenson (Hibernian).\nGoal! Morton 1, Hibernian 1. Lawrence Shankland (Morton) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\nPenalty Morton. Jamie McDonagh draws a foul in the penalty area.\nPenalty conceded by Darren McGregor (Hibernian) after a foul in the penalty area.\nSubstitution, Morton. Jamie McDonagh replaces Michael Tidser.\nRoss Forbes (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Dylan McGeouch (Hibernian).\nCorner, Hibernian. Conceded by Jamie Lindsay.\nAttempt saved. Ross Forbes (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\nAndy Murdoch (Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by John McGinn (Hibernian).\nFoul by Michael Tidser (Morton).\nMartin Boyle (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nMichael Doyle (Morton) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by John McGinn (Hibernian).\nLawrence Shankland (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Efe Ambrose (Hibernian).", "summary": "Lawrence Shankland scored a second-half penalty to earn Morton a draw with Hibernian." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Prof Jo Shaw, the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions at Edinburgh University Law School, said some form of confrontation between the UK and Scottish governments over the proposal was inevitable.\nThe bill, announced by Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday, will repeal the European Communities Act and enshrine all existing EU law into British law.\nIt would ensure that there would not be any gaps in legislation once the UK left the EU.\nBut Scotland's Brexit minister Mike Russell has warned the Scottish Parliament might seek to block it if Scotland's interests were not represented in negotiations.\nUnder the \"Sewel convention\" the UK Parliament will not normally legislate for devolved matters without the consent of the devolved legislature affected.\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Prof Shaw said there were two strands to the issue: legality and legitimacy.\n\"The legal reality, as I'm quite sure Mike Russell knows, is that the UK Parliament remains sovereign within the British system as it exists.\n\"So consequently a piece of subsequent legislation from Westminster which overrode or repealed or changed part of the Scottish devolution legislation would of course take priority,\" she said.\n\"Legally I have to say I think the UK government holds most of the cards. In legitimacy terms, one could point to the Scottish government having a pretty good hand to play.\"\nProf Shaw said she was sure politicians on both sides of the border were \"perfectly aware\" the bill would be \"very, very confrontational\".\n\"It isn't a particularly consent-based approach, it isn't a particularly collaborative approach,\" she told the BBC.\n\"We've seen statements about collaboration that Mrs May made right at the beginning of her premiership have largely gone away now. She's said things like, 'well, Scotland can have its say but ultimately we drive the process here in London.'\"\nBut she said the fact that the UK Parliament could \"railroad\" legislation through demonstrated the \"limits of devolution\".\nA principle of Westminster parliamentary sovereignty is that no parliament can bind its successors.\n\"There may have been one parliament that enshrined the legislative consent motion into the Scotland Act 2016.\n\"The next parliament can then enact this measure that we're talking about today and the effect of that could be to impliedly repeal parts of the devolution settlement.\"", "summary": "The UK government's plans for a Brexit \"Great Repeal Bill\" are likely to end in a \"constitutional bust-up\", a legal expert has predicted." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sarah Khatri was targeted by two men after parking outside St Columba Church in Chantry Road, Moseley, Birmingham at about 09:45 GMT on 27 March.\nThe men tried to pull her out of the car before she was threatened with the blade and her Kia was stolen, police said.\nWest Midlands Police said an investigation has been launched.\nSee more stories from across Birmingham and the Black Country here\nIt is the lastest attack following a spate of car-jackings in the city.\nMrs Khatri said: \"I had got the engine running because it was quite chilly outside and then I noticed a shadow blocking out the light next to my side of the car.\n\"Next thing I know, I felt a jolt on the car and then I felt somebody opening the door.\"\nWhile one of the attackers attempted to get in via the driver's door, a second man sat in the passenger seat.\nMrs Khatri, 37, initially fought back and managed to scream for help, until one of the men brandished a knife.\nShe said: \"All I remember is him bringing it to my neck in slow mention, he looked me in my eye and just went 'get out the car'.\n\"I just thought enough, it's not worth it.\"\nA West Midlands Police spokesman said: \"Officers were at the scene within minutes and we continue to make enquiries into the theft.\"", "summary": "A woman had a knife held to her neck and her car stolen in a violent car-jacking." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The man, who has not been named, was taken to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary after the crash at Great Knoutberry Hill, near Dent, on Saturday afternoon.\nA passenger in the aircraft was also treated for injuries said not to be life threatening.\nCumbria Police said the crash had been referred to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.\nAt 2,205ft (672m), Great Knoutberry Hill, also known as Widdale Fell, straddles the border between Cumbria and Yorkshire.", "summary": "A gyrocopter pilot was airlifted to hospital after his aircraft crashed on the summit of a Lake District mountain." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "King's death was also attributed to coronary artery disease, diabetes, heart failure, high blood pressure and brain damage from low blood flow.\nTwo of his daughters had alleged King was poisoned by long-time associates.\n\"We can say with confidence that Mr King died of natural causes,\" said Clark County coroner, John Fudenberg.\nKing died on 14 May at the age of 89.\nCoroners said they determined King's cause of death after conducting an autopsy, toxicology tests and consulting a neuropathologist.\nThey also found that, while King had suffered strokes, they did not kill him.\nThe star's daughters, Karen Williams and Patty King, alleged in May that he had been given \"foreign substances to induce his premature death\" by his business manager Laverne Toney and his personal assistant, Myron Johnson.\nThe women added that \"King was sequestered from all family members\" in the week before his death, and that Toney and Johnson were the only people with him.\nBut the coroner found no evidence to prove the allegation of poisoning.\n\"Ms Toney and Mr Johnson are very happy that these false and fictional allegations that were made against them by certain of Mr King's children have been dispelled,\" said Brent Bryson, a lawyer for King's estate.\n\"Hopefully we can now focus on the body of musical work that BB King left the world, and he can finally rest in peace.\"\nThe coroner added: \"Our condolences go out to the family and many friends of Mr King, and we hope this determination brings them some measure of closure.\"\nKing was born on 16 September 1925 to sharecroppers and worked in the cotton fields as a child before picking up the guitar.\nConsidered one of the world's greatest players, he was known for his sharp single notes and vibrato on the electric guitar he christened Lucille.\nWith hit songs such as The Thrill Is Gone, Three O'Clock Blues and Darlin' You Know I Love You, he influenced generations of guitar players. The musician was later inducted to both the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.\nHe was married twice and had 15 natural and adopted children, 11 of whom are still alive.", "summary": "Blues legend BB King died of natural causes primarily stemming from Alzheimer's disease, the Las Vegas coroner's office has confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe outgoing chairman believes its role could be taken on by Britain's Olympic and Paralympic organisations.\nA similar system, where sport governing bodies handle funding, is in place in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands.\n\"You might be able to get rid of loads of overheads,\" Warner said.\nHis comments came on the day 11 unfunded sports issued a joint manifesto calling on UK Sport to reform the way it distributes cash.\nQuite simply there is not enough to go around\nThe body was set up in 1997 to allocate National Lottery money to sports and since its inception Great Britain has become a medal powerhouse at Olympic and Paralympic Games - the nation came second in the medal table at both events in Rio last year.\nHowever, the organisation has come under scrutiny in recent months following a series of allegations of bullying cultures within some sporting organisations.\nThat is because its funding model is based on medal success, leading to claims it has effectively fuelled a 'win at all costs' mentality in some sports to the detriment of others.\nFor example, an independent inquiry into British Cycling published earlier this month found there was a \"culture of fear\" in the organisation - an organisation that has delivered scores of medals since 2000 and been feted as one of British sport's greatest success stories.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"If you put everything on the table, why don't you tear up UK Sport and embrace the British Olympic Association and the British Paralympic Association as the deliverers of the high-performance funding?\" Warner said.\n\"Why would it need to exist if you had a BOA and BPA that were structured in the right way? You might be able to get rid of loads of overheads.\"\nDame Katherine Grainger, the former Olympic rower who is the new chair of UK Sport, this week told BBC Sport she shared concerns over athlete welfare and was \"not surprised\" the 11 sports had called for a review.\nShe said there would be a review of how money is allocated, but added: \"As more sports are more successful, the irony is that the money can't go as far.\n\"If there is anything that can be cut, but not at the expense of success, then it will be.\"\nSome sports issued support for UK Sport and Grainger in the wake of the reform call. A British Equestrian Federation spokesperson pointed out UK Sport was facing reduced National Lottery income as well as increased medal success, adding: \"Quite simply there is not enough to go round.\n\"Any further fragmentation of funding would diminish medal prospects and unsettle athletes when sports are already almost a quarter of the way through the Tokyo funding cycle. We welcome Dame Katherine Grainger's current resolve not to put a winning formula at risk.\"\nSports minister Tracey Crouch said \"there is absolutely no plan to abolish UK Sport\", pointing out it had \"helped deliver unprecedented Olympic and Paralympic success over the last decade\".", "summary": "The country's sporting bodies could receive more money if funding organisation UK Sport was abolished, UK Athletics boss Ed Warner says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Aberdeenshire is the latest area to be hit by serious flooding.\nThe UK government has said Scotland will get a share of a £50m relief package, but ministers have yet to announce details of help for victims.\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would announce plans for support on a visit to the area on Saturday.\nThe Scottish Conservatives called for an emergency parliamentary statement on how relief money would be spent, although the SNP rebutted that the Treasury was yet to confirm how much extra funding was to be allocated to Scotland.\nThe Tories also pressed the first minister on the matter during her weekly question session on Thursday, with Ms Sturgeon describing the flooding as an \"ongoing issue\".\nMs Sturgeon posted a message online saying she would announce details of Scottish government support for those affected by the flooding during a visit to the North East on Saturday.\nShe has also chaired a meeting of the Scottish government's resilience committee to discuss the matter.\nFloods have affected areas right across Scotland, with Aberdeenshire, Tayside and the south all badly affected. It is estimated the recent storms could have cost the Scottish economy £700m so far.\nThe first minister said: \"The unprecedented weather we have seen across Eastern Scotland has had a devastating impact on many people in our communities - with families forced to leave their homes and businesses fighting to protect their premises.\n\"Again I am impressed by the efforts of the emergency responders who are working round the clock to protect our communities.\n\"The Scottish government is committed to supporting this effort and I plan to outline further assistance tomorrow when I meet those affected.\"\nLiberal Democrat MSP Alison McInnes, who lives in flood-hit Ellon, said Scottish ministers were \"glued to their seats\" over the issue.\nShe said: \"Towns, villages and even Aberdeen have been cut off from one another and from the wider country. Many roads are impassable, trains are not running, schools are closed and power is out.\n\"After the Scottish government's resilience meeting last night, the deputy first minister said the committee was monitoring the situation very closely. But people here do not need ministers who are glued to their seats.\n\"This is an ever-changing emergency situation that requires urgent attention right now and people here are wondering when the Scottish government is going to sit up and take notice.\"\nAlison Evison, Labour group leader on Aberdeenshire Council, said the situation for families in the area was \"desperate\".\nShe said: \"The government need to take action swiftly to help communities and to help all affected businesses and infrastructure across flooded areas.\n\"It's also clear that given the scale of flooding across Scotland we need a review to ensure resilience of our flooding infrastructure, so we can better protect homes, businesses and communities in the future.\"\nDuring parliamentary questions on the matter, Ms Sturgeon rejected Labour calls for a review of flood defences, saying work was in the pipeline and it was better to get on with it than hold a further review.\nThe Scottish Conservatives have lodged a request with the Scottish Parliament for a full ministerial statement from cabinet secretary Richard Lochhead on how the government plans to fund flood relief efforts.\nMSP Alex Fergusson said: \"The floods are having a devastating effect on families, individuals and businesses across Scotland and it's been a really miserable time for those who have been affected.\n\"While they continue to wonder what help might be available from the Scottish government, my constituents are looking at all the help that people similarly affected south of the border are receiving from the UK government, and are wondering why the Scottish government aren't doing the same.\n\"Enough of the bluff and bluster, ministers really need to be explaining what's going on. They are in charge and they have a responsibility to act.\"\nThe SNP hit back at the Tories, saying the UK Treasury was yet to confirm how much additional funding was to be allocated to Scotland and accusing the Westminster government of \"dragging their feet\".", "summary": "Opposition parties have accused Scottish ministers of being \"glued to their seats\" in their response to the floods affecting parts of the country." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Owens, 21, scored nine tries in 18 games for the Vikings last season but was allowed to depart by head coach Denis Betts.\nHe crossed for 30 scores in 87 games during five years as a professional at Widnes, and is also a kicker with 122 goals to his name.\n\"Jack is an experienced player,\" Saints coach Keiron Cunningham said.\n\"He plays in a number of positions and will add depth to our squad for 2016.\n\"He has a good attitude and is keen to learn and develop.\"", "summary": "St Helens have signed winger Jack Owens on a two-year-deal following his release by Super League rivals Widnes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nJames Tavernier scored the only goal to beat Dumbarton at Ibrox on Tuesday and seal promotion from the Championship.\n\"We've got to be challenging for the title,\" said Halliday. \"That's not me being arrogant or disrespectful to Celtic at all.\n\"You can't be at a club like this and be happy with second.\"\nTuesday's victory took Rangers to an uncatchable 79 points with four matches left and completed a four-year journey from the bottom division to the Scottish top flight.\nWith the club mired in debt, Rangers entered administration and then liquidation in 2012 under the ownership of Craig Whyte - who has since faced criminal charges over his stewardship at Ibrox - and had to re-enter the Scottish football pyramid in the fourth tier.\n\"It is an incredible achievement,\" added Halliday, 24. \"Obviously it was our main goal since the start of the season.\n\"We feel we have been top of the season since day one of pre-season and have only been going one way - and that is forward.\n\"Now it's full steam ahead to the end of the season because we still have a lot of big games and then in to the Premiership, back where we belong.\n\"We are getting better and better.\"\nRangers manager Mark Warburton, who has seen his team lose just three league games all season, wants to finish the campaign in style with further silverware up for grabs.\n\"It is the first step and the worst thing we can do is stop moving forward,\" said Warburton, who became the first Englishman to manage the club when he succeeded Stuart McCall in June last year.\n\"We want to hit 91 points. We want to win the league in style, convincingly and get momentum for next season.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThe Light Blues will now prepare for life in the Premiership although first they have next week's Challenge Cup final against Peterhead at Hampden, followed by a Scottish Cup semi-final against Celtic at the national stadium, before they finish their league season.\n\"Enjoy the good times, we have a big game on Sunday - a packed Hampden with 95% Rangers fans - hopefully we will perform well and win the trophy and play well the following week,\" added Warburton.\n\"We didn't want to limp over the line, rely on someone else losing a game.\n\"The pressure is always there at Rangers and if we drop our standards we will get hurt.\"\nHibernian head coach Alan Stubbs, whose side had drawn level with Warburton's men at the Championship summit before losing 4-2 at Ibrox in late December, congratulated the league winners.\n\"Congratulations to Rangers,\" he told BBC Scotland after his team defeated Livingston 2-1. \"They have been the most consistent team over the season.\"", "summary": "Rangers midfielder Andy Halliday has urged his title-winning team-mates to push Glasgow rivals Celtic for the Scottish Premiership crown next season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "McIlroy, 26, took the lead for the first time at the 15th only for American Na to draw level at the next.\nThe pair could not be separated until Na, 32, found rough with his drive at the second extra hole and made bogey.\nWorld number two Jason Day progressed too after his opponent, Paul Casey of England, withdrew with stomach pains.\nFormer Ryder Cup player Casey - who could not qualify from his group - won the first two holes of their match on Friday in Austin, and was two holes up until losing the fifth and sixth with bogeys, before withdrawing.\nThe quick victory was a welcome one for the Australian, who struggled with back spasms during his opening match on Wednesday against Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell.\nUS PGA champion Day will now face American Brandt Snedeker while McIlroy will play reigning Open champion Zach Johnson, who saw off Shane Lowry of Ireland 4&3.\nJordan Spieth eased past Justin Thomas to maintain his perfect record in the group and he will tackle former Open champion Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa.\nMatt Kuchar of America was never down against England's Justin Rose and claimed a 3&2 victory to win group seven and set up a match with his compatriot Brooks Koepka.\nPatrick Reed dismissed compatriot Phil Mickelson 5&4, having been seven up after 10 holes, and will now take on Dustin Johnson in arguably the tie of the round.\nSergio Garcia bowed out despite beating Marc Leishman 5&4 - as a result of Ryan Moore's 3&1 triumph over Lee Westwood - but fellow Spaniard Rafa Cabrera Bello is through and faces Byeong-Hun An.\nScotland's Russell Knox lost 5&4 to Branden Grace of South Africa but it was Chris Kirk who progressed from group 11 as the American beat David Lingmerth 3&2.\nSixteen players progress to Saturday's knockout phase from the 64-strong field that was divided up into four-man groups for a round-robin format that began on Wednesday.\nThe quarter-finals follow the last-16 ties on Saturday, with the semi-finals on Sunday followed by the Championship match.", "summary": "Defending champion Rory McIlroy needed a play-off before beating Kevin Na by one hole to reach the knockout stage of the WGC-Dell Match Play in Texas." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The first call, shortly before 11:00, was to assist an 8.3m yacht which had run aground near Glenmoriston.\nBefore returning to base, they were called to Temple Pier to help with a motor cruiser which had a rope caught in its propeller.\nShortly after returning to base at 14:45, the lifeboat was called out to a yacht drifting near Urquhart Castle.\nA statement from the RNLI Loch Ness lifeboat station said: \"A memorable day for the volunteers at Loch Ness boathouse in a year that is shaping up to be their busiest yet.\"\nA lifeboat on Loch Ness was first introduced in 2008.", "summary": "Loch Ness RNLI have attended three separate incidents on their busiest day ever." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Some staff at Worcestershire County Council saw their pay £500 short, a meeting of the full council heard on Thursday.\nThe authority brought in the new Mercury payroll system in April, which covers 16,000 employees. It said a review would take place.\nLiberata, the firm that delivers the service, has \"sincerely apologised\".\nSee more stories from across Herefordshire and Worcestershire here\nThe council said the new systems would be \"more efficient\" and help it move away from traditional paper-based processes.\nIt said of the 22,005 payments that were made at the end of April payroll, 147 individuals reported underpayments to Liberata on the first live payment run of the new Mercury system.\nAll of the errors were addressed and underpayments notified and issued by Liberata within 48 hours, the authority said.\nA spokesperson for Liberata said: \"We would like to sincerely apologise to all staff affected by these errors and have been working extensively with schools and Worcestershire County Council to make sure all staff have been supported and given the help they need, as well as to ensure that these errors do not re-occur in the next pay run.\"\nThe council added: \"As with any change of this scale there have been some issues.\n\"With our partner Liberata, who we chose to deliver the new system because of their experience in this field, we are working through these issues and resolving them as quickly as we can.\"", "summary": "Almost 150 council staff and other businesses were underpaid following the introduction of a new payroll system." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The hosts took the lead when Aimen Belaid slammed home from close range.\nDanny Ward's shot deflected off Richard Wood before going in and Dan Burn then turned the ball into his own net.\nYanic Wildschut pulled one back with a shot from the edge of the area before Jordi Gomez struck from 20 yards to make it 3-2, but the Millers held on.\nThe visitors produced a stirring performance after the break but three first-half goals were enough to leave them with a fifth consecutive defeat.\nBelaid put the hosts in front early on, firing in from inside the box, and they were 2-0 up after 32 minutes when Ward's shot was diverted past Jussi Jaaskelainen by Wood.\nTom Adeyemi then hit the bar with a 25-yard effort, before the Millers claimed a third when Ward's shot was saved by Jaaskelainen before bouncing into the net off Latics defender Burn.\nWigan were a different side after the break but, despite Wildschut and Gomez reducing the deficit to a single goal, they were left empty handed after Will Grigg had a goal disallowed in added time for deliberate handball.\nRotherham caretaker manager Paul Warne: \"I was a nervous wreck.\n\"When the first one went in I started to worry because momentum is a massive thing in sport. I thought, 'Here we go'.\n\"I felt a bit helpless. They kept coming at us, but I am proud of the lads, they give everything, they put their bodies on the line.\n\"I never expected it to be easy, no game is. Did I enjoy the second half? No. Am I happy with the win? Yes.\"\nWigan boss Warren Joyce: \"To go 3-0 down you have got a mountain to climb, we have had a rally in the second half.\n\"You can't give any team a goal start, never mind a three-goal start. The second half was a lot better. But you can't give a team that lead.\n\"It's not like we have been carved apart in the first half, it was poor individual errors really. It was as simple as that.\"\nMatch ends, Rotherham United 3, Wigan Athletic 2.\nSecond Half ends, Rotherham United 3, Wigan Athletic 2.\nStephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Peter Odemwingie (Rotherham United).\nCorner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Max Power.\nAttempt blocked. Danny Ward (Rotherham United) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked.\nAttempt saved. Danny Ward (Rotherham United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Anthony Forde.\nMichael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\nHand ball by Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic).\nCorner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Peter Odemwingie.\nAttempt blocked. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Richard Wood (Rotherham United) because of an injury.\nYanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Richard Wood (Rotherham United).\nJake Buxton (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Danny Ward (Rotherham United).\nAttempt blocked. Jake Buxton (Wigan Athletic) header from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Jordi Gómez with a cross.\nCorner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Anthony Forde.\nMax Power (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United).\nSubstitution, Rotherham United. Will Vaulks replaces Joe Newell.\nOffside, Wigan Athletic. Stephen Warnock tries a through ball, but William Grigg is caught offside.\nCorner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Richard Wood.\nCorner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Lee Frecklington.\nSubstitution, Wigan Athletic. Nathan Byrne replaces Andy Kellett because of an injury.\nGoal! Rotherham United 3, Wigan Athletic 2. Jordi Gómez (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andy Kellett.\nOffside, Rotherham United. Joe Mattock tries a through ball, but Danny Ward is caught offside.\nCorner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Dan Burn.\nOffside, Wigan Athletic. Jake Buxton tries a through ball, but William Grigg is caught offside.\nFoul by Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic).\nDarnell Fisher (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nYanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United).\nAttempt saved. Joe Newell (Rotherham United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Danny Ward with a headed pass.\nSubstitution, Rotherham United. Peter Odemwingie replaces Isaiah Brown.\nAttempt missed. Adam Le Fondre (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from long range on the right is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Andy Kellett.\nCorner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Joe Mattock.\nAttempt missed. Adam Le Fondre (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Stephen Warnock with a cross.\nAttempt blocked. Andy Kellett (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Le Fondre.", "summary": "Rotherham survived a second-half comeback by Wigan to close the gap on their nearest rivals at the bottom of the Championship to five points." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The government's \"devolution revolution\" to councils includes housing, transport and planning.\nThe Communities and Local Government Committee welcomed the policy but said there was a \"significant lack of public consultation\" in the process.\nCouncils said they recognised the \"need for greater public engagement\".\nGreater Manchester has been at the forefront of the government's move to devolve powers and spending controls to local government through a series of \"deals\" with each area.\nChancellor George Osborne has hailed Manchester's deal as creating a \"Northern Powerhouse\", and similar agreements have been struck with other regions in England, which have to adopt ministers' preferred model of an elected mayor in return.\nThe committee said it strongly supported the principle of devolution, saying the current deals \"should be the starting point, not the destination\".\nBut the MPs, who held a public evidence session in Greater Manchester as part of their inquiry, also said many people had complained about a lack of consultation.\n\"The vast majority of contributions, often made in angry tones, arose from the perceived lack of efforts by the combined authority to engage the public about the deal relating to their local area,\" the committee said.\n\"For devolution to take root and fulfil its aims, it needs to involve and engage the people it is designed to benefit. There has been a consistent very significant lack of public consultation, engagement and communication at all stages of the deal-making process.\"\nCouncil leaders from other parts of the country told the committee the public had not been consulted before their deals were agreed.\nIt is particularly important to engage the public where health powers are being devolved, the MPs said, because \"the public's response is likely to be more emotional\".\nThe committee said the government had driven the first wave of devolution deals through \"at rapid pace\", which meant \"no opportunity for engagement with residents\", but said council leaders should still have communicated the deal to residents and told them how they would be affected.\nThe Department for Communities and Local Government said it welcomed the committee's support for its \"devolution revolution\" and said there was \"no one-size-fits-all approach\" for different areas.\nLocal Government Association chairman Lord Porter said: \"While it is right that devolution deals are not imposed, but negotiated and secured by local places, we recognise the need for greater public engagement throughout the deal-making process and are working with councils to support them in this.\"", "summary": "Councils in England must do a better job of telling residents about new powers they are being given by Whitehall, MPs have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Webb made his comeback from an ankle injury in the Swansea region's 26-21 win over Newcastle.\nThe 28-year-old is expected to be released from Wales' Six Nations squad to continue his return to fitness.\n\"There's a strong possibility and we'd be more than comfortable in giving him as much game time as he needs,\" said attack coach Gruff Rees.\n\"He certainly wouldn't train properly until Thursday or Friday, but that's no issue with someone like Rhys.\n\"He lead the side last week, he knows a lot of our tactical messages and he'll drive probably an even younger group this week.\"\nWebb is one of 11 Ospreys players in Wales' squad which met up on Monday.\nHe has played only an hour since undergoing ankle surgery following Wales' 32-8 defeat by Australia on 5 November.", "summary": "Ospreys hope to have Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb available for their Anglo-Welsh Cup match against Bristol." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is 100 years since the two - and a third child - reported seeing the Virgin Mary while tending sheep. The third is also on the way to sainthood.\nPortugal has boosted security and reimposed border controls, suspending the Schengen open borders pact. More than a million pilgrims are expected.\nThe three revered children are dead.\nThe Roman Catholic Church attaches great value to their visions, as Mary is believed to have revealed truths to help mankind. The Church says the first vision came on 13 May, 1917.\nIn a video message to the people of Portugal, the Pope said he was going to present himself to Mary \"and I need to feel you close, physically and spiritually, so that we are one heart and one mind\".\nJacinta and Francisco Marto are to be canonised on Saturday. They died in the 1918-1919 European influenza pandemic.\nThe so-called three secrets of Fatima were written down by the third child - their cousin Lucia dos Santos - who died in 2005, aged 97. The beatification process for her began in 2008.\nThey are prophecies written down by Lucia, years after the apparitions that the three said they had witnessed. She spent her adult life as a nun at a convent in Coimbra.\nThe first two secrets in Lucia's account were revealed in 1942.\nAccording to Pope Francis's predecessor, Benedict XVI, the visions described in the three secrets are \"meant to mobilise the forces of change in the right direction\".\nThey are not like the Bible - a text he describes as a \"public revelation\", which ended \"with the fulfilment of the mystery of Christ as enunciated in the New Testament\".\nThe Fatima visions are \"private revelations\", he writes. Their purpose is \"to help live more fully\" in accordance with Christ's teaching.\nThe late Pope John Paul II was shot by a Turkish gunman on 13 May 1981.\nHe believed that his survival was due to Mary's divine intervention, and that the third secret had predicted the attack on him.\nJohn Paul donated the bullet to Fatima, and it was inserted into the crown adorning a statue of Mary there.\nHe follows John Paul II and Benedict XVI, who also made pilgrimages to the Fatima Sanctuary. He is to arrive on Friday afternoon, for a 24-hour visit.\nThere will be a torch-lit procession on Friday evening and a Mass on Saturday.\nPortugal is deploying 6,000 police and emergency workers at the site daily. Concrete blocks have been placed on approach roads, to stop any terrorist \"ramming\" attack with a vehicle.\nOnly nine border crossings are open, with systematic checks, as Portugal has suspended Schengen.\nA Portuguese man called Carlos Gil is known as \"rent-a-pilgrim\", AFP news agency reports. He charges €2,500 (£2,110; $2,717) to walk to Fatima and worship there on behalf of a Catholic who cannot make the trip.\nLocal accommodation is far more expensive than usual, as hotels and residents cash in on the papal visit.", "summary": "Pope Francis is embarking on a high-profile pilgrimage to Fatima in central Portugal, a shrine where he plans to make two shepherd children saints." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 30-year-old Russian's 15-month ban for using meldonium ends on Wednesday when she plays in the first round.\n\"You have to look at how other leagues and tours have handled players who have come back,\" Simon told BBC Sport.\n\"They come right back to the team and start playing.\"\nItaly's Roberta Vinci - Sharapova's opponent in her comeback match on Wednesday - disagrees with the decision to invite the five-time Grand Slam champion into the main draw.\nWorld number eight Agnieszka Radwanska, who Sharapova might have met in the second round had she not lost to Ekaterina Makarova, and former world number one Caroline Wozniacki have also questioned her presence at the tournament.\nIn addition to Stuttgart, Sharapova has been granted wildcards by the organisers of the events in Madrid and Rome.\nShe does not have a world ranking after her points expired during her suspension and would need to reach the final in Stuttgart to be eligible for French Open qualifying.\nThe Daily Telegraph report that Sharapova is likely to be given a wildcard into qualifying at Roland Garros rather than the tournament's main draw.\n\"She is starting at ground zero,\" Simon added.\n\"It is going to affect her seedings in big tournaments so she's still going to pay a penalty for a while.\n\"If you think about it from other leagues, most of them [bans] are half of a season or a full season. She's had a year and a half.\"\nFormer world number one Kim Clijsters echoed that view, saying that Sharapova \"has done her time and her punishment\".\n\"I was disappointed and surprised when the news came out but, having been on both sides of the spectrum as a tournament director and as a player, I don't think she needs to be punished more,\" the Belgian told BBC Sport.\nWorld number five Simona Halep said: \"I cannot support what the tournament director did, but also I cannot judge: it is his decision.\n\"In my opinion, for kids and young players, it's not OK to help with wildcards the players who were banned for doping.\"\nBBC Sport tennis correspondent Russell Fuller\nSharapova will need to set the alarm for her first day back at work. She has scheduled a 9.15 practice session on Centre Court: it will be the first time she has been allowed inside a tournament venue since her ban took effect.\nNine hours later, she will take on Roberta Vinci. The 34-year-old has lost six of her past seven matches, and taken just four games from Sharapova in the four sets they have played. This appears to be one of the best draws the five-time Grand Slam champion could have received.\nIt normally takes several months for players to return to their best after such a long break: concentration and decision-making often suffer. Sharapova will, though, be brimming with motivation as she has always maintained her error was purely an administrative one.", "summary": "Maria Sharapova's wildcard entry into the Stuttgart Open has been defended by WTA chief Steve Simon, who said it is in keeping with how former dopers are treated in other sports." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Out of 37 athletes sanctioned under the IAAF's biological passport programme since 2009, 23 are Russian.\nOn Tuesday, Russia's anti-doping agency banned five racewalkers, including three Olympic champions.\n\"The number of Russian doping cases in athletics generally, and in race walking specifically, is a major concern,\" said a statement.\nLondon 2012 men's walk winner Sergey Kirdyapkin, women's 2008 Olympic gold medallist Olga Kaniskina and 2011 world champion Sergei Bakulin were all banned for three years and two months with their cases backdated from late 2012.\nOlympic 2008 winner Valery Borchin was banned for eight years and Vladimir Kanaykin for life.\nThe IAAF also says that major international titles will be redistributed, although the bans do not affect any Olympic medals, but not until they have received and analysed the decision from the Russian Athletics Federation to make sure they are in compliance with their rules.\nSeparately, the World Anti-Doping Agency is investigating allegations of widespread doping and corruption in the sport after claims aired in a recent German television documentary, with a report due by the end of the year.", "summary": "Athletics governing body the IAAF says it is concerned about the number of Russian doping cases in the sport." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Kristina Pikse, 28, and her children David Hauberts, eight, Danius Hauberts, four, and nine-month-old Zana Hauberts, were last seen in Brockburn Road at about 16:10 on 26 August.\nPolice believe they may have travelled to the Blackburn area of Lancashire.\nDespite extensive inquiries they have been unable to trace the family.\nMs Pikse is described as having long dark hair, brown eyes and sallow skin and is very slim.\nDavid is described as having dark hair, brown eyes and sallow skin. He was last seen wearing black jeans and a white polo shirt.\nDanius is described as having dark hair, with two lines shaved into the right side of his head, brown eyes and sallow skin. He was last seen wearing jeans and a brown/green jumper.\nZana is described as having dark hair, brown eyes and sallow skin. She was last seen wearing a white dress with Minnie Mouse on it and a pink cardigan.\nAnyone who has seen the family, or knows of their whereabouts, is asked to contact police.", "summary": "Police have appealed for help in tracing a woman and three children from the Pollok area of Glasgow who have been missing for the past week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Pitcher Sean Conroy, 23, took the mound for the Sonoma Stompers after agreeing to come out publicly in time for the team stadium's gay pride night.\nThe team is part of the independent Pacific Association of Baseball Clubs.\nSeveral baseball players have disclosed their sexual orientation while in retirement but Conroy is thought to be the first active player to do so.\nNew Yorker Conroy joined The Stompers from college in May and had already told his team-mates and coaching staff he was gay, said general manager Theo Fightmaster.\n\"His goal has always been to be the first openly gay baseball player so he was very much in favour of telling the story, of carrying that torch,\" he said.\nMajor League Baseball historian John Thorn said he thought Conroy was the first active professional to come out.\nBoth Glenn Burke (Oakland Athletics and LA Dodgers) and Billy Bean (Detroit Tigers, LA Dodgers and San Diego Padres) did so after they retired.\nConroy told his family he was gay when he was 16 and he said it was important to be honest with his new team-mates, especially when conversation turns to girlfriends.\n\"Instead of getting the different looks or questions when I didn't join them, I'd rather tell you the truth and let you know who I am and have real conversations instead of the fake ones,\" he said.\nSome Stompers will wear rainbow-themed socks or symbols to mark the occasion, the club has said.\nFootball: Robbie Rogers scored his first goal for LA Galaxy this week\nBasketball: Jason Collins played 13 seasons in the NBA\nAmerican football: Michael Sam was drafted by the St Louis Rams, now plays in Canada", "summary": "Baseball has welcomed its first openly gay professional player, in a minor-league game in California." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Six schools in the West Midlands, four in London and four in Cornwall received calls on Tuesday morning.\nA group reportedly calling itself \"Evacuators 2K16\" appeared on Twitter to claim responsibility, but the BBC was unable to verify the claims.\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said forces were treating the threats \"extremely seriously\".\n\"At this stage there is no information to suggest the incidents are terrorist-related, however inquiries continue to establish the facts,\" a spokesman said.\n\"Forces are working together to investigate who is responsible and whether incidents are linked.\"\nWest Midlands Police said the calls to six schools in its region posed \"no credible threat\".\nBristnall Hall Academy in Oldbury was one of six West Midlands schools targeted, but reopened for pupils at 11:00 GMT.\nPrincipal Vince Green said it was \"incredibly frustrating\" for the school, having had to close for one day last week after a similar threat.\n\"Last week there was a lot of anxiety because people weren't clear and when we did it again today people were quick to work out that it was a similar incident,\" he said.\n\"We have to take the safety of our young people and our staff very very seriously.\"\nIn Cornwall, four schools in Penzance, St Ives and Truro received calls at about 08:00 GMT.\nDevon and Cornwall Police attended an hour later and said nothing suspicious was found.\nJan Woodhouse, head teacher at St Ives School, emailed parents to say pupils were returning to classes as normal.\n\"The site has been thoroughly checked by the police and given the all clear,\" she said.\n\"Although we are a bit wet the rest of the day will run as usual.\"\nThe four London schools were evacuated as a precaution.\nThe Met was treating the calls as \"malicious communications\".", "summary": "Thousands of pupils were evacuated as hoax bomb threats were made to 14 schools across England." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The survey of 500 children aged nine to 16-years-old found that 97% do not know that sunburn can cause cancer - although 91% do know smoking causes it.\nThe charity says the results suggest children are ill-informed about cancer.\nTeachers need to educate school children on cancer, it adds.\nThe children who responded to the poll also do not appear to know what it means to have cancer.\nOne in five think it is always fatal, while more than half say they do not know what it is.\nAnd 4% even think cancer can be caught from someone else.\nDespite this, two-thirds of the children polled know someone who has been diagnosed with cancer, though more than half say the word 'cancer' makes them feel frightened.\nKatherine Donnelly from Macmillan Cancer Support said many people, including teachers, think that young children should be protected from talking about cancer.\n\"In many ways, it's still a bit of a taboo subject. Not all teachers feel confident about talking about it or know where to get the facts and figures from.\n\"The results showed that as children got older there was a slight increase in the number of those that had been taught about cancer, but not a hugely significant number.\"\nMiss Donnelly added: \"As cancer affects more and more people, the chances of children knowing someone with the condition grows - be that their grandparent, parent or friend. This can be really distressing and they may feel too worried to ask questions.\n\"Just over a quarter of children have been taught about cancer at school and this needs to improve.\"\nThe charity has produced an information pack called Talking About Cancer to allow teachers to plan lessons around the subject.", "summary": "Children are unaware of what causes cancer, with a small number believing they can get it from behaving badly, suggests a poll by Macmillan Cancer Support." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Welsh Young Persons Discounted Travel Scheme applies to local journeys and longer distance TrawsCymru routes.\nThe project, costing £15m between now and April 2017, is part of a Labour-Liberal Democrat deal to pass the Welsh government's budget.\nThe first minister launched the scheme at an event in Corwen, Denbighshire.\nCarwyn Jones encouraged all 110,000 16 to 18-year-olds in Wales to register their interest at Gov.wales/mytravelpass.", "summary": "All 16 to 18-year-olds in Wales will be able to save a third off the price of adult bus fares from 1 September, Welsh ministers have announced." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dan Fish scored a try inside 90 seconds as the Blues dominated the early exchanges to lead 10-3 at half-time.\nChances were rare in a tight second half and, despite having a Rhys Patchell try disallowed, the Welsh side held on with some ease.\nVictory lifted the Blues up to eighth in the table, while Edinburgh stay fourth.\nIn a meeting of two much-changed sides, the teams took to the field missing nine players each on Six Nations duty.\nScarlets' defeat by Connacht earlier on Saturday gave Edinburgh the chance to go top, but the Scottish side seldom threatened at Cardiff Arms Park.\nThe hosts made a blistering start as wing Aled Summerhill broke through the Edinburgh defence and fed full-back Fish to touch down in the corner for a converted score.\nManoa Vosawai had two chances to claim the Blues' second try, first penalised for double-movement just short of the try line before spilling the ball from the back of a rolling mall with the whitewash at his mercy.\nPatchell and Nathan Fowles traded and, although the Blues controlled possession and territory, they had to settle for a seven-point lead at the interval.\nThe second half was a more even affair, although Edinburgh were reduced to 14 men when prop Rory Sutherland was sin-binned for obstructing a quickly taken Blues tap penalty.\nPatchell missed a second penalty but appeared to have redeemed himself with a try, only for the television match official to disallow the score for a foot in touch.\nThat was academic, however, as the Blues climbed above Glasgow in the Pro12 table by virtue of having scored more tries.\nCardiff Blues: Dan Fish; Blaine Scully, Rey Lee-Lo, Gavin Evans, Aled Summerhill; Rhys Patchell, Tavis Knoyle; Thomas Davies, Matthew Rees (capt), Salesi Ma'afu, Jarrad Hoeata, James Down, Ellis Jenkins, Josh Navidi, Manoa Vosawai.\nReplacements: Ethan Lewis, Bradley Thyer, Dillon Lewis, Macauley Cook, Jevon Groves, Tomos Williams, Jarrod Evans, Elis-Wyn Benham.\nEdinburgh: Greig Tonks, Dougie Fife, Michael Allen, Andries Strauss, Tom Brown, Phil Burleigh, Nathan Fowles, Rory Sutherland, Neil Cochrane, John Andress, Alex Toolis, Mike Coman (capt), Jamie Ritchie, Hamish Watson, Cornell Du Preez.\nReplacements: Stuart McInally, Allan Dell, Simon Berghan, Magnus Bradbury, George Turner, Sean Kennedy, Will Helu, Blair Kinghorn.\nReferee: David Wilkinson (IRFU)\nAssistant referees: Dan Jones, Martyn Lewis (both WRU)\nCiting commissioner: Jeff Mark (WRU)\nTelevision match official: Gareth Simmonds (WRU)", "summary": "Edinburgh missed the chance to replace Scarlets at the top of the Pro12 as they were beaten by Cardiff Blues." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The PC was breaking up a brawl on 31 August in Elgin Crescent when the youth lashed out with the drawn knife.\nAt Wimbledon Youth Court, the teenager pleaded guilty to wounding and possession of a knife with intent to cause threats and violence.\nPolice arrested a total of 67 people for having weapons at the carnival.\nThe PC, from Catford Police Station, had to have stitches in the 1in (3cm) deep wound in his arm.\nDet Supt Raffaele D'Orsi, from Kensington and Chelsea Police, said the case showed the dangers police face.\n\"I am thankful that his injury was not life-threatening,\" he said.", "summary": "A 17-year-old boy who stabbed a police officer with a lock knife at the Notting Hill Carnival has been given a six-month detention and training order." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Godden's double sandwiched Jack King's strike as the hosts earned a seventh win in eight games.\nBoro are now sixth in the table, three points behind third-placed Carlisle, but County drop down to third-from-bottom, five points ahead of Leyton Orient.\nStevenage led in just the third minute after a corner was taken shot to Steven Schumacher, whose cross gave Godden the simple task of heading into the top corner.\nVeteran goalkeeper Chris Day, in the side due to Jamie Jones' suspension, maintained their lead by first sharply saving Shola Ameobi's header then Jon Stead's rebound.\nThe hosts doubled their advantage on the hour as Godden flicked on a long ball into the path of captain King, who finished calmly into the bottom corner.\nTwo minutes later the match was finished as a contest as Ben Kennedy played Godden through and he held his nerve to strike his 20th goal of the season.\nMatch report supplied by the Press Association.\nMatch ends, Stevenage 3, Notts County 0.\nSecond Half ends, Stevenage 3, Notts County 0.\nCorner, Stevenage. Conceded by Curtis Thompson.\nTom Pett (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Tahvon Campbell (Notts County).\nTom Pett (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Curtis Thompson (Notts County).\nSubstitution, Stevenage. Kgosi Ntlhe replaces Connor Ogilvie because of an injury.\nCharlie Lee (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Jorge Grant (Notts County).\nJosh McQuoid (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Haydn Hollis (Notts County).\nSubstitution, Stevenage. Josh McQuoid replaces Ben Kennedy.\nSubstitution, Stevenage. Kaylen Hinds replaces Matt Godden.\nJobi McAnuff (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Curtis Thompson (Notts County).\nAttempt missed. Haydn Hollis (Notts County) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.\nFoul by Steven Schumacher (Stevenage).\nCurtis Thompson (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt saved. Tahvon Campbell (Notts County) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal.\nBen Kennedy (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Elliott Hewitt (Notts County).\nLuke Wilkinson (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Shola Ameobi (Notts County).\nFoul by Ben Kennedy (Stevenage).\nHaydn Hollis (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt blocked. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.\nSubstitution, Notts County. Tahvon Campbell replaces Mark Yeates.\nSubstitution, Notts County. Carl Dickinson replaces Marc Bola.\nCorner, Stevenage. Conceded by Elliott Hewitt.\nAttempt blocked. Ben Kennedy (Stevenage) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.\nSubstitution, Notts County. Jonathan Forte replaces Jon Stead because of an injury.\nGoal! Stevenage 3, Notts County 0. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ben Kennedy.\nGoal! Stevenage 2, Notts County 0. Jack King (Stevenage) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Luke Wilkinson.\nJosh Clackstone (Notts County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nAttempt missed. Shola Ameobi (Notts County) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.\nAttempt blocked. Luke Wilkinson (Stevenage) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.\nCorner, Stevenage. Conceded by Shola Ameobi.\nTom Pett (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Robert Milsom (Notts County).", "summary": "Matt Godden scored twice as in-form Stevenage boosted their League Two promotion hopes by breezing past Notts County." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 31-year-old had an operation in his native Argentina to remove his left testicle in September after the discovery of a tumour, before undergoing chemotherapy treatment.\nWriting in Spanish on Twitter, the Argentina international said: \"Today I was given a medical discharge.\n\"Thank you very much to all who accompanied me at this time.\"\nNewcastle expressed their joy at the news on social media, writing: \"Everyone at #NUFC is delighted to share the news that @elgalgojonas has been discharged from hospital in Argentina.\"\nGutierrez, who had a spell on loan at Norwich last season, has scored 10 goals in 177 league appearances for the Magpies since joining the club in 2008.\nHe became a fans' favourite when he played a starring role in helping the club win the Championship in his second season in the north-east.\nAfter being largely overlooked by manager Alan Pardew last season, Gutierrez joined Norwich for the second half of the campaign, where he made his last league appearance in a 1-0 defeat by West Bromwich Albion in April.", "summary": "Newcastle winger Jonas Gutierrez has been discharged from hospital following treatment for testicular cancer." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The pair will take on Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed in the first foursomes match before world number three Rory McIlroy and rookie Andy Sullivan go up against Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler.\nThese are heavyweight contests for one of the great global sporting events, the USA team captained by Davis Love desperate to end a sorry run that has seen them win just one of the last seven stagings of the 87-year-old biennial competition.\nA raucous, partisan atmosphere is expected across this lengthy course south-east of Minneapolis and the build-up these past four days has been typically fervent and full of controversy.\nThe foursomes - in which players in each pair take alternate shots with the same ball - are completed with Sergio Garcia and Martin Kaymer versus Jimmy Walker and Zach Johnson, before veteran Lee Westwood and Thomas Pieters take on Dustin Johnson and Matt Kuchar.\nLove and Clarke came up against each other in four successive Ryder Cups from 1997 to 2004, playing twice in fourballs, once in foursomes and once in singles.\nClarke had two wins to Love's one, but should he lead a team featuring six debutants to another win here in autumnal Minnesota it would rank alongside his Open victory in 2011 as his greatest triumph.\nThe Northern Irishman said: \"I'm very happy with our team and the way the matches have come out.\n\"Justin and Henrik are a proven, successful Ryder Cup pairing. They were always going to be my choice for leading Europe off in this match - that was never, never in doubt.\n\"It's not a case of having to inspire the guys, to build the guys up. They are ready to go out and play.\"\nLove was captain of the US team that fell apart in such spectacular fashion on the final afternoon at Medinah in 2012, while four of his five vice-captains were playing members on that team.\nBut, bolstered by an 11-man task-force and borrowing much from the European textbook on team-building and preparation, the 51-year-old has appeared in relaxed and confident mood this week.\nHe said: \"Our guys are really, really excited to play golf. You can see it in their practice, their enthusiasm when they got back to the team room. They are ready to go.\n\"Every time I look at this line-up, I just get more and more excited about all four matches.\nThe hour-long opening ceremony on a warm, sunny evening at Hazeltine on Thursday featured a tribute to the legendary Arnold Palmer, who died aged 87 last Sunday.\nJust as Seve Ballesteros became a touchstone for that extraordinary European comeback four years ago, so the shadow of Palmer - unbeaten in six Ryder Cups as a player and two as captain - is likely to hang across the next three days of competition.\n\"Arnold loved this competition as he loved all things in golf,\" said Love. \"Arnold, this one is for you.\"\nA ceremony introduced by old Ryder Cup foes and friends Tony Jacklin and Jack Nicklaus closed with fireworks and a performance from Grammy-nominated singer, Aloe Blacc, the preamble as always drawn-out compared to the rapid-fire thrills of the three days to follow.\nThe traditional pre-Cup hype has been stirred both by an \"ill-timed and wrong\" 'satirical' column penned by the brother of European debutant Danny Willett and the remarks of several members of the US golfing elite.\nAfter Pete Willett described American Ryder Cup fans as a \"baying mob of imbeciles\" in a magazine article, Masters champion Danny admitted the controversy had \"put a downer\" on his first Ryder Cup.\nMickelson, the US team's most experienced Cup player, was then forced to make a public apology after criticising former US skipper Hal Sutton for his selections 12 years ago.\nLove, meanwhile, described his side as \"the best team, maybe, ever assembled\" while double Major champion and twice Cup winner Johnny Miller, now a prominent commentator in the US, claimed Europe had \"their worst team for many years\".\nBut then there was the fan who had the temerity to criticise Europe's putting abilities and, when invited onto the green, show them how it should be done, earning himself $100 from the pocket of Rose.\nIt is all great Ryder Cup fodder, the bookmakers favouring the home team and the USA's 12 men having won two more majors between them than their opponents.\nBut Clarke's team contains the reigning Open champion (Stenson), Masters champion (Willett), Olympic gold medallist (Rose) and FedEx champion (McIlroy) - with talismanic four-time major winner McIlroy admitting he was desperate to win the trophy for his childhood hero and mentor Clarke.\nAt 7,628 yards Hazeltine is a monster of a course, its rough cut short and greens kept quick to favour the big drivers and sharp putters in the home line-up.\nBut it has also seen much European success down the years, Jacklin winning the US Open here in 1970, and several of the current team finding it to their liking at the 2009 PGA Championship - Westwood and McIlroy finishing in a tie for third, Kaymer and Stenson tying for sixth.\nThe first tee will be the inevitable focus of attention as dawn breaks here on Friday, yet it is the closing five holes - the usual 5th to 9th - where the biggest galleries will gather and most matches be decided.\nAfter an unseasonably wet September the forecast for Friday, Saturday and Sunday is much improved, bright sunshine expected as the quintessential backdrop for a US Ryder Cup.\nFriday afternoon will see four fourball matches, the better ball format, with the foursomes/fourball order reversed on Saturday before the concluding 12 singles matches on Sunday.", "summary": "Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson will open Europe's defence of the Ryder Cup on Friday as Darren Clarke's men chase a record-breaking fourth victory in a row." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The proposal would also see a road run across a \"tidal gateway\" connecting Dumfries and Galloway with Workington.\nIt is part of a project which could see similar structures built across six estuaries in the north-west of England.\nNorth West Energy Squared (NWE2) claim it would generate power, improve transport links and create jobs.\nChairman Alan Torevell said the entire project could generate enough affordable \"green energy\" to power more than five million homes for 120 years.\nHe estimated that the construction period could provide at least 20,000 new jobs and the transport links would boost the regional economy.\nIf the firm can secure financial backing, tidal gateways across Morcambe Bay and the Dudden Estuary are likely to form the first part of the project.\nConstruction work across the Solway would begin in around 2022, Mr Torevell estimated.\nTurbines which harness the power of the tide would be built into a crossing from Workington to a location \"south of Kirkcudbright\".\nThe £12bn project would improve transport links to the port of Cairnryan from the north of England.\nNWE2 claims vehicles travelling across the gateway would cut their journey between Workington and Stranraer from 137 miles to 67 miles.\nMr Torevell said the Solway crossing was a crucial element of the project.\n\"The Solway part of it, in terms of electricity production part of it, is the most important part,\" he added.\n\"We would produce probably 50% more electricity from that - maybe 12 million MW/hrs a year.\n\"It has the least positive impact on the local economy and the impact on transport improvements simply because the number of people going across the Solway towards the port of Cairnryan is fewer than the number of people potentially going across Morcambe Bay.\"\nHe said the project team has received \"considerable public support\" for the plans which have been displayed across the north-west of England.", "summary": "Plans have been drawn up for a multi-million pound tidal energy project which would link the south-west of Scotland with Cumbria." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cy Sullivan, 26, who left his victim naked from the waist down was caught after his DNA was taken in October 2015 when he assaulted a bouncer.\nAt the High Court in Glasgow Sullivan, from Shetland, denied rape and claimed he had consensual sex with the woman.\nThe jury convicted Sullivan of raping the woman on 27 November 2009 when she was drunk and not able to give consent.\nThe 42-year-old victim said: \"What has happened to me is a living nightmare.\"\nIn evidence, she described how she travelled from her home in the Highlands to attend a conference in Edinburgh and decided to visit the grave of Greyfrairs Bobby.\nThe woman said she had at least eight glasses of wine and a police officer who saw her hours later at 05:00 described her as 'intoxicated.\nThe court heard the woman was spotted by two police officers. She was standing at railings inside the graveyard and appeared under the influence of alcohol.\nShe was taken to Gayfield police station and then examined by doctors and a DNA sample was taken.\nThe victim was asked by prosecutor Ian Wallace: \"Do you remember leaving Greyfriars pub,\" she said: \"No. I remember coming round in the graveyard and there was a police lady.\n\"I was frozen and I was disorientated. I tried for some time to find my way out. It was like something happened and I had just come round.\n\"It was awful. I just felt awful, embarrassed. I had no clothing on my bottom half.\"\nThe woman told the jurors she had no memory of what happened after she left the pub until the police found her.\nShe was asked if she had any recollection of anyone having sex with her and replied: \"No.\"\nMr Wallace then said: \"Did you want to have sex with anyone that night,\" and the victim said: \"Definitely not.\"\nThe court heard at the time there was no match to the DNA found on her body, but in October 2015 there was a 'hit\" on the database after Sullivan was arrested and charged with assault and his DNA was taken.\nSullivan told the court he had bought the woman a drink and then had sex with her. He claimed that she appeared fine to him and not drunk.\nHe appeared in court with crutches and a wheelchair and told the jury he had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis two weeks ago.\nHis defence counsel David Nicolson said: \"Just after Christmas he had trouble with his right eye and with his balance.\n\"On 12 May a diagnosis was made. He was diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis.\"\nJudge Rita Rae remanded Sullivan in custody and placed him on the sex offenders' register.\nLady Rae deferred sentence until next month for background reports.", "summary": "A man who raped a woman in Greyfrairs kirkyard in Edinburgh seven-and-a-half years ago has been found guilty." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Middlesex began the day 132 runs behind on 311-7 after a weather-affected three days at Lord's and ended on 358-9, with Adam Voges retiring hurt on Sunday.\nSomerset lost Marcus Trescothick to a second-ball duck, but Abell, who became captain in December, reached his fifty off 111 balls and with six fours.\nWith light fading, the captains shook hands with Somerset 161-3, 246 ahead.\nAbell, whose average for the season has moved up to 20.88, was left at the close alongside Steven Davies (23) as the players went through the motions, while Middlesex brought on unconventional bowlers Nick Gubbins, Nick Compton and wicketkeeper John Simpson.\nThe two sides, who finished first and second respectively last summer, remain without a win in five Division One games this season.\nA result had looked unlikely going into day four and despite James Franklin's best efforts, the Middlesex man was left stranded one run short of his 50 as Lewis Gregory (3-59) took his final wicket when Tim Murtagh edged to Josh Davey.\nAfter Trescothick looped into the gloves of Simpson Abell, Dean Elgar (33) steadied things for Somerset and, although James Hildreth added 26, it was in vain.\nMiddlesex skipper James Franklin told BBC Radio London:\n\"We're four games in and still haven't got a win. We've performed well in a couple of games and in the others we haven't been at out best.\n\"That said, we've shown good resilience throughout and have earned a good reputation around the country for that.\n\"We've got a lot of cricket ahead of us and I'd like to think the first win isn't too far away. We can then build some momentum through June.\"\nSomerset skipper Tom Abell told BBC Radio Somerset:\n\"We had hopes at the start of the day to pick up the last two Middlesex wickets as quickly as possible and to see where we stood, but they dug in and after that the draw was really inevitable.\n\"It was always going to be difficult to force a result against an attack of the quality Middlesex have. Expectations after last season were high and we've not lived up to them.\n\"Our batting has let us down too often this season. Every game is huge for us now, we got ourselves into this position. It's down to us now to dig our way out of it.\"", "summary": "Tom Abell ended his lean spell since becoming Somerset captain with an unbeaten 71 as they drew at Middlesex." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Brook, 28, won the bout on a majority decision to earn his first world title in his second fight outside of Britain.\nThe rugged Porter started strongly but Sheffield's Brook worked his way back into the fight and produced the more accomplished performance.\nBrook won 117-111 and 116-112 on two judges' cards, while the British judge scored it a 114-114 draw.\n\"I looked scrappy but did what I had to do,\" said Brook, who remains unbeaten.\nBrook has 33 wins from as many fights and his victory could set up a potential fight with fellow Briton Amir Khan.\n\"The British public want it,\" added Brook, speaking to Sky Sports. \"He'll probably say that I need to win another title for the fight.\n\"I know he doesn't like me. The fact is, he is getting it. I'm the champ of the world.\"\nKhan told BBC Radio 5 live: \"If the fight can happen, let's make it happen.\n\"I'm up for it. I think I'd like that in somewhere like Wembley Stadium, we can fill that out, that would be a quick sell.\n\"It's the fight that the UK fans want to see and have been talking about for such a long time.\"\nPorter, 26, had showed the greater work-rate in the early stages, with his busy style not allowing his rival to get into any sort of rhythm.\nThe Briton sustained a cut to his left eye at the end of the second round after being caught by the American's head in one of the many clinches in the fight, although he was never really troubled by the home favourite.\nPorter also suffered a cut after another clash of heads and started to show signs of tiredness at the halfway stage of the 12-round contest.\nBrook, whose jab was working particularly well, took advantage of the fading Porter by landing the cleaner punches, especially an uppercut in the seventh.\nHe imposed himself the longer the fight progressed and finished the stronger.\nOn the undercard, there were wins for fellow Britons Callum Smith and Luke Campbell.\nSuper-middleweight Smith was a first round winner over Abraham Hernandez, while Campbell won his lightweight contest against Steve Trumble with a second-round stoppage.\nOmar Figueroa also stopped Daniel Estrada in the ninth round to defend his WBC lightweight title belt, while Anthony Dirrell won a rematch against Sakio Bika to claim the WBC super middleweight.", "summary": "Kell Brook has become the new IBF welterweight champion after beating Shawn Porter in Carson, California." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 30-year-old has suffered an injury-ravaged career since winning the world title in 2011 when he was already European and Commonwealth champion.\nGreene is now focusing on the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.\n\"London is off the cards, I'm hoping to race towards the end of the year to qualify for the Commonwealth Games,\" Greene told BBC Sport Wales.\nGreene picked up two fourth-place finishes at the London 2012 Olympics in the 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay.\n\"I finished my season pretty early last year because my groin was giving me problems,\" he explained.\n\"I was doing rehab between October and December and had my groin scanned again in January. It had got worse and they had to strip it right back.\n\"Perhaps in the past I might have tried to push through the pain. Because I am older in my career I want to make sure I have a good few years. So I have to look after myself in the short term over the next six months.\n\"It is disappointing but it's the hand I have been dealt.\"\nGreene says that \"I still want to get back to the level I was,\" despite his injury problems.\n\"I have had a bad hand over the last couple of years and this is the last thing that needs to be sorted,\" he added.\n\"Once I was told the news I wouldn't be racing this summer, I was so distraught for a few weeks.\n\"That made me realise how much I still wanted to be part of the sport at the highest level. So I am still training, doing my thing and looking to get back to the form of a few years ago.\"\nGreene was not helped after UK Athletics withdrew his funding last November for the 2017 season.\nBut the Llanelli hurdler insisted he could overcome the financial issues.\n\"The main benefit of having the funding was to get the access to the physiotherapists who are at Loughborough where I am based,\" said Greene.\n\"It just means I have to find other people out of the system or see the same people but out of the set hours.\"", "summary": "Dai Greene says a groin injury has ruled him out of this year's World Championships in London." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Emergency service crews were alerted at about 14:50 and the teenager was said to be conscious when they arrived.\nShe was airlifted to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary by a helicopter from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland.\nTwo coastguard boats, paramedics and an air ambulance were also involved in the rescue.", "summary": "A 15-year-old girl has been airlifted to hospital after falling about 25ft down an embankment near Dunbar Castle in East Lothian." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Brenna, from Strichen, was too young and too healthy to have a stroke, her mother thought.\nShe has since learned that about 400 UK children have a stroke every year, leaving many with severe physical and mental impairments.\nExperts say early recognition is important to minimise the risk of severe long-term health problems.\nBrenna told BBC Scotland's John Beattie programme: \"I had a bug the day before so I was off school.\n\"I had blurry vision throughout the day and I thought that I was just feeling ill and tired so I just went up to my room to lie down and sleep.\n\"I woke up and I had a message on my phone. I picked up my phone and my left hand just went straight and dropped it.\n\"I was like 'ok, that's not right'. I thought I was just dehydrated so I went to have a drink but I dropped that as well.\"\nBrenna says that she tried to speak and \"I did not sound right\".\nShe went to get her mum and had to hold on to the walls because \"my legs were missing the floor\".\nThe 14-year-old says she remembered a TV advert about strokes and told her mother she was having one.\n\"My mum was like 'no, you are being so dramatic Brenna',\" she says.\nHer mother says: \"She made a massive entrance into the room and threw herself on to the bed and I thought 'typical teenager, big drama entrance'.\n\"But then I had a look at her and I thought 'oh no, something's definitely not right.\n\"Her left side was jerking and moving really weirdly. I thought there's something definitely not right here and it was just horrific to see.\"\nBrenna says they went to see their GP who thought it might be a stroke and she was taken by ambulance to Aberdeen for a CT scan.\n\"Once they got a CT scan they saw the blood clot at the back of my neck or my brain,\" she says.\nThey performed emergency thrombolysis to break down the blood clot in Aberdeen before flying her to a specialist neurological unit in Edinburgh.\nHer mother says: \"To start with we did not know whether she would walk again, it was just horrendous.\n\"For the first week or so she was just lying in bed and we just thought 'is this going to be it?'.\n\"She slowly came to and it was just an amazing journey we have had with her and I don't think I would have been able to do what she has done.\n\"The first time she stood up with the physiotherapist, it was just so emotional, I'm nearly tearing up just thinking about it.\"\nThe Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has issued new guidelines for diagnosis, management and rehabilitation of children suffering from a stroke.\nDr Vijeya Ganesan, a paediatric neurologist who was involved in drafting the guidelines, said the causes in children were different to adults, where smoking and high blood pressure were often responsible.\nShe said: \"I think a really important factor is infection. It seems that affected children are often predisposed to respond to infection in an unusual way, which can result in a stroke.\n\"However, the signs of stroke in children are very similar to the signs in adults - weakness at the side of the face, difficulty in speaking, difficulty moving one side of the body.\n\"Stroke in children can have more subtle features, such as fitting affecting one side of the body or sudden severe headaches, for instance.\"\nTwo months after the stroke, Brenna says she is starting to get back to where she was.\nShe says: \"Just now I'm doing half days at school again and I'm back to my swimming and I'm back to my archery.\n\"I'd say the next goals I would have would be to return to full days at school and to return to my hockey.\"\nKathleen says her daughter has been \"absolutely amazing from start to finish\".\n\"She's completely determined. Her thrawn side, as we put it, has played in her favour.\"", "summary": "When 14-year-old Brenna Collie from Aberdeenshire told her mother she was having a stroke she was told to stop being a \"drama queen\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) showed a reading of 49.8 for October, unchanged from last month.\nA figure below 50 indicates that factory activity contracted.\nThe most recent growth figures showed the country's economy growing at a rate of 6.9%, the weakest rate since the financial crisis.\nIt has been hit by a stock market slump and a global slowdown in demand.\nEconomists had expected October's PMI to show a pick-up to a reading of 50.\n\"Because of the recent weak recovery in the global economy and downward pressure in the domestic economy, manufacturers still face a severe import and export situation,\" said Zhao Qinghe, a senior statistician at China's National Bureau of Statistics in a statement.\nThe government is trying to move away from being an export-led economy to a more consumer and services-led one.\nIt has been taking action to try to spur growth, including cutting interest rates five times so far this year.\nEconomists at ANZ Bank said the latest PMI survey indicated there could be further measures to come.\n\"While the PMI has stabilised, it is too early to confirm a bottoming out,\" ANZ Bank said.", "summary": "Chinese manufacturing has contracted for the third month in a row, according to the government's latest factory survey." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Manxman slipped 26 seconds behind Dimension Data team-mate Edvald Boasson Hagen on Wednesday's third stage.\nBut the Norwegian punctured 8km from the end of the 189km fourth stage to drop to fifth, 19 seconds off the lead.\nHis compatriot Alexander Kristoff won Thursday's stage to climb into fourth place, nine seconds behind Cavendish.\nKristoff beat Belgian Greg van Avermaet - who is second overall - in a sprint finish, with 2013 winner Cavendish fifth in a reduced bunch.\nIntermediate and finish-line time bonuses are available on the final stage, and could yet determine the overall outcome.\nStage four result: (Al Zubarah Fort-Madinat Al Shamal, 189km):\n1 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha 3hrs 57mins 12secs\n2 Greg van Avermaet (Bel) BMC same time\n3 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Katusha same time\n4 Sam Bennett (Ire) Bora Argon 18 same time\n5 Mark Cavendish (GB) Dimension Data same time\n6 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC same time\n7 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Katusha +6secs\n8 Soren Kragh Andersen (Den) Giant-Alpecin +8secs\n9 Moreno Hofland (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo +9secs\n10 Michael Morkov (Den) Katusha same time\nLeading overall classification after stage four\n1 Mark Cavendish (GB) Dimension Data 10hrs 51mins 13secs\n2 Greg van Avermaet (Bel) BMC +2secs\n3 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC +6secs\n4 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha +9secs\n5 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data +19secs\n6 Soren Kragh Andersen (Den) Giant-Alpecin +30secs\n7 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora Argon 18 +41secs\n8 Sven Erik Bystrom (Nor) Katusha +49secs\n9 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Katusha +50secs\n10 Michael Schar (Swi) BMC +58secs", "summary": "Britain's Mark Cavendish will take a two-second advantage into Friday's final stage of the Tour of Qatar after regaining the leader's gold jersey." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nKyle McVey's superb 11th-minute volley put Carrick ahead only for Sammy Morrow to level the tie a minute later.\nSteven McCullough's deflected free-kick restored Carrick's lead before half-time and two second-half Declan 'Fabio' O'Brien goals sealed their victory.\nO'Brien's second came from a penalty after Mark Scoltock's red card.\nIt was Institute's fourth successive defeat in the end-of-season play-off.\nMcVey hammered Carrick ahead with a magnificent left-foot volley from the edge of the area but Michael McCrudden set up Morrow to level with a close-range finish within a minute.\nCarrick were ahead again on 25 minutes as McCullough's free-kick clipped Institute's defensive wall and looped past keeper Marty Gallagher.\nRangers keeper Brian Neeson kept his side ahead with a superb stop to deny Niall Grace just before the interval.\nGrace went close again as he headed just over the crossbar following the resumption but as Carrick began to take control, McCullough clipped the Institute woodwork before O'Brien cut inside from the left touchline and unleashed a delightful curling shot past Gallagher from 25 yards on 72 minutes.\nThe game was up for Stute six minutes from time when O'Brien cheekily chipped a penalty to the net after Scoltock had been sent off for hauling down the Dubliner.", "summary": "Carrick Rangers maintained Premiership status as a 4-1 win completed a 5-2 aggregate success over Institute in the promotion/relegation play-off." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A new survey shows that kids are spending three hours online each day compared with around two hours of TV each day.\nYou Tube is the favourite website and is visited every day by almost half of all five to 16 year olds.\nMore young people are using tablets to go online too with 67% owning one.\nEach year Childwise looks at the way children watch programmes. More than 2,000 five to 16 year olds took part in the survey.\nThis year's report showed that Netflix was more popular than any normal television channel.\nSimon Leggett, Childwise research director, \"Children are now seeking out the content of their choice. They still find traditional TV programmes engaging but are increasingly watching them online and on-demand or binge watching box sets.\"", "summary": "Children are spending more time online than watching television for the first time." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Full-back Emilio Nsue had to be held back from team-mate Ryan Shotton as the pair clashed at the end of Blues' post-match warm-down.\nBirmingham's draw with relegated Rotherham left them four points above the Championship relegation zone.\n\"Things like this happen everywhere, even with teams in a better position,\" Zola told BBC WM.\nZola, who has won just two of his 23 games in charge since replacing Gary Rowett as Blues boss in December, also denied reports that damage had been done to a dressing room at the New York Stadium.\n\"There have been some discussions obviously, strong discussions. I can guarantee you they happen everywhere,\" the Italian added.\n\"It is not a problem. Sometimes it is good to come out strong and have a strong discussion.\"", "summary": "Birmingham boss Gianfranco Zola says an argument between several players after the draw at Rotherham was \"normal\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In an editorial, Norte de Ciudad Juarez said Sunday's edition would be its last.\nHowever, the paper says it will continue to operate online.\nMiroslava Breach, a journalist who worked for the paper in Chihuahua city, was shot dead last month.\nShe was one of three journalists killed in Mexico in March.\nMs Breach had reported extensively on the links between organised crime and politicians in Chihuahua state for Norte de Ciudad Juarez and for La Jornada, a national newspaper based in Mexico City.\nMs Breach was shot eight times in her car outside her home in the state capital, Chihuahua.\nOne of her children was in the vehicle but was not hurt.\nThe gunmen left a note saying: \"For being a loud-mouth.\"\nOscar Cantu, editor of Norte de Ciudad Juarez, said (in Spanish): \"There are neither the guarantees nor the security to exercise critical, counterbalanced journalism.\"\n\"Everything in life has a beginning and an end, and a price to pay, and if the price is life, I am not prepared for any more of my collaborators to pay it, nor am I prepared to pay it either.\"\nAt least 38 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 1992 for motives confirmed as related to their work, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.\nThe New York-based media advocacy group says 50 more were killed during the same period for reasons that remain unclear.\nLast month, the governor of the state of Chihuahua said his government did not have the means to tackle organised crime.\nHe said he had requested federal resources to help local police fight the drug cartels.", "summary": "A regional newspaper in Mexico says the violence against journalists and the lack of punishment for those responsible is forcing it to stop printing." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The show, which ran from 1998 to 2003, launched the presenting careers of Geordie duo Ant and Dec.\nThe pair floated the idea of making a 20th anniversary special, but said they might need to beg Deeley to return because \"she's a big star\" in America.\nBut Deeley said she was keen to \"recreate the magic\".\n7 things that MUST be in the SM:TV reunion\nOn ITV's This Morning on Friday, Declan Donnelly said: \"We are talking about maybe doing something if we can get Cat back from America.\n\"She's a big star out in America now so she might come back if we beg.\"\nDeeley has presented the US TV show So You Think You Can Dance since 2006.\nSpeaking to the Press Association, she said she had not been \"cordially invited\" to the reunion, but admitted she had spoken to Ant and Dec about a reunion.\nShe added: \"I think it would be a great idea. It's been 20 years.\n\"I think it's about time, isn't it, for all those with a mis-spent youth?\n\"It would be great and really fun. If we can all get back together at the same time, at the same place, let's recreate the magic.\"\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "A one-off reunion of hit kids' morning show SM:TV Live is looking more likely after presenter Cat Deeley said it would be a \"great idea.\"" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A BBC investigation revealed defects including mould, water leaks, damp walls, and a lack of heating.\nAn ex-employee also claimed cost-cutting by housing provider Orchard & Shipman (O&S) was \"absolutely endemic\".\nContractor Serco, on behalf of O&S, said an increase in defects last year was due to improved self-monitoring.\nO&S has managed the £221m Home Office contract for asylum seeker accommodation in Scotland and Northern Ireland, on behalf of international service company Serco, since September 2012.\nThese claims follow recent controversies which revealed O&S may have changed the locks of asylum seekers' homes, and allegedly placed people in dirty and dangerous accommodation.\nThousands of asylum seekers in Glasgow have come from all over the world including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Eritrea - many have fled war, torture, sexual abuse or persecution.\nA BBC Scotland freedom of information request - which the Home Office took eight months to respond to - revealed 199 asylum seekers in a 12-month period were \"impacted\" by faults not repaired by O&S within agreed contractual timescales.\nA Home Office contract stipulates that O&S is required to ensure that all asylum seeker accommodation be safe, habitable, fit for purpose and correctly equipped.\nThe data shows that in the last six months of 2014, 56 service users were affected by defects not fixed within set timescales, and between January and July 2015 that figure rose to 143 - an increase of 155%.\nDefects included: bedroom space capacity; water ingresses; faulty heaters, fridges and washing machines; damp walls; damaged windows, leaking sinks, as well as more routine repairs.\nThe UK Parliament's Home Affairs Committee announced earlier this month that it is to launch an inquiry into the provision of accommodation to asylum seekers in Glasgow.\nLabour MP Keith Vaz, chair of the committee, said he was \"concerned\" by the figures.\nHe said: \"If Home Office inspectors identify issues with asylum seeker housing serious enough to require a response within one working day, then they must be complied with. \"\nA Serco spokesman said the rise in defects not being fixed within agreed timescales was due to improved, and more intensive, self-monitoring by its subcontractor.\nHe said: \"Where issues were found, they [O&S] reported the failures themselves and addressed them.\n\"This is the sign of good rather than poor management.\"\nSerco said 21,930 repairs were logged across 1,800 properties over the 12-month period - the majority of which were for routine maintenance.\nThe multinational outsourcing company said the rate of not fixing defects within agreed timescales during this period was 0.26%.\nAccording to the Home Office contract the majority of the defects should have been made safe within one working day, and permanently remedied with a week, to make accommodation \"fit for purpose\".\nSix people were \"impacted\" by defects deemed more serious and which, according to the contract, should have been resolved within 24 hours to make the accommodation \"habitable\".\nHowever a Serco spokesperson said these particular defects were due to three heating failures, that temporary heating was provided in each case, and that the defect was left 'open' resulting in it being deemed a failure.\nShafiq Mohammed - who worked as a housing procurement officer at O&S between February 2012 and August 2014 and has now talked to BBC Scotland - claimed he was put under pressure to take on properties he knew were not compliant.\nHe said: \"You know that a property is without doubt a single bedroom but you're forced to classify it as a double bedroom, so you can get two people in it.\n\"[And there are] properties that clearly have real problems with their heating and their hot water systems to the point where they're clapped out - they're simply not working.\n\"They'll pick up the cheapest accommodation that they can, they'll do as little as possible as far as repairs are concerned.\"\nHe added: \"There's always an excuse not to do something - they're very, very good at that.\n\"The culture was 'profit is king', cost-cutting and cutting corners in terms of the service [was] absolutely endemic.\"\nMr Mohammed also claimed \"a culture of fear\" meant many asylum seekers - without any intimidation by O&S staff - may not report any housing defects for fear of being deported.\nHe said: \"They would withdraw complaints so the heating hasn't been working for the last week - 'I better not complain, they'll get annoyed with me'.\n\"The lighting's not been working in the bedroom for three weeks, I'll try and fix it myself.\"\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The UK has a proud history of granting asylum to those who need it and providing safe and secure accommodation while applications are considered.\n\"It is the responsibility of the Compass providers to ensure the standards of the contract are met. The Home Office and providers regularly inspect properties to ensure the accommodation meets contractual standards.\"\nHe added: \"Where a contractor is found to be falling short of these standards, we work with them to ensure issues are quickly addressed and when they are not we can and do impose sanctions.\n\"The government expects the highest standards from our contractors. If we find any evidence of discrimination against asylum seekers it will be dealt with immediately as any such behaviour will not be tolerated.\"\nA Serco spokesman said there was no evidence to support any of Mr Mohammed's allegations.\nHe said: \"All the housing leased by us is fit for purpose at the point of procurement.\n\"We repair all defects reported to us, the overwhelming majority within the required timeframe.\"\nAmanda - not her real name - said last year it took the company several weeks to replace her washing machine.\nBut when the appliance did finally arrive it didn't work.\nShe said: \"I complained to them [O&S] and they sent someone to come and repair it.\n\"I was telling them we can't stay in the house, it's really, really smelly and the inside is full of mould.\"\nDepending on the level of \"non-conformance\" under the contract, the Home Office may apply financial penalties to the monthly invoice of a housing provider.\nIn February 2015 it was revealed Serco had paid out £443,545 in penalties in Scotland and Northern Ireland - an increase of 184% compared to the previous, full fiscal year.\nNone of the other contracted housing providers - including G4S and Clearel - incurred any penalties in this fiscal year.\nThe parliamentary question that prompted the release of these figures was submitted by SNP MP Stuart McDonald who sits on the Home Affairs Committee.\nMr McDonald said: \"These [freedom of information] figures suggest some real challenges in ensuring asylum accommodation is fit for purpose.\n\"The nature of some of the defects is also a concern - including issues such as mould and water leaks.\n\"The bottom line is that we a very incomplete understanding about how the [Home Office] contracts are functioning and what needs to be done to make them as effective as they must be for everyone concerned.\"", "summary": "Concerns have been raised over the number of asylum seekers who did not have defects in their homes fixed within agreed timescales." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In early animal studies, the medicines repaired some of the cell damage and paralysis seen in MS.\nThe drugs encouraged new growth of myelin to coat and protect the nerves.\nExperts say although the results in Nature journal are promising, people should not be tempted to self-medicate.\nMuch more work is needed to check that the treatments will work in people.\nLab tests on human cells already hint that they might.\nThe two drugs in question - an antifungal called miconazole and a steroid called clobetasol - are currently topical medicines that are applied as creams to the skin.\nThey already have a good safety history for treating these conditions, says lead researcher Dr Paul Tesar, from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in the US.\nHe says the formulation of the drugs would need to be changed so that they could be better targeted to the nervous system where MS strikes.\nIn MS, the body's immune system mistakes myelin for a foreign body and attacks it.\nThis leads to progressive disability.\nCurrent medications for MS can help slow or prevent this attack, but they cannot replace myelin.\nA number of researchers are looking at existing drugs to see if they can be reclaimed for treating MS.\nDr Tesar's team screened a library of more than 700 existing drugs to find any that would promote new myelin production by the individual's own cells.\nDr Tesar said they were working tirelessly to get a safe and effective drug for clinical use.\n\"We appreciate that some patients or their families feel they cannot wait for the development of specific approved medications.\n\"But off-label use of the current forms of these drugs is more likely to increase other health concerns than alleviate multiple sclerosis symptoms.\"\nProf Daniel Altmann, an expert in immunology at Imperial College London, said: \"There has been tremendous progress in recent years in development, clinical trials and licensing of new drugs that aim to block the immune attack and thus ameliorate progress of disease.\n\"The problem that has been much harder to crack is what to do about the fact that this still leaves patients with irreversible disability through the damage to the myelin sheaths in the central nervous system that has been sustained.\"\nHe said the fruits of this approach to treating MS were still \"a little way off\".\nDr Sorrel Bickley of the MS Society said: \"More than 100,000 people in the UK live with MS, which is why there is a huge unmet need for new therapies that can repair the damage to myelin that occurs in the condition.\n\"While this is an early study, it's exciting to think that there is now a growing list of potential myelin repair therapies that have been identified in laboratory and animal model studies. The next step will be to test these treatments in clinical trials to establish whether they can bring real benefits in slowing or stopping the progression of MS.\"", "summary": "Two common drugs - one used for treating athlete's foot and another for alleviating eczema - may be useful therapies for multiple sclerosis, scientists believe." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the bodyguard who shot Mr Taseer said he had done so because of the governor's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy law.\nBelow is a selection of comments emailed to the BBC.\nThe governor's assassination comes as a shock. Even moderate Muslims know that his statement on the blasphemy law wasn't appropriate. Religion is a very sensitive issue in our part of the world. We all remember how angered the Muslim world got about the blasphemous caricatures in a Danish newspaper. Rehman, Karachi, Pakistan\nIslamabad is in lockdown as people prepare for the backlash to the assassination of the governor. Already the streets are empty, shops and markets have closed and there lots of police vehicles racing around the city. Saj Malik, Islamabad Pakistan\nThe concern for most of the residents here is their own security - people worry about any possible backlash after his assassination. He was a notorious and hated person. Junaid, Lahore, Pakistan\nI am an orthodox Sunni Muslim and politically I support the PML-N [Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz] which means I didn't like late governor. But I also condemn his assassination because it is religiously and morally a sin. He just expressed his views about blasphemy law - which is not a divine law. It is a man-made law and man-made things can't be perfect. Muhammad Ramzan, Sargodha\nAlthough the common perception is that Mr Taseer was assassinated for his outspoken views on the blasphemy law in Pakistan, it would be very short-sighted to assume that a lone gunman decided to execute him for this reason alone. It is much more likely that he was assassinated for more wide-scale political reasons. Nameer Rehman, Karachi, Pakistan\nThe killing of the governor is an alarming incident. It will have serious implications in political circles. At the moment, it provides an escape for the ruling party from lurking danger of dismissal. However, it should be noted that any person who dares to go against general public sentiments may have to face this kind of fate. The issue of blasphemy is very serious and needs to be resolved within the ambit of legal means. Nadi Yousafzai, Peshawar, Pakistan\nI am shocked and speechless. Mr Taseer was a brave man who stood openly against terrorism and the blasphemy law which ultimately lead to his death by his own fundamentalist guard. Taseer's brutal murder also shows how security agencies have been penetrated by extremists in Pakistan. There is little hope to reverse this pattern. Akhtar Rind, Hyderabad, Pakistan\nI am truly sorry for this tragic incident. The governor not only proposed amendments but also stood up against the cruelty of the law calling it \"black law\" in Urdu meaning \"dark law\" in the language's context. This event has revealed the inefficiency of security forces and brought to the attention of the world the social prejudice present inside Pakistan. The international community should hence look into the solutions to solving the society's problems in such countries through introducing human development measures such as education. Shahmeer Naveed Arshad, Lahore, Pakistan", "summary": "People in Pakistan have been emailing the BBC with their reaction to the assassination of the influential governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, Salman Taseer." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The club say that wet weather and waiting for seating to arrive from the Far East forced the \"contingency plan\" of playing at Murrayfield.\nHearts will face Aberdeen in September and St Johnstone and Rangers in October at the national rugby stadium.\n\"Unfortunately, there are some things we cannot control,\" said chief executive Ann Budge.\n\"Despite the mammoth effort that has gone into the construction project up until now, we are not going to make our targeted open for business date of 9th September 2017 [against Aberdeen].\"\nHearts had negotiated with the SPFL that their opening four fixtures against Celtic, Motherwell, Rangers and Kilmarnock would be played away from home.\nThe St Johnstone game will be on October 21, with the Rangers game scheduled to be seven days later. A third fixture, against Patrick Thistle on September 23 has been switched to Firhill.\n\"While this is disappointing, the cooperation of the management and staff at the SRU means we can accommodate all, indeed even more, of our supporters in fine style at the national rugby stadium,\" Budge added.\nHearts have played six European ties at Murrayfield going back to 2004, and they also hosted a friendly match against Barcelona back in the summer of 2007 watched by over 57,000 fans.\n\"Scottish Rugby is looking forward to welcoming Hearts to Murrayfield for three matches in the next couple of months,\" said Scottish Rugby's Chief Operating Officer Dominic McKay.\n\"As Scotland's biggest sporting stadium, Murrayfield has a history of hosting football matches having welcomed Hearts, Barcelona and Celtic in the past. We look forward to working closely with Hearts in the coming weeks.\"", "summary": "Hearts will not play any league matches at Tynecastle until November due to delays in the main stand construction." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Junction and Calton Athletic will share the proceeds of an auction of memorabilia from the sets of T2.\nThe online auction takes place next month to coincide with the film's US release.\nProducer Andrew MacDonald said they chose to help The Junction because it works with young people on the \"very streets\" Trainspotting grew from.\nMr MacDonald said: \"I was introduced to the Junction by their Patron Irvine Welsh last April and was so impressed by what I had seen that when it came to choosing the two beneficiaries of T2 Trainspotting Memorabilia Auction the Junction was an obvious choice.\n\"It feels really apt to be supporting The Junction in this way as it works with young people to reach their potential on the very streets Trainspotting grew out of.\"", "summary": "Two Edinburgh charities are set to benefit from the sequel to the film Trainspotting." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The CellScope system films a drop of blood and an app then automatically analyses any movement in the sample to detect the parasites.\nThe results, published in Science Translational Medicine, showed the device was successful in small trials in Cameroon.\nExperts said it marked a fundamental advance in tropical diseases.\nPrevious efforts to eradicate two parasitic diseases - river blindness and elephantiasis - have been suspended because the treatment can become fatal in some people.\nOne treatment, the drug ivermectin, is risky in people with high levels of Loa loa worm - the one that can crawl across the surface of the eye - so people need to be screened first.\nHowever, testing is time-consuming and requires laboratory equipment.\nThe team in the most recent research, at the University of California, Berkeley, and the US National Institutes of Health, used a modified smartphone to automate the process.\nA pindrop of blood was collected and loaded into a handheld box. The phone on top then kicked in.\n\"With one touch of the screen, the device moves the sample, captures video and automatically analyses the images,\" said one of the researchers, Prof Daniel Fletcher.\nRather than attempt to identify the shape of the worm, the software in the phone looks for the movement.\nThe software predicts the number of Loa loa parasites in the blood and tells the healthcare workers whether they are suitable for drug treatment.\nIt means very little training is required, while current screening procedures require someone to be skilled in analysing blood samples by eye.\nEarly trials in Cameroon of the new approach have been successful and there are now plans to test it on 40,000 people.\nProf Fletcher told the BBC News website: \"I'm excited, it offers a new higher-tech approach to dealing with very low-tech problems.\"\n\"There are drugs to treat many neglected tropical diseases, these are problems that should be solved, but there is not the technology to identify people who who need the right drugs.\"\nIt is hoped the same idea could be adapted to test for other infections such as TB, malaria and soil-transmitted parasitic worms or helminths, which include roundworm.\nProf Simon Brooker from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, commented: \"I think it's one of the most fundamental advances in neglected tropical diseases in a long time.\"\n\"In the 21st Century we are using 20th Century technology to diagnose these infections, this brings us into the modern world.\n\"It really is exciting; when you see it you just go 'wow'; hopefully it will transform efforts to eliminate diseases,\" he added.", "summary": "A smartphone has been used to automatically detect wriggling parasites in blood samples." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "O'Neill is among several names to have been linked with the Premier League side since Claudio Ranieri's sacking.\nCaretaker boss Craig Shakespeare has strengthened his prospects after guiding the Foxes to two straight wins.\n\"You have to consider these things if the opportunity is presented to you,\" said O'Neill, 47.\n\"I don't think you can ever say 'no' in football but equally I'm not actively looking for another job.\n\"When vacancies have arisen particularly in England this year, my name has been mentioned but I actively haven't sought another job outside of the one I'm in. That won't change over the course of my contract.\n\"It's always nice to be linked with jobs. It's the nature of football now and the media that surrounds football.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nLeicester, who won the Premier League last season, are believed to have spoken to a number of potential candidates to replace Ranieri, including former England manager Roy Hodgson.\nO'Neill added that all his focus at the moment is on Northern Ireland's crucial home World Cup qualifier against Norway on 26 March.\n\"As a squad and as a team, we want to do the country proud and give ourselves the opportunity of going to Russia.\"\nThe Northern Ireland boss was appointed in December 2011 and has three more years on his current contract.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nO'Neill's four-year deal, signed last March, included a release clause which would see the Irish FA being entitled to compensation if the Ballymena man was lured into club management.\nHe guided Northern Ireland to their major finals in 30 years as his side qualified for Euro 2016.\nO'Neill's side qualified for the knockout stages in France before a second-round defeat by Wales and his team lie second in their World Cup qualifying group after four series of fixtures.", "summary": "Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill says he could be \"tempted\" by the Leicester City job but insists he is not \"actively seeking\" a new post." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Meadow, 24, carded a three-under-par 69 to finish three shots behind leader Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand.\nSouth Korea's In Gee Chun is level with Meadow, while New Zealand's Lydia Ko is among those one shot further back.\nCatriona Matthew is tied 36th on three under but her Britain Olympic team-mate Charley Hull failed to make the cut.", "summary": "Northern Ireland's world number 419 Stephanie Meadow is in a tie for second at the halfway stage of the Canadian Pacific Women's Open on nine under par." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The body has yet to be formally identified but police believe it to be that of a 30-year-old woman who has been missing for six days.\nPardeep Kaur was last seen on the afternoon of 16 October in Harlington High Street, west London.\nTwo men, aged 30 and 31, who were arrested on Wednesday over Ms Kaur's disappearance, have been bailed.\nThe Met is appealing for witnesses.\nDet Ch Insp Mark Dawson said: \"At this early stage of the investigation I am appealing to any witnesses in the Carlton Avenue and Bedwell Gardens area who may have been driving to work to come forward as they may have seen Pardeep walking to work at about 06.30 BST on 17 October.\"\nMs Kaur's next-of-kin have been informed of the discovery.", "summary": "A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a woman was found on waste ground under a flyover." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "About 2,000 people in both NI and the Republic of Ireland were interviewed about issues from national identity to abortion and same-sex marriage.\nThe survey was jointly commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland and Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ.\nOn Monday, a majority of MLAs in the NI Assembly voted for same-sex marriage.\nThis was a first for Northern Ireland.\nHowever, the motion was blocked by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) which tabled what is known as a petition of concern.\nNext week, the first of two legal challenges to the Northern Ireland Executive on same-sex marriage is due to reach the courts.\nLast week, same sex-marriage officially became lawful in the Irish Republic, after more than 60% of voters backed it in a referendum held in May.\nAccording to the cross-border survey, carried out by the polling company B&A, attitudes towards same sex-marriage appear remarkably similar on either side of the border.\nIn Northern Ireland, 64% of those surveyed said they would feel very or fairly comfortable if a member of their family married someone of the same gender, while 23% indicated they would feel very or fairly uncomfortable.\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a slightly higher proportion, 67%, indicated they would feel comfortable but 21% said they would be uncomfortable.\nThe survey was conducted last month.", "summary": "Almost two thirds of people in Northern Ireland would feel comfortable if a family member had a same-sex marriage, a new survey suggests." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cafodd Arthur Ray Taylor sy'n naw deg oed ei weld diwethaf yn gadael clwb cychod Gwbert am 09:30 fore Sadwrn.\nMae'r heddlu yn dweud eu bod nhw wedi dod o hyd i'r cwch ond does dim sôn am Mr Taylor.\nMae Gwylwyr y Glannau wedi ymuno yn yr ymdrech i ddod o hyd i Mr Taylor, ond byddant nawr yn aros nes bydd llanw isel am 18:00 cyn parhau i chwilio.", "summary": "Mae Heddlu Dyfed Powys yn chwilio am ddyn oedrannus sydd ar goll ar ôl iddo fynd allan yn ei gwch ym mae Ceredigion." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Coelbren in Powys will shut in May with patients moving to nearby Dulais Valley in Seven Sisters.\nGPs at Borras Park Surgery in Wrexham will end their contract in September.\nCurrently, two GPs look after 6,000 patients at Coelbren and Dulais Valley surgeries and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University (ABMU) supported them for a year as it tried to recruit.\nIt has now decided to base both doctors at Dulais Valley permanently and plans to turn Coelbren into a wellness centre.\nThe two practices are about three miles (4.8km) apart and fears had been raised patients could be isolated after buses between the villages stopped.\nBut, after speaking to residents, the health board has decided to run a community transport service for anyone experiencing difficulties.\nMeanwhile, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said the two GPs running Borras Park will terminate their NHS contract in October after trouble recruiting.\nIt is working with other surgeries to work out a plan for patients.\nLast September, the British Medical Association warned of a crisis facing GP surgeries with doctors quitting because of increasing pressure.", "summary": "GP recruitment problems mean a surgery in Powys will close while another in Wrexham faces an uncertain future." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Tiree Music festival-goers were sheltered in schools, the island airport and people's homes.\nOrganisers said the festival, headlined by The Fratellis and due to run until Sunday night, would get back under way again on Saturday.\nDirector Daniel Gillespie said: \"We've got 1,000 campers under shelter and to do it so quickly has been amazing.\"\nHe added: \"It's been pretty humbling seeing the response. We were driving round last night taking food and water to the people and even their spirits, their reaction, was incredible as well.\"\nAn official statement from festival organisers said they had \"no major issues or concerns but have taken this measure as a caution\".\nIt added: \"Working closely with Argyll and Bute council, our in-house health and safety team and emergency services, coaches and buses have been arranged for attendees and we have provided accommodation for campers in local schools, business centres and churches.\n\"We would like to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful people of Tiree who have been tremendous in opening their doors to our visitors.\"\nThe festival, founded in 2010, has previously won awards including Best Small Event at the UK Event Awards and Best Small Festival in Scotland at the Scottish Event Awards.\nThis weekend's line-up includes The Fratellis, Funbox, We Banjo 3, Skerryvore, Manran, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Gentlemen of Few, Skipinnish, The Chaplins, Cherry Grove, Trail West, Gunna Sound, Dun Mor, The Lowground and Chunks.", "summary": "More than 1,000 people had to be evacuated from the site of a music festival because of storms last night." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lynton Yates said they should catch a bus instead, while cyclists should \"go back to the pavements\".\nMr Yates published the leaflet as part of a canvassing campaign for the general election, but UKIP has now suspended his candidature.\nThe BBC has tried to contact Mr Yates but he has not responded.\nMr Yates, who remains a Leicestershire county councillor for UKIP, also stated in the leaflet that he would send prisoners to overseas jails to reduce costs.\nA statement from UKIP said: \"Lynton Yates' views do not represent UKIP policy.\n\"He has apologised for any offence caused and was today suspended as a [general election] candidate.\"\nUKIP earlier confirmed the leaflet was published by Mr Yates, following suggestions it was a hoax or spoof.\nShadow health minister Jamie Reed, a Labour MP, said: \"It's beyond a joke now. Not so much a political party but a stag night out of control.\"\nMr Yates was a candidate for the Charnwood constituency in Leicestershire.\nA photo of his leaflet was posted on Facebook by a blogger called Mum Juice, then spread more widely on Facebook and Twitter by a satirical group called Atos Miracles.\nThe leaflet said: \"We could likely remove six million cars from the road if benefits claimants were not driving.\n\"Why do they have the privilege to spend the tax payers hard earned money on a car, when those in work are struggling to keep their own car on the road?\n\"These people really could catch a bus!\"\nOn the topic of the cost of keeping criminals in prison, it continued: \"I personally would look to overseas countries who could tender for their incarceration.\n\"I'm sure they could dramatically reduce this cost to the taxpayer.\"", "summary": "A UKIP member has produced a leaflet calling for all \"benefits claimants\" to be banned from driving to free up space on the roads." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The attacker, who was dressed in a security uniform and reportedly made references to Allah, was shot dead by an off-duty police officer on Saturday.\nThe so-called Islamic State claimed the man was one of its supporters, but the FBI said no link had been found.\nThe attack happened in St Cloud, 70 miles (110km) out of Minneapolis.\nNone of the victims suffered life threatening injuries.\nThe FBI's Rick Thornton said it was too early to say whether the attack was linked to international terrorism.\nHe said: \"We are currently investigating this as a potential act of terrorism. And I do say potential. We do not at this point in time know whether the subject was in contact with, had connections with, was inspired by, a foreign terrorist organisation.\"\nThe attacker asked at least one person if they were Muslim, according to St Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson.\nAn off-duty police officer shot and killed the suspect, Mr Anderson said.\nThe suspect, who has not been officially identified, was said to have been wearing the uniform of a private security firm when the attack occurred.\nThe media arm of IS said in a statement that the attacker had carried out the operation \"in response to calls to target the citizens of countries belonging to the crusader coalition\".", "summary": "The FBI has said it is treating a stabbing attack at a shopping centre in Minnesota that injured eight people as a potential act of terrorism." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The story, about a father who keeps his daughter captive in the wilderness, under the pretence they are the last people alive on Earth, was described by judges as \"shocking and subtle\".\nThe shortlist also featured Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey and A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray.\nFuller was awarded a cheque for £10,000 along with the prize.\nLouise Doughty, who chaired the judging panel, said: \"Our Endless Numbered Days is both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of Ian McEwan in the delicacy of its prose and the way that this is combined with some very dark undertones.\"\nPresenting the award, she called for UK publishers to offer support for debut novelists, far beyond their first books.\nShe said: \"Ian Rankin and Hilary Mantel both wrote for years before making the big time with sales.\n\"Ian Rankin famously succeeded with his seventh novel - and Hilary Mantel wrote brilliant, strange and wonderful books time and time again before Wolf Hall, her 10th.\n\"I call on the publishers of all the books on our wonderful shortlist to support these writers not only with their sparkling debuts but with their fourth, fifth, sixth novels.\n\"Short-termism in publishing is not only devastating for the authors who don't get the support they deserve, it's bad for business.\"\nFuller originally studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art before running her own marketing company for 23 years.\nShe began writing fiction in her 40s and belongs to a club of authors who have published their debut books in their 40s or later, called The Prime Writers.\nThe prize is presented in the name of the late publisher and literary agent Desmond Elliott.\nLast year's winner was Eimear McBride for A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.", "summary": "Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller has won this year's Desmond Elliott Prize for first novels." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ipswich could have been ahead after 18 minutes when Liam Feeney hit the post with a fierce drive.\nTown's Brett Pitman also had an effort cleared off the line by Kortney Hause late in the first half after the 20-year-old Wolves defender had given the ball away to the striker.\nMatt Doherty had Wolves' best chance, but his effort was saved home goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski.\nThe result means Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy extended his unbeaten record against former club Wolves to six games since being sacked as manager in February 2012.\nTown stay eighth in the Championship, but are now five points off the play-off places having managed just one win in their past four games, while Wolves stay in 12th place.\nWolves head coach Kenny Jackett:\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"I felt that defensively we did well and I was pleased that the back four looked quite cohesive and competitive and we needed to be as otherwise at the start of the game Ipswich would have swept us away.\n\"It was hard to get our passing game going through midfield which has been a feature when we have got it right this season.\n\"While we are pleased defensively we want more. We want to be able to pass the ball and flow and it through midfield and create chances and score goals which can give us a chance of progressing.\n\"We have been a mid-table side this season and that is what it has been.\nIpswich manager Mick McCarthy:\n\"I view it as a compliment (on being linked with the Aston Villa job). I can't help but feel it is a compliment when clubs of that ilk think that I am doing a good job as a manager bearing in mind that I have got two similar clubs promoted.\n\"But I have for a job here and there is nothing I can do about whatever they are saying. I won't even talk about what another job might entail.\n\"We have seven games and we want to get in the play-offs. My focus is on trying to get in the play-offs.\n\"We have got two home games coming up now and I do feel that we are going to have to win them to be in the mix.\"", "summary": "Wolves and play-off chasing Ipswich played out a tame draw at Molineux." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Thistle fought back from a goal down to draw with champions Celtic on Wednesday and can secure a top-half place by beating Motherwell on Saturday.\nEdwards' side have a four-point lead over seventh-placed Kilmarnock with two games until the league splits.\n\"We need to focus on Saturday's game and put it to bed,\" he said.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"Four points in between sixth and seventh, six points to play for, anything can happen in this league.\n\"Three points from fifth, you have to say, 'we have to look up'. We have to be really positive and say, 'yeah, why not? Why can't we go catch them?'\n\"But first and foremost, we have to win on Saturday.\"\nThe Firhill side are three points behind Hearts, eight points off St Johnstone and 14 behind Rangers.\nThistle were promoted to the top flight for the inaugural season of the Premiership - previously the Scottish Premier League - and have finished tenth, eighth and ninth.\n\"When we missed out [on the top six] last season, it hurt a lot so we'll be giving everything to make sure it's in our hands and that we get the job done and make sure we win the game,\" said Australia Under-23 cap Edwards on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.\n\"The way this league's gone this season - us being last at Christmas and now we're sixth, Dundee being way off it and then they were pushing for the top six - it's never over until it's over.\n\"We've shown that we can take points from Celtic. Kilmarnock can do it on Saturday.\n\"Rangers and Hearts showed that they're beatable now, they're not world beaters like they used to be so it's far from over but it's in our hands and it's important to go to Firhill on Saturday and beat Motherwell.\"", "summary": "Partick Thistle midfielder Ryan Edwards insists the Jags should continue looking up as they close in on a first Scottish Premiership top-six finish." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The company said that tens of thousands of improvements have been made to what it calls the most important redesign of its interface since Windows 95.\nConsumers can now download the release preview \nof Windows 8, a system which Microsoft says is its most tested operating system ever.\nIt is expected to go on sale in the autumn, three years after Windows 7.\nThe new operating system is designed to bring Windows into the touchscreen, smartphone era.\nIt adopts the Metro interface of the company's mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7.\nWindows, which still dominates the desktop PC software market, has been much slower to make an impact on mobile phones and tablet computers.\nThe release preview has features not available in the last version, the consumer preview, launched in February.\nThere will be new apps for the Bing search engine, news and sports, and improvements to the mail and photo applications unveiled previously.\nMicrosoft said manufacturers and developers were at work on new devices and apps designed to make the most of Windows 8's features.\nDo not track\nThe latest version of Microsoft's browser Internet Explorer 10, optimised for touchscreen, is also included for the first time. Users are promised greater personalisation of the start screen, and more control over privacy.\nIE 10 will be the first version of the browser with \"do not track\" turned on by default, meaning users can easily decide not to accept cookies.\nMicrosoft's Chief Privacy Officer Brendon Lynch \n announced the move on his blog\n.\n\"In a world where consumers live a large part of their lives online, it is critical that we build trust that their personal information will be treated with respect, and that they will be given a choice to have their information used for unexpected purposes,\" he wrote.\nBut the advertising industry has raised concerns.\nMicrosoft's decision risked \"limiting the availability and diversity of internet content and services for consumers,\" said the Digital Advertising Alliance.", "summary": "Microsoft has launched the most complete preview yet of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Tributes have been pouring in for the DJ. Here is a selection.\nGareth Williams sent in this photo via WhatsApp: \"So sad to hear about Ed Stewart's death. Here I am on stage during a Radio 1 roadshow in Caswell Bay, the Gower in August 1976. I was taking part in a yes/no game which I was lucky enough to win! Ed gave me my radio debut that day. Thanks Ed!\"\nEd was involved in several charities, including PHAB. Simon Haskew was at an awards ceremony at the House of Lords in May 2012 and took this photo of his friend Maxim Lowe.\nAlfie Bedborough in Jersey has fond memories: \"Always a main stay on Christmas Day with Junior Choice. Such a loss. 'Ello darling!\"\nClint Ritchie Stark in Edinburgh says he was fantastic with children on his Saturday morning show: \"I remember him at the children's ward at the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital. The kids just loved him. He was so kind to them.\"\n\"I will never forget his kindness,\" says Sharon Ward in Sheffield. \"In 1982 he was going out to the Falklands to record his Christmas radio show. My husband was based out there. I was based at RAF Brize Norton. We had only been married 10 months. Ed very kindly took an anniversary card, Christmas card and a cake to him.\"\nEd's sister, Sue Mainwaring, who lives in Swanage, told us the news hadn't quite sunk in: \"He was such a good brother. I have loved him for nearly 70 years. He has been there for me all my life. I went to some of his shows but I didn't get a Crackerjack pen! We had a lot of fun. I will miss him.\"\nDominic Dalton says he met Ed several times back in the 1980s when he worked for Radio Mercury but his son Tyler met him for the first time in August 2014 at Cranleigh Car Show. \"He was still the loveable 'Stewpot' that I remembered from those meetings in the 80s and still happy to be stopped to have a picture taken. RIP Ed you have left me with some fond memories.\"\nBarry Lester in Spain: \"I had the pleasure of meeting him about 15 years ago in southern Spain while he was working with Spectrum FM. He was a gentle man with a big heart. He will be sadly missed by the people who loved his style and manners.\"\nCompiled by Sherie Ryder", "summary": "Former BBC Radio DJ and Crackerjack presenter, Ed \"Stewpot\" Stewart has died at the age of 74, a few days after having a stroke." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Forward Sterling, 19, complained of tiredness before England's Euro 2016 qualifier against Estonia on Sunday.\nHodgson has since questioned Liverpool's fitness regime, which is based on a \"two-day recovery\" system.\nLineker tweeted: \"It's time Roy Hodgson and Brendan Rodgers stopped sniping. It's at their player's expense.\"\nSterling played 45 minutes of England's 5-0 victory over San Marino on Thursday and, three days later, came on as a 64th-minute substitute in England's 1-0 win in Tallinn.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThe Liverpool forward has been criticised by some fans for complaining of fatigue and requesting to \"sit out\" England's game in Tallinn, while some players such as ex-Manchester United centre-back Rio Ferdinand have defended him.\nHodgson has said Liverpool's training methods may be part of the reason why Sterling did not feel he would be able to perform at his best against Estonia.\nAt the Anfield club, players do not take part in a full session until three days after playing, with Rodgers saying players with pace need more time to recover.\nLiverpool first-team coach Mike Marsh defended the club's approach.\n\"With England there has been a lot of discussion recently. We don't really change. Our fitness programmes have been well documented,\" Marsh told liverpoolfc.com.\n\"We try to recover the players as best we can to prepare for the games. \"We have a couple of days' recovery after the game and we work with the group that don't start (the previous match) and we build up to the next game and once one game finishes we try to recover as soon as possible.\"\nRelations were already strained between Hodgson and Rodgers after striker Daniel Sturridge, was injured on international duty last month with the Liverpool manager saying the 25-year-old's thigh injury had been preventable.", "summary": "Former England captain Gary Lineker has urged Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers and England manager Roy Hodgson to stop \"sniping\" at Raheem Sterling's expense." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "About 10,000 people have had to leave their homes because of damage from Cyclone Enawo.\nPower supplies are also down in some areas, according to local media.\nThe emergency services are warning of the threat of flooding, including in the capital, Antananarivo, although the storm has now diminished in strength.\nWeather stations say the rain has weakened to drizzle although there are still strong winds.\nParts of Antananarivo were evacuated overnight and aid agencies are providing shelter, water and other basic needs to those affected.\nThe city's government schools have been closed as a precaution and Prime Minister Olivier Mahafaly told employers to allow workers to stay at home.\nAsked about emergency help for those outside the capital, Mr Mahafaly said: \"We will do our best with our own resources but we will make an emergency declaration if necessary, if the damage will be significant.\"\nEnawo dumped 12 inches of rain across north-east Madagascar in 12 hours on Tuesday, with winds reaching up to 300km/h (185mph).", "summary": "Five people are now known to have died in Madagascar from a cyclone that made landfall in the north-east of the island on Tuesday, officials say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Speaking on his television programme, Mr Maduro said \"nobody should get obsessed with electoral processes that are not in the constitution\".\nHis comment comes a day after the government and opposition groups agreed on a road map to resolve Venezuela's political and economic crisis.\nMr Maduro's term ends in early 2019.\nThe opposition blames Mr Maduro and his government for the dire state of Venezuela's economy.\nThe country is suffering from sky-high inflation and there are shortages of many basic goods, including medical supplies.\nMore than three-quarters of Venezuelans are unhappy with Mr Maduro's leadership, according to a recent poll.\nBut an attempt by the opposition to organise a referendum to oust Mr Maduro from office has stalled after the electoral council said that courts in several states had reported fraud in the campaign's preliminary petition.\nThe move caused outrage among opposition groups which then began to call for early elections as an alternative way to remove Mr Maduro from his post.\nBut speaking on his weekly television programme on Sunday, the president asked: \"An electoral way out? Way out to where?\"\nNegotiators for the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) and the government met on Friday for two days of Vatican-backed talks on how to end the political and economic crisis.\nThey released a joint statement in which they pledged to \"live together in peace\" and laid out a road map on how to defuse the situation.\nWhile there was no mention of early elections in the joint statement, opposition lead negotiator Carlos Ocariz later announced that the MUD coalition would stay at the negotiating table only until it obtained early elections or a recall referendum.\nAfter ruling out early elections, Mr Maduro mocked Mr Ocariz's statement saying that \"it makes me very happy that the MUD will continue in the dialogue until December 2018\".\nDecember 2018 is when the next presidential election is due to be held if no early polls are called.\nThe next round of talks between the opposition and the government is scheduled for 6 December.\nHowever, a number of opposition leaders have already called for protests, which had been halted as a sign of goodwill ahead of the talks, to resume.\nThe former opposition presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, said that \"the crisis is getting worse every day\".\n\"The talks don't mean we have to renounce anything, the rights of Venezuelans can't be bought or sold, we have to fight and fight until we succeed,\" he added.", "summary": "Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ruled out holding early elections amid calls from opposition groups for him to step down." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Stanley were wasteful early on with the best chance Billy Kee's strike which was tipped away by Barry Roche on 12 minutes.\nThe goal was coming and it was Kee who opened his account for the season in the 27th minute when Morecambe lost the ball on the edge of the area and the striker dinked it over Roche.\nThe Shrimps keeper then kept out John O'Sullivan's fierce strike but could not stop a second for Kee when the ball came to him at the far post from O'Sullivan and he slotted home on 34 minutes.\nThe turning point came on 36 minutes when Stanley defender Mark Hughes was shown red for pulling back Shrimps striker Cole Stockton, who was judged to be through on goal.\nMorecambe got back in it on the stroke of half-time when Liam Wakefield's corner was headed home by striker Stockton, on loan from Tranmere.\nSeconds after the re-start it was 2-2 when Kevin Ellison got the ball around 10 yards out and rifled it into the top of the net.\nThey should have had a third when Stockton got the ball with Elliot Parish stranded but Matty Pearson superbly blocked the goal-bound effort.\nBut it soon came on 57 minutes when Stockton latched onto Ellison's ball and rifled past Parish to secure the victory despite the 10 men forcing pressure at the end.\nReport supplied by the Press Association.\nMatch ends, Accrington Stanley 2, Morecambe 3.\nSecond Half ends, Accrington Stanley 2, Morecambe 3.\nPaddy Lacey (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Alex Whitmore (Morecambe).\nAttempt blocked. Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nRyan Edwards (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nBilly Kee (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Ryan Edwards (Morecambe).\nFoul by Paddy Lacey (Accrington Stanley).\nLuke Conlan (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nAttempt missed. Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\nAttempt missed. Omar Beckles (Accrington Stanley) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.\nCorner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Luke Conlan.\nFoul by Paddy Lacey (Accrington Stanley).\nRyan Edwards (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nAttempt missed. Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) header from the centre of the box is too high.\nMichael Rose (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nPaddy Lacey (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).\nSubstitution, Accrington Stanley. Paddy Lacey replaces Shay McCartan.\nAttempt missed. Michael Rose (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.\nAttempt blocked. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nSubstitution, Morecambe. Rhys Turner replaces Cole Stockton.\nAttempt blocked. Romuald Boco (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nKevin Ellison (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nMatty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Kevin Ellison (Morecambe).\nSubstitution, Morecambe. Alex Kenyon replaces Andrew Fleming.\nSubstitution, Morecambe. Lee Molyneux replaces Jack Dunn.\nFoul by Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley).\nRyan Edwards (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nAttempt saved. Tom Barkhuizen (Morecambe) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nAttempt missed. Romuald Boco (Accrington Stanley) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\nAttempt saved. Jack Dunn (Morecambe) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nSubstitution, Accrington Stanley. Romuald Boco replaces Steven Hewitt.\nJanoi Donacien (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Kevin Ellison (Morecambe).\nAttempt missed. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left.\nAttempt missed. Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\nJanoi Donacien (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.", "summary": "Morecambe stayed top of League Two after coming from two down to beat 10-man Accrington Stanley in the Lancashire derby." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Guardian journalist Rob Evans had challenged Dominic Grieve's decision to veto a High Court tribunal ruling in favour of allowing their publication.\nMr Grieve argued that releasing the letters would undermine the principle of the heir being politically neutral.\nHe was granted permission to appeal the latest ruling to the Supreme Court.\nIn September 2012 the Upper Tribunal, headed by a High Court judge, ruled that Mr Evans and the public were entitled to see the letters under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.\nThe seven government departments concerned did not appeal the decision but a month later the attorney general intervened and imposed a veto under section 53 of the FOIA.\nMr Grieve had said the departments were legally entitled to refuse disclosure because the correspondence was part of the prince's \"preparation for becoming king\".\nBut on Wednesday, the Court of Appeal ruled that the certificate should be quashed because Mr Grieve had \"no good reason\" for overriding the decision of the tribunal and he had acted in a way which was incompatible with European law.\nLord Dyson, Master of the Rolls, said the fact that Mr Grieve reached a different conclusion to the Upper Tribunal (UT) was not enough.\n\"He had no good reason for overriding the meticulous decision of the UT reached after six days of hearing and argument.\n\"He could point to no error of law or fact in the UT's decision and the government departments concerned did not even seek permission to appeal it.\"\nResponding to the verdict, a spokesman for Mr Grieve said: \"We are very disappointed by the decision of the court.\n\"We will be pursuing an appeal to the Supreme Court in order to protect the important principles which are at stake in this case.\"\nThe \"advocacy correspondence\" was described as letters the prince had written in 2004 and 2005 seeking to advance the work of charities or to promote views.\nGuardian editor Alan Rusbridger told BBC Radio 4 the prince was a \"powerful person\" who should be \"above politics\".\nHe went on: \"If that's wrong then we should have a transparent and open debate about it.\n\"But if the Prince of Wales is going to try and influence public policy in a particularly frank way then I don't think he is acting as a private citizen and therefore like any other lobby group there ought to be transparency about what he's trying to do.\"\nRepublic, which campaigns for the abolition of the monarchy, welcomed the decision.\n\"Dominic Grieve's argument is that it is better to pretend Charles is impartial than to prove he is not,\" spokesman Graham Smith said.\nIn 2010, the Freedom of Information Act was tightened up and now royal letters cannot be made public for 20 years or five years after the writer's death, whichever is longer.\nMr Smith said that law change gave the Royal Family \"complete freedom to lobby the government in secret and on whatever issue they choose\", adding: \"This has nothing to do with their royal duties and everything to do with the Windsor family protecting their own interests and pursuing their own agendas.\"", "summary": "The attorney general's refusal to let the public see letters the Prince of Wales wrote to UK ministers has been ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Amin Mohamed, a New Zealand citizen, was convicted of three counts of making preparations to travel to a foreign country to engage in hostile acts.\nIt is a crime in Australia to fight for militants on either side of the conflict in the Middle East.\nMohamed could face up to 10 years in prison for each charge.\nHis Australian visa has been cancelled and he will remain in immigration detention until he is sentenced.\nThe Victorian Supreme Court heard Mohamed wanted to fight against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.\nProsecutors said he applied for a New Zealand passport to enter Syria, booked flights to Turkey and obtained the contact details of a Turkish resident with the intent of fighting in Syria, according to the ABC.\nRecordings of telephone intercepts in which Mohamed used coded language to discuss his plans with an alleged recruiter were also played, local media said.\nPreviously the court heard a recorded conversation between Mohamed and an official at New Zealand's Security Intelligence Service.\nMohamed told the official he only wanted to travel to Turkey to see the Blue Mosque, before travelling to Denmark to meet his fiancee, according to media reports.\nAccording to the Australian government, at least 100 Australians are fighting with terror groups in the Middle East, and another 150 people in Australia are known to be supporting such groups.\nThe country is on high alert for attacks by radicalised Muslims, including those returning home from fighting in the Middle East, and has carried out a number of high-profile raids and arrests.", "summary": "A court in Australia has found a 25-year-old Melbourne resident guilty of trying to travel to Syria to fight with anti-government forces." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Jawad Fairooz and Matar Matar were detained in May after resigning from parliament in protest at the handling of the protests.\nMr Matar told the BBC they had been tortured in prison.\nThey were prosecuted in a security court on charges of taking part in illegal protests and defaming the country.\nIt is not clear if they still face trial in a civilian court.\nCivilian courts took over jurisdiction after King Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa lifted a state of emergency in June.\nMr Matar told the BBC he believed his arrest had been intended to put a pressure on his al-Wifaq party.\n\"At some stages we were tortured,\" he said. \"In one of the cases we were beaten.\"\nHuman rights lawyer Mohamed al-Tajir was also released.\nHe was detained in April having defended people arrested during the Saudi-backed suppression of protests in March.\nCorrespondents say their release appears to be an attempt at defusing tensions in the country, a key US ally in the region that hosts the US Navy's 5th Fleet.\nBahrain's King Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa recently accepted a series of reforms drawn up by a government-backed committee created to address grievances that emerged during the protests.\nThe kingdom's Shia community makes up about 70% of the population but many say they are discriminated against by the minority Sunni monarchy.", "summary": "Bahrain has freed two former Shia opposition MPs arrested in the wake of widespread anti-government protests." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Federal Judge James Robart ruled against government lawyers' claims that US states did not have the standing to challenge Mr Trump's executive order.\nLast week's move by Mr Trump triggered mass protests and has resulted in confusion at US airports.\nThe State Department says 60,000 visas have since been revoked.\nMr Trump's executive order brought in a suspension of the US Refugee Admissions Programme for 120 days.\nThere is also an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees. Anyone arriving from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen faces a 90-day visa suspension.\nTrump border policy: Who's affected?\nThe lawsuit against President Trump's ban was initially filed by Washington state, with Minnesota joining later.\nWashington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has described the ban as illegal and unconstitutional, because it discriminates against people on the ground of their religion.\nThe ruling is a major challenge to the Trump administration, and means that nationals from the seven countries are now able - in theory - to apply for US visas, the BBC's David Willis in Washington DC reports.\nThe administration can appeal against the verdict.\nPresident Trump has argued that his directive is aimed at protecting America.\nHe said visas would once again be issued once \"the most secure policies\" were in place, and denied it was a Muslim ban.\nA number of state attorney generals have said the order is unconstitutional. Several federal judges have temporarily halted the deportation of visa holders, but the Seattle ruling is the first to be applicable nationwide.\nCourts in at least four other states - Virginia, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan - are hearing cases challenging Mr Trump's executive order.\nEarlier on Friday, a judge in Boston declined to extend a temporary ban that prohibited the detention or removal of foreigners legally authorised to come to America.\nThe ban - which only applied to Massachusetts - is due to expire on 5 February.", "summary": "A US judge in Seattle has issued a temporary nationwide block on President Donald Trump's ban on travellers from seven mainly Muslim nations." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dean Smith, 38, of Pyle, was walking near Kenfig Pool on Saturday when he saw a fin sticking out of the sand.\nHe reached down to pick it up, but ending up falling and landed with the 2ft-long (0.6m) bomb on top of him.\nThe site has been cordoned off by police and the Royal Logistics Corps will carry out a controlled explosion.\nHistory enthusiast Mr Smith, who made the discovery with his son-in-law James Clarke, 20, said he often finds old ordnance material in the area.\n\"We saw the fin sticking up and I thought, that will be nice for my collection,\" he said.\n\"I pulled so hard that I fell back and it landed on top of me. We froze for a second and I noticed that the fuse was still attached so it was still live.\"\n\"I'm a bit of a history buff and so I knew what it was straight away.\n\"We phoned the police and put up a cordon with sticks and plastic bags.\n\"They [the police] were great, I think they were coming expecting what they had seen before but as he [the officer] took a closer look, I could see his eyes widen.\"\nSouth Wales Police confirmed officers were alerted to the presence of historical ordnance at Kenfig Pool and said the matter would be dealt with by the Royal Logistics Corp bomb squad.", "summary": "Bomb experts have been called to a south Wales nature reserve after an unexploded World War Two shell was discovered by a walker in Bridgend." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The decision, which is not yet final, follows a request by Argentina in 2009 to expand its maritime territory to include that of the islands, known as the Malvinas in Argentina.\nThe move would increase its waters in the South Atlantic Ocean by 35%.\nThe area is potentially rich in oil.\nHowever, the UK government has played down the commission's ruling.\nThe Prime Minister's official spokeswoman said: \"At this stage we have yet to receive details of [the] report. It is important to note that this is an advisory committee. It makes recommendations, they are not legally binding.\"\nThe Falkland Islands' government says the UN does not make changes in sovereignty in areas where the territory is disputed.\nMike Summers, chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands, which governs the islands' internal affairs, said: \"Our understanding has always been that the UN would not make any determination on applications for continental shelf extension in areas where there are competing claims.\"\nThe decision comes from the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.\nAlthough not yet binding, the move raises the stakes in the claims by the UK and Argentina to the Falkland Islands region, whose waters are being closely explored for oil and gas deposits.\nThe Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf is a group of experts established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, but it is not a United Nations' Commission.\nThe Commission notes that the islands are the subject of a dispute between the UK and Argentina, who went to war over the group in 1982.\nTuesday marks the anniversary of the ordering of the naval task force to the Falkland Islands by the then prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.\nThe UK has held the Falklands since 1833, and the vast majority of its 3,000 citizens want the islands to remain a British overseas territory.\nMany islanders remain concerned about Argentina's claim as well as the potential for problems from rapid change brought by the oil exploration industry.\nDrilling for oil in the territorial waters around the Falklands has been carried out despite opposition from Buenos Aires.\nShares in one of the companies drilling in the region, Rockhopper International, were down 9% on Tuesday.", "summary": "The Falkland Islands have asked the UK to clarify the meaning of an international commission judgement that would leave the islands surrounded by Argentina's territorial waters." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The report, by the Institution of Civil Engineers (Ice), cites evidence from council transport chiefs that about a third of Scotland's local roads are in an unacceptable condition.\nThe cost of bringing them up to an acceptable standard has been put at about £2bn.\nThe Scottish government said it had no intention of introducing road tolls.\nAt present, Ice said it was costing nearly £250m per year to avoid further deterioration.\nIt suggested the introduction of road user charges, either as a flat rate or pay-as-you-go, which would work best where there was congestion and an alternative public transport option.\nIt goes on to say that user charges should be considered more widely, as demographic change increases pressure to spend on priorities other than infrastructure.\nThe institute's report card on Scottish infrastructure - the first for four years - is more positive about improvements to major roads and other transport links.\nIt also welcomes improvements to Scotland's water and waste water treatment, and to the way flood risks are handled.\nThe biggest concern, which was highlighted in a partial publication of the Ice report last week, was about energy supply.\nIt raised Scotland's energy \"quadrilemma\" - the need to reduce carbon, cut consumer costs, ensure security of supply and take into account the social acceptability of different types of energy sources.\nThe civil engineering institute criticised the debate on energy so far, including nuclear and fracking, as \"irrational, ill-informed, emotional and politically-motivated\", and called for a robust, expert-informed national debate.\nAmong the issues raised about the future power supply is whether the quality of steady electricity supply can be maintained as well as sufficient quantity. That is if Scotland is becoming dependent on imports of power through sub-sea cable.\nIce also urged the Scottish government to plan better for energy use across transport and heating, saying that both were due for a major shift from fossil-fuel burning in the next few years.\nOther recommendations from the Institute of Civil Engineers were:\nRonnie Hunter, chairman of the group that compiled the report, said: \"Our energy, transport, flooding, water and waste systems must be resilient in the face of our changing demographics and our changing climate. Our independent, expert report analyses whether or not they are.\n\"Our grades show that most areas of Scotland's infrastructure require attention. Although there is some good news, such as in the areas of waste and strategic transport, there are serious question marks over the resilience of our energy and local transport infrastructure.\n\"To address these particular concerns, we have called for a mature and rational debate on how we generate energy, and we are also calling for the Scottish government to work with local authorities to address the £2bn maintenance backlog in Scotland's local roads.\"\nPaul Watters, Head of Public Affairs at the AA, told Radio Scotland's John Beattie programme the issue of road tolls had been around for decades.\nHe said: \"It is interesting to hear the more you travel, the more you pay. That already happens. You pay fuel duty. The more you use, the more you pay. The one thing that doesn't happen is it doesn't go into the roads.\"\nMr Watters said the UK takes in around £42bn of taxes from road use - including car tax, fuel tax and VAT on fuel - but, in Scotland and England, only £7.3bn is spent on the roads.\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"We have no plans to introduce road toll charging now or at any time in the future.\n\"However, we welcome the institution's report on the nation's infrastructure and we value the contribution and input from its members and external stakeholders from across the sectors.\n\"The report provides a helpful contribution to the wider debate about the role of infrastructure investment in Scotland, both in terms of the thoughtful evidence and the advice that it provides.\"\nThe spokesman pointed to a number of infrastructure projects being undertaken, including the new Queensferry Crossing, the Aberdeen bypass plan and investment in rail improvements between Edinburgh to Glasgow and Aberdeen to Inverness.", "summary": "Road tolls should be considered to help fund a backlog of local road repairs, a report on infrastructure has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "13 December 2014 Last updated at 07:57 GMT\nSurfer Garrett MacNamara tried to repeat his performance of 2011 when he surfed the world's biggest wave at 30 metres high.\nUnfortunately the 'weather bomb' waves off the coast of Nazaré only reached 20 metres - but he still managed to impress.", "summary": "Surfers have flocked to Praia do Norte in Nazaré, Portugal, to try and catch massive waves generated by an Atlantic storm that hit the UK." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The drawings were made by a young artist called Laurence Fish for MI5's counter-sabotage unit.\nThere is an incendiary bomb designed as a Thermos flask, an army mess tin with a bomb hidden beneath the bangers and mash, and a high-explosive device concealed in a can of motor oil.\nThere is a magnetic limpet mine for a ship's hull which explodes when detached.\nAnd there are timing devices ranging from the highly complex to the remarkably simple - like a test tube full of dried peas which expand as they absorb water and push two contacts together.\nAll were unpleasant weapons dreamt up by German sabotage experts to spread havoc among their British enemies.\nThe exploding chocolate bar, it is rumoured, was intended as part of an assassination attempt on Winston Churchill - though how it was supposed to reach him, and how the Germans might ensure that it was Churchill himself who tried to break off a slab, rather than a member of his family or his staff, isn't clear.\nThe 25 drawings, exquisite examples of 1940s draughtsmanship, were commissioned from Laurence Fish by Victor Rothschild.\nRothschild and his secretary (later his wife) made up two-thirds of MI5's tiny counter-sabotage unit.\nThe third member was a seconded police detective inspector, Donald Fish.\nWhen Rothschild was looking for someone to document the disguised and booby-trapped devices he was uncovering, Fish suggested his son, a self-taught draughstman who had learnt his trade before the war working for Alvis cars.\nThe idea was that the drawings would serve as a kind of manual for anyone who had to defuse similar devices. And there were plenty of them.\nThe historian Nigel West, who has written several books on espionage, says: \"The Germans during the Second World War were very keen on destroying ships and their cargoes leaving neutral ports for the United Kingdom.\n\"The idea was to starve Britain into submission. And they created some very ingenious devices which could be smuggled aboard ships and placed in the cargo holds with long-term timers: they wanted the ships to catch fire or to sink whilst out at sea.\"\nRothschild was a larger-than-life character, a scientist and self-appointed expert on many things, who as the fourth Baron Rothschild later became head of Prime Minister Edward Heath's pioneering Think Tank.\nHe was also brave. He won the George Medal for defusing a booby-trap device concealed by the Germans in a consignment of onions which had come by ship from Spain via Gibraltar.\nA Royal Navy lieutenant had lost an arm and an eye tackling a similar device.\nRothschild gave a running commentary over a field telephone as he worked, so that his secretary could take notes and keep a record of every step he took, in case something else went wrong.\n\"Rothschild was immensely generous with his family's money,\" says Nigel West.\n\"He didn't draw a salary; he almost certainly paid Fish for the illustrations himself; he made his family house up at Tring available to MI5 officers who were bombed out of their houses in central London.\n\"And when MI5 needed an office in Paris upon the liberation, Victor just simply made available one of his mansions.\"\nRothschild, who was a lieutenant colonel, commissioned drawings from Laurence Fish, a humble aircraftsman, via letters stamped \"Secret\". They show evidence of a close working relationship.\n\"They got on so well together,\" says Fish's widow, Jean Bray.\n\"It was an amazing combination.\n\"Rothschild had very great respect for Laurence... I don't know why, but it worked well.\"\nFish kept the letters. But the drawings vanished. Rothschild had his favourite framed and hung it on the wall of his study. A couple of others were known from photographs. Otherwise, nothing.\nThen a few weeks ago, members of the Rothschild family were clearing out their house in Suffolk when they discovered a sheaf of drawings in \"deep storage\" in a chest of drawers.\nRothschild's daughter Victoria realised what they were and got in touch with Jean.\nIn the 1950s and onwards Laurence became a successful poster artist, graphic designer and landscape painter, putting his wartime work behind him.\n\"It was interesting work obviously,\" Jean told me, \"and it must have been very concentrated work, but he wasn't going to make any money out of it so as soon as the war was over he'd got to do something that earned him a penny.\"\nIn her husband's old studio at the top of their home in the pretty Gloucestershire village of Winchcombe she showed me the pile of drawings, carefully wrapped in brown paper, cardboard and tissue paper, that Victoria Rothschild Gray had sent her.\nThe exploding chocolate bar may be the most famous, but Jean's personal favourite is an exceptionally intricate 21-day timer involving a rotating disc.\nAt the top, it says, in especially bold letters, \"Do not unscrew here.\" At the bottom, equally bold, are the words: \"Unscrew here first.\"\nNow Jean hopes that a museum or archive will agree to take the pictures: freehand precision drawings made long before the age of computer-aided design, and a fascinating record of fiendish wartime ingenuity", "summary": "Drawings of wartime boobytrap bombs, including an exploding chocolate bar and devices intended to sink ships, have been rediscovered after 70 years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is \"unacceptable\" to be getting those questions in 2017, the politician, Jacinda Ardern, said.\nSo what added scrutiny are female politicians under, and, conversely, can mothers sometimes use their family lives to their political advantage?\nSome politicians have faced serious political attacks for not having children. New Zealanders just need to look across the water to Australia for one example: former Prime Minister Julia Gillard.\nIn an editorial, the Sydney Morning Herald wrote: \"Her media persona does not fit the expectations of some voters: a single woman, childless, whose life is dedicated to her career.\"\nThis was one of the kinder comments. While leading Australia, Ms Gillard was called \"deliberately barren\" (by a senator from another party) and a \"childless, atheist ex-communist\" (by a rival from her own party).\nShe fought back against personal attacks against her, most notably with a searing tirade against the leader of the opposition, in which she said: \"If he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia ... he needs a mirror.\"\nRegarding voters' expectations, the newspaper may have had a point.\nPolitical scientist Jessica Smith from Birkbeck College in London researches parenthood, gender and political leaders. She says that despite changing roles in society, the prominent idea of women is that they are mothers.\nThe \"stereotype of women as primary caregivers\" is still \"very much a lens that we like to see women through\", she told the BBC.\n\"There's also a trope that gets rolled out about career women, that if a woman doesn't have children she's sacrificed that for her career,\" she added.\nMs Smith says families have become more important in politics, as we \"become more interested in the personalities or politicians\", but she says \"men seem to have an opt-out clause for discussions of family, which women don't\".\nIt is a slightly different story in Germany.\nChancellor Angela Merkel may affectionately be called \"mutti\" (mum) by many Germans, but she has no biological children.\nIt is not common knowledge why she does not have children, and it is not a topic covered by the press; Germany has strong privacy laws and the media is much more policy-oriented than in other places.\nBut that has not stopped a political opponent trying to weaponise the issue during a tricky time.\nBack in 2005, Ms Merkel was running against her predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, and it was his wife, Doris Schröder-Köpf, who commented she did \"not embody with her biography the experiences of most women\".\nIt was a clear reference to her not being a mother.\nThis will sound like an echo to readers familiar with the Andrea Leadsom/Theresa May story from the UK last year. Both women were vying to become the leader of the same party - a leadership that would make them the prime minister.\nMother-of-three Mrs Leadsom told a daily newspaper that being a mum meant she had \"a very real stake\" in the country's future. It was interpreted as a dig against Mrs May, who has no children.\nThe comment backfired and, despite an apology, the episode brought down Mrs Leadsom's leadership bid.\nBut it still showed how a woman politician without children may find her childlessness is used against her.\nStereotypes often define women as more \"communal and caring\" than men, says Ms Smith, and motherhood can help them \"extend on\" that image.\nMs Smith says it is an image that politicians on the right of the political spectrum are best at exploiting, because it fits with traditional family values. She cites \"hockey mom\" Sarah Palin, who was governor of Alaska and campaigned for the US vice-presidency in 2008, as someone who did it well.\nDespite losing, Ms Palin made huge inroads; she was the first Republican woman to be on the vice-presidential ticket, and she became very well-known. She was a mum of five and called herself a \"mama grizzly\".\nFrauke Petry in Germany is a more recent example of a right-wing mother whose children are central to her image.\nThe AfD leader was heavily pregnant with her fifth child at a party conference earlier this year. Last week she tweeted a picture of herself with her newborn, and the caption: \"What's your reason to fight for Germany?\"\nAnd then there is US presidential runner-up Hillary Clinton, who has tried to soften her image by drawing on her status as a grandmother.\nFor others, motherhood has been an obstacle.\nIn Japan in 2009 even the government minister tasked with raising the birth rate, Yuko Obuchi, said she was worried about juggling motherhood with her work.\nSix years earlier, Russian property affairs minister Zumrud Rustamova noted while attending an important board meeting a week before her son was due that \"people pretended that everything was all right, but would secretly be glancing at my huge belly\".\nIn the UK, a 2012 study by Dr Rosie Campbell and Prof Sarah Childs found female MPs were more than twice as likely as people in the general population to have no children. They found the average age of female MPs' eldest child when they first entered parliament was 16, compared to 12 for men.\nAnd while some things may lift those obstacles - a creche in government buildings, say, or jobshare arrangements for politicians, or allowing women to breastfeed in parliament - the extra scrutiny on women's family lives is often reflected by how voters see female candidates.\nThe Barbara Lee Family Foundation in the US wrote: \"Voters recognise a double standard but actively and consciously participate in it.\n\"They express anxiety about a woman's job in office taking a backseat to her role at home and wonder who is taking care of the children, especially if they are young.\n\"If a candidate doesn't have children, voters worry that she may not be able to truly understand the concerns of families.\"", "summary": "A new political party leader in New Zealand has reacted angrily to repeated questions about whether she plans to have children." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The government research paper outlines an ambitious 20-year plan for the largely undeveloped region.\nIt includes proposals for new roads, airstrips, dams and changes to land-use laws to allow more development.\nBut one Aboriginal leader said he feared the proposal was a \"Trojan horse\" to undermine native title.\nThe government's white paper was a \"welcome focus on the north\" said Noel Pearson, an influential Aboriginal leader from Cape York in far north Queensland.\n\"But this approach is full of threat and full of opportunity,\" said Mr Pearson.\nSpeaking on Australia's ABC TV on Friday, he said: \"Our concern is that governments, including the Commonwealth, see this as a Trojan horse to undermine Mabo.\"\nHe was referring to the landmark 1992 court ruling recognising native title in Australia.\nNative title recognises the traditional rights and interests of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to land and waters they can prove a long-standing connection to but does not extinguish freehold title or pastoral leases.\nMr Pearson warned the government it must negotiate with Aboriginal people, who make up a large part of the north's population and own much of the land under native title.\nHe said there was a big chance developers would try to \"sideline\" Aboriginal concerns and that they would end up with \"scraps off the table\" of any major development.\nThe government's plan, launched officially on Friday, includes a A$600m ($545m; £343m) roads package to upgrade transport infrastructure, and a A$200m water infrastructure fund.\nLand-use laws in the north have led to long delays and cost blowouts in construction and mining projects over the past decade, so the white paper includes support for native title bodies and new surveys to start simplifying land arrangements.\nGovernments have talked in the past of opening up the north of Australia to more development, especially agriculture.\nHowever, monsoonal weather in some parts of the region, very dry weather elsewhere, and poor soils have been seen as barriers to successful large-scale farming.\nThe government hopes to attract billions of dollars in cash from overseas investors.", "summary": "Aboriginal Australians have expressed concerns that a government plan to develop the country's north will undermine their land rights." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "IT worker Jac Holmes, from Bournemouth, had been fighting with the main Kurdish force in the northern Syria.\nHe was detained with Joe Akerman, from Halifax, and Irish citizen Joshua Molloy in an area controlled by the the Kurdistan Regional Government.\nForeign Office officials are due to visit him in prison.\nThe UK government strongly warns against travelling to the region.\nThe three men had been returning to the UK at the time of their arrest, the BBC understands.\nThe group had been waiting some weeks waiting to cross the border, which was closed. They were detained five days ago after attempting to cross another part of the frontier.\nIt is not known on what grounds they were detained.\nKurdish rights activist Mark Campbell said Mr Holmes was \"very tired and in need of rest and recuperation\".\n\"He's done a brave thing in the view of a lot of people and then to have to face all this is just an extra burden.\n\"He's a very resourceful young man, I think he'll be bearing up under the stress. And probably hoping things will work themselves out.\"\nDespite having no military experience, Mr Holmes first entered Syria with the People's Protection Unit, or YPG, aged 22, in January 2015.\nHe has previously told the BBC his interest in Syria began in 2011 with his attention gradually shifting to the struggle of the Kurds in the north as IS started to target them.\nHe started following Kurdish social media accounts, as well as those of Western volunteers fighting with Kurds.\nDuring his first spell in Syria he was shot through the right shoulder while fighting. He returned to the UK in August but said he willing to return to Syria.\nMore than 250,000 people have been killed since the civil war in Syria began in 2011.", "summary": "A British man who joined Kurdish forces to fight the Islamic State group in Syria has been arrested attempting to cross the Iraqi border." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The yacht of David Romano, 57, and Michael Ashford, 42, both from Jersey, was boarded by the French authorities off Martinique in November.\nThe SY Hygeia of Halsa was found to contain a quarter of a tonne of cocaine with a street value of some £40m, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\nRomano received a 10-year jail sentence while Ashford got seven years.\nThe NCA said the men appeared before a judge at a court in Fort de France, Martinique, on Friday.\nThe SY Hygeia of Halsa, which had been about to embark on a transatlantic crossing, was intercepted as part of an operation involving the NCA, the Metropolitan Police and the French authorities.\nThe action was prompted by an NCA and Met Police investigation into a London-based organised crime group believed to be involved in the large-scale importation of drugs.\nHank Cole, the NCA's head of international operations, said: \"Had we not intervened, these drugs would have ended up being sold on the streets of London.\"", "summary": "Two men caught trying to sail a yacht loaded with 250kg of cocaine to the UK have been jailed in the Caribbean." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The killing was one of the deadliest targeted attacks in Colombia in years.\nPolice say the suspects belong to a criminal gang whose leader was arrested last month and who ordered the attack from behind bars.\nThey said the motive could be revenge for his recent capture or a deadly message to businessmen who have refused to pay the gang protection money.\nThe security forces arrested Oscar Dario Barrientos and two of his men in north-western Antioquia province.\nPolice say they were the three men who approached the foreman of a farm in Santa Rosa de Osos last week and asked if the owner had been paying protection money.\nIn a scene which a local official described as \"something out of hell\", they then opened fire killing nine men and a woman who were harvesting fruit.\nPolice director Gen Jose Leon Riano said the attack had been ordered by a man known as \"Jorge 18\", the leader of a gang calling itself Los Renacentistas.\nGen Leon Riano said it was not yet clear whether \"Jorge 18\" had ordered the attack to avenge his capture in October or if it was in retaliation for the non-payment of protection money to his gang by the farm's owner.\nThe local mayor said there had been a rise in extortion in the area.\nThe Colombian government says criminal gangs are one of the main threats facing the nation and have declared its fight against them a key priority.", "summary": "Colombian security forces have arrested three men they suspect of shooting dead 10 farm workers last week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "DF Concerts said it needed to \"take stock\" and that the two years since the festival moved to Strathallan from Balado \"have had their challenges.\"\nThe promoter said \"continued restrictions\" had had a \"negative impact\" on festivalgoers.\nIt added that the limitations placed on their fans' experience were \"too great\".\nThe organisers said: \"We now need to take stock and take a year out to try to resolve the issues so that we can once again deliver the kind of camping festival you are used to and deserve.\"\nThe festival's first year at Strathallan in 2015 was plagued by traffic problems, leading to organisers implementing a transport plan for this summer's event.\nTwo teenagers died at this year's festival in separate incidents, while witnesses reported fights and illicit drug use in the campsite area.\nScotland's largest music festival has been held every year since 1994, when Rage Against the Machine and Primal Scream were the headline acts.\nThe first three years took place at Strathclyde Park, near Hamilton in Lanarkshire, before it moved to Balado in Perth and Kinross.\nOver 17 years it grew to a three-day festival attracting 225,000 people, including 70,000 campers.\nIn 2015 the festival moved to Strathallan Castle in Perthshire.\nThe move was prompted after \"substantial\" concerns were raised by health and safety inspectors about an oil pipeline which ran underneath the Balado site.\nPlanning permission for the July 2015 event was only approved two months before the festival, following public consultations on the move and concerns over a pair of nesting ospreys at the site.\nThe 2015 event drew the largest number of complaints and negative comments in the festival's history, with \"significant traffic congestion\" highlighted.\nOrganisers responded by announcing a revamp of the transport plan, arena and campsite ahead of this year's event.\nIn a statement the organisers have now said the festival will not take place in 2017.\nThe statement by DF Concerts and founding partner Tennent's Lager said: \"Against our will, and despite a prolonged fight, we were forced to move from Balado, Kinross in 2015.\n\"This move was a mammoth task for the event and one that was compounded by a series of onerous site restrictions placed upon us as preparations for the event in 2015 took place.\"\nIt said that the logistical and financial constraints placed upon it by those planning conditions are \"simply not workable\".\nThe company added: \"We tried our best to work with the pressures placed upon the site by bringing in an additional team and fixing the first year traffic issues, but ultimately we're not in control of the overall site layout and the continued restrictions means that the negative impact on our fans and the limitations placed on their experience is too great.\"\nStrathallan councillor Tom Gray, who is convener of Perth and Kinross Council's development management committee, said he was \"disappointed\" at the announcement.\nHe said the decision on whether the festival would return to the site in 2018 was \"entirely up to DF Concerts\".\nMr Gray said: \"I would like to see it back because it is some sort of help to the area.\n\"The first year was a big learning curve. Last year was a big improvement, no question about that.\n\"But I can only wait and see what they will apply for next time around and consider it then.\"", "summary": "Scotland's largest music festival, T in the Park, is to take a break next year, its organisers have confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "10 December 2016 Last updated at 11:39 GMT\nBut now the show is in its 13th year, can the show still produce big music stars year after year?\nThe debut single from last year's winner, Louisa Johnson, only reached number nine, making it the lowest charting X Factor winner's single.\nRicky caught with Matt Terry and 5 After Midnight a few weeks ago to see what they thought.\nAnd we asked some of our very own judges for their verdicts!", "summary": "The X Factor has brought us the likes of Little Mix, One Direction, Leona Lewis and James Arthur over the years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The company raised its revenue forecast for this year, saying there was stronger-than-expected demand for personal computers used by businesses.\nShares in Intel rose almost 5% in after-hours trading on Wall Street.\nPC sales have been under intense pressure as consumers' preferences switch to tablets and smartphones.\nIntel said it now expects second-quarter revenue of $13.7bn - plus or minus $300m. Intel had previously forecast revenue of $13bn - plus or minus $500m.\nThe chipmaker said it expects \"some\" revenue growth for the full year, compared with its previous forecast of flat revenue.\nWith personal computer shipments falling for eight straight quarters to the end of March, some analysts have suggested the industry's decline is close to hitting bottom, potentially giving Intel breathing room as it struggles to develop better processors for mobile and wearable devices.\n\"PCs have been getting less bad for a while,\" said Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon. \"But if it's all business PCs then the question is going to be sustainability.\"", "summary": "Intel has delivered a rare piece of good news for the shrinking PC market after the chipmaker noted a pick-up in demand." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Minister Abdel Fatah al-Sissi's remarks follow a report leaked to a British newspaper which implicates the army in serious human rights abuses.\nHe called the claims a \"betrayal\".\nOver 800 people were killed in violence during and after Egypt's 2011 uprising, but the deaths were widely blamed on the police rather than the army.\nA document leaked to the Guardian newspaper which was reportedly presented to President Mohammed Morsi late last year clearly implicates the armed forces in abuses during the 18-day revolution.\nOn Friday, Human Rights Watch called for the full report into police and military abuses between January 2011 and June 2012 to be made public.\n\"Victims' families have the right to know the truth about their loved ones' deaths. Even if certain information can't be made public in the interests of justice, all Egyptians need to know what happened,\" said Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.\nThe leaked chapter contains testimony relating to civilians detained at military checkpoints who were never seen again and reports that the army delivered unidentified bodies to coroners.\nThe report also presents evidence that protesters from Tahrir Square were detained by the army and tortured inside the nearby Egyptian Museum, before being moved to military prisons.\nIn a joint press conference with Mr Morsi on Friday, the defence minister said: \"I swear to God from the beginning of the 25 January revolution until now, the armed forces did not kill or order killing, did not betray or order betrayal, and did not commit treason or order treason.\"\nMr Sissi called on the public to consider that \"the armed forces are honourable, faithful and nationalistic\" before they \"betray your army\".\nOver recent weeks, members of the committee that compiled the report, which included human rights lawyers, had said that the military had not been co-operative during the investigation.", "summary": "Egypt's defence minister has denied claims that the armed forces were involved in killing and torturing protesters during Egypt's revolution." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nSomerset are \"still interested\" in bringing back 36-year-old Gayle, despite his £4,900 fine for asking a reporter on a date during an interview.\nThe West Indies batsman was disciplined for \"inappropriate conduct\".\n\"If Somerset decided he was remorseful and wanted to sign him that would be no problem for me,\" said Shrubsole.\nSomerset said negotiations to bring Gayle back to the club this summer are \"ongoing\".\nHe has been described as \"box office\" by the club's director of cricket Matthew Maynard, with Somerset selling out six of their seven T20 Blast games last year \"essentially on the back of him signing\".\nGayle, who scored 328 runs in three appearances for Somerset in 2015, is playing for Melbourne Renegades in Australia's Big Bash League.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nHe was answering questions from Network Ten's Mel McLaughlin at pitch-side in Hobart on Monday when he made the remark, also telling her, \"Don't blush, baby\", which was widely condemned as sexist.\nAsked whether it would bother her playing for the same club as Gayle, 24-year-old Shrubsole told BBC Somerset: \"No, not at all.\n\"It's Somerset's decision entirely as to whether they want him to come back or not. He was exceptional when he was here in those three T20 games and the amount of runs he scored was unbelievable.\"\nShrubsole, who will be part of the England women's squad for the tour of South Africa, said she felt his comments were \"inappropriate\".\nShe added: \"The matter has been dealt with and Melbourne themselves have come out and punished him and I think the matter will be closed.\"", "summary": "Somerset captain and England bowler Anya Shrubsole says she would have \"no problem\" with the club wanting to re-sign Chris Gayle." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It uses the strange \"quantum states\" of matter to perform calculations in a way that, if scaled up, could vastly outperform conventional computers.\nThe 6mm-by-6mm chip holds nine quantum devices, among them four \"quantum bits\" that do the calculations.\nThe team said further scaling up to 10 qubits should be possible this year.\nRather than the ones and zeroes of digital computing, quantum computers deal in what are known as superpositions - states of matter that can be thought of as both one and zero at once.\nIn a sense, quantum computing's one trick is to perform calculations on all superposition states at once. With one quantum bit, or qubit, the difference is not great, but the effect scales rapidly as the number of qubits rises.\nThe figure often touted as the number of qubits that would bring quantum computing into a competitive regime is about 100, so each jump in the race is a significant one.\n\"It's pretty exciting we're now at a point that we can start talking about what the architecture is we're going to use if we make a quantum processor,\" Erik Lucero of the University of California, Santa Barbara told the conference.\nThe team's key innovation was to find a way to completely disconnect - or \"decouple\" - interactions between the elements of their quantum circuit.\nThe delicate quantum states the team creates in their qubits - in this case paired superconductors known as Josephson junctions - must be manipulated, moved, and stored without destroying them.\n\"It's a problem I've been thinking about for three or four years now, how to turn off the interactions,\" UCSB's John Martinis, who led the research,\" told BBC News.\n\"Now we've solved it, and that's great - but there's many other things we have to do.\"\nThe solution came in the form of what the team has termed the RezQu architecture. It is basically a blueprint for a quantum computer, and several presentations at the conference focused on how to make use of it.\n\"For me this is kind of nice, I know how I'm going to put them together,\" said Professor Martinis.\n\"I now know how to design it globally and I can go back and try to optimise all the parts.\"\nRezQu seems to have an edge in one crucial arena - scalability - that makes it a good candidate for the far more complex circuits that would constitute a quantum computer proper.\n\"There are competing architectures, like ion traps - trapping ions with lasers, but the complexity there is that you have to have a huge room full of PhDs just to run your lasers,\" Mr Lucero told BBC News.\n\"There's already promise to show how this architecture could scale, and we've created custom electronics based on cellphone technology which has driven the cost down a lot.\n\"We're right at the bleeding edge of actually having a quantum processor,\" he said. \"It's been years that a whole community has blossomed just looking at the idea of, once we have a quantum computer, what are we going to do with it?\"\nBritton Plourde, a quantum computing researcher from the University of Syracuse, said that the field has progressed markedly in recent years.\nThe metric of interest to quantum computing is how long the delicate quantum states can be preserved, and Dr Plourde noted that time had increased a thousand fold since the field's inception.\n\"The world of superconducting quantum bits didn't even exist 10 years ago, and now they can control [these states] to almost arbitrary precision,\" he told BBC News.\n\"We're still a long way from a large-scale quantum computer but it's really in my eyes rapid progress.\"", "summary": "One of the most complex efforts toward a quantum computer has been shown off at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas in the US." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He was found in the River Taff close to Taffs Mead Embankment in June.\nThe death is not being treated as suspicious and the family of the infant have yet to come forward.\nSouth Wales Police previously said they believed the boy died at birth.", "summary": "Police have ended their investigation into the baby boy whose body was found in a Cardiff river." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The EU's executive arm said the influx would have a \"small but positive\" effect on EU economic output, raising GDP by 0.2-0.3%.\nThe influx will raise the EU population by 0.4%, the Commission forecasts, taking account of failed asylum claims.\nThe flow of Syrian refugees to Europe shows no sign of abating, the UN says.\nThe weather in the Aegean Sea has got rougher with the onset of winter. But Peter Sutherland, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special representative on migration, said Syrians were not put off by that.\nThe Syrian war \"is driving people to desperation in terms of leaving and it will continue in its effects\", he told the BBC.\n\"This is now a global responsibility, but it is a particular European responsibility,\" he said.\nConflicts and abuses in Iraq, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Somalia are also pushing people towards Europe.\nThe flow of refugees and other migrants from Turkey to Greece is expected to continue at a rate of 5,000 daily this winter, the UN refugee agency UNHCR says.\nDelivering the EU's autumn economic forecast, EU Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said extra public spending and the extra labour supply from recognised refugees would lead to a small GDP rise in the EU as a whole.\nHowever, the Commission cautioned that \"the uncertainty surrounding the influx thus far and its future development is substantial\".\nCommenting on the three million figure given by the Commission, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said \"nothing illustrates the need to be out of the EU and to restore proper border controls more than this dire prediction\".\nThe UK Independence Party says that inside the EU the UK is powerless to stop immigration from other EU countries.\nThe Commission said the figure of three million was an assumption rather than a prediction and included those who had already arrived in 2015.\nUN refugee officials say more than 750,000 migrants have arrived in the EU by sea this year, up from 282,000 in total in 2014.\nThe vast majority have arrived in Greece (608,000), which has become the most common destination. Some 140,000 have arrived in Italy in 2015.\nMost of the migrants head for Germany, hoping to get asylum there. German officials say their country is likely to host at least 800,000 new migrants this year, and the total could reach 1.5 million.\nSweden has the highest share of refugees per head of population in the EU. The extra cost in public spending is likely to be nearly 0.5% of GDP this year, the Commission says, adding that \"the corresponding positive effects on growth would be somewhat smaller\".\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "summary": "Three million migrants are likely to arrive in Europe by 2017 as the record influx via the Mediterranean continues, the European Commission says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is reported that a missile went off course, but the government has not confirmed or denied this.\nTheresa May was told about the test when she became prime minister in July, shortly before MPs voted overwhelmingly to renew Trident.\nSir Michael told the Commons he had \"absolute confidence\" in the system.\nLabour and the SNP have urged the government to explain whether the test firing from HMS Vengeance went wrong.\nThe Sunday Times reported an unarmed missile had been set off from the submarine off the coast of Florida but, rather than head towards Africa, had veered towards the US.\nCNN quoted an unnamed US defence official on Monday as saying the missile did deviate from its intended trajectory as part of an automatic self-destruct sequence.\nSir Michael was asked several times by MPs to say whether or not the test missile had gone off course as reported.\nHe said: \"I can assure the House that the capability and effectiveness of of the United Kingdom's independent nuclear deterrent is not in doubt.\n\"The government has absolute confidence in our deterrent and in the Royal Navy.\"\nFor Labour, shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said: \"This is just not good enough.\"\nShe added: \"At the heart of this issue is a worrying lack of transparency and a prime minister who's chosen to cover up a serious incident, rather than coming clean with the British public. This House, and more importantly the British public, deserve better.\"\nAnother Labour MP, Mary Creagh, said a White House official had confirmed to the US broadcaster CNN that the missile did \"auto-self-destruct\" off the coast of Florida. She asked why people in the UK were \"the last to know\".\nThe Defence Select Committee chairman, Conservative MP Julian Lewis, urged the government to be frank about what happened, while the SNP said it was \"absolutely outrageous\" that information had been deliberately withheld from MPs.\nBut Sir Michael said: \"We do not give operational details of the demonstration and shake-down operation of one of our submarines conducting a test with one of our Trident missiles\"\nThe Ministry of Defence said submarine HMS Vengeance and its crew had \"successfully tested\" last June, with Sir Michael repeating this.\nHe cautioned people against \"believing everything\" they read in newspapers and said: \"I am not going to respond to speculation about the test last June.\"\nBy Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor\nIt's one of the simplest questions in politics, and one of the most troublesome.\nAt the start of a critical political week, Theresa May finds herself under pressure for refusing to answer it.\nDid she, or did she not know that something had gone wrong with our nuclear weapons, when she asked MPs to vote to renew the costly Trident system?\nRead Laura's blog\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, a long-standing opponent of Trident, whose submarines are based at Faslane on the River Clyde, called the apparent misfire a \"hugely serious issue\".\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the Royal Navy had carried out half a dozen such tests since 2000 and in the past had publicised successful launches, but this time had not.\nSir Michael told MPs that decisions on publicity were made \"on a case-by-case basis\" and were \"informed by the circumstances\".\nHMS Vengeance, one of the UK's four Vanguard-class submarines, returned to sea for trials in December 2015 after a £350m refit, which included the installation of new missile launch equipment and upgraded computer systems.\nAccording to the Sunday Times, the unarmed Trident II D5 missile was intended to be fired 5,600 miles (9,012 km) from the coast of Florida to a sea target off the west coast of Africa - but veered towards the US.\nIn July, days after Mrs May had become prime minister following David Cameron's resignation, MPs backed the £40bn renewal of Trident by 472 votes to 117.\nDuring the debate, Mrs May told MPs it would be \"an act of gross irresponsibility\" for the UK to abandon its nuclear weapons.\nBut 52 SNP MPs voted against it, as did 47 Labour MPs including party leader Jeremy Corbyn.\nQuestioned by the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday, Prime Minister Theresa May refused four times to say whether she had known about the test firing ahead of the vote.\nSpeaking on a visit to Cheshire on Monday, she said: \"I'm regularly briefed on national security issues. I was briefed on the successful certification of HMS Vengeance and her crew.\"\nShe added: \"I have absolute faith in our independent nuclear deterrent. I believe we should continue to have that for the future, the House of Commons voted for that.\"\nThe Trident system was acquired by the Thatcher government in the early 1980s as a replacement for the Polaris missile system, which the UK had possessed since the 1960s.\nTrident came into use in the 1990s. There are three parts to it - submarines, missiles and warheads. Although each component has years of use left, they cannot last indefinitely.\nThe current generation of four submarines would begin to end their working lives some time in the late 2020s.\nA guide to the Trident debate\nEarlier, Julian Lewis said Mrs May had been \"handed a no-win situation\" by her predecessor as Prime Minister, David Cameron, whose \"spin doctors\" had been responsible for a \"cover-up\".\nHe told Today that the government usually released film footage of the \"99%\" of missile tests deemed a success and that ministers could not \"have it both ways\" by not announcing when this had not been the case.\nBut a spokesman for Mr Cameron said: \"It is entirely false to suggest that David Cameron's media team covered up or suggested a cover-up for the Trident missile test.\"\nCaroline Lucas, co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, called for \"full disclosure\", adding: \"A missile veering off course is deeply concerning. Imagine such a failure occurring in a 'real-world' situation - it could lead to the slaughter of millions of people in an ally's country.\"\nKate Hudson, general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said: \"There's absolutely no doubt that this would have impacted on the debate in Parliament.\"\nBut former nuclear submarine commander and Ulster Unionist Party assembly member, Steve Aiken, told Today that any fault \"would have been sorted out\".\n\"There is a convention that we don't talk about the deterrent... because that is the nature of the deterrent - it is about the security of this nation and I would fully support the prime minister in avoiding those questions,\" he said.", "summary": "Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has refused to divulge \"operational details\" of what happened during a Trident test last June." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "On Saturday, I walked 11,225 steps, was active for a total of one hour and 23 minutes, and burned 2,569 calories.\nWhy should you - or I for that matter - be interested in that data, which was collected by one of a number of wearable activity monitoring devices which are now entering the market? That's a question we explore in a film for Newsnight about the rise of wearable technology and its implications.\nThere are now all sorts of gadgets, from the Nike Fuelband to the Jawbone UP, which measure your physical activity. Then there are others which take photos constantly to give you a record of what you've seen throughout the day, devices like the Autographer and Memoto which are about to go on sale.\nThen of course there is Google Glass, the poster child for wearable technology, even though it is many months away from being in the hands of consumers.\nAll of these devices will generate a huge amount of data, and there is already a group of dedicated technophiles who see a way of using it. They call the practice of recording the minutiae of their activities \"life-logging\" or \"the quantified self\".\nWe met one of them, Paul Boag, a web designer in Dorset who has always been an early adopter of technology. He is one of the guinea pigs in a research project run by the computing department at Goldsmith's College, London, which is looking at the impact of wearable computing on our lives.\nPaul wears the Jawbone UP wristband, which measures his activity during the day and monitors his sleep at night. He is also very focused on collecting, recording and analysing lots of other data that tells him more about himself. He has suffered from depression in the past and believes this process is helping him.\n\"What excites me is taking control of my own life,\" he told me. \"The more I know about my body the more aware I am. We often go through life in a stupor and one thing to the next but this makes me aware of myself.\"\nIt's not just individuals taking advantage of this new method of self-examination. Companies too are taking interest, and this is where the privacy issues around the way the data is used begin to look very tricky.\nThe cloud technology firm Appirio has issued many of its staff with the UP wristband, tracking everything from their food intake to their sleep patterns. It is a voluntary scheme, and Lori Williams who runs the European division of the American business says it's already proving valuable for employees and the firm.\n\"We've had about a hundred employees that have lost a stone or more in the last several months. Last month alone, we collectively walked about 17,000km (10,563 miles). So it's making us not just better employees but I think better people. And I think that's the benefit.\"\nThe company has also managed to cut its health insurance costs in the United States by showing its insurer the impact of this life-logging plan.\nBut, although the scheme is voluntary at this company, there are bound to be concerns that this kind of monitoring will become standard. Ten years from now, how will an employer using life-logging technology view those who choose to opt out?\nAnd there are wider questions about who will own all the data generated by these new devices and how careful they will be with it. Companies like Google are already promising tight privacy controls on their products. There'll be no facial recognition, for instance, in Google Glass.\nBut Nick Pickles of Big Brother Watch believes we all need to be very cautious about such promises: \"There is a tension between privacy and profit, and profits usually win,\" he told us. \"The nightmare is, the data is in the cloud and it's out of your control. The company owns it so you don't. With facial recognition, someone takes a photo of you in the street and goes home and they can build up a huge picture of your life without you ever knowing about it.\"\nOf course, the great unknowable in all of this is just how far the appetite for wearable technology will stretch beyond early adopters like Paul Boag. But if we do all end up wearing devices that record our every step and take pictures of every person we meet, then we will need to think carefully about both the etiquette and the ethics of logging our lives.", "summary": "Last night I slept for six hours and 38 minutes, with four hours and five minutes of that being light sleep, and deep sleep of two hours and 33 minutes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Describing agency workers as \"the forgotten face\" in the debate around insecure work, the think tank estimates a full-time agency worker gets £430 less than an employee in the same role.\nThe current number of 865,000 has grown by 30% since 2011, it said.\nLast week, the government announced a review into modern working practices.\nThe Resolution Foundation, which campaigns on issues around low pay, said women accounted for 85% of the growth in temporary agency workers.\nIt did not explain why that was, but it will form part of an 18-month investigation into the subject.\nThe organisation says the workers are disadvantaged not only by lower pay, but also because they are not entitled to sick or parental leave pay and are more easily dismissed.\nHalf of all agency workers say they work on a permanent basis and three-quarters work full-time, according to the report.\nAnd while there are good reasons for companies to use agency workers, the associated pay penalty was concerning, it said.\nOther findings include:\n\"While zero-hours contracts are often in the news, agency workers are the 'forgotten face' of the modern workforce, despite being just as prevalent across the labour market,\" said Lindsay Judge, senior policy analyst.\n\"This fast-growing group is not just made up of young people looking for temporary employment as some have suggested, but instead includes many older full-time, permanent workers.\n\"With the prospect of higher inflation squeezing living standards in the years ahead it is important that the discussion of the non-traditional parts of work in modern Britain consider the relatively lower pay that agency workers receive compared to identical employees in similar jobs,\" she added.\nShe also called for the government to examine the issue and introduce an official measure of agency workers.\nA spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"Everyone deserves to be treated fairly at work regardless of the type of contract they are on...\n\"The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate regulates the sector and investigates every valid complaint made against an employment business.\"", "summary": "The number of agency workers is set to reach one million by 2020 if current growth trends continue, according to Resolution Foundation research." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "After being put in, Alex Hughes' 55 helped the hosts to 124-2 before Charlie Shreck (3-67) and Neil Dexter (2-60) led a Leicestershire fightback.\nBut 20-year-old Hosein compiled his best first-class score before bad light brought an early end to the day.\nBottom side Derbyshire are still looking for their first win of 2016.", "summary": "Harvey Hosein struck an unbeaten 79 as Derbyshire reached 282-8 on the opening day of their Division Two match against Leicestershire at Derby." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Independent Police Complaints Commission found the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) had not dealt with the material properly.\nToronto Police alerted Ceop to website users who had bought films thought to contain indecent images of children.\nIt was sent in July 2012, but had not been forwarded to police by late 2013.\nIt was only when Toronto Police again contacted Ceop in October that year for an update on progress that the oversight was found.\nThe intelligence from the operation, called Project Spade, has resulted in the jailing of Cambridge doctor Myles Bradbury, who abused young cancer patients, and Cardiff deputy head teacher Gareth Williams, who secretly filmed pupils.\nAnother person named was Essex deputy head teacher teacher Martin Goldberg, who was found dead a day after police questioned him.\nA police officer, who had been seconded to Ceop at the time from a regional force, faced misconduct proceedings for allegedly failing in his duties and responsibilities.\nAt a meeting on Monday the allegations against him were found to be not proven.\nIn its report, released on Tuesday, the complaints watchdog said the initial handling of the material from the Canadian investigation had been appropriate.\nBut how it had been referred on afterwards was a concern.\nIt said: \"There was evidence of a lack of a general understanding or agreement as to who had ownership of the issue for some time, disagreements as to which team within the organisation might have the capacity to take the lead and consider and process the information most appropriately.\"\nAt the time, Ceop was under the command of the Serious Organised Crime Agency. The National Crime Agency (NCA) replaced Soca in October 2013.\nAn NCA spokesman said of the report findings: \"No NCA officers faced any misconduct charges but one has received words of advice.\n\"As the IPCC has noted, the NCA commissioned two internal reviews to ensure that processes were improved. All of the recommendations of these reviews were accepted and have been implemented.\"\nHe said the NCA's Ceop Command had \"transformed significantly\" during the last 18 months with the investment of £10m announced at the WeProtect summit in 2014.\nAnd he added that in 2015 to 2016, 1,802 children were safeguarded or protected as a result of NCA activity.", "summary": "Information on 2,345 British paedophile suspects supplied by Canadian police was \"poorly handled\" by the body set up to protect children, a report has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Southgate, 46, was interviewed for three hours on Monday after an unbeaten four-match spell as interim manager.\nThe Football Association says he is \"the only candidate\" for the role.\n\"It's just been dragged out a bit,\" said Mills, 39. \"I'm a little bit surprised with the FA.\"\nMills played alongside Southgate for both England and Middlesbrough.\n\"Surely you just give him the same contract as Sam Allardyce,\" he added.\n\"They made these decisions under Allardyce - the money for the job.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nFormer England striker Chris Sutton was critical of the interview process and said it was a \"slap across the face\" for Southgate.\nBut former FA chief executive Adrian Bevington said he did not think it was \"overcomplicating\" the issue.\nAfter Allardyce's departure following a newspaper investigation, Southgate led England to two wins and two draws during his time in interim charge.\n\"Gareth should be appointed as soon as possible,\" added Mills. \"The job he's done is impeccable.\n\"A lot of people say he's too nice. Yes, he's an absolute gentleman, and very articulate, intelligent, but he's got an edge.\"\nNo decision on England's next manager is expected until 30 November, but Southgate is heavy favourite.\nThe Three Lions are not in action again until 22 March, when they meet Germany in a friendly four days before their next qualifier against Lithuania.", "summary": "Gareth Southgate should be appointed England manager \"as soon as possible\" and be given the same contract as predecessor Sam Allardyce, says former Three Lions defender Danny Mills." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She told a French-language newspaper she was struggling to balance her schedule only having one staff member.\n\"I'd love to be everywhere but I can't,\" she said. \"I have three children and a husband who is prime minister.\"\nSome are ridiculing her for what they perceived as pretentious comments.\nShe told Le Soleil newspaper that she is \"flooded with requests\" for appearances and projects and that she does not have the time to do it all.\n\"It's hard to choose because it is affecting the people who want your help,\" she said. \"You say to yourself: I will try to convey a message that will reach as many people as possible.\"\n\"There is always a price to pay, but the price shouldn't be as high,\" she said of balancing work and family.\nShe made the comments while promoting an organisation for active and healthy lifestyles.\nIn her youth, she suffered with eating disorders, she told the newspaper, and she wants to help young women build self-confidence.\nCanadians on Twitter started a hashtag, #PrayForSophie, to poke fun at her request, with some people even drawing comparisons between the Trudeaus and the Kardashians.\n\"I'm setting up a lemonade stand this weekend, all proceeds going to fund help for Sophie,\" one person tweeted.\nOpposition politicians in Canada called Ms Gregoire Trudeau out of touch and pointed out that previous prime ministers' wives dealt with only having one personal aide.\nTory MP Candice Bergen said Canadian families are struggling financially and questioned how the government could afford to hire another assistant.\nAnother Tory MP, Jason Kenney, said former prime minister Stephen Harper's wife, Laureen, never complained.\n\"Harpers paid for babysitters, not taxpayers,\" he tweeted. \"And they didn't inherit millions. Nor did Laureen whinge about it.\"\nA Toronto Star editorial argues that she should have the help she needs to fulfil her role.\nThe conversation should shift to what is expected of the spouse of a prime minister in Canada, the newspaper writes.\n\"It should come as no surprise that the demands on her are greater than those on previous PMs' wives,\" the editorial reads, pointing out that previous PM's wives have had one or multiple assistants.\n\"Justin Trudeau is riding a wave of popularity that extends to his entire family, especially his wife.\"\n\"It should be noted that Gregoire Trudeau is not asking for another employee to lessen her workload, but to increase it. She lamented that because she doesn't have enough staff she is forced to make difficult choices about who she can help.\"\nMr Trudeau himself came to his wife's defence, sharing a letter on Facebook written by a woman supporting his wife.\n\"I don't know what it's like to be you, and because of this I support you,\" the letter reads. \"I know there are others like me out there, but the loudest voices in any conversation are always the angry ones.\"\nThe prime minister's office is looking into hiring another aide, federal officials told the Globe and Mail.\nGovernment House leader Dominic LeBlanc also defended her.\n\"It's no secret that Ms Gregoire Trudeau is asked to attend an enormous number of events,\" Mr LeBlanc said.\n\"She's participated in a whole series of very worthy causes. So we find that a perfectly appropriate conversation to have - Does she have the adequate support to undertake these official functions?\"\nIn the US, First Lady is a formal role within the executive office, with its own headquarters in the White House and staff, including but not limited to a social secretary, a chief of staff, a press secretary and a chef.\nIn Canada, the wife of the prime minister has no formal status and no personal office, but as the Toronto Star editorial notes, Canadians expect the PM's spouse to play a \"significant public role\", with the opportunity to represent Canada and promote causes.\nMen are rarely asked about their domestic life and how they balance it, Suzanne Moore writes in the Guardian.\n\"Gregoire Trudeau has indeed committed a crime - against this fairytale that so many women are burdened with by simply telling the truth: 'I need help'.\"", "summary": "Canadians are debating the role of the prime minister's wife after Sophie Gregoire Trudeau said she wants to do more for the country but \"needs help\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The South Korean will face competition in Ayrshire from reigning champion Isabelle Boineau, 2016 European Tour number one Beth Allen and major winners Michelle Wie and Catriona Matthew.\nThe US $1.5m prize money (about £1.16m) is the highest for any Ladies' European Tour event outside the majors.\nIt takes place on 27-30 July.\nThe tournament presents the players with an opportunity to tackle a links course in the week preceding the Ricoh Women's British Open at Kingsbarns.\nFor the first time, the Ladies' Scottish Open is being held on the same course as the men's equivalent.\n\"To me, Scotland is the home of golf and I'm excited to return to Dundonald Links to compete against some of the world's best players,\" said Ko.\n\"It is great to have the chance to play two very important links golf tournaments back to back, as I know it has worked well on the men's schedule and I'm looking forward to seeing how we navigate the course compared to the men.\"\nMartin Gilbert, chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management, said he was \"delighted\" with the calibre of players in the 156-strong field, adding that it was \"a mix of the world's best talent from both the LET and the LPGA\".", "summary": "World number one Lydia Ko will face a top-class field when Dundonald Links hosts the 2017 Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies' Scottish Open." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "If you have any questions about the BBC's boxing coverage please first consult our main FAQs page.", "summary": "Details of forthcoming fights will appear here." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "There were licence breaches in patient services, agency staff spending and discharging patients, it said.\nThe Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, in Wiltshire, said it would improve financial performance, sustainability and governance.\nA Monitor spokesman said it recognised the trust could not fix all of these problems on its own.", "summary": "An NHS trust that faces an £8.6m overspend has been told it must improve by watchdog Monitor." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Many were parents of pupils at the Andersonstown school.\nDemands were made at the rally for an independent investigation into recent problems there.\nThe chair of the Concerned Parents of De La Salle group, Gerry Carroll, addressed the crowd, saying there was a \"massive issue\" in the school.\nHe also repeated calls for the principal, vice-principals and governors to be stood down.\nThe Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS) has appointed an associate principal to work alongside senior management in the school.\nImelda Jordan, the former head of St Colm's High School in Twinbrook, began work on Monday.\nShe held a short, informal meeting with some parents demonstrating at the school gate on Monday morning.\nMairead Maguire, who has two children at De La Salle and was at the rally, said Ms Jordan's appointment was welcome.\n\"She reassured us that she is here primarily for the children,\" said Ms Maguire.\nOther parents said they had been offered little information about the situation at the school.\nPeter Magee is a former De La Salle pupil and has sons at the school, including one about to sit his A-level exams.\nHe said two of his son's A-level classes are taught by substitute teachers.\n\"I don't want to be out here standing on a night like this, trying to find out what's happening to my son's education, but this is what we've had to do to see what's happening,\" he said.\nThe BBC understands that a number of teachers who were off sick returned to the school on Monday, which was the first day of the summer term.\nAt the rally, there were calls for the school's management to be stood down to allow an independent investigation into events at De La Salle to take place.\nA number of political representatives were also in attendance on Monday evening.\nParents representatives are expected to hold further meetings with CCMS and the Episcopal Vicar for Education in the Diocese of Down and Connor, Fr Tim Bartlett, later this week.", "summary": "About 150 people attended a rally outside De La Salle College in west Belfast on Monday evening." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The team of scientists - led by the University of Aberdeen and Cornell University in America - believe the subspecies of the European common vole was brought over by farmers.\nThey say it is found nowhere else on the UK mainland or islands.\nThe Belgium findings are described by the research team as a \"totally unexpected result\".\nProf Keith Dobney, one of the co-directors of the research, said: \"The extensive archaeological record from Orkney has produced thousands of their [voles] bones and teeth, suggesting that they most likely arrived with early farmers or through Neolithic maritime trade and exchange networks.\n\"Where in Europe they came from and exactly when they were introduced has been a mystery for decades, but new genetic techniques and direct dating of their bones have finally allowed us to answer these questions.\"\nDr Natalia Martinkova who carried out the genetic studies on living common voles from continental Europe and Orkney, said: \"Although our modern DNA results did not reveal exact genetic matches with any populations we sampled across continental Europe, the closest were from populations living today on the coast of Belgium, the likely origin for the original Orkney populations.\"\nThe findings are published in Molecular Ecology.", "summary": "The \"mysterious\" Orkney vole is likely to have originated from Belgium 5,100 years ago, researchers have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The driver was approached by officers at about 03:00 BST on Saturday morning on Brazenose Lane, Stamford.\nShortly after, his Nissan Micra crashed into a wall, killing the driver, 62, who was pronounced dead at the scene.\nLincolnshire Police said the matter has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.\nBrazenose Lane remains closed in both directions due to an accident between East Street and St Paul's Street, police said.", "summary": "A man has died after crashing into a wall a short time after he was spoken to by police due to the \"manner of his driving\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The photos were taken in 1981 by Daily Express photographer Steve Wood at a hotel in the French town of Deauville.\nThe shots, which feature the artist in poses including standing with a giant sunflower, were not published at the time and remained unseen until 2012.\nThey will be exhibited at a show titled Lost Then Found in New York in May.\n\"The shoot was easy, it was very instinctive,\" Wood told the BBC. \"Andy was very straightforward to work with. He trusted me to direct him as I wanted - to show him at his best. There was a great chemistry between us.\"\nThe photographer explained that 35mm slides had languished in his filing cabinet \"gathering dust\" for more than three decades.\n\"On my return from Deauville I came back with so many celebrity pictures that I just chose the ones to be published in the newspapers and forgot the rest.\n\"It was only last year when my friend David Munns - a famous food photographer in London - jogged my memory drawing a parallel between my loft space and that of Warhol's.\n\"We got talking and David refused to believe I had ever met the man! So I began the search through my 35mm slides marked 'W', and the images were rediscovered, right next to Dennis Waterman.\"\nThe Lost Then Found exhibition is supported by Interview magazine, which was founded by Warhol in 1969.\nChristopher Bollen, the magazine's editor, said: \"The fascination of these found photographs lies in the fact that just when you think all sides of Andy Warhol have been seen and mined, a rare intimate window opens on the legend.\n\"These photographs reveal a different Warhol than most of us have ever witnessed. It's a testament to the photographer and an opportunity to re-assess his bearing as one of the most influential artists of the last century.\"\nWarhol was a leading exponent of the pop art movement that flourished in the 1960s, with images of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Campbell's soup cans among his most famous works. He died in 1987 aged 58.\nLost Then Found is at the 345meatpacking venue in New York from 2-12 May. Some images will also feature as part of a pop-up exhibition at South Place Hotel, in London, from 10-12 May.", "summary": "Photographic portraits of pop artist Andy Warhol, which lay forgotten in a filing cabinet for more than 30 years, are to go on show for the first time." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Scotland booked their place in Australia and New Zealand at the start of the year with the Durham captain as joint interim head coach.\nThe 38-year-old was then England's assistant coach for the World Twenty 20 in Bangladesh in March.\n\"Paul will bring a calmness and confidence to our environment,\" said Scotland head coach Grant Bradburn.\n\"He is very familiar with all of our players having been a support coach with Scotland during the World Cup qualifiers in February.\n\"Having the experience of Paul in our corner will be a huge asset for all of us during this event.\"\nNew Zealander Bradburn was appointed in April, with Collingwood and Craig Wright taking up temporary roles for the ICC qualifying tournament after Pete Steindl stood down last December.\nCollingwood, England's most capped one-day player and World T20 winning captain who still playing county cricket for Durham, worked briefly under Ashley Giles for England but his role was discontinued when Peter Moores returned as head coach.\nNow he will bid to upset England when they meet the Saltires in Christchurch on 23 February.\nScotland also face Australia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, New Zealand and Afghanistan at the World Cup.\n\"It's a great pleasure for me to be back on the coaching team with the Scotland squad,\" said Collingwood.\n\"I'm very much looking forward to working with them to help get the team fully prepared for these incredibly important matches.\"", "summary": "Paul Collingwood has agreed a return to Scotland's coaching staff for next year's World Cup." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "From 20 February parking fees around the Aquatic Centre will increase in a bid to plug a financial black hole.\nThis will put the cost of using the facilities \"out of the reach of most ordinary people\", campaigners say.\nThe London Legacy Development Corporation, which runs the London 2012 Games site, said the charges were \"consistent with other local pools\".\nBut Dave Wardell, whose two daughters use the swimming programme at the centre, said the price hike would cost him £2,000 a year.\n\"Not really an Olympic legacy\", said the policeman, who was recently stabbed by an armed robber in an attack that left his police dog needing emergency surgery,.\nA London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) report said the fee increase was \"intended to generate a surplus\" to pay for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park's upkeep.\nThe LLDC's expected budget deficit for 2017-18 is £23m and the corporation will need to increase income fivefold to break even, according to its most recent draft budget submission.\nAt present, parking is free for the first hour, which includes a pick-up and drop-off point near the entrance.\nCustomers are then charged £1.50 for up to two hours, with a maximum charge of £15 for a 24-hour stay.\nUnder the new system drivers will be charged £2 an hour from 7am each day, capped at £20, and pick-ups and drop-offs will not be exempt.\nA spokesperson for the London Legacy Development Corporation said: \"The majority of people who use the London Aquatics Centre do not come by car and therefore will be unaffected by this change.\"", "summary": "Olympic Park bosses are being accused of betraying legacy commitments by raising the cost of parking." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Gabriel, 24, was sent off by referee Mike Dean for violent conduct after a clash with Diego Costa during the Blues' 2-0 victory at Stamford Bridge.\nThe successful appeal means he will now not serve a three-match suspension.\nThe Brazilian is subject to a separate Football Association charge of improper conduct to which he has until 18:00 BST on Thursday to respond.\nThat relates to him failing to leave the pitch immediately after being sent off.\nChelsea striker Costa, meanwhile, was found guilty of violent conduct and banned for three matches following a clash with Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny.", "summary": "Arsenal's appeal against defender Gabriel's red card during Saturday's defeat by Chelsea has been successful." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In December, Japan's inflation rose 2.5% from a year earlier, below expectations and easing for a fifth consecutive month.\nFactory output rose 1% from the previous month, below forecasts, while household spending fell more than expected, down 3.4% on a year ago.\nThe Nikkei closed up 0.4% at 17,674.39.\nOn the positive side, the availability of jobs in Japan rose to the highest level in more than two decades as the jobless rate fell to 3.4%, from 3.5% in November.\nThe dollar was at 117.82 yen, down from 118.34 yen in New York trade.\nShares in Takata took another hit, down 2.5% after Honda said that a driver was killed in the US last week in a 2002 Accord equipped with a Takata air bag that may have ruptured.\nShares of tech giant SoftBank fell 3.4% after Alibaba reported lower-than-expected revenues for the third quarter. SoftBank has a 32% stake in Alibaba.\nChinese markets traded down, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index lower 0.1% at 24,568.99, while the Shanghai Composite was down 1.1% at 3,225.46.\nAustralian shares closed at a five-month high as investors bought banks amid growing speculation of an interest rate cut by the central bank next week.\nThe S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.3% to 5,588.3 - its highest since 5 September and marked the seventh consecutive day of gains.\nThe benchmark index was up 1.6% for the week and higher 3.3% for January.\nIn South Korea, shares ended lower despite data showing that factory output in December grew at its fastest pace in over five years from the previous month.\nOutput rose by a seasonally adjusted 3% in December, following a downwardly revised 1% rise in November.\nThe benchmark Kospi finished down 0.1% at 1,949.26.\nShares in South Korea's largest steelmaker POSCO plunged 7.7% after the company posted weaker-than-expected fourth quarter earnings on slowing demand from China.", "summary": "Japanese shares traded higher on Friday as investors shrugged off a series of government data that showed a slowing Japanese economy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Proposals for London Britannia Airport, designed by architects Gensler, include four floating runways tethered to the sea bed.\nThe architect said the design allowed for future expansion to accommodate six runways when required.\nProject director of the latest proposal Ian Mulcahey, said: \"This will be a national infrastructure project that can inject new pace and dynamism into our economy.\n\"The airport can be quickly manufactured in the ship yards and steel works across the UK and can be floated by sea and positioned in the Estuary.\n\"This isn't a London airport, it is a global airport, designed, manufactured and built in the UK.\"\nBut Willie Walsh, chief of International Airlines Group, which incorporates British Airways, told MPs that he could not see how you could make an economic case for a new hub airport.\nThe \"massive\" cost, as much as £60bn, would have to be recouped from charges which deterred operators from moving there.\n\"You would have plenty of capacity but nobody would ever want to use it,\" he said.\nA spokeswoman for London mayor Boris Johnson said: \"This will form, along with other significant submissions, an important part of discussions going forward.\"\nThe mayor has already backed the concept for a Thames island airport, for which there have been two other plans unveiled, one dubbed \"Boris Island\".\nThe airport would be connected to London by high-speed rail.\nThe mayor is setting up a new aviation policy unit to be headed by one of his deputies Daniel Moylan, who has been instrumental in pushing the idea of an airport in the Thames Estuary over the last two years.\nThe mayor said: \"We must remain competitive, and to do that we need a coherent aviation strategy for 21st Century London. Daniel Moylan will help me deliver that.\"\nLast week, the government announced a final decision on UK airport expansion will be taken after the next general election in 2015.\nThe new transport secretary Patrick Mcloughlin said earlier that the experts appointed to a new independent commission would ensure the best possible long-term solution was found.\nHe told MPs: \"Airport expansion is a very, very difficult subject to address. It's very complicated.\n\"Even if we had a third runway at Heathrow it would take time to do. It's very controversial.\"", "summary": "New proposals for a floating airport in the Thames Estuary have been unveiled." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Holly Waters was pronounced dead on arrival at University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS) after a 22-mile (35km) journey by ambulance on 28 June.\nShe lived 2.5 miles (4km) from Stafford Hospital.\nA hospital spokesman said the paediatric ward had been full and handling an emergency at the time.\nHolly, who up until that point had been a normal, healthy baby, was found unconscious in her cot by her mother, Charlotte Waters.\nThe family called 999 and a paramedic arrived four minutes later at 22:46 BST.\nIt was at 23:37 BST that the baby reached the Stoke-on-Trent hospital.\nStafford Hospital's A&E has been shut from 22:00 to 08:00 since December, as Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust needs to recruit additional staff.\nHolly's father Sean Birch said this - and an already full children's ward - had led to up to a 20-minute delay.\nMr Birch said: \"We were actually told that she died two minutes away from North Staffordshire, but if she had gone to Stafford Hospital and they had managed to put a drip in and stabilise her, then send her to North Staffordshire, she would still be here today.\"\nBoth West Midlands Ambulance Service and the Mid Staffordshire trust said it was impossible to say whether admitting Holly to Stafford Hospital would have made a difference.\nAccording to the ambulance service, both the officer at the scene and ambulance control contacted Stafford's A&E department but were told the unit could not accept Holly.\nRequests to take the baby to the children's ward at Stafford were also refused, the ambulance service said.\nColin Ovington, director of nursing and midwifery at Stafford Hospital, claimed it would have been unsafe for the paediatric unit to have accepted Holly.\n\"The staff were already treating a very seriously ill child who had been brought in as an emergency and they were also caring for a number of other emergency admissions and sick children,\" he said.\n\"The staff correctly followed the joint protocol between the hospital and West Midlands Ambulance Service for these circumstances.\"\nIn a statement, Mid Staffordshire trust said: \"When contacted by the West Midlands ambulance crew, our paediatric ward told the crew that they were unable to accept the baby because they did not have the capacity in the ward and were already dealing with an emergency.\n\"As per the agreed protocol, the ambulance crew were directed to take the baby to UHNS.\n\"The ambulance crew also contacted our A&E department, who repeated the instruction that the baby should be taken to UHNS.\n\"Following an internal investigation, this was not reported as a serious incident.\n\"There was no reason to discipline or suspend any member of staff.\"\nA spokeswoman for NHS Midlands and East, the strategic health authority, said it had not been informed about the incident.\n\"It is disappointing that this incident was not formally reported and we are now seeking assurances from the NHS organisations that this is being investigated, in order to fully understand what took place,\" she said.\nAn initial post-mortem examination was unable to find the cause of death.\nAn inquest will be held in due course.", "summary": "A seven-month old baby died after being refused access to Stafford Hospital because its A&E department is shut at night and the children's ward was full." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But that is exactly what the young PR and advertising student has done.\nAgainst all expectations, including his own, he was elected to represent Shettleston at Glasgow City Council in the local elections.\nOne of the most deprived areas of Scotland, the community has long-favoured Labour and the SNP.\nYet on Thursday Mr Kerr managed to nudge SNP candidates Laura Doherty and Michelle Ferns into third and fourth place respectively.\nIn fact he was only beaten into second place by one of Scottish Labour's most prominent politicians, former council leader Frank McAveety.\nMr Kerr's shock win may be partly explained by his own background.\nHe grew up in nearby Cranhill, a \"really run-down, working class\" neighbourhood, with his grandparents and mother.\nIt was, he admits, a \"really tough upbringing\" but he credits his former secondary school - Eastbank Academy - with giving him the ambition and drive to get into politics.\n\"The school motto was 'aim for stars',\" he said. \"That was always the expectation I had when I was there.\"\nHis political curiosity was piqued when he was taken to a protest against the Iraq war by his aunt when he was just 10.\n\"She is an SNP supporter and is best friends with (SNP MSP) Christine McKelvie, so I was standing with them,\" he said.\nBut he initially campaigned for the Scottish Labour party before joining the Conservatives as a young teenager.\n\"I decided I wanted to join the Conservative party in 2011, after Ed Miliband was elected to lead the Labour party,\" he said.\n\"I had been campaigning with (former Labour MP) Margaret Curran as she has a fantastic personality.\n\"But then some people were telling me that some of my views were a bit more right wing. So I looked into Conservative policies and that's when I started to get involved. I was 14.\n\"I had to get my granny and granddad to sign the forms allowing me to join.\n\"They have always encouraged me in my politics, though I have no idea what they vote, even now. But they said if that's what I want to do, I'll sign you up. \"\nSo how did the rest of his family and friends react to his decision to join a party that is still considered \"toxic\" in parts of Scotland?\n\"They were shocked,\" he admitted. \"I had a lot of family asking 'How can you be a Conservative?'\n\"I told them Conservatives believe that it's not who you are or where you come from, if you work hard and play by the rules, you should be rewarded.\n\"The SNP and Labour seem to think that if you grow up in a box, you should stay in a box.\n\"I think half of my family vote Conservative now.\"\nAs he grew older, he campaigned for Better Together ahead of the Scottish independence referendum and last year he stood for Shettleston in the Holyrood elections.\nHe said he stood for the council election because he cares about the community.\nHe never expected to win but started to get a feeling that things were going his way on polling day.\n\"Growing up where I grew up was a really tough upbringing but it gave me something and now I want to give something back,\" he said.\n\"I will only stand in the east end of Glasgow because it's the only area I'm passionate about. I just want to serve the people I'm elected to serve.\"\nAnd he already knows exactly what he will do on his first day in the office.\n\"The first thing I will do when I get my desk on Monday will be to write a letter to get a pedestrian crossing put in at Mount Vernon train station,\" he said.\nBut what about the bigger issues? What would he ask of Theresa May that would improve the lives of the people of Shettleston?\n\"To be honest, I'd rather have a conversation with Nicola Sturgeon, to say, look, it's time to get back to the job that you were elected to do,\" he said.\n\"We don't want a second independence referendum, the people of Shettleston are fed up.\"\nIn the meantime, his family are \"chuffed and proud\" of his success at the polls. His grandparents were in tears when the results were announced.\nAnd his SNP-supporting aunt? \"She came down to the count to give me a big hug.\"", "summary": "\"When you stand as a Conservative candidate in the east end of Glasgow, you never expect to win\", says 20-year-old Thomas Kerr." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It completed a mixed tournament for the world number three from Northern Ireland, who started with a 67 before rounds of 73 and 70.\nMcIlroy picked up shots a two, three and six in Connecticut before birdies at 11,12, 13 and 15.\nThe only blemish came with a bogey at the last as McIlroy ended the event on six under.\nJordan Speith, six shots better than McIlroy, won the tournament after a play-off with fellow American Daniel Berger.\nMcIlroy showed glimpses of a return to form at TPC River Highlands after missing the US Open cut last week.\nThe Erin Hills major was just his seventh tournament of 2017 due to a rib injury.\nMcIlroy will hope to build on his impressive round on Sunday as he prepares to bid for a fifth major at next month's Open at Royal Birkdale.", "summary": "Rory McIlroy finished the Travelers Championship with a flourish by posting a six-under-par 64 to finish 17th." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The charity says it supported 1,805 people from April 2015 to March 2016.\nBy comparison, it had 378 referrals between July 2011 and June 2012 - its first year of operating the government contract to support victims.\nThe Home Office said the rise was a sign that efforts to highlight modern slavery were working.\nSarah Newton, minister for safeguarding, vulnerability and countering extremism, said: \"Slavery has long been hidden in plain sight, and our policy is designed to encourage more victims to come forward and ask for help.\n\"We welcome increases in the number of referrals as a sign that our efforts to shine a light on modern slavery are working.\"\nOne slavery victim said she came to England from south-east Asia to work as a servant in the home of a wealthy family.\nShe says she was forced to work 14 hours a day for less than £100 a week, and that she even had to work on building sites.\n\"I felt like a chained dog. It was like I was digging my own grave.\n\"Even though I'm out now, I still feel like I'm in chains. I still have nightmares that my boss is chasing me.\"\nThe woman, who wants to remain anonymous, is now at a safe house in Manchester and is applying for asylum to stay in the UK.\nAnne Read, director of anti-trafficking and modern slavery at the Salvation Army, said the nature of the crime meant it was \"always difficult to know the full extent of the problem\" and the increase in referrals could be because there were more victims but also \"improvements in training and awareness-raising\".\nHowever, she added that the minimum 45-day reflection and recovery period granted by the government for victims of human trafficking or slavery was insufficient.\n\"If [victims] don't get the support that they need, then the potential is that they could, once again, be exploited and that's the worst thing that could happen as far as we're concerned.\n\"Forty-five days isn't long enough to support somebody - it gives them a chance to breathe, perhaps to recover their status quo, but it is only the very start of the process.\"\nThe Home Office said the 45-day duration was a minimum and could be extended by a further 14 days on certain grounds.\nThe Salvation Army said that:\nRecent Home Office figures estimate there are between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of modern slavery in the UK, with 45 million victims worldwide.\nIn July, Prime Minister Theresa May wrote in the Sunday Telegraph that she wanted Britain to \"lead the way in defeating modern slavery\", adding that there would be a new UK cabinet taskforce while £33m from the aid budget would fund initiatives overseas.\nA review to mark the first anniversary of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which she drew up as home secretary, found 289 modern slavery offences were prosecuted last year.\nThe Salvation Army said that it was supporting victims from nearly 100 different countries.", "summary": "The Salvation Army says it has seen nearly a fivefold rise in the number of slavery victims it has helped in England and Wales since 2012." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "At least 14 people were killed and more wounded after US-trained Somali special forces soldiers stormed the building.\nJournalists at the scene say they have seen the bodies of both militants and soldiers.\nIslamist al-Shabab is linked to al-Qaeda and has been battling the UN-backed government in Somalia since 2006, frequently targeting civilians.\nHussein Ali, a member of Mogadishu's ambulance service, told the Associated Press that there were 28 wounded.\nThe Somali ambassador to Switzerland, Yusuf Baribari, is among the dead.\nOther diplomats escaped by jumping from windows.\nThe attack began when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed car outside the building.\nHotels in Mogadishu are often targeted by al-Shabab militants, who were driven from the city several years ago but still control southern rural areas.\nAn al-Shabab spokesman told the BBC that the Maka al-Mukarama hotel was attacked because of its popularity with government officials.\n\"We don't consider it to be a hotel - it's a government base,\" he said.\nA car bomb went off outside the hotel earlier this month - an attack also claimed by al-Shabab.\nMany politicians and businessmen stay at the hotel as it is on the main road linking the presidential palace to the city's airport.\nSomalia has been ravaged by conflict for more than two decades.\nBut thousands of Somalis have been returning from abroad to help rebuild the country as security has improved in recent years.\nAfrican Union troops have been helping the UN-backed government retake territory from the militants.", "summary": "Somali troops have ended the siege of a Mogadishu hotel which was taken by al-Shabab militants on Friday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Office for National Statistics data shows 19 deaths by suicide for every 100,000 men in 2013.\nOverall, 6,233 suicides were registered in men and women over the age of 15 in 2013 - 4% higher than the previous year.\nThe legacy of the recession is one explanation for the rise.\nOverall suicide rates had been falling consistently from 15.6 deaths per 100,000 in 1981 to 10.6 per 100,000 in 2007.\n\"Since 2007, the female rate stayed relatively constant while the male rate increased significantly,\" the ONS report states.\nIn 2013, 78% of suicides were in men.\nThe most vulnerable age group were those aged between 45 and 59, however, the rates have been increasing in all age groups except in the under thirties.\nThe report added that research suggested that \"the recent recession in the UK could be an influencing factor in the increase in suicides\" and that \"areas with greater rises in unemployment had also experienced higher rises in male suicides\".\nMarjorie Wallace, the chief executive of the mental health charity SANE, commented: \"It is really shocking that men who are or could be in their prime of life should feel driven to such a state of hopelessness and despair for the future that they are taking their own lives.\n\"SANE's own research shows that many suicides could be prevented, if people were able to talk more openly about their feelings and felt able to seek therapy or other help.\n\"Our concern is the number of suicides which are preventable and the fact that when people with mental illness hit crisis point, there are no available beds or units and they are sent home from A&E and left to suffer in silence.\"\nJoe Ferns, from the Samaritans, said: \"The news is sadly not surprising to us given the context of a challenging economic environment and the social impact that brings.\n\"We need to see a greater focus at local and regional levels on the co-ordination and prioritisation of suicide prevention activity especially in areas with high socio-economic deprivation.\"", "summary": "The proportion of men taking their own lives in the UK has reached its highest level for more than a decade, according to official figures." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a column for the Walk Highlands website, Mr McNeish said there had been several \"failures in governance\" by the park authority.\nHe has written to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urging change.\nThe park's chief executive, Gordon Watson, said Mr McNeish's allegations were \"totally unfounded\".\nThe broadcaster's comments focus on plans approved by the authority in April that would ban camping without a permit around many of the lochs in the park.\nThe proposals have been criticised by some outdoor recreation groups in Scotland, but the park maintains that the measures are necessary to protect the environment from anti-social behaviour. They have also seen widespread support from residents of the park.\nThe authority wants to establish four \"camping management\" areas on the busiest loch shores with investment in new official camping facilities, including 300 new camping places.\nThe plans are currently with Scottish ministers awaiting a final decision.\nBut Mr McNeish, who lives in Newtonmore in the Cairngorm National Park, said government approval of the by-laws would \"damage land reform progress and drastically reduce the opportunities for public enjoyment of the outdoors\".\nHe also accused the park authority of \"misusing statistics\" to bolster its case.\nA document outlining these points, signed by Mr McNeish, has been sent to Ms Sturgeon and the Environment Minister, Dr Aileen McLeod.\nIt has also been signed by former MP and MSP Dennis Canavan, Dave Morris, the former director of Ramblers Scotland, and Nick Kempe - ex-president of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland and former board member of Scottish Natural Heritage.\nMr Kempe has made a series of Freedom of Information requests relating to the park's management of issues like the by-laws and the approval of the gold mine at Cononish near Tyndrum.\nMr McNeish wrote in his column: \"Our advice to the Scottish government is concise and clear. The camping by-laws issue points to a clear need for effective, co-ordinated government action to help the national park out of the cul-de-sac into which it has driven with the camping by-law proposals.\n\"The essential first step must be the abandonment of the camping by-law proposals.\n\"We already have strong legislation in place to deal with the kind of problems the park board wants to solve with by-laws - litter, vandalism, loutish behaviour etc, but the Scottish government also needs to support the park in the development of an adequate camping infrastructure over the next 10 years, even if that means compulsory purchase of suitable locations.\"\nHowever, the national park has strongly defended its decision to approve the legislation.\n\"The proposals referred to are based on years of experience of dealing with issues that are destroying the fragile environment that makes the national park such a special and cherished place,\" Mr Watson said.\n\"They were developed after many months of discussions at over 70 meetings with a wide range of stakeholders including outdoor recreation groups, and of course our local communities whose lives are blighted by these issues year-in, year-out.\"\nMr Watson, who took over as chief executive of the park earlier this year, said the measures would affect just 3.7% of the park and were aimed at \"dramatically improving the experience of the national park for everyone\".\n\"We completely refute the allegations in the [Mr McNeish's] blog, which are totally unfounded,\" he added.\nThe park's proposals are rooted in a \"Five Lochs\" study, which originally looked at problems around Loch Venachar, Loch Lubnaig, Loch Earn, Loch Achray and Loch Voil.\nThe study followed camping and alcohol bans along parts of east Loch Lomond, introduced in 2011. The park says the bans have resulted in more families visiting the area and a reduction in anti-social behaviour.\nIf the Scottish government approves the park's proposals, wild camping would be banned around almost all of the Trossachs lochs, as well as most of the west shore of Loch Lomond and the northern tip of Loch Long.", "summary": "Outdoors broadcaster Cameron McNeish has called for a \"complete shake-up\" of how the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park is managed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Raheem Sterling and Mario Balotelli had goals ruled out for offside, but Liverpool rarely threatened.\nInstead, the visitors' defensive problems were exposed as Martin Skrtel headed towards his own goal and Marco Streller swept home the loose ball.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nSteven Gerrard came close to a late leveller when his free-kick was saved.\nWhile Liverpool roused themselves to apply concerted pressure in the final five minutes, it was not enough to merit an equaliser that would have denied the hosts victory.\nManager Brendan Rodgers returns to Merseyside with more concerns over the disjointed attack and dysfunctional defence that have undermined the start of their Premier League campaign.\nBasel themselves looked vulnerable when they were beaten 5-1 by Real Madrid in their Group B opener, and they were cut open inside five minutes by the Reds.\nHowever, Sterling strayed carelessly offside before turning in Lazar Markovic's cross, and Liverpool struggled to create a chance of similar quality for the rest of the match.\nInstead full-backs Jose Enrique, preferred at left-back to Alberto Moreno, and Javi Manquillo were frequently exposed as their team were penned back.\nGeoffroy Serey Die, exploiting space on Enrique's flank, came closest to scoring in the first half, slamming a shot into goalkeeper Simon Mignolet's shins.\n\"We'll see what Brendan Rodgers is made of now. They're 14th and nine points away from Chelsea.\n\"The fans have got to be more realistic. Brendan has to stick to his philosophy and keep believing.\n\"Mario Balotelli is an individual. The way Suarez and Sterling and Sturridge integrated, it was beautiful.\n\"Balotelli is a bit of a fixed mannequin and he has to learn the Liverpool way or he'll just be standing there watching.\"\nWhile Liverpool looked vulnerable out wide in the first half, it was their deficiencies in the centre of defence that were exposed by the Swiss side's goal.\nSkrtel, more concerned with grappling with his man, inadvertently headed the ball against Dejan Lovren and, while Mignolet got down sharply to prevent an own goal, the goalkeeper succeeded only in palming the ball into Streller's path for a simple finish.\nWithout the injured Daniel Sturridge and the departed Luis Suarez, Liverpool were stripped of the interplay and invention of last season and struggled for a response.\nOnly Mario Balotelli's long-range free-kick, blocked by goalkeeper Tomas Vaclík's shoulder, and Sterling's clumsy mis-control when clean through gave the home crowd cause for concern.\nWith back-to-back meetings against holders Real Madrid to follow in Group B, Liverpool will need a vast improvement to progress to the knockout stages.", "summary": "Liverpool's hopes of making the Champions League knockout stages were dented as they succumbed to a 1-0 Group B defeat at Basel." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team said a woman and her three teenage sons found the body of a man on Tryfan on Thursday at about 16:00 BST.\nThe man, thought to be in his 20s or 30s, is from the north west of England.\nRescuers believe the man fell 20 or 30m (65ft-100ft) while trying to descend a gully on Heather Terrace, which cannot be walked down because of two large rock steps towards the bottom.\n\"It is probable that the casualty descended to one of the steps and tried to find a way round to the side but slipped to his death,\" a mountain rescue team spokesman said.\n\"Our thanks go to the family group for staying with the casualty and our thoughts are with the casualty's relatives.\"", "summary": "A walker is believed to have fallen 30m to his death on a Snowdonia mountain." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She has run GSK's Consumer Healthcare unit since 2010.\nBut she lacks any previous experience in a chief executive role and has no background in pharmaceuticals.\nConsequently she will start on a pay package 25% lower than her predecessor Andrew Witty, who retires on Friday.\nGSK's most recent annual report indicates her basic salary will be about £1m, in contrast with Mr Witty's £1.1m. Her pension and potential for earning through bonuses and long-term performance targets are also lower.\n\"Taking into account the fact that this is Emma's first chief executive role, reductions have been made to all elements of her remuneration package in comparison to Sir Andrew's,\" the report said. \"Constructive feedback\" about remuneration from shareholders had also played a role, it said.\nGSK is the fifth largest company traded on the London Stock Exchange and as head of its Consumer Healthcare business Ms Walmsley was responsible for brands such as Sensodyne toothpaste and the malted drink, Horlicks. Before joining GSK she spent 17 years at French cosmetics giant L'Oreal.\n'Bias for action'\nMs Walmsley originally studied classics and modern languages at Oxford before moving into business, taking up a management and marketing role at L'Oreal, which included several years at its Shanghai office.\nNicholas Hyett, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said he did not see her lack of scientific background as a disadvantage.\n\"It's not as if GSK lacks people with a pharma background,\" he said.\n\"If anything, there's more strength in her having a firmer grip on the consumer business, as that's something that... maybe wouldn't be done as well by someone from the pharma side.\"\nMs Walmsley has described herself as having a \"bias for action\" and as highly competitive. She also said she had been inspired by other business leaders such as Alibaba founder, Jack Ma, and Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandbrook.\nShe is married with four children, but has said in the past that she did not see herself primarily as a woman in business but as a business person.\nShe said that she was supported through her maternity absences and was aware of her responsibility to keep supporting young talent as well as acting as a role model to encourage young women \"to stay ambitious, aim high and think big\".", "summary": "Emma Walmsley, who has described herself as \"extremely competitive\", will become the most powerful woman in British business, as she steps in as boss of the UK's fifth largest company." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The romantic tryst will be between new character, the piano Cadenza (Stanley Tucci), and Madame de Garderobe, the wardrobe (Audra McDonald).\nIt is followed by a second kiss later on, director Bill Condon told BBC Radio 4's Front Row.\nThis week it was revealed the film features Disney's first gay character.\nUS actor Josh Gad plays LeFou, a sidekick of the film's main antagonist Gaston (Luke Evans), to whom he is attracted.\nSpeaking to Front Row's Samira Ahmed, Condon said of the two kisses between Cadenza and Madame de Garderobe: \"I didn't give it a second thought, then at the preview, the [Disney] chairman told me that it was the first and second interracial kiss in a Disney movie.\n\"That shocked me. I was surprised it hadn't happened before.... and they [Disney] were excited by that.\"\nThe film, which will be released on 17 March, stars Emma Watson as Belle, the young girl who falls in love with a monstrous beast - played by Dan Stevens - with a dark secret.\nThe cast also includes Ewan McGregor, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Kevin Kline.\nThe animated version of Beauty and the Beast came out in 1991. There have been interracial kisses in animated Disney films before, such as Pocahontas.\nHear the full version of the interview with Bill Condon on BBC Radio 4's Front Row at 19:15 GMT on Wednesday 15 March.\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "It's another groundbreaking moment for Beauty and the Beast - the film is to feature the first interracial kiss in a Disney live action film." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "South Wales Police said a car and a heavy goods vehicle collided on Llanharry Road, Llanharry, at about 08:30 BST on Saturday.\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service confirmed one person was pronounced dead at the scene and two others had been taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.\nTheir condition is unknown and the road was closed for several hours.", "summary": "One person has died and two others have been taken to hospital following a \"serious\" crash in Rhondda Cynon Taff." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The video was filmed during an alcohol-fuelled party at Thanet Lodge boarding house, part of the trust that included the now closed Royal School for Deaf Children.\nThe mother of the blind and deaf man said she \"couldn't believe\" people she trusted could behave that way.\nKent Police found no crime had taken place. The female carer was sacked.\nA total of four people lost their jobs in September 2014 when a whistleblower handed in the video.\nThey included team leader Yvette Surrage and support workers Jane Smith and David Gardiner who were all seen in the footage.\nSenior support worker Ben Healy, who filmed the incident and was heard encouraging his colleagues, was also dismissed.\nMs Surrage was seen dancing semi-clothed and Ms Smith was seen dancing naked around the young man. It is not clear whether Mr Gardiner was in the room when Ms Smith did this.\nThe mobile-phone footage, given exclusively to BBC South East, shows carers also used sexually-explicit language.\nThe young man has serious learning difficulties, which meant he needed 24-hour care.\nHis mother, whose identity has not been revealed, said he probably left his bedroom to look for help and wandered into the common room where loud music would have drowned out any attempts to get assistance.\n\"He did used to do a lot of self-harming where he could bash the side of his face, bite his hands, thump the floor - we never knew why.\n\"The fact that his behaviour has changed so drastically for the better since he's moved, leads me to believe that this went on and maybe worse, who knows, for a long time, \" she said.\nThe mother believes more should have been done to protect her son and legal action taken against those caring for him.\nKent Police saw the video but decided there was not enough evidence to investigate further.\nIn a statement, the force said: \"Whilst the acts seen in the video are wholly inappropriate and irresponsible, they do not fit the criteria for a specific criminal offence.\"\nDr Noelle Blackman, chief executive of the charity Respond, described the footage as \"humiliating\" and \"absolutely horrible\".\nShe said: \"Their [the carers] duty is to be there to provide support to this man - this is not providing support this is having their own debauched party - that's neglect if nothing else.\n\"And to me it's abusive. I think they're humiliating him.\"\nWhen BBC South East contacted the carers, Ms Surrage said there was no abuse and no poor practice. She said no conviction or prosecution took place because there were no young adults involved.\nDavid Gardiner said he felt the incident brought no harm to the students but admitted he should not have allowed it to go on. He said he cared for the young adults to the best of his ability.\nJane Smith said she was at a difficult point in her life and deeply regretted what happened.\nBen Healy said there was no footage that displayed him acting inappropriately.\nThe Royal School for Deaf Children and its post-16 department Westgate College closed in December after the John Townsend Trust went into administration.\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) revealed on Tuesday there had been \"institutionalised failings and abuse\" at the residential accommodation attached to Westgate College, which it ordered the trust to close down last November.", "summary": "A carer has been filmed dancing naked around a severely disabled young man at a residential care home in Margate." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Thornton's only other major success in the PDC came at the 2012 UK Open.\nThe first four sets were shared before 48-year-old Thornton went 3-2 up as Van Gerwen, 26, missed eight darts at a double to wrap up the fifth set.\nThe Dutchman trailed 4-3 after missing two more darts to take the seventh set and Thornton took advantage, sealing victory a shot at with double top.\n\"It's one of my traits, I've got the heart of a lion. I never give in, I'll keep fighting until the end,\" Thornton told Sky Sports.\n\"To win a title, you need to beat the man [Michael van Gerwen]. If you want to win a tournament, this is the way to do it.\"", "summary": "Scotland's Robert Thornton defeated world number one Michael van Gerwen 5-4 to win the World Grand Prix in Dublin." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 40-year-old was driving a Kia Optima which was involved in a collision with an HGV on the A697 between Longramlington and Longhorsely at 16:50 BST on Friday.\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene. Another man in the car was injured and had to be airlifted to hospital.\nNorthumbria Police has appealed for witnesses to the incident just south of the C135 road to Todburn.", "summary": "A man has died in a two-vehicle crash in Northumberland." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "John and Alison Doherty, from Elderslie, Renfrewshire, discovered their numbers had come up the day before they were due to go to Florida.\nRather than take their winning ticket away with them, they hid it inside a lantern until they returned from their two-week break.\nThey admitted that they spent the fortnight in a \"daze\".\nMrs Doherty, 50, said she realised she had won after checking her numbers for the 2 July draw on her tablet.\n\"When I realised I had all six numbers I couldn't believe it,\" she said.\n\"I was screaming, lying on the floor, shaking like a leaf - just in complete shock\".\nTheir first post-win purchase was a designer label handbag, which cost $400 (about £300).\nMrs Doherty said: \"I love handbags but this was $400. I walked around the store for about an hour before I worked up the courage to go to the cash desk.\n\"I also saw someone pull up to our hotel in a beautiful Jaguar so I'm tempted to make that our new car.\n\"We love Formula 1 and have never been to a Grand Prix and that is definitely on our wish list along with a new house.\"\nThe holiday to Florida was a treat to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.\nThey may also have to fork out for a new car for their son, Ryan, 20, who wants a new Ford Fiesta.\nBut daughter, Laura, 11, might be easier to please. She wants a new goldfish.\nThey told a press conference that they decided to go public with their win because they're \"rubbish at keeping secrets\".\nMrs Doherty, a former classroom assistant at Dumbarton Primary, said: \"We want our family to share in it. We want this to be nice thing.\"\nMr Doherty, 52, who runs JDPS Plumbers, said he was not planning to give up work yet.\nHe said: \"I enjoy my work, I've done it for 33 years and I've got a lot of customers that I'm loyal to.\n\"I was out working yesterday and I'll be out working tomorrow. It's quite hard to give up.\"", "summary": "A Scottish couple who scooped a £14m Lottery jackpot kept their win secret while they jetted off on holiday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Harold Smalley, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, was a lance corporal in the 1st Leicestershire Regiment.\nHe was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and spent several years working in Japanese camps building the Burma-Thailand railway.\nThe funeral of Mr Smalley, who worked as a cobbler until well into his 70s, is due to be on Monday in Coalville.\n\"I was called up when I was 25 for the 1st Leicestershire Regiment - I didn't really want to go but it was the call of duty and I had to go,\" he said in an interview with the BBC at age of 100.\nHe was sent to Singapore and eventually was captured by the Japanese and taken to the prison of war camp at Changi.\nHe said he was treated \"terribly\" in the Japanese camps and only had rags to wear and was \"bashed up\" if he did anything wrong.\nMr Smalley said he \"danced with joy\" when he was finally released in 1945.\nHis grandson Stuart Maguire said: \"He was a remarkable person - what a man he was.\n\"He never said a cross word or raised his voice to anyone… but he did live his life to the full.\"", "summary": "One of the last UK survivors of the Japanese prisoner of war camps in World War Two has died at the age of 101." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Bringing the railways back into public ownership was a key plank of Jeremy Corbyn's successful leadership bid.\nTransport spokeswoman Lilian Greenwood said the railway was inefficient and among the most expensive in Europe.\nShe also called for the new HS2 high-speed rail link from London to the Midlands to become a \"public service under public ownership\".\nMembers overwhelmingly backed a policy statement drawn up by the National Executive Committee, calling for existing franchises to be nationalised when they come to an end and for a new \"public operator\" to reinvest profits by private rail operators into cutting fares and rail infrastructure.\nMs Greenwood said a far-reaching shake-up was needed to deal with the \"fragmented\" network and a \"broken\" franchise system.\n\"Twenty years ago we were told that privatisation would deliver cheaper tickets and lower subsidies,\" she said. \"What we have been left with is some of the most expensive tickets in Europe and an efficiency gap of 40%.\n\"The Tories will tell you the railways cannot change... it falls to us to set out a better way. That's why I say it is time for our railways to be run under public ownership, in the public interest, with affordable fares for all.\"\nFive existing franchises are due to expire between 2020 and 2025. Labour has insisted nationalising them will not involve any costs as the state will only step in once their contracts for delivering services had run out.\nMore investment, she said, was needed in inter-city services, greater devolution of rail services to the English regions and a high-speed rail link connecting London, the Midlands and the North of England that was \"an integrated national asset that our country can be proud of\".\nAlso speaking at the conference, the head of the TSSA rail union said he was \"cock-a-hoop\" that Labour - which at May's election backed creating a public rail company to compete with private firms - was now going further and putting \"red water\" between itself and the Conservatives.\n\"We will be running the railways in the interests of passengers and the taxpayers not greedy shareholders,\" Manuel Cortes said. \"Our party is united behind the policy.\"\nAnd Tosh McDonald, from Aslef, said the perverse situation facing the UK's railways was summed up by the fact that the three preferred bidders for the next Northern Rail franchise were state-run rail firms from Germany, the Netherlands and France.\n\"I don't blame them for that. The Germans boast to our members that their interest in Britain's railways subsidises the German taxpayer. It is a no-brainer. It should be run by the state, for the people and by the people and any profits that are made should go to helping with housing and the NHS.\"\nThe government has insisted the railway has been a success story over the past decade and it is responding to booming passenger numbers by overseeing the largest investment programme in the network for 100 years.\nSeparately, Labour has commissioned an independent study into why home ownership has fallen. Shadow housing minister John Healey said Peter Redfern, chief executive of house builder Taylor Wimpey, would report his findings by next summer.", "summary": "Labour activists have voted to officially back rail nationalisation as party policy at their conference." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A five-year plan to increase the budget by £8bn a year by 2020 was only set out last year, but now hospital bosses have warned that is not enough.\nChris Hopson, of NHS Providers, said the settlement needed to be redrawn.\nHowever, the Department of Health said \"tough economic decisions\" had allowed it \"to invest in our NHS\".\nIt comes ahead of the Autumn Statement next Wednesday when ministers will set out their spending plans.\nThis will be the first time the government under Theresa May's leadership has outlined its priorities.\nMr Hopson criticised the way the current spending plans had been structured.\nHe pointed out the rise in spending was actually £4.5bn rather than £8bn when cuts to other budgets, including those for training staff and money for public health schemes such as stop smoking services, was taken into account.\nHe also said the extra demands being placed on hospitals, GPs and council-run care services had been underestimated, while the target to save £22bn in efficiencies by 2020 was \"too ambitious\".\n\"For all these reasons, there is now a clear and widening gap between what is being asked of the NHS and the funding available to deliver it,\" Mr Hopson said.\n\"We are therefore asking for a new plan for the rest of the parliament to finalise or confirm the NHS budget and honestly and realistically set out what can be delivered.\n\"If there are no changes to the money available we will need to set out what the NHS stops doing. Right now the service cannot deliver what is being asked of it on the current budget.\"\nHe said that could include longer waiting times, rationing of non-emergency care such as knee and hip replacements and fewer doctors and nurses.\nTargets are already being missed in A&E and cancer care, while the waiting list for routine operations, such as knee and hip replacements, has hit 3.7m up from 3m two years ago.\nBut instead of prioritising hospitals, he said any extra money should be invested in GPs and council care services to try to stem the rising demands. He refused to say how much more the health service needed however.\nMeanwhile, the campaign group Equality 4 Mental Health, headed by Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb and Conservative Andrew Mitchell, called for more to be done to make sure extra money got through to mental health.\nThe group - with the backing of nine former health secretaries - has said services are still being squeezed despite promises for care to be prioritised.\nThe scale of the problems the NHS is facing will also be made clear later on Friday when regulators release the half-year accounts for 2016-17.\nLast year, hospitals and other NHS trusts overspent by £2.45bn.\nAn extra £1.8bn is being ploughed in this year to help them balance the books, but the accounts are expected to show a significant deficit was still accrued from April to September.\nSally Gainsbury, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, agreed there need to be a rethink on finances, saying a \"long-term solution\" was needed rather than the \"sticking plaster\" of the current plans.\nBut the Department of Health defended its record. \"The government has taken tough economic decisions that have allowed us to invest in our NHS, which is meeting record patient demand while improving standards of care.\"\nRead more from Nick\nFollow Nick on Twitter", "summary": "Patients in England will see rising waiting times, rationing and cuts in the number of staff unless the NHS gets more money, health bosses say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Manchester Assistant Chief Constable Dawn Copley told a group of MPs that police and councils needed to be reminded of their statutory duties.\nShe said the lack of suitable accommodation was a \"growing concern\" because of \"shrinking resources\".\nThe Home Office said under-18s should not be held in cells overnight.\nLast October the Howard League for Penal Reform, a charity that has campaigned against the practice, revealed that more than 40,000 children had been detained in custody in 2011 in contravention of the law. This was, however, a drop on the previous year.\nChildren can be detained in custody to further a criminal investigation, uncover the identity of suspects, or because the disappearance of that person would hinder a prosecution. They may also be held until a social worker or probation officer arrives at a police station.\nBut in evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children, Ms Copley suggested that the practice was widespread.\nShe said: \"A large concern for the police service is the number of children and young people being detained in custody prior to appearance at court.\n\"The Police and Criminal Evidence Act is clear on this matter, and states that if they are being kept in custody they should be transferred to the care of the local authority.\n\"But in practice we know that local authorities do not always have the accommodation available, and with shrinking resources I think this becomes a growing concern. Too often, children and young people remain in custody overnight.\n\"The continued chronic breach of this legislative requirement is not only bad practice per se. Subliminally it indicates to all involved in the process that children's rights are not seen as important, and I've raised my concerns on this to the Home Office.\n\"A key role for the police and local authority children's services is to ensure better suitable provision is available and make it the exception rather than the rule for children to be detained in custody overnight.\"\nMs Copley added that police forces needed to be reminded about exactly what the legislation says.\nCouncils also needed reminding of their \"statutory duty\", she said, \"to provide accommodation for a child who otherwise would be remaining in custody overnight, awaiting appearance at a court.\n\"The norm has become an expectation that it won't be provided,\" she said. This was not \"a good place for any of the agencies to be in and it's definitely not a good place for young people to be in\".\nEnver Solomon, director of policy and impact at the National Children's Bureau, said the experience of being in a police cell could be very traumatic.\n\"Police detention should always be used as an absolute last resort for any child. The vast majority of forces do not have separate child-friendly facilities and so they have to be held in the same place as adults.\n\"Children will be confused, bewildered and often feel frightened by what is an intimidating environment. The whole experience can be deeply traumatic and do great harm, particularly for those who are already very vulnerable, such as children in the care system or those with learning disabilities.\nAndrew Webb, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services, said police must work with children's services and families to ensure that under-18s are returned home in the \"vast majority of cases\".\nHe added: \"However, on some occasions children will need to be placed somewhere away from home for their own safety and for the safety of others.\n\"Whilst detention in a police cell must be used as a last resort, there are sometimes practical and pragmatic reasons why the detention occurs.\n\"Finding appropriate emergency placements, often in the middle of the night, is not always possible and decreasing human and financial resources have made this harder for local authorities - although emergency duty teams will have to hand a list of alternatives that they can try to obtain safe and suitable accommodation before a police cell is used.\"\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"The law is clear that any child who is charged with an offence should not be held overnight in police cells unless absolutely necessary.\n\"There may be times when it is not possible for local authorities to provide appropriate accommodation and children may need to be kept in police custody for either their own protection or that of the public. It is a matter for chief constables to ensure the law is complied with.\n\"The welfare and protection of all those held in police custody, especially young people, is extremely important, which is why we have changed the law so that 17-year-olds detained in custody will now be provided with an appropriate adult and their parent or guardian will be told of their arrest, as is already the case for 10 to 16-year-olds.\"", "summary": "Hundreds of children are still being held in police cells overnight because of \"chronic breaches\" of the law, a leading police officer has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The compulsory test - which has to be taken by all police officers - was taken 93,956 times from September 2014 to August 2015, with 1,863 failures.\nThe lowest pass rate was South Yorkshire Police - with 5% of officers failing.\nThe College of Policing, which compiled the data, recommends officers are given the chance to retake the test twice.\nIt said it was unaware of anyone being sacked for failing the tests and individual forces could decide how to deal with officers who had failed.\nOf all 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales the overall pass rate was 98%.\nThe City Of London Police had the highest pass mark, with all 120 tests taken by its officers proving to be successful.\nSouth Wales police had a 99.6% pass rate, while Surrey and Dyfed-Powys both had 99.5% of successes.\nAll but two forces broke down the results by gender, with the figures showing a lower proportion of female officers than their male counterparts passed the tests.\nOf the 23,154 times that a woman took the test, 22,095 - or 95.4% - were passes, while of the 67,376 times a male officer took part, 66,619 - or 98.9% - were passed.\nSome 757 tests were failed by men, and 1,059 by women.\nThe fitness test, which became compulsory in 2014, has been designed to meet the same physical standard as those used when recruiting officers.\nThe annual test involves a 15-metre shuttle run and requires officers to run 525 metres in three minutes 40 seconds or less.\nNational lead for fitness testing, assistant chief constable Jo Shiner, said the results showed \"the vast majority of officers tested were fit and meet the standard required of them to protect the public\".\n\"We know from previous years that slightly fewer female officers are passing and the College of Policing guidance on fitness tests has been carefully designed to support officers who are in this position - including advice on positive action measures such as specialised training and mentoring programmes.\n\"The public want their officers to be fit and able to protect them in the face of danger and these results show they are able to do just that,\" she added.", "summary": "More than 1,800 police fitness tests were failed by officers in England and Wales in the space of 12 months." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The highest court ruled that current laws preventing members of the same sex from marrying violated their right to equality and were unconstitutional.\nIt gave parliament two years to amend existing laws or pass new ones.\nWednesday's landmark decision came as the LGBT community faces increasing persecution in the region.\nIn a press release following the ruling, the court said that \"disallowing two persons of the same sex to marry, for the sake of safeguarding basic ethical orders\" constituted a \"different treatment\" with \"no rational basis.\"\nThe court concluded that \"such different treatment is incompatible with the spirit and meaning of the right to equality\" as protected by Taiwan's constitution.\nTaiwanese couple: 'We're just like any other parents'\nThe court's ruling means Taiwan's parliament will have to amend existing laws or pass new legislation.\nBut it's still unclear how far parliament will go.\nThe LGBT community hopes legislators will simply amend the existing marriage laws to include same-sex couples, which would grant them the same rights enjoyed by opposite-sex couples, including in cases of adoption, parenting and inheritance - and making decisions for each other in medical emergencies.\nHowever, they fear parliament won't do that and will instead pass a new law that recognises same-sex marriages but gives them only some rights, not equal treatment in all matters.\nReligious and parents groups opposed to gay marriage say they will lobby parliament not to pass any laws on legalisation. They argue such an important matter that affects the whole of society shouldn't be decided by just a few grand justices, but by the people in a referendum.\nBoth sides will now focus their attention on persuading the legislators.\nSelf-ruled Taiwan, over which China claims sovereignty, is known for its liberal values and holds the biggest annual gay pride event in the region.\nMomentum for marriage equality has been building since last year, when President Tsai Ing-wen, who is openly supportive of the move, came to power.\nBut the debate has prompted a backlash, with mass protests by conservatives in recent months.\nNow that the 14-judge panel has ruled in favour of the legal challenge, the parliament, known as the Legislative Yuan, will begin the process of amending the laws.\nIt can either legalise same-sex marriage or introduce new separate civil partnership legislation.\nIf legislators fail to meet the court's two-year deadline, it said same-sex couples could register to marry based on its ruling.\nA bill to legalise same-sex marriages is already making its way through parliament, but that process has slowed because of opposition from traditionalists, who do not want Taiwan to become the first place in Asia to allow such weddings.", "summary": "Taiwan's top judges have ruled in favour of gay marriage, paving the way for it to become the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex unions." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 24-year-old, who has signed a two-year-contract, had been linked with Ospreys having fallen out of favour at the Blues.\nAllen has won four caps for Wales and scored a hat-trick in his last appearance for his country, against Uruguay at the 2015 World Cup.\nMeanwhile, Ospreys centre Josh Matavesi will join Newcastle for next season.\nAllen had been overtaken by the likes of New Zealanders Rey Lee-Lo and Willis Halaholo in the Blues pecking order, while Leicester's Welsh centre Jack Roberts will move to the Arms Park in the summer.\nWith Matavesi leaving Ospreys, Allen will compete against players such as Ashley Beck, Ben John, Kieron Fonotia, Owen Watkin and the returning James Hook for a starting place at the Liberty Stadium.\n\"Along with Hooky, also arriving in the summer, we have two fresh options who will really increase competition in the squad,\" said Ospreys head coach Steve Tandy.\n\"It's going to be a really positive to have Cory around, he's got some real qualities that will help us develop our game, while we will be good for him.\n\"It's a fresh start for Cory. Our track record for developing players speaks for itself, not just home grown youth but under the radar players coming to us from other regions, people like Dan Evans and Sam Parry who have really grown in our environment, and this has undoubtedly played a part in his decision to join us.\"", "summary": "Cardiff Blues and Wales centre Cory Allen will join Ospreys at the end of the season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Adams spent a third night in police custody in connection with the 1972 murder of mother-of-10 Jean McConville. Mr Adams, 65, denies any involvement.\nMr McGuinness referred to \"an embittered rump of the old RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary)\".\nHe was speaking at a rally in west Belfast on Saturday.\nPolice in Northern Ireland have until 20:00 BST on Sunday to either charge or release Mr Adams, after a judge granted police a 48-hour extension on Friday.\nOn Saturday afternoon, senior members of Sinn Féin attended the rally at Albert Street off the Falls Road in Mr Adams former constituency of west Belfast, seeking the release of Mr Adams.\nDeputy First Minister Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin said the crowd was \"there to show solidarity\" with Mr Adams.\nHe said: \"Allegations contained in books and newspaper articles which the PSNI are presenting to Gerry as evidence that he was in the IRA in the 1970s have been around for 40 years.\n\"But they are only now trying to use these. Is this not political policing?\n\"This is a replay of the failed effort in 1978 to charge Gerry with membership [of the IRA].\"\nHe added: \"Sinn Féin's negotiations strategy succeeded in achieving new policing arrangements, but we always knew that there remained within the PSNI an embittered rump of the old RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary).\n\"These people want to settle old scores, whatever the political cost.\"\nThe RUC was replaced in 2001 by the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\nMr McGuinness, hinted on Friday that the party may look again at whether it would continue to support the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\nOn Friday evening, Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly said there was \"a growing anger with every single hour\" that Mr Adams was detained.\nSpeaking outside Antrim police station, where Mr Adams voluntarily presented himself on Wednesday evening, Mr Kelly said: \"The arrest was uncalled for and certainly the extension is uncalled for.\n\"I was out canvassing last night and the anger was palpable - I'm getting this on the doors from people, not all of whom are Sinn Féin voters.\"\nSinn Féin has claimed the arrest was deliberately timed ahead of elections in three weeks' time. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said it showed no-one was above the law.\nBaroness Nuala O'Loan, a former police ombudsman who investigated Jean McConville's murder, denied the service had become politicised.\n\"Certainly in a post-conflict situation there are problems with every aspect of society,\" she said.\n\"But I don't think they're a cabal. I think that's inappropriate language to use. I think that what we need above all in Northern Ireland is that the rule of law should apply equally throughout the country.\n\"For people to suggest that some people perhaps shouldn't be arrested is perhaps a little questionable.\"\nMr Adams is the former MP for West Belfast and is currently an elected representative for County Louth in the Republic of Ireland.\nMrs McConville, a 37-year-old widow and mother of 10, was abducted and shot by the IRA. Her body was recovered from a beach in County Louth in 2003.\nShe is one of Northern Ireland's Disappeared, those who were abducted, murdered and buried in secret by republicans during the Troubles.\nShe was kidnapped in front of her children after being wrongly accused of being an informer - a claim that was dismissed after an official investigation by the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman.\nLast month, Ivor Bell, 77, a leader in the Provisional IRA in the 1970s, was charged with aiding and abetting the murder, and there have also been a number of other arrests recently.\nThe case against Mr Bell is based on an interview he allegedly gave to researchers at Boston College in the US.\nThe Boston College tapes are a series of candid, confessional interviews with former loyalist and republican paramilitaries, designed to be an oral history of the Troubles.\nThe paramilitaries were told the tapes would only be made public after their deaths. However, after a series of court cases in the United States, some of the content has been handed over to the authorities.\nAt least one interviewee implicated Mr Adams in the murder of Mrs McConville. He has always strenuously denied any involvement.", "summary": "The arrest of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is part of an effort by some police officers to \"settle old scores\", NI's deputy first minister has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Transport Minister Robert Goodwill said the private concession on the bridges is on course to finish in 2018.\nBut he said it would still take up to two years to pay off other debts worth around £88m.\nMonmouth MP David Davies welcomed the news, in a letter from Mr Goodwill, but noted he had not said tolls would fall.\nCurrent toll charges range from £6.40 for cars to £19.20 for lorries, 20% of which is made up of VAT.\nIn the letter to Mr Davies, who also chairs the Welsh Affairs Committee at Westminster, Mr Goodwill said:\n\"Once in public ownership VAT will no longer be payable on the tolls.\n\"Under the Severn Bridges Act 1992 it would be possible to reduce tolls to reflect the fact that VAT was no longer payable.\"\nMr Davies said the letter followed a meeting with the minister last month, also attended by other MPs on the committee.\n\"All of us would like to see action taken to reduce the tolls,\" he said.\n\"Unfortunately, the minister has not said whether the tolls would fall and that is the issue I would like to pin down the government on.\"\nThe MP said the committee has estimated ongoing maintenances costs for the bridges would be around a third of the current toll price and nobody had contradicted that.\n\"I therefore think we must now demand a clear plan for the post concession period with a significant reduction in the tolls,\" he said.\nMPs are debating the future of the bridge tolls in a debate at Westminster Hall on Wednesday.\nLast month there were cross-party calls for the charges to be cut drastically from 2018.\nThe Welsh government has called for control of the bridges to be devolved.", "summary": "Tolls on the Severn crossings will not be subject to VAT when they return to public ownership, the Department for Transport has confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Essex Police said it used the new Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) to seize legal highs, including nitrous oxide, and eject 248 people.\nThe PSPO applied to Hylands Park and surrounding roads over the weekend and prohibited the possession, supply, consumption and sale of legal highs.\nPolice also arrested 63 people.\nFifty-three of the arrests were for drug-related offences, the same as last year.\nFigures are not held for the number of canisters police confiscated at V Festival 2014, when a PSPO did not exist, a spokeswoman said.", "summary": "More than 17,000 canisters of laughing gas were seized by police at V Festival in Chelmsford following a ban enforced by the city council." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hoffman, 39, putted from nine feet to finish on 12-under and avoid a play-off with Patrick Reed, on 11-under.\nChad Collins was a shot further back in third with five players on nine-under, tying for fourth.\nEngland's Luke Donald was two shots off the lead before the final round but bogeys on the first, fourth and 10th left him in joint 13th on seven-under.\nPadraig Harrington's final round of two-over-par saw him end up tied for 25th on five-under, with England's Greg Owen on two-over in joint 65th.\nNever want to miss the latest golf news? You can now add this sport and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home.", "summary": "American Charley Hoffman earned his fourth PGA Tour title as he birdied the last hole to win the Texas Open." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 23-year-old striker, who spent most of last season on loan at Sunderland, rejected moves to the Black Cats and QPR over the summer.\nClubs submitted a maximum 25-man squad on 3 September, and Tottenham's Benoit Assou-Ekotto has been left out.\nPlayers under the age of 21 are eligible above the limit of 25 players.\nBoth Liverpool and Manchester City registered 59 under-21 players.\nLiverpool accepted an offer from QPR for Borini during Monday's transfer deadline day.\nBut the Italian rejected the move, later tweeting: \"Finally the madness is finished! I protected the MAN and the player that I am today, taking all the responsibility of the situation and for people who didn't want it.\n\"I'm VERY happy with myself to have taken such an important decision!\"\nBorini has made 13 Premier League appearances for Liverpool since joining from Roma in July 2012.\nMeanwhile, Cameroon international Assou-Ekotto, who spent much of last season on loan at QPR, looks to have an uncertain future at Spurs after he was omitted.\nManchester United pair Marouane Fellaini and Anderson, who were both linked with moves away from Old Trafford, have been included in Louis van Gaal's squad.\nPeter Odemwingie was not named in in Stoke's squad, with the striker facing the possibility of being ruled out for the season with a cruciate knee ligament injury.\nFull squad lists on the Premier League website", "summary": "Striker Fabio Borini has been included in Liverpool's Premier League squad despite his long-term future at the club being seemingly in doubt." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "John Robert Neumann, 45, was armed with a semi-automatic handgun and hunting knife when he entered the business near Orlando, Florida, on Monday morning.\nThe US army veteran was sacked in April, police say.\nThere is no suggestion he was a member of a subversive or terrorist organisation, they add.\nOrange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said the shooting had unfolded at the premises of Fiamma, which makes awnings for motor homes and camper vans.\nMost of the victims were shot in the head, some multiple times, he added.\n\"He was certainly singling out the individuals that he shot,\" said Sheriff Demings.\nThe victims included Robert Snyder, 69, Brenda Montanez-Crespo, 44, Kevin Clark, 53, Jeffrey Roberts, 57, and another unidentified man.\nNeumann reloaded his handgun at least once during the rampage, the sheriff said.\nThe gunman had told an employee whom he did not know to leave the premises, and left about seven other staff members uninjured.\nNeumann - who lived alone in the area - killed himself as deputies were about to enter the warehouse, the sheriff said.\nAuthorities say he did not have a permit for the weapon.\nHe was honourably discharged from the army in 1999.\nHe had a history of misdemeanour criminal offences, such as possession of marijuana and driving under the influence.\nNeumann attacked a member of staff in 2014, though no charges were filed, police said.\nIn a statement, Florida Governor Rick Scott condemned a \"senseless act of violence\".\n\"Over the past year, the Orlando community has been challenged like never before,\" he said.\nThe shooting came a week before the first anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting that left 49 people dead in Orlando.\nIn last June's attack, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured dozens more at a gay nightclub before being shot dead by police.", "summary": "A disgruntled US employee walked back into the factory that fired him and fatally shot five ex-colleagues, before killing himself, police say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe visitors showed persistence after being pegged back twice as Michael Ruddy headed in an 89th-minute winner.\nAfter a poor first half, the game came to life as Matthew Shevlin put Ards ahead on 50 minutes before Gary Armstrong levelled seven minutes later.\nColm McLaughlin (76) seemed to have earned the Mallards a point after Kyle Cherry (73) netted before Ruddy struck.\nThe first half will not live long in the memory with Shevlin firing straight at Mallards keeper Cameron Crawford early on and a Niall Owens free-kick deflected just wide off Ruddy at the other end shortly before the break.\nHowever, the second period was a totally different story as Shevlin's 50th-minute strike, after good work by Craig McMillen and Ruddy, started a goals rush.\nArmstrong levelled with a powerful angled shot within seven minutes after being released by Ryan Curran and the Mallards were inches away from taking the lead two minutes later as the ball wouldn't fall kindly for Curran following Aaron Hogg's failure to hold a Shane McGinty shot.\nCherry restored Ards' lead as he nodded home a Carl McComb cross only for McLaughlin to quickly head a second Ballinamallard equaliser after a pointblank Curran shot had come back off the crossbar.\nBut Ballinamallard were undone a minute from time as Ruddy was left unmarked to head home a McMillen corner from close range.\nEighth-placed Ards' win extended their advantage over Glentoran in ninth spot to four points, with the sides meeting in their final Premiership game of the season next weekend.\nThe Glens will move to back within a point of Ards if they defeat relegated Portadown at the Oval on Saturday.\nVictory next weekend could secure Ards a seventh-place finish in the table while Ballinamallard are guaranteed to finish 10th no matter what happens in their concluding game against Carrick Rangers.", "summary": "Ards extended their unbeaten run in the Premiership to five games as they snatched a 3-2 win at Ballinamallard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hossein Ferydoun was freed on Monday night after reportedly paying millions of dollars of bail.\nMr Ferydoun is believed to have been taken in for questioning on Saturday in connection with a corruption probe.\nHis detention was seen by some commentators as part of a feud between the president and the judiciary.\nMr Rouhani, a relative moderate, openly attacked the conservative-dominated judiciary and security services during his re-election campaign earlier this year. He criticised arrests made on loose grounds and called for the release of political prisoners.\nIt is unclear exactly why Mr Ferydoun was summoned for questioning. Judiciary spokesman, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejeie said he was the subject of \"multiple investigations\".\nAlthough he did not occupy an official position, Mr Ferydoun was a close aide to Mr Rouhani during his first term in office, participating in negotiations with world powers over Iran's nuclear programme.\nMr Ferydoun has been linked to last year's so-called \"payslip scandal\", where some public sector officials were found to have been paid exorbitant salaries.\nHe has not been charged with any offence and has denied any wrongdoing.\nHis detention at the weekend was ordered after he failed to pay bail, initially reported to be as much as 500bn rials ($15.3m; £11.5m).\nMr Ferydoun was transferred to hospital on Monday after falling ill during a court appearance, according to the Tasnim news agency.\nPresident Rouhani has not yet commented on his brother's case.", "summary": "The brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been released after being detained for two days by police, Iranian media say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "That's the opinion of the mother of Andrew Smyth, the County Down man who was runner-up in the Great British Bake Off.\nHe and fellow finalist, Jane Beedle, lost out to 31-year-old PE teacher Candice Brown from Bedfordshire in the show's finale on Wednesday night.\nAlthough he failed to be crowned the prince of tarts, Andrew excelled during the technical challenge, coming top of the leader board.\nTwenty-five-year-old Cambridge University graduate, Andrew, is originally from Holywood but now works as an aerospace engineer in Derby.\nAndrew told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme it was difficult to keep the result of the pre-recorded programme a secret.\n\"It was tough to keep it under my hat for quite a long time, especially in work after we had been filming at the weekends.\"\nThe finale saw the trio create a three-layered meringue crown for the signature challenge - which Candice filled with prosecco-soaked berries and pistachio jewels, topped with a miniature Queen Victoria crown.\nThey then had to make a perfect Victoria sponge cake for the technical challenge, set by Mary Berry, with only one instruction and no measurements given.\nSo did Andrew make his mark on his meringue? Or was the competition just too stiff?\n\"You've got to push the boat out, I think I missed the mark maybe on some of the flavours,\" he said.\n\"I tried to be a bit too adventurous with the meringue but I was really chuffed with the 3D effect of it on that ridiculous paper mâché head.\"\nBeing an engineer is a world away from the Great British Bake Off tent, but Andrew said his skills stood by him as he constructed his cakes.\n\"You've got to use any strengths you have in the tent ... I was determined to bring all the benefit I could from my engineering experience.\"\nHis parents Kay and Nigel are, of course very proud but the final was bittersweet for them.\nKay said: \"Everybody did really well to make it to the final... unfortunately Andrew made the decision to put a sugar glaze on his fruit tarts which tainted the pastry.\"\nDad, Nigel, said: \"It was particularly exciting, I think any of them could have won in the show stopper, it was a very complicated task.\n\"But unfortunately, just on the day, Andrew with his tarts didn't quite live up to his expectations, he's still delighted.\"\nSo have the lights, camera and action of the Bake Off tent tempted Andrew towards a career in television?\n\"I'm very excited to see what comes up, I'm keeping my options open,\" he said.\n\"My colleagues don't need to be alarmed that I'm leaving in the next couple of weeks, but I'd love to use Bake Off as an opportunity to get in to some form of science and engineering broadcasting.\n\"That's my two loves in terms of teaching and explaining things to people, the engineering side, as well as baking.\"\nIt is Bake Off's seventh series - and the final one broadcast on the BBC after Channel 4 bought the rights.\nAndrew said he does not envisage that the show's migration to another channel will cause problems.\n\"The reason people love Bake Off is because they can get involved and they can bake along too and that is always going to remain at the core of it.\n\"I don't see a problem with it moving, it's just a bit of a new chapter.\"", "summary": "Never mind the dreaded soggy bottoms - he tainted his tarts with a sugar glaze." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "David Smith, 62, a fantasist who claimed he was an ex-SAS hero, made Elizabeth Smith so ill she thought she was dying.\nThe sheriff in Ayr said Smith, from Telford, was guilty of a \"prolonged and evil course of criminal conduct\".\nSmith had told his wife a string of lies, including that he carried out the SAS raid on the Iranian Embassy.\nHe was previously convicted of culpably and recklessly administering laxative substances over a three-year period from 2012-2015.\nSheriff John Montgomery said Smith's conduct had caused \"physical and mental anguish\" to his victim.\nHe made her so ill she said doctors believed she may have motor neurone disease.\nSmith also falsely told his 62-year-old wife he owned a factory that made secret-component parts for the MoD and that his first wife was a professional ballerina who had died while carrying their unborn child.\nHis stories unravelled after he staged a break-in at their home.\nWhen she first met him, Mrs Smith thought he was an \"absolute gentleman\".\n\"He was just a normal, lovely guy,\" she told BBC Scotland.\n\"He was a family man - a wonderful man who came across as so genuine and real.\"\nShe added: \"He's a 100% 'Walter Mitty character'. He has got caught up completely in his web of lies.\n\"I want people to be aware that there are people like this out there and they are very, very dangerous men.\n\"He has taken away five years of my life. It's heartbreaking.\"", "summary": "A \"Walter Mitty character\" who poisoned his wife with laxatives has been jailed for three and a half years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The commission has so far received more than 200 written submissions from organisations and individuals.\nTwo thirds of respondents thought the current system was unfair but opinion was divided on alternatives.\nPossible options include a local income tax, a land value tax and reforms to make the council tax fairer.\nThe Commission on Local Tax Reform was established last year by the Scottish government and Cosla, which represents local authorities.\nThe council tax - which has been frozen since 2007 - typically raises about 15p of every pound councils spend. Most of their money comes from the Scottish government.\nThe majority of respondents to the commission's call for evidence believed the council tax was unfair.\nThey cited several reasons for this:\nHowever, respondents also highlighted some of the current system's strengths, including what they considered to be its \"efficiency and stability\".\nLocal government minister Marco Biagi MSP, who is also co-chairman of the commission, said: \"The findings of our formal call for evidence suggest very strongly that there are a majority of people in Scotland who agree that the current system of council tax is unfair and in need of reform.\n\"What is also clear is there are a wide range of opinions as to what a potential replacement for the present system would look like and how it would operate, echoing many of the views we have heard from the more than 4,000 people who have engaged with us so far.\n\"The commission takes the findings of this analysis very seriously and we will use these to shape a report that will allow everyone to understand what any alternative local taxation systems would mean to the people of Scotland.\"\nCouncillor David O'Neill, president of Cosla and commission co-chairman, added: \"By engaging with as many people and organisations as possible through this call for evidence, questionnaire and public engagement events, we are making sure that the views of people the length and breadth of Scotland are a fundamental pillar of our efforts to set out a range of alternative tax models that can be considered by whichever government is formed next May.\"\nA separate report produced for the commission earlier this month looked at the way local taxation operated across the developed world. It argued that reforming the council tax could be challenging and that other systems of local taxation all had pros and cons.\nThe commission, which is seeking views through its online questionnaire, is due to produce its report in the autumn. It will not recommend one single idea or system for replacing the council tax.\nInstead, it is likely to present a full analysis of various options which could colour the debate within political parties ahead of next year's Scottish election.", "summary": "Opinion is split on how to reform local taxation in Scotland, according to a commission looking at alternatives to the council tax." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A Coastguard helicopter and Fraserburgh lifeboat were called out to assist the Fraserburgh-registered Welfare, about four miles out to sea.\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said other nearby vessels had also responded to the incident which was reported at about 10:10.\nThe Welfare was towed back to shore in an operation lasting several hours.", "summary": "Two fishermen have been rescued after their fishing boat started taking on water in the North Sea." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Moroccan-Italian man who lived in east London, was named as the third attacker.\nHe was stopped at an Italian airport on his way to Syria last year and was put on an EU-wide database but was not prosecuted, reports say.\nZaghba, Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane killed seven people and injured 48 others during the attack on Saturday.\nSo far four of those killed in the attack have been named: Australian Kirsty Boden, Canadian national Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, from Hackney, and French national Alexandre Pigeard.\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian confirmed on Wednesday that a second French citizen had died.\nThe three attackers drove a hired van into pedestrians on London Bridge at 21:58 BST before stabbing people in the area around Borough Market.\nArmed officers killed all three within eight minutes of receiving a 999 call.\nSpeaking at her house in Bologna, Italy, Zaghba's mother told the BBC that she believed her son was radicalised in the UK.\nShe claimed her son was under surveillance when he was in Italy, but she questioned why this was not the case in the UK.\nAn Italian police source has confirmed to the BBC that Zaghba had been placed on a watch list, which is shared with many countries, including the UK.\nIn March 2016, Italian officers stopped Zaghba at Bologna airport and found IS-related materials on his mobile phone.\nHe was then stopped from continuing his journey to Istanbul.\nThe BBC understands he was not prosecuted but was listed on the Schengen Information System, an EU-wide database which includes details of potential suspects.\nWhen Zaghba entered Britain, staff at passport control should automatically have been alerted by the Schengen system, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.\n\"One unconfirmed report suggests that did happen, apparently when Zaghba arrived at Stansted Airport in January - but that border staff still let him in,\" he said.\nWhen asked if this was the case, Work and Pensions Secretary Damien Green, a former Home Office minister, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that if someone's passport comes up on the Schengen system the person should be stopped at the border.\n\"I obviously don't know what happened in this case,\" he said.\n\"It would be wrong to comment on an individual case while there is a very serious continuing police investigation going on.\"\nOn Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police said a 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of terror offences in Ilford, east London.\nOn Tuesday a 27-year-old man was arrested in Barking on Tuesday in connection with the investigation.\nScotland Yard has been criticised for the way it handled intelligence about Butt, who had been investigated by police and MI5 and featured in a Channel four documentary on extremism.\nPolice said Pakistan-born Butt, 27, from Barking, had been subject to an investigation in 2015, but there had been no suggestion an attack was being planned.\nRedouane, 30, was a chef who also used the name Rachid Elkhdar and police said he claimed to be Moroccan-Libyan. He married a British woman in Dublin in 2012 and lived in the city's Rathmines area.\nA man was arrested in Limerick, in the Irish Republic on Tuesday over the discovery of ID documents in Redouane's name. He was later released without charge.\nA second man, who is in his 30s, was arrested on Tuesday evening, with the Garda saying it was also related to Redouane. He is being held in Wexford.\nEntering the final day of election campaigning, Theresa May said she will change human rights laws if they \"get in the way\" of tackling suspected terrorists.\nThe PM said she would make it easier to deport foreign terror suspects and \"restrict the freedom and movements\" of those that present a threat.\nSir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary and director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, said existing human rights laws did not stand in the way of taking action against suspected terrorists.\n\"If we start throwing away our adherence to human rights... we are throwing away the very values at the heart of our democracy,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\nFormer SAS commander Col Tim Collins has said intelligence \"isn't good enough\", adding that police needed to recruit informants from within the Muslim community and appoint Muslim officers.\n\"MI5 and the police have to recruit sources, informants,\" he told Today. \"Intelligence from within the community is improving, but there's a lot more to be gleaned.\"\nFour of those killed in the attack have been named.\nAustralian Kirsty Boden, 28, worked as a senior staff nurse at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London. Her family have described her in a statement as an \"outgoing, kind and generous person\".\n\"We are so proud of Kirsty's brave actions which demonstrate how selfless, caring and heroic she was, not only on that night, but throughout all of her life,\" they added.\nThe hospital said that Ms Boden was \"an outstanding nurse and a hugely valued member of the staff team in Theatres Recovery, described by her colleagues as 'one in a million' who always went the extra mile for the patients in her care\".\nCanadian national Chrissy Archibald, 30, was the first victim to be named. Her family said she had died in her fiancé's arms after being struck by the attackers' speeding van.\nThe family of 32-year-old James McMullan, from Hackney, east London, say they believe he also died.\nMr McMullan's sister said he was believed to be among those who died, after his bank card was found on a body at the scene.\nTwo French nationals were also killed in the attack, according to foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.\nThe BBC understands one of them to be Alexandre Pigeard, 27.\nManager of the Boro Bistro, Vincent Le Berre, told the Brittany news outlet Le Telegramme how his colleague was attacked in a bar near Borough Market.\n\"I managed to escape him, but my friend Alexandre did not have that chance,\" he said. \"He was hit in the neck with a knife.\"\nMr Le Drian confirmed on Wednesday that a second French citizen had been \"identified among those who have died\".\nThe identity of the victim has not been released.\nThe Met have set up a casualty bureau on 0800 096 1233 and 020 7158 0197 for people concerned about friends or relatives.", "summary": "One of the London Bridge attackers was able to enter the UK, despite being placed on an EU-wide watch list." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He has promised to \"fight\" the NFL over a \"manufactured\" controversy and the NFL Players' Association wants a federal court to decide by 4 September.\nThe Patriots are alleged to have deflated balls to give themselves an advantage in an AFC Championship game.\nAn NFL investigation found Brady, 37, damaged the sport's \"integrity\" with his role in the 'deflate-gate' saga.\nOn Wednesday, lawyers for the NFLPA, on behalf of Brady, asked a judge to either rule on the case, or put an injunction on the ban so that Brady can practice before the season opener on 10 September.\nThe quarterback says neither he or the Patriots did anything wrong.\nThe Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts 45-7 to win the AFC Championship and reach the Super Bowl.\nBut it was later found that many of the balls used in the game were underweight and had been deliberately let down to make them easier to throw and catch, suiting New England's game.\nBrady was subsequently handed a four-match ban.\nThe NFL upheld that punishment on Tuesday and claimed that Brady had ordered the destruction of his mobile phone during the investigation in a bid to cover up his actions.\nBut responding on his Facebook page on Wednesday, Brady refuted the charge and wrote: \"To suggest that I destroyed a phone to avoid giving the NFL information it requested is completely wrong.\"\nConsidered one of the best quarterbacks ever, he added: \"There is no 'smoking gun' and this controversy is manufactured to distract from the fact they have zero evidence of wrongdoing.\n\"I will not allow my unfair discipline to become a precedent for other NFL players without a fight.\"\nThe Patriots have also criticised the sanction, while the NFL Players' Association it called an \"outrageous decision\".", "summary": "New England Patriots star Tom Brady has asked a judge to overturn his four-game NFL ban after losing his appeal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Trust owns 21.1% of Swansea City but under the proposal, Steve Kaplan, Jason Levein and Jenkins would gradually buy its shares.\nThe details will be included in a proposal the Trust hope to put before members at a meeting on 1 July.\nThe Trust recommends the proposal is accepted.\nTrust chairman Phil Sumbler said the proposal would \"strengthen their financial position\" while at the same time keeping a stake in the club.\nUnder the proposal, Kaplan, Levein and Jenkins would purchase an initial 5% of the total shares in Swansea City from the Trust's holdings which would raise about £5m.\nOn top of the initial 5%, there would be another 0.5% every year for the next five years, subject to the club staying in the Premier League.\nThere is also an option for a possible sale of a further 3% in the next two and a half years. That would total 10.5%.\nIf the deal is ratified the Trust, following legal advice, says it would be obliged not to pursue any legal action regarding an alleged breach of a shareholders' agreement by the former directors who had sold their shares as part of the Americans' takeover in 2016.\nNo definitive date has been set for any ballot to vote on the proposals but the Trust believe it could happen imminently and hope it could coincide with the meeting on Saturday in which board members are elected.", "summary": "Swansea City Supporters Trust could sell up to half its current shareholding to the club's American owners and chairman Huw Jenkins." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The ex-Welsh national champion beat Stuart Hardy in the singles final before also winning the doubles.\nLe Tocq, 33, has not been beaten at the Senior Closed championships since 2002.\n\"I've got a decision to make as to whether it's good for me to play until someone beats me or if it's someone else's turn,\" he told BBC Guernsey.\nDespite his long winning record, Le Tocq said he was still nervous when it came to the final.\n\"For the last four years I've really been working towards 10, and I almost don't know what to do now, it's everything I've wanted,\" he said.\n\"I was more nervous than I have been for half of them, it almost felt like the first one again, where I was really worried about getting over the line.\"", "summary": "Paul Le Tocq says he is unsure whether he will continue to defend his Guernsey badminton title after winning the men's singles for a 10th time." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In South Sudan, a country of some 11 million people, there are only two trained psychiatrists.\nDr Atong Ayuel is one of those two, and the new head of mental health care in South Sudan.\nThe country's third trained psychiatrist apparently lives in London.\nA stocky, determined mother of three, Dr Atong is ambitious about what she, and her team of just 20 trained mental healthcare professionals, can achieve.\nHowever on our visit to Juba's main public hospital, there were only 10 patients undergoing treatment, despite the fact that the people of this land have suffered so much.\nThe short history of South Sudan, which three years ago became the world's youngest nation, is scarred by violence.\n\"The scale of the problem is huge,\" says Dr Atong.\nDuring the current civil war, which broke out in December, thousands have died and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes. They now live in camps, often in squalid conditions.\nIt is in that context that Dr Atong says the number of patients is increasing and she simply does not \"have the resources or manpower\" to treat them all.\nWhat is more, there was conflict in this land for decades before South Sudan's independence in 2011 and it has taken its toll on the people here.\nDrive through the capital Juba, and you can spot men walking naked through the streets.\n\"Some men are becoming violent, they start shooting each other,\" says Dr Atong.\n\"Some of them are having a full-blown post-traumatic stress disorder.\"\nWhat is shocking to many outside of South Sudan is that mentally ill people are kept not in a hospital, but at Juba's main prison.\nHuman rights organisations have criticised the government and have campaigned for their release or transfer to another facility.\nWhile we were in Juba, Dr Atong started working at the prison in order to assess those patients being kept there.\nShe told us some of them have already been released.\nOfficials at Juba prison did not allow the BBC team inside. But they told us that there were still 150 people with mental health problems, being kept at the prison.\nDr Atong rejects the criticism from human rights organisations and foreign journalists.\nShe argues that the patients are not kept in the prison as criminals, but for their own safety, and that of others.\n\"Mentally ill patients are people who are not predictable,\" she says.\nHowever, the fact that the authorities in Juba say they have to keep patients in the prison because there is nowhere else safe enough to house them underlines how basic South Sudan's mental health system is.\nThe sight of dozens of policemen in military-style uniforms, with riot shields and long police batons, heading out to pick up the men with serious psychological problems who wander Juba's streets also seems primitive, when compared to the sensitivity shown towards the issue of mental health in more developed nations.\nWe accompanied the squads on their patrol through the streets of Juba.\nBut the role of the police is seen as an important part of the South Sudanese government's strategy of tackling mental health.\nOnly they can safely remove men, whose behaviour can be unpredictable from the capital's dusty streets, and take them to the hospital, where they can be treated.\nAt one point I ask Dr Atong, who is out on this patrol, whether the police have spotted a possible patient.\nShe replies that the police saw a scruffy man wearing overalls, but it turned out \"he was a mechanic\".\nAnd when I questioned a senior police officer on the patrol about how he and his colleagues were able to tell if someone was mentally ill, or not, he said, with some confidence, that it was \"because of the way someone was dressed, and the way they moved\".\nBut aside from such sensitivities, when addressing the issue of mental health, Dr Atong and her small team of mental health care professionals are trying to tackle a gargantuan task.\nIn a dilapidated corridor of Juba Hospital's mental health ward, I meet George who is visiting his wife.\nHe explains that a few days ago, his wife turned violent and was threatening to burn their house down.\nBut in some way they are the lucky ones. Reports suggest that other people in South Sudan, whose relatives suffer severe mental health problems resort to tying them up at home, because they have nowhere to take them for treatment.\nAid agencies also warn that treating mental health is crucial for South Sudan's future.\nHeke Huisman, from the medical charity Doctors Without Borders, argues that if people who experience violence are not helped, then they themselves are more prone to turn to violence.\n\"If someone has been abused in his life, he becomes the abuser,\" she says.\nAnd stories of trauma and tragedy are alarmingly common in South Sudan.\nAt a camp on the edge of Juba, where 1,700 people live who fled the recent fighting, we meet 12-year-old Mary.\nIn a sweet, innocent, high-pitched voice she recalls how both her parents and her two brothers were killed in the violence earlier this year.\nMany believe that if South Sudan is to break-away from a self-destructive cycle of war, it must address the psychological cost of so much violence.", "summary": "South Sudan is desperately in need of mental health facilities to treat people brutalised by decades of conflict, writes the BBC's Tom Burridge after visiting the world's newest state." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Sue Sim said she feared how other women might be being treated in the force.\nThe claim appeared in an official report which cleared Ms Sim, who retired in June, of misconduct.\nNorthumbria Police said it was disappointed and does not accept the accusation.\nMs Sim said the formal report into complaints about the way she spoke to officers revealed she was treated differently by some senior officers because she was a woman.\nShe described elements of policing as \"rather old fashioned\" and said some senior officers expected to maintain posts until they retired, regardless of their performance.\nMs Sim told 5 live Daily: \"I was absolutely shocked that my senior male colleagues treated me differently than they would have done a male chief constable.\n\"It does make me wonder if they treat me as the chief constable differently than they would a male colleague, then what will they be doing with their more junior colleagues?\n\"So I think we probably still do have some way to go.\"\nMs Sim was cleared of misconduct, but an official inquiry criticised her management style and recommended she apologise to some officers.\nShe admitted she was \"robust\" and said she and her senior officers were paid well to serve the public.\nMs Sim has now made a complaint against the officers who accused her and asked police and crime commissioner Vera Baird to investigate why the allegations were made.\nA Northumbria Police spokesman said: \"It is disappointing and a real shame that Mrs Sim has chosen to express these views in this way.\n\"We do not accept the criticism that she has directed at Northumbria Police, an organisation that she personally was in command of for five years.\"", "summary": "The former chief constable of Northumbria Police has claimed senior male officers in the force treated her differently because she was a woman." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Catalonia's parliament passed the resolution in November, aiming to establish a republic within 18 months.\nBut the Constitutional Court has approved an appeal that was filed by the central government two days later.\nHowever, Catalan leaders have vowed to ignore the court's rulings.\nTheir independence declaration calls for the Catalan government only to comply with laws that it has established.\nThe Constitutional Court made one of its quickest rulings ever in order to come to a decision before the general election campaign begins on Friday, El Pais reported.\nCatalonia is a highly industrialised and populous region in Spain's north-east that accounts for about a fifth of the country's economic output.", "summary": "Spain's Constitutional Court has revoked Catalonia's parliamentary motion that set in motion a process of unilaterally breaking away from the rest of the country." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is the first time since 1997 that England have featured in the top-tier Championship division.\nEighteenth seeds England join Group B, which also features eighth seeds Sweden, France (9) and Denmark (16).\nThe hosts of the tournament - held in Kuala Lumpur from February 28 to March 6 - are ranked 24th.\nThree of England's four-man squad - Liam Pitchford, 22, Paul Drinkhall, 26, and Sam Walker, 20 - were in the team that earned promotion from Division Two in the corresponding event in Tokyo two years ago. They are joined by Andrew Baggaley, 32.\nAll four won team silver medals for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\nTop seeds China dominate the men's game, having won the last seven World Team Championships. England's sole team success came in 1953.\nThe England women's squad of Kelly Sibley, 27, Tin-Tin Ho, 17, and Karina le Fevre, 23, will play in Group E in the Second Division, against Serbia, Canada, Belgium, Turkey and New Zealand.", "summary": "England's men have been drawn against second seeds Germany and hosts Malaysia in the group stage of the World Team Championships." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The music and accompanying visual album sparked frenzied conversation and a rush to decipher Beyonce's messages online.\nThe visual album was released on HBO, followed by the music becoming available on Tidal and iTunes.\nWe break down five moments that have people talking.\nAbove anything else, critics and fans are describing Lemonade as an ode to female black empowerment. Black women of all ages are featured throughout the visual album, including Beyonce's own mother and grandmother, who is featured at her birthday party talking about being handed lemons and making lemonade.\nElle editor-at-large and university professor Melissa Harris-Perry wrote of the album: \"What would happen if we took the hopes, dreams, pain, joy, loss, bodies, voices, stories, expressions, styles, families, histories, futures of black girls and women and put them in the centre and started from there? Lemonade happens.\"\nMichael Arceneaux, a writer who reviewed both the album and its visual component for Complex Magazine, told the BBC the video depicts Black womanhood \"in all its varied beauty\". At one point, she features flashes of black women, primarily in the South, as a quote from Malcolm X is read- \"The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.\"\nKiana Fitzgerald, who reviewed the album for NPR, told the BBC \"it feels like validation, it feels like black women finally have a champion.\"\n\"You realise she realises that her experience is rooted within the black female experience.\"\nThe mothers of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, black men who were killed by US police, are featured in the video, holding photos of their deceased sons. Also featured is the mother of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager shot dead in Florida.\n\"People that look like both me and Beyonce are still in danger at any moment should we cross the wrong officer,\" said Mr Arcenaux. \"As painful as it is to be reminded of that, we have to be.\"\nAllusions to Beyonce's husband, American rap artist Jay-Z, cheating on her are rampant in the video, but the message is more nuanced than a simple tale of infidelity.\nBeyonce sings of his betrayal with a \"Becky with the good hair\" - which many on the Internet deciphered to be fashion designer Rachel Roy, who Jay-Z is rumoured to have had an affair with - in the song Sorry.\n\"It's so much bigger than the 'Becky' line—[it encompasses] her grandmother, mother and the shared experience a lot of women had,\" said Akilah Hughes, a writer and comedienne in New York City. It is rumoured that Beyonce's mother dealt with infidelity in her marriage, too. \"We put up with a lot that we probably shouldn't. It's not a story about a one-time incident, it's a story about people.\"\nThe album begins with Beyonce talking about being \"crazy\" and \"jealous\", and ends with the case for keeping families together with images and herself with Jay-Z and their daughter Blue Ivy.\nAmong the famous black women making cameos or inspiring the visual album for Lemonade:\nMuch of the visual album includes lush imagery of the American South, evoking the Antebellum period and the roots of slavery, Ms Hughes said.\n\"I think it was a very overt homage, and a beautiful one, of a story we don't like to tell in America - black people who are here have to call this home,\" she said. Beyonce, an artist with massive commercial appeal, showcases black history in a way Ms Hughes describes as \"interesting, refreshing and compelling.\"\nBlack women appear in Antebellum-style dresses, against rural, tree-shaded backdrops.\n\"The South represents black women in all our complicatedness — we are as much impacted by the chains as we are lifted up remembering ourselves as queens,\" Collier Meyerson, a reporter at Fusion, wrote of the South's role in the visual album.\nMs Hughes called Lemonade the most emotional album Beyonce has ever released. At the end, she lays on a football field, showcases her family and shows groups of black women of all ages coming together and smiling.\n\"This video project forced me to halt the charade and to reckon with the brokenness of Beyonce. Is it possible Lemonade represents a more durable inheritance of strength?\" Alondra Nelson, a professor of sociology and gender studies at Columbia University, writes in Elle.\nBeyonce is known for her R&B, soul, pop and hip-hop classics, but in Lemonade she showcases new styles, including rock and roll and country.\nOn the song Daddy Lessons, she rides a horse and samples a bluesy, country sound. On Don't Hurt Yourself, she evokes rock 'n' roll with some help from Jack White and Led Zeppelin. Vampire Weekend front man Ezra Koenig has a writing credit on the song Pray You Catch Me.\nOther artists featured on the album include Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd and James Blake, with more writing credits for Father John Misty, Diplo and Soulja Boy.\n\"When I first heard it, I was like, is she really going there right now? I feel like she finally stepped into what she could be,\" NPR's Ms Fitzgerald said. \"She is finally where she needs to be.\"", "summary": "Beyonce released a new visual album over the weekend, Lemonade, surprising and delighting fans." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "TalkTalk said it was subjected to a \"significant\" attack on its website on 21 October, with fears that customers may have had bank details stolen.\nThe man, the third to be arrested in relation to the alleged data theft, was held on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act.\nHe has been bailed until early March.\nPolice have also arrested and bailed a 16-year-old boy from west London and a 15-year-old boy from Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber attack.\nBoth were arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences, with the 16-year-old bailed until an as-yet unconfirmed date and the 15-year-old bailed until November.\nPolice have confirmed that officers also carried out a search at a residential property in Liverpool in connection with the cyber attack.\nTalkTalk's chief executive Dido Harding has said the scale of the attack was \"much smaller than we originally suspected\" but she said the company still needed to \"work hard to earn back your trust\".\nThe phone and broadband provider has said hackers accessed up to 28,000 obscured credit and debit card details, with the middle six digits removed, and 15,000 customer dates of birth.\nIt said any stolen credit or debit card details were incomplete - and therefore could not be used for financial transactions - but advised customers to remain vigilant against fraud.\nThe investigation into the attack is being carried out by the Metropolitan Police's cyber crime unit, the Police Service of Northern Ireland's cyber crime centre and the National Crime Agency.\nThe latest breach is the third in a spate of cyber incidents affecting TalkTalk in the last year.", "summary": "A 20-year-old Staffordshire man arrested in connection with the TalkTalk cyber attack has been released on bail, pending further inquiries." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "\"I said at the start of the summer that we all have a responsibility to show leadership and to continue to seek resolutions to contentious issues through discussion and to ensure any difficulties are identified and resolved peacefully. By doing so, we become stronger as a community and a country.\n\"I thank all those involved. We want to build a future that is respectful, inclusive and vibrant. Northern Ireland can have a very bright future built on respect and celebration of diversity.\"\n\"I commend the representatives of the Orange Order and Cara for their efforts in negotiating a solution.\n\"This is a clear demonstration that local dialogue can work, and offers up the best chance of resolving disputes like this.\"\n\"I want to pay tribute to the facilitators and all those involved for their tireless efforts to achieve this important agreement to resolve the Twaddell parades dispute and thank them for all their work on making this agreement possible. I look forward to seeing this new agreement implemented and an end to the protest.\n\"I also wish to take this opportunity to thank the chief constable and his officers who were at the frontline, policing this situation over the course of the last three years, for their impartial and impeccable support to protect the entire community at the Twaddell interface.\"\n\"From what I am hearing, it looks as if it is a fair and balanced agreement. It is very close to what was nearly agreed in 2012.\n\"I think it is the sort of thing that could stick and could see it through.\"\n\"Expressions of place and identity can be very emotive and challenging.\n\"I wish to pay tribute to those in the Orange Order and among local residents for their leadership and courage in achieving this agreement. I look forward to its full implementation in good faith and good neighbourliness.\"\n\"I want to commend the work of the mediators, Rev Harold Good and Jim Roddy, and the leadership of those local lodges and the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association who have made this agreement possible.\nI also want to thank everyone else who was involved in this process and in particular local Sinn Féin elected representatives who provided support for the residents and leadership in the community.\nThis progress is evidence that through dialogue and co-operation, and a willingness to resolve difficult disputes, that it is possible to reach agreement.\"\n\"It is important to recognise that the completely voluntary nature of this deal between Cara and the Orange Order is a source of genuine anxiety and real concern for the people of Ardoyne, given all of the previous actions of the Orange Order and the behaviour of local lodges, bands and supporters, particularly over the last three years.\n\"These concerns were strongly expressed by the residents who attended the public meeting where this deal was revealed.\n\"While this deal can be welcomed now, previous experience over many years warrants an air of caution. The success of this deal can only be judged in the long term.\"\n\"I congratulate the representatives of the two sides on reaching an agreement and thank the mediators for their good work, despite the disappointments of the past summer.\n\"I look forward to seeing the full details of the deal being published and most importantly, put into action.\"\n\"While the camp at Twaddell may have offered a focal point for justified frustration and anger in the early days of the impasse, it had become an expensive and ineffective initiative.\n\"I hope the parade will now be allowed to pass peacefully and respectfully.\"\n\"The Police Service welcomes the news of a local agreement in relation to the challenges surrounding parades and protests at Twaddell/Crumlin Road in north Belfast.\n\"I and my officers look forward to stepping back from the significant policing operation that has been ongoing for some time.\n\"We will continue to work with all communities to secure a long-term resolution of the issues surrounding parades and protests in Belfast.\"\n\"I welcome the agreement that has been reached between the lodges and residents of Twaddell Avenue after three years of dispute, and pray that it might now find peaceful resolution as we look forward to the future.\n\"For all concerned this has been a long-running and seemingly intractable situation. For this reason I give thanks for the dedication, patience and persistence of all involved in bringing these negotiations to a resolution.\n\"What will now be important, as we move forward, is for equal energy and persistence to be given to strengthening community relationships across the whole community.\"\n\"I welcome this announcement that brings to an end the protracted impasse at Ardoyne and which, hopefully, sees to an end the inter-community strife.\n\"I note that one of the practical out workings of this agreement will be the ability of the Ligoniel Orange Lodges to complete their July 2013 return parade on October 1st.\"\n\"We welcome news that both sides involved in this long-running dispute have reached agreement.\n\"We would like to pay tribute to all those who have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to bring this situation to a peaceful conclusion, allowing this area of north Belfast to continue on its journey of reconciliation.\n\"We continue to pray for all those who strive towards peace and a shared future in the area.\"\n\"This will immediately release the officers deployed in connection with that protest to be utilised in front-line duties in the communities they were extracted from.\n\"It will also help to take some of the pressure off those frontline officers who, on a daily basis, are struggling to meet demand. We obviously commend all those who played a part in making this resolution possible.\"\n\"The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, meeting in County Leitrim on Saturday, welcomed the news that an agreement has been reached by the Ligoniel lodges and bands in respect of completing their 2013 Twelfth of July parade.\n\"The Grand Lodge supports local solutions for local situations.\n\"However, we are mindful that there are other parts of Northern Ireland where no resolutions have as yet been found regarding parades and brethren continue to protest. They too have our full support.\"", "summary": "Leading figures from Northern Ireland have been reacting to news that an agreement has been reached to end a long-running dispute at Twaddell Avenue in north Belfast." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Saints are currently fourth in the table, one place below their rivals, who are also two points better off.\n\"The Good Friday derby game, it's even bigger than the other derby games we play this season,\" Wilkin told BBC Radio Merseyside.\n\"This game is head and shoulders the biggest league game of the year.\"\nSaints suffered their second loss of the season in their last game when they were defeated by Leeds Rhinos.\n\"Wigan this week is a huge challenge for us. They're a fantastic, well disciplined side. We have to be exceptional this week and a far sight better then we were against Leeds,\" Wilkin added.\n\"For the guys who haven't played in this game before, it's something we have been telling them about since pre-season,\n\"Forget about the league, forget about the Challenge Cup, forget about anything else, this game in isolation is as important to both sets of fans as any other.\"\nHe added: \"We are going into this game to be physical and to be strong. Effort, intensity, aggression, those are the easiest bits to get right.\n\"Since I have started playing with St Helens, the Good Friday derby game has been the one of the most memorable days of my career.\"", "summary": "St Helens captain Jon Wilkin says they will have to be \"exceptional\" to win their Super League game against Wigan on Good Friday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "May, 22, made 42 appearances for Wednesday and joins North End on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.\nDoyle, 27, signed for Cardiff from Chesterfield in January and joins Preston on a season-long loan deal.\nDoyle scored 25 goals from just 33 appearances for Chesterfield last season prior to joining the Bluebirds.\n\"Stevie and Eoin are players that we've been after in the past,\" North End boss Simon Grayson said. \"When the option became available to be able to sign one permanently and one on loan, it was a great opportunity to get good players who will enhance the squad.\"\nFor all the latest on transfer deadline day, click here.", "summary": "Preston North End have signed strikers Stevie May and Eoin Doyle from Sheffield Wednesday and Cardiff City respectively." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The historic overhaul of the existing tax legislation was carried out at a special midnight session of parliament.\nIndia says introducing GST will cut red tape and increase tax revenues, fuelling economic growth.\nFinance Minister Arun Jaitley says the reform will help the economy grow by 2%.\nBut businesses have been asking for more time to implement changes, worried that they are not ready for the move to the new system.\nMany do not even have a computer to register on the GST network.\n\"No country of comparable size and complexity has attempted a tax reform of this scale,\" Harishankar Subramanian, of Ernst and Young previously told the BBC.\nUnder the new system, goods and services will be taxed under four basic rates - 5%, 12% 18% and 28%.\nSome items like vegetables and milk have been exempted from GST, but will still be subject to existing taxes.\nThe price of most goods and services are expected to increase in the immediate aftermath of the tax.\nAnalysts expect economic growth to slow down over the next few months, but say it should pick up after the tax is fully implemented.", "summary": "India has replaced its numerous federal and state taxes with the Goods and Services Tax (GST), designed to unify the country into a single market." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "An arrest warrant was issued for Trevor Devamanikkam, 70, from Oxfordshire, when he did not appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court on 6 June.\nPolice forced entry into his home and found him dead, with apparently self-inflicted stab wounds.\nThe former churchman, from Witney, was accused of abusing a teenage boy.\nHe faced six charges relating to sexual assaults alleged to have taken place between March 1984 and April 1985, while Mr Devamanikkam was a vicar in Bradford.\nCoroner Darren Salter told Oxford Coroner's Court that the former vicar died from blood loss stemming from multiple stab wounds and cuts.\nThe death was not being treated as suspicious, Mr Salter said.\nMr Devamanikkam was last seen at 07:00 BST on the day of his scheduled court appearance.\nHis body, which was found after 16:00 at his home at Otters Court, Priory Mill Lane, was identified by PC Paul Daniels, who had \"dealings with him around a year ago\", the court heard.", "summary": "A former vicar who failed to turn up in court to face child sex charges is thought to have killed himself earlier the same day, a coroner has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Scots failed to register a shot on target, losing 1-0.\n\"We've got a clear picture of one or two things - that was great for us to see tonight,\" said Strachan.\n\"So when we come up against that system, we know right now, unless something changes drastically, how we're going to deal with it.\"\nStrachan bemoaned Scotland's lack of accurate distribution - a slackness that proved detrimental to the team's capacity to build possession and momentum, and create chances.\n\"I counted about eight or nine passes we gave away which you'd think we'd keep and do better,\" said the manager. \"No matter what system you use, if you can't do that you can understand it.\n\"There might be some factors that some of the players have been away, some have been rested for a while, whereas the Italian lads have been on top of their game right until now.\n\"That's a problem for us, because a lot of people are playing the Championship, not at a top European level. And you're also playing against the Juventus back-three and the goalkeeper who are fantastic.\n\"We'd have liked to have done more, but we know it's partly down to them and partly down to us.\n\"That clears the picture, so you now understand exactly what you need going into the top games.\n\"You can't get offensive if you can't pass the ball to each other. It's still the biggest secret in the game - whatever any coach tells you about systems, it's about players being able to beat people and pass, and we keep coming to this conversation every time. It's something I know, I wish somebody would just listen to me.\"\nAhead of the second friendly, against France in Metz on Saturday, Strachan added playing the Italians was an invaluable experience for his players.\n\"We've got a young squad here, it's been a great learning for them just to watch it, never mind play against it,\" he said.\n\"We as a nation need to think about what we're doing, and reiterate what we've been trying to do for the last year. It's a learning curve, not only for us, and I hope the whole of Scottish football understands what you need to be a top player now.\"", "summary": "Scotland manager Gordon Strachan says Sunday's friendly defeat by Italy in Malta has shown him how to combat the Azzurri's 3-5-2 system." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "2 March 2016 Last updated at 11:12 GMT\nWatch live coverage of the Track Cycling World Championships from the Lee Valley VeloPark in London on BBC TV, radio and online, 2-6 March.", "summary": "British track cyclist and Olympic gold medallist Laura Trott reveals three things you might not know about her, including a surprising pre-race superstition." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "At the heart of the dispute are eight uninhabited islands and rocks in the East China Sea. They have a total area of about 7 sq km and lie north-east of Taiwan, east of the Chinese mainland and south-west of Japan's southern-most prefecture, Okinawa. The islands are controlled by Japan.\nThey matter because they are close to important shipping lanes, offer rich fishing grounds and lie near potential oil and gas reserves. They are also in a strategically significant position, amid rising competition between the US and China for military primacy in the Asia-Pacific region.\nJapan says it surveyed the islands for 10 years in the 19th Century and determined that they were uninhabited. On 14 January 1895 Japan erected a sovereignty marker and formally incorporated the islands into Japanese territory.\nAfter World War Two, Japan renounced claims to a number of territories and islands including Taiwan in the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco. These islands, however, came under US trusteeship and were returned to Japan in 1971 under the Okinawa reversion deal.\nJapan says China raised no objections to the San Francisco deal. And it says that it is only since the 1970s, when the issue of oil resources in the area emerged, that Chinese and Taiwanese authorities began pressing their claims.\nChina says that the islands have been part of its territory since ancient times, serving as important fishing grounds administered by the province of Taiwan.\nTaiwan was ceded to Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, after the Sino-Japanese war.\nWhen Taiwan was returned in the Treaty of San Francisco, China says the islands should have been returned too. Beijing says Taiwan's Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek did not raise the issue, even when the islands were named in the later Okinawa reversion deal, because he depended on the US for support.\nSeparately, Taiwan also claims the islands.\nThe dispute has rumbled relatively quietly for decades. But in April 2012, a fresh row ensued after outspoken right-wing Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara said he would use public money to buy the islands from their private Japanese owner.\nThe Japanese government then reached a deal to buy three of the islands from the owner in a move to block Mr Ishihara's more provocative plan.\nBut this angered China, triggering public and diplomatic protests. Since then, Chinese government ships have regularly sailed in and out of what Japan says are its territorial waters around the islands.\nIn November 2013, China also announced the creation of a new air-defence identification zone, which would require any aircraft in the zone - which covers the islands - to comply with rules laid down by Beijing.\nJapan labelled the move a \"unilateral escalation\" and said it would ignore it, as did the US.\nThe US and Japan forged a security alliance in the wake of World War II and formalised it in 1960. Under the deal, the US is given military bases in Japan in return for its promise to defend Japan in the event of an attack.\nThis means if conflict were to erupt between China and Japan, Japan would expect US military back-up. US President Barack Obama has confirmed that the security pact applies to the islands - but has also warned that escalation of the current row would harm all sides.\nThe Senkaku/Diaoyu issue highlights the more robust attitude China has been taking to its territorial claims in both the East China Sea and the South China Sea. It poses worrying questions about regional security as China's military modernises amid the US \"pivot\" to Asia.\nIn both China and Japan, meanwhile, the dispute ignites nationalist passions on both sides, putting pressure on politicians to appear tough and ultimately making any possible resolution even harder to find.", "summary": "Ties between China and Japan have been strained by a territorial row over a group of islands, known as the Senkaku islands in Japan and the Diaoyu islands in China." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In Down Under, the new black comedy on the 2005 Cronulla riots, one white \"bogan\" hothead called Jason suggests erecting a 20ft (6m) \"Leb-proof fence\" to shut Lebanese immigrants out of what he sees as his beach and his hood.\nWhen Abe Forsythe penned the script five years ago, he could not have foreseen that American Republican nominee Donald Trump would suggest building something similar - this time a wall along the Mexican border.\nIn the film, the absurdity of the fence proposal is quickly pointed out by a bong-smoking video store employee,\n\"'The contracting would be a nightmare,\" he says. \"And the federal government wouldn't give the go-ahead for something like that, it's got to be state specific… the local council wouldn't have anywhere near enough cash to build a wall that big.\"\nHis reasoning elicited spontaneous applause at the film's premiere in June.\nDown Under, released nationally in August, may be a quintessentially Australian movie based in Sydney on a day of race riots. But its themes of racism and xenophobia remain painfully present - and relevant worldwide - today.\n\"Casual racism is pretty much everywhere,\" says Sydney-based director Forsythe, 34. His aim is to \"take something that we're living through and is ugly and difficult and attempt to shine a light on it with comedy\".\nShot on a budget of less than A$3m ($2.3m, £1.7m), Down Under opens its story in the lead-up to Christmas 2005. As the soundtrack belts out We Wish You a Merry Christmas, real news footage shows intoxicated locals shouting about Lebanese immigrants as they play up to the cameras; in the background police wield batons.\n\"The participants are inviting the camera into the event, that's what made it even more confronting,\" notes Forsythe. \"To see all these boys and men full of adrenalin and peacocking for the camera. Taunting the camera, too.\"\nThe film concentrates on the retaliatory attacks that followed the riots. Two different gangs of men, one white, one Lebanese, both armed with guns and thirsty for revenge, race around in their cars looking for action. Jason, the rough leader of the Caucasians, tells his small daughter Destiny her Daddy's got to go and beat up some Lebanese migrants.\nSet claustrophobically in the suburban sprawl that spans outwards from Cronulla beach, the movie gets its laughs from comparing the two opposing motley crews. Both attempt to be scary but are utterly ineffective. At one point, drumming this home, the whites, although desperate to be hard, can't help but do a car sing-along to The NeverEnding Story.\nMeanwhile both groups - fuelled by testosterone, stupidity, fear and ignorance - are sent up as stereotypes that cut close to the bone. As their similarities, rather than differences, are exposed, neither comes away unscathed.\nBut if Down Under starts as unapologetic satire - gags are fast and often cruel - it descends into brutal realist violence. The juxtaposition is deliberate.\nFirst you \"lull [the audience] into a false sense of security that it's a comedy,\" says Forsythe. Then you \"pull the rug out from under them\".\nForsythe, who wrote the first draft in three weeks, was living in London when the riots broke out. More than a decade later he believes that Australians still \"haven't dealt with this stuff\".\n\"When it happened everything was so raw. Then it kind of felt like the conversation stopped.\"\nWith the re-emergence of far-right parties across the globe, he thinks addressing the past is even more crucial.\n\"Certain groups on the fringes of society feel like they're under attack,\" he says.\n\"As a result they're forming packs so they feel safe. It all comes down to people feeling like they're not being heard.\"\nForsythe is therefore careful to humanise his protagonists. The only major female character is Stacey (Harriet Dyer), Jason's girlfriend, who is heavily pregnant, foul-mouthed, and smokes.\nAs she sits on the sofa, wearing a crop top that showcases her enormous stomach and infected belly button ring, she eggs on her violent boyfriend. Yet the pair also share moments of real tenderness.\nHassim (Lincoln Younes), a studious, hard-working young man of Lebanese origin, reluctantly joins in the retaliation to find his missing brother. He is one of the more sympathetic characters, yet even his actions are foolish and rash.\nBy focusing on individuals, Forsythe keeps politics out of the film; he wanted to avoid being seen as a filmmaker \"out to lecture\". Humour was a tool to prevent that happening. And like all good comedy, the more painful truths get the best laughs.\nEven so, \"the movie has been a battle every step of the way\", admits Forsythe.\n\"It is a piece of entertainment,\" he adds. \"But one that condemns.\"\nAs for the wall, it won't be built in Cronulla. Whether it will in America remains to be seen.\nClarissa Sebag-Montefiore is an arts and culture writer based in Sydney", "summary": "No-one is a hero in a new Australian film that asks tough questions about racism, violence and stupidity, writes Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is one of a series of issues likely to be outlined in a report to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) by the local council.\nThe inspectorate is undertaking an independent review of call handling procedures by Police Scotland.\nIt follows the discovery of John Yuill, 28, and Lamara Bell, 25, in a crashed car three days after it was reported.\nDumfries and Galloway Council will also raise concerns about a lack of local knowledge by telephone operators.\nA report to the Police, Fire and Rescue Services sub-committee said not all locations in the region were linked to postcodes.\nIt added: \"Dumfries and Galloway residents have previously enjoyed a good police presence during normal business and in response to reported incidents.\n\"Comments from residents to local elected members are that police constables are now not attending some levels of reported crime.\"\nThe report said call handlers are providing incident numbers, rather sending a police officer.\nIt added: \"Rural crime and level of crime are different to that experienced in other parts of Scotland.\"\nThe council's response to the HMICS review will be considered by the sub-committee on 3 September.\nCh Supt Mike Leslie, of Police Scotland, has said previously there have been a number of \"learning points\" since Dumfries control room closed.\nHe said the differences in priorities around the country was an issue that was being addressed.", "summary": "Concerns have been raised that police officers no longer attend some low level crimes in Dumfries and Galloway." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Alex Schalk's last-minute goal gave County a 2-1 victory over Hibernian in the League Cup final at Hampden.\n\"He really deserves it. He's put Dingwall on the map and he's been absolutely fantastic for this club. He is Mr Ross County,\" McIntyre said.\n\"For us to be able to give him a bit of silverware is so pleasing.\"\nMcIntyre concedes his players rode their luck at times, but believes they are fully deserving of their winners medals.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"We've taken our chances when it counts,\" he noted. \"These games are all about winning.\n\"Nobody ever remembers the losers. That was my message to the players.\"\nIt was a momentous day in the history of the Highlands outfit, who have finished fifth, seventh and ninth since promotion to the Premiership in 2012, and currently lie fourth in the table with nine games left.\nMacGregor says he hopes County's achievement will spur other smaller clubs in Scotland on to greater things.\n\"I'm really proud for everyone and delighted for these fans,\" said the chairman. \"Absolutely incredible. We've been on a journey together and this is not the end of the journey. We look forward to the next chapter.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"We've just got to battle on and see if we can come in the top six of the league. It will be a milestone for the club if we can do that.\n\"We're a community club and hopefully that gives encouragement to all the community clubs in Scotland.\"\nMatch-winner Schalk, 23, says the cup win is just reward for a squad who \"go through hell\" together.\n\"We fought so hard today,\" said the Dutchman, who joined the club last October. \"They're a great side Hibs, and played fantastic. Second half, we fought for each other.\n\"The whole season with his squad, we go through hell for each other. The 90th-minute goal couldn't be better for me though.\n\"It was a fantastic counter-attack. I am where I'm supposed to be as a striker. Tap-in, 2-1, cup-winners.\"\nCounty assistant manager Billy Dodds was pleased at how well the team recovered after a nervy opening to the match.\n\"Hibs were the better team first half. I thought we froze a little bit. It was an eachy-peachy second half, could have gone either way.\n\"I thought we stuck in, worked hard and we got the break.\n\"I'm just delighted. I would have hated this bunch of lads to go on and lose this. I don't know what would've happened.\"", "summary": "Ross County manager Jim McIntyre paid tribute to the club's chairman Roy MacGregor after leading the Staggies to their first major trophy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Officers were called after the woman's body was found at the property in Bellsmyre Avenue, Dumbarton, at about 13:40 on Thursday.\nA police spokeswoman said that a post mortem examination would take place in due course to establish the exact cause of death.\nThe woman who died at the house is believed to be elderly.", "summary": "Police are treating the death of a woman at a house in West Dunbartonshire as \"unexplained\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "First of all, he went out on a limb in officially recognising the Libyan opposition.\nThen he corralled the international coalition, pushed through the no-fly UN resolution, and bombed Muammar Gaddafi's tanks outside Benghazi.\nA week later, though, military leadership of the alliance has now passed to the US and Nato - France still carries a kind of moral aura thanks to its early championing of the cause.\nIt's the sort of moment that makes the French people feel good about themselves.\nThis is a country with a very high view of its own mission in the world. But the opportunities for gunboat humanitarianism are not frequent, and up to now it has been Washington that has led the way.\nThis time it is France doing what the French believe France is supposed to do, thanks to a president who may be impetuous - but at least knows how to act.\nSo is this, as some are saying, Mr Sarkozy's De Gaulle moment?\nA chance for him to transcend the petty bickering of domestic politicians, and place France back where it belongs among the pantheon of nations?\nAnd if it is, does that mean that his own political fortunes are saved, and that he can start planning for next year's presidentials with a renewed sense of hope?\nThe initial omens are good.\nFrench intervention in Libya is supported by all the main political parties, with the exception of the Communists and the National Front.\nIn the nation as a whole, some 66% are in favour, according to a poll published on 23 March. Two weeks ago - before Mr Sarkozy moved into top gear - the same proportion was actually against French policy.\nEven the president's enemies have been forced to admit that he has been impressive.\nBernard-Henri Levy, the Socialist-voting celebrity philosopher whose trip to Benghazi sparked Mr Sarkozy into action, described the president as \"clear-sighted and courageous\".\nThe left-wing press believes Mr Sarkozy is exploiting the occasion in order to \"re-presidentialise\" himself and distract opinion from domestic problems. But it does not question that his decisions were the right ones.\nAnd others are outright fulsome.\nAccording to Christophe Barbier, editor of the centre-right L'Express magazine and no fawning mouthpiece, Mr Sarkozy will be remembered \"as the leader of the G8 who at the last minute managed to manoeuvre western democracies into action against Gaddafi's madness.\n\"If the end result is a victory - in other words if the Gaddafi regime collapses without giving way to trivial chaos, then Nicolas Sarkozy, in Benghazi as well as Paris, will be hailed as the liberator.\n\"In advance of all the rest, he launched a war of the just.\"\nSuch praise is rare indeed for the president, and it would be churlish not to let him enjoy it.\nBecause, let's face it, the euphoria is unlikely to last.\nDe Gaulle was a French general and statesman. In 1940, as under-secretary of national defence and war, he refused to accept the French government's truce with the Germans. He became leader of the Free French and left Paris for London. In June, he broadcast an impassioned call for resistance to the Nazi occupation of France from the BBC's headquarters. The rallying cry was to become known as 'l'Appel du 18 Juin'.\nDe Gaulle - BBC History\nThe initial phase of the Libyan campaign has been dramatic, exciting and effective. But looking ahead, what guarantee is there that the news will stay as good?\nIf past experience is anything to go by, the campaign will be punctuated by frustrations, reverses and the occasional blunder.\nA neat conclusion, with Gaddafi toppled by a palace coup and the Libyan nation uniting behind a new democratic government, cannot be ruled out. But it is not exactly the most likely outcome.\nAs the political sage Jacques Attali put it this week: \"The only way to play chess is to look several moves ahead, and that's not what those who launched this conflict appear to have done.\"\nPublic opinion is fickle. Some may recall that it was a noble instinct that prompted the call to action. Most won't.\nBut there is another reason the president is unlikely to reap many dividends from the Libya episode.\nSarkozy may be trying to act in a De Gaullian manner, but he is quite evidently not De Gaulle.\nThe main reason Sarkozy has been so low in the opinion polls is not so much what he has or has not done, but the simple fact that many French people do not like him.\nThat is not going to change - however decisive the president's actions.\nThe French nation had a bond with Charles de Gaulle, as it also did - albeit to a lesser extent -- with subsequent presidents like Francois Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.\nIt is hard to detect any such bond with Nicolas Sarkozy.\nRight now many people admire what he is doing, and they are grateful that he has made France stand tall.\nBut, it seems, they are not about to take him to their hearts.", "summary": "If the art of politics is about seizing the moment, then the French president Nicolas Sarkozy has certainly grabbed this one." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The teenager was struck at about 14:00 GMT on Thursday on Lakefield Road, at the junction with March End Road and Wednesfield Road, in Wednesfield.\nWest Midlands Police said the boy, from Bushbury, Wolverhampton, was taken to hospital but died of his injuries.\nThe driver of the car involved was taken to hospital and treated for shock. He is continuing to help police with their inquiries.\nSee more stories from across Birmingham and the Black Country here\nWitnesses should contact West Midlands Police.", "summary": "A 13-year-old boy has been run over and killed in Wolverhampton." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The process has now begun to identify the profile and individuals for two key positions at Ibrox, with a view to recovering the ground lost as Warburton faltered in his last 14 months as manager.\nWhen Warburton was appointed in the summer of 2015, Rangers did not have a full executive team or board of directors in place, and the priority was to find a new manager.\nNow managing director Stewart Robertson and director of finance and administration Andrew Dickson will lead the search for a director of football and a head coach.\nThere may be an interim manager in the meantime, but there are a number of issues to be addressed once Rangers make permanent appointments.\nA scouting network and a recruitment strategy will be the responsibility of the director of football rather than the head coach, and critical to the team's development in the short and long term.\nThere will now be a recognition at the club that, while responsibility for first-team training and performance should solely belong to the head coach, recruitment must be run separately, with the head coach having a final say on transfers in and out of the club.\nWarburton insisted upon the appointment of Frank McParland as head of recruitment, but he was effectively part of the management team and departed at the same time after failing to build a scouting network.\nRangers have a limited budget in historical terms, albeit one that is significantly greater than the resources available to every club in Scotland bar Celtic, and the money needs to be spent more wisely. This requires combining traditional scouting methods with the accumulation and analysis of data - to bespoke parameters - from the first team to academy sides.\nThe board's recruitment strategy was to sign younger players who can be developed at Ibrox and sold for a profit, to work alongside graduates from the youth academy and more experienced players where required.\nThat approach will be re-emphasised and a database of players built up to allow more flexibility in the market - rather than chasing one target for each position and being potentially exposed to a premium price - and better value for money by increasing the club's knowledge of foreign players.\nRangers also need to be better at signing the best young or developing players in Scotland, since they tend to move out of reach financially once they are lured to England.\nThe current squad has not been capable of the consistency or decisiveness to deliver Rangers' ambitions.\nDespite signing four centre-backs, Warburton never established a partnership able to play the high line that he wanted, or be commanding enough to reliably defend set pieces.\nWes Foderingham has improved as a goalkeeper, but doubts remain about his consistency.\nWith the defensive midfield role never adequately filled - Andy Halliday is better suited to playing further forward, Jordan Rossiter has never been fit and Matt Crooks was sent out on loan - and 37-year-old Kenny Miller the regular centre-forward, it is the spine of the team that needs to be strengthened first.\nTwo centre-backs, a strong, assertive and shrewd central midfielder and a striker who can lead the line and hold up play are the key positions to be filled.\nVariety has to be restored to the squad since Warburton signed a number of players of a similar profile - Harry Forrester, Josh Windass, Jason Holt and even the loan players, Emerson Hyndman and Jon Toral, all share the same attributes.\nThe latter two will leave at the end of the season, while Holt has the potential to develop further. Windass has shown flashes of promise, but Forrester has been unreliable.\nIn attack, too, Rangers have become muddled. Martyn Waghorn has regularly scored goals but bridles against being played on the right, while Joe Garner, with three goals so far, is yet to deliver as a striker or a £1.7m signing, and Joe Dodoo has been peripheral.\nRenewing the squad will require clever business in the transfer market, not least in moving on players who do not have a future at the club.\nIf captain Lee Wallace and Miller, who wants to sign a contract extension, are most likely to stay at the club because of their contributions on and off the field, there is a third player whose future remains less certain.\nIn terms of ability, winger Barrie McKay is a prospect, given his excellent first touch, acceleration, ability to run with the ball and range and pace of passing.\nYet, he is out of contract in 18 months and has not delivered the same number of goals (two) or assists (four) as other players in his position in the Premiership such as Celtic's Scott Sinclair (14 goals and five assists), Hearts' Jamie Walker (11 and three), Aberdeen's Niall McGinn (eight and four), St Johnstone's Danny Swanson (seven and six), Aberdeen's Jonny Hayes (five and 10), or Celtic's James Forrest (four and five).\nEither McKay is persuaded to sign a new contract and his development progresses or Rangers cash in on a player who has a market value that could be used to re-invest in the squad.\nSimilar decisions need to be made about Rob Kiernan, Danny Wilson and Waghorn, who are all out of contract in the summer of 2018.\nIn terms of players who are out of contract in the summer, Miller wants to remain at Rangers and pursue his coaching career, while fellow veterans Clint Hill and Philippe Senderos are more likely to leave.", "summary": "With the departure of Mark Warburton, Rangers have effectively hit the reset button on the club's football operations." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 2014 tree, surrounded by metal barriers in Liscard, Wirral finished seventh in the 13 Worst Christmas Trees in Britain poll on Buzzfeed.\nThe tree was spruced up after residents set up a Facebook page complaining that the town \"deserved better\".\nIt will be officially switched on later to give a \"taster\" of how it will look.\nDanny McLeod from Argyle Taxis and the manager of the town's Cherry Tree Shopping Centre John White teamed up to organise a winter wonderland in spring.\nThey got firm Christmas Decorators onboard who suggested staging the Light Up Liscard event to show \"shoppers what they can have when Christmas comes early\".\nGeoff Hodgson from the company said: \"They'll be a switch on, there will be Father Christmas here, mulled wine, an ice queen and artificial snow basically just to show people what they can have.\"\nHe said: \"This is just a taster for [shoppers].\n\"When they decide what they want we can decorate the whole street so it will be spectacular to try and encourage people to shop here.\"", "summary": "A town with one of the \"worst\" festive displays in Britain is to switch on its new tree eight months before Christmas." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Officers say Harris Binotti took a flight to Thailand on Saturday and they have requested help from Interpol.\nPolice said the body of a 47-year-old man, named locally as Gary Ferguson, was found with chest and head injuries at Mr Binotti's apartment in Yangon.\nThe dead man's wife is said to have gone to the property when he failed to return home.\nThe two men are reported to have been out drinking together on Friday night.\nThey were both working as English teachers at the Horizon International School in Yangon, in the south of the country previously known as Burma.\nA spokesman for the school said Mr Ferguson had worked there for a year. Mr Binotti, who is thought to have connections to Dumfries and Aberdeen, had been employed for the past three months.\nMr Binotti's neighbours said they heard shouting and banging noises - as if a fight was taking place - in the early hours of Saturday morning.\nA spokesman for the Foreign Office said: \"We are providing help and support to the family of a British national following a death in Rangoon, Burma, and are in touch with the local authorities.\"", "summary": "Police in Myanmar are searching for a 25-year-old British teacher after the death of a colleague also from the UK." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Both sides of this frontier are controlled by the Kurds, who have forged their own path through the country's brutal civil war, between the opposition and the regime.\nFurther south, the fighters of Islamic State (IS) have erased the border between Syria and Iraq, proclaiming their Caliphate.\nThis war is redrawing the map of the region. As IS have carved out their territory, so have the Kurds.\nThe two sides meet at a place called Jezaa, where the rolling hills of the north give way to the flat, dusty plain of the desert.\nA Kurdish commander points to a small town shimmering on the horizon in the midday heat: it is controlled by IS, he says.\nThere are clashes here almost daily, between IS fighters and the Syrian Kurdish \"People's Protection Units\", also known as \"YPG\".\nThe YPG is an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the Turkish-Kurdish guerrilla group labelled a terrorist organisation by the US and the EU.\nAround a third of the Syrian Kurdish force is made up of women. On the front lines they fight alongside the men, taking the same risks and facing the same dangers.\n\"Women are the bravest fighters,\" says Diren, taking refuge from the scorching heat in the cool of an underground bunker.\nShe and three comrades are having lunch: flatbread, cheese and watermelon. Many of the fighters, like Diren, 19, are still teenagers.\n\"We're not scared of anything,\" she says. \"We'll fight to the last. We'd rather blow ourselves up than be captured by IS.\"\nLike the followers of the Islamic State, most Kurds are Sunni Muslims. But that is where the similarities end. Diren says that, to the fanatics of IS, a female fighter is \"haram\", anathema: a disturbing and scary sight.\n\"When they see a woman with a gun, they're so afraid they begin to shake. They portray themselves as tough guys to the world. But when they see us with our guns they run away. They see a woman as just a small thing. But one of our women is worth a hundred of their men.\"\nThe Kurds have been battling Islamic State in this part of northern Syria for more than two years. Unlike the Iraqis, they have been relatively successful in consolidating their territory, without the help of US airstrikes.\nAsia Abdulla is co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the dominant political party in Kurdish-controlled Syria. Like almost all officials here, a large portrait of the jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan hangs in her office.\nIn their fight against IS, she says, the Kurds are supported by a majority of the local population, including Arabs and Christians. But she admits they could use some outside help.\n\"Islamic State is a big threat for the whole Middle East and all of the Syrian people. We are doing most of the fighting, and we need more support from regional powers.\"\nIn the deserted villages around the front line, the only sign of life is the barrel of a tank peeping out between the mud houses. Most of the civilian population has left. The only people remaining are here to fight.\nA lone figure appears in a doorway. His face is covered in a scarf and he is holding a Kalashnikov rifle. His name, he says, is Abu Bandar Hadi.\nThe terrifying speed of Islamic State's expansion has come in large part thanks to its ability to draw support from local Sunni tribes. Mr Hadi says that IS has split his community.\n\"Half of the people around here are with IS. They opened their gates to them. They were our neighbours, our families, until they joined Islamic State.\"\nThe Kurds play down the extent of the role played by foreigners in their battle with IS.\n\"Most of the fighters we catch are locals\", says Sores Xani, a member of the Asayish, Kurdish Intelligence.\nHe showed us an ID card belonging to a young Saudi man: taken from the body of a dead fighter, Mr Xani said:\n\"The foreign fighters all wear suicide belts. When we capture them they blow themselves up.\"\nThe Kurds of northern Syria are in an existential fight. The country's brutal civil war has given them the opportunity to wrest control over some of the territory they claim from the regime in Damascus.\nBut the frontiers of their long-dreamed-of state clash with those of the Caliphate proclaimed by Islamic State. And they know they will not be able to defeat this fanatically brutal movement on their own.", "summary": "A short boat trip across the river Tigris takes you from Iraq into northern Syria." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Under the Nottinghamshire County Council plan, the other three council-run homes will close as planned within a year in a bid to save £4m a year.\nThe county council said it was too expensive to modernise the homes, which would cost at least £24m.\nAround 9,000 people signed petitions against the closures.\nLeivers Court in Gedling, Bishop's Court in Ollerton and James Hince Court in Worksop would remain open for an additional three years under the plans.\nThe three care homes that are closing are Woods Court in Newark, St.Michael's View in Retford and Kirklands at Kirkby in Ashfield. They are expected to close \"within the next year\", but no firm timetable has been set.\nAll six homes will eventually be replaced by extra care centres, where residents will have support but be more independent.\nThe three-year extension to the homes will \"reduce pressure on NHS hospital beds, create more extra places and support families and carers\", the council said.\nCouncillor Muriel Weisz said it is \"investing £12.65m on extra care schemes across the county to widen the choice and variety of care and support that is available to local older people.\"\nThe revised plans will be considered at a full meeting on 26 February.", "summary": "Three of six care homes threatened with closure will remain open for an additional three years under proposals from a county council." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Riders beat Newcastle Eagles 84-73 in front of a sell-out crowd of 2,400 at their recently opened £4.8m Leicester Arena home on Friday.\nAsked if it was Leicester's best triumph, Paternostro said: \"I think so.\n\"With the new arena here and the way we won it at the end here it feels great.\"\nTalking to BBC Radio Leicester, Paternostro continued: \"When we moved into this arena, you couldn't have written a better script than that. This is special.\"\nIt is the second time in four seasons that the Riders have topped the British Basketball League standings at the end of the regular season.\nThey go into the play-offs as top seeds and face Leeds Force in their two-leg quarter-final this weekend.\nPaternostro said Leicester, who have collected the BBL Trophy after losing the BBL Cup final earlier this season, will be focused on post-season success.\n\"We will enjoy this one, then when the play-offs start we will be ready to roll,\" he said.", "summary": "Clinching the BBL Championship in front of a capacity crowd at their new home in the final game of the season ranks as one of Leicester Riders's greatest successes, says coach Rob Paternostro." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The woman took the child out of the country rather than granting the girl's father access to see her, Exeter Crown Court heard.\nShe left the UK in October 2013 and was finally expelled from Cambodia for overstaying her visa in July.\nThe woman admitted taking a child out of the country without consent and was jailed for two years and six months.\nThe woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, previously taunted a Family Court judge by saying she was living in a country which did not have an extradition agreement.\nThe daughter is now living with foster parents where she will remain while her mother serves her jail term.\nThe mother took out £30,000 in loans six weeks before she boarded a plane to Dubai and then flew on to Vietnam and Cambodia.\nJudge Graham Cottle said there was a \"flagrant flouting\" of court orders and the woman had not acted \"in the best interests\" of her daughter.\nHe said: \"It tells me you did not have her interests at heart. You had your own completely misguided and selfish interests at heart.\"\nThere had been a long-running dispute in the Family Court over the father's wish to have access to his daughter.\nThe mother took her daughter out of the country on 28 October 2013 - two days before a planned custody visit from the girl's father.\nShe and her daughter were brought back by police in July after being handed over by the Cambodian authorities.\nJoss Ticehurst, for the defence, said the mother believed she was acting in the girl's best interests.", "summary": "A \"selfish\" mother who took her daughter to Cambodia in breach of court orders has been jailed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "BBC Sport has learned the Crystal Palace midfielder has a hamstring injury, and could be a doubt for the home game against Israel in Sunday.\nWales are already without Liverpool midfielder Joe Allen, West Brom defender James Chester and Nottingham Forest's David Vaughan.\nWolverhampton Wanderers' Dave Edwards is likely to take Ledley's place in the starting line-up.\nA win in Nicosia tonight would put Wales on the brink of qualifying for the final stages of a tournament for the first time since 1958.\n\"There's been no official confirmation yet but I understand Joe Ledley is out of tonight's game,\" said BBC Wales football correspondent Rob Phillips.\n\"His absence will be a huge blow for Wales because he can play that holding midfield role. Chris Coleman is already missing Liverpool's Joe Allen who is out of this game with suspension and out of Sunday's match injured.\n\"The hole created by Ledley's absence is expected to be filled by the Wolves midfielder Dave Edwards, whose last game for his country was in Novi Sad - that 6-1 defeat inflicted by Serbia - but he's always been a reliable performer for Wales.\n\"Jazz Richards, who's left Swansea for Fulham, is expected to be at right wing back, a return on the cards too in that defence for Ben Davies so the Welsh team should be: Wayne Hennessy, winning his 50th cap, Richards, Gunter, Ashley Williams, Davies, Neil Taylor as five across the back. The three in midfield will be Edwards, Andy King and Aaron Ramsey and up front Gareth Bale and Hal Robson Kanu.\"", "summary": "Joe Ledley will miss Wales' crucial Euro 2016 qualifying match with Cyprus." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Romeo has made 58 appearances for the Lions since signing from Gillingham ahead of the 2015-16 season.\nThe 21-year-old Antigua and Barbuda international featured in 40 games in all competitions last season.\n\"There is a lot of high quality in this league, but I think we are ready for the challenge,\" he said.", "summary": "Millwall full-back Mahlon Romeo has signed a new contract to stay with the Championship club until 2019, with a club option for a further 12 months." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Alondra Diaz Garcia, 13, was reunited with her mother, Dorotea Garcia, after DNA tests confirmed her identity.\n\"I want to learn many things about the United States, about my family,\" said Alondra as she arrived at her new home in a suburb of Houston, Texas.\nAlondra, who was born in the US, was taken to Mexico by her father after he lost a custody battle in 2007.\nMs Garcia went to Mexico on Friday to see her daughter for the first time in nearly eight years.\n`I love her, and I am so happy having her here,\" Ms Garcia told journalists after returning to the US from Guadalajara.\nAlondra's whereabouts were unknown until very recently.\nHer relatives say her father, Reynaldo Diaz, decided to return her after another Mexican girl, also called Alondra, was mistakenly identified as the missing teenager.\nAlondra Luna Nunez, 14, was dragged from her classroom in dramatic fashion and taken against her will to Dorotea Garcia in Houston.\nA video showing Alondra Luna Nunez in distress as she was seized by police in the central city of Guanajuato caused outrage after it was published on social media.\nA local Mexican judge had refused to order DNA tests before sending the girl to the US.\nDNA tests carried out in Houston eventually revealed Alondra Luna Nunez was not Ms Garcia's daughter.\nThe girl was flown back to Mexico, where she was reunited with her parents.\nOn Monday the real Alondra Diaz Garcia presented herself at a court in the western state of Michoacan.\nDNA tests confirmed her identity on Thursday.\nThe girl told local media that she had been \"happy with my Dad, but at the same time I felt there was something missing\".", "summary": "A teenager who was taken to Mexico by her father eight years ago has returned to the US with her mother." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Chesterfield striker's family said they were considering legal action following the lunchtime show on Monday.\nPresenter Ruth Langsford told viewers the programme was \"happy to reiterate\" he was unanimously cleared after a retrial.\nThe footballer's website called it an \"apology\" and declared the matter closed.\nIn 2012, Mr Evans was found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, the previous year. He served half of a five-year prison term.\nBut that conviction was quashed on appeal last April and on Friday he was found not guilty of the same charge at Cardiff Crown Court.\nThe player's website reacted to Monday's Loose Women discussion with a statement saying he had served \"30 months for a crime he always denied and has now been exonerated of\".\nIt added he had \"always acknowledged his behaviour was morally unacceptable but consensual\".\nIt said \"opinion is acceptable\" but criticised comments on the programme by broadcaster Gloria Hunniford.\nA spokesman for Loose Women confirmed on Monday the programme was responding to a complaint from the father of Mr Evans' partner.\nDuring Thursday's show, Ms Langsford said: \"On Monday, we broadcast an item relating to the recent case involving the footballer Ched Evans.\n\"Now following the programme we received a complaint on behalf of Mr Evans regarding a comment made during the course of that item concerning the capacity of the individual to consent.\n\"Now we are happy to reiterate that Mr Evans was acquitted after a jury unanimously found him not guilty, having carefully considered the issue of consent. So, we just wanted to say that today.\"\nMr Evans' website followed that with a statement which said: \"Today we are pleased that Loose Women apologised to Ched Evans in respect of a statement made by Gloria Hunniford earlier this week which was inaccurate.\n\"We are pleased that this episode is now finalised.\"", "summary": "Ched Evans has welcomed the response by ITV's Loose Women to a complaint about its discussion of his rape acquittal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They had been awaiting the document from the Northern Ireland Secretary, Theresa Villiers.\nIt is understood the government has now increased its offer of financial assistance to £2bn, a mixture of loans and cash.\nThe talks on welfare reform, the past, flags and parades have lasted 11 weeks.\nThe BBC's Northern Ireland political editor, Mark Devenport, said it was expected that any agreement would focus mainly on financial issues, welfare reform and dealing with the legacy of the Troubles.\nSinn Fein MP Conor Murphy confirmed on Tuesday the parties had received an improved offer but that they would take some time to assess it.\n\"The paper was received at 12pm, we have another round-table meeting now and we will continue to tease out the contents of the paper with both governments as the afternoon goes on,\" he said.\nHe said Sinn Féin's initial \"encouraging\" impression was that the financial package being offered had improved, \"but we have to work out what is new money and what is recycled\".\nOvernight, it became clear that while the UK government had improved its financial offer, it was not keen to write off more than £200m in fines, imposed by the Treasury due to the delay in implementing welfare reform in Northern Ireland.\nThe five Northern Ireland executive parties and the UK and Irish governments have been involved in weeks of negotiations at Stormont Castle but the talks have intensified over the past few days.\nA Stormont source has told the BBC that while the financial aspect of the talks might change marginally, the main point of contention appeared to be related to the legacy of the Troubles.\nIn particular, disagreements have continued over the remit of new agencies being created to deal with legacy issues.\nThere is also believed to be disagreement over whether outstanding inquests into contentious killings are held in court or subsumed into what will be known as the Historic Investigations Unit.\nAlliance leader David Ford told the BBC: \"It has been well reported that we have made significant progress around budget, especially welfare issues, although there may be one or two loose ends to tie up there.\n\"The key issue that we really have to do something about is dealing with the past, to provide some comfort to victims who have waited for so long for something to be agreed, and to deal with the issues that are currently causing major problems for the justice system.\"\nElsewhere, the terms of a new financial package proposed by David Cameron have also been a focus of the talks.\nLast week, the five executive parties asked the government for £2bn in loans and extra funding over a 10-year period. The government later made a £1.5bn offer.\nFirst Minister Peter Robinson said he believed that there was \"real money on the table\" from Westminster, but Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said: \"I have to caution that most of that is loans.\"\nSinn Féin's Conor Murphy said progress had been made but the \"devil was in the detail\".\nThe Northern Ireland executive still owes more than £214m to the Treasury after Northern Ireland failed to implement welfare reforms passed by Westminster in February 2013.\nThe figure is the amount the benefits budget in Northern Ireland should have fallen by, if welfare reforms had been implemented.\nThe Northern Ireland executive parties want this written off and Stormont sources said this issue is still under discussion.", "summary": "Northern Ireland politicians have been given a new document as they attempt to reach agreement in cross-party talks." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "but the 23-year-old opted to join the\nButtler is keen for more opportunities behind the stumps, having at Taunton.\nHe also hopes his move will improve his chances of providing competition for England's first-choice Test keeper Matt Prior.\nThey have a strong squad and are very ambitious to build on this season's achievement. Lancashire have a talented group of players who will be looking to challenge for all three competitions\nButtler said gaining more international recognition and improving his glove work were key motives for his move to the North West, telling the club website: \"Lancashire has an exceptional coaching staff which will help me to continue to develop as a keeper-batsman.\n\"They have a strong squad and are very ambitious to build on this season's achievement. Lancashire have a talented group of players who will be looking to challenge for all three competitions.\n\"I want to pay a special thanks to everybody at Somerset. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there and will leave with plenty of good memories.\"\nHaving been England's regular white-ball keeper for most of 2013, and despite a series of impressive displays in the recent one-day series against Australia, Buttler missed out on a place for the return Ashes tour this winter.\nYorkshire's Jonny Bairstow will provide back-up to Prior, although Buttler could still be called upon, having been named in England's performance programme squad.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nAt county level, Buttler made nine Championship appearances for Somerset in 2013, ending the campaign with 508 runs at an average of 36.28.\nBut he kept wicket on just three occasions while Kieswetter was sidelined with a broken thumb early in the season.\nWith and with only youngster Alex Davies in reserve, Buttler is almost certain to be used in that role more frequently during his time at Old Trafford.\nHead coach Peter Moores added: \"His style of cricket will add value to the team in all formats of the game and his potential as a player is very exciting.\"", "summary": "Lancashire have signed England limited-overs wicketkeeper Jos Buttler after he" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "What, then, is so special about weightlifter Georgi Black?\nThe 24-year-old from Kilmarnock is certainly in the \"ones to watch\" category for this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\nBy dropping a bodyweight division, from 69kg to 63kg, she has improved her chances of a place on the podium.\nHer goal is to follow in the footsteps of Delhi silver medal winner and clubmate Peter Kirkbride.\nAt the Scottish Open in Glasgow at the end of February she lifted a combined weight of 176kg for the two disciplines - the clean and jerk and the snatch.\nIt's the kind of stuff that makes world-class performance; it's not the sort of thing the average person can do\nThis was only 6kg short of her best combined lift when she weighed 6kg more.\nKilmarnock Amateur Weightlifting Club had 14 lifters at that event and Chick Hamilton's club will be well represented again at the Commonwealth Trials in Glasgow's west end on Saturday.\nAfter that, there remains only the British Senior Weightlifting Championships at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on 10 May for the Scottish athletes to make the Commonwealth Games standard.\nAt her heaviest, more than two years ago, Black was 78.6kg but would normally sit at 71kg and shed a few kilos as tournaments approached to compete in the 69kg class.\nThis weekend she expects to be 62.8kg, having lost a fifth of her bodyweight from her heaviest point.\n\"Making the cut in weight has been really hard,\" said her coach Hamilton. \"She's been on only 750 calories a day.\n\"The commitment to that, and lifting just below her best lifts at the bodyweight above, is phenomenal. Everybody kept doubting us.\n\"We take our hats off to Nikos (Jakubiak), at the Institute of Sport. With his input, keeping Georgi intact, we got there in the end.\"\nBlack told BBC Scotland: \"It took me two years to lose body fat and not strength. Me, Chick and Nikos worked together.\n\"I was 6kg below my best combined total at the Scottish Open and I had lost 6kg in body weight so you can't beat that.\"\nMaintaining power while losing body weight takes us into the realm of sports science.\nJakubiak is the performance nutritionist at the sportscotland Institute of Sport. The Greek, who has lived in Scotland for 16 years, specialises in working with athletes from what he calls \"weight-making sports\" such as judo, boxing and weightlifting.\n\"What Georgi has achieved is quite remarkable,\" he said. \"It's worthy of a lot of praise. The effort she has put in is quite incredible.\n\"It's the kind of stuff that makes world-class performance; it's not the sort of thing the average person can do. Dropping the weight is not the challenge - it's staying healthy and strong.\"\nJakubiak argues that \"every calorie must come with goodness\". He extols the benefits of porridge for breakfast and advises athletes to eat a balanced diet that provide iron, vitamin C, magnesium and the like.\nHis work with Black was carefully planned. He monitored her weight and power outputs every week.\nHe continued: \"She's a special girl. She has that tunnel vision to be a world-class performer.\n\"The people who do this have very high goals. You are going against your own brain. You want to enjoy food.\n\"We set realistic targets about weight and advise on food choice, training, eating, sleeping and food behaviour. It's common sense.\"\nHamilton adapted Black's training programme to move away from high repetitions. In the lead-up to the Scottish Open she worked at 80-85% of her potential power and practised only single lifts.\nThe plan worked - she surpassed the Commonwealth Games qualifying standard by 21kg and broke seven Scottish records at her new bodyweight.\n\"We always said if she could do the same total at the lower bodyweight she'd maybe push for fifth or sixth in the Commonwealth rankings and if there were a couple of slip-ups she could maybe be in contention for a medal,\" said Hamilton.\n\"People say a gold medal's the be-all-and-end-all. When you look at Peter Kirkbride at Delhi, people say he lost out by 1kg but he didn't really, he won silver.\nIt's knowing when to push and when to take our foot off the pedal. That gets results at Kilmarnock Weightlifting Club\n\"For weightlifting in Scotland it was unbelievable.\"\nBlack describes the Kilmarnock club as being \"like a family\". Some nights she coaches 25 youths in the development programme. The club had 14 lifters at the Scottish Schools Championships where they won 12 golds, a silver and a bronze.\n\"It's all about hard work. People just see the end result,\" continued Hamilton, who represented Scotland in weightlifting at the 1994 Commonwealth Games 20 years ago.\n\"They don't see what Georgi and Peter have gone through over the years to become a Games athlete.\n\"It's hard to go to the gym to do weightlifting every day. You've got to have a bit of banter.\n\"As a coach, it's knowing when to push and when to take our foot off the pedal. That gets results at Kilmarnock Weightlifting Club.\n\"If someone is down one night we make up for it the next night. We take them for a beer or take them for something to eat.\"\nThe Scotland team can comprise a maximum of eight men and seven women.\nThe lifters in Glasgow this weekend are approaching the last-chance saloon for Commonwealth qualification. They must lift the qualifying totals at two separate events.\nBlack's target is way beyond the 155kg that would guarantee her place. It's pushing for a medal at Glasgow 2014.", "summary": "Her coach calls her \"phenomenal\", her nutritionist \"quite remarkable\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 62-year-old from Northumberland was working on the £1.4bn bridge which is being built across the Firth of Forth.\nHe is thought to have been hit by a moving boom on a crane on the deck of the north tower on 29 April.\nAn investigation is being carried out by Police Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive.\nIn a statement, Police Scotland said Mr Cousin's family wanted to thank everyone for their \"thoughts and support at this sad time\".\nIt is understood that he suffered severe blood loss in the incident and he was unable to be resuscitated.\nAnother man was injured in the incident.\nThe bridge, between Fife and Edinburgh, is due to be completed at the end of the year.\nWork started in 2011 and Mr Cousin's death is thought to be the first fatality at the site.", "summary": "A construction worker who died following an incident on the new Queensferry Crossing has been named as John Grant Cousin." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Former journalist, Ian Bailey, 53, is wanted by authorities in Paris over the killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, 39, who was beaten to death in west Cork in 1996.\nOn Friday a judge in Dublin's High Court ruled he would make an order for Mr Bailey's surrender to authorities in France.\nHe denies any involvement in her death.\nMr Bailey was arrested twice by gardai in connection with the murder investigation but he was never charged.\nMs Toscan du Plantier was found dead outside her holiday home at Toormore, near Schull, two days before Christmas 1996.\nUnder French law, authorities can investigate the suspicious death of a citizen abroad but cannot compel witnesses to go to Paris for questioning.\nInvestigating magistrate Patrick Gachon was appointed by officials in Paris to conduct an inquiry into Ms Toscan du Plantier's violent death after the Director of Public Prosecutions in Ireland announced nobody would be charged.\nA European arrest warrant was issued for Mr Bailey.\nDuring a two-day hearing in December 2010 barrister Martin Giblin, senior counsel for Mr Bailey, argued there has been no new evidence against him to support an extradition.\nHe also maintained the application was an insult to the Irish state and the DPP, who has repeatedly directed that no prosecution be taken.\nManchester-born Mr Bailey, a recent law graduate, lives in Schull with his partner.\nHe worked as a journalist in Gloucester and Cheltenham before moving to Ireland in 1991.", "summary": "A British man faces extradition to France for questioning over the murder of a film-maker." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A senior Egyptian official - who asked not to be named - told the BBC that every lead was now being followed up.\nHowever, Egypt stresses that the official investigation into the crash of the Airbus 321 is not yet finished.\nSome Western experts have suggested militants in the Sinai peninsula could have bombed the plane on 31 October.\nSinai Province, a group affiliated to Islamic State has repeatedly claimed it brought down Metrojet Flight 9268, flying from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to the Russian city of St Petersburg.\nThe UK halted flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh last Wednesday, citing intelligence concerns.\nRussia - who initially criticised London's move - later announced it was stopping all flights to Egypt and flying some 80,000 Russian holidaymakers back home. Most of the victims on board the Metrojet airliner were Russian nationals.\nWe are all used to the liquids ban on planes. And you have probably had to take your shoes off before going through security.\nBoth restrictions came about because of attack plots on airliners.\nSo the big question then. If the Russian plane crash in Sinai was a terror attack, will we see yet more rules put in place before we clear security? And will it mean even longer queues?\nMore from Richard\nIn search for answers, British ties to Egypt take a hit\nAirport security rethink 'may be needed'\nCould Islamic State have bombed Flight 9268?\nWhat we know about the Sinai crash\nMeanwhile, Egyptian officials said on Monday that Ashraf Gharabli, a leader of Sinai Province, had died in a shootout in Cairo after security forces tried to arrest him.\nWestern officials say there is a strong possibility that a bomb exploded on the plane, though there has been no indication that Gharabli himself was involved.\nOn Monday, an Egyptian official told the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner that the country's intelligence service was looking into every possibility of how someone could have placed a bomb inside the luggage compartment of the plane.\nThe official said this included going through CCTV footage from the airport's baggage area, which had not yet revealed anything suspicious, and questioning employees.\nWestern counter-terrorism experts suspect that jihadists were able to penetrate airport security to target the plane, and there is a belief that Islamic State's affiliate in Sinai may have been able to bribe an airport employee, our correspondent says.\nBut the Egyptian official said foreign airliners at Sharm el-Sheikh airport were never boarded by Egyptian personnel unless requested by the airline.\nHe added that before the crash only 20-30% of airport employees were searched - but that figure had now been raised to 100%, with workers being screened both on entry and exit.\nCars were being stopped half-a-mile (1km) from the terminal and checked for any explosive traces, he said, and planes on the runway were being guarded around the clock by a cordon of Egyptian military and security personnel.\n\"We are willing to pay any price to eliminate any repeat of this.\" the official said.\nHe also added that Britain had still not shared its intelligence with Egypt on the suspected bombing, which was causing considerable tensions between London and Cairo.\nAn Egyptian member of the international team investigating the crash last week told Reuters that they were \"90% sure\" that a sound heard in the last moments of the recording of the plane's cockpit voice recorder was an explosion caused by a bomb.\nThe plane is believed to have broken up in mid-air.\nSinai Province: Egypt's most dangerous militant group\nGuide to Sinai's active militant groups\nHow is a plane crash investigated?", "summary": "Egypt has launched its own inquiry into whether a bomb may have been placed on the Russian airliner that crashed in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe 17-year-old, presently with Tippeligaen club Start, will stay overnight in the city to undergo a medical and discuss personal terms.\nThe Norway youth international spent a week on trial with Celtic last month and has now been offered a contract.\n\"I'm really happy. I enjoyed it last time,\" Ajer told BBC Scotland after landing at Glasgow Airport.\n\"It's a big club, so we will see what will happen and tomorrow I will talk to them more.\"\nAjer had flown from Alicante, where he had been at a pre-season training camp in La Manga, but was not daunted by the cold, driving rain that greeted him in Scotland.\n\"Yes, I love it,\" he said. \"I'm from Norway, so it's no problem.\"\nAjer is the youngest player to captain a team in the Tippeligaen, which is presently in its close season.\nStart finished third bottom of the Norwegian top flight in 2015 but won their promotion/relegation play-off final against Jerv.\nNow Ajer is poised to move to the Scottish champions, where he will work under compatriot Ronny Deila.\n\"It'll be fun,\" the midfielder said of his forthcoming talks with the Celtic manager.", "summary": "Norwegian midfielder Kristoffer Ajer has arrived in Glasgow for signing talks with Celtic." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "15 March 2016 Last updated at 16:12 GMT\nRussia has announced that it's sending home fighter planes from the country which many people think is positive step.\nThe BBC's Geneva correspondent Imogen Foulkes explains what this means for peace talks happening in Switzerland right now.", "summary": "There's hope for peace in Syria five years after the civil war first started." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Republic of Ireland international, 29, joined the Owls on loan from Everton on Monday having played just 45 minutes for the Toffees this season.\n\"The national team manager [Martin O'Neill] told me that I had to get out and play,\" McGeady, who has 79 caps, told BBC Radio Sheffield.\n\"You're wasting your time if you're not playing. It wasn't enjoyable at all.\"\nHe added: \"I forgot what it was like to be a footballer. I was training Monday to Friday and then having weekends off.\n\"Once it got to October/November, I knew I had to get out.\"\nMcGeady, who helped O'Neill's side qualify for this summer's European Championship finals in France, still has two and a half years remaining on his deal with Everton.\nHe believes the Owls could make a push for an automatic promotion place in the Championship.\nCarlos Carvalhal's men are currently seventh in the second tier, eight points outside the top two.\n\"There's 18 games left this season and a lot of points to be played for. There is not that big a gap between us and the top two,\" he said. \"The ideal scenario for me is to come here and play and help the club to get towards that.\n\"The owners are ambitious and it is something I want to be a part of.\"", "summary": "Sheffield Wednesday winger Aiden McGeady has said he \"forgot what it was like to be a footballer\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The £80m attraction, called Jurassica, would be built in a 40m (132ft) deep limestone quarry in Portland, Dorset.\nScience journalist Mike Hanlon, behind the idea, said: \"Jurassica has the potential to create something of global significance.\"\nIf it goes ahead, an estimated 500,000-600,000 annual visitors are expected.\nIt could be completed by 2020, creating more than 150 full-time jobs.\nFeaturing a lid-like roof, Jurassica would span about 100m, about a third the size of the Millennium Dome.\nComparable with the Eden Project, it would house robot swimming plesiosaurs, fossils and interactive displays.\nMr Hanlon said: \"Jurassica will put Dorset on the global map; a real focus that will drive tourism upwards and pour more than £20m into the county's businesses every year.\"\nDorset Chamber of Commerce said the travel infrastructure to the attraction would be fundamental to its success. The charity is currently carrying out a £30,000 traffic impact study.\nIan Girling, chief executive of Dorset Chamber of Commerce said: \"There's no doubt its going to be a tremendous boost for Weymouth and Portland.\n\"This is a really bold innovative project that could be fantastic for the whole of the county.\"\nBournemouth University is conducting an economic study to determine the attraction's connections with other sectors of the economy and its likely impact.\nProf John Fletcher, pro-vice chancellor for research and innovation at the university, said the attraction would make a \"significant contribution\" to the local economy.\nHe added it would \"broaden the visitor season through its international and educational pull\".\nSir David Attenborough is patron of the project and the Eden Project's Sir Tim Smit is its trustee.\nThe project was awarded £300,000 in July from the Local Enterprise Partnership for a feasibility study and a lottery funding application.\nIn November, the charity put in a first round funding bid for a £16m Heritage Lottery Fund Award. The outcome of the bid is expected in April.\nThe 153 km (95 mile) Jurassic Coast, which begins in East Devon and stretches to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage in Dorset, attracts about 12-15 million visitors a year.\nThe Jurassic Coast is considered the only single site in the world that displays evidence of millions of years of the earth's history, exposed in layers of rock in its cliffs.\nIt contains three periods: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous.\nVisitor numbers to top paid-for England attractions in 2013\nSource: Visit England\nThis article was amended on 29 September 2015 after a clerical error by the Jurassic team led to incorrect projected visitor numbers being stated in a report by Weymouth and Portland Borough Council.", "summary": "A charity behind a planned underground dinosaur museum on the Jurassic Coast believes the attraction would bring £20m into the local economy every year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In 2015, UK Prime Minister David Cameron described the sight of hundreds trying to board lorries approaching the port as \"unacceptable\".\nHe said Britain and France were working together to tackle the issue - but what security is in place at Calais and what more can be done?\nIf a lorry driver suspects illegal migrants are on board - which can result in the UK imposing a £2,000 fine per stowaway - they can pull over at the port entrance, where riot police wait.\nLorry driver Euan Fleming, from County Down, said the officers have guns, batons and body armour - and are therefore equipped to clear out migrants.\nThe first official port barrier is a French security checkpoint where passports are scanned.\nMr Fleming told the BBC lorries then move on to be either X-rayed or tested with a monitor which detects any heartbeats on board. He says all lorries are checked at quiet times, but it becomes a \"lottery\" when the port is busy because staff cannot process vehicles fast enough.\nLorries then have documents checked by UK border staff and must also pass a customs checkpoint before driving on to a ferry.\nThe port also has roving patrols of security guards with dogs and carbon dioxide detectors - which can detect raised levels caused by people breathing in the lorries.\nThe port is protected by 16ft (5m) fences topped with coils of razor wire and CCTV, with the gates and exterior guarded by heavily armed French riot police.\nInside, there is a \"comprehensive network of surveillance cameras\", according to the port's website, and security guards patrol with dogs.\nIn 2014, Britain committed £12m over three years to tackle the problems at Calais, and part of this is being used to build a 15ft fence along the motorway leading to the port.\nAs well as the three-year Calais investment, the UK announced £2m extra for detection technology such as the heartbeat and carbon dioxide detectors, and £1m for more dog searches.\nIn August 2015, the UK and France a fresh agreement on new measures in Calais, including a \"control and command centre\" and the deployment of 500 extra British and French police. The UK agreed to pay £7m over two years towards the new measures, in addition to money previously pledged.\nIn January 2016 scores of migrants managed to storm a P&O ferry in the port after breaking away from a demonstration in the town.\nFollowing the incident, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said extra forces, including riot police, gendarmes and border units, had been mobilised for several months.\nFrench police have been widely criticised for taking migrants off lorries, driving them a few miles away then releasing them - free to walk back to Calais.\nBut many undocumented migrants are arrested - reportedly more than 18,000 in the first half of 2015.\nThe problem, police say, is that there are simply too many to arrest and deal with.\nThey also say their focus on the motorway is safety, so getting people off the road is the priority.\nThe French authorities are also struggling to stop illegal migrants crossing into France from Italy, where tens of thousands of people are thought to have arrived by boat from Africa.\nPassengers arriving at Dover from Calais - by far the busiest ferry route between Britain and France - have already passed UK border controls under the juxtaposed borders system.\nHowever, border staff carry out random checks on vehicles before they leave the port.\nMr Fleming said all lorries have to drive through an X-ray scanner which checks for stowaways.\nMr Cameron has warned against either the UK or France \"trying to point the finger of blame\", saying the two countries must continue to co-operate.\nMr Cameron said the migration problem must be tackled \"at source\" by stopping trafficking operations across the Mediterranean, and by making Britain a \"less easy place\" for illegal migrants to work.\nBut Damian Collins, Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe, has said French authorities allow migrants to cross France \"in the hope that they illegally gain entry to the UK\".\nMr Hanson, a Labour MP, said there must be a \"joint agreement\" on what happens to migrants at Calais - so they are either accepted as asylum seekers, detained or deported from France.\nThe French government says it is speeding up the processing of asylum applications and looking to deport those who have no right to be in France.\nHome Secretary Theresa May told the House of Commons in 2015 that French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was \"as grateful as I was for the strong co-operation\" between the two countries during problems at Calais.\nBut Mayor of Calais Natacha Bouchart has said the town is a \"hostage to the British\" because migrants expect better lives in the UK.\nShe called the situation \"barely manageable\" and called for the UK border to be moved back to Britain.\nCCTV and electrified fences protect the tracks and tunnel entrance at Coquelles near Calais - though striking ferry workers got on to the track and started a fire in June 2015.\nIt was also announced by the British government that the National Barrier Asset - a 9ft police barrier - had been deployed to the lorry terminal at Coquelles. The barrier was still there in March 2016.\nAs with ferries from Calais, the UK and France operate juxtaposed controls on Channel Tunnel trains - so passengers must pass UK border checks before travelling.\nUK border staff can also travel on trains to carry out extra checks.\nSecurity in Calais has become an argument between opposing campaigns ahead of the UK's referendum on EU membership, which will be held on 23 June.\nFrench economy minister Emmanuel Macron told the Financial Times the country could end the so-called Le Touquet agreement - which lets UK border guards check passports on the French side of the border - if Britain left the EU.\nHowever, Leave campaigners dismissed the comments as \"scaremongering\".\nIt comes after another row, which followed comments from Mr Cameron that migrant camps like the \"Jungle\" in Calais could move to England if the UK left the EU.\nUKIP said the PM's claim was \"based on fear, negativity and falsehood\". French government said it had \"no plans\" to change the agreement .", "summary": "Thousands of migrants determined to reach the UK live in camps near the port of Calais." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The factory Quay Fresh and Frozen Foods is hoping to renew its marine licence to deposit clean, crushed whelk shells off New Quay.\nA public meeting on Thursday invited residents to have their say, which Natural Resources Wales said was a \"vital part\" of the application.\nThe company said it would not comment while the application was under review.\nValerie Bowen, an 88-year-old retired doctor, said: \"I used to play on the beach when I was a child. I wouldn't even walk on it now barefoot in case the washed-up shells cut my feet.\n\"I won't even allow my own grandchildren to play on the beach after they complained their feet were hurting. It's such a beautiful beach, it's very frustrating.\"", "summary": "People living in a Ceredigion seaside village have said shellfish waste on the beach causes injuries." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "More than 2,000 endurance athletes will be taking on one of the most challenging courses in the sport, starting and finishing in Tenby.\nThey have to complete a 2.4 mile (3.8km) swim, a 112 mile (180km) bike ride and 26.2 mile (42km) run before the 17 hour cut-off time.\nThousands of spectators are expected and road closures are in place.\nIt is estimated Ironman Wales generates about £3.5m for the local economy and attracts 10,000 visitors to Tenby.\nIronkids kicked off the weekend events on Saturday. It saw more than 1,000 three to 14-year-olds take part in a fun run around Tenby town centre.\nThere was some disappointment earlier in the week for Tenby triathlete Oliver Simon, who had to withdraw from the main event with a foot injury.\nWriting in his blog, he said: \"I have trained all year on the course and not to be able to race and see how training has gone is the worst feeling for me.\"\nOther names to look out for include former Wales rugby players Shane Williams, Ryan Jones and Ian Gough.\nKevin Stewart, managing director Ironman UK and Ireland said: \"We're really looking forward to welcoming all the competitors and supporters from around the world to Tenby.\n\"Despite it being one of the toughest on the circuit it is also one of the firm favourites, due to it's phenomenal vibe and open armed welcome from the entire county of Pembrokeshire.\"\nIronman Wales and Pembrokeshire council have already reached an agreement which will see the event return for 2017.\n06:30 BST Athletes walk down to swim start at Tenby North Beach\n07:10 Professional athletes start\n07:15 Age groups start\n07:55 First athlete expected on bike course\n09:50 Final swim cut off\n12:55 First athlete expected on the run course\n16:00 First athlete expected to finish on Tenby Esplanade\n18:00 Final full distance bike cut off\n22:00 Finish line party", "summary": "The Ironman Wales triathlon returns to Pembrokeshire for a sixth time on Sunday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is carrying out a review of shooting activity on its estates - but in March it renewed a number of shooting leases.\nActivists said pheasant shoots on public land were a risk to animal welfare, protected species and safety.\nNRW said the leases had been in place for more than a decade, and tenants had been told of the review.\nAnimal Aid said pheasant shoots take place in NRW-managed ancient woodland in mid and south Wales, some in areas of outstanding natural beauty.\nThe animal rights group said the quango earns about £6,000 a year from the sale of the shooting rights, and wildlife are killed to protect stocks of pheasants reared for shooting.\nA spokesman added: \"The land belongs to the people of Wales and not to NRW to lease out to a small number of private individuals.\n\"Any discussions about how this land will be used in the future must be conducted in an open and fully accountable manner.\"\nThe British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) said shooting was \"massively important\" to the Welsh countryside.\nIt claimed the shooting industry is worth £75m to Wales and supports the equivalent of 2,400 jobs.\nJono Garton from the group said: \"Decisions about land use should be based on hard evidence, not emotive posturing. \"\nBut Animal Aid said freedom of information requests showed objections to the new leases were rejected.\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"NRW is currently carrying out a review of its policy on shooting on NRW owned and managed land.\n\"NRW has assured us of its commitment to ensuring compliance and probity in respect of shooting on its land.\"\nTim Jones, NRW executive director for north and mid Wales, said all the shooting leases have \"stringent conditions\" to protect native wildlife.", "summary": "Talks are taking place over the future use of shooting permits on Welsh public land, BBC Wales understands." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Fire crews were called to the Longman Industrial Estate in the city's Henderson Drive at about 18:00.\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent four appliances to deal with the incident.\nPolice had urged nearby residents to close all windows and doors and keep themselves and any pets inside.\nThe emergency services warned of smoke and potentially toxic fumes emanating from the fire in 150 tonnes of material.\nA digger was used to tackle the blaze which was brought under control by midnight.\nThere have been no reports of injuries.", "summary": "Residents in an area of Inverness were urged to stay indoors due to potentially toxic fumes coming from a fire at a recycling centre." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Radha Mohan Singh said it would help improve yield and soil fertility and contribute to making India prosperous.\nMore than 50% of India's population depends on agriculture for a living.\nBut farming in India has been going through a crisis in recent years with thousands of farmers killing themselves in despair over poor harvests.\nThe minister's comments follow earlier controversial statements - in July, he was criticised for his bizarre comments that farmer suicides were a result of \"failed love affairs\" and \"impotency\".\nAt a function attended by farmers and agriculture scientists in Delhi at the weekend, he once again stunned the audience by saying that \"farmers should give vibrations of peace, love and divinity to seeds\" to encourage growth and make them resistant to pests.\n\"Such exercise is accepted by my ministry essentially to enhance Indian farmers' confidence. Indian farmers have, over the years, lost confidence in the age-tested knowledge of farming,\" the minister was quoted by The Indian Express as saying.\nMr Singh is part of India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which is accused by the critics of trying to promote traditional beliefs even when they are not backed by scientific evidence.\nThe BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi says yogic - or yoga - is essentially about the ancient Indian philosophy which helps control body and mind and, in recent years, has been embraced by the wider world as a form of exercise for its health benefits.\nEarlier this year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led 35,000 people in a mass yoga programme in the capital, Delhi, in an attempt to set a world record.\nBut yoga's popularity notwithstanding, the agriculture minister's comments on yogic farming have left many scratching their heads in India, our correspondent adds.", "summary": "The Indian agriculture minister has said his government is supporting \"yogic\" farming to \"empower seeds with the help of positive thinking\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Only four of the 75 matches over the last five years have been played in stadiums less than 90% full, with the average capacity now around 98%.\nIt is also more competitive and unpredictable. At least four countries have realistic ambitions of winning.\nAnd as England and Wales gear up for the match, here are some of the most important stats you should know.\nFive England players are making their Six Nations debuts: Anthony Watson, Jonathan Joseph, George Ford, Dave Attwood and George Kruis.\nWales have a first choice 15 to call on.\nNo wonder the bookies are tipping the Welsh.\nLast time out in Cardiff, Wales achieved a record 30-3 win.\nBy the end, 70,000 Welsh fans were chanting \"easy, easy\".\nEngland have been using loudspeakers playing Welsh hymns during practice so they don't get intimidated again and have insisted the roof stays open.\nThis is being called the \"biggest opening match\" in Six Nations history by England's former World Cup-winning coach, Clive Woodward.\nOne team's Grand Slam hopes will be in tatters by 22:00 GMT and the next time the sides will meet will be in the World Cup group stage in September.\nEngland's pack is 3st 2lb (20kg) heavier than the Welsh.\nThe combined pack weight comes in at 283st 7lb (1,800kg) - still only equivalent to an average female rhinoceros.\nAbout 60,000 pints of lager are expected to be drunk by the crowd going to the match.\nIf Wales win, expect the city to run dry thereafter.\nThe average height of both teams is 6ft 3in (1.85m), the average weight is 18st 1lb (kg).\nThat's 6 inches (15.2cm) taller than the national average and five stone (32kg) heavier.\nFollow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "summary": "The Six Nations is bigger than ever before, broadcast in 190 countries and streamed live in another 20." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "With a perfect match of winning numbers - 12, 27, 28, 39, 41 and 48 - the ticket holder was immediately launched into the exclusive club of the UK's ultra-rich.\nThat, according to those who assist big money winners, is a \"daunting\" experience that leaves most of them in shock.\nThey say it can take a couple of years for these millionaires to find the rhythm of their new-found riches.\nUnderstanding the reaction and requirements of these lottery winners can tell us a lot about coping with sudden wealth, from inheritance to rapid business success.\nAnyone who has a lottery win of more than £50,000 receives a visit from Andy Carter or one of his team of five winners' advisers.\nThe 41-year-old, employed by lottery operator Camelot, checks the ticket-holder's identity and other paperwork then oversees the bank transfer of the prize. No longer is it written on a cheque and, unlike some overseas lotteries, the money is paid immediately in one lump sum rather than in instalments.\nAfter nine years in the role, Mr Carter has seen the full range of reactions and spending plans, from plastic surgery to buying a fireworks company.\n\"By the time I get there [the day after the winners' call], some have already arranged a viewing on a house,\" he says.\n\"But the perception is that winners go out and buy a fast car. They don't. They are in shock. They realise they need some help.\"\nHe is not allowed to give any financial advice, but he does suggest that winners take a holiday before the spending starts.\nHe says a tiny minority of winners either go out and blow the cash, or do the opposite and put the money in a bank account and leave it untouched.\n\"A win does not change people's values around money, it exaggerates them,\" he says.\nMost want to pay off a mortgage, and find the lack of ceremony when it is done to be strange. Nearly all want to look after their families' finances.\nHe suggests that people take their time and do not promise anything straight away.\nThe odds are firmly stacked against players winning the National Lottery jackpot.\nThere are various odds for the different games but the chances of winning the Lotto jackpot is one in 14 million. The average jackpot won on the Lotto is £2.1m.\nThe price of a ticket to play went up to £2 from £1 in October 2013.\nThe National Lottery is one of many different ways of betting in the UK. GamCare provides information, support, advice and free counselling for those who get into gambling problems and addiction.\n\"When there's a win of £5m then everyone becomes a financial expert,\" says Mr Carter.\nThose who win less than £500,000 will be given some leaflets on managing their money. For the really big winners, financial advisers arrive a few days later.\nCamelot operates a rota of banks and financial firms who visit to explain the principles of risk and reward, and independent advice. The winner can then contact them, or seek their own advice.\nThose scooping, say, £5m will have their winnings put into an account with one of a selection of private banks.\nOn that list is Coutts. Camilla Stowell, the bank's head of international and private office, is among those who have advised lottery winners.\n\"It is exciting [for winners], but it suddenly becomes very daunting. We encourage them to take their time and feel what it is to be wealthy,\" she says.\nShe says that winners tend to ask how much they can get out of the bank, and whether they can quit their job.\nFor her part, she stresses that the bank, via an assigned private banker, can make payments for their immediate \"passion\" purchases. Most importantly, the first tasks are to clear any debts and ensure that winners have a will.\n\"When she won the lottery she was sitting here crying. It was too much stress for her.\" - Mother of Jane Park, who won £1m at the age of 17.\n\"It will enrich her life so much and that's the most important thing on the agenda.\" - Paul and Debbie Lawton, who planned to use their £6.9m helping their three children including eldest daughter Tracey who has cerebral palsy.\n\"Being Trotters we were always going to be millionaires one day.\" - Neil Trotter, who won £107.9m on the Euromillions lottery.\nOnce the initial shock dies down, winners need guidance with seemingly simple financial considerations, Ms Stowell says.\nThose who choose to move to a bigger home need to consider and budget for all the extra costs a bigger property brings - from utilities to cleaning.\nGifts to friends and family can be complicated to structure in the most appropriate way, especially if they want to provide them with an income, rather than a lump sum.\nAlthough the winning sum is tax-free, any subsequent income made from it is taxable. Suddenly, somebody who might only ever have paid tax via PAYE is facing a more complex tax bill.\nMs Stowell says that half of the bank's time with winners is spent on advice, with the other half on guidance and education about money.\n\"We tell people not to be fearful of their wealth but it often brings headaches,\" she says.\n\"There is the financial jargon, and it often brings the best, and worst, out of family and friends.\"\nCoutts organises dinners for wealthy clients to talk to each other about their experiences, privately, and also hosts insight days to explain financial terms, rules, and products.\nIn time, many winners ask for advice on how to give money to charity, often anonymously.\nAfter five or 10 years, most want to organise their financial legacy for the next generation.\nSo does dealing with the super-rich leave Ms Stowell and Mr Carter dreaming of wealth of their own.\nThe former admits she plays the lottery every week. Her biggest win has been £25.\nThe latter, as a Camelot employee, is not allowed to play. He has met more than 1,000 big winners and the football and cricket fan says that if he had wealth like theirs he would travel the world watching sport.\nAfter nearly a decade in the job - including a time of turmoil for the UK economy - he says he has noticed people becoming more financially savvy, more aware of financial hardship, more cautious, and more understanding of the difference between banking and financial advice.\nThat, in itself, is something to celebrate, even for those who never win a million.\nThayer Willis is the daughter of one of the founding brothers of the multibillion-dollar Georgia-Pacific Corporation. This, she says, led to her learning some \"powerful lessons\". She is now an author and wealth counsellor. We asked her what, in her opinion, were the most useful of those lessons:\n\"During [the] first year there is a lot you need to do. This is your year of financial education. Do not underestimate the importance of educating yourself,\" she says.\n\"You need a team of people in place before you do anything at all with the money. During your first year with the money, interview, interview, interview advisers.\n\"It is up to you to match your needs with the advisers' expertise, because expertise will vary even within a well-defined profession.\n\"The most important lessons in life are caught, not taught. Those closest to you will be more influenced by what you do than by anything you say.\"", "summary": "On Wednesday, one winner scooped the quadruple rollover National Lottery jackpot of more than £13.5m." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The recent tremors in and around New Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, have been attributed to mining.\nThe British Geological Survey (BGS) said the \"swarm\" of tremors were not likely to cause damage and could soon reduce again.\nThe earthquakes have all been small, with the largest magnitude being 1.7.\nThe BGS said it had recorded 41 earthquakes around the British Isles over the last 50 days with the majority happening in Nottinghamshire.\nThe most recent was recorded at 02:06 GMT and had a magnitude of 1.3.\nBGS seismologist Glenn Ford said many people would not have realised the tremors were earthquakes and would have disregarded them.\n\"People often think it's traffic noise or a train,\" he said.\nMr Ford said the last significant earthquake in the British Isles was in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, on 27 February 2008.\nThe 5.2 magnitude quake was over 30,000 times larger than the ones in and around New Ollerton and was felt across England and Wales.\nThe affected area of Nottinghamshire has a history of seismic activity related to coal mining.\nUK Coal said the recent earthquakes could have been caused by mining at Thoresby Colliery, but people should not be concerned.", "summary": "A town which has experienced 30 earthquakes in 50 days is currently the \"most seismically active\" area in the British Isles, seismologists have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Local boat workers Lee Baron and Mark Harding saw the mammal in Liverpool Bay at about 15:00 BST on 9 June.\nThere has been an increase in sightings of dolphins and porpoises there in recent years because of improved water quality, said the Sea Watch Foundation, which monitors ocean wildlife.\nRecords show humpbacks were last seen in the bay in 1938 and 1863.\nMr Baron, from Warrington, Cheshire, works as a pilot coxswain, helping cargo ships navigate in and out of the Merseyside port.\nThe 32-year-old, who filmed the whale on his mobile phone, said: \"We were just heading back in at quite a low speed when we saw what looked like a sailing boat flapping about in the water.\n\"But then we got closer and realised it was a whale.\n\"It was bobbing about and then it dived and that was it, we didn't see it again.\n\"We see quite a lot of wildlife and dolphins and we are always keeping an eye out, but this was a really special experience.\"\nSource: National Geographic", "summary": "A humpback whale has been spotted off the coast of Liverpool for the first time in more than 70 years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Nuevo Leon state Governor Jaime Rodriguez said 12 other people were injured in Topo Chico jail after prisoners fought with \"sharp weapons, bats and sticks\".\nA fire was also started in a storage room. Officials say the situation is under control and no inmates escaped.\nCrowds of relatives outside the jail blocked roads, demanding information.\nSome threw sticks and rocks and tried to pull the prison gate open as riot police blocked their way.\n\"They haven't told us anything,\" said the mother of one inmate, who gave her name only as Ernestina.\n\"They said that until there is order they won't let us in. Everything is in disorder, and nobody is telling us anything.\"\nThe incident comes just days before Pope Francis is due to visit a prison in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, an area notorious for violence between drugs cartels.\nMr Rodriguez had earlier put the number of inmates killed at 52 before revising the figure down.\nThe reason was not made clear, but several inmates are registered more than once at the prison, with different names.\nForty of the 49 prisoners have already been identified.\nMr Rodriguez said the fight had started around midnight and lasted 30 to 40 minutes, during which time the two groups of inmates set fire to a storage area.\nHe said one faction was led by a member of the notorious Zetas drug cartel, Juan Pedro Zaldivar Farias, also known as Z-27.\nMr Rodriguez said the other group was led by Jorge Ivan Hernandez Cantu, whom Mexican media identified as a member of the rival Gulf cartel.\nThe faction leaders are not among the 40 bodies identified so far.\nMr Rodriguez said all those killed were male inmates and that five of the injured were in a serious condition.\n\"We are experiencing a tragedy stemming from the difficult situation that they are living through at penitentiary facilities,\" Mr Rodriguez told a news conference.\nSpeaking later, he said security was being beefed up at other prisons and some inmates had been transferred out of Topo Chico.\nHe said that although rioters had not had guns, one inmate appeared to have been shot dead by a guard who was protecting a group of women inmates.\nA report by the National Human Rights Commission in 2014 said the Topo Chico prison housed about 4,600 inmates but was only designed to hold 3,635.\nEarlier, state public security spokesman Antonio Arguello told AFP news agency that authorities had quickly formed a security cordon around the facility to ensure no inmates escaped.\nWitnesses reported hearing shouts and explosions when the riot began. Flames and smoke were then seen coming from the prison.\nGang violence and break-outs are common in Mexico's notoriously overcrowded and corrupt prison system.\nIn 2013, 13 people died in a battle between inmates at the La Pila jail in the central state of San Luis Potosi.\nA year earlier, 44 inmates were killed in a riot at the Apodaca prison in Monterrey. Another 30 prisoners escaped. The prison's director was later sacked.", "summary": "A battle between rival groups at a prison near Monterrey in northern Mexico has left 49 inmates dead." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 23-year-old scored four against Leicester on Thursday to take him to 75 league goals in 115 appearances for Spurs, including 26 in 29 to lead the race for the golden boot this campaign.\nOnly 26 players have reached a century of goals in Premier League history.\n\"It would be a fantastic achievement,\" said Kane.\n\"I said to someone the other day it would be great if I can get to that 100 club by the end of next season.\n\"The biggest thing I'm proud of is that I had two big injuries and was out for 11 weeks so to still be there at the top of the Premier League and to score 30-plus goals [in all competitions] is a big achievement.\"\nKane missed seven weeks from the middle of September to early November and also a month between March and April, both because of ankle injuries.\nHowever, seven goals in his past six league appearances has propelled him to the top of the league scoring charts, two ahead of Everton's Romelu Lukaku with one game to play.\nKane won the Premier League golden boot last season, scoring 25 goals in 38 games.\nDanny Murphy told BBC Radio 5 live's Friday Football Social that he believes Kane will score the 25 goals he needs to reach his century.\nHowever, the former Spurs midfielder fears Kane's approach could hamper his attempts to beat Alan Shearer's Premier League record tally of 260.\n\"The biggest strength of Kane is his mental strength,\" said Murphy.\n\"Ability-wise he can do it. But he plays with such passion and energy, so to play every game, season in season out, will take a toll.\n\"He is a big powerful boy, but he puts so much in.\"\nKane continues to be linked with a move away from Tottenham, despite manager Mauricio Pochettino's assertion that the club can keep the players who have excelled during a campaign they will finish in second place.\nAnother ex-Spurs midfielder, Jermaine Jenas, told 5 live: \"I would put my name on the line and say he [Kane] will not go anywhere.\n\"When Kane starts to look elsewhere, it is a sign that team is weakening and you can't see that happening.\"", "summary": "Tottenham striker Harry Kane has set himself the target of reaching 100 Premier League goals by the end of the 2017-18 season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Favourites Australia outscored the Black Ferns four tries to three, with two of those coming while New Zealand's Portia Woodman was in the sin bin.\nMeanwhile, Britain's women missed out on Olympic medal as they lost 33-10.\n\"If we've inspired any girls to take up rugby, we've done our job,\" said GB captain Emily Scarratt.\nBritain, beaten 25-7 by New Zealand in the last four earlier on Monday, trailed 26-5 at half-time.\nCanada, who had lost to Britain in earlier pool game, took full advantage of Scarratt's yellow card for a deliberate knock on.\nTries by Jasmine Joyce and Danielle Waterman were little consolation, as third seeds Canada put in a physical performance, dominating at the breakdown.\nThe men's competition begins on Tuesday, with Australia facing France at 15:00 BST. GB's men begin their bid for a medal against Kenya an hour later.\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "summary": "Australia's women beat New Zealand 24-17 to win the first ever Olympic rugby sevens gold medal, after Great Britain lost to Canada for bronze." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The markings on the axes, unearthed near Shanghai, could date back at least 5,000 years, the scientists say.\nBut Chinese scholars are divided on whether the markings are proper writing or a less sophisticated stream of symbols.\nThe world's oldest writing is thought to be from Mesopotamia from 3,300 BC.\nThe stone fragments are part of a large trove of artefacts discovered between 2003 and 2006 at a site just south of Shanghai, says the BBC's Celia Hatton in Beijing.\nBut it has taken years for archaeologists to examine their discoveries and release their findings, our correspondent adds.\nThe findings have not been reviewed by experts outside China, reports say.\n\"The main thing is that there are six symbols arranged together and three of them are the same,\" lead archaeologist Xu Xinmin told local reporters, referring to markings on one of the pieces.\n\"This clearly is a sentence expressing some kind of meaning\".\nCao Jinyan, a well-known scholar on ancient writing, also told local media that the markings could be an early form of writing.\n\"Although we cannot yet accurately read the meaning of the 'words' carved on the stone axes, we can be certain that they belong to the category of words, even if they are somewhat primitive,\" he said.\nSome scholars, however, remain unconvinced. Archaeologist Liu Zhao from Fudan University in Shanghai told the Associated Press news agency they \"do not have enough material\" to make conclusions.\nIf proven, the stone axes will be older than the earliest proven Chinese writing found on animal bones, which dates back 3,300 years.", "summary": "Fragments of two ancient stone axes found in China could display some of the world's earliest primitive writing, Chinese archaeologists say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It has been claimed Edir Frederico Da Costa was \"brutally beaten\" by Met Police officers earlier this month.\nCampaigners protesting over his death alleged he suffered serious injuries, including to his head and neck, after he was stopped by officers.\nA post-mortem into his death revealed no signs of neck or spinal injuries.\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said there were also no signs of a broken collarbone or bleeding on the brain.\nA pathologist removed a number of packages from Mr Da Costa's throat which will undergo further analysis, associate commissioner Tom Milsom added.\nThe IPCC said it was releasing the information because it was concerned about the \"rapid spread of false and potentially inflammatory information\".\n\"I must stress that the pathologist has not yet identified Mr Da Costa's cause of death and has requested further tests be conducted\", Mr Milsom added.\n\"We are examining the actions taken by police during the original detention of Mr Da Costa, including the use of force, as well as the subsequent response in administering medical assistance\".", "summary": "A number of packages were removed from the throat of a 25-year-old man who died six days after he was stopped by police, the IPCC has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Resuming on 195-3, Alex Gidman did not add to his overnight 30, bowled by Tim Murtagh (4-76), but a fourth first-class ton for Fell and Jack Shantry's unbeaten 41 helped the visitors to 385.\nSam Robson's poor season continued when he edged Charlie Morris behind for his second nought of the game.\nBut Nick Compton made 47 as Middlesex closed on 140-3 - a lead of 64.\nFell displayed maturity beyond his 21 years in his 228-ball knock as he kept concentration while wickets were falling at the other end to take Worcestershire past the hosts' first innings 309.\nHowever, shortly after surpassing his previous first-class best of 133, he was back in the pavilion after pulling Toby Roland-Jones to Robson at deep square leg.\nShantry and Saeed Ajmal lit up the end of the innings with a breezy stand of 53 before Murtagh removed the Pakistan spinner and Morris in the space of three balls.\nIn Middlesex's second innings, Robson, who has hit one century in 15 Championship knocks this summer, this time lasted two balls to follow his first-innings golden duck.\nAjmal bowled Nick Gubbins to claim his first Championship wicket since remodelling his action and Compton looked set for his fifth half-century of the season before edging Shantry to first slip to leave the hosts 73-3.\nPaul Stirling and Joe Burns' unbroken stand of 67 saw Middlesex through to stumps, meaning a draw is the most likely result unless Worcestershire take early wickets.\nWorcestershire batsman Tom Fell told BBC Hereford & Worcester:\n\"I've felt like I've had quite a few starts this season without really going on to get a big score, so it was nice to do it today.\n\"Actually, I had a chat with (director of cricket) Steve Rhodes before this game and we spoke about going back to the plans I had in the first match of the season when I got a hundred against Yorkshire.\n\"This was one of the tougher hundreds I've scored - it was never easy out there and the pitch is getting worn and there's a little bit of up-and-down bounce which is obviously good for us.\n\"It would have been good if we could have got one or two more wickets tonight, but there is still a chance for us if we take wickets in the first session tomorrow.\"", "summary": "Worcestershire's Tom Fell hit a career-best 143 to give his side a slim chance of a final-day win against Middlesex." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS), set up by the university in 2002, has bought the former Open University site in Boar's Hill.\nIt said the new facility, at Foxcombe Hall just outside Oxford, would open in summer 2018 and teach students from China, the UK and the European Union.\nThey will be given the opportunity to study for a year at the Oxford campus and another year in China.\nThe business school is based in Shenzhen in the province of Guangdong.\nA statement from PHBS said China was \"opening its higher education market to the world\" in a bid to improve the country's \"inferior position globally over the past century\".\nIt added that after the Brexit vote \"the EU and the Great Britain have become more competitive in their desire to enhance their relationship with China\".\nPeking University president Prof Lin Jianhua said: \"It is our hope that the new initiative in Oxford will further strengthen the school's international reputation as well as its teaching and research capabilities.\"\nThe campus will host its first group of visiting students from China next spring is expected to be fully functioning by the summer of 2018.\nIn September, Times Higher Education ranked Peking University 29th in the world.\nThe Open University announced in 2015 that it would close seven regional centres.\nJon Silversides, a partner at estate agent Carter Jonas, said the Open University is due to vacate the premises in May and added: \"We wish the business school every success in their investment in the UK.\"", "summary": "A leading Chinese university is to open a campus in Oxford." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Stirlingshire-based company said it had been hit by falling dairy prices as production outstripped market demand.\nSales in the 12 months to March fell year-on-year by £2.9m to £83.6m, while pre-tax profit dipped slightly to £1.43m.\nGraham's described its annual results as \"solid\".\nIn a statement, the company said: \"Graham's commitment to quality and innovation has led to more than half of Scotland's population buying Graham's products.\n\"However, the global milk market has shown a great deal of instability and 2015 was a particularly challenging year in terms of milk volumes, with farmers producing more milk than the market could comfortably consume.\n\"The oversupply led to significant balancing costs for Graham's and deflation in the market.\"\nThe year saw Graham's expand into the quark, cottage cheese and sour cream market with the purchase of a Fife dairy.\nGraham's already operated a dairy at Airthrey Kerse in Bridge of Allan, a processing plant in Nairn and depots throughout Scotland.\nThe company is waiting to find out whether plans to build a new dairy processing plant and housing development in Bridge of Allan will get the go-ahead.\nStirling Council rejected the plans in March but Graham's later appealed the decision. It is now being considered by the Scottish government's Department of Planning and Environmental Appeals.\nThe company also secured two major partnerships last year.\nIt became exclusive milk and whipping cream supplier to all 68 Starbucks stores across Scotland and signed a seven-figure deal to provide dairy products to customers of food supplier Brakes.\nEarlier this month, Graham's was named as the most valuable Scottish dairy and food brand by consultancy Kantar Worldpanel.\nGraham's managing director Robert Graham said: \"We are pleased to have delivered a solid performance during what has been an incredibly challenging time for the entire dairy industry.\"", "summary": "Graham's The Family Dairy has reported a fall in sales and profits, following a \"particularly challenging\" year for the dairy industry." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "GM is investing $500m (£340m) in Lyft as part of a $1bn fund raising initiative and will take a seat on the San Francisco-based company's board.\n\"We see the future of personal mobility as connected, seamless and autonomous,\" said GM president Dan Ammann.\nLyft president John Zimmer said his company shared the same vision.\nA number of technology companies, most prominently Google, are looking at developing driverless cars. Reports suggest Apple is also building prototypes of what are called autonomous cars in the US.\nBut established carmakers are also in the race, with Daimler, Tesla and others investing in the concept.\nThe tie-up will focus on two main areas. The first is the \"joint development of a network of on-demand autonomous vehicles\".\nMr Ammann said that \"with GM and Lyft working together, we believe we can successfully implement this vision more rapidly\".\n\"We see the world of mobility changing more in the next five years than it has in the last 50.\"\nThe second is giving Lyft drivers easy access to renting GM cars.\nDespite various companies' best efforts to develop driverless cars, there remain many barriers to widespread adoption, critics argue.\nQuite apart from the technology challenges, which may in time be overcome, there are regulatory issues based on ethical arguments and insurance considerations based on questions of responsibility.", "summary": "US car giant General Motors (GM) is teaming up with car sharing service Lyft to develop a fleet of driverless vehicles." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Alex, from New York, wrote the letter after seeing the photograph of bloodied and dazed Omran Daqneesh, which prompted outrage around the world.\nMr Obama said the letter was from a child \"who hasn't learned to be cynical, or suspicious, or fearful\".\nThe video has been shared more than 60,000 times on Facebook.\n\"Dear President Obama, remember the boy who was picked up by the ambulance in Syria?\" Alex wrote in a letter published by the White House.\n\"Can you please go get him and bring him to our home ... we'll be waiting for you guys with flags flowers and balloons. We will give him a family and he will be our brother.\"\nMr Obama quoted Alex's words at a United Nations summit on the refugee crisis this week, before the White House recorded Alex reading them himself.\n\"We should all be more like Alex,\" the President wrote.\n\"Imagine what the world would look like if we were. Imagine the suffering we could ease and the lives we could save.\"\nOn social media, many users applauded the president's approach - but reserved most of their praise for young Alex.\n\"A six year old who has more humanity, love, and understanding than most adults. Kudos to his parents,\" a Texas woman commented on Facebook.\n\"I heard this earlier today, as read by my president,\" said another. \"Even with that pre-conditioning, made me cry while reading it just now.\n\"Neither of these sweet little boys, someone's sons, are Skittles,\" she said - referencing a controversial Donald Trump campaign advert likening Syrian refugees to the popular brand of sweets.\nThe US President has urged developed nations to do more to help refugees from the Syrian crisis. In August, the White House said it had admitted 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States this year.\nIt plans to to take another 110,000 in the 2017 financial year, Mr Obama said.\nA Syrian family adjusting to a life in Canada experience an emotional reunion.", "summary": "A six-year-old American boy's letter to Barack Obama, offering a place in his family to a Syrian refugee, has gone viral." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The force will take on the new PCs as well as 150 police community support officers (PCSOs) and 200 specialist staff over three years.\nCommissioner David Jamieson said the recruitment was possible following an efficiency drive.\nSome 500 officers forced to retire from West Midlands Police were among those who lost an age discrimination case last year.\nLatest updates on this and other West Midlands stories\nMore than 1,000 officers in England and Wales sought compensation over having to leave after 30 years' service under the A19 regulation, used by 15 forces to make savings since 2010.\nIn March the West Midlands force - the second biggest in England - had 7, 101 officers compared with 8,775 in 2009.\nThe jobs boost comes as research suggests more than a third of people in England and Wales have not seen a bobby on the beat for a year.\nA website for people to register their interest in becoming an officer will open later, and specific roles will be advertised soon.\nIn 2014, the force took on about 450 officers, ending a five-year recruitment freeze which it said followed government funding cuts.\nMr Jamieson, who was re-elected as PCC in May, said: \"This recruitment is at nearly double the rate of my previous term in office and is only happening because of the tough decisions that have been taken to make West Midlands Police more efficient.\n\"West Midlands Police has faced the biggest cuts of any force in the country and is receiving £2.5 million less from the government again this year.\"\nThe West Midlands Police force is the second largest in the country dealing with some of the worse crimes and organised gangs operating in the UK.\nYet since 2010, because of public spending cuts, the force has lost thousands of staff. It's also an ageing force - the average age approaching mid-40s - and only ten per cent of officers come from ethnic and minority communities.\nThis announcement won't turn the clock back, but the chief constable sees it as a chance to stabilise the force and keep it up to date and effective.\nToday I spoke to a Polish officer, a man born in Jamaica and two Muslim brothers born in Alum Rock, Birmingham, who have all recently been recruited.\nHaving a force that reflects the people it serves and understands them is vital for British policing. They told me the force was supporting them and that they feel they're making a difference on the streets of the West Midlands.\nTwo years ago, the force said it would close 27 of its 41 front desks to save £3m.\nLast year the PCC said the force needed to \"up its game\" and employ more minorities after hiring just one black officer from its 2014 recruitment drive.\nA spokeswoman said the recruitment drive would target publications, radio stations and social media consumed by minority groups.\nBME (Black and Minority Ethnic) officers are also acting as ambassadors among community groups, she added.", "summary": "West Midlands Police is to recruit 1,150 staff, including 800 officers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members are to walk out on Friday over staffing for trains due to come into service in 2020.\nIt coincides with the first day of the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race.\nNorthern said it expects to run \"more than 40%\" of its timetable and more than 300 rail replacement buses.\nThe company, which serves routes across northern England, said the majority of services run will be between 07:00 and 19:00 BST.\nThe union said it was \"angry and frustrated\" the company had rejected a proposal to invite Department for Transport officials to join talks aimed at reaching a solution.\nMick Cash, RMT general secretary, said: \"The responsibility for the inevitable disruption lies wholly with the company.\"\nHe said the company was trying to \"bulldoze through\" plans for driver-only-operated trains.\nThe Tour de Yorkshire cycle race starts in Bridlington, East Yorkshire and finishes in Scarborough, North Yorkshire on the day of the strike.\nWell over a million spectators turned out to see the 2016 race, organisers said.\nTalks about Merseyrail services between its management and the RMT union ended without agreement on Monday.\nRMT members also joined a national protest in London against driver-only-operation to mark the one-year anniversary of its dispute with Southern rail.\nArriva Rail North, which operates Northern trains, urged the RMT to \"get back round the table\".\nRichard Allan, its deputy managing director, said: \"We believe we would keep a second person on many of our services and, at some locations, we may choose to staff the station to give better support to customers.\n\"It is hugely disappointing that RMT is making demands rather than working with us to develop our plans.\"", "summary": "A 24-hour strike on Northern rail services will go ahead after talks broke down in a dispute over the role of guards." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Silk Road was used by merchants and traders to take goods across the Asian continent. Now China is investing billions into revitalising this route for trade. Here are some images by photographer by Li Zhengde in Gansu province, China.\nAll photographs from Dunhuang: A City on the Silk Road, a Meet Asia guide from Make-Do Publishing. Pictures by Li Zhengde from Dunhuang Academy.", "summary": "Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road, was one of the ancient world's most important intersections between East and West." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 22,792 under-18s included one who was held for 15 days.\nCriminal justice experts said authorities were breaching their statutory duties by detaining under 18s overnight in adult cells.\nBut police said there was a \"lack of alternative accommodation\", while local authorities said they faced difficulties in finding emergency care.\nThe figures, which the BBC obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to England's 39 forces, showed that while the number of children detained overnight had fallen, from 41,789 in 2011-12, experts believed it was still too high.\nThe BBC asked forces to give figures for the number of children brought into custody between the hours of 22:00 and 06:00.\nIn its response to the FOI request, Gloucestershire Police said the youngest child it held was eight years old, but challenged the \"overnight\" definition.\n\"The child was detained for around two hours between 10.30pm and 12.30am which we do not constitute as being held overnight,\" the statement said.\nThe law states that, once charged, anyone under 18 should be bailed to their home or transferred to local authority accommodation unless it is impracticable, or the child needs secure accommodation and it is not available.\n\"In my eight years of representing children, I have never once known a child to be transferred to overnight accommodation,\" said Jennifer Twite, a barrister with Just For Kids, a charity that campaigns on behalf of children in the justice system.\n\"The number of children held overnight is shocking and unacceptable.\n\"Local authorities are under a legal duty to provide overnight accommodation for these children, many of whom are acutely vulnerable and in great distress.\"\n22,792\nChildren were held overnight in police custody in 2014/2015, forces said\n8 The age of the youngest child held\n380 hours The longest period a child was held\nMost forces were unable to provide information about how many under-18s were successfully transferred to council accommodation but in one force - Merseyside - just three out of 73 children were transferred in June and July 2015.\nHer Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) which independently assesses police forces said custody staff at some forces - including Bedfordshire - had \"never known secure accommodation to be made available for children... and had stopped requesting this facility\".\nHMIC said: \"No police force is doing enough to work with local authorities to get secure accommodation.\"\nFrances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"The police know cells are not a nursery or a school.\n\"They are not an appropriate place for children to be.\n\"Police stations are noisy and full of adults - some of whom are drunk and dangerous.\n\"The cells are often subterranean and really unpleasant places.\"\nKaren's son, 15-year-old Jamie (not his real name), was taken into police custody at about 22:00 on Sunday, following an incident involving a knife at the family home in Cornwall.\nJamie, who has Asperger's syndrome, spent the night in a cell.\nThe family said they and the police asked Cornwall County Council to provide emergency accommodation but were told it was not the council's responsibility.\n\"I can only imagine the noise and the sounds which would have been very distressing for him,\" Karen said.\n\"We feel really upset. I have no doubt in my mind he will have received excellent care from the police but it's hardly ideal.\"\nKaren said the family had struggled with Jamie's behaviour for many years. He was diagnosed with Asperger's at the age of 11.\n\"There have been several severe, violent outbursts,\" she said.\nShe added: \"It's not just down to the police to look after vulnerable children.\n\"I have no faith in social care - they are overwhelmed and the quality of their work is really poor.\n\"I would like to see social care teams scrapped and a new, national body with proper funding put in its place.\"\nThe county council said: \"We believe it is reasonable to expect parents to fulfil the responsibilities to care for their own children.\n\"Cornwall also has a shortage of a carers who are willing and able to look after troubled teenagers.\n\"We do have some amazing carers who do this but none were available at that time.\"\nDevon and Cornwall Police said: \"Being kept in a police cell can be a very intimidating and daunting experience for a child and we try to avoid this happening where possible.\n\"If more suitable accommodation cannot be found, as in this case, a child has been kept overnight as a last resort.\"\nThe government said it was the responsibility of chief constables to ensure the law was complied with.\nIn 2015 it changed the law, following a campaign by Just for Kids and the families of three 17-year-olds - Eddie Thornber, Joe Lawton and Kesia Leatherbarrow - who killed themselves after being arrested.\nPolicing minister Mike Penning said 17-year-olds would be \"treated like 15 and 16-year-olds, and moved to secure local authority accommodation\".\nHe said: \"The law is clear that any child who is charged with an offence should not be held overnight unless absolutely necessary.\n\"This government is doing more to protect children and vulnerable individuals who often end up in police custody due to the lack of suitable accommodation.\"\nYet experts agree this is not happening rapidly enough.\nDr Vicky Kemp, principal research fellow at the University of Nottingham's School of Law, has specialised in studying children in the justice system.\n\"Kids are being held for longer and longer because the police are strapped for resources,\" she said. \"You are getting 14-year-olds held in cells for hours and it's not good enough.\n\"The system can be very damaging for adolescents.\"\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council lead for children and young people, Deputy Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney, said: \"Entering custody can be a traumatic experience.\n\"One factor in longer stays is the lack of alternative accommodation.\"\nRoy Perry, who chairs the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: \"Young people should never have to spend the night in a police cell unnecessarily.\n\"However, we know there will be times when there is no other option available.\"\nUpdate 2 February 2016: This report has been updated to include further information from Gloucestershire Police.", "summary": "More than 22,000 children, including an eight-year-old, were held overnight in custody in 2014-15, figures show." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Grzegorz Beyer, 40, was assaulted by \"a number of people\" near the water fountain in the early hours of Monday.\nHe died on Wednesday evening at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, Wiltshire Police said.\nHis family described him as a \"loving husband, father and son\" and said they were \"completely devastated\".\nFamily members were \"struggling to come to terms with the void Grzesiek's passing has left in our lives,\" they said.\nOfficers are analysing CCTV and have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.\nDet Chief Insp Jeremy Carter said: \"This was a Bank Holiday Monday, therefore, the area would have been busier than usual.\n\"I would like to appeal to anyone who was in the area of Bridge Street, Canal Walk, The Parade or Regent Street to please call police.\"", "summary": "A murder investigation has been launched after a man died two days after he was attacked in Swindon town centre." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A state agency is investigating the incident, which happened on Sunday morning. Relatives of the man concerned say he is on life support.\nOn Monday, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges called for a federal civil rights investigation into the case.\nBlack Lives Matter protesters have been demonstrating in the city.\nThe group gained prominence after the police shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.\nThat sparked protests nationwide about the police use of excessive force against African Americans.\nJamar Clark, 24, was shot after police were called to a reported assault, and police say he \"interfered\" with the paramedics assisting the assault victim.\nPolice officers have said \"misinformation\" is spreading about the Clark case, and some have told reporters he was not handcuffed.\nOn Sunday about 150 people gathered to demonstrate at the scene of the shooting and some camped out outside the police station.\nThe officer involved in the shooting has not been identified yet but two officers have been placed on paid leave.\nBlack Lives Matter organisers are demanding the release of any video footage that may exist of the altercation.\n\"We have been saying for a significant amount of time that Minneapolis is one bullet away from Ferguson,\" Jason Sole, chair of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), told Minnesota Public Radio.\n\"That bullet was fired last night. We want justice immediately.\"\nMr Clark has convictions for making terroristic threats, aggravated robbery and possessing a small amount of marijuana.\nIn 2013, Minneapolis police shot and killed 22-year-old black man Terrance Franklin, who was suspected of burglary.\nMinneapolis is participating in a federal Justice Department programme for increasing trust between police and their communities.", "summary": "Protests are ongoing in Minneapolis over the police shooting of a black man who witnesses say was unarmed and handcuffed at the time." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The blaze was reported shortly after 01:00 and police were called to Rochdale Way, Colchester, by the fire service.\nPolice said a neighbour had twice tried to to get into the flat to rescue the man but was unsuccessful.\nA 42-year-old woman has been arrested in Colchester and was being questioned by detectives.\nDet Ch Insp Stephen Jennings, leading the police investigation, said: \"This tragic incident is now being treated as a murder inquiry.\n\"We are looking to establish the exact cause of the blaze and how it started.\n\"The victim and the suspect are known to each other.\"\nThe cause of the fire has yet to be established.\nThe neighbour was treated for the effects of breathing in smoke.\nThe 78-year-old, who has not yet been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.", "summary": "A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 78-year-old man found trapped in his flat died in a fire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The hawkish Republican Senator John McCain is among those making it.\nHe cites as particularly damaging recent comments by Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state said that the \"longer-term status of President Assad will be decided by the Syrian people\", backing off Barack Obama's initial rallying cry that \"Assad must go.\"\nThe Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is also pushing that line.\n\"Idlib attack is a crime against humanity,\" he tweeted. \"Those saying Syrian people will decide Assad's future: no people will remain if attacks continue.\"\nUS blames Assad over 'chemical attack'\nWhy is there a war in Syria?\nAftermath of attack in pictures (Warning graphic images)\nTillerson's statement was amplified last week by the UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who confirmed that Assad's removal was no longer a US priority.\nIn fact, that's been the case for a long time.\nObama's policy on Assad evolved, shaped by Russia's entry into the war on the side of the Syrian regime, and by his administration's growing focus on the fight against the Islamic State group.\n\"Everything is done through a counter-terrorism lens,\" a US official who worked closely with these issues told me in December. \"Would they like Assad to go away? Yes, but only if they feel that wouldn't undermine US interests as they define it.\"\nGiven these realities, Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry concentrated on what he thought was achievable - de-escalating the violence and getting some sort of political process off the ground in co-ordination with the Russians.\nHe crystallised this quiet policy shift in December 2015, when he accepted Moscow's demand that Assad's fate be determined by his people.\nNoting that the removal of the president was a \"non-starter\" as a pre-condition for talks, he said the focus was on facilitating a peace process in which \"Syrians will be making decisions for the future of Syria\".\nSound familiar?\nYes, but there's a difference.\nThe Obama administration, especially Kerry, continued to emphasize that Assad was responsible for the bulk of the violence in Syria, that his brutality fed the extremism that spawned the Islamic State group, and that there could be no peace if he continued in power.\nDonald Trump, on the other hand, has been ambivalent, very publicly washing his hands of the issue.\nHe's endorsed Russia's support of the Syrian leader as producing a team that can fight IS militants, and stated that the US has \"bigger problems than Assad\".\nHis anti-IS policy is the clear priority, propelled by the military campaigns in Mosul and Raqqa.\nMeanwhile his review of overall Syria policy, including the political negotiations, languishes on the back burner.\nTrumplomacy: Bromance with an autocrat\nWhat happened to State Dept press briefings?\nTo what degree, if any, Trump has contributed to Assad's sense of impunity will remain a matter of debate.\nBut the chemical attack has exposed the disconnect in his policy.\nIt demonstrates that Assad and the civil war cannot be neatly separated from the battle against Islamic State militants, and highlights the importance of investing diplomacy in a political solution to resolve the conflict.\nThe atrocity has triggered tough rhetoric and vague threats of action from the White House.\nThe president said it had changed his view of Assad and Syria. He warned that the regime had crossed a line, although he didn't say if it was a red one.\nBut a recent statement by his UN ambassador was a more candid sign that this administration is beginning to appreciate the nature of the problem with which Obama and Kerry long wrestled.\n\"I think the dilemma everyone has,\" Nikki Haley said,\" is how do you deal with a government that we wish wasn't there… It's a hard answer, no matter which way you look at it.\"\nIt seems the attack has at least focused minds on the question.", "summary": "There is an argument that the Trump administration's \"hands-off\" approach to Bashar al-Assad emboldened the Syrian President to carry out atrocities like the chemical attack for which he's being blamed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The system, which is yet to be completed, was budgeted at £75m, but is currently forecast to cost £117m.\nPublic Audit Committee members said managers should be \"ashamed\" of the \"failings\" and \"serious incompetence\" which had led to \"a complete mess\".\nThere is still no launch date for the system. Interim boss Ian Crichton said it could end up costing up to £125m.\nFormer chief executive John Turner said he was \"very sorry\" that the system had not yet been delivered, saying his final years in the job were \"very tough\".\nMr Turner, who signed the 1,000-page contract for the IT system in March 2012, said he felt \"very let down\" by a senior colleague, saying they \"didn't advise me at all\".\nHe said he was not informed of a \"fundamental flaw\" in the system being delivered for 22 months, adding \"other, more junior staff were aware of omissions\" in the contract, \"but they didn't tell me.\"\nCommittee convener Paul Martin said there must have been issues with management if staff did not feel able to come forward.\nHe also said bosses should be \"ashamed\" of the situation, saying 1,900 nurses could have been recruited with the money lost in the overspend.\nFellow Labour MSP Richard Simpson said in terms of IT, there was a \"fractured, dysfunctional system across the NHS\".\nHe said the portal system with information for doctors was a \"disgrace\", adding: \"It's a complete mess. We're so far behind in IT.\"\nMary Scanlon said she was \"angry\" when reading NHS 24's written response to the committee - which included a statement saying the body \"apologises unreservedly\".\nThe Conservative MSP said it was clear there had been \"pretty serious incompetence, costing taxpayers £42m\".\nLib Dem Tavish Scott asked if anyone had been sacked over the matter.\nMr Crichton replied: \"The chair of the board is no longer there, the chief executive is no longer there and the chief finance officer is no longer there.\"", "summary": "MSPs have slammed the management of NHS 24 while investigating a £41.6m overspend in its new IT system." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He said it was a matter of economic necessity as well as women's rights to lift restrictions.\nSaudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive, and women's rights activists have been arrested for defying the ban.\n\"It is high time that Saudi women started driving their cars\", he said.\nPrince Alwaleed is an outspoken member of the Saudi royal family who has criticised the restriction of women's rights in the country before.\nAlthough he has no political position in the country, he is the chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), which owns stakes in the huge US bank Citigroup and the Euro Disney theme park and which is listed on the Saudi stock exchange.\nKHC claims to be one of the largest foreign investors in the US, with interests in hotels, property and news media. The company has stakes in Disney, 21st Century Fox, News Corp, Apple, General Motors, and Twitter.\nThe prince, among the world's wealthiest individuals, said: \"Preventing a woman from driving a car is today an issue of rights similar to the one that forbade her from receiving an education or having an independent identity.\n\"They are all unjust acts by a traditional society, far more restrictive than what is lawfully allowed by the precepts of religion.\"\nWhile it is not technically illegal for women to drive, only men are awarded driving licences. Protests against the ban go back 20 years.\nThe prince's statement, published at length on his website, argues that the ban is extremely expensive for Saudi Arabia.\nWith poor public transport, more than a million drivers are employed to get women about, many of whom are foreigners employed at considerable expense.\nThe prince estimates that the average family spends each month 3,800 riyals ($1,000 or £800) on a driver, which drains family incomes.\n\"There are more than one million Saudi women in need of a safe means of transportation to take them to work every morning,\" argues the prince.\n\"It often falls upon the men to leave their work obligations to take their wives and children to clinics and other destinations, something that women could do on their own.\n\"Retaining foreign drivers not only has the effect of reducing a family's disposable income... but also contributes to the siphoning of billions of riyals every year from the Saudi economy to foreign destinations in the form of remittances,\" he adds.", "summary": "An influential Saudi prince, the billionaire investor Alwaleed bin Talal, has called on his country to lift its ban on women driving cars." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The jobs losses at the site in Newark Road took effect at the end of March.\nWorkers came under threat of redundancy after parent company PepsiCo announced plans to install new packing equipment.\nSteve Switzer, site leader at Walkers Lincoln, said bosses had been successful in reducing the number of redundancies from 87 to 72 out of about 250 employees at the site.\nThe factory, which makes Quavers and some of the Walkers Sensation ranges, has been in the city for more than 70 years.\nIt was originally the home of Smiths Crisps and in January there were about 250 people employed at the site.\nKarl McCartney, Conservative MP for Lincoln, said he was disappointed by the redundancies but added he hoped the move would \"ensure the long-term viability of the site\".\nMr Switzer said: \"We are investing in new state-of-the-art packing equipment at our Lincoln site, a move that will significantly change the way we pack our goods and improve efficiency.\n\"We understand this has been a difficult time for our employees but as we outlined at the time, these changes will secure the long-term future of the Lincoln site and growth of the Walkers business in the UK.\"", "summary": "More than 70 workers at a Walkers crisp factory in Lincoln have been made redundant." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In government papers from 1989, Peter Walker said he was \"frankly amazed\" by the Treasury's proposals.\nSuch a move would bring S4C \"too far into the political domain\", he warned.\nMr Walker said he wanted broadcasting in Wales to remain an issue which had been \"successfully defused\".\nIn 1980, former Plaid Cymru MP Gwynfor Evans had said he would fast to death if the government did not provide a Welsh-language TV service.\nBoth the Conservatives and Labour had promised to create the channel if they won the 1979 general election.\nBut the victorious Tory administration initially decided not to go ahead with the plan.\nIt later honoured its election pledge fearing a \"difficult and emotionally-heightened atmosphere\" in Wales if Mr Evans became ill or died.\nBefore devolution in 1999, the Welsh Office, now known as the Wales Office, was the UK government department responsible for key Welsh public services, including health and education, with the Welsh secretary at its helm.\nIn the papers, released on Friday, Mr Walker said: \"We have successfully defused broadcasting as a political issue in Wales over the past eight years and I have no desire to see it become one again.\"\nIn response, the then chief secretary to the Treasury, Norman Lamont, suggested the Welsh Office would be in a better position to move money from S4C into other public services.\n\"The main advantage of my proposal, that the Welsh Office accept responsibility for funding S4C, was that you would have been able to judge when to re-open the [funding] formula we have agreed and transfer resources between S4C and other activities funded by the Welsh Office,\" he said\nBut Mr Lamont said he understood Mr Walker's concerns and agreed to keep funding via the Home Office.\nIn the exchange of letters, revealed in papers released by the National Archive, Mr Walker said he did have an \"obvious interest\" in broadcasting but the Home Office had responsibility for the issue.\nAside from the political concerns, he added: \"On a practical level, my department [the Welsh Office] is simply not equipped at present to assume this sort of responsibility and neither do I have the necessary powers.\"\nHe continued: \"I very much hope that you agree with me that these are sufficient reasons for me to resist even the suggestion that officials should meet to discuss this.\"\nMr Walker finished his letter by saying he was sending a copy of it to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.\nMr Lamont said he was \"prepared to agree\" with Mr Walker that allowing this \"possibly could re-open the impassioned debate on broadcasting in Wales\".\nS4C began broadcasting in 1982, and was initially funded through an agreed share of independent television advertising revenue.\nHowever, in 2013 main responsibility for funding the channel was transferred to the BBC via the licence fee.\nCurrently, S4C gets £6.7m a year from the UK government, with most of its £80m funding coming from the licence fee.", "summary": "Plans for a Welsh Office to fund Welsh language television channel S4C instead of the Home Office in the 1980s were rejected by the Welsh secretary at the time, documents have revealed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The minister of immigration and citizenship, John McCallum, said the country's resettlement programme would be expanded in 2016 to take 50,000.\nMr McCallum made the announcement from the Jordanian capital of Amman, where he met Syrians heading to Canada.\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed some of the first arrivals earlier this month and said Canada was \"showing the world how to open our hearts\".\nHis new Liberal government had promised to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February.\nBut Mr McCallum said Canada now hopes to settle as many as 50,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2016.\nThe UN refugee agency, the Jordanian government and the International Organization for Migration will be helping to speed up the vetting process, he said.\nThe minister spoke to Syrian families as they prepared to board flights to Canada.\nHe told one family: \"Everyone in Canada is waiting to meet you.\"\nMr McCallum also toured development projects and refugee facilities during his two-day visit.\nSource: Government of Canada", "summary": "Canada has vowed to double its intake of Syrian refugees next year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mohsin Manji, of Kingshill Drive, Harrow, admitted attacking his 81-year-old father on 29 November 2015.\nThe 45-year-old, who has paranoid schizophrenia, denied murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility.\nHe was handed a hospital order and a restriction order without a time limit.\nMark Heywood QC, mitigating, told the Old Bailey Manji had heard voices in his head which led him to believe his father was \"some sort of zombie\".\nThe court heard Amirali Manji was found unconscious and with scratches on his face by carers who visited the house later on 29 November.\nMr Manji senior was taken to hospital but never regained consciousness and he died on 3 December 2015.\nManji later told police his father had sworn at his mother \"so I hit... [him] lots of times\".\nHe also claimed \"evil spirits control him\", the court heard.\nProsecutor Mukul Chawla QC said Manji had \"suffered for very many years from paranoid schizophrenia\" which had \"manifested itself from his late-teens or early-20s\".\nSentencing, Judge Michael Topolski QC said the pressure of caring for both of his parents \"given his ill health, placed intolerable pressure on him\".\n\"This is a truly tragic case,\" he said.", "summary": "A mentally ill man who was a carer for both of his parents has admitted beating his bedridden father to death at the family's north-west London home." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A 57-year-old man died after being struck by a car in a hit-and-run on Edinburgh's Comiston Road.\nThe incident took place at about 20:10 on Thursday.\nThe man who died had fallen onto the road before being hit by a small dark-coloured vehicle and police said the driver may not have realised what happened.\nCh Insp James Jones said: \"Our investigations have shown that it is possible that the driver of the vehicle may not have been immediately aware they had struck a person.\n\"We would ask that anyone driving in the area of Comiston Road (Buckstone Terrace) around 8 pm on Thursday get in touch with us.\"", "summary": "Police have said a driver involved in a fatal collision in Edinburgh may not have realised they had hit someone." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former deputy prime minister, who is now the party's EU spokesman, said the single market was a UK creation that was vital for jobs and prosperity.\nThe Tories, he said, were \"up a Brexit creek without a paddle, a canoe or a map - they have absolutely no clue\".\nThe government has insisted it will secure a \"positive outcome\" on trade.\nThe Lib Dems, who campaigned to stay in the EU, are pushing for a referendum on the terms of a final Brexit deal.\nHowever, former Lib Dem business secretary Vince Cable said the party \"must accept\" the referendum result and stop focusing on a second vote.\nThe UK voted to end its EU membership by 51.9% to 48.1% in a referendum on 23 June.\nThe timing of the process for exit has so far been clouded by uncertainty, with no clear signal from Mrs May's government on when it would begin - other than it will not start this year.\nThere is also confusion over the nature of the UK's future relationship with the EU, especially whether it intends to remain a member of the single market, which offers free movement of goods, finance and people around the EU without any tariffs, quotas or taxes.\nIn a speech to party members in Brighton, Mr Clegg said he feared that under pressure from \"swivel-eyed\" Conservative backbenchers and the Eurosceptic press, Prime Minister Theresa May would be forced into pursuing a so-called \"hard Brexit\" - leading to \"gridlock\" in negotiations with the rest of the EU.\nContinued membership of the single market must be a red line in the UK's talks with the other 27 members, he said.\nHe said: \"It is entirely possible to be in the single market but out of the EU, as Norway has shown. While it is undoubtedly an inferior option compared to full EU membership, it is the only option that would safeguard jobs and prosperity. \"\nThe alternative, Mr Clegg added, is \"many years of chaos\" for key export industries such as cars, financial services and food and drink. We won't get a deal from outside the single market which comes anything close to the privileges we have as a member - that is the unavoidable truth that the Tories won't tell you.\"\nTo widespread applause from Lib Dem activists, Mr Clegg said the Conservatives would never again be able to claim the mantle of being the party of business or be regarded as a responsible party of government if they damaged the economy in the process.\nLib Dem party members endorsed a proposal for a referendum on the terms of the final Brexit deal negotiated by the government, with the option of remaining in the EU.\nLeader Tim Farron has made calls for another referendum a key part of the Lib Dems' pitch, and a central theme of its conference, while insisting he respects the Brexit result.\nBut Mr Cable, who lost his seat at the 2015 general election, has said holding a second vote \"raises a lot of fundamental problems\".\nMr Cable, who voted against the motion, told a fringe meeting he understood the anger at the outcome of the Brexit vote but it was wrong to think it could be reversed.\n\"The public have voted and I do think it's seriously disrespectful and politically utterly counterproductive to say 'sorry guys, you've got it wrong, we're going to try again'.\n\"I don't think we can do that. That's a personal view, and a lot of people won't share that view.\"\nMr Cable said he was \"not criticising\" Mr Farron, but rather he wanted to \"see more emphasis on what it is we want from these negotiations rather than arguing about the tactics and the means\".\nMrs May has insisted \"Brexit means Brexit\" but she has refused to give a \"running commentary\" on the government's Brexit negotiating strategy, saying it would be an error to \"reveal our hand prematurely\".\nShe has said, however, that the government is determined to secure the \"right deal\" for Britain, that includes a \"good deal\" in trading goods and services, as well as controls on immigration.\nFormer education secretary Nicky Morgan, who was sacked in Mrs May's reshuffle, said on Sunday was time for the government to \"flesh out\" some of the details on its plans.\n\"You are seeing today that there are people in the Conservative parliamentary party now saying they are going to set up a sort of hard Brexit group.\n\"If you leave a vacuum other people will fill it and therefore I think the time is now to say - 'this is what we would like to get out of Brexit',\" she told ITV's Peston on Sunday.", "summary": "Leaving the EU's single market as part of any Brexit deal would do \"untold damage\" to the UK economy, Nick Clegg has told the Lib Dem conference." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nCross-code convert Burgess, 26, had two years left on a three-year deal.\nBurgess was part of the England squad which went out of their home World Cup in the group stages.\nHe switched codes to join Bath last year but will now head back to Australia to play for NRL side the Rabbitohs, his former club.\nA transfer fee has been agreed with South Sydney and Bath are expected to confirm his departure on Friday.\nHe was given time off by Bath coach Mike Ford after England's disastrous World Cup campaign and has now played his last game of rugby union.\nBurgess, who had been playing at blind-side flanker for his club, was picked at centre for the hosts against Wales in the World Cup and his selection sparked much debate.\nBath had been adamant he would be staying at the club, with owner Bruce Craig saying on Wednesday: \"As far as we're concerned he's with us and will continue playing for us.\" Craig also said there had been no bids for the former Bradford Bulls player.\nThose sentiments were echoed by head coach Mike Ford, who had said the player would honour his Bath contract, and that he expected him to be part of England's 2016 Six Nations campaign.\nInstead Burgess will go back to Australia and join brothers George and Tom, who signed three-year contract extensions at the Rabbitohs last week, and Luke, who plays for Manly Warringah Sea Eagles.\nBBC Radio 5 live's Alastair Eykyn says his departure is a huge loss for the sport.\n\"There is no doubt he had the tools to become a fantastic player in rugby union, but now we will never know,\" he added.\nBurgess, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, played 21 games for Bath after joining them just over a year ago, scoring four tries. They paid Australian side the Rabbitohs about £270,000 (Aus$500,000) for the player.\nHaving made his England debut in August, he was selected for the World Cup ahead of the likes of Northampton centre Luther Burrell, who looked to have established himself in the team after playing in all five of their Six Nations matches earlier in the year.\nBurgess impressed as a replacement in England's opening World Cup win over Fiji and started the defeat by Wales in the second pool game before being replaced with 11 minutes left.\nHe came off the bench for the last 15 minutes of the subsequent loss to Australia and was then dropped from the squad for the final game against Uruguay.\nListen to the 5 live podcast on Burgess' departure.", "summary": "Sam Burgess has left Bath with immediate effect in order to return to rugby league club South Sydney Rabbitohs." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will leave it up to individual sports' governing bodies to decide if Russian competitors are clean and should be allowed to take part.\nThe decision follows a report in which Canadian law professor Richard McLaren said Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme from 2011 to 2015.\nThe Rio Games start on 5 August.\nCompetitors from Russia who want to take part in the Games will have to meet strict criteria laid down by the IOC.\nAny Russian who has served a doping ban will not be eligible for next month's Olympics. Track and field athletes have already been banned.\nIOC president Thomas Bach said: \"We have set the bar to the limit by establishing a number of very strict criteria which every Russian athlete will have to fulfil if he or she wants to participate in the Olympic Games Rio 2016.\n\"I think in this way, we have balanced on the one hand, the desire and need for collective responsibility versus the right to individual justice of every individual athlete.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nAnalysis - Dan Roan, BBC sports editor\n\"The critics will ask how can it be that a rigorous testing programme can at all be completed in just a few days? The decision by the IOC has been widely condemned. It's opened up divisions in the Olympic family. Wada, for example, wanted a total ban; athletes' representatives are at loggerheads with those who run their sports.\n\"Many will argue, if not now - when the entire anti-doping programme appears to have been subverted by a host nation - then when will a total ban ever be issued? The IOC has come through difficult moments in the past - the Olympic boycotts of the Cold War years, the Ben Johnson doping scandal, the Salt Lake City bidding controversy - but there have never been a few days like these.\n\"Sadly for the IOC, having been held up as a model of sports governance, that status is now in some jeopardy.\"\nThe decision not to impose a blanket ban came after a three-hour meeting of the IOC's executive board, and reaction came quickly.\nRussian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko described the decision as \"objective\" but \"very tough\", while the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) claimed the IOC had \"refused to take decisive leadership\".\nUK Sports Minister Tracey Crouch said: \"The scale of the evidence in the McLaren report arguably pointed to the need for stronger sanctions rather than leaving it to the international federations at this late stage.\"\nThe 28 individual federations now have just 12 days to \"carry out an individual analysis of each competitor's anti-doping record, taking into account only reliable adequate international tests, and the specificities of each sport and its rules, in order to ensure a level playing field\".\nThe International Tennis Federation quickly confirmed on Sunday that Russia's seven nominated tennis players meet the IOC requirements, having been subjected to \"a rigorous anti-doping testing programme outside Russia\".\nRussia's full Olympic team would consist of 387 competitors.\nThe International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has already ruled that Russian track and field athletes will not compete at the Games, a decision which was upheld on Thursday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nIAAF president Lord Coe said: \"The IAAF team are ready to offer advice to any International Sports Federations given our experience and what we have learned over the last eight months.\"\nA number of current and former athletes have criticised the IOC decision, with former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies telling the BBC: \"I'm just sad that they've passed the buck, as they so often do, down to the governing bodies, and I don't think the governing bodies have the time to be able to do very much about this.\n\"I think the only way to send an incredibly strong message to a state-run doping programme is a blanket ban.\"\nWorld Anti Doping Agency (Wada) president Sir Craig Reedie said previously that his organisation, which commissioned the McLaren report, wanted the IOC to \"decline entries for Rio 2016 of all athletes\" submitted by the Russian Olympic and Paralympic committees.\nThe IOC also confirmed it will not allow whistleblower Yulia Stepanova to compete as a neutral athlete in Rio.\nStepanova has previously failed a doping test and also did not satisfy the IOC's \"ethical requirements\".\nThe IOC statement added: \"The executive board would like to express its appreciation for Mrs Stepanova's contribution to the fight against doping and to the integrity of sport.\"\nBach said the IOC was \"expressing its gratitude\" to Stepanova by inviting her and her husband to Rio as guests.\nUsada chief Travis Tygart described the decision to exclude Stepanova as \"incomprehensible\", adding it will \"undoubtedly deter whistleblowers in the future from coming forward\".\nDecember 2014: A German TV documentary alleges that as many as 99% of Russian athletes are guilty of doping. Wada announces an independent commission to investigate the allegations.\n9 November 2015: Russia should be banned from athletics completion and were guilty of state-sponsored, systemic doping practices, says Wada's independent commission.\n13 November 2015: IAAF provisionally suspends Russia's athletics federation from international competition.\n27 June 2016: 67 Russian athletes appeal against their bans from this summer's Rio Olympics to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).\n18 July 2016: Wada's McLaren report claims Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme for four years across the \"vast majority\" of summer and winter Olympic sports.\n21 July 2016: Cas rejects the appeal of Russian athletes who attempted to overturn their suspension from this summer's Olympics.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device", "summary": "Russia will not receive a blanket ban from Rio 2016 following the country's doping scandal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Owner Jasmine Quick from Plymouth had brought baking ingredients home after a competition when boxer Ray made his move on the leftovers.\nThe eight-year-old pet ate a kilo of sugar and its wrapping, a bag of flour and a packet of raisins and sultanas.\nHe had to be given emergency treatment after Mrs Quick saw the \"chaos\" and called the local pet hospital.\nShe was told raisins could be \"deadly\" to dogs and to bring him straight in.\nRead more on this story as it develops throughout the day on our Local Live pages.\n\"Ray was absolutely covered in flour and sugar, and was guzzling his way through the raisins,\" she said.\nRay was immediately given medicine to make him sick.\nVet Erin Beale said: \"This was a potentially disastrous cocktail. Grapes, raisins and sultanas are all highly toxic to dogs and even small amounts can be fatal, depending on their size.\n\"Thankfully for Ray he got help straight away, so recovered quite quickly and was soon back to his boisterous self.\"", "summary": "A dog who chomped through a packet of dried fruit has sparked a \"deadly raisins\" warning." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dr Abdullah, a former foreign minister, has 44% of the vote while Mr Ghani has 33%, election officials say. About half the votes have been counted.\nAbout seven million people voted across 34 provinces in the 5 April poll.\nA runoff will take place in late May if no candidate gets a majority.\nFinal results are expected on 14 May. Independent Election Commission chairman Ahmad Yousuf Nouristani has warned that the current statistics are \"partial\" and \"changeable\".\nSpeaking after the latest results were announced, Dr Abdullah said he was ready for a second round.\n\"It's important that the process is a free and fair one,\" he told AP news agency.\n\"If it goes to the second round in accordance to the rule of law, we are ready for that as well. At this stage, we believe that another round might not be needed.\"\nZalmai Rassoul, another former foreign minister, who is believed to be President Hamid Karzai's preferred successor, has 10% of the vote from the first round.\nThe Taliban failed to disrupt the first round but warmer weather, at the height of the so-called fighting season, would make a second round more of a security challenge, the BBC's David Loyn in Kabul reports.\nIf this lead widens further as more results come in, then Dr Abdullah's ability to form a government on his terms would be unstoppable, our correspondent adds.\nPossible electoral fraud has been a concern, but the election body responsible for dealing with complaints has previously said that it would be weeks before it rules on the issue.\nThere were allegations of large-scale fraud when Mr Karzai was re-elected in 2009. Dr Abdullah came second in that poll.\nMr Karzai is barred by the constitution from seeking a third term.\nThe next president will face several challenging issues, including the expected withdrawal of foreign combat troops from Afghanistan and ongoing attacks by the Taliban.", "summary": "Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has extended his lead over his rival Ashraf Ghani, according to latest partial results from the presidential election." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "During that time progress has been slow - there have been offers, new offers and revised offers and still the strikes are happening. The latest takes place on Wednesday night for 24 hours.\nFour unions representing 20,000 workers have been at the talks and without those workers there is no Tube service.\nThe Tube is going through some of the biggest changes in its history, and at the same time it is carrying the most passengers ever.\nTicket offices have been shut, jobs have been cut and staff are being redeployed.\nTicket Offices are very rapidly being turned into retail outlets - Embankment station now has a top end gift shop but no ticket office.\nLondon Underground (LU) says it is because contactless cards and Oyster are now what most travellers use and it wants staff on the gate lines.\nAnd on top of that, on 12 September, the Night Tube service is meant to start on Friday and Saturday nights.\nSo while this is on the surface about the introduction of 24-hour Tube and pay and conditions, it is really about the culmination of big continued changes being forced onto workers.\nDuring the last dispute over those ticket office closures the largest drivers' union ASLEF didn't go out on strike.\nThat meant the impact of the strike was reduced with LU able to run around 40% of services.\nNow with this 24-hour Tube dispute, ASLEF is involved as they have concerns over the work-life balance of drivers.\nSo the old issues like cuts to staffing at ticket offices, unpaid higher grade working and redeployment of staff have combined with the new issue of drivers' rosters.\nThere is also concern 'framework' agreements covering staff conditions are being disposed of.\nThe interesting thing is LU didn't need to introduce 24-hour Tube. The company combined the announcement of the closure of ticket offices with the Night Tube.\nMany at the time said it was a cynical attempt to put a positive spin on the size of ticket office closures.\nThey should be separate issues completely, but as LU brought the two ideas together, it is no surprise they have combined again.\nLondon Underground has effectively combined the power of all of the unions and all of their separate grievances.\nThat means this mess will take longer to resolve, if indeed it can be sorted out., and many workers are extremely angry.\nSo what now? Will LU change tack? Delays to 24-hour Tube have already been outlined. Will the solidarity of the four unions break?\nWe have already had one strike and if nothing changes you can easily see more on the Tube.", "summary": "These talks have been going on for months at a secret location at a hotel in London." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She has faced calls from some Tories to step down for calling an early election which resulted in a lost majority.\n\"Theresa May is certainly the strongest leader that we have at the moment,\" said Clwyd West MP Mr Jones.\n\"Any criticism that she's somehow not acting in the interests of the country is completely wide of the mark.\"\nThe former Welsh Secretary, a prominent Brexit campaigner, had been sacked from the Cabinet by David Cameron but was brought back to government by Mrs May last summer when she took over as prime minister in the wake of the referendum on Europe.\nHe saw his majority in Clwyd West cut by almost half from 6,730 to 3,437.\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales it was the prime minister's \"constitutional duty\" to seek the Queen's permission to form a government, and defended her choice of partners.\n\"We have a strong affinity with the DUP in Northern Ireland, we're both unionist parties and I think she's right to explore an arrangement with the DUP that will make sure we have a majority government in this country,\" he said.\nMr Jones added: \"It's quite clear that no one party commands an overall majority of parliament, and therefore she has to put together that coalition that we need in order to provide that stability.\n\"I think that so long as she does do that and provides that coalition then she should remain leader and prime minister.\"\nAsked if Mrs May would be prime minister at the end of the year, he said: \"That's impossible for me to say.\n\"What I would say is that the prime minister has my full support and I will be backing her all the way.\"", "summary": "Brexit Minister David Jones has backed Theresa May's arrangement with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists to keep the Conservatives in power." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The tiger was then shot dead by a special forces unit from the local police, in the Sunday incident at the Youngor Zoo in the city of Ningbo.\nThe man was rushed to the nearest hospital where he was pronounced dead.\nHe had climbed over the zoo's walls to avoid paying for a ticket, and landed in the tiger enclosure, local tourism authorities said in a statement.\nThe zoo was closed to visitors after the attack. State broadcaster CCTV said it remained closed on Monday.\nThe mauling took place at about 14:00 in full view of park visitors, some of whom posted video clips and pictures of the attack online.\nThe man, wearing a blue parka and black trousers, can be seen lying on the ground. A tiger appears to have its jaws around his neck and head while two other tigers circle around him.\nScreams can be heard in the background as a crowd of onlookers gather in front of the enclosure, separated by a moat.\nA series of loud explosive bangs can then be heard and the two tigers run off, while the first tiger continues to bite the man.\nZoo authorities said they used firecrackers to scare off the tigers in the enclosure, according to local reports.\nThey did not identify the man, but said he was middle-aged and that his wife and children were also at the park.\nBut a statement late on Sunday from the Dongqian Lake Tourist Resort Administrative Committee said the man was surnamed Zhang and from Hubei province.\nIt said that Mr Zhang, along with his wife and two children, were visiting the park on Sunday with his colleague, surnamed Li, and his wife.\nThe women and children had bought tickets and entered the park, but the two men decided to scale the zoo's 3m-tall (10ft) outer wall, said Mr Li who gave a statement to the tourism authority.\nThey then climbed another 3m-tall wall that was the boundary of the tiger enclosure. Mr Zhang dropped down into the enclosure and was attacked by a tiger, said Mr Li, who did not follow.\nThe tourism authority said there were prominent warning signs posted around the point the two men had entered the park, and iron fencing on top of the walls.\nThe case has attracted widespread attention on Chinese social media, with many condemning the man and mourning for the tiger.\n\"This visitor's death by mauling really does not deserve any sympathy. Tigers are the carnivorous kings of the jungle and hunting for food is their instinct, who can you blame if you jump in and get attacked? Rest in peace, tiger,\" wrote one user on the microblogging network Weibo.\nIn July last year, tigers mauled a woman and her mother when they stepped out of their car at a Beijing drive-through wildlife park.\nThe woman, surnamed Zhao, survived but her mother died of her injuries. Ms Zhao has since sued the park for her mother's death.", "summary": "A man has been mauled to death by a tiger after he entered its enclosure at a zoo in eastern China." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The pair were ninth after the technical routine and added 44.240 points to their total with Monday's free routine, progressing with 176.890 combined.\n\"We've got a few things to work on for tomorrow,\" admitted Randall.\n\"It wasn't one of our best efforts. We've put in a lot of hard work and we want to work towards higher marks.\"\nTeam-mate Federici added: \"We want to go back home, look at the video and give our best performance tomorrow. We really want to give everything we've got.\"\nGreat Britain's last synchronised swimming finalists were Kerry Shacklock and Laila Vakil, who finished sixth at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.\nCommonwealth silver medallists Randall and Federici, who finished 14th in Beijing, will perform in the duet free final on Tuesday at 15:00 BST.\nThey will then compete as part of the team event on Thursday and Friday.", "summary": "Jenna Randall and Olivia Federici are the first British synchronised swimming duet to reach an Olympic final in 20 years after qualifying in ninth place." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "From next season one point will be awarded for scoring four tries or more and winning or losing by a margin of seven points.\nThree bonus points will also be awarded to a team that wins all five matches so that no nation can secure a Grand Slam but not win the Championship.\n\"You don't play to draw, you play to win,\" Hastings told BBC Scotland.\nThe Six Nations say there will be a bonus-point system in the 2017 championship and a change from two to four points for a win to \"encourage and reward try scoring and attacking play\".\nThe system - already used in the World Cup, English Premiership, Pro12 and the National Rugby Championship in Australia - will also be trialled in the the Women's Six Nations and the Under 20s Six Nations championships.\nScotland host Ireland at Murrayfield on 4 February in the Six Nations opener.\nAnd Hastings, who won 65 caps, thinks the changes are a step forward.\n\"This will encourage winning habits and sometimes as sports people we take our eye off that,\" said the former centre.\n\"If you are going for that extra bonus point on the last play of the game it benefits players, spectators and the TV audience.\n\"It's a tremendous benefit for the game because the way the Six Nations is it can stagnate at times as teams protect rather than go for a win.\"\nThe Six Nations have stopped short of introducing more changes, with a possible promotion and relegation system put on the back burner for now.\nHowever, Hastings believes it is something that will happen at some point.\n\"I think eventually that will come,\" he said. \"It may be that an autumn series may have some sort of standing, where a Georgia or a Romania may have an opportunity to come into an expanded championship. But that's going to be quite a few years down the line.\n\"Last year I actually tweeted to say I thought Georgia coming in to the Six Nations would be wrong because they couldn't bring the crowds, yet they played a Rugby World Cup qualifier against Russia in front of 50,000 supporters, so the game is popular in Georgia.\n\"In years to come Scotland may not have a right to dine at the top table and to stay in the Six Nations is what Scotland will ultimately have to do. That debate will come along one day.\"", "summary": "Former Scotland international Scott Hastings welcomes the addition of bonus points in the Six Nations championship." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Chiltern Railways says it is the first train line to link a major British city to London in 100 years.\nTwo new stations in the county, Oxford Parkway and Bicester Village, will take passengers into London Marylebone.\nPrime Minister David Cameron, who is an Oxfordshire MP, said it was \"an historic moment\" for the county.\nCommuters will be able to travel from the north of Oxford, just off the A34, near Water Eaton park-and-ride, to London Marylebone in under an hour. The direct line into the city of Oxford is expected to open in 2016.\nThe rebuilt station for Bicester Village has also opened, directly linking the retail park to London.\nThe journey from Bicester Village to London Marylebone will take 46 minutes.\nOxford Parkway is expected to attract an additional 250,000 return commuter journeys each year.\nThe new service will offer two new fast trains per hour throughout the day between Oxford Parkway, Bicester Village Station and London.\nNetwork Rail chief executive Mark Carne said the new line would help to boost capacity \"as rail travel is forecast to double over the next two decades\".\nMr Cameron said the new line meant \"there will be more trains, faster journey times and better transport links for people living and working here\".", "summary": "The new £320m rail line linking Oxford and London has opened in a deal between operator Chiltern Railways and Network Rail." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But Northern Ireland's first minister has said it looks like her Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will campaign for the UK to leave the European Union.\nArlene Foster said she was disappointed by the deal between the prime minister and EU officials on UK's membership.\nShe said she will wait until talks end before making a final decision.\nHowever, Mrs Foster has joined the first ministers in Scotland and Wales in asking Mr Cameron not to hold the EU referendum in June.\nShe has signed a joint letter with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon and First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones.\nTheir letter to Mr Cameron warns that with elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in May, an EU referendum campaign running at the same time \"risks confusing issues at a moment when clarity is required\".\nMrs Foster told the BBC it would subsume the issues surrounding May's Stormont Assembly vote.\nRegarding her own party's position on EU membership, she said: \"Given where we are today, it looks very much as if we will be on the coming out of Europe side.\n\"We are a Eurosceptic party and it certainly looks as if we're not going to get a deal which will bring any fundamental reforms in respect of our relationship with the European Union.\"\nIn the House of Commons on Wednesday, the prime minister dealt with questions from unionist MPs concerned about the cost of the UK's EU membership and concerns from Irish nationalists about the impact any withdrawal from the EU may have on cross-border relations on the island of Ireland.\nSouth Down MP Margaret Ritchie, from the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) asked for a guarantee that the free movement of people across Ireland would continue in the event of a UK withdrawal from the EU.\nMr Cameron said he believed this would be addressed.\nDUP MP Sammy Wilson challenged the prime minister to visit what he called Northern Ireland's \"devastated fishing villages\" and talk to others angered by the EU's policies.", "summary": "Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to visit Northern Ireland to explain why he believes the UK will be better off remaining in a reformed EU." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Cameron criticised Labour's London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan on Wednesday for appearing with cleric Suliman Gani.\nOn the BBC's The World Tonight, Mr Gani said he felt \"disheartened and betrayed\" at being described this way.\nNumber 10 declined any further comment.\nBut at a Westminster press briefing on Wednesday, the prime minister's official spokeswoman said : \"The point the prime minister was referring to was that, at events, this individual has spoken up in support of a range of things including the formation of Islamic State.\"\nConservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith previously described Mr Gani as \"one of the most repulsive men in Britain\".\nMr Gani, a community leader and imam from Tooting in south London, said on hearing this characterisation: \"I was shocked - I couldn't believe it.\n\"I felt very disheartened and betrayed.\n\"I felt that this is hypocrisy, because I attended a Conservative Muslim Forum event invited by the Conservative candidate for Tooting... to encourage more Muslims to become Conservative councillors.\"\nOf Mr Goldsmith, Mr Gani said \"I met him in person, I shook his hand\" and that he thought he was \"a candidate to really seriously consider as mayor of London\".\nHe also said he supported the Conservatives at the last election.\nMr Goldsmith insisted the cleric had a long record of \"saying very extreme things\".\nMr Gani vehemently denies he supports the terrorist group.\nThroughout the mayoral campaign Mr Goldsmith has accused the Mr Khan, who is also the MP for Tooting, of \"giving platforms and oxygen and even cover to people who are extremist\".\nMr Khan maintains he has fought strongly against radical Islamists and has himself been a victim of their threats.\nFind out more about who's standing in the London elections.", "summary": "A London cleric who David Cameron described as a supporter of so-called Islamic State has told the BBC he attended Conservative events and feels betrayed by the party." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The show, filmed in Reyoarfjorour, Iceland, is the most expensive British drama ever made at £30m.\nIt has featured Michael Gambon, Christopher Ecclestone and The Hunger Games actor Stanley Tucci, who plays DCI Eugene Morton from Scotland Yard.\nIn the UK the first episode was watched by more than 2.5m people and is Sky Atlantic's most successful original commission.\nThe show follows a small town and its inhabitants in the Arctic who have to deal with a series of violent crimes seemingly caused by a strange illness.\nZai Bennett, channel director of Sky Atlantic, said: \"Simon Donald created a unique and unsettling story which, week after week, has captivated our customers.\n\"I am absolutely delighted that we will be bringing Fortitude back next year with a story that promises to engage, challenge and enthral us all over again.\"\nFortitude launched in the US through Participant Media's television network, Pivot, which is confirmed to return to co-produce the second series.\nIt is shown by more than 100 broadcasters around the world including ABC Australia, Superchannel Canada, OTE Greece and Canal+ France.\nThe first series concludes on Sky Atlantic on Thursday night.\nFollow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "summary": "Sky has renewed Fortitude for a second 10-part series." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "New MP Craig Tracey won Warwickshire North with a majority of 2,973, a swing of 3% from Labour. The Tories were defending a majority of just 54 votes.\nLabour's Mike O'Brien came second, polling 17,069 votes, with UKIP in third place, winning 8,256 votes.\nThe Tories also held the key marginal Nuneaton, with an increased majority.\nSitting MP Marcus Jones was re-elected in Nuneaton with a majority of 4,882, an increase of 2,813 from the last general election.\nMr Jones said the voters in Nuneaton had \"spoken for Britain\".\nPolling experts were predicting a swing to Labour, but their candidate Vicky Fowler came second with 15,945 votes.\nLabour held the seat from 1992 until 2010.\nUKIP's Alwyn Waine polled 6,582 votes to take third place.\nMr Tracey said: \"I always felt that we'd win but the majority has surprised me but it's testament to the work that we've done campaigning.\"\nMr O'Brien said he was \"somewhat surprised\" about the result \"but the people will make their choice and they've done so\".\nWhen it comes to writing the history of the 2015 General Election the name of Nuneaton will loom large.\nMarcus Jones held the seat for the Conservatives, doubling his majority, in a seat Labour simply had to win if they were to have any hope of victory.\nThe BBC exit poll suggested a bad night for Labour and this was confirmation the party was underperforming in a key seat.\nApproaching the microphone for his victory speech, Mr Jones simply said: \"Wow!\"\nHis reaction spoke volumes about the significance of the result.\nThe news got worse for Labour shortly afterwards when the party failed to overturn a Conservative majority of just 54 in Warwickshire North - the seat was Ed Miliband's top UK target.\nLaura Kuenssberg, chief correspondent for Newsnight, said: \"Worryingly for Labour, the increase in the majority gives more weight to the possibility that the Conservatives could win an outright majority.\"\nThere was an increase of 11,530 in the Conservatives' majority as they held the Stratford-on-Avon seat.\nLabour held Coventry South, Coventry North West and Coventry North East.", "summary": "Labour's number one target seat in the West Midlands has been held by the Conservatives with an increased majority." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Belfast engineering firm saw turnover slide from £67m in 2015 - when it was in profit - to £8m in 2016.\nAccording to its accounts, it was hit hard by a downturn in the offshore oil and gas sectors, with companies either delaying or cancelling work.\nDuring 2016 its permanent core workforce dropped from 170 to 115.\nHarland and Wolff stopped shipbuilding in 2003 and its more recent work has included refurbishing oil rigs and manufacturing sections of off-shore wind turbines.\nLast November, it landed a £20m contract with wind farm developer Scottishpower Renewables.\nHowever, in its accounts for 2016, the firm said it was a challenge to secure larger contracts against \"aggressive competition\".\nIn documents lodged with Companies House, Harland and Wolff said: \"The company continues to have adequate financial resources to address the current market challenges.\"\nIt added that contracts for 2017 are \"only at circa 60% of what is required\", but business is being pursued \"vigorously\" in the marine and renewables market.", "summary": "Harland and Wolff has posted \"unacceptable\" losses of £5.9m, with trading conditions described as being \"very difficult\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Reckitt shares rose 4.6% after it said it made a $90-a-share cash offer for Mead Johnson, valuing it at $16.7bn.\nThe FTSE 100 share index was up 13.99 points at 7,121.64.\nShares in Royal Dutch Shell were up by about 1.6% after the oil giant reported its latest results. Profits for 2016 fell to $3.5bn from $3.8bn.\nHowever, Shell said cash inflow during the final quarter of last year had been $9bn, more than covering its dividend, and that it had been able to repay $4.5bn worth of debt.\nVodafone shares fell 1.4% after the mobile phone giant said growth in full-year earnings was set to be at the low end of its range of 3% to 6%.\nIn the final three months of 2016, Vodafone said its UK revenues had fallen, citing tougher price competition in its business services division.\nOn the currency markets, the pound rose 0.25% against the dollar to $1.2691, but slipped 0.1% against the euro to 1.1740 euros.", "summary": "Consumer goods group Reckitt Benckiser led the FTSE 100 higher after it confirmed it had made a bid approach for US baby formula maker Mead Johnson." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The prime minister was asked about the issue during a Facebook Live session hosted by ITV News.\nMrs May said she had never been fox hunting but supported it and would let MPs decide whether \"to bring it back\".\n\"This isn't the most important issue facing people at this election,\" she said, citing Brexit and the question of \"who's going to be prime minister'\".\nFox hunting was among a range of topics on which Mrs May was quizzed as she became the first serving leader of a UK political party to take part in a Facebook Live broadcast in the run up to the 8 June general election.\nAsked about fox hunting, the prime minister said: \"This is a subject on which you are either for it or against it. I have always supported fox hunting, but clearly I'm not saying I'm going to bring it back.\n\"What I'm saying is we will have a free vote in Parliament so MPs will be able to make up their own mind on this issue.\n\"This isn't the most important issue facing people at this election. I think the most important issue is about who's going to provide the leadership for the future to take us through Brexit and beyond.\"\nMrs May said it was necessary to keep fox numbers down and there was an issue about how the creatures should be culled.\n\"Some of the other forms of dealing with foxes can be cruel, so my view is it should be a free vote for Parliament so members of parliament individually should be able to exercise their view on this matter,\" she added.\nTraditional forms of fox hunting were outlawed by Tony Blair's Labour government in 2004.", "summary": "Fox hunting is not the most important issue facing people in the general election, Theresa May has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It includes some of the busiest days ever faced by hospital emergency units and the Welsh Ambulance Service.\nIt comes as December's A&E waiting times were published, which are the first indication of how Wales is coping with winter pressures.\nDr Andrew Goodall said currently up to 20% of admissions in some A&Es are of patients aged over 85.\n\"We're used to having a high proportion of over 85s - the normal level is around 10% but we're seeing levels close to 20% over the last two weeks,\" said Dr Goodall, NHS Wales chief executive.\nThe latest statistics suggest there has been a significant increase in the number of patients who have had to wait more than 12 hours in emergency departments this December compared to the same time last year.\nIn December, 2,425 patients had to spend over 12 hours in urgent care departments - compared to 1,457 in the same month in 2015 - a rise of two thirds. It is down from 2,471 in November however.\nBut the 81% figure suggests the performance of Welsh A&Es departments against the four hour waiting time target is slightly worse compared to the previous December's 82%.\nThe data excludes Glan Clwyd Hospital, which could not provide figures for technical reasons.\nThe winter picture so far includes:\nDr Goodall added: \"We remain a system under a lot of pressure but we've prepared very well for this winter.\n\"There have been some difficult days. But the fact we've come in to this winter with an ambulance service which is performing much more resiliently has really helped us in our response and that we've kept our social care delays low is a positive issue but there is still more to go at.\"\n'Stay away' with coughs and colds\nWinter sepsis warning\nNHS Wales gets £50m more for winter pressures\nDr David Bailey, deputy chairman of the BMA in Wales and a GP in Trethomas, Caerphilly county, said there had been a \"more mature\" response from the government in Wales.\nBut in terms of pressures they were \"pretty much identical\" in every aspect of the health service and there was no slack in the system.\n\"We've lost about 40% of the bed numbers in Wales over the last 15 years - like in England - so when there's a surge you haven't the capacity to cope,\" he said.\n\"The problems then knock on and even when you get back to more normal levels you have all the backlogs - you can't get people out of hospital because of social care cuts and difficulties in getting people back into their own environment.\n\"There are then all the concerns about extra overcrowding so you get more hospital-acquired infections - it becomes perfect a storm because of the additional numbers we're not set up to deal with.\"\nLeaked data for NHS England seen by BBC News showed the figure reached a low of 75.8% on 3 January but had recovered to 82.4% last week. It followed claims of a \"humanitarian crisis\" in the NHS in England and that GPs in England were being made \"scapegoats\" for pressures on A&E departments.\nWelsh Health Secretary Vaughan Gething has said winter pressures are driven by a large increase in much sicker patients.\nHe tweeted last week that \"GPs are not to blame for that fact\" and the UK government \"picking a fight with NHS staff and demanding the same staff numbers work even longer is a crass attempt to deflect attention\".\nDr Bailey said there were consequences of funding cuts and recruitment problems being felt across the NHS and efficiencies could only take us so far.\n\"If there isn't enough capacity, that doesn't help,\" he added.\nHe said there was a \"slightly better balance in Wales\" to protect social care budgets but it relied on Westminster funding which had been \"cut across the board\".\nAnalysis by Mark Dayan, policy and public affairs analyst, Nuffield Trust\n\"These figures aren't a surprise and are similar to this stage last winter. For some years Wales has been particularly struggling with four hour A&E waits, compared with England and Scotland although there are some signs England is catching up.\n\"These are issues rooted in the flow through hospitals, the ability to discharge patients to some extent and the ability to move through patients in a timely fashion. Ultimately, there is just the pressure of a growing number of patients on a limited number of beds.\n\"All parts of the UK tend to show trickier A&E performance in winter - largely due to more elderly patients with respiratory conditions who really need a hospital bed. The underlying factor is pressure to move patients into beds and then the difficulty moving them out to free beds up.\"\n\"Finances are very tight, particularly since the recession - Wales bears the brunt of that - but another factor is patients in Wales spend longer in hospital than England and Scotland and that's something we need to look into more. There are also the problems of shortages in key workforce groups, like GPs.\"\nDr Goodall said 400 extra beds had been made available this winter - the equivalent of a district general hospital - in temporary facilities in decommissioned wards and care homes.\nHe also said delays in transferring elderly patients from hospital back to care at home had \"continued to reduce and improve\" and were running much lower than historic levels.\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun Ap Iorwerth AM said crisis levels of performance were becoming the norm throughout the year.\n\"Doctors in A&E departments rightly focus on those who are more seriously ill, but we should not have a situation where almost 3,000 people a month have to wait longer than 12 hours in A&E to be seen,\" he said.\nConservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns AM said worsening A&E statistics had become routine for the Welsh Government.\n\"Their constant inability to meet their own targets is not only frustrating but incredibly dangerous for patients; the longer patients have to wait for treatment the greater the risk to their health,\" she said.\nThe Welsh Government said winter was always a very challenging period for our health and social services.\nA spokesman added: \"It is testament to the commitment and skill of doctors, nurses, social workers, paramedics and other key staff that despite these difficult circumstances, the vast majority of patients continue to receive the best possible care in a professional and timely manner.\"", "summary": "The NHS in Wales has already faced \"exceptional\" challenges this winter, the head of the organisation has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Ukrainian fought back from a disappointing second set to win 6-0 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 on Louis Armstrong Stadium.\nSvitolina had been in control of the match before rain intervened on Tuesday, and she struggled for rhythm when play restarted on Wednesday.\n\"Today was a little bit of a mess in my head and it was very tough to keep the focus,\" she told Eurosport.\nMore to follow.\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.", "summary": "Fourth seed Elina Svitolina overcame a scare to beat world number 42 Katerina Siniakova in the US Open first round." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "However the Liverpool player is expected to be fit for their tournament opener against Slovakia on 11 June.\nBlackburn defender Adam Henley has left Wales' Euro 2016 finals training camp in Portugal with an undisclosed injury.\nWalsall striker Tom Bradshaw is ruled out of the tournament in France because of a calf injury, while there is still a doubt over midfielder Joe Ledley.\nLedley hopes to recover from a leg fracture and be named in Wales' Euro squad when it is announced on Tuesday.\nThe Crystal Palace player injured his leg on May 7 and boss Chris Coleman admits he is \"50-50\" to make the finals, which start for Wales against Slovakia in Bordeaux.\nDanny Ward missed part of Wales' training camp in Portugal as the Liverpool goalkeeper recovered from a knee injury that forced him to miss the end of the season.\nPreston goalkeeper Chris Maxwell travelled to the training camp in the Algarve as a precaution but Ward has since rejoined the squad.\nHenley, 23, was always an outsider to make the final 23-man squad while Bradshaw - Walsall's 20-goal top scorer - has also left the camp in Portugal, where Coleman's initial 29-man preliminary squad is down to 27.\nWho do you think should start at Euro 2016? Step into Chris Coleman’s shoes and pick your XI - and then share it with your friends using our brand new team selector.", "summary": "Midfielder Joe Allen is a doubt for Wales' Euro 2016 warm-up match in Sweden because of a minor knee injury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The list, made up of both albums and singles, also includes Tina Turner's What's Love Got To Do With It? and Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive.\nRecording Academy president Neil Portnow said the music has \"influenced and inspired\" people for generations.\nThe 54th Grammy Awards ceremony will take place on 12 February.\nA recording of Martin Luther King's \"I Have a Dream\" speech, which he delivered 48 years ago, also features on the list, along with Exile on Main St by the Rolling Stones and Anything Goes by Cole Porter.\nOther well-known albums on the list include Santana's self-titled debut, which was released in 1969, and Bill Cosby's comedy record, I Started Out As A Child.\nEstablished in 1973, more than 850 recording have been recognised in the Hall of Fame. Past inductees include The Beatles and Bob Dylan.\n\"The Recording Academy is dedicated to celebrating a wide variety of great music and sound through the decades,\" Mr Portnow said in a statement.\n\"We are especially honoured to welcome this year's selection of some of the most influential recordings of the last century.\n\"Marked by both cultural and historical significance, these works truly have influenced and inspired audiences for generations.\"\nThe event, which will take place at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles, will be broadcast live on US network CBS.", "summary": "Bruce Springsteen's album Born In The USA and Paul Simon's Graceland are among 25 recordings which are to be inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Turner's Cross hosts dominated the first half with Stephen Dooley denied by Jamie Mulgrew's goal-line clearance.\nSean Maguire put Cork ahead from a penalty on the restart before Mark Stafford's headed equaliser.\nRoy Carroll kept Linfield in the game with a series of fine saves but it was in vain as Cork progressed.\nMulgrew's timely intervention came after Carroll saved an initial attempt from Steven Beattie on nine minutes.\nCork were on top but Linfield carried a threat and they had penalty claims turned down when Ross Gaynor was challenged by Gavan Holohan.\nThe hosts wasted a good chance with Maguire scuffing his shot from close range.\nBoth goals came early in the second half, starting with Maguire converting from the spot after he was fouled by Matthew Clarke.\nLinfield were level four minutes later thanks to Stafford's header from a Ross Gaynor cross.\nCork pressed for a second goal but the Leesiders were thwarted time and time again by Northern Ireland keeper Carroll.\nLinfield needed to net again to go through on away goals but Mulgrew rifled over as Cork held on to make the second qualifying round.", "summary": "Linfield battled hard for a 1-1 draw at Cork City but the Irish League side lost out 2-1 on aggregate in the Europa League first round qualifier." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Red Devils boss Sir Alex Ferguson was in the 29,977 crowd at Bramall Lane - the Blades' biggest attendance of the season - for the first-leg tie.\nJesse Lingard's controversial opener - the officials ruling the ball had crossed the line - was cancelled out by Callum McFadzean's fine equaliser.\nWill Keane restored the visitors' lead, before Jordan Slew made it 2-2.", "summary": "Sheffield United twice came from behind to secure a 2-2 draw against Manchester United in the FA Youth Cup final." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It comes after a report into the 1989 tragedy in which 96 Liverpool fans died said 116 statements were changed to push blame from police onto fans.\nLord Geoffrey Dear said South Yorkshire Police had been allowed to gather their own witness statements and amend them.\nBut he insisted it was not his force's responsibility to check the changes.\nLord Dear was the chief constable in charge of West Midlands Police when it was tasked with the investigation into the Hillsborough disaster in its immediate aftermath.\nNinety-six fans died after a crush at Sheffield Wednesday's ground in April 1989 at an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\nSouth Yorkshire police were responsible at the stadium on the day of the tragedy, but it has now emerged that they were allowed to gather their own witness statements and amended more than 100 of them before submission to the West Midlands force.\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's The Report programme, Lord Dear admits he allowed South Yorkshire Police to gather the evidence and remove unnecessary detail: \"We were aware there was a certain amount of editing - we wanted matters of fact not opinion.\n\"That is perfectly proper and within the bounds of what is acceptable.\n\"What was happening, and we did not appreciate, is that the degree of editing went too far,\" he goes on.\nYou can hear more on The Report on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday, 4 October 2012 at 20:00 BST\nListen again via the Radio 4 website\nListen via The Report download\nThe Report: Death of an MI6 Officer\n\"We were not aware that statements were being censored by South Yorkshire Police.\"\nThe witness evidence collated by the West Midlands force formed the basis of the subsequent official investigations into what happened.\nThe amended statements were used in the official inquiry, the coronor's inquests and by the Director of Public Prosecutions.\nThe Hillsborough Independent Panel concluded in September that 116 statements were amended to push blame away from the police and onto the Liverpool fans.\nAlun Jones QC, who represented the families of some victims, says the West Midlands investigation should never have allowed South Yorkshire Police to present their own statements.\n\"The way the matter was investigated between 1989 and 1990 has infected the whole of every subsequent investigation,\" he says.\n\"West Midlands Police took statements from all the civilians in the conventional way, but they left the South Yorkshire Police to write their own statements.\n\"So it was the victims who had their statements taken from them and the force who allowed this disaster to happen were allowed, by West Midlands Police, to not only write their own statements but to change them.\"\nLord Dear maintains it was not his force's responsibility to check the changes being made by South Yorkshire Police and insists the subsequent Taylor Inquiry was robust.\nHe claims it was subsequent investigations which were flawed.\n\"I don't think anyone appreciated, certainly I didn't and certainly Peter Taylor did not appreciate the extent to which South Yorkshire Police hierarchy were trying to alter the balance between who got it right and who got it wrong,\" he says.\nLord Dear adds: \"The West Midlands inquiry was held up by Taylor to be exceedingly good, and I believe it was.\n\"Given what we knew at the time, given the pressure of time, it was very well handled, and there is not a breath of criticism in the latest review about the way that inquiry was handled.\"\nIn a statement South Yorkshire Police said it was not appropriate for them to comment.\n\"The force is reviewing a wide variety of matters raised in the report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel with a view to making a referral to the Independent Police Complaints Commission,\" it said.\nHear more on BBC Radio 4's The Report on Thursday, 4 October at 20:00 BST. You can listen again via the Radio 4 website or The Report download.", "summary": "The ex-chief constable in charge of the initial Hillsborough investigation has admitted he did not know the extent to which police statements were changed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Cameron said British agents had been given new guidance on how to behave.\nHe was speaking after the publication of a Senate report on the \"brutal\" CIA interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects.\nIt said the CIA had justified its techniques with \"inaccurate claims of their effectiveness\", including citing foiled terror plots against the UK.\nThe CIA has defended its actions in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the US, saying they saved lives.\nBut the UN and human rights groups have called for the prosecution of people implicated in the report, which looked at techniques including waterboarding and sleep deprivation.\nThe report, a 480-page executive summary of the more than 6,000-page original, said the CIA had misled politicians and the public, wrongly claiming \"enhanced interrogation\" had produced \"critical, otherwise unavailable intelligence\".\nOne of the eight most frequently cited examples was a thwarted al-Qaeda plot to hijack planes and attack Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf, the report said.\nKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, who planned the 9/11 attacks, had decided the two locations would be \"powerful economic symbols\", it said.\nBut the report said the plot had \"not progressed beyond the initial planning stages\" when it had been \"fully disrupted\", saying the the CIA's claims that its techniques had thwarted it were \"inaccurate\".\nAnother example was the capture of Dhiren Barot, who was jailed for life at Woolwich Crown Court in 2006, for plotting bomb attacks in the UK and the United States.\nOver the years, the report said, the CIA had used the thwarting of Barot's \"urban targets plot\" as evidence of the effectiveness of its techniques.\nAgain, the report said this was \"inaccurate\" because his capture \"resulted from the investigative activities of UK government authorities\".\nThe report also highlighted what it said were \"inaccurate\" claims of the CIA techniques' effectiveness in relation to shoe-bomb plotter Saajid Badat, who was sentenced to 13 years in jail in 2005 for planning to blow up a passenger plane.\nBadat had been arrested after \"UK domestic investigative efforts, reporting from foreign intelligence services, international law enforcement efforts, and US military\", the report said.\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Cameron's spokesman said he was not aware of any request from the UK for redactions to the Senate Intelligence Committee report.\nMr Cameron had been asked about the report during a visit to Turkey.\nHe said some activities after the 9/11 attacks had been \"wrong\" and pointed to a UK inquiry, by retired judge Sir Peter Gibson.\nLast December Sir Peter said Britain had been inappropriately involved in the rendition and ill-treatment of terror suspects.\nHe found no evidence officers had been directly involved in the torture or rendition of suspects but raised 27 questions the Intelligence and Security Committee was considering.\nMr Cameron said: \"I'm satisfied that our system is dealing with all of these issues.\n\"And I, as prime minister, have issued guidance to all of our agents and others working around the world about how they have to handle these issues in future.\n\"So I'm confident that this issue has been dealt with from the British perspective, I can reassure the public about that.\n\"But overall, we should be clear, torture is wrong.\"\nThe former reviewer of terror laws Lord Carlile has said he does not believe there should be a fresh inquiry into allegations of complicity in torture in the UK after the US Senate report on the CIA.\nHe told BBC News: \"We don't want an industry of inquiries when there is an absence of evidence of any serious wrongdoing by the security services here.\"\nLord Carlile said he had been speaking to \"well-informed sources\" and believed there was \"nothing like the American case to be made here\".\nBut speaking on BBC Breakfast, Prof Paul Rogers, a lecturer in international security at the University of Bradford, said the extent of Britain's involvement was not known.\nHe said: \"This was an American endeavour, but we still know very little about what Britain did, and I have to say I think that's very unlikely to come out, because we have a very much more closed system in this respect than the United States.\"\nHuman rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC told BBC Radio 4's The World at One Mr Cameron had \"made a very fine attack on torture\".\nBut he added: \"He should ask for the material relating to Britain - which, at the request of his government, was withheld under the protocol that allies don't spill each other's secrets - he should obtain it and publish it so we will know whether there is material to show that intelligence services from Britain have collaborated.\"\nUS President Barack Obama banned harsh interrogation techniques after taking office in 2009.\n\"I hope that [the] report can help us leave these techniques where they belong - in the past,\" he said.\nThe CIA has argued that the interrogations had helped save lives.\n\"The intelligence gained from the programme was critical to our understanding of al-Qaeda and continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day,\" director John Brennan said.", "summary": "Questions about the interrogation of terror suspects have been \"dealt with from the British perspective\", Prime Minister David Cameron has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "8 February 2017 Last updated at 12:03 GMT\nThe technology could give devices even faster access to the internet, as the BBC's Robin Markwell explains.", "summary": "Mobile phone networks are exploring the next generation of connectivity - known as 5G." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The judges denied the challenge of a white woman, who believed she was rejected by the University of Texas due to her race.\nThe case, Fischer v University of Texas, was decided by a vote of 4-3.\nAffirmative action, or \"positive discrimination\", can continue to be used by public universities when considering minority students.\nThe court is currently composed of eight judges rather than the usual nine, due to the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, who has yet to be replaced.\nPresident Barack Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, is being blocked by Congress.\nJustice Elena Kagan had recused herself because she has worked on the case before joining the court in 2009.\nOver the past 13 years, the US Supreme Court had been steadily eroding the ability of US public universities to consider an applicant's race during their admissions process. On Thursday, the court moved - ever so slightly - in the other direction.\nJustice Anthony Kennedy, further cementing his status as the court's ideological swing vote, said the University of Texas could indeed take race into account for the small number of applicants admitted using subjective analysis of their qualifications. He cautioned, however, such considerations have to be regularly \"reassessed\".\nThis was the second time this particular case had reached the Supreme Court, and the woman who brought the case has long since graduated from another university. The court's decision almost certainly opens the door for new lawsuits, however, as some universities attempt to implement their own race-conscious programmes and are challenged over whether they are properly assessing the need and impact of their efforts.\nIn this particular case Antonin Scalia's death wasn't a factor, as Justice Elana Kagan had recused herself due to her prior involvement as Barack Obama's solicitor general. But if Mr Scalia is replaced by a more liberal justice, this may mark a lasting change of course.", "summary": "The US Supreme Court has voted to allow universities to consider race when selecting student applicants." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cats' scratching posts and countless toys were ruined at Cambridge's Blue Cross centre during Thursday's storm.\nMore than 100 packages have been delivered to replace what was lost and a fundraising website has received £10,000 in donations.\nAlan Maskell, from the centre, said staff were overwhelmed by the kindness.\nA delivery van containing 107 parcels of toys arrived on Monday morning and many other people came in off the street to donate gifts.\nThe rehoming centre started a Just Giving page with the aim of raising £1,500 but by Tuesday morning it had raised more than £10,000.\nMr Maskell said: \"The public response has been terrific.\n\"Local pet shops have said they've never known so many scratch posts to be sold in a weekend.\n\"We're extremely grateful to all those people - it's been overwhelming.\n\"Staff are very emotional about the sheer weight of support and kindness coming our way.\"", "summary": "An animal rescue centre where equipment and toys were destroyed in flash floods last week has been inundated with parcels from well-wishers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nCheltenham midfielder Kyle Storer was sent off for lashing out at James Jones in the first half and the hosts still managed to take the lead through Billy Waters.\nBut Jones had the final say when he finished a well-worked move after 73 minutes.\nWaters missed a good chance in the 33rd minute, but he rolled his shot past the post after James Dayton's cross found him in the six-yard box.\nThe 10 men went closest to opening the scoring before half-time when Dayton's corner found Aaron Downes, whose header was cleared off the line by Oliver Turton.\nAlex Kiwomya set up Ryan Lowe for a chance in the 56th minute, but Russell Griffiths blocked the shot, which was straight at him.\nCheltenham took the lead two minutes later as Rob Dickie's close range attempt was well saved by Ben Garratt, but Waters followed up to score his sixth goal of the season.\nHarry Davis saw a shot bounce just wide in the 69th minute as Crewe searched for an equaliser, which eventually came when Cooper set up Jones.\nReport supplied by the Press Association.\nMatch ends, Cheltenham Town 1, Crewe Alexandra 1.\nSecond Half ends, Cheltenham Town 1, Crewe Alexandra 1.\nDanny Parslow (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra).\nSubstitution, Cheltenham Town. Danny Whitehead replaces James Dayton.\nSubstitution, Cheltenham Town. Amari Morgan-Smith replaces Daniel Wright.\nJordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card.\nFoul by Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town).\nJames Jones (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\nFoul by Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town).\nPerry Ng (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nCorner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Danny Parslow.\nAttempt blocked. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.\nFoul by Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town).\nZoumana Bakayogo (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nCorner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Zoumana Bakayogo.\nGoal! Cheltenham Town 1, Crewe Alexandra 1. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by George Cooper.\nFoul by Aaron Downes (Cheltenham Town).\nJon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nCorner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Harry Davis.\nAttempt missed. Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\nAttempt blocked. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nCorner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Aaron Downes.\nAttempt blocked. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nDaniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra).\nSubstitution, Crewe Alexandra. Perry Ng replaces Oliver Turton.\nFoul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town).\nJon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town).\nGeorge Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nGoal! Cheltenham Town 1, Crewe Alexandra 0. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.\nAttempt saved. Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nDaniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra).\nAttempt saved. Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nAttempt missed. James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.\nCorner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by George Cooper.\nAaron Downes (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.", "summary": "Crewe came back from a goal down to earn a replay against 10-man Cheltenham Town." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Societe Generale's shares are down almost 15%, BNP Paribas has fallen 9.5%, Deutsche is 6.6% lower, RBS has fallen 7.3%, Barclays is down 8.7%, Unicredit (of Italy) is 9.4% lower, Credit Agricole has fallen 11.8% and Commerzbank (of Germany) is 8.8% down.\nStrong bankers would weep.\nHere are those semi-rational explanations.\nFirst, that the economic recovery in the eurozone has run out of steam - which will lead to big falls in bank profits, especially if borrowers have greater difficulties repaying their debts.\nSecond, that the ratings agencies could strip France of its AAA rating, in the way that one of them, Standards & Poors, has already done for the US - which could lead to sharp falls in the price of French government bonds, and force big losses on the banks that hold those bonds.\nA loss of France's AAA rating could also lead to a downgrading of the debt of French banks, making it more expensive for them to borrow.\nBut the problem with at least one of those semi-rational explanations is that all three ratings agencies have today said they're not going to downgrade France from AAA, and also that the price of French government bonds has actually risen today, which would be a good thing for French banks.\nSo the more probable reason for the rout in European banks, which has depressed European stock markets and led to contagion on Wall Street, is simply those very basic emotions that afflict investors from time to time (especially recently): fear and capitulation.\nInvestors see the European Central Bank half-heartedly buying Italian and Spanish government debt, to prevent borrowing costs for those two countries rising to dangerous levels. And they don't see those central bank purchases as a permanent solution.\nA more durable solution, perhaps, would be for the eurozone to issue new bonds backed by all member countries - so called euro bonds - to finance loans to financially stretched member states and to strengthen European banks with injections of capital.\nBut there's a fear that the scale of the fund raising that would be required to shore up Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal and Ireland - and their respective banks - would foist excessive liabilities on countries like France, which mean it would in the end lose its AAA rating - and that would lead to losses and funding difficulties for French banks.\nSo if hedge funds are having sport short-selling French and European banks, as I am told they are, we shouldn't perhaps be too surprised.", "summary": "There are two semi-rational explanations for the sharp falls in the share prices of French and other European banks." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The use of sound as a weapon is not new, but what about unheard sound attacks?\nIf you've ever heeded the warning to wear ear plugs to a loud concert, you have been taking care of the hair cells in your inner ear that pick up noise and send it to the brain. You've been trying to avoid hearing loss or tinnitus (ringing in the ears).\nBut sound can have effects that go beyond hearing.\nSymptoms of a sonic attack may include dizziness, headaches, vomiting, bowel spasms, vertigo, permanent hearing loss and even brain damage.\nThere are two options - go low or go high.\nLower frequencies than humans can hear - below 20Hz - are known as infrasound. They're used by animals including elephants, whales and hippos to communicate.\nInfrasound could affect human hearing if very loud, and could cause vertigo and even vomiting or uncontrollable defecation if deployed very intensely.\nBut Dr Toby Heys has told the New Scientist that an attack using infrasound would rely on \"a large array of subwoofers\" and \"wouldn't be very covert\".\nGiven the Associated Press reports embassy staff were targeted at their residences, it's hard to see how anyone would pull that off without the huge racks of speakers giving the game away.\nUltrasound frequencies above 20,000Hz, or 20kHz, are also inaudible to humans but can damage the parts of the ear, including hairs, that pick up sound.\nThis is more likely in the Cuban case as ultrasound can be targeted more easily. It has many medical applications so has been at the forefront of research, and directional speakers already exist for home use. These could direct sound through walls.\nBut any equipment would need to be reasonably large to fit a battery that could power it strongly enough, and an ultrasound attack would place other people in the vicinity - including, potentially, the person carrying out the attack - at risk.\nSteve Goodman, author of the book Sonic Warfare, told BBC Radio 4 that it was \"not clear\" whether inaudible soundwaves could give someone the hearing loss the state department described.\n\"The information given is so vague it's hard to say,\" he said.\nAgain, it's not clear. And it's also not clear who would have carried out such an attack on embassy staff. Cuba has denied involvement and security analysts say it may have been done by a third country, hostile to the US.\nElizabeth Quintana, a senior research fellow at the UK-based military think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), specialises in emerging technologies in the defence world.\n\"The US have been surprised at the extent to which others have caught up with them in all sorts of technologies,\" she told the BBC.\n\"It's probably not so much a surprise that the technology exists, more that others are aware of it and using it.\"\nYes. Sound cannon are used in crowd control by police forces around the world, were fitted to a ship to deter Somali pirates, and were made available for London police during the 2012 Olympics, although not used.\nSome versions are capable of producing deafening sound levels of 150 decibels at one metre. They can deafen people within a 15 metre range and some can be heard miles away - not quite the subtle, covert operation supposed to have happened in Havana.\nSound has been used in psychological operations too - the US army played heavy metal and Western children's music to Iraqi prisoners of war in an attempt to deprive them of rest and make them co-operate in interrogations.\nAnd some shop owners in the UK use so-called Mosquitos, devices that emit high-pitched sounds (15-18kHz) and cannot be heard by people who have turned 25, to try to discourage teenagers from standing around near the entrance to their shops.\nBut in all of these examples, the person being targeted could hear the sound - a key difference from the incidents said to have happened in Havana.", "summary": "The US state department says its diplomats in Cuba have been suffering symptoms including hearing loss after suspected sonic attacks, some of which were - according to some reports - inaudible to human ears." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The UK's weather service has provided the data used for BBC forecasts since the corporation's first radio weather bulletin on 14 November 1922.\nThe BBC said it was legally required to secure the best value for money for licence fee payers and would tender the contract to outside competition.\nThe Met Office said it was disappointed by the decision. A replacement is expected to take over next year.\nSteve Noyes, Met Office operations and customer services director, said: \"Nobody knows Britain's weather better and, during our long relationship with the BBC, we've revolutionised weather communication to make it an integral part of British daily life.\n\"This is disappointing news, but we will be working to make sure that vital Met Office advice continues to be a part of BBC output.\"\nFormer BBC Weather presenter Bill Giles told BBC Radio 5 Live that he was \"absolutely shattered by it (the news)\".\n\"We have one of the best Met offices in the world... there won't be any more accurate (service) from anyone else, far less.\"\nThe Met Office also provides many of the presenters who read the weather on the BBC and said it would be supporting them to \"ensure clarity on their future\".\nBut a BBC spokesman said they didn't anticipate significant changes to the on-air presenting team, which includes Strictly Come Dancing contestant Carol Kirkwood.\nThe spokesman said: \"Our viewers get the highest standard of weather service and that won't change.\n\"We are legally required to go through an open tender process and take forward the strongest bids to make sure we secure both the best possible service and value for money for the licence fee payer.\"\nThe new provider will be announced later this year.\nThe spokesman said the Met Office's severe weather warnings would still be used by the BBC.", "summary": "The Met Office has lost its BBC weather forecasting contract, it has confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Paul Somerville, 21, was in custody when he fell from a \"cell on wheels\" in January 2012 in County Londonderry.\nDays later, he died in hospital as a result of serious head injuries.\nPolice Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire said two officers who accompanied Mr Somerville failed to ensure his safety.\nThe officers were later disciplined by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) but they appealed, and sanctions against them were withdrawn.\nA forensic examination of the van showed that the cell door was misaligned with its frame and its latches did not always fully engage.\n\"Given that the same design cell is used widely by other UK police forces, and is still being fitted to new vehicles, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said it will share the findings of the case with police across the UK,\" Dr Maguire said.\nMr Somerville left the rear of the moving van close to his home at Church Street in Maghera, County Londonderry. He was being taken to Maghaberry Prison.\nA doctor from a nearby health centre treated him at the scene before he was transferred to Antrim Area Hospital, where he died. The incident was referred to the ombudsman.\nDr Maguire said an examination of the cell found the latches did not always fully engage, even when the door was slammed shut.\nHe also discovered that a deadlock did not engage unless the key was turned anti-clockwise through a full 90 degrees, even though a locking bolt could be seen moving as the key was turned.\nBoth officers involved in the case said they had seen the deadlock in the cell door engaging after the door was closed and one added that she had pulled the door twice to check it was locked.\nDr Maguire said forensic examination showed that the door opened easily when pulled if it had not been properly secured. Tests showed that even where the door's latches did not engage, it would not open if the deadlock had been fully locked.\n\"The two police officers who accompanied Paul in the van failed in their duty to ensure his safety by failing to ensure the cell door was secure,\" the ombudsman said.\nOne issue under consideration was whether the victim fell or jumped to his death.\nForensic evidence indicated that it would have taken a deliberate action by Mr Somerville to open the rear door because it could only be done by pulling a handle.\nTwo people interviewed by investigators said they had seen a man jumping from the van, but refused to provide formal statements, the ombudsman's office said.\nPolice had reported a suspected fault with the door when the van was serviced four days before the incident.\nThe office said: \"The mechanic who did the service recalled that the door had been misaligned and said he had fixed the problem.\n\"However, the issue was not entered on the vehicle's records as it was not part of its normal service routine.\"\nDr Maguire recommended that cells and other modifications should form part of normal service routines. His other recommendations have resulted in modifications by the PSNI.\nNotices have been attached to cell doors warning officers to check locks are fully engaged; plates have been fitted to prevent doors from being opened from inside and larger viewing panels have been installed to improve monitoring of prisoners from the front of vans.\nPaul Somerville's parents, Desmond and Gwen, said the PSNI was not duty-bound to act upon the recommendations.\n\"When serious human error is involved, to whom can the general public go for justice?\" they asked.\n\"Our expectation was that while in police custody, Paul would be safely conveyed. He should have been.\n\"Paul was our much-loved and only son, and we have been left devastated by his untimely death.\"\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said: \"The death of Paul Somerville was first and foremost a tragedy for his family and friends. The Police Service of Northern Ireland extends its deepest sympathy to them for their loss.\"\nACC Hamilton said police had co-operated fully with the enquiry by PONI, welcomed their findings and was determined that incidents of this nature must not occur again.\n\"The PSNI has already accepted the findings of the Police Ombudsman and has implemented a number of recommendations aimed at improving both the safety and security of members of the public travelling in cell vans,\" he said.\n\"We can confirm that two officers received Superintendents' Written Warnings for their failure to ensure the cell door of their vehicle was securely locked. These were subsequently overturned on appeal via the PSNI disciplinary procedure.\"", "summary": "Police forces across the United Kingdom have been warned about possible problems with cells in vehicles after a man died following a fall from the back of a moving police van." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "South African seamer Klein, 27, was registered ahead of the One-Day Cup match against Lancashire and took two wickets in a 131-run victory.\nWarwickshire paceman Jones, 29, is on loan but has signed a permanent deal.\nWicketkeeper Hill, 25, came through the academy system at the club and made his first-class debut in 2015.\nHe has performed well in T20 Blast in 2016, topping the club's averages with 157 runs at 39.25 and a strike rate of 150.66.\nElite performance director Andrew McDonald said: \"Lewis has done extremely well for us and it will be good to have him continue his progress with the club.\n\"He has demonstrated that he can play in all three formats of the game and we're pleased that he's extended his stay with us.\"\nOn adding Klein, who has 154 first-class wickets at an average of 25.99, to the squad, McDonald added: \"Dieter comes with a good pedigree and greatly impressed when playing in our Second XI and training with us.\n\"We're delighted to have him on board to bolster our bowling roster until the end of the 2017 season.\"\nKlein holds a German passport and is therefore not considered one of Leicestershire's overseas players.", "summary": "Leicestershire have signed Dieter Klein until the end of next season, while Richard Jones and Lewis Hill have penned deals until 2018." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Reclaim the Power said it targeted Marriott Drilling in Chesterfield as it had links to a company behind the UK's first horizontal fracking site.\nThe pressure group also said the action was \"in solidarity\" with campaigners opposed to fracking in Lancashire.\nEleven people have been arrested in connection with the demonstration.\nThis protest is the latest in a fortnight of action against companies Reclaim the Power believes has links to the fracking industry.\nThe action also caused disruption in London, Bristol and Bolton.\nIt is centred around the government's decision to allow fracking at Little Plumpton in Lancashire, despite the plans being initially turned down by the county council.\nPreparation for fracking at the Preston New Road site began in January with drilling expected to start soon.\nCharlie Holland, from Reclaim the Power, said: \"We are here today in solidarity with anti-fracking protesters in Lancashire where Cuadrilla wants to drill 800 wells in the region alone.\n\"We're asking Marriott to do the decent thing and step away from fracking before it devastates the region.\"\nBut Paul Matich, a senior projects manager at Marriott, said: \"We're a drilling contractor.\n\"We supply the rig to drill the hole and we have made this point on a number of occasions.\n\"We do explore for oil and gas but we are not a fracking company.\"\nHe added the company was working with police to ensure staff could get off the site safely at the end of the day.", "summary": "Anti-fracking activists have chained themselves to a deep drilling company's gates in protest to its links to fracking." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The visitors batted first but struggled against seamers Anya Shrubsole (3-27) and Katherine Brunt (2-44) and were bowled out for 155 at Chesterfield.\nEngland passed the target for the loss of two wickets with nearly 20 overs to spare, but batted on for the full 50 overs to reach 348-5. Knight reached her century while Taylor fell for 86.\nEven with the game long over as a contest, it will have suited the England duo to gain batting practice at Queen's Park as Knight has just returned to action after five weeks out with a stress fracture of the foot, while Taylor is returning to international cricket after taking a year's break to deal with anxiety issues.\nEngland have one more warm-up, against New Zealand in Derby on Wednesday, before Saturday's World Cup opener against India at the same venue.\nIn Monday's other warm-up game, New Zealand bowled India out for 130 before cruising to a seven-wicket win thanks to 52 from opener Rachel Priest.", "summary": "England captain Heather Knight and wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor enjoyed valuable time in the middle as their World Cup preparations continued with a comfortable warm-up win over Sri Lanka." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The explosion occurred outside a courthouse in the town, some just 7km (four miles) from the Turkish frontier.\nAzaz has recently been targeted by so-called Islamic State (IS).\nThe latest blast is the worst since a nationwide ceasefire - brokered by Russia and Turkey. IS is not included in the truce, which has mainly held.\nNo group has yet said it carried out the bombing, which according to some reports may have killed as many as 60 people and injured many more.\nThe activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six rebels were among the dead, with the rest believed to be civilians.\nWhy Azaz is so important for Turkey\nIS has tried several times to take the town it originally held it in 2013.\nIt is a major stronghold of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army.\nIt has been contested by competing factions, with the Turkish government seeking to ensure that neither IS nor the Kurdish rebels it opposes manage to take control of it.\nThousands of people displaced from elsewhere in the province have settled in Azaz.\nThey include those from Aleppo, which the government took from the rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad late last year.\nTwenty-five people were killed in a car bomb attack on rebel headquarters in November. And 17 others died in a similar attack on a rebel checkpoint in October.\nIS has been blamed for the attacks.\nRussia, along with Turkey and Iran, is now pushing for peace talks to be held later this month in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana.", "summary": "At least 43 people have been killed in a car bomb blast in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz, near the Turkish border, reports say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 55-year-old businesswoman runs a food manufacturing company in nearby Newton Abbot.\n\"It's a real honour to be asked to become chairman of Plymouth Albion,\" said Hannaford.\n\"I'm very excited to be joining the board who have a great vision for the future development of the club.\"\nAlbion were taken over by former players Bruce Priday and Dave Venables in April and appointed Dan Parkes as their new head coach earlier this month, having sacked long-serving boss Graham Dawe.\n\"Ali is a very experienced business woman who has had a lot of success with a number of enterprises,\" said Priday.\n\"Ali has huge experience chairing of a number of organisations and her input into Plymouth Albion will be invaluable.\n\"Ali is a massive rugby fan but she will be concentrating on the governance and commercial aspects of the club.\n\"She is the best person I know to lead those of us involved in creating a big future for our great club.\"\nMeanwhile Albion have agreed a new contract with lock Dan Collier and signed former London Scottish prop Sam Nixon.\nThirty-one year-old Collier played 26 times for Albion last season, scoring three tries, having returned to the club last summer after being released in 2012 following a series of injuries.\nNixon, 19, came up through London Scottish's academy and trained with the club's first team last season, but did not feature in any matches for the Championship club.", "summary": "Plymouth Albion have appointed its first female chairman in the club's 140-year history after Ali Hannaford took on the role." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The economy expanded 0.2% from the previous quarter and was up 2% compared with the same period last year.\nQuarterly growth of 0.4% had been widely expected, while the annual rate was forecast to be up 2.2%.\nGrowth was hit by a \"significant\" decline in mining and construction activity as exports also fell.\nMining production fell 3% in the quarter, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as demand slowed from China, Australia's biggest trading partner.\nThe economy had grown a strong 0.9% in the first quarter, its fastest pace in four quarters.\nThe data comes a day after the Reserve Bank of Australia kept interest rates on hold at a record low of 2%.\nThe central bank expects growth of 2.25% this year, but some economists said those forecasts could be too optimistic, and that rate cuts could be back on the agenda.\nIn reaction to the data, the Australian dollar fell to a six-and-a-half year low of $0.6986 against the US dollar, down 0.4% for the day.\nIt had not fallen below $0.70 since 2009.\nHowever, a lower currency is helping to boost the economy as it tries to move on from its mining-led growth.\nHousehold spending supported growth in the period, rising by 0.5%.\nAustralian shares were also down with the S&P/ASX 200 index lower by 1.1% to 5,038.80 after the data came out.", "summary": "Australia's gross domestic product (GDP) grew less than expected in the second quarter of this year as the economy struggled to gain momentum." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nTaylor, who has returned after a year-long break from cricket with anxiety problems, scored an unbeaten 74 off 67 balls in the seven-wicket win.\n\"It's nice to be back,\" Taylor told BBC Sport. \"It's the place where I feel the most comfortable.\n\"There was one point out in the middle when I realised that this is why I am back and playing.\"\nTaylor shared in a 148-run partnership with skipper Heather Knight, who is the tournament's leading scorer after three rounds of games.\nThe pair took England from 50-2 to 198-3, ensuring a comfortable victory after Sri Lanka had posted 204-8.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nIt was the hosts' second victory of the tournament after their shock opening-day defeat by India and the form of the batters is pleasing Knight.\n\"I'm chuffed for Sarah,\" said Knight, who also praised returning opener Lauren Winfield.\n\"We knew Sarah was batting well but to see her do it in the middle was nice.\"\nWith all-rounder Natalie Sciver also in good form after her century in the win against Pakistan, England are beginning to look like contenders, despite that loss to India.\n\"We've got a little bit of wind behind us now,\" said Taylor. \"However, our feet are firmly grounded.\n\"There are still areas to work on, but to still be winning in that position is a good place to be.\n\"It was a pleasure to watch Heather hitting it so cleanly today. She has an aura and calmness which rubs off on the rest of us.\"\nEngland's next game is on Wednesday, against South Africa at Bristol.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device", "summary": "Sarah Taylor says she is back where she belongs after helping England to World Cup victory over Sri Lanka in Taunton." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It follows an investigation by BBC London and Newsnight showing a string of test centres were involved in rigging health and safety exams.\nFuture Training 4 Jobs in Ilford, WEP HSE in Brentford and a third company in Colindale have been suspended by the Construction Industry Training Board.\nThe scheme's administrators insist fraud is being tackled robustly.\nConstruction workers across the UK are required to hold a CSCS card to prove skills and grasp of health and safety.\nConstruction Skills Certification Scheme cards, launched by the industry in 1995, are seen as a benchmark.\nNine of the UK's 10 biggest construction companies demand them, as do Crossrail and Heathrow.\nBut the BBC investigation found evidence of widespread cheating, including the rigging of exams allowing untrained builders on to dangerous sites.\nNumerous test centres were offering guaranteed passes for cash, enabling workers lacking English to obtain qualifications.\n'Just click'\nWep HSE, in Ealing, west London, was among three centres exposed by undercover reporters.\nIts director, Garet Estensen, read exam answers from a big screen, instructing candidates: \"Follow me on screen, guys. I'm going to shout the correct answer, you just click.\n\"We're going to make a couple of mistakes - what I don't want is everyone making the same mistake.\"\nConfronted with the evidence, Mr Estensen, who has won a prestigious health and safety award, made no comment.\nAlso exposed was Future Training 4 Jobs in Ilford, east London. For £450, Anna Calancia issued the BBC with a supervisor qualification.\nThe company says Ms Calancia acted alone. It insists it provides quality training and works hard to uphold standards.\nA CSCS card acquired with fraudulent qualifications was used by the BBC to get offers of work at building sites, a school - and even a power station.\nConstruction is the UK's most dangerous employment sector. More construction workers were killed than members of the armed forces during the Afghanistan war.\nIn the past five years alone, 221 workers died.\nThe cost of untrained workers\nAlan Gillman's son Justin, 26, was killed by falling bricks on a building site in Lincolnshire.\nHe and another worker were untrained for their task and Chestnut Homes was fined £40,000.\nMr Gillman said: \"You don't expect someone to go to work and not come back. It's beyond all belief.\n\"He would've been married by now, we would have grandchildren.\n\"That's all been taken away. You think about it every day.\"\nA BBC Freedom of Information request to the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), which administers the scheme, revealed steeply rising cases of CSCS fraud.\nThere were 96 reports in 2012, 264 in 2013 and 311 last year.\nConstruction company Willmott Dixon, which has a turnover of more than £1bn, has now raised questions over the entire scheme.\nMark French, head of safety, said: \"As an industry, we've set our stall on the CSCS card being the minimum benchmark to accept workers on to our sites.\n\"If these people aren't competent workers, we'll end up with guys prepared to take risks. It's going to take a long time for us to get over this as an industry. We'll probably never identify the true number working with cards that aren't bona fide.\"\nHealth, safety and environmental manager Alistair Donaghey warned of possible deaths, adding: \"I'll never trust the scheme again.\"\nIt is estimated 14% of the UK's construction workers are from abroad - approximately 228,000 people.\nReports by Loughborough University and Irwin Mitchell solicitors have warned communication difficulties put them at higher risk of accidents.\nT&D Glazing and Installation, in east London, employs 200 people. Managing director Toni Timis estimates 20% applying to work there have fraudulent CSCS cards.\nHe said: \"Out of 100 people, half will speak English, so they have no problem with exams. Of the other half, 15 or 20 pay someone [extra] rather than take exams. It's easy to spot them.\"\nOne Romanian labourer, speaking anonymously, told the BBC it was open knowledge that CSCS qualifications could be bought.\nHe said: \"People don't care about it being illegal - they just get a job, make some money. In the future, they'll kill someone.\"\nA CITB survey of 419 construction workers responsible for checking CSCS cards indicated 1% saw a fraudulent card every day.\nIn London, one-third had seen a fraudulent card.\nCarl Rhymer, of the CITB, said: \"CITB is aware of the problem card fraud poses, which is why we've taken a series of measures to tackle this head on.\n\"We doubled our spend on fraud investigations, which led to five centres being shut down - with eight other centres under investigation.\n\"We're accelerating plans to install mandatory CCTV in all centres to monitor for fraudulent activity, and have launched spot-checks.\n\"Our intelligence suggests card fraud is focused in a small minority of the 544 testing centres.\"\nGraham Wren, the scheme's chief executive, said: \"CSCS takes fraudulent activity extremely seriously, and it's essential that steps are taken to prevent it.\n\"CSCS relies on awarding organisations to verify an individual has achieved required qualifications before CSCS issues the appropriate card.\n\"CSCS is confident the vast majority of cards issued are a result of a legitimate qualification.\"", "summary": "Three companies have been stopped from issuing safety certificates to construction workers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dean Platt, from Verbena Gardens in Basildon, Essex, was caught after a forensic breakthrough, police said.\nThe 44-year-old planted the fake devices at Eastgate Centre in Basildon between January and November 1997.\nHe admitted four charges of placing a hoax bomb and was sentenced at Basildon Crown Court.\nDet Con Andy Copley said Platt was caught after a forensic breakthrough.\nHe was arrested in February 2016 on unrelated offences. His fingerprints were found to match those at the scene of each hoax.\nFor more on this story and others in Essex\n\"Bomb-like packages\", made from digital stopwatches, circuit boards, wire and candles wrapped in black tape, were planted by Platt at the shopping centre on 3 January, 29 January, 18 April and 11 November 1997.\nHe attached a written warning to each one - the November note said the \"device was set to go off in 10 mins and there is 12 more in Eastgate\".\nEssex Police said the fake bombs \"brought chaos and fear to the streets of Basildon\".\nEastgate Centre was evacuated, the bus station and surrounding streets were closed and train services were suspended.\nAn Army bomb disposal unit carried out controlled explosions on the devices.\nDet Con Copley said: \"Platt carried out these bomb hoaxes without any thought for the sheer terror they would cause at a time when those living in the UK were subjected to repeated and horrific terror attacks by the IRA.\"", "summary": "A man who brought \"sheer terror\" to a town centre when he planted a series of fake bombs in a shopping centre in 1997 has been jailed for two years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sgt Kirsten Treasure, who worked in Croydon, ignored an initial call for assistance to the stabbing on 24 April 2014, a misconduct hearing was told.\nAndrew Else, 52, died after the attack in Selsdon Park Road in Croydon.\nSgt Treasure was also overheard making racist and homophobic remarks on 15 occasions, the hearing was told.\nShe also allegedly lied about the events when interviewed by police, the hearing was told.\nMr Else was stabbed more than 200 times by Ephraim Norman, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He admitted manslaughter in February 2015 and was ordered to be detained indefinitely in a secure hospital.\nMr Else's mother-in-law Carol Scott, 74, said: \"We are so glad Kirsten Treasure has been dismissed. She was a horrendous person and we don't need police officers like this in the force.\n\"I don't know how my daughter has coped with it all. I dropped her off for the hearing and she had to listen to the reports of her husband being stabbed again, it was like having him die again on her.\n\"While he was being stabbed he asked the man who was doing it, 'why are you doing this to me?'\n\"We think perhaps if the police had got there quicker Andrew would have been saved.\n\"We don't blame the police officers, we blame Kirsten Treasure who was in charge of them. I am so angry with her. She was a nasty piece of work and called them horrible names.\"\nThe misconduct hearing on Friday was told Sgt Treasure used racist and homophobic language on three occasions between 30 December 2013 and 13 April 2014, as well as on 12 other occasions on unspecified dates.\nIt was further alleged in May 2014 she had refused permission for an officer to investigate a shoplifting incident.\nThe following month she was accused of asking an officer to provide her with the names of colleagues who had complained about her behaviour. She was also accused of pressurising an officer not to give evidence against her.\nCh Supt Matt Gardner, from the Directorate of Professional Standards, said: \"The catalogue of misconduct by this officer is truly shocking.\"\nHe said she had \"abandoned her sworn oath\" to protect the people of London and \"had no regard for the victim, Andrew Else\".\nHe said her \"appalling\" language and behaviour had no place in the Met Police service and was the \"polar opposite\" of what a police officer should be.\nShe has been dismissed without notice.", "summary": "A Metropolitan Police sergeant has been dismissed for failing to respond to a fatal attack in which a man was stabbed more than 200 times." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 18-year-old made his Hornets debut in their 2-0 defeat at Stoke City in January.\nHe could feature for the Sky Blues, who are bottom of League One, in Saturday's home game against Millwall.\nBoss Russell Slade told the club website: \"He is pacey and direct with the ball, and will give us a different option going forward.\"\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.", "summary": "Coventry City have signed Watford striker Michael Folivi on loan until the end of the season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Twitter account of the French government posted a message, appealing to people to share only reliable information from official sources.\nIt comes after false information and pictures were circulated on the internet as the situation in Nice was unfolding.\nPictures and tweets of a fire around the Eiffel tower also began circulating, suggesting a co-ordinated double attack, but again the information was false.\nIt did not stop social media users sharing the rumour and prompted a correction from police in Paris.\nIn Cannes, a tweet was issued denying any security incident had occurred there.\nThe suspect in the attack has been named locally as Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel but a number of images of other people, falsely accused of involvement, have been published online, including by major news organisations.\nVeerender Jubbal, who is Sikh, was incorrectly named as a terror suspect for a second time, and a doctored image of him posted online.\nNot only was he wrongly identified as being responsible for the attack in Nice - the doctored image of Mr Jubbal was also circulated after the Paris attacks showing him wearing an explosives belt and carrying a Koran. @SikhProf tweeted: \"People are wrongly identifying my Sikh friend as being responsible for the #Nice attack. Please help end the rumours.\"\nMessages were circulated that the truck driver shouted Allahu akbar, which is Arabic for God is great.\nAs yet, no official source has said this happened.\nFrench prosecutors say no group has admitted carrying out the attack but it bears the hallmarks of jihadist terrorism.\nFollowing tragic events many appeals for help tracing loved ones are shared on social media. Facebook page SOS Nice has been set up to find missing relatives, probably because within hours of the Nice attack false pictures of victims were being shared on social media by trolls.\nThis man's picture appeared online as a purported victim in Nice, but it has been shared before on social media as a supposed missing person following the EgyptAir crash in May, the attacks at Ataturk airport in Turkey last month and the Dallas shootings.\nMany social media users have been quick to point out the fakes and help dismiss the misinformation. @Lil_RoxaNe tweeted that the picture of the man above was a fake, and others said people who posted such fakes should be ashamed.\nThe Nice attack provides another example that some people take advantage of tragedy to spread false rumours online. It is an increasing problem for those affected by such events and those searching for the truth.\nBy Rozina Sini, BBC UGC and Social News team", "summary": "The authorities in France have urged social media users to act responsibly following false rumours about the attack in Nice on Thursday night." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The man, in his 30s, went into cardiac arrest following a suspected robbery in Holloway Road, north London, and died later in hospital.\nOfficers found the man detained by members of the public after being called at around 22:45 BST on Thursday.\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating.\nA Scotland Yard spokesman said: \"The man, aged in his 30s, was handcuffed by police but not placed under arrest and was identified as being unwell.\"\nLondon Ambulance Service took the man to hospital, where he died shortly after 00:10 BST on Friday.\nThe Met's Directorate of Professional Standards had attended the incident and the IPCC would investigate the contact police had with the dead man, Scotland Yard said.\nDetectives believe they know the identity of the man and next of kin have been informed, but he has yet to be formally identified.", "summary": "A robbery suspect has died after he was restrained by members of the public and then handcuffed by police." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 69-year-old man, who has not been identified, died at Lincoln County Hospital earlier this month.\nThe man was a patient at Long Leys Court in Lincoln, which is being closed temporarily due to \"serious incidents\".\nLincolnshire Police said it was investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.\nFurther tests are due to be carried out to establish a cause of death.\nThe 16-bed facility is for adults with learning disabilities and other complex needs, including mental illness.\nIn a statement, the police said: \"We are currently working very closely with the Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) and the Lincolnshire Adults Safeguarding Board around all of the incidents at Long Leys Court.\"\nAn LPFT spokesman said: \"The patient was not related to current police investigations. However, as necessary in such unfortunate circumstances, we must now await the outcome of any investigations surrounding their illness and death.\"\nThe trust said earlier that is was closing the facility because \"despite intensive action... [we] do not feel that the unit can currently provide sufficiently high quality care for patients\".\nThe health watchdog the Care Quality Commission said it is aware of the situation.", "summary": "A post-mortem examination on a patient from an NHS unit at the centre of a police investigation has failed to establish how he died." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "There are scenes of devastation in the aftermath of the huge fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower in west London.\nRescuers say they do not expect to find anyone else alive inside the tower block in north Kensington following Wednesday's catastrophic blaze.\nIn the shadow of the gutted building a community reeling at the tragedy is pulling together to support survivors, as the death toll is expected to rise.\nSo far 17 people have been confirmed dead but dozens more are unaccounted for after the blaze trapped people inside the 24-storey block of flats in Latimer Road.\nThe families and friends of those missing have put up posters in the hope that they will be found alive.\nMembers of the public have gathered in the nearby area, bringing clothes as well as food and drink.\nMessages of sorrow and solidarity are being left on a wall close to the scene of destruction.", "summary": "The Met Police has set up an emergency number on 0800 0961 233 for anyone concerned about friends or family." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Samantha Thomas, who had just turned 29, died at a flat on Shakespeare Road, St Dials, Cwmbran, despite neighbours' desperate attempts to save her.\nA 49-year-old man, rescued from the apartment and treated at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital for smoke inhalation, was arrested.\nThe remaining three flats in the block have been evacuated.\nThe fire broke out on Tuesday at about 06:40 BST.\nNeighbour Gaynor Haines said: \"I could hear these terrific screams and I looked out the bedroom window and it was just flames. Dreadful.\n\"Everyone's in shock, in shock, because we all knew them.\"\nAnother neighbour, David Leedham, 20, tried to help Ms Thomas escape.\nHe said: \"The flat was engulfed in flames and she was on the balcony. We tried to reach her with a ladder but couldn't get there.\"\nMore than 30 firefighters from Cardiff and Newport rushed to the one-bedroom first floor flat where they tried to get the blaze under control.\nThey entered the apartment using breathing apparatus and rescued the man who was taken to hospital.\nSenior officer Ian Greenman said: \"I wish to extend my sympathies on behalf of South Wales Fire and Rescue Service to the family and friends of the individual who sadly lost their life today.\"\nThe block of flats had to be evacuated following the blaze and the neighbours are being provided with alternative accommodation.\nDuncan Forbes, chief executive of Bron Afon, which owns the flats, said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the woman who died this morning.\n\"We have found alternative accommodation for seven residents who were evacuated and will be offering any help needed by the police and fire service in their investigation.\"\nOfficers want witnesses to call 101.", "summary": "A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was killed in a fire in Torfaen." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "19 January 2017 Last updated at 19:38 GMT", "summary": "BBC News NI looks at Martin McGuinness' evolving language, from two statements, one in 1985 and the other in 2009." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He replaces Joan Burton, who stepped down after the party suffered major losses in February's general election.\nThe party's deputy leader Alan Kelly failed to secure the necessary support to contest a leadership battle.\nThe new leader served as public expenditure minister in the last government, in which the Labour Party was a junior partner with Fine Gael.", "summary": "Brendan Howlin has been elected unopposed as the new leader of the Irish Labour Party." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The #FillTheSeats initiative is working with Paralympics organisers to buy 10,000 tickets for local children.\nBefore Prince Harry's contribution, the campaign had raised $53,773 (£40,300) towards a target of $300,000 (£225,000).\nIn August, Rio organisers said just 12% of available tickets had been sold for the Games, which begin on Wednesday.\nBut on Monday, they said that had risen to 1.5 million from a total of 2.5 million.\nA former soldier, Prince Harry, 31, founded the Invictus Games - a Paralympic-style competition for injured servicemen and women - in 2014.\nHe has sent a good luck message to the 11 Invictus Games competitors taking part in Rio, saying \"the fight to the finish line won't be easy\".\nFind out how to get into disability sport with our special guide.", "summary": "Prince Harry has made a donation to a campaign that aims to help Brazilian children watch the Rio Paralympics." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The teenager was assaulted in Dunniker Road by a group of four men shortly before 22:00 on Friday.\nThe incident happened near the railway bridge at the junction of Victoria Road. The men were in their early to mid-20s and of muscular build.\nPolice want to trace a woman who was driving a red car, possibly a Vauxhall, and came to the teenager's aid.\nOne of the men was described as being 5ft 8in tall, with short dark hair. He was wearing a black T-shirt and blue demon jeans.\nThe men were seen to walk off towards the town centre.\nDet Sgt Callum Lawrie said: \"Although the victim was not injured‎, this incident has left her shaken and upset.\n\"We would appeal for any person that was in the area of Dunniker Road last night who might have seen this group of men before or after this incident to contact police on 101.\"", "summary": "Police have launched an appeal to trace a woman who helped a 17-year-old girl who was attacked in Kirkcaldy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former Tottenham boss, 69, has agreed to oversee upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Bangladesh and Australia.\nJordan must win them both to reach the third round of Asian qualifying for the 2018 finals in Russia.\n\"If we win them and everyone is happy I'd love to come back,\" said Redknapp.\n\"We have to make sure we win. At the moment it's two games but we'll look to the future after these two games. There's nothing I would like more than to be successful in these games.\"\nJordan, who have never qualified for a World Cup, are second in their group in the second of three phases of Asian qualifying.\nRedknapp, who has also taken up an advisory role at Championship side Derby County, was approached by Jordan Football Association president Prince Ali bin Al Hussein earlier this month about taking charge of the side ranked 82nd in the world.\nIt is Redknapp's first managerial position since leaving Queens Park Rangers in January 2015.\n\"He is a world-class manager and he has proven that throughout his career,\" said former Fifa presidential hopeful Prince Ali.\n\"It is very rare you have people of this class. I spoke to many people but immediately it became evident Harry is the man for the job.\"", "summary": "Harry Redknapp is open to the possibility of extending his spell in charge of Jordan beyond an initial two-game deal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Andrew Scott, 27, was last seen leaving his home in Winterborne Whitechurch to go fishing at Ringstead Bay on Monday.\nIn a statement his family said: \"We are desperate to have Andrew home safe and well with us.\"\nA coastguard-led search was stood down on Tuesday evening. Police said efforts to find Mr Scott continue.\nLifeboats, coastguard teams and the coastguard helicopter were initially dispatched to look for Mr Scott at about 21:00 BST on Monday.\nThe search continued throughout Tuesday.\nThe family statement said: \"We would appeal to anyone with any information to contact police, no matter how small or insignificant it seems, as it could potentially help to find Andrew.\"\nWhen he went missing police said Mr Scott was possibly wearing a full black wetsuit, blue flippers and a snorkel.\nRescue teams found his bright-orange dry bag containing his car keys, mobile phone and clothing at the White Nothe headland, while his car was discovered parked at nearby Ringstead Bay.", "summary": "The family of a Dorset man who failed to return home from the Jurassic Coast after going spear fishing have appealed for information." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It will be the ninth edition fronted by the 75-year-old, who first hosted the results programme in 1979 when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister.\nDimbleby will front the election show on 7 May 2015 from 22:00 BST until the following morning.\nBBC News presenter Huw Edwards will take over as lead presenter for the corporation's future election coverage.\nEdwards will also present the 2015 coverage from 07:00 BST on 8 May after Dimbleby finishes his overnight stint, tracking the final results.\nA special edition of Question Time will follow later that evening to discuss the vote and prospects for the next government.\n\"This election is likely to be one of the most complex and closely fought in recent times and we are delighted to have such an experienced team to lead our coverage,\" James Harding, director of BBC news, said.\nAhead of the general election, Dimbleby will present the local and European election results programmes this May from the BBC's Elstree Studios.\nEdwards will also present the Scottish independence referendum results programme from Glasgow in September.", "summary": "David Dimbleby is to host his final general election programme next year, the BBC has announced." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "For 34 staff at a Japanese insurance firm, that vision just became a reality.\nFukoku Mutual Life Insurance is laying off the employees and replacing them with an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can calculate insurance payouts.\nThe firm believes it will increase productivity by 30%.\nIt expects to save around 140m yen (£979,500 / $1.2m) a year in salaries after the 200m yen AI system is installed later this month.\nMaintenance of the set-up is expected to cost about 15m yen annually.\nJapan's Mainichi reports that the system is based on IBM Japan Ltd's Watson, which IBM calls a \"cognitive technology that can think like a human\".\nIBM says it can \"analyze and interpret all of your data, including unstructured text, images, audio and video\".\nFukoku Mutual will use the AI to gather the information needed for policyholders' payouts - by reading medical certificates, and data on surgeries or hospital stays.\nAccording to The Mainichi, three other Japanese insurance companies are considering adopting AI systems for work like finding the optimal cover plan for customers.\nA study by the World Economic Forum predicted last year that the rise of robots and AI will result in a net loss of 5.1 million jobs over the next five years in 15 leading countries.\nThe 15 economies covered by the survey account for approximately 65% of the world's total workforce.\nJapan kicks off AI supercomputer project\nWhy Japan is embracing robots for the 2020 Olympics\nStephen Hawking - will AI kill or save mankind?", "summary": "Science fiction has long imagined a future in which humans are ousted from their jobs by machines." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Boudicca Scherazade, 47, was on trial at St Albans Magistrates' Court, where she had denied stalking furniture trader Laurence Roche for three years.\nEarlier, she told the court she had sent him intimate pictures of herself.\nMagistrates said they found the messages had been \"one way traffic\" from Scherazade to her victim.\nMs Scherazade, of Garrick Villa in Hampton, London, appeared in 2015 in the UK version of the American TV series Storage Hunters, in which she travelled the country with other dealers hoping to find a bargain.\nShe was found to sent hundreds of explicit emails, text messages and voicemails to Mr Roche between 2013 and May this year.\nShe told the court she became aware of Mr Roche in 2012 while working at a market in Wimbledon, describing him as a \"larger than life character\" who would stand at his stall bare-chested.\nShe said they spoke over the phone and exchanged text messages and emails with sexual contents.\nEarlier, Mr Roche told the court he had never sent Ms Scherazade any emails and had made it clear he was not interested in her.\nChairman of the magistrates, Mr Alun Price-Davies, found him to be an \"entirely creditable\" witness.\nMs Scherazade admitted she had sent all the emails the court had been told about, including one that said: \"Come over, make me yours. Own my soul. Say my name I will give everything I own, I love you Laurence Roche.\"\nSentencing was adjourned until next month and Ms Scherazade was granted bail with the conditions that she should not contact Mr Roche or his partner.", "summary": "An antiques expert from reality TV show Storage Hunters has been found guilty of stalking a market trader whom she bombarded with emails and texts." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "When a care home resident needs to go into a hospital, a red bag is packed for them.\nIt contains their details, vital information about their health conditions, supplies of medicine, and a change of clothes for when they are ready to be discharged.\n\"You would not believe how many people face delays simply because clothes can't be found for them,\" says Mary Hopper, a senior NHS manager in Sutton. \"You have staff going to lost property trying to find them something to fit.\"\nThe initiative also sees a member of the care home staff visiting the patient in hospital within 48 hours of admission.\nAnd this all helps doctors and nurses treat them more effectively.\nThe result is older people are spending less time in hospital - eight days, which is four fewer than before the scheme was set up.\nThat is good for the individual and good for the health service.\nBut the red bag scheme is just one of the ways the NHS and care homes are working together.\nGPs have also been employed to carry out regular visits of care homes, with each resident now receiving six-monthly check-ups.\nA pharmacist is on hand to visit homes to carry out medicine reviews.\nAnd district nurses have been used to train care home staff in dementia, falls and diabetes.\nIt certainly seems to be working.\nSince the project started a year ago, there has been a 10% drop in visits to A&E.\nThose running care homes are, unsurprisingly, full of praise.\nPatricia Fyfe, the manager of St Jude's care home, says it has been really \"eye-opening\" to see what can be achieved through collaboration.\nSutton is not the only area where the NHS is forging closer links with care homes.\nIt is one of six \"vanguard\" areas in England given funding to explore new ways of working.\nThis has been done in recognition of the fact that the NHS has - in the words of Ms Hopper - turned its back on the care sector.\nShe says the closure of many long-stay hospitals 20 years ago means the responsibility for caring for sick older people has increasingly fallen on the care sector - with little input from the NHS.\nThe sentiment is one the care sector wholeheartedly shares.\nProf Martin Green, of Care England, which represents providers, says there is no reason why residents in care homes should get an \"inferior\" service to the one someone in their own home would get.\nBut all the evidence suggests they do.\nThe Care Quality Commission looked at the issue a few years ago and found most of the 81 care homes it asked did not receive regular visits from GPs.\nThe result has been that care home managers have had to pay GPs retainers to ensure they visit - with reports that some are as high as £20,000 a year.\nSo what is the solution?\nIf the experience of Sutton - and the other places doing good work in this area - is anything to go by, it is forging a shared approach.\nEver since the separate systems of social care and health care were created after World War Two, they have been treated as distinct services - one run by councils at a local level, the other organised centrally by government.\nBut, increasingly, as the population ages, that is looking out of date.\nThe government has set up a shared pot - called the Better Care Fund - to encourage local government and the NHS to work together.\nThe fund is worth just over £5bn this year - but that is less than 5% of the combined health and care budgets, which is why some people want the government to go even further and merge the two sectors completely.\nSuch a radical move is probably some way off yet, if it is to happen at all, but what is certain is that the futures of the two sectors are inextricably linked.\nRead more from Nick\nFollow Nick on Twitter", "summary": "Like many good ideas, the way the NHS and care sectors in the London borough of Sutton are working together more closely is a relatively simple concept." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ivars Rubenis, 46, from Belmont Street was found unconscious in Marine Drive West at about 06:00 GMT on Saturday morning and was taken to hospital in Southampton.\nHe died on Sunday, and a post-mortem examination is due to take place later, Sussex Police said.\nThe cause of his injuries is still unexplained, a police spokesman said.", "summary": "A man has died after being found with serious head injuries on the seafront in Bognor." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The changes to Mr Zuma's private home, including a pool and cattle enclosure, cost taxpayers about $23m (£13.8m).\nIn a more than 400-page report, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela accused Mr Zuma of unethical conduct.\nShe said that Mr Zuma, who faces re-election in May, should repay costs for some of the unnecessary renovations.\nAll figures in 2013 financial terms\nSource: Public protector report\nHow President Zuma's home has grown\nThe refurbishment of the residence in Nkandla, in Mr Zuma's home province of KwaZulu-Natal, has turned into a major political controversy in South Africa.\nA government probe in December cleared President Zuma, who came to office in May 2009, of any wrongdoing, saying the improvements were needed for security reasons.\nCorrespondents say it was one of the reasons why Mr Zuma was booed in December at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president.\nAt a press conference in the capital, Pretoria, Ms Madonsela, South Africa's ombudsman, said the cost of the Nkandla upgrades were now estimated at 246m rand ($23m; £13.8m).\nThe original estimate for the work in 2009 was about 27m rand and the public protector launched her investigation in 2012 after it was reported that about 206m rand had been spent.\nHer report, entitled Secure in Comfort, shows that the total amounts to eight times the money spent securing two private homes for Mr Mandela and more than 1,000 times that spent on FW de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid-era president.\nBy Milton NkosiBBC News, Pretoria\nAs I watched Public Protector Thuli Madonsela painstakingly ploughing through the long report, I wondered what former South African President Nelson Mandela would be saying had he been alive.\nIt is ironic that in a year when the country is supposed to be celebrating 20 years of democratic rule, President Jacob Zuma has been found to have violated the very rules he is meant to protect.\nThe most devastating line was when the softly spoken, but tough Ms Madonsela stated paragraph 10.10.1.6: \"His failure to act in protection of state resources constitutes a violation of executive ethics code and accordingly, amounts to conduct that is inconsistent with his office as a member of cabinet.\"\nShe ends the report with this quotation from Mr Mandela: \"Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates.\"\n\"The president tacitly accepted the implementation of all measures at his residence and has unduly benefited from the enormous capital investment in the non-security installations at his private residence,\" Ms Madonsela said, reading from the report's executive summary.\nCorrespondents say Mr Zuma has in the past repeatedly told parliament he used his own family funds to build his homestead.\nThe report said that while it could be \"legitimately construed\" that Mr Zuma had misled parliament over the renovations, it said it was a \"bona fide mistake\".\n\"Some of these measures can be legitimately classified as unlawful and the acts involved constitute improper conduct and maladministration,\" the public protector's said.\nMs Madonsela said Mr Zuma had 14 days to respond to her report before parliament.\nThe BBC's Andrew Harding says the report comes just two months before the governing African National Congress (ANC) faces national elections.\nMr Zuma has successfully brushed aside previous scandals, but Nkandla seems to have touched a particular nerve, he says.\nThe ANC is not about to lose power, but its popularity is shrinking, our correspondent adds.", "summary": "South Africa's top corruption fighter has said President Jacob Zuma has \"benefited unduly\" from using state money to improve his rural residence." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mirza Himayat Baig, who belonged to a banned militant group, will now serve a life sentence for possessing explosives.\nThe high court in Mumbai (Bombay) cleared him of all other charges.\nThe blast targeted the bakery when it was full of tourists and students, killing 17 people and wounding 64.\nFive foreigners were among the dead.\nBaig had appealed against the death sentence, delivered by a trial court in Pune in April 2013.\nOn Thursday, the Bombay High Court cleared him of more serious charges of murder and conspiracy.\nThe defence had maintained that he was not in Pune when the explosion happened on 13 February 2010.\nHe was arrested the following September after investigators found a cache of explosives at his home in Latur in Maharashtra.\nThe prosecution had said the blast was planned at a meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where Baig, a resident of Maharashtra state, was given bomb-making training.\nThe German Bakery is located near the Osho Ashram, a mystic centre popular with visitors to Pune.\nReports said an unattended package exploded when a waiter in the restaurant attempted to open it.\nThe bombing was the first major strike of its kind in India since the deadly Mumbai attacks of 2008.", "summary": "An Indian court has set aside the death penalty for a man found guilty of plotting a blast at a German bakery in the western city of Pune in 2010." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The ex-Liverpool and Manchester City forward, 26, posted on social media to say he had been subject to \"monkey chants for the whole game\" in Friday's 1-1 draw.\nBastia said \"a man in his 40s\" had come forward himself after the French Football League began an investigation.\nNice midfielder Alassane Plea confirmed he had heard the racist abuse.\nBastia added in a statement: \"Regretting his attitude and aware of the repercussions, this person responded to our appeal and came to the stadium on Tuesday.\n\"Acknowledging he was responsible for the incriminating chants, he has been notified of the deactivation of his season ticket along with a general ban from the Stade de Furiani.\"\nBalotelli has scored 10 goals in 15 games for Nice since joining on a free transfer from Liverpool in August.", "summary": "A supporter who racially abused Nice striker Mario Balotelli has been given a stadium ban by Ligue 1 side Bastia." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is not clear who was behind the attack, which was launched from Syrian territory, close to a refugee camp.\nThe Jordanian government said no new refugee camps would be built and none would be expanded.\nDozens of people have taken part in a candlelit vigil in the capital, Amman, in memory of the victims.\nTuesday's attack, the first of its kind since the conflict in Syria began in 2011, saw a lorry full of explosives driven at high speed over the border from Syria and blown up beside a Jordanian military post.\nJordan is part of the US-led coalition fighting so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.\n\"Any vehicle and personnel movement within these areas that move without prior co-ordination will be treated as enemy targets and dealt with firmly and without leniency,\" an army statement said.\nThe order went into effect immediately.\nJordan's Information Minister, Mohammed Momani, told the BBC there had been warnings for months that militants, including IS members, were hiding among Syrians stuck at the borders.\nHe said Jordanians were angry at the attempt to undermine their country's security and stability.\nInternational relief workers warned that Jordan's suspension of all humanitarian aid to the area could put the lives of refugees at risk.\nRukban is the last crossing where refugees fleeing violence in Syria and Iraq can gain entry to Jordan.\nTens of thousands are currently stranded in this remote area of the desert, and depend on daily deliveries from the Jordanian side to survive.\nMr Momani said humanitarian cases would be assessed by the armed forces at the crossing.\nJordan is one of the biggest hosts of Syrians displaced by conflict, currently home to more than 600,000 refugees registered with the UN.", "summary": "Jordan has declared its border regions with Syria and Iraq to be closed military zones after a suicide bombing on Tuesday that killed six soldiers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Seven years ago photographer David Quentin began capturing surreal, alien-like scenes of rocks falling from the sky at locations across the UK.\nIt all started when the London-based photographer threw a stone into the air and took a picture of it to see how it looked.\nWhat started as a \"whimsical impulse\" developed into Rocks In The Sky, a collection of images of pebbles and interesting lumps of stone shot on \"very fast film\" against empty landscapes.\nMr Quentin's images, which he posts on Twitter under the handle @_RocksInTheSky, have been taken in various places in the UK including in the Scottish Highlands, Hertfordshire and Gloucestershire.\nOther images were taken in Douglas and Port Erin on the Isle of Man.\nHe continues to add images to the project.\n\"The project began as a whimsical impulse on a sunny day in the South Downs, and quickly became an absorbing technical challenge that used up many rolls of film, and is now a growing collection of what I think are quite striking images,\" says Mr Quentin.\n\"Sometimes people assume they must be Photoshopped, but that would be more of a technical challenge than what I actually do, which is throw the rock into the air - or ask a friend to throw it for me - and photograph it while it is up there.\n\"That way the light and shadow position themselves correctly on the rock without any further intervention.\"\nThe photographer adds: \"If there is a trick to these shots it is in using very fast film.\n\"That way the shutter speed can be fast enough to give the rock that delicious impression of stillness, while the aperture is small enough to keep both foreground and background in focus.\n\"Then of course there is the question of composing the picture with the rock in exactly the right patch of sky, which has to be done quickly, because the rock is in motion and only up there for a short time.\"\n\"What do they show us?\" asks Mr Quentin of the images.\n\"It seems to me that when artists show us rocks in the sky - Magritte's The Castle in the Pyrenees, or the film Arrival with its visiting spacecraft in the form of giant hovering menhirs - we see something which is alien and surreal, but at the same time achingly familiar,\" he says, making reference to artist Rene Magritte's surreal painting of a castle on a floating rock, and last year's sci-fi movie starring Amy Adams and its polished standing stone-like spaceships.\n\"I don't know why rocks in the sky somehow look like they actually belong there, but to my eye they very much do.\"", "summary": "All images are copyrighted." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The newsreader, who was also a successful author and playwright, made his first TV appearance as an extra in 1960s satirical series That Was The Week That Was.\nHe joined ITN in 1965, and was twice voted the UK's most popular newsreader.\nHoneycombe went on to spend five years on breakfast show TV-am in the 1980s before he moved abroad.\nA statement on the official TV-am archives website said he had been ill for some time.\nIt said Honeycombe had \"spent a few weeks in a specialist care home, but was alert and doing crosswords up to the very end\".\nThe statement added he would \"be remembered for his authority, intelligence and wonderful sense of humour and great kindness\".\nAnne Diamond, Honeycombe's TV-am colleague between 1984 and 1989, said: \"I am so sad yet I know he had a great life.\n\"If you can die having had a brilliant, bright and inspirational life then it can't be a negative thing.\"\nITV newsreader Mary Nightingale paid tribute on Twitter saying: \"Total professional & gentleman with whom I was thrilled to present a programme in 1995.\"\nNewsreader Alastair Stewart added: \"Sad to learn of the passing of ITN great Gordon Honeycombe. RIP\"\nITN chief executive John Hardie said: \"Tonight ITN mourns the passing of one of the UK's most distinguished and revered broadcasters. Gordon Honeycombe, RIP.\"\nHoneycombe was born in Karachi, British India (now Pakistan), in September 1936, but came to Britain with his family after World War Two.\nOn leaving school, he completed two years of national service, mainly in Hong Kong, where he got his first taste of broadcasting, playing records for fellow soldiers and, later, working as a part-time announcer with Radio Hong Kong.\nHoneycombe later graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English and spent two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, before trying his hand at a TV career.\nHe joined ITN News in 1965 after a two-minute screen test, and earned £25 a week as their main news anchor.\nDespite his popularity, he left after 12 years to concentrate on writing, publishing several books and writing TV screenplays, before his five-year stint on TV-am.\nSpeaking to the Daily Express in 2013, Honeycombe said: \"In 1989, I decided to change my life. Although my career was going well, it struck me that I was 53 and time was passing me by.\n\"Fed up with the British climate, I quit TV-am and emigrated to Perth. Within a year, I was producing and directing a play in the city and incredibly happy.\"", "summary": "Former broadcaster Gordon Honeycombe, the face of ITN news between 1965 and 1977, has died in Australia aged 79." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Real Madrid later restored parity with a 4-0 win over Tony Adams' Granada.\nBarca went ahead when Neymar finished off a fine team move by scoring from close range after Messi's pass.\nVillarreal levelled through Cedric Bakambu, but goals for Messi either side of Luis Suarez's strike from a tight angle sealed Barcelona's win.\nIt was Messi's low 20-yard strike that put Barca back in front, with the Argentine then chipping a penalty after Jaume Costa's handball for his 35th goal in La Liga this season.\nBarcelona are top virtue of a better head-to-head record with Real, who have a game in hand.\nBarcelona, aiming to win their third La Liga title in a row, have two more league matches left, while current European champions Real have three.\nAfter Neymar's opener, the hosts surprisingly conceded 11 minutes later when Pique tried to play offside just inside his own half and was caught out by Bakambu's pace, with the striker calmly finishing.\nThe visitors, fifth in the table and aiming for Europa League qualification, should have gone ahead but former Tottenham striker Roberto Soldado headed wide when unmarked.\nThat proved crucial as Messi restored Barcelona's lead four minutes later, just before half-time.\nIn the second half, the hosts went 3-1 ahead when Messi played in Suarez, who jinked past two players before shooting past Andres Fernandez.\nMessi's late penalty - the 108th La Liga goal Barcelona have scored this season - came after Costa was adjudged to have handled in his penalty area.\nMatch ends, Barcelona 4, Villarreal 1.\nSecond Half ends, Barcelona 4, Villarreal 1.\nAttempt blocked. Neymar (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nNeymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Samu Castillejo (Villarreal).\nAttempt saved. Jonathan dos Santos (Villarreal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nicola Sansone.\nFoul by Luis Suárez (Barcelona).\nJaume Costa (Villarreal) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nAttempt missed. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Javier Mascherano.\nFoul by Sergio Busquets (Barcelona).\nJonathan dos Santos (Villarreal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt saved. Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\nFoul by Neymar (Barcelona).\nRodri (Villarreal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nOffside, Villarreal. Jonathan dos Santos tries a through ball, but Nicola Sansone is caught offside.\nOffside, Villarreal. Samu Castillejo tries a through ball, but Nicola Sansone is caught offside.\nSubstitution, Barcelona. André Gomes replaces Ivan Rakitic.\nSubstitution, Villarreal. Adrián López replaces Cédric Bakambu.\nGoal! Barcelona 4, Villarreal 1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\nJaume Costa (Villarreal) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\nPenalty conceded by Jaume Costa (Villarreal) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\nAttempt blocked. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Neymar.\nOffside, Barcelona. Lionel Messi tries a through ball, but Neymar is caught offside.\nSubstitution, Barcelona. Javier Mascherano replaces Sergi Roberto.\nMateo Musacchio (Villarreal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nNeymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Mateo Musacchio (Villarreal).\nAttempt saved. Neymar (Barcelona) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lionel Messi.\nSubstitution, Barcelona. Jordi Alba replaces Lucas Digne.\nCorner, Villarreal. Conceded by Gerard Piqué.\nAttempt blocked. Cédric Bakambu (Villarreal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mateo Musacchio.\nSubstitution, Villarreal. Samu Castillejo replaces Roberto Soriano.\nSubstitution, Villarreal. Nicola Sansone replaces Roberto Soldado.\nRoberto Soldado (Villarreal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nLionel Messi (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Roberto Soldado (Villarreal).\nGoal! Barcelona 3, Villarreal 1. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sergi Roberto following a fast break.\nOffside, Villarreal. Manu Trigueros tries a through ball, but Roberto Soriano is caught offside.\nHand ball by Roberto Soldado (Villarreal).\nAttempt missed. Jonathan dos Santos (Villarreal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.", "summary": "Lionel Messi scored his 50th and 51st goals of the season as Barcelona beat Villarreal to temporarily move three points clear at the top of La Liga." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Relatives of John Anderson, who died at Boulby Potash on 17 June said he was a \"truly great\" man with a \"blistering work ethic\".\nA post-mortem examination suggests Mr Anderson, 55, from Easington, died as a result of asphyxiation.\nCleveland Police said they are still investigating the incident.\nIn a statement released through the police, Mr Anderson's family said: \"We are a large and very close family and we are each grieving in our own way, however we all remember him as a loyal and caring husband, a supportive and understanding father, much loved brother and an amazing and dedicated granddad,\n\"His sudden death has left us all utterly devastated.\"\nThey said the father of four was always happiest playing with his 11 grandchildren.", "summary": "The family of a miner killed by a gas release underground has paid tribute to him." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Charlotte Liddell was one of 200 applicants for the scheme which aims to encourage a new generation of female leaders.\nThe 20-year-old, from Buckhaven in Fife, has been a young carer since she was 12 and does voluntary work with the Gingerbread single parent charity.\nShe said she had been inspired by Ms Sturgeon and hoped to inspire other young people to believe in themselves.\nMs Sturgeon announced the 12-month First Mentor scheme on International Women's Day in February, saying it was unacceptable that women were under-represented in leadership roles in society.\nShe said she hoped to encourage other female leaders to act as role models.\nAnnouncing her first mentee, she said: \"Charlotte immediately struck me as someone with the passion and determination to make a difference to her community and to young people - especially for those who face tough challenges in life.\n\"Charlotte is a really impressive young woman who has already achieved so much and I hope the mentoring experience over the next year will be of real benefit to her and help her achieve her ambitions for the future.\n\"I am looking forward to sharing my experiences with Charlotte - but I have no doubt that I will also learn a lot from her.\"\nMs Liddell left school at 14 and has two children. She has been volunteering with Fife Gingerbread for three years where part of her work involves \"buddying\" young parents.\nShe was named Young Parent of the Year in 2016 by Fife Gingerbread and won the Young Volunteer of the Year award in 2017.\nShe said: \"I want to inspire others just as the first minister inspired me. I want people to know that no matter what happens in your life, you can still succeed.\n\"Too often, young people are told they will never amount to anything - especially young parents. By being chosen for this mentorship, I hope I will help other young people to believe in themselves - especially those whose voices are not heard.\"\nThe competition was run in conjunction with the national youth information and citizenship charity Young Scot.\nLouise Macdonald, chief executive of Young Scot, said: \"The First Mentor programme is a fantastic opportunity to shine a spotlight on the power of mentoring for young women in Scotland.\n\"Through the application process we were able to see just how many brilliant young women have the potential to become leaders themselves. We want to show young women that there are no limits, no matter who you are, and that everyone can benefit from having or being a mentor.\n\"Charlotte is an amazing young woman; she wants to change the world. We've all been so inspired by her already and I am sure the mentoring experience will be great for both Charlotte and the first minister.\"\nRhona Cunningham, chief executive of Fife Gingerbread, said Charlotte had been \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\"We are delighted that she has been given this much-deserved opportunity. She does so much for so many; her determination and positive attitude are remarkable,\" she added.\n\"It really is a privilege to have her volunteer for us, and we know Charlotte will go on to be whatever she wants to be in life. Massive well done from everyone at Fife Gingerbread!\"\nThe first mentorship meeting will take place next week.", "summary": "A young mother has been chosen to be mentored by Nicola Sturgeon for a year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "China's foreign ministry confirmed one of its nationals was killed in a mortar attack on a UN camp in Gao that seriously wounded three others.\nThe UN said that \"two security guards and an international expert\" with a de-mining unit were also killed in a separate attack in the city.\nAl-Qaeda militants have said they were behind the attacks.\nThe UN mission in Mali (Minusma) was set up in 2013 to help stabilise the country following a rebellion by Islamist jihadists and ethnic Tuareg fighters.\nThe al-Qaeda-linked insurgents, who fell out with Tuareg separatists, were ousted from northern towns by a French led-force in 2013.\nMinusma is the world's deadliest UN peacekeeping mission, with 65 of its soldiers having died in active service.\nMilitants have continued sporadic assaults on peacekeepers from the desert hideouts.\nFive UN peacekeepers - from Togo - were killed on Sunday in the Mopti region of central Mali. They came under fire after their vehicle hit a landmine.\nAl-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said members of a branch led by Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmoktar were behind Tuesday's attacks in Gao.\nAQIM has been behind several attacks in West Africa in the last seven months, targeting hotels in Mali and Burkina Faso and a beach resort in Ivory Cost.", "summary": "A Chinese UN peacekeeper and three members of a UN de-mining unit have been killed in northern Mali." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Extern says it has been told the Intensive Family Support Service (IFSS) must close with the loss of 47 jobs.\nIt says the service supports 235 families affected by issues including poverty, mental health, and addiction.\nThe Health and Social Care Board said the scheme was operated \"on a pilot basis\" for three years from 2014.\nCharlie Mack of Extern said he had support from parties across the political spectrum before the election.\n\"I have in writing from (DUP leader) Arlene Foster two days before the election saying she was personally supportive of the project\".\nMr Mack described the decision as \"devastating\" and \"a complete false economy\".\nHe said: \"IFSS is a life-altering, and often life-saving service, which is seeing 50% more children in Belfast being removed from the child protection register, is keeping children in school, and is significantly reducing anti-social and violent behaviours\".\nThe Health and Social Care Board said it was \"working with the Belfast Trust to ensure minimum disruption and impact to these families as the pilot comes to an end\".\nIn a statement, the Department of Health said the pilot had come to an end and there were similar levels of need across Northern Ireland:\n\"Our focus now will be on taking the learning from the pilot in Belfast and applying it not only to statutory family and children's services but also to other family support services.\"\nThe department said families, \"will continue to be supported by statutory services, where appropriate, or connected with other non-statutory family support services in the area\".\n.", "summary": "A Northern Ireland charity says children will be the first victims of the Stormont collapse as one of its projects is to close." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Colchester Hospital in Essex was put in special measures two years ago.\nCare Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors found \"consistently... poor and unsafe practices\" and believe a \"radical solution\" is needed.\nColchester's chief executive said the trust would continue to focus on improving patient care and quality.\nThe hospital will now enter a partnership with Ipswich Hospital to deliver safe care.\nThe CQC's chief inspector of hospitals, Prof Sir Mike Richards, acknowledged the chief executive of Colchester University NHS Foundation Trust Frank Sims had \"only been in post a short time\".\nProf Richards said the partnership with Ipswich offered \"a better route to bring about the improvements that patients urgently need to see at Colchester\".\nPatients' group Healthwatch Essex said it was \"optimistic\" about the partnership, which was the \"logical next step\".\nMr Sims said: \"Improving care and quality to ensure we provide outstanding care, consistently for all patients at all times, will continue to be at the heart of everything we do\".", "summary": "The chief inspector of hospitals says he does \"not have confidence in the ability of the trust's current board\" to turn around a struggling hospital." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Authorities in Paris have opened a formal probe into \"aggravated fraud\" over the use of diesel engine devices that gave misleading emissions results.\nAnd German prosecutors said the number of VW employees now under investigation has increased from six to 17.\nVW, which said it is cooperating with all inquiries, had about 11 million cars fitted with the emissions devices.\nEurope's largest carmaker is carrying out its own investigation, and has warned that the cost of car recalls and compensation was likely to run into billion of euros.\nParis prosecutors started preliminary inquiries last year, and confirmed on Tuesday that three magistrates had been assigned to a formal probe.\nSerious fraud office chief Nathalie Homobono said investigators had established that Volkswagen had cheated \"with intent\" by installing so-called engine software that reduced emissions under test conditions.\nMeanwhile, German authorities said they had increased the number of VW employers under investigation to 17, but added that no former or current board members are involved, said Klaus Ziehe, from the state prosecutors office in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony.\nAlso on Tuesday, Reuters and the Financial Times were among media reporting that German insurer Allianz Global Investors, a VW shareholder, was close to filing a lawsuit against the carmaker following the fall in VW's share price.\nIn January, the US Department of Justice filed a civil suit against VW, and the carmaker faces a string of claims from customers that lawyers are likely to consolidate into a class action suit.\nVW says it will not comment on specific details of the investigations.\nSpokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan told the AFP news agency: \"As previously stated, Volkswagen is not commenting on ongoing discussions with regulators. We are committed to regaining the trust of our customers and dealers and will continue to cooperate with all relevant government agencies.\"", "summary": "Prosecutors in Germany and France have broadened their investigations into the emissions scandal at Volkswagen." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The spinner missed the chance to make his England debut in 2015 after dislocating his left thumb and injured the same finger in May this year.\nAnsari, 24, has claimed 22 wickets at 31 apiece in the Championship in 2016.\n\"They've shown a lot of trust in me,\" he told BBC Sport. \"I'm really grateful to them for that.\"\n\"After a tough 12 months with injury and missing out, it's really nice to be back in there,\" added Ansari, who joins Lancashire's Haseeb Hameed and Northamptonshire's Ben Duckett as three uncapped players for the October tour.\n\"England have looked after me well, they kept me positive. Hopefully I can repay that.\"\nEngland play three one-day internationals in Bangladesh, starting on 7 October, followed by a two-Test series from 20 October.\nAnsari will have the familiar face of Surrey captain Gareth Batty on tour with him in Bangladesh, with his fellow spinner set for an England return 11 years after his last Test.\nBatty, 38, said of Ansari: \"I've gone on record before and I don't change my stance. I think he's the best young spinner in the country.\n\"It was bitterly disappointing last year for the lad to break his thumb as he did and it continued being a problem for a while.\n\"Hopefully this is a sustained period where he can hold his fitness and forge a career with England and Surrey.\"\nThe most recent of Batty's seven Tests came against Bangladesh in 2005, while his last international game was a one-day match in March 2009 against West Indies in Barbados.\nHe has 41 championship wickets this season and, alongside Ansari, is one of four England spinners in the Test squad - Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid are the other two.\nBatty, who turns 39 in October, said: \"It's a wonderful honour. Your country comes calling, you say 'where, when, I'm there'. It doesn't matter if you're 15 or 16 on your first tour or you're knocking on the door at 40 like me.\"\nBefore he can add to his 11 Test wickets, though, Batty will lead Surrey out at Lord's on Saturday for the One-Day Cup final against Warwickshire.\n\"We get Saturday out of the way and for a brief period I'll turn my attention to making sure I'm right for a trip away with England,\" he added.\n\"If I can help England in any way shape or form, I'm all over it.\"", "summary": "Surrey's Zafar Ansari wants to repay England's faith in him after getting a Test call-up for the Bangladesh tour despite an injury-hit 12 months." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He tweeted on Tuesday, \"Lauren! I found your student ID in the park. If you still need it my office will get it to you. Hanx.\"\nThe ID card shows that she is enrolled at Fordham University in New York City.\nThere is no word yet on whether Lauren got her ID back from Mr Hanks, though one Twitter user has claimed it belongs to her friend.\nMr Hanks is familiar with having strangers return lost items -he tweeted in March that someone had found his credit card on the street and returned it.", "summary": "American actor Tom Hanks is trying to reach a university student named Lauren who lost her identification card." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "More than £8m has been raised after the craze of taking a self-portrait with no make-up spread virally.\nBut those texting \"DONATE\" rather than \"BEAT\" found their money sent to the wrong charity.\nOthers accidentally inquired about adopting a polar bear from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).\nUN agency Unicef told the BBC that so far £18,625 has been identified as being accidentally pledged.\nIt said it was now working with Cancer Research UK to transfer the funds donated so they can be used as intended.\nMike Flynn, director of individual giving at Unicef UK, said it was a \"genuine mix-up\".\n\"Unicef believes this error has occurred due to those interested in donating to the #nomakeupselfie campaign sharing the text keyword 'DONATE' - rather than the keyword 'BEAT' - and the text number 70099, which has then been repeated across social media.\n\"'DONATE to 70099' is an SMS keyword and shortcode combination that Unicef have sole use of, specifically for any members of the public who contact us and wish to donate to us via SMS.\"\nHe added: \"Unicef is not responsible for this error. However, we've been working hard to find a resolution to the situation for those affected.\n\"We contacted Cancer Research [UK] as soon as we became aware of what was happening. Unicef and Cancer Research [UK] have agreed that these donations will be received in full by Cancer Research [UK].\n\"We are now working closely with all parties involved to ensure that this doesn't happen again in the future.\"\nThe #nomakeupselfie craze has taken social media by storm since flourishing last week. Its origins are unclear, but since going viral the trend has raised more than £8m for Cancer Research UK and other cancer charities.\nBut it has not been without mishaps for some well-meaning selfie takers.\nAs well as the Unicef mix-up, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) acknowledged that it too had accidentally received text messages due to the wrong keyword.\nSome people's smartphones had autocorrected the word \"BEAT\" to instead read \"BEAR\".\n\"Thank you for choosing an adorable polar bear,\" the reply from the WWF said. \"We will call you today to set up your adoption.\"\nThe autocorrect blunder surprised many who took to Twitter to joke about their adoption news.\n\"Just told Jamie to text 70007 for cancer and he accidentally sent bear,\" wrote Twitter user @ChrisKirk07. \"Now he's got two polar bears.\"\nThe WWF said no money was taken from people who had sent the texts.\n\"Any texts sent to us instead of Cancer Research [UK] would not result in any donations going to help protect polar bears as WWF relies on human operators calling people back to confirm adoptions, so no money would have changed hands,\" said Kerry Blackstock, WWF's director of fundraising.\n\"When we realised there was a lot of interest in a campaign we weren't presently running we made sure our automatic text message response let the sender know their text had gone awry.\n\"We wish Cancer Research UK every success in their campaign and their goals. Polar bear selfies are harder to come by, though, as far as we are aware, none wear make up.\"\nFollow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC", "summary": "Thousands of pounds donated as part of the \"#nomakeupselfie\" craze were sent to Unicef instead of Cancer Research UK by mistake, the BBC has learned." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The venue has been closed since the bomb attack at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May, which left 22 people dead.\nIt will reopen on 9 September with a fundraising show featuring a number of north-west acts.\nNoel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will be joined by indie bands The Courteeners and Blossoms, 1980s pop star Rick Astley, and poet Tony Walsh.\nWalsh captured the spirit of the city when he performed his poem This Is The Place at a vigil the day after the attack.\nGallagher's appearance will also have particular significance - his song Don't Look Back In Anger became an anthem of unity in the wake of the bombing after a crowd started spontaneously singing it at a memorial.\nThe Courteeners also performed it when they played to 50,000 fans at Old Trafford cricket ground five days after the atrocity.\nGallagher's brother and former Oasis bandmate Liam appeared at the One Love Manchester benefit concert a week after that, but Noel did not.\nMore acts are still to be announced for the arena reopening concert, which is titled We Are Manchester.\nAll profits will go towards establishing a permanent memorial to the victims, which will be built by the new Manchester Memorial Fund.\nTickets for the show, costing £25 and £30, will go on sale at 09:00 on Thursday 17 August.\nThere will be extra security and ID checks, and fans have been asked not to bring bags larger than 35cm x 40cm x 19cm.\nCouncillor Sue Murphy, deputy leader of Manchester City Council, said: \"No-one will ever forget the terrible events of 22 May but Manchester has reacted with love, solidarity and a determination to continue doing the things which make this such a vibrant city.\n\"We welcome the reopening of the arena, a major venue which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors, as a powerful symbol of this defiant and resilient spirit.\"\nRenovation work has been taking place in the venue's foyer, where the bomb was detonated.\nThe arena's general manager James Allen said: \"May's events will never be forgotten, but they will not stop us - or Mancunian music fans - from coming together to enjoy live music.\n\"Manchester Arena has celebrated over 20 years hosting some of the greatest musical talent of all time, and the significant economic and cultural impact that this has on the city means that this legacy must continue.\n\"Public safety is always our priority and we are doing all we can to keep people safe at our venue.\"\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Former Oasis star Noel Gallagher is to headline a special benefit concert to reopen Manchester Arena next month." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Welsh government is concerned e-cigarette use may normalise smoking.\nA Liberal Democrat attempt to scrap the restrictions from the Public Health Bill is likely to fail with some Plaid Cymru AMs, including Elin Jones, supporting the regulations.\nAMs will debate the ban, which has been watered down following opposition pressure, next week.\nPreviously the Welsh government wanted to restrict the use of e-cigarettes in all enclosed public and work places.\nBut a committee report found AMs were divided, with Plaid's Elin Jones suggesting imposing less stringent restrictions on e-cigarettes than those on tobacco.\nIn January, AMs approved amendments by Health Minister Mark Drakeford restricting the ban to establishments including schools, hospitals, train and bus stations and places selling food.\n\"Wet-only\" pubs which do not serve food or have children on the premises are excluded.\nThe Welsh government will try to extend this list next week to a further list, including entertainment venues such as cinemas and zoos, shops and playgrounds.\nPlaid Cymru is having a free vote on the issue. A spokesman for Elin Jones told BBC News she would be voting for the compromise proposal.\nLlyr Gruffydd, Plaid AM for North Wales, also said he was likely to support the restrictions, although he had not made a final decision. Some other Plaid AMs said they were opposed to the ban.\nA Plaid Cymru spokesperson said party leader Leanne Wood would consider the evidence before the vote, but was \"generally not in favour\".\nThe Liberal Democrats are tabling amendments to scrap the restrictions, which the Welsh Conservatives said they would support.\nWelsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams said: \"Labour and Plaid AMs have one last chance next week to join thousands of Welsh vapers in backing the Welsh Lib Dems, and consign this vaping ban to the dustbin of history.\"\nLabour needs the support of one opposition member.\nSome anti-smoking campaigners have opposed restrictions, saying e-cigarettes help smokers kick the habit.\nA Welsh government spokeswoman said the long-term health impacts of e-cigarettes was unclear, and the bill did not stop people using them to help them stop smoking.\nThe debate will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. A final vote on the law will be taken on 15 March.", "summary": "A ban on e-cigarettes in some public places is likely to win support from the assembly." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Steve Tandy's side booked their place in the last eight - where they could face Welsh rivals Cardiff Blues - but saw Keelan go off after 34 minutes of their 47-7 victory.\nWales interim head coach Rob Howley announces his squad for the Six Nations on Tuesday.\n\"It is too early to tell,\" Tandy said regarding the severity of the injury.\n\"He will get scanned and we will see how he puts up in the next 24 to 48 hours.\"\nThe Six Nations begins on February 4 with Wales' first match a day later.\nGiles is thought to be suffering from a hamstring injury, while team-mate Ma'afu Fia suffered an ankle problem as Ospreys ensured they top their qualification group.\n\"There's no point speculating on them,\" Tandy told BBC Radio Wales Sport. \"We'll just review things.\"", "summary": "Winger Keelan Giles is an injury worry for Wales after limping out of Ospreys' Challenge Cup win over Lyon." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 54-year-old South African Football Association technical director is the only white man to captain a Africa Cup of Nations-winning team.\nHe collapsed while training for a charity cycle race set for next month.\nIt is the second heart attack Tovey has suffered inside two years.\nThe doctors have been working round the clock and we hope for the best\nIn February 2015 he suffered an attack while playing a game of squash with his wife near his home in Umhlanga, on the outskirt of Durban. But he made a speedy recovery.\nTovey was taken off the life support system by doctors on Monday morning but there was no immediate improvement on his condition, the South African Football Association spokesman Dominic Chimhavi said on Monday afternoon.\nHis elder brother Mark Tovey said doctors were still to ascertain if there was any damage suffered to his brain from a lack of oxygen, or damage to his lung and heart muscle.\n\"There is a slight improvement from [Monday's] situation but Neil remains in critical condition and I ask all South Africans to keep Neil in their daily prayers,\" he said.\n\"The doctors have been working round the clock and we hope for the best.\"\nSocial media was trending in South Africa on Monday as messages of support streamed in for Tovey, an iconic sports figure in the country who was captain of the South African side that lifted the Nations Cup on home soil in 1996.\nPictures of Tovey, holding the trophy aloft above his head, next to a beaming Nelson Mandela are still commonly seen in South African sports publications.\nTovey was the first captain of the country's national side when South Africa emerged from Apartheid-enforced isolation in 1992 - and also the first to reach the milestone of 50 caps.\nBut he lost his place in the team when Jomo Sono took over as coach from Clive Barker just six months before the 1998 World Cup finals in France.\nTovey's 511 league and cup appearances is the second highest tally by a player in the country's professional league. He won multiple titles with Durban City and Kaizer Chiefs and in between also played at AmaZulu.\nAfter retiring he became a coach and had stints in charge of Hellenic, AmaZulu and Mamelodi Sundowns, where he won the South African league title in 2007.\nTovey was appointed Safa's technical director in June 2015.\nThe President of Safa, Dr Danny Jordaan, said he was shocked to learn the news and wished Tovey a speedy recovery.\n\"We trust he will pass through this challenge,\" Jordaan said.", "summary": "Former South Africa captain Neil Tovey remains in a life threatening condition in a Durban hospital after he suffered a heart attack on Sunday but has been take off life-support equipment." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The move makes it the seventh year in a row that more than 20% failed to endorse the boss's pay.\nInvestors also raised concerns over succession plans at the business when Sir Martin, 72, finally retires.\nLast year 34% of investors refused to back his pay deal of £70.4m - the biggest in UK corporate history.\nThe vote took place at the company's annual general meeting on Wednesday and saw 21.3% of shareholders either vote against his pay or abstain.\nWPP has attempted to reign in the vast sums paid to Sir Martin since 2012, when he faced a 60% revolt by investors.\nSince then, he has been paid more than £210m.\nInvestors said they also wanted the board to give clearer indications over the company's future.\nMajor investment funds, including Standard Life Investments, Royal London Asset Management and Hermes asked chairman, Roberto Quarta, for clarity.\nDeborah Gilshan, stewardship and governance director at Standard Life Investments, which has a 1.5% stake in WPP, said: \"[Succession] remains the key governance risk to our long term investment in WPP.\n\"Unusually, the CEO's service contract may be terminated by either the company or Sir Martin without any notice.\n\"Given this, we suggest the board consider what lead time would be required to ensure an orderly succession and discuss this with Sir Martin.\"\nMr Quarta insisted succession planning was well underway with key talent across the WPP group meeting the board.\nHe added that a \"constantly refined list\" of external candidates was also available.\nSir Martin has constantly defended his high pay, pointing out that WPP, which he essentially founded in 1985, continues to grow from strength to strength.\nRoyal London Asset Management (RLAM), which holds shares worth £106m, remained unconvinced.\nAshley Hamilton Claxton of RLAM, explained why the organisation voted against the pay package.\nShe said: \"Executive pay at WPP continues to look excessive.\n\"Whilst we acknowledge that the reduction in the total long term bonuses and incentives available to executives under the new remuneration policy is a step in the right direction, the sheer scale of these remains exceptionally high, at over nine times the salary for the CEO.\"", "summary": "More than one in five shareholders at advertising giant WPP have voted against chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell's £48m pay package." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Labour and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) said it would make stations unsafe and are urging voters to \"save their ticket office\".\nMayor of London Boris Johnson made the announcement in November.\nHe said the plan meant more staff would be present in ticket halls and safety would not be compromised.\nThe campaign was launched earlier at London Bridge station with the first of 500,000 campaign leaflets handed out to commuters.\nTSSA leader Manuel Cortes said: \"This is a real chance for Londoners to send a message to Mayor Boris Johnson telling him what they really think about his U-turn on his 2008 election pledge to keep open every ticket office.\n\"We say a closed ticket office makes a station less safe and secure to the travelling public. They will have to tell voters why they believe the complete opposite.\"\nTransport for London said following the introduction of Oyster cards only about 3% of people used ticket offices.\nPhil Hufton, of London Underground, said: \"In future, more staff will be visible in our ticket halls where they can help customers to buy the most appropriate ticket for their journeys and all stations will continue to be staffed at all times whilst services are running.\n\"Statements about stations becoming less safe are completely unfounded.\"", "summary": "A campaign has been launched to turn London's council elections in May into a referendum on plans to close all Tube ticket offices by 2015." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "An internal prison report seen by the BBC says the the inmate ran down a landing with the keys at HMP Wayland.\n\"As he was being restrained another prisoner attempted to grab another officer's keys,\" the report adds.\nA Prison Service spokesman said both men had been transferred to a higher security jail.\nThey also face additional time added to their sentences.\nBoth men were \"quickly apprehended\" during the incident on A wing at about 09:00 BST on 27 May, the report states.\nWayland, near Watton in Norfok, is a Category C men's prison with just over 1,000 inmates.", "summary": "An inmate at a prison grabbed keys from an officer and, while he was being restrained, a second prisoner tried to take another set of keys." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Carwyn Jones had described the repeal bill as a \"naked power-grab\".\nHe told an assembly committee on Friday that Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns assured him they would work together \"to make the situation acceptable\".\nMr Cairns has expressed surprise at Mr Jones's criticism, saying the Welsh Government had helped draft the bill.\nMr Jones and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon issued a strong rebuke to the UK government's publication of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill on Thursday, saying they could not back it \"as it currently stands\".\nTaking questions in Bangor from the assembly committee which scrutinises his work, Mr Jones said there was a feeling among civil servants in Whitehall that they were \"superior\" to the Welsh Assembly and would \"impose their will\" on the devolved administrations.\nHe said his dealings with the UK Government's agriculture department, Defra, led him to believe \"they would create an agriculture policy which would suit one part of the UK - England\".\nPlaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas asked if the first minister was concerned that the UK Government could overrule the Welsh Government on devolved issues where there are different policies in Wales and England, such as the badger cull.\nMr Jones replied that as far as an agriculture policy goes, the UK Government could not impose a cull in Wales.\nBut he added that if any livestock export agreement between the UK and the EU included a badger cull, the UK Government could say \"if you want to export, you have to cull. That is a possibility, yes\".\nMr Cairns told BBC Radio Wales on Friday that the repeal bill was intended to give \"continuity and certainty\" to exporters and prevent \"a cliff edge\" situation of no rules being in place the day after Brexit.\n\"Ultimately we've said that the powers of the devolved administrations will be extended, but we really have to focus on Welsh farmers and Welsh businesses that want to export and continue to buy and trade with the European Union,\" he said.\n\"If we can't get agreement before we leave the European Union, there's a major risk that we leave Welsh farmers and Welsh businesses without a market.\"", "summary": "The first minister has said the UK Government has pledged to allay his fears that a bill converting EU law into British law undermines devolution." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles in the early 1980s.\nBefore that, he was Secretary of State for Employment, often disagreeing with then PM Margaret Thatcher on economic matters and industrial relations.\nLord Heseltine said his ex-colleague, who after leaving front-line politics became chair of defence business GEC, had been a \"rock of integrity\".\nJim Prior, as he was commonly known, was an MP for 28 years - representing the Suffolk constituencies of Lowestoft and Waveney from 1959 to 1987.\nThe Conservative politician and farmer, who served as agriculture minister under Edward Heath and unsuccessfully stood for the party leadership in 1975, was an important figure in the first Thatcher administration between 1979 and 1983.\nHe was not an ideological soul mate of the prime minister's, disagreeing with many of her economic policies and seeking a more conciliatory relationship with the trade unions.\nHe was one of the so-called \"wets\" in her first cabinet generally hostile to proposed spending and tax cuts put forward by the PM and her Chancellor Geoffrey Howe.\nInstead, he was in favour of increased spending to boost jobs at a time when unemployment levels were rising sharply, topping more than three million in early 1982.\nBy that point, Lord Prior had been moved to Northern Ireland in a reshuffle in September 1981, in which a number of leading wets were either sacked or demoted.\nHe served in Northern Ireland for three years between 1981 and 1984 - a period in office marked by a number of high-profile IRA attacks in Northern Ireland and the mainland - including the 1982 Hyde Park bombing and the 1983 attack outside Harrods.\nPaying tribute to Lord Prior, his former colleague Lord Heseltine said he had been a \"one-nation Conservative\" with strong values and a profound \"sense of service\".\n\"He knew what he believed in and no-one was going to shift him,\" he said.\n\"He wasn't really a politician, I don't think, curiously enough, although you have to be very well-versed in political skills to hold that Northern Irish job.\n\"But I think of him much more as someone who's in politics because he had a sense of service, a sense of obligation.\"\nAnd former Education Secretary Lord Baker said that while he had had his disagreements with Margaret Thatcher, he had remained the \"epitome of decency\" at a \"very difficult\" time.\n\"He was dealing with militant trade unionism,\" he told the BBC News channel.\n\"The trade unions had actually brought Ted Heath down and James Callaghan down and Margaret Thatcher was quite determined that she wasn't going to be the third victim.\n\"Jim Prior struggled very hard at that time to find a way through that would somehow reconcile the interests of organised labour with those of safely continuing government. That was a very difficult thing to do.\"\nLord Prior resigned from the Cabinet in 1984 and, after leaving the Commons, later sat in the House of Lords for nearly 30 years.\nHis son David was a Conservative MP between 1997 and 2001 who also later joined the Lords. He is currently a junior health minister.", "summary": "Former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Prior has died at the age of 89." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "US-born Ryan, who switched allegiance to Ireland last year, broke the Irish record for the second time in 24 hours as he clocked 24.72 seconds to triumph.\nRyan, 23, pipped American Justin Ress by 0.01 of a second to make up for the disappointment of missing out on a 100m backstroke medal on Monday.\nGary O'Toole is the only other Irish swimmer to win at the championships.\nO'Toole clinched gold at the championships in 1991.\nPennsylvania State University student Ryan qualified for Ireland through his father Thomas who emigrated to the US in the 1980s.\nHe qualified for the 100m backstroke semi-finals at last year's Olympics.", "summary": "Ireland's Shane Ryan has clinched 50m backstroke gold at the World University Games in Taipei." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They were found after police at a checkpoint in the southern state of Tabasco heard calls for help coming from the vehicle and the sound of crying children.\nMany of the migrants, who included 55 minors, were badly dehydrated.\nMost had come from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador or Ecuador.\nThe migrants had paid up to $5,000 (£4,080) to be driven through Mexico to the US border.\nThe lorry driver was arrested, the authorities say.\nIn recent years, people smugglers have increasingly begun using lorries to transport migrants through Mexico.\nEvery year, tens of thousands of people enter Mexico illegally with the aim of reaching the US. The journey is extremely dangerous.\nIn the first nine months of 2016, Mexico and the US deported more than 55,000 people from Honduras alone.", "summary": "The Mexican authorities say they have stopped a lorry carrying 121 Central American migrants, who were trying to reach the US illegally." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "An application by RWE Innogy for the 415ft (126m) turbines at Hemswell Cliff, near Gainsborough, was rejected in 2013 but the company appealed.\nThe government cited a number of issues it had with the project including the impact on the landscape and the effect on designated heritage sites.\nRWE said it was \"disappointed\" with the Secretary of State's decision.\nThe main issues for Mr Clark were the effects on \"designated heritage assets\" like the Hemswell Conservation Area.\nHe also stated that the turbines would have a \"significant\" impact on the landscape for about 3km (1.86 miles) from the site.\nThe plans had been met with a number of objections from local residents who formed the campaign group Villages of the Cliff Against Turbines.\nThey said the development would have \"ruined the countryside\".\nThe group was backed by the MP for Gainsborough Sir Edward Leigh who said he was \"delighted\" the plans were turned down.\nRWE Innogy had argued the wind farm could power 11,600 homes.\nMark Crawford, its regional development manager, said: \"We are disappointed that the Secretary of State has refused planning permission.\n\"At a time when onshore wind farms like Hemswell Cliff could make a real positive difference to climate change, energy bills and local investment, it is a shame that the project will not proceed further.\"\nThe decision can be challenged at the High Court by the firm within six weeks.", "summary": "A 10-turbine wind farm in Lincolnshire has been refused planning permission by the Communities Secretary Greg Clark." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He had been suffering from cancer for some time and passed away at his Berkshire home on Monday evening.\nIn 1993, Mr Rendel won a 28% swing from the Tories in Newbury and retained his seat in two subsequent elections.\nIn 2015 he stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Somerton and Frome.\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats Tim Farron has paid tribute on Twitter describing him as a \"committed and selfless individual.\"\nMr Rendel's focus on constituency work sometimes led to him being out of step with his party's opinions.\nHe was a strong supporter of the controversial Newbury bypass, a focus of environmental protest and also strongly campaigned on opposition to nuclear technology.\nMr Rendel had an atypical background for a Liberal Democrat, as an Old Etonian, who had rowed for Oxford in the university boat race.\nHe stood for the party leadership in 1999 but had little support among MPs and came last in the ballot.\nIn 2001 he became the party's education spokesman after having served on the public accounts committee.\nMr Rendel represented Newbury between 1993 and 2005, when he lost his seat to Conservative, Richard Benyon.\nIn 2010 he found himself alone amongst members of the Liberal Democrat Federal Executive in voting against plans to enter a coalition government with the Conservatives.", "summary": "Former MP David Rendel, who won a famous parliamentary by-election victory for the Liberal Democrats, has died at the age of 67." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The women's grass court event at Devonshire Park was first held in 1974 and traditionally attracts the top female players before Wimbledon.\nFree to air tournament coverage will remain on TV, radio and online.\nWorld number three Karolina Pliskova beat ex-world number one Caroline Wozniacki in this year's final.\nAmong the legendary former winners are Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Virginia Wade, Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters.\nOliver Scadgell, the Lawn Tennis Association's director of major events, said: \"The support of the BBC in taking our sport to a wide audience helps us to capitalise on the success we have seen in the professional game, most notably from the likes of Andy Murray and Johanna Konta, and to get more people playing tennis, more often.\"", "summary": "The BBC will continue to show live coverage of the Aegon International women's tournament at Eastbourne until at least 2024." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Craig Harrison's side put in a solid defensive display against a club who have reached the Champions League group stages three times.\nThe second leg will be held in Cyprus on Tuesday, 19 July.\nSaints comfortably beat minnows Tre Penne of San Marino 5-1 on aggregate in the first qualifying round.\nScott Quigley headed straight at goalkeeper Boy Waterman but the home side were forced to defend for most of the first half.\nSaints were nearly punished when Connell Rawlinson's poor clearance was picked up by Tomas De Vincenti, who fired past the post.\nRyan Brobbel and Chris Seargeant had chances for Craig Harrison's side but the visitors continued to press and Paul Harrison was forced to make a fine save to deny Nuno Morais.\nInaki Astiz failed to connect with Vander's corner at the far post in stoppage time as Saints held out to deny the Cypriots an away goal.\nApoel, Cypriot champions for the past four seasons, reached the Champions League quarter finals in 2011-12, losing to Real Madrid.\nDefender Phil Baker was man of the match on an evening which he equalled Saints coach Scott Ruscoe's Welsh record of 30 appearances in Europe.\nNew Saints director of football Craig Harrison told BBC Radio Shropshire: \"I think that's the best team performance since I've been here.\n\"We want to win and I'm a big winner but sometimes it's not about the actual result, it's about the performance.\n\"Everyone did their job exactly how we prepared them to do.\"\nMatch ends, The New Saints 0, APOEL Nicosia 0.\nSecond Half ends, The New Saints 0, APOEL Nicosia 0.\nSubstitution, The New Saints. Robbie Parry replaces Adrian Cieslewicz.\nSubstitution, APOEL Nicosia. Efstathios Aloneftis replaces Georgios Efrem.\nSubstitution, The New Saints. Matthew Williams replaces Ryan Brobbel.\nSubstitution, APOEL Nicosia. Andrea Orlandi replaces Vinicius.\nSecond Half begins The New Saints 0, APOEL Nicosia 0.\nFirst Half ends, The New Saints 0, APOEL Nicosia 0.\nGeorgios Efrem (APOEL Nicosia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nSubstitution, The New Saints. Chris Seargeant replaces Aeron Edwards.\nFirst Half begins.\nLineups are announced and players are warming up.", "summary": "Welsh champions The New Saints denied Cypriot side Apoel Nicosia a crucial away goal in the Champions League second qualifying round first leg." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The B797 between Leadhills in South Lanarkshire and Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway is shut for resurfacing.\nThe rail service is being run to help people from Wanlockhead to get to the doctor's surgery in Leadhills.\nIt is also being offered as a \"commuter service\" for some workers at the Museum of Lead Mining in Wanlockhead.\n\"This service will be unique in that it is usually the other way round, with bus replacements for trains,\" said David Winpenny of the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway.\nThe trains are usually run at weekends during the summer months on what bills itself as \"Britain's highest narrow gauge adhesion railway\" reaching 1,498ft (456m) above sea level.\nThey link Leadhills to a terminus at Glengonnar which is less than a mile from Wanlockhead.\nThe road is shut for resurfacing for up to a fortnight with a diversion in place via the A76, B740, B7078 and A702.", "summary": "A \"replacement\" train service is being offered by a narrow gauge railway between two remote villages in southern Scotland during a road closure." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Gary Convie and Eamon Fox were shot as they sat eating lunch in a car at a building site on North Queen Street.\nProsecutors told Belfast Magistrates Court current proceedings against Mark Campbell and James Smyth were to be ended on a without prejudice basis.\nIt means the pair remain subject to a future report and could yet go on trial for the May 1994 killings.\nLegal sources claimed the development was due to the delay in progressing a linked case against a so-called loyalist supergrass charged with more than 200 offences.\nMr Campbell, 43, of Canning Place, Belfast, and 49-year-old Mr Smyth, from Forthriver Link in the city, were also jointly charged with attempting to murder a third man, Donal Laverty, in the same attack and possessing a Sten submachine gun and ammunition with intent to endanger life.\nThey were arrested and charged last year by detectives investigating a campaign of murder and serious crime committed by the Ulster Volunteer Force.\nThe case is connected to ongoing criminal proceedings against Gary Haggarty, an alleged UVF commander-turned assisting offender.\nMr Haggarty, 43, is facing 212 charges, including five counts of murder, six attempted murders, 31 conspiracies to murder, four kidnappings, six false imprisonments and five hijackings.\nAround 10,000 pages of evidence has been amassed in the case against him - much of it believed to be based on his own police interviews.\nBack in January 2010 he agreed to become an assisting offender under the terms of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act.\nBut efforts to have Mr Haggarty returned for trial have been repeatedly put on hold as his legal team battles to gain full access to his interview material.\nAt previous hearings a lawyer for Mr Campbell and Mr Smyth claimed their case could be delayed by up to two years due to the reliance on evidence from the supergrass.\nThe two defendants were in court on Thursday as a judge was told of the decision to withdraw all charges against them without prejudice to any future prosecution.\nThe case against them can still be resurrected by the alternative process of an indictable summons.\nEamon Fox and Gary Convie were from County Armagh.\nMr Fox, who was 44, had six children. Mr Convie was 24 and a father of one.", "summary": "All charges have been withdrawn against two men accused of the double murder of Catholic workmen 21 years ago." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ben Butler, 36, inflicted catastrophic head injuries upon Ellie while looking after her at their home in Sutton, south-west London, in October 2013.\nHe was also found guilty of child cruelty over a shoulder injury, as was Ellie's mother Jennie Gray.\nHe was jailed for a minimum of 23 years. Gray was jailed for 42 months.\nGray, a graphic designer, had admitted perverting the course of justice.\nThe exonerated father who went on to kill\nMore on this story on BBC London Live\nFollowing the guilty verdict at the Old Bailey, Butler shouted out: \"I'll fight for the rest of my life - unbelievable,\" before adding: \"I want to be sentenced now so I can fight in the Appeal Court.\"\nHe added: \"I will fight forever to prove this wrong. My daughter was jumping in the house. I'm 100% not guilty.\"\nGray said: \"Big mistake. Spend another 10 years proving you wrong.\"\nButler was convicted in 2009 for shaking Ellie as a baby, although this was later quashed on appeal.\nThe couple then won a High Court judgement to have Ellie returned to their care in 2012.\nMrs Justice Hogg had sided with Butler despite objections from police, social services and Ellie's maternal grandfather, Neal Gray.\nAt the time, Mr Gray - who had cared for Ellie since she was a baby - had allegedly warned the judge she would have \"blood on your hands\".\nA serious case review found Sutton Children Services felt \"powerless to act\" following the High Court's ruling.\nIt found Mrs Justice Hogg's ruling in the Family Court went much further than simply quashing Butler's previous conviction and had exonerated him, as, in her eyes, he was a victim of a miscarriage of justice.\nThat had the effect of telling social services to \"back off\" - despite social workers' concerns about returning Ellie to her parents, the review concluded.\nA spokesman for the Judiciary said: \"If a judge errs in law or on the facts, the remedy is to appeal.\"\nTo refer a judge's decision to an extra-judicial body would be incompatible with the principle of judicial independence.\"\nAlex Clark, headteacher of Avenue Primary Academy in Sutton which Ellie attended for 10 months before she died, said school staff had concerns about the family and had offered the parents help which they did not accept.\nHe said Butler and Gray would not meet teachers to discuss why Ellie had missed periods from school.\n\"Generally, they were very difficult to work with. When we asked questions they sometimes became angry and defensive and on two occasions Jennie Gray made reference to her solicitor.\nIn sentencing Butler, Judge Mr Justice Wilkie told him: \"You are a self-absorbed, ill-tempered, violent and domineering man who... regarded your children and your partner as trophies, having no role other than to fit in with your infantile and sentimentalised fantasy of family life with you as the patriarch whose every whim was to be responded to.\"\nJurors were told Butler battered his daughter to death in a volcanic loss of temper.\nHe did not call 999 for two hours and instead called Jennie Gray back from work in the City of London.\nThey then concocted an elaborate plot to destroy evidence and stage the scene of an accidental fall before alerting the ambulance service.\nThe couple even involved Ellie's younger sibling by sending the child into a room on the pretext of fetching Ellie for cake, jurors were told.\nThe child can be heard on the 999 call saying Ellie \"won't wake up\".\nMr Justice Wilkie told a sobbing Gray that she may have been \"exceptionally naive and stupid\" to believe Butler and take part in the cover-up.\nHe added: \"You played your full part in the grotesque charade that was the 999 call whilst subjecting your dead daughter to the indignity of pointless CPR when you knew full well she had been dead for two hours.\"\nEllie's grandmother Linda Gray died on 19 April - the first day of the murder trial - but the news was kept from Jennie Gray until sentencing at her father's request.\nIn a joint statement, written ahead of the trial, Ellie's grandparents said they had struggled to come to terms with the \"shock and horror\" of her death.\n\"Ellie was a very beautiful, bubbly and intelligent little girl who always had a smile on her face and even at such a young age she was nobody's fool. She was our life and she gave so much pleasure to us and our family too. How we all miss her.\"\nWithout referring directly to their daughter or Butler throughout the statement, they said: \"We did not realise that some people could be so wicked.\"\nThe court heard harrowing evidence of a toxic family life dominated by a man described in court as \"angry, overbearing and manipulative\".\nButler had a \"volatile temper\" which could \"explode at any time\".\nIn the months leading up to Ellie's death he sent hundreds of abusive and threatening texts to Gray containing the most obscene and vile language, often directed at Ellie and a younger sibling.\nJurors heard how he frequently beat Gray up and threw her out onto the streets.\nA video clip played in court also showed him swearing aggressively on a phone call in the family kitchen in front of Ellie.\nMalcolm McHaffie, deputy chief crown prosecutor for CPS London, said: \"Ellie Butler was murdered in her home, where she should have felt safe, by her violent father who should have loved and protected her.\n\"We may never know exactly what happened in the last few hours of Ellie's life, but the CPS built a strong case to show that her death was the result of deliberate violence by Butler.\"", "summary": "A father who murdered his six-year-old daughter just 11 months after she was returned to his care following a custody battle has been jailed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Robert Black - who died in prison in January - killed four young girls and was believed to have murdered 13-year-old Genette Tate in Devon in 1978.\nDevon and Cornwall Police said the file runs to \"scores of pages\".\nGenette's body has not been found since she vanished while delivering evening newspapers in Aylesbeare, near Exeter.\nHer case is believed to be the longest running missing person inquiry in Britain.\nBlack, originally from Grangemouth in Scotland, was first convicted of sexual assault when he was a teenager and the delivery driver's murder victims came from Northern Ireland, England and Scotland.\nHe was convicted for killing Jennifer Cardy, nine, of County Antrim in 1981, Susan Maxwell, 11, of Northumberland in 1982, and Caroline Hogg, five, of Edinburgh in 1983 and Sarah Harper, 10, of Leeds, in 1986.\nBlack died of natural causes in Maghaberry prison, Northern Ireland.\nA senior Devon and Cornwall Police source told the BBC: \"We would like a clear statement that it [Crown Prosecution Service] would have charged Black with Genette's murder.\n\"It's the closest we can now get to justice and might offer some comfort to her family and the community.\"\nThe new file is the result of two years of work by a dedicated group of eight detectives - including some who worked on the original inquiry - from the force's Major Crime Team.\nBut, John Tate, Genette's father, said: \"It's a shame this file was not submitted earlier to the CPS.\n\"There was some talk of it being submitted last autumn, then the CPS would have had several months to decide whether to prosecute Black.\n\"That would have meant that Black would have died in January knowing that he was going to put on trial for Genette's murder.\"\nHe added he awaited the \"result of the CPS decision with interest\".\nThe BBC has been told the detectives found two new witnesses following a re-investigation of the case, including an examination of the thousands of files from the original investigation.\nThey have been re-interviewed at length, senior police sources said, and have \"strengthened the circumstantial case against Black\".\nThe witnesses' evidence \"concerns Black's behaviour\" at the time she disappeared, the sources added.\nBlack, who was serving a life sentence for the murders of four children, was arrested and questioned in 2005 over the Genette Tate case, but not charged.\nThe force sent a file to the CPS, but three years later it decided there was insufficient evidence to charge Black.\nHe denied any involvement in Genette's disappearance.", "summary": "A file of evidence against a man suspected of murdering a schoolgirl almost 40 years ago has been submitted to prosecutors, the BBC has learnt." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A report for the Social Mobility Commission notes that \"the trends are positive even in the most disadvantaged social classes\", with parents from all backgrounds becoming more involved in their children's development and education.\nThursday's report was prompted by alarming research from the US which suggests the gap between children from well-educated and poorly educated families is widening. World-renowned social scientist Robert Putnam has claimed the American Dream is in crisis.\nProgress on social mobility 'too slow'\nCan social mobility work in a selfie culture?\nCan we stomach downward social mobility?\nBut when academics from Oxford University applied similar tests to the experience of children in the UK, they found a very different story.\n\"The picture in the UK does not look as bleak as in the USA,\" the report states. \"While we do find inequalities and areas of concern, there are also areas of children's lives in the UK where we see both improvement and narrowing inequalities.\"\nAcross the UK, children from the poorest fifth of households are already a year behind the richest fifth by the age of five. Experts say that is because parents in wealthier homes give their children more developmental support in the early years.\nThe Social Mobility Commission finds encouraging increases in such support across all backgrounds, with the gap between rich and poor narrowing in many of them.\nKey measures of developmental support include parents helping with and checking their children's homework. In both of these, the figures are improving and the gap between low and highly educated parents is narrowing.\nIt is the same story with parents turning up at their children's parents' evenings. However, there are still some areas where the gap between rich and poor is widening.\nThe researchers refer to a measure called \"Gruffalo time\", a reference to the famous children's book which has become shorthand for parents reading, talking and playing with their children.\nThis shows that in the mid-1970s parents spent around 23 minutes a day of quality time with their children.\nNow it has risen to 80 minutes, but the gap between \"high-educated\" and \"low-educated\" parents appears to be widening. Children whose parents have few qualifications get almost 40 minutes less Gruffalo time than those whose parents have high qualifications.\n\"We should not perhaps be too perturbed by some of the widening class inequalities - provided there is evidence of positive change in all sections of society,\" the report states. \"To be sure, we should not be complacent, but the trends are positive even in the most disadvantaged social classes.\"\nThe extra support children are receiving from parents of all backgrounds may partly explain some positive findings on behaviour.\nWith truancy, under-age drinking and smoking all on the decline, the evidence suggests an improving picture overall - with the gap between children from low and high educated families narrowing.\nA generation ago many parents would have regarded the way they bring up their children as an entirely private matter and seen parenting support as an unwelcome intrusion.\nToday, parents from all backgrounds seem to have taken on board the importance of supporting children in their development.\n\"Mothers reading to their children has increasingly become the norm throughout society,\" the new report notes. \"The middle classes appear to have led the way, and these practices have spread throughout all sections of society as they became more and more prevalent.\"\nThere are still some areas of children's development where the gap between rich and poor remains worryingly large. The researchers note that while 84% of children from middle-class homes go to art galleries, the figure is 51% among poorer families.\nHowever, the Social Mobility Commission report does suggest that the quality of parenting and of children's behaviour in the UK is generally improving and the gap between rich and poor is narrowing in key areas.\nIt is a very different story from the US.", "summary": "Government advisers on social mobility say there are encouraging signs that in key areas, the gap between rich and poor children in Britain is narrowing." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The teenager suffered head injuries in the attack in Chapel Street Park in Levenshulme, Manchester, on Friday.\nHe is in hospital in a \"serious, but stable\" condition following the attack at 18:00 BST.\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it is thought he was hit with a hammer and appealed for witnesses to get in touch.\nDet Insp Brian Morley said: \"We are currently trying to piece together exactly what happened and the possible motive behind it.\n\"A 16-year-old boy has been badly injured with what we believe could be a hammer, but we are still following a number of lines of enquiry.\"\nHe urged anyone who saw anything to get in touch with police.", "summary": "A 16-year-old boy has been seriously injured in a \"brutal\" hammer attack at a park, police said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In December, hundreds of individual GPs signed undated resignation letters, meaning they could leave the health service.\nThe GPs are members of the British Medical Association (BMA), the professional association and trade union for doctors.\nThey met in Belfast on Wednesday to agree the next step in the process.\nThey have now voted to collect undated resignations from practices, something which NI GP Committee chair Tom Black says was done with \"deep regret\".\n\"General practice is on the brink in Northern Ireland and we feel we have no alternative to proceed with collecting undated resignations from our members,\" he said.\nThis is not the first time GPs in the BMA have threatened mass resignation as a look back at the health service shows.\nThe term general practitioner first appears in records in the early 19th century. The role evolved separately from physicians and surgeons, who specialised and held hospital appointments from which GPs were largely excluded.\nBefore the setting up of the NHS in Great Britain, people not covered by the National Insurance Act 1911 either had to join a medical aid society or pay to see a family doctor.\nA famous report by William Beveridge in 1942 provided a blueprint for the welfare state that changed everything.\nThe BMA, while initially supportive of some aspects of a national health service, became strongly opposed by 1946.\nThey negotiated directly with British Health Secretary Nye Bevan to ensure general practitioners did not simply become salaried employees.\nIn Northern Ireland, health reform was done via Stormont and, according to historian Dr John Privilege from the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, GPs in NI got a good deal.\n\"Doctors were given a seat at the negotiating table not only from the get go, they were also consulted on framing legislation and on the form their payment and compensation would take,\" he said.\n\"For example, they received compensation to the tune of £2m for the loss of potential revenue and the fact they could no longer buy and sell their own practices.\"\nPeople in Northern Ireland were enthusiastic about the new service and figures show that 93% of the population enrolled with a GP.\nBut less than 10 years after it was set up, GPs across the UK were threatening to leave.\nJohn Simpson, a former chair of the Eastern Health Board in Northern Ireland, said: \"I think that the threat of resignation in 1957 was a continuation of the fact that they still hadn't settled the institutions that became the national health service.\n\"That has been there ever since, it set the tone and we lived with a situation where we have not really got a settled relationship between general practice in the health service and what we as citizens expect.\"\nThe immediate threat from GPs was lifted when the Westminster government set up a Royal Commission on pay.\nBut it wasn't the last use of the mass resignation technique, which resurfaced in the 1960s.\nGPs felt they had too many patients, too much form-filling and that they weren't properly supported.\nThe BMA came up with a charter and collected letters of resignation from nearly 80 percent of GPs.\nA solution was thrashed out and formed the basis of a new contract.\nThe 1970s and 1980s were more settled decades. With the Blair government in place in the late 90s, the BMA again took ballots on mass resignation in 2001 and considered doing so in 2008.\nNow Northern Ireland GPs say they're on the brink of resigning from the health service, citing pressures of overwork and under-resourcing.\nFor Dr Privilege, this is unexpected.\n\"The lines of communication between medical professionals and politicians in Northern Ireland, even under direct rule, were always good,\" he said.\n\"Somewhere that link has been lost and you no longer have this communication between government and medical professionals.\"\nFor Mr Simpson, the current situation could be the beginning of a bigger conversation about the role of GPs.\n\"Around 95% of contact with the medical profession is with the general practitioner and the availability of GPs to do that is becoming limited.\n\"We've seen under Transforming Your care and the Bengoa proposals that primary care should be shaken up and do much more to prevent us loading people into hospitals.\"\nDr Black said he and his members have been left with no choice.\n\"The work of the Northern Ireland government may have stalled, but the need to provide safe and efficient healthcare to patients has not stalled,\" he said.\n\"General practice is being delivered under unsustainable conditions that we can no longer tolerate.\"", "summary": "GPs in Northern Ireland have been saying for some time that the profession is entering a \"perfect storm\" over problems with recruitment, funding and workloads." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mike Standing, of West Sussex, wants to raise money in memory of his friend Matt Chaplain, who died from a cardiac arrest in 2013 at the age of 38.\nThe world record for the longest 11-a-side match was set at 105 hours, in Edinburgh in July.\nMr Standing, from Worthing, hopes the game will be played in May.\nSo far, he has recruited about 10 players to his Heartbeat FC teams but would like at least 36.\n\"Many of those are playing throughout the season so if anything happens to one of them and they pick up an injury during that time it means we have got someone to take their place,\" he said.\nMr Chaplain left a wife and two young children - one of whom is hoping to take part in the charity game in aid of the British Heart Foundation.\nThe final score for the game in Edinburgh, played in memory of the late Falkirk defender Craig Gowans, was 774-707. It raised more than £120,000.\n\"It would be fantastic if we could equal that,\" said Mr Standing.\n\"I had the idea for this game several years ago but Matt's passing gave us a determined focus for it.\n\"Back when I had the idea initially the record was around 48 hours so it would have been an easier task to achieve.\"\nMr Standing hopes the game will be played at Lancing College over the spring bank holiday weekend.", "summary": "A man is attempting to put together two football teams in a bid to break the world record for the longest match." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The major season is almost upon us, with Ko heading into the women's ANA Inspiration at Rancho Mirage on Thursday and Spieth applying the final touches to his preparations for his defence of the Masters next week.\nKo, 18, is in brilliant form as she bids for back-to-back majors while 22-year-old Spieth has been knocked from his world number one perch having not won since the first week of the year.\nTwelve months ago Spieth was runner up at the Houston Open having won in Tampa and finished second at the Texas Open in his previous two tournaments.\nHis irresistible form continued at Augusta, where he triumphed with a record-equalling 18-under-par score.\nThis time his results have been less promising. Knocked out by Louis Oosthuizen at the last-16 stage of last week's WGC Matchplay, he was only 18th in Tampa and 17th in the WGC Championship in Doral at the beginning of March.\nFor most other players these would constitute respectable returns but given the way Spieth, who is also the US Open champion, played last year they represent a decline in fortunes.\nIt prompted a recent conversation with his caddie Michael Greller aimed at putting his current situation into its proper perspective.\n\"It's pretty simple,\" Spieth said. \"Everything has been good. Our last 12 events, we've had 11 top 20s and two wins. We're in a good place.\n\"He's like, listen, there's peaks and there's valleys. If you're considering this a valley, then we've got a lot of peaks coming. That's a pretty nice valley to be in.\"\nNevertheless, he will be very keen to climb quickly back towards the high ground, now dominated by newly crowned world number one Jason Day.\nThe Texan youngster will enjoy huge support from the home crowds in this week's PGA Tour event in Houston, where he came up just short against JB Holmes last year.\nOn greens conditioned to emulate the slick surfaces that will confront the world's best at Augusta National the following week, Spieth will be looking to improve his position of a lowly 90th in the PGA Tour's 'total putting' statistics.\nThe two-time major champion also languishes at 153rd in hitting greens in regulation and, while the stats only tell part of the story, it is clear his game is not as sharp as it was when he was taking the sport by storm in the first half of 2015.\nSpieth, though, feels better equipped to deal with all the attention that surrounds him as he prepares to defend his debut major title.\n\"I think that I've been able to learn by personally speaking to different athletes that are at the top of their sport. I think that's really helped,\" he said.\n\"Around major championships, I just need to take that model into the rest of the PGA Tour now, which is just stay away from all the outside influences, whether it's TV, where you see yourself, or it's social media, whatever it may be.\n\"Just do less of it and find something else to do, whether it's reading or whether it's discovering a new place, going out in your car that week, instead of just sitting around. Because then you're tempted.\"\nThere is less hullabaloo around the women's game, but Ko is still centre of attention. The New Zealand teenager claimed her first major with victory in the Evian Championship last year.\nAt 18 years, four months and 20 days she became the youngest player to win one of the big five tournaments on the women's circuit.\nKo heads to the Dinah Shore course with her confidence sky high after collecting the 11th LPGA victory of her extraordinary career at the Kia Classic last week.\nShe has been a model of consistency all year and has yet to finish outside the top 15 in her six starts worldwide.\nKo defended her title at the New Zealand Women's Open in February on the Ladies European Tour and held off world number two Inbee Park in Carlsbad for her four-shot win last week.\nThis will be her fourth appearance at the ANA Inspiration and her best result to date was 25th in 2013. Expect a much higher finish this time.\nReflecting the strength of the younger generation, it is worth pointing out the field also includes a 20-year-old from Stockport, Bronte Law, who is currently fifth in the amateur world rankings.\nThe number one in those standings, Ireland's Leona Maguire, is also in the field.\nBoth players are regarded as an outstanding prospect but the fact they are both comfortably older than Ko serves to highlight just how remarkable the New Zealand starlet is.", "summary": "Jordan Spieth and Lydia Ko, the leading figures in golf's youth movement, have experienced contrasting fortunes as they build towards the most important phase of the golfing year so far." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Five firms dredge up to 1.5m tonnes of sand from the bed of the lough every year.\nThey were served with enforcement notices in 2015 after it emerged that the work had no planning permission.\nThe matter is before the courts and the planning appeals commission.\nEnvironmentalists claim the dredging could be impacting the site and have called for extraction to stop.\nThe lough has European environmental protection due to the importance of the birdlife which uses it.\nEarlier this year, the sand companies applied for planning permission for 15 years' extraction.\nThe environmental report has been commissioned to accompany the application and has just been published.\nIt says sand dredging will be concentrated on an area of 3.1km sq of the lough, less than 1% of its entire area.\nAnd it says there's no evidence this is having a detrimental impact.\nRather, it says, dredging has helped create flooded woodland, scrub and reed-bed habitat around the edges of the lough.\nThe report says there are almost 100m tonnes of glacial deposit sand and gravel available.\nThe 1.5m tonnes taken each year accounts for 30% of Northern Ireland's domestic sand requirements.\nThe industry supports almost 50 jobs in extraction and almost 200 more in cement and concrete manufacture.", "summary": "Sand extraction in Lough Neagh does not harm its ecology and may actually help it, according to an environmental report commissioned by the companies involved." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Khartoum will play in the Confederation Cup next year after finishing fourth in the Sudan Premier League this year.\nDomestically, Appiah's challenge will be to break the dominance of Al Merreikh and Al Hilal, who between them have won every league title since 1970 except in 1992.\nAppiah left his job in charge of Ghana by mutual consent in September.\nHe had been in charge of the Black Stars since 2012 and saw them qualify for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, where they finished fourth after losing to Burkina Faso in the semi-finals.\nThe 54-year-old then lead Ghana to the World Cup in Brazil this year, but his failed to make it past the group stages in a campaign beset with problems off the field.", "summary": "Former Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has taken over at Sudanese club SC Khartoum on a two-year contract." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The \"high visibility operation\" aims to counter a \"severe\" dissident republican threat, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.\nACC Stephen Martin has apologised in advance for any inconvenience the operation may cause.\nHe said the service took the decision \"in light of the four attacks in Belfast and Londonderry over the last two weeks\".\n\"This is not a decision we take lightly and we will endeavour to ensure that the balance of how we police this threat is right, as well as trying to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\"There is no perfect security solution to terrorism.\n\"I would ask people to continue to be vigilant at all times. If you see any suspicious activity or any suspect objects, please report it to police immediately,\" he said.", "summary": "There will be more checkpoints and patrols in Northern Ireland in the next few days, police have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The anniversary on 8 May marks 70 years since the end of World War II in Europe.\nThe service will be held on 10 May, the last of three days of events.\nThere will also be a two-minute silence at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, and the lighting of more than 100 beacons around the country.\nThe silence, to be held at 15:00 BST on Friday 8 May, will mark the moment Prime Minister Winston Churchill broadcast his speech to formally announce victory over Germany.\nIt will be followed by the lighting of the beacons, which will stretch from Newcastle to Cornwall.\nThe Queen famously joined in with the street celebrations in London on 8 May 1945, which took place three months before the war against Japan ended on 15 August.\nOn 9 May cathedral bells will be rung across the country at 11:00 BST.\nA 1940s-themed concert will be held on Horse Guards Parade in London in the evening, to be shown on the BBC.\nThe Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will be joined at the Sunday service by veterans and their families.\nAlso at Westminster Abbey will be politicians, members of the Armed Forces and representatives of Allied nations and Commonwealth countries that fought alongside Britain.\nA parade of bands, veterans and current servicemen and women will then make their way from the Abbey along Whitehall.\nThere will be a reception in St James's Park for 2,000 veterans, hosted by the Royal British Legion.\nAlso on the Sunday afternoon there will be a fly-past of current and historic aircraft from the RAF.\nThese will include Hurricane, Spitfire and Lancaster bomber planes from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, while vehicles dating from the 1940s will also be on display in St James's Park.\nWilliam Hague, First Secretary of State, speaking last month when he announced the celebrations, said they would pay \"fitting tribute\" to those who defended the country and helped ensure victory in Europe.\n\"It is right that we take time to reflect on the sacrifices made, not just by those in the Armed Forces, but by civilians such as Land Girls and those in Reserved Occupations and make sure that the whole country has the chance to take part in commemorating this momentous anniversary and remembering those who gave so much for our freedom,\" he said.", "summary": "The Queen will attend a service at Westminster Abbey next month, commemorating the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dumfries and Galloway Council has agreed to commission the probe into the beleaguered DG One in Dumfries.\nCouncillors decided to continue repairs on the site which it has already been revealed are set to run at least £3m over their £10m budget.\nCouncil leader Elaine Murray confirmed she would also write to the Health and Safety Executive and Police Scotland.\nThe local authority is to draw down £500,000 initially to allow repair works to continue.\nA report is then expected back within eight weeks to put a final price tag on the remedial work.\nThey decided against more dramatic options which could have seen the building demolished and replaced or simply knocked down.\n\"It is not a position any of us would have wanted,\" said Ms Murray.\n\"This is the best outcome we could have given the situation - we will be able to deliver a facility for Dumfries.\"\nEarlier, Ms Murray had told councillors she would be contacting the police and the HSE to look at the potential of a criminal investigation.\nIt echoed calls made by south of Scotland MSP Colin Smyth who said such a probe should not be ruled out.\nHe said the \"eye-watering\" scale of repairs meant questions needed to be asked as to whether the building was safe during the time it was being used by the public.\nDG One opened in 2008 but a string of problems led to its complete closure in 2014.\nA long-running legal wrangle meant it took nearly two years before the council reached a settlement with contractors to allow the current repairs programme to begin.\nIt has unearthed further problems which Ms Murray described as \"absolutely shocking\".\n\"It is an absolute disgrace and we feel - in the administration group at least - that we need to investigate the possibility of criminality and how that can be taken forward,\" she said.\nThe council also agreed to commission an independent inquiry into the DG One building and its construction so that \"all lessons are learned\".\nA spokesman for Kier, who built the centre, said last week that a settlement for the building had been reached last year allowing full remedial works to be undertaken.", "summary": "An \"independent, comprehensive and unfettered\" inquiry is to be held into flaws at a flagship leisure centre." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But three years ago, it was a very different scene. Noisy protesters had gathered outside Dublin's government buildings, demonstrating against the country's bailout.\nIn the midst of the eurozone debt crisis, Ireland was forced to accept a 67bn euros (£57bn) lifeline from the European authorities.\nThere was anger over the huge burden the bailout had put on Ireland's population.\nNow, three years on, Ireland has left the bailout programme.\nBut few have forgotten the economic pain and particularly the bust in the property market.\nDuring the boom, Dublin's skyline was a forest of construction cranes.\nLow global interest rates allowed Irish banks to go on a lending spree, with much of the money ending up in the construction sector.\nWhen the bubble burst in 2008, many companies could not pay off their loans and hundreds of property firms ended up going bust each month.\nJarlath O'Leary experienced the boom and bust in the industry first hand.\nHis crane hire company did well during the good times, but when the crisis hit he saw demand drop by 85%.\nHe slashed staff numbers and reduced investment, but managed to survive while many of his competitors went bust.\nNow the company is back in expansion mode and Mr O'Leary is positive about the future.\n\"It's different now from what it was like in the boom; business is much more like what it was historically,\" says Mr O'Leary.\nHaving fallen 50% from the peak, house prices are now up 10% in Dublin in the last year.\nResidential construction is still fairly subdued but with Google, Facebook and Intel all expanding their operations in Ireland, there are hopes the building industry will grow in a more sustainable way.\n\"There are a number of big multinational companies that are investing heavily in new offices. Ireland feels like a good place to invest again,\" said Mr O'Leary.\nHaving had such a tough recession, many economic indicators in Ireland are bouncing back.\nThe economy has been creating jobs, with 58,000 new positions created over the last year.\nThe unemployment rate now stands at 12.5% (though this is still a lot higher than the UK's rate of 7.6%).\nBut the improvements have come at a price.\nPublic sector wages have fallen on average by around 20% since the start of the crisis and those in the private sector have also seen their pensions and pay slashed.\nIn graphics: Eurozone crisis\nPart of the story behind the improved jobs numbers has been increase in migration from Ireland over the past few years.\nIn the last year, more than 34,000 young people have left the country, with the UK and Australia the two most popular destinations.\nThere's a feeling of relief and celebration around the main square of Trinity College Dublin.\nThe students filling out of exam rooms ready for the Christmas holidays seem positive about their futures, but the shadow of the financial crisis is never far away.\nCormac Noonan, 21, has seen the pressure of the lack of opportunities in the job market first hand.\nHis older brother was forced to move to Australia to find work in the construction sector and he is unsure if he will find work in Ireland once he finishes his degree in management and computing.\n\"It's tough for young people to have to move away to find work. It's also very difficult for their parents, with them being in places like Australia and Canada.\n\"But hopefully things will pick up and they can come back and work in Ireland again,\" he said.\nThe Irish government is trying to strike the right balance between trumpeting the country's achievements and warning about the challenges ahead.\nIt has already made 28bn euros worth of spending cuts and tax rises over the last three years.\n\"This is a very important moment. Three years ago this government was broke, we were in a position where nobody would lend to Ireland,\" says Eamon Gilmore, the deputy prime minister.\n\"Three years ago this country was losing 7,000 jobs a month. Now we are creating 5,000 jobs a month.\n\"But there is still lots to do - we still have a very high level of unemployment, especially amongst young people,\" he said.\nThere are some who worry that a downturn in the world economy could have a serious impact on Ireland's heavily export-dependent economy.\nBut for the moment, many in Ireland are just coming to terms with what's become a rare commodity in past five years - good economic news.", "summary": "Like cities across Europe in December, Dublin's streets are full of happy shoppers lugging their Christmas shopping home." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The inquiry was conducted over nine months involving US and German experts.\nIt concluded that Wolfgang Priklopil in all likelihood acted alone when he abducted the 10-year-old in 1998.\nMs Kampusch escaped from a windowless cell in the suburb of the capital, Vienna, in 2006. Priklopil committed suicide the same day.\nDNA tests and the questioning of 113 witnesses had led to theories being discounted that Priklopil had accomplices, the report said.\nMs Kampusch, now 25, has said that she never saw anyone else during her time in captivity.\n\"Although the involvement of others in the kidnap cannot be completely ruled out, there is no objective proof this was the case and no leads could be found,\" read the report commissioned last year by the Austrian parliament.\nHowever, the head of the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany, Joerg Ziercke, said there was no definitive scientific proof as Priklopil was no longer alive.\nConspiracy theories abounded after a schoolgirl said that she had seen Ms Kampusch being forced into a vehicle by two men. Her subsequent statements contradicted her initial testimony. The girl later withdrew her statement entirely.\nMr Ziercke said that the girl had mistakenly identified the kidnapper's car for another, seen a little later, where there were indeed two men sat inside.\nPriklopil's car and house in Strasshof were searched for DNA and evidence of further suspects but nothing was found, he said.\nThe death of the unemployed telecoms engineer was confirmed as suicide, after the report authors re-interviewed the driver of the train that he threw himself in front of.", "summary": "A new investigation into the kidnapping of Austrian girl Natascha Kampusch has debunked conspiracy theories, saying her captor \"most likely\" acted alone." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Earlier this month, the 36-year-old was fined £4,900 after asking a TV reporter for a date in a live interview while playing for Melbourne Renegades in Australia's Big Bash League.\nHe later apologised but said the reaction was \"out of proportion\".\nGayle, whose first game is on 1 June against Sussex, scored 328 runs in three appearances for Somerset in 2015.\nThe final match of his six-game stint will be against Hampshire on 19 June.\nGayle said: \"I really enjoyed my time at Somerset last year. It's a great club and the supporters were absolutely incredible.\n\"I'm looking forward to seeing the fans again and to scoring some more runs. Hopefully I can help the club make it through to the later stages.\"\nSomerset's director of cricket Matt Maynard previously described Gayle as \"box office\" and suggested Somerset sold out their seven T20 Blast games last year \"essentially on the back of him signing\".\nThe left-hander hit a 12-ball half-century to equal the record for the fastest fifty in Twenty20 cricket before Renegades exited the Big Bash earlier this month.\nSomerset's chief executive Guy Lavender said they may be able to bring Gayle back to Taunton if they qualified from the group stage.\nSomerset's newly-appointed County Championship skipper Chris Rogers has made it clear he's not the biggest fan of his former Sydney Thunder team-mate Gayle.\nAustralian batsman Rogers played in the Big Bash League alongside Gayle three years ago.\n\"From my time at the Thunder I was very disappointed in his attitude and his behaviour,\" Rogers said on 5 January. \"I've never been a fan since.\n\"He has to realise at some stage, and I'd be the first to admit that at times I've let myself down with my behaviour, but you grow up and you start making better decisions. He needs to start making better decisions.\"\nRogers has replaced Marcus Trescothick as captain for the four-day competition, after he stepped down from the role last week.\nHowever, Gayle will not play under Rogers directly as Jim Allenby is the club's one-day captain.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nGayle has earned the backing of Maynard despite Rogers' criticism of his time with the Thunder.\nThe former Glamorgan batsman said the West Indian had got on well with everyone during his time with Somerset last summer.\n\"He obviously didn't leave a great impression there, but he did here,\" Maynard told Points West.\n\"He made a superb impression on the fans, on the players, on the town itself. He was so well thought of and that's what you go on.\n\"I know there will be no issues between him and Chris Rogers. They are both grown men and they will get on fine.\"\nGayle's 2016 stint with Somerset\nWednesday, 1 June - Sussex v Somerset\nFriday, 3 June - Somerset v Essex\nFriday, 10 June - Somerset v Surrey\nWednesday, 15 June - Somerset v Glamorgan\nFriday, 17 June - Gloucestershire v Somerset\nSunday, 19 June - Somerset v Hampshire", "summary": "Somerset have re-signed West Indies batsman Chris Gayle for six matches in this summer's T20 Blast competition." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The UK-wide campaign, which will launch with TV adverts on Saturday, will focus on promoting \"unique lasting bonds of friendship\" formed in the service.\nThe Army currently has 79,000 fully trained soldiers, having set a target to have 82,000 by 2020.\nMajor General Tim Hyams said the Army also offered a \"sense of belonging\".\nThe number of soldiers in the Army has been falling since cuts began in 2010 - when there were 102,260 troops.\nThe cutbacks followed the government's strategic defence and security review, which called for a restructure - dubbed Army 2020 - to help reduce the UK budget deficit.\nIndeed, since 2010, the number of soldiers leaving the Army has exceeded the number of new recruits every year.\nCapita, the private company which is promoting the recruitment campaign on behalf of the MoD, said Army recruitment remained \"strong\", with \"thousands joining in the past 12 months\".\nHowever, it said the MoD was looking for \"new, inspirational and motivating\" ways to attract new recruits.\nIt said the Army was operating in \"a highly competitive recruitment marketplace\" and the new campaign was \"one aspect of the Army's response to that\".\nThe recruitment drive will call on Britons to take up an ambition to do more for good causes and \"sign up for adventure and travel opportunities\".\nIt will highlight humanitarian missions in countries such as Sierra Leone, while recruitment events will also be held in cities across the UK.\nMajor General Hyams said: \"Life in the British army develops unique and lasting bonds of friendship.\n\"This sense of belonging is central to the opportunity we offer to those who wish to pursue a career in an organisation that makes a positive contribution to society.\"", "summary": "A new Army campaign is to promote the travel opportunities and friendship within its ranks, in an effort to attract new recruits." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "More than 300 people were on Asiana Airlines Flight 214, from South Korea's capital, Seoul. Passengers and crew escaped down emergency slides as the plane burst into flames.\nAsiana has confirmed two female Chinese teenagers have died in the crash.\nThe airline said mechanical problems did not cause the crash.\nThe two Chinese teenagers who died had been seated at the back of the aircraft, said Asiana, South Korea's second largest carrier.\nThey are believed to be the first-ever fatalities in a Boeing 777 crash.\n\"Currently we understand that there were no engine or mechanical problems,\" Asiana chief executive Yoon Young-Doo told a news conference in Seoul.\nBoeing said in a statement it would provide technical assistance to the investigation.\nEarly indications suggest the plane came in too short and hit the seawall at the airport.\nEight adults and two children who suffered critical injuries are being treated at San Francisco General Hospital, hospital spokesperson Rachael Kagan said.\nAltogether 181 people were taken to hospital, mostly with minor injuries.\nThere were 291 passengers and 16 crew on board, Asiana said.\nNationalities on board included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans and 61 US citizens, the airline said.\nRescue teams initially took 49 people deemed to be in a serious condition to nearby hospitals, officials said.\nSome 190 people walked to safety from the plane, many of whom were later treated for minor injuries.\nAll of the passengers have now been accounted for.\nWhile the sequence of events remains unclear, it appeared the plane landed and then crashed on San Francisco International Airport's Runway 28L, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown.\nFootage of the scene showed debris strewn on the runway and smoke pouring from the jet, as fire crews sprayed a white fire retardant into gaping holes in the craft's roof.\nOne engine and the tail fin appeared to have broken away from the main wreckage.\nPassenger Ben Levy said there had been no warning of problems before the crash. \"It happened in a flash, nobody was worried about anything,\" he said.\nBut once the aircraft crashed, \"there was chaos, disbelief, screaming\".\n\"My seat had been pushed to the floor, it was a mess everywhere,\" Mr Levy recalled.\nNevertheless, people \"calmed down pretty quickly\" and evacuated the plane without pushing or stepping on each other.\nMeanwhile another passenger, David Eun, tweeted a picture of people evacuating down the plane's emergency inflatable slides and wrote: \"I just crash landed at SFO. Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I'm ok. Surreal...\"\nMr Eun, who describes himself as a \"digital media guy\" and \"frequent flier\", added: \"Fire and rescue people all over the place. They're evacuating the injured. Haven't felt this way since 9/11.\"\nA witness to the crash, Ki Siadatan, said the plane \"looked out of control\" as it descended over San Francisco Bay to land just before 11:30 (18:30 GMT).\n\"We heard a 'boom' and saw the plane disappear into a cloud of dust and smoke,\" he told the BBC. \"There was then a second explosion.\"\nHe saw events unfold from the balcony of his home in the Millbrae area of San Francisco, which overlooks the airport.\nWeather conditions were fine and there was little wind, he added.\nArrivals and departures at the airport have been suspended since the incident.\nThe twin-engine Boeing 777 has a good safety record as a long-haul aircraft and is used by many major carriers.", "summary": "A Boeing 777 aircraft has crash-landed at San Francisco international airport, killing two people and injuring dozens more, officials say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The All Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform says there is clear evidence cannabis could have a therapeutic role for some conditions, including chronic pain and anxiety.\nIt says tens of thousands of people in the UK already break the law to use the drug for symptom relief.\nBut the Home Office says there are no plans to legalise the \"harmful drug.\"\nPlant cannabis contains more than 60 chemicals.\nThe All Party Parliamentary Group wants the Home Office to reclassify herbal cannabis under existing drug laws, from schedule one to schedule four.\nThis would put it in the same category as steroids and sedatives and mean doctors could prescribe cannabis to patients, and chemists could dispense it.\nPatients might even be allowed to grow limited amounts of cannabis for their own consumption.\nPeople with multiple sclerosis can legally take a cannabis-based medicine.\nThis licensed medicine, called Sativex, is a mouth spray and contains two chemical extracts (THC and CBD) derived from the cannabis plant.\nUnder current laws in England and Wales, cannabis is not recognised as having any therapeutic value and anyone using the drug, even for medical reasons, could be charged for possession.\nThe NHS warns that cannabis use carries a number of risks, such as impairing the ability to drive, as well as causing harm to lungs if smoked and harm to mental health, fertility or unborn babies.\nThe All Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform took evidence from 623 patients, representatives of the medical professions and people with knowledge of how medical cannabis was regulated across the world.\n37\naverage age of patient\n67%\ntry conventional medicines first\n37% don't tell their doctor\n72% buy street cannabis\n20% grow their own\nCo-chair Baroness Molly Meacher said: \"Cannabis works as a medicine for a number of medical conditions.\n\"The evidence has been strong enough to persuade a growing number of countries and US states to legalise access to medical cannabis.\n\"Against this background, the UK scheduling of cannabis as a substance that has no medical value is irrational.\"\nThe group commissioned a report by an expert in rehabilitation medicine, Prof Mike Barnes, which found good evidence that medical cannabis helps alleviate the symptoms of:\nAnd there was moderate evidence that it could help with:\nBut there was limited or no evidence that cannabis helps:\nIt found short-term side-effects of cannabis were generally mild and well tolerated, but that there was a link with schizophrenia in some long-term users.\n\"There is probably a link in those who start using cannabis at an early age and also if the individual has a genetic predisposition to psychosis. There should be caution with regard to prescription of cannabis for such individuals,\" says the report.\nAlso, there is a small dependency rate with cannabis at about 9%, \"which needs to be taken seriously but compares to around 32% for tobacco use and 15% for alcohol use\".\nThe evidence for cognitive impairment in long-term users is not clear but \"it is wise to be cautious in prescribing cannabis to younger people, given the possible susceptibility of the developing brain\", says the report.\nSmoking cannabis in a joint rolled with tobacco can make asthma worse and probably increases the risk of lung cancer.\nProf Barnes said: \"We analysed over 20,000 scientific and medical reports.\n\"The results are clear. Cannabis has a medical benefit for a wide range of conditions.\n\"I believe that with greater research, it has the potential to help with an even greater number of conditions.\n\"But this research is being stifled by the government's current classification of cannabis as having no medical benefit.\"\nCannabis is currently classified as a Class B drug, with possession carrying a maximum sentence of five years in jail or an unlimited fine.\nThose supplying or producing cannabis face tougher penalties, with a maximum of 14 years in jail.\nThe drug comes in many different forms - hash is cannabis resin, while marijuana is the dried leaves and flowers of the plant.\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"There is a substantial body of scientific and medical evidence to show that cannabis is a harmful drug which can damage people's mental and physical health.\n\"It is important that medicines are thoroughly trialled to ensure they meet rigorous standards before being placed on the market.\n\"There is a clear regime in place, administered by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, to enable medicines, including those containing controlled drugs, to be developed.\"\nAbout 24 US states, Canada, Israel and at least 11 European countries already allow access to cannabis for medical use.\nFollow Michelle on Twitter", "summary": "Taking cannabis for medical reasons should be made legal, says a cross-party group of UK politicians." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Foyle College will relocate from its existing building on the Northland Road to the new site on the Limavady Road in the Waterside area of the city.\nEbrington Primary School will also move from its present location at Lapwing Way.\nThe Education Minister John O'Dowd was there on Thursday to cut the first sod. Building work on the shared site is due for completion in 2017.\nFoyle College has been in the process of acquiring a new home for the past 20 years.\nThere had been fears over the future of the plans due to cuts in the education budget.\nRobin Young, from the school's board of governors, said it was a relief to finally get the project underway.\n\"We looked at various sites but this was one in the heart of the Waterside, easily accessible and brings everything together on one site.\n\"Foyle College is 400 years old in 2017 so that will certainly be a big year for us and to open the new school in that year is a tremendous thing.\n\"To have a close association to one of our main feeder primary schools is very important to us also with benefits to the pupils of both schools.\"\nUp to 1,400 pupils are expected to attend across the two schools.\nEbrington Primary School principal Nigel Dougherty said the new building would be a far cry from running around catching rain water in buckets.\n\"I'm very very excited this morning and I just can't believe how big the site is. I think we wrote our first letter in 2002 so 13 years have past so it's fantastic that this day has finally arrived.\n\"Any building that's 60 years old will have problems and we had our leaks and we had our buckets and that's probably one of the reasons why this new school was so much needed.\n\"The co-location plans probably did hold us back a little bit, but that was just to ensure that everybody got what they needed from the site.\"\nSpeaking during his visit to the site, Minister John O'Dowd said it was an exciting period for both schools.\n\"The start of construction work on this site represents an investment of over £31m by my department and this financial input will have a major impact on the schools and the community and create many positive outcomes for both.\n\"I have no doubt the new facilities will enhance the learning experience and ensure that both schools are well equipped to deliver the curriculum for now and for future generations to come.\"\nThe first phase of the project, which includes the primary school and energy centre, is due to be completed by September 2016.\nThe school will include two moderate learning difficulties speech and language units and a double nursery.\nThe second phase will include new teaching accommodation, grass pitches, synthetic tennis courts and a 3G pitch.", "summary": "Work has started on a new £31m shared campus for two Londonderry schools." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Legal action was brought by relatives of three men killed by roadside bombs while in Snatch Land Rovers and another killed while in a Challenger tank.\nThe judges ruled the families could make damages claims under human rights legislation and sue for negligence.\nThe defence secretary has said the ruling could make it \"more difficult for troops to carry out operations\".\nThe ruling comes after a lengthy legal battle and previous judgements by the High Court and the Court of Appeal.\nBy Caroline WyattDefence correspondent, BBC News\nThis is the result the MoD did not want. It has fought hard through the courts to limit the extension of human rights and negligence laws to the battlefield, an unpredictable place where the enemy is usually trying to kill or maim UK military personnel: a place which MoD lawyers have long argued is incompatible with the idea of a 'right to life'.\nBut gradually, the European Convention on Human Rights has been tested in the courts and found to apply to British soldiers while on British military bases abroad. And now thanks to the Supreme Court's judgement, human rights have been found to apply to soldiers on the battlefield, though not without limits.\nExactly what their judgement means for soldiers and their families will still have to be tested in the High Court, as the judgement is not the end of the story. There are likely to be many more legal skirmishes before it's clear what impact will be, whether on procurement decisions, devising training or issuing orders before the UK's soldiers, sailors or air personnel are sent to war.\nAt least 37 UK soldiers have died in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan while travelling in the lightly armoured Snatch Land Rover; its vulnerability has led some soldiers to call it the \"mobile coffin\".\nThe families of the three soldiers who died in the vehicles while on duty in Iraq want to make claims for damages under the European Convention on Human Rights, Article Two of which imposes a duty on authorities, in this case the Army, to protect the right to life.\nThe soldiers were Pte Phillip Hewett, 21, of Tamworth, Staffordshire, who was killed in July 2005; Pte Lee Ellis, 23, of Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, killed in February 2006; and L/Cpl Kirk Redpath, 22, of Romford, east London, killed in August 2007.\nThe Ministry of Defence had argued the claims should be struck out because the soldiers were not covered by the legislation once they had left their British base.\nBut the Supreme Court rejected this, concluding the soldiers were within the UK's jurisdiction at the time of their deaths and so were subject to human rights legislation.\nBBC legal affairs correspondent Clive Colman described the ruling as a \"major shift\", which could now lead to more claims being made against the MoD.\nBut he added that the court had been careful to say that certain things will still not be challengeable under human rights law, such as high-level policy decisions at the MoD or decisions made in the heat of battle.\nThe families of Cpl Stephen Allbutt, 35, of Sneyd Green, Stoke-on-Trent - who was killed in a \"friendly fire\" incident in a tank in Iraq in March 2003 - and of L/Cpl Daniel Twiddy, of Stamford, Lincolnshire, and Trooper Andrew Julien, of Bolton, Greater Manchester, who were both badly injured in the same incident, brought a second case to the court.\nThey argued that the MoD owed a duty of care under the law of negligence. They said the MoD had failed to properly equip the tanks and to give soldiers adequate training.\nThe MoD had argued that there was \"combat immunity\" where troops in action were concerned and it was not \"fair, just or reasonable\" to impose a duty of care on the MoD when soldiers were on the battlefield.\nBut during Wednesday's hearing, the Supreme Court justices ruled that immunity did not apply in this case.\nDefence Secretary Philip Hammond said: \"I am very concerned at the wider implications of this judgement, which could ultimately make it more difficult for our troops to carry out operations, and potentially throws open a wide range of military decisions to the uncertainty of litigation.\n\"We will continue to make this point in future legal proceedings as it can't be right that troops on operations have to put the European Convention on Human Rights ahead of what is operationally vital to protect our national security.\"\nDebi Allbutt, the widow of Cpl Stephen Allbutt, told the BBC she was pleased with the outcome, but that the families' fight would continue.\nShe said: \"We want combat immunity thrown out of the rulebook, so instead of soldiers having to sue the Ministry of Defence, the equipment and the training will be in place to stop things like this happening again.\"\nSusan Smith, mother of Pte Phillip Hewett, described the judgement as \"absolutely brilliant\".\n\"They can no longer treat soldiers as sub-human with no rights,\" she said.\n\"Phillip's dead. Nothing is going to bring him back, but this might help save lives in the future.\"\nLawyer Jocelyn Cockburn, who is acting for the Snatch Land Rover families, said the MoD \"can't be given a carte blanche to fail to equip our troops\".\nShe said: \"I think what they have established is what seems to many families is common sense - that soldiers have human rights, and they do remain within the jurisdiction of the UK, and they don't lose those because they are on the battlefield.\"\nThe families' claims will now be able to proceed to trial to determine if the MoD owes damages.", "summary": "Families of soldiers killed in Iraq can pursue damages against the government, the Supreme Court has ruled." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The contest in the Oban North and Lorn constituency was triggered after independent councillor Duncan McIntyre resigned due to ill-health in December.\nThe SNP's Julie McKenzie won the seat with 1,113 first-preference votes.\nAndrew Vennard of the Conservatives came second with 609 first-preference votes, with independent candidate Kieron Green one vote behind in third. Turnout was 33.84%.\nThe council is controlled by a coalition of independents, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.\nSNP business convener Derek Mackay hailed a \"fantastic result\", adding: \"This is the latest evidence that the party's extraordinary success continues - marking the 27th win for the SNP in the 30 by-elections that have been held since May 2015.\"\nScottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said she was pleased to see the Tory vote up by 14.1% in the election.", "summary": "The SNP has gained a seat on Argyll and Bute Council following a by-election." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Amy Smith, 17, and her six-month-old daughter Ruby-Grace Gaunt died, along with Ed Green, also 17, in Langley Mill, Derbyshire, on Sunday.\nPeter Eyre, 43, Anthony Eyre, 21, both of Sandiacre, and Simon Eyre, 24, from Long Eaton, are due before magistrates in Chesterfield on Friday.\nA 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of murder has been released on bail.\nThe three victims all died from the effects of smoke inhalation, police said.\nTwo men, aged 18 and 17, who were also inside the premises, were rescued by neighbours and treated for smoke inhalation.\nThey used ladders to help rescue residents inside the house before emergency services arrived.\nResident Sean Needham said he passed his six-year-old disabled son out of a window into his neighbour's arms.\nSeveral neighbouring properties were evacuated due to a gas leak caused by the blaze.\nTributes were paid online to the three victims.\nKatie Gough said: \"Knowing the baby was only six months old is so heartbreaking, and 17 years of age is too young to die.\"\nJodie Mee wrote: \"Rest in peace girls and Ed, Heaven has gained two beautiful girls and a strong boy. Thoughts go out to their family and all the people who knew them.\"\nOn Twitter, Immy wrote: \"I feel so proud to have known someone who has been so brave and selfless, RIP Ed Green you won't be forgotten.\"", "summary": "A father and two sons have been charged with murder after a flat fire in which two teenagers and a baby were killed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Perpignan fly-half has not recovered from a bout of chicken pox and his bench place will be taken by Stephen Jones.\nScarlets veteran Jones will extend his Welsh caps record to 105 if he takes to the field.\nLock Alun Wyn Jones and captain Sam Warburton return from injuries for the encounter at Twickenham.\nA Wales statement read: \"Although Hook is physically well it was felt that, in the best interests of the Welsh team and the opposition, he should be withdrawn from the game.\n\"Whilst this decision has not been taken lightly, it was concluded that this was the most responsible course of action.\"\nUnbeaten Wales made three changes to the pack that started their 27-13 win over Scotland.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nHooker Ken Owens makes his first Wales start because Matthew Rees and Huw Bennett have calf injuries.\nOsprey Alun Wyn Jones will play his first Wales game since the World Cup, ousting team-mate Ryan Jones, who hands back the captaincy to openside Warburton.\nWarburton was forced to miss the victory over the Scots because of a dead leg.\nAlun Wyn Jones, who win his 60th cap, is back after recovering from a dislocated toe he suffered in training in November.\nOwens won the second of his two caps as a replacement in the victory over Scotland after making his debut from the bench against Namibia in the pool stages of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.\nThe Wales backline remains unchanged from that which started both victories so far in the Championship, against Ireland in Dublin and Scotland in Cardiff.\nFull Six Nations table\nThe only injury concern in the backline had been George North's twisted ankle but the 19-year-old wing has recovered.\n\"A fit again Alun Wyn Jones is selected based on his Rugby World Cup form and his experience as an international lock,\" said Wales head coach Warren Gatland.\n\"He gave us a selection dilemma but it has been a great problem to have and, whilst Ryan Jones is particularly unlucky to miss out on this occasion, this is just that kind of competition for places we have been striving for.\n\"Ken Owens has been waiting patiently for his chance and injuries elsewhere have meant he gets his opportunity this weekend and we are expecting him to take it.\"\nOn the bench Osprey Richard Hibbard provides the hooker cover with Rees and Bennett both injured.\nRyan Jones replaces Sale Sharks back row Andy Powell, with Justin Tipuric completing the forward replacements.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThat means there is no place in the 22 for Aaron Shingler, who made an impressive Wales debut against Scotland.\nBlues scrum-half Lloyd Williams and Scarlets centre Scott Williams are retained to provide cover for the backs along with recalled 34-year-old Stephen Jones.\nMeanwhile, Gatland has said Wales are not intimidated by the task facing them against England.\nWales have won only once at Twickenham in the last 20 years - a 26-19 victory during the Grand Slam season of 2008 and have never completed any of their previous 19 Triple Crowns at the ground.\n\"There is definitely not that fear factor now,\" Gatland told BBC Wales' Sport Wales.\n\"If we go there with our heads right and get some quality ball, we have got a good chance. We are not afraid of going to Twickenham now, we are excited about it.\n\"I expect England might have the attitude that if they can get four penalties, a try and conversion and get 19 points, and they can squeeze us, that might be enough.\n\"It is a great challenge for us going to Twickenham as favourites. This young team has got to learn to accept that and deal with those expectations, because in Wales there is nothing in between - it is all or nothing.\nIt will not be as mild as recent days but a pleasant afternoon in store weather-wise at Twickenham. With light winds and some sunshine, a very reasonable 11 or 12 degrees is expected.\nFull Twickenham forecast\n\"There is only one consequence of being built up and that is you get quickly knocked down. We have got to make sure we keep our feet on the ground.\n\"A lot of people are talking us up which is going to add to England's motivation, and we have got to handle that.\n\"I have generally got fond memories of Twickenham [where he began his tenure as Wales coach with victory in 2008], but talking to some Wales players who played over the past 20 years, it was a bit different when they were fully loaded with [Martin] Johnson, [Lawrence] Dallaglio, Back and all the others.\"\nWALES: Leigh Halfpenny (Cardiff Blues); Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Jamie Roberts (Cardiff Blues), George North (Scarlets); Rhys Priestland (Scarlets), Mike Phillips (Baynonne); Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Ken Owens (Scarlets), Adam Jones (Ospreys), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Ian Evans (Ospreys), Dan Lydiate (Dragons), Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues, capt), Toby Faletau (Dragons).\nReplacements: Richard Hibbard (Ospreys), Paul James (Ospreys), Ryan Jones (Ospreys), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Lloyd Williams (Cardiff Blues), Stephen Jones (Scarlets), Scott Williams (Scarlets).\nEngland: Ben Foden (Northampton Saints); Chris Ashton (Northampton Saints), Manusamoa Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers), Brad Barritt (Saracens), David Strettle (Saracens); Owen Farrell (Saracens), Lee Dickson (Northampton Saints); Alex Corbisiero (London Irish), Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints), Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers), Mouritz Botha (Saracens), Geoff Parling (Leicester Tigers), Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins, capt), Ben Morgan (Scarlets).\nReplacements: Rob Webber (London Wasps), Matt Stevens (Saracens), Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints), Phil Dowson (Northampton Saints), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers), Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers), Mike Brown (Harlequins).\nWALES SQUAD\nBacks: Mike Phillips (Bayonne), Lloyd Williams (Cardiff Blues), Rhys Webb (Ospreys), Rhys Priestland (Scarlets), James Hook (Perpignan), Stephen Jones (Scarlets), Jamie Roberts (Cardiff Blues), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Gavin Henson (Cardiff Blues), Ashley Beck (Ospreys), George North (Scarlets), Leigh Halfpenny (Cardiff Blues), Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues), Harry Robinson (Cardiff Blues), Liam Williams (Scarlets), Lee Byrne (Clermont Auvergne)\nForwards: Craig Mitchell (Exeter Chiefs), Adam Jones (Ospreys), Ryan Bevington (Ospreys), Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Paul James (Ospreys), Rhys Gill (Saracens), Rhodri Jones (Scarlets), Matthew Rees (Scarlets), Huw Bennett (Ospreys), Ken Owens (Scarlets), Richard Hibbard (Ospreys), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Ian Evans (Ospreys), Lou Reed (Scarlets), Ryan Jones (Ospreys), Dan Lydiate (Newport Gwent Dragons), Sam Warburton (capt, Cardiff Blues), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Toby Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons), Andy Powell (Sale Sharks), Aaron Shingler (Scarlets).", "summary": "James Hook is out of Wales' match squad for their Triple Crown bid against England on Saturday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Thomas, who has become executive chairman, has also paid the full £166,000 owed to HM Revenue & Customs ahead of a winding-up petition hearing.\nOn Friday, the League Two club will face an administration petition brought by the Borough Council, which is set to be adjourned.\nThomas takes over after Cardoza and father Anthony sold their stakes.\nThe consortium that has taken charge also includes David Bower, who becomes a director, and Mike Wailing, who becomes non-executive director, while both Cardozas and director Barry Hancock have left their roles.\nThomas also confirmed that staff, who were not paid by the club in October, would be paid in full next week.\nA statement added that HMRC are also looking to withdraw their winding-up petition.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"We have the funds in place to take care of the short and long-term needs of the club which has been shown to both the council and the Football League, and we will be working hard over the next few months to understand the areas of investment required and then implement plans accordingly,\" said Thomas in a statement.\nThe administration petition has been lodged by Northampton Borough Council in a bid to give it more control over the club's future.\nBut, following a memorandum of understanding between Thomas and the council over a £10.25m loan to the club for redevelopment work at Sixfields Stadium, the local authority will ask for an adjournment at the hearing.\nThe deal would see the debt wiped out, with the council acquiring land near Sixfields for development in return.\nThe winding-up petition from HM Revenue & Customs over £166,000 in unpaid tax is set to be heard on 30 November.\nCardoza first said he was in talks to sell the Cobblers in June, revealing that an unnamed London-based Indian consortium was interested in buying the club, but that deal fell through three months later.\nMeanwhile on Tuesday, Northamptonshire Police announced they had started an investigation into \"alleged financial irregularities\" surrounding the £10.25m loan to the club.\nDespite the uncertainty off the pitch, the Cobblers are currently in the League Two automatic promotion places.", "summary": "Former Oxford United chairman Kelvin Thomas has completed his takeover of Northampton Town from David Cardoza." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 107.66 point, or 0.6%, to 17,792.75.\nThe S&P 500 climbed 13.04 points, or 0.63%, to 2,072.78 and the Nasdaq was up 0.92% to 4,914.54.\nThe markets were boosted by 215,000 jobs being created in in March, slightly above the anticipated 200,000. And manufacturing activity increased for the first time in five months.\nShares in US carmakers fell. They were hit because even though sales in March were strong they were below analysts' expectations.\nGeneral Motors shares fell 3.1% and Ford shares dropped 3%.\nPetroleum-linked shares dropped on lower oil prices. Chevron fell 1.2% and Marathon Oil 5.2%.\nAnd it was a bad day for US airlines.\nShares in American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Continental all fell sharply after Deutsche Bank warned lower corporate earnings could translate into lower demand for corporate travel. Carriers who fly internationally were hit especially hard. American lost 3.6%, Delta 3.4% and United 5.3%", "summary": "(Closed): Wall Street stocks rose on Friday, lifted by positive jobs and manufacturing data." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The victim was injured after a Volkswagen (VW) car in front of him stopped abruptly, forcing him to brake on Wash Lane, Bury, at 00:30 BST, police said.\nBoth drivers got out and the driver of the VW hit the victim's car with an axe and then his arm before he drove off.\nThe 35-year-old victim's injuries are not life-threatening, police said.\nHe is being treated in hospital.\nDet Con Keith Holt said he was \"appalled by the level of violence used\" in the attack.\n\"This must have been terrifying for the man and his friends in the car,\" he said.\nThe suspect is white, of slim build, in his mid to late 20s, and wore a grey top, police said.\nDet Con Holt appealed for witnesses and a female passenger seen in the silver VW to contact the force.\nShe is described as white, in her 20s with long hair.", "summary": "A driver has been struck with an axe in a \"horrific\" road rage attack in Greater Manchester." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Luis Arroyo was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to mistreatment of an animal and domestic abuse.\nThe 40-year-old attacked the two-month-old Chihuahua puppy and punched his girlfriend in the western mountain town of Lares on 4 February.\nJudge Carlos Lopez Jimenez also fined Arroyo $3,000 (£2,400) in the case.\nAccording to El Vocero newspaper, jobless Arroyo had been living with his 38-year-old girlfriend for six months.\nThe puppy died instantly, the daily reports.\nNo motive was given for the attack.", "summary": "A man in the US territory of Puerto Rico has been jailed for biting the head off his girlfriend's dog." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 25-year-old England international, on a season-long loan from Arsenal, was injured in the Cherries' 4-0 defeat by Tottenham on Saturday.\n\"It's a big blow to lose Jack,\" Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe said.\nWilshere has made 29 Premier League appearances this season for the club, without scoring, after joining them on transfer deadline day in August.\nScans have revealed a hairline crack in Wilshere's left fibula and he will miss Bournemouth's last five games of the season and return to Arsenal for further treatment.\nHe was substituted after 56 minutes of the game at White Hart Lane following a challenge with Tottenham striker Harry Kane.\n\"We've loved working with him since he arrived in August,\" Howe added. \"He's made a huge contribution to our season and we wish him a quick recovery.\"", "summary": "Bournemouth's on-loan midfielder Jack Wilshere will not play again this season after suffering a fractured leg." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Daryl Murphy struck in first-half stoppage time with the Magpies having dominated much of the opening period.\nMatt Ritchie made the game safe soon after the restart as he slotted home after Yoan Gouffran's shot was saved.\nAyoze Perez scored the third before Ritchie got his second with a composed finish as Newcastle re-established their one-point lead at the top.\nWith first-choice strikers Dwight Gayle and Aleksandar Mitrovic both injured, there were concerns as to where Newcastle's goals would come from, but those fears were banished as Perez went close a number of times as the home side dominated the first half.\nIt was the Millers, however, who should have taken the lead when goalkeeper Karl Darlow fumbled the ball on the edge of the area and into the path of Jerry Yates, who was eventually denied by the Magpies' stopper as he recovered well from the error to save.\nMurphy gave Rafael Benitez's men the lead seconds before the break as he turned in DeAndre Yedlin's cross, and soon after the interval Ritchie made it 2-0 to help ensure Rotherham would lose for the 17th time in 21 games in all competitions.\nPerez then got his first goal since October after another cross from Yedlin, before Ritchie got his second of the game, slotting home a well-timed pass by Jonjo Shelvey - who returned for his first league appearance after the completion of his five-match ban.\nNewcastle manager Rafael Benitez: \"We scored the first goal at the right time and then got the second at a good time too. We had a lot of chances, it was a comfortable win in the end.\n\"Credit to them, they were working hard and in the first half they made it difficult to play against.\n\"We needed to win, we did it, we scored four goals, got a clean sheet and three points, so it was job done. We are going in the right direction.\"\nRotherham manager Paul Warne: \"We limited them to very few chances in the first half. I thought the way we set up was working a treat and we went to toe-to-toe with them.\n\"My conversation at half-time was a lot more different to what I wanted to have and it was a psychological hit for the lads.\n\"Newcastle started the second half well and then the game was away from us. But I don't think our season will be decided on this game. They have got class and quality all over the pitch, they will be a Premier League club again next season.\"\nMatch ends, Newcastle United 4, Rotherham United 0.\nSecond Half ends, Newcastle United 4, Rotherham United 0.\nCorner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Richard Wood.\nIsaac Hayden (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Will Vaulks (Rotherham United).\nFoul by Achraf Lazaar (Newcastle United).\nStephen Kelly (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nSubstitution, Rotherham United. Stephen Kelly replaces Anthony Forde.\nOffside, Newcastle United. Achraf Lazaar tries a through ball, but Matt Ritchie is caught offside.\nAttempt saved. Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Scott Allan with a through ball.\nSubstitution, Newcastle United. Jamie Sterry replaces DeAndre Yedlin.\nGoal! Newcastle United 4, Rotherham United 0. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a through ball following a fast break.\nCorner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Karl Darlow.\nAttempt saved. Danny Ward (Rotherham United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Tom Adeyemi.\nSubstitution, Newcastle United. Achraf Lazaar replaces Daryl Murphy.\nSubstitution, Rotherham United. Scott Allan replaces Jon Taylor.\nAttempt missed. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Sammy Ameobi with a cross.\nAttempt missed. Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Paul Dummett following a corner.\nCorner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Joe Mattock.\nFoul by Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United).\nDarnell Fisher (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a cross following a corner.\nSubstitution, Newcastle United. Sammy Ameobi replaces Yoan Gouffran.\nCorner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Aimen Belaid.\nAttempt blocked. Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\nAttempt blocked. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross.\nAttempt missed. Richard Wood (Rotherham United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Anthony Forde with a cross following a corner.\nSubstitution, Rotherham United. Danny Ward replaces Jerry Yates.\nCorner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Ciaran Clark.\nGoal! Newcastle United 3, Rotherham United 0. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) with an attempt from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by DeAndre Yedlin.\nAttempt saved. Aimen Belaid (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\nCorner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Ciaran Clark.\nAttempt blocked. Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Will Vaulks.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United) because of an injury.\nDelay in match Tom Adeyemi (Rotherham United) because of an injury.\nFoul by Daryl Murphy (Newcastle United).\nDarnell Fisher (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. DeAndre Yedlin (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\nCorner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Joe Mattock.", "summary": "Newcastle went back to the top of the Championship with a comfortable win over bottom side Rotherham United." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The deal had been on hold because of a row between the EU and outside countries over carbon emissions tax on flights.\nThe breakthrough came during a state visit to France by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.\nThe order includes 27 long-haul A330s and 43 smaller A320 planes.\nChina also signed a new 10-year agreement allowing Airbus to continue building planes in the northern city of Tianjin until 2025.\nEarlier, Airbus' helicopter division announced a deal to provide 1,000 civilian helicopters to China over the next 20 years.\nThe three biggest European economies, Germany, France and the UK, have all been clamouring to improve their trade links with China.\nLast year, France had a trade deficit with China of about 26bn euros (£22bn), which accounts for approximately 40% of France's total foreign trade deficit.\nFrench president Francois Hollande told his Chinese counterpart that he wanted to \"re-balance trade between our two countries\".\nAerospace already accounts for 29% of French exports to China.\nA fifth of Airbus's global production takes place on the Chinese mainland.\nChina and France also signed 50 trade agreements in a number of other areas, including the nuclear, financial and automotive sectors.", "summary": "European aviation giant Airbus has signed a deal to supply 70 jets, worth more than $10bn (£6bn), to China's state-owned purchasing agency." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a campaign statement, he said a \"total and complete\" shutdown should remain until the US authorities \"can figure out\" Muslim attitudes to the US.\nAt a rally in South Carolina hours later, frontrunner Mr Trump repeated the pledge, to loud cheers.\nCriticism from the White House and other Republicans was swift.\nMr Trump's comments were contrary to US values and its national security interests, a statement from the White House said.\nRepublican Jeb Bush, also running for president, said the New York businessman was \"unhinged\".\nMr Trump's statement was delivered as the US comes to terms with its deadliest terror attack since 9/11.\nLast week a Muslim couple, believed to have been radicalised, opened fire and killed 14 people at a health centre in San Bernardino.\nOn Sunday, President Barack Obama made a rare Oval Office address in response to the attack and warned against the US falling prey to divisiveness.\nMr Trump's statement to reporters on Monday said polling by the Center for Security Policy, a conservative think-tank, indicated that 25% of Muslims in the US believed violence against America was justified.\n\"Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension. Where this hatred comes from and why, we will have to determine.\n\"Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life.\"\nAgain and again during his campaign, Donald Trump has grabbed the Republican Party by the neck and dragged it to the anti-immigration, nativist right.\nWith his call for a halt to all Muslim entry into the US - reportedly even for simple tourism - he has set down yet another marker that will force his fellow candidates to stand with him or risk his dismissive ire.\nMr Trump was ridiculed when he launched his White House bid by accusing Mexico of sending its \"rapists and criminals\" into the US, and yet the New Yorker shot up in the polls.\nHe was denounced after suggesting that some mosques should be closed and Muslims in the US monitored, but he solidified his status as the party's frontrunner. In the end his hardline positions became largely accepted, if not embraced, by his fellow candidates.\nNow he is being roundly condemned for his border-closing proposal. Will this finally be a bridge too far? Perhaps. Early reports, however, show his supporters welcoming this latest pronouncement. Such is the state of the 2016 presidential campaign season so far.\nWhen asked by The Hill if that included Muslim Americans who may currently be abroad, his spokeswoman said: \"Mr Trump says everyone.\"\nThe director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, Nihad Awad, said Mr Trump sounded like the leader of a lynch mob rather than a great nation.\nSoon after his statement was released, Mr Trump's Republican rival Ben Carson called on all visitors to the US to \"register and be monitored\" during their stay.\nBut his spokesman added: \"We do not and would not advocate being selective on one's religion.\"\nAnother Republican presidential hopeful, Senator Lindsey Graham, urged all those running to condemn Mr Trump's remarks, which they did.\nRepublicans:\nDemocrats:", "summary": "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a halt to Muslims entering the US, in the wake of the deadly California shootings." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Thomas Howard, 39, and his son Tommy were the only father and son to both die in the 1989 disaster.\nPC Graham Butler told the new inquests he found Tommy among other casualties and tried to resuscitate him.\nThe jury saw footage of the boy holding on to his father's jacket in the crowd before the match kicked off.\nThey were seen in footage on the Leppings Lane terraces at the Sheffield ground on 15 April 1989 after taking a coach from their home in Runcorn.\nDavid Lackey, a Liverpool fan who was in the same pen, said he saw Mr Howard in front of him saying \"my son, my son\", but he could not move to help him.\nHe said: \"I said 'drag him up' and he said he couldn't. I knew he couldn't. There was nothing else I could say, nothing else I could do.\"\nMr Lackey said he later saw Mr Howard turning yellow and slumping forward in the crowd.\nThe jury heard how another Liverpool fan, Paul Taylor, saw Tommy in the pen after the crush and tried to give him the \"kiss of life\".\nMr Taylor said Tommy's eyes were open and \"watery\", he looked \"very peaceful\" and was unconscious, but he did not check for a pulse or breathing.\nA police officer later checked Tommy for a pulse through his gloves before saying \"leave him, he's dead\", Mr Taylor said.\nMr Butler later found Tommy among other casualties and thought he saw \"a flicker in his eyes\".\n\"I thought there was a chance he might survive, so I picked him up,\" he said.\nThe jury heard how Mr Butler and some fans carried Tommy the length of the pitch to where someone who he now believes was an ambulance man told him: \"He is not alive, take him to the gym.\"\nA doctor confirmed Tommy's death in the gym at 15:55 BST.\nAnother police officer, Peter Muir, said he found Mr Howard inside pen three after the crush.\nHe said he was drawn towards him because his eyes were \"flickering\" and his lips were \"quivering\".\nThe officer said he carried Mr Howard through a tunnel at the back of the pen and laid him on a grassed area.\nHe checked Mr Howard's pulse and in a statement said he felt a \"slight response\" at one point.\nHe continued with CPR and an off-duty nurse came over to help, but Mr Muir said they were told by a doctor that Mr Howard had died.\nThe inquests, in Warrington, are due to resume on Friday.\nBBC News: Profiles of all those who died", "summary": "A police officer at Hillsborough said he tried to save a 14-year-old boy after seeing a \"glimpse\" of what he \"thought was life\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Read an accessible version here", "summary": "As F1 hits the desert, BBC Sport pulls a few interesting numbers from the sand..." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Three vehicles with nine occupants were riding off-road when one rolled off a path in New Radnor at about 02:30 GMT on Saturday, the fire service said.\nA rescue involving the fire service, mountain rescue, ambulance service and a rescue helicopter was launched.\nBrecon Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) said the men were \"lucky to be alive\".\nTwo were airlifted to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales, while the other was taken by land ambulance to hospital in Hereford.\nMark Jones, deputy team leader of Brecon MRT, said it was a \"very difficult\" site to access and conditions were bad.\nThe vehicle was \"completely disintegrated\" at the bottom of the slope by the time his team arrived, Mr Jones added.\nHe said the rescue, which was not completed until six hours after the alarm was first raised, involved up to 60 emergency services personnel .\nStaff were sent from Mid and West Fire and Rescue Service, all four south Wales mountain rescue teams, police, the Welsh Hazardous Area Response Team, the ambulance service, and the search and rescue helicopter from St Athan.\nSimon Prince, response manager at the fire service, said of those rescued: \"They had not looked at the weather report before going out.\n\"They hadn't prepared for the weather conditions, or prepared the route either.\"", "summary": "Three men have been taken to hospital with spinal injuries after a 4x4 vehicle tumbled 60 metres (200ft) down a gully in Powys." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 31-year-old spent two seasons at Rovers but failed to score in his 41 appearances.\nBrown came through the youth system at Sunderland and has played for Doncaster Rovers, Hull City, Norwich City and Preston North End.\nHis deal includes the option of another year and he is available for Saturday's season opener against Charlton.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "League One side Bury have signed striker Chris Brown on a one-year deal after his release by Blackburn Rovers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 79-year-old pedestrian was struck by the vehicle in Highdown Drive, Littlehampton at about 10:15 GMT on Wednesday.\nSussex Police said the woman, who lived locally, was taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton but died from her injuries.\nThe force has appealed for witnesses to contact officers.\nThe van driver, a 49-year-old man from Worthing, was unhurt in the crash.", "summary": "An elderly woman has died in hospital after she was hit by a van in West Sussex." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Conservatives are proposing free breakfasts for all primary school children instead.\nBut Mr Clegg said that unlike school lunches, breakfasts have no minimum fruit and vegetable portions.\nHe said it meant children would no longer get free access to two of their \"five-a-day\".\nSchool food is shaping up to be a major battlefield at the general election:\nAll food served in English schools has to comply with nutritional standards, which means no sugary drinks or foods high in fat, sugar or salt can be served at breakfast clubs.\nBut the Lib Dems say the rules are more \"lax\" than at lunch and while fruit and/or vegetables must be \"available\", no minimum portions are set.\nMr Clegg - who created the free lunch policy when he was part of the coalition government - said: \"Theresa May's plans would hit children's health by depriving them of a free nutritional meal at school.\"\nHe said the Tory proposals were \"particularly short-sighted when we are struggling with soaring levels of childhood obesity,\" adding \"Theresa May should take her inspiration from Jamie Oliver not Oliver Twist\".\nThe TV chef, who has become a high-profile food campaigner in recent years, has called the plans \"a disgrace\", saying \"It's a fact. Children perform better after eating a decent lunch.\"\nA Lib Dem poster criticises the prime minister by playing on the Charles Dickens character's words, saying \"Please Theresa, May I have some more\".\nThe Conservatives say research shows breakfast is just as good, if not better, at boosting performance in the classroom and far cheaper - and the money saved could be ploughed back into school budgets.\nThe Conservative manifesto pledges to replace free school lunches for all children in the first three years of primary education in England with free breakfasts. The party said the move could save £650m a year.\nThe figures have been disputed, however, with researchers at the Education Data Lab finding that free school breakfasts could cost anywhere between £180m and £400m per year, depending on the level of take-up among school children.", "summary": "Conservative proposals to end free school lunches for infants in England will have a negative impact on children's health, Nick Clegg has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Offices in Newry, Coleraine, Craigavon, Enniskillen, Lisburn and Londonderry will close between 2016 and 2021.\nHMRC said it is phasing the closures to \"allow staff time to make choices for their future\" and reduce redundancies.\nIt is part of a wider move which will see the agency consolidate its staff across 13 regional centres in the UK.\nThe closure of the Newry office had been announced last year.\nIn 2013, HMRC also began a voluntary redundancy scheme for some staff Enniskillen, Londonderry, Newry and Belfast.\nHMRC expects between 1,300 and 1,600 full-time equivalent employees to work in the Belfast regional centre.\nLin Homer, HMRC's chief executive, said: \"The new regional centre in Belfast will bring our staff together in more modern and cost-effective buildings in an area with lower rent.\n\"It will also make a big contribution to the economy of Northern Ireland providing high-quality, skilled jobs and supporting the government's commitment to a national recovery that benefits all parts of the UK.\"", "summary": "Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is to close its regional offices in Northern Ireland and operate from a single facility in Belfast." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dr John Dean, who quit private medicine, describes it as \"largely a con\" in his opinion, as it does not necessarily lead to better care.\nHe believes it has a negative impact on the NHS - taking staff away from wards.\nBut the British Medical Association says there should be no conflict of interest between private and NHS work.\nDr Dean, who works at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, says he initially took up private practice to help put his children through private education and renovate his house.\nBut, according to the article, he grew increasingly uncomfortable with his career choice as it proved difficult to keep his private and NHS work separate.\n\"No matter how high I set my own moral and ethical standards, I could not escape the fact that I was involved in a business for which the conduct of some involved was so venal it bordered on criminal - the greedy preying on the needy,\" he says.\nAnd from a patient's point of view, \"the whole business is largely a con\", he says.\nWhile patients think they are getting higher quality medicine, in his view, the main advantage is jumping the NHS queue.\nHe warns: \"Private hospitals are like five-star hotels but for the most part they are no place to be if you are really sick.\"\nIn his report he suggests privately-funded care could have a wider negative impact on the NHS.\nSince a senior doctor cannot be in two places at once, time spent in the private sector \"deprives the NHS of a valuable resource,\" Dr Dean says.\nHe says perhaps medics who choose to undertake private practice should not be allowed to do any more NHS work.\nBut commenting on the article, a spokesperson for the doctors' union, the British Medical Association (BMA), said: \"There should be no conflict of interest between NHS and private work and this principle is contained in consultants' employment contracts.\n\"Consultants who want to do private work must first offer to do extra work for the NHS, ensuring NHS work is the priority.\"\nAccording to the BMA, contracts in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland stipulate that before consultants accept private work, they must tell their clinical manager who can then request they work additional NHS hours before they embark on any private work.\nDr Peter King-Lewis from the Independent Doctors Federation, added: \"If Dr Dean feels unable to provides private healthcare in parallel with his NHS commitments and personal life, then he has probably made the right decision.\n\"For those who can structure their lives to provide private healthcare without compromise, they will be able to practise medicine more independently of NHS targets and quotas and spend more time on one-to-one care of their patients.\"", "summary": "Private practice may \"prey on the needy\" and doctors should question whether they can morally juggle it with NHS work, an expert argues in the BMJ." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "ITV's The Secret tells the story of convicted killer Colin Howell and Hazel Buchanan who killed their spouses and kept the deaths secret for 18 years.\nThe programme has been criticised by the daughter of one of the victims, saying it had left her traumatised.\nA Labour Party MP raised the matter in the House of Commons on Wednesday.\nHowell and Buchanan are serving jail sentences over the murders of Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell, whose bodies were found in a fume-filled car in Castlerock 25 years ago.\nPolice believed at the time that they had died in a suicide pact, but Howell handed himself in in 2009, admitting that he had gassed the pair with Buchanan's help.\nSheffield MP Louise Haigh said the victims' families were reliving the pain of their loved ones' killings as a result of the drama.\nShe added that \"victims' voices should have a far greater role\" in determining whether or not programmes based on real-life events should be made.\nLauren Bradford, a daughter of Lesley Howell, wrote an opinion piece in the Guardian after the first episode of The Secret was broadcast, saying its makers \"trivialise the reality of these events and dehumanise the impact that it has on those involved\".\nShe added that victims' families needed to have more rights \"over their 'story' and the narrative of their loved ones\".\nMr Cameron said he would discuss the programme with Culture Secretary John Whittingdale to see if there is anything \"more that can be done\" in similar cases.\nActor James Nesbitt plays Howell in the drama, based on a book by journalist Deric Henderson that details the murders and the years that followed.\nIn a statement, an ITV spokesperson said the scripts for the programme were based on an \"exhaustively researched\" book by a \"highly respected journalist\" and that extensive additional research had been carried out.\nThey said the families of both victims were informed of the production and given an opportunity to see it in advance of broadcast.\n\"ITV has a proud record of broadcasting award-winning factual dramas, based on or representing real events and people. These include Hillsborough, Bloody Sunday, The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, Appropriate Adult, Code of A Killer, The Widower, and The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies\", the spokesperson said.\n\"We have never suggested that they (the families) approved or authorised the drama. We do believe that we have conducted the making and broadcast of this series responsibly, in seeking to minimise distress to family members, in so far as we were able to do so, given the subject matter.\"", "summary": "Prime Minister David Cameron says he will meet the culture secretary to discuss a TV drama about a 1991 double murder in County Londonderry." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Transport Select Committee considered two potential locations for a 4,000-space site, both north of the M20 at junction 11.\nThe motorway was shut 32 times last summer so lorries could queue during cross-channel disruption.\nThe Port of Dover estimates the UK economy loses up to £250m per day when Stack is in force.\nHighways England said a permanent site could \"help significantly reduce the likelihood of having to close the M20 in the future\" and improve facilities for lorries across the county in general.\nIt suggested two sites to the north of the M20, close to the village of Stanford.\nGiving evidence to the Transport Select Committee on Monday, Eurotunnel said problems last summer were unique due to the migrant crisis.\nStanford Parish Council submitted its opposition to MPs.\nIts chair, Matthew Webb, said: \"It is not worth spending £250m on a car park which might be used twice a year.\"\nHe said new motorway technology and smarter fleet management could help lorries avoid congestion instead.\nDr Hilary Newport, from the Kent branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, said Kent ports would always create a bottleneck and suggested more traffic should be diverted to Tilbury.\nCouncillor Matthew Balfour, cabinet member for Environment and Transport at Kent County Council, said the only solution was to have a storage area off the M20 as Kent \"grinds to a halt\" when lorries are parked on the motorway.\nNatalie Chapman of the Freight Transport Association said there had to be an answer, adding: \"We can't be using a part of our strategic road network as a giant lorry park.\"", "summary": "Plans to build a huge lorry park to end the gridlock caused by Operation Stack have been discussed at Westminster." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They now have 19 seats, just one ahead of the Conservatives who gained seven.\nLabour slipped from first to third place in Edinburgh after losing eight seats to drop from 20 - actual seats - in 2012 to 12 this time.\nAll 17 wards have been declared with the SNP securing 19 seats, the Tories 18, Labour 12, Greens eight and Lib Dems six. The Greens gained one and the Lib Dems got three more councillors.\nThe council had been run by a Labour-SNP coalition.\nBoundary changes have occurred since the last Scottish council elections so the BBC calculates overall seat changes based on notional 2012 results. They estimate what the results would have been in 2012 if the new boundaries had been in place.\nA big casualty was the SNP's Richard Lewis, Edinburgh's culture convener, losing his Colinton/Fairmilehead seat.\nLabour's Scott Arthur took the seat from the SNP in the constituency.\nSNP group leader Frank Ross retained his seat in the Corstorphine/Murrayfield ward but Labour lost the seat of retiring council leader Andrew Burns in Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart.\nFormer Scotsman editor John McLellan has been elected as a Conservative councillor in the Craigentinny/Duddingston ward.\nIn total 63 councillors were elected to represent the City of Edinburgh Council, with a 50.5% turnout for the city - up from 42.6% in 2012.\nBy BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor\nLet's talk numbers - there have been boundary changes which mean that some comparisons are made with \"notional\" outcomes in 2012, the last time these councils were contested.\nOn that count, the SNP are notionally down by a fractional seven seats. However, in terms of absolute numbers, the Nationalists have ended up with more councillors than in 2012.\nPlus the SNP are the largest party in Scotland's four largest cities - including Glasgow, where jubilant supporters attended their ousting of Labour. They have waited decades for that.\nRead more from Brian\nReturning Officer Andrew Kerr said: \"This is a particularly busy time for politics, both nationally and locally, so I'm pleased that so many people have turned out to have their say in Edinburgh - even more than the last local government election in 2012.\n\"Thanks to voters for taking the time to participate, demonstrating the importance of local services to the public.\n\"I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our election team too, whose hard work and dedication has enabled the smooth-running of this election.\n\"I also want to congratulate all new and returning councillors, and welcome them to their role at the City of Edinburgh Council - I look forward to working with them in the years to come.\"\nThe SNP are now the biggest group on Edinburgh city council for the first time.\nThey've fallen some way short of a target of 25, but their win here is a symbol of the changes in Scottish politics - in 2003 not a single SNP councillor was elected.\nLabour had been the biggest party here and falling into third place is a big defeat.\nThe Conservatives, as in other parts of the country, picked up votes in areas they haven't been strong in for some time.\nCandidates who at the start of the day were pessimistic are now councillors.\nThe Lib Dems are delighted at their showing in the wards which make up Edinburgh West.\nIt's their key target at the general election and they made gains here. Elsewhere in the city their votes have been patchy, but sources say that's because their campaign has been focussed in the west.\nThe Greens had floated that they might win as many as 10 seats - but eight is a good result for them, adding two to their tally from 2012.\nNegotiations for a coalition are likely to start today. The SNP have already ruled out a deal with the Conservatives - one source said they will be looking towards what they called a \"progressive alliance\".\nMeanwhile, Labour remains the largest party in East Lothian despite the Conservatives gaining four seats.\nLabour gained one to go to nine, the Tories went up to seven and the SNP slipped to six - down three.\nIndependents lost two seats.\nEast Lothian had been a Labour/Conservative coalition administration.\nThe Conservatives have gone from zero to five seats on Midlothian Council.\nThey are now just one behind the SNP, who dropped from eight to six, and two behind Labour, who went from eight to seven.\nThe Greens and independents both lost seats.\nThe previous administration had been run by the SNP, with the help of an independent.\nThe Conservatives have gone from one seat to seven on West Lothian Council.\nThe SNP have dropped two seats to 13, becoming the largest party, as Labour lost four seats and ended up with 12.\nWest Lothian had been a Labour minority administration.\nThe SNP has gained four seats to become the largest party on Fife Council as Labour lost 10 seats.\nThe Conservatives also made big gains, going up 12 seats from three to 15.\nThe SNP now has 29 seats and Labour 24.\nThe Lid Dems went down from 10 to seven and three independents lost their seats.\nFife had been a Labour minority administration.", "summary": "The SNP has returned the most councillors in Edinburgh" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Capaldi announced in January that he would be leaving the show, making way for a new actor to take on the iconic role.\nBut we'll have to wait for the Christmas special to see The Doctor's regeneration, revealing which actor is to become the thirteenth Doctor.\nHe's not the only one leaving - this was also the final series for the show's writer Steven Moffat, so the show could be very different next series!\nWe want to know what you think...\nIt's a very personal opinion, but I think Kris Marshall would make a great Doctor.\nFred, 15, France\nI don't think there should be another doctor because I think that Doctor Who has had its day!\nMax, 12, Kent\nI think the next doctor is going to be Kris Marshall\nZohaib, 9, Leeds\nNot Sophie Waller Bridge because she already said \"Not me!\" Probably Kris Marshall because he lives near Cardiff, where Dr. Who is filmed, plus isn't involved in any other projects.\nNicolas, 9, Surrey\nI think that Missy should be the new doctor\nLily-Mae, 10, Charford\nI think the twelfth doctor should stay because in my opinion he's the best.\nJoe, 9, London\nI loved it last night! It was amazing. I hope Benedict Cumberbatch is the next doctor.\nLucas, 10, Hampshire\nI think the next doctor should be Kris Marshall\nChloe, 13, Essex\nIt should be Matt Smith\nBen, 10, London", "summary": "Peter Capaldi's time as Doctor Who might've come to an end in this series' explosive finale on Saturday, but the show's kept us guessing as to who will replace him." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lewis, 60, was appointed in 2006 and his tenure was marked by historic highs and controversy.\nWRU chairman Gareth Davies says the timing of the announcement - in the middle of the Six Nations tournament - allows the governing body \"time to find a successor\".\nLewis said the time was \"right\" to step down \"after a remarkable period\".\nIt is not known how the WRU will conduct its search for Lewis's replacement.\nAn impressive CV helped Lewis take the role after input from an executive recruitment firm.\nHe had worked in the music and media industries and his achievements with the WRU include appointing Warren Gatland as national coach.\nGatland has gone on to oversee a third Golden Era that has included three Six Nations titles and a 2011 World Cup semi-final appearance.\nLewis has also helped reduce the Millennium Stadium debt, overseen record financial turnover, and introduced national dual contracts for some leading Wales players, including captain Sam Warburton.\nHowever, there has also been controversy during Lewis' reign.\nThe WRU's relationship with professional teams Cardiff Blues, Scarlets, Newport Gwent Dragons and Ospreys descended into a bitter and prolonged civil war over governance and funding.\nIn July, the four regions went as far as offering the WRU the chance to take them over, claiming \"The harsh reality is that the WRU has no interest in concluding negotiations with the regions and entering into a long-term agreement for the betterment of Welsh rugby.\"\nThe dispute eventually ended in August 2014 with a £60m deal that lasts until 2020.\nAs well as being at the helm during that quarrel, Lewis also ruffled feathers with comments made about Wales legend Gerald Davies in the wake of the WRU's elected board surviving a vote of no confidence in June, 2014.\nDavid Pickering was WRU chairman when Lewis took over.\nEx-Wales captain Pickering was voted off the WRU board in September and Gareth Davies succeeded him in the role, having been Dragons chief during the WRU-regions dispute.\nIn a statement released to announce Lewis's 31 October departure, Davies said: \"We recognise the massive contribution Roger has made to the growth of Welsh rugby both on the field and off the field and respect his decision.\"\nLewis himself said: \"It has been a fantastic and memorable journey both on and off the pitch and I would like to thank the board of the WRU for their backing during some challenging times and for my colleagues who have been unstinting in their support for me both personally and professionally.\n\"After nine years as group chief executive the time is right for me to move forward and by announcing this in advance now, we are ensuring that the transition can be well managed in the best interests of Welsh rugby.\n\"I am extremely proud of all that we have achieved together over the past nine years.\n\"The WRU is now in a strong position to seize the opportunities and face the inevitable challenges of the future and I wish my successor well for the adventure ahead.\"\nSacking then-Wales coach Gareth Jenkins in the wake of their 2007 World Cup exit in pool match defeat against Fiji was one of the first major decisions made during Lewis's reign.\nDuring his time at the WRU Lewis chaired a campaign for the Welsh Assembly Government to be given more powers.\nHe has also become chairman of south east Wales \"city region,\" which aims to boost economic growth in the area.", "summary": "Roger Lewis is to stand down as Welsh Rugby Union chief executive after this autumn's World Cup." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mike Davis is chief executive of the United States Golf Association (USGA), which, along with the St Andrews-based R&A, sets the rules of the game.\nIn recent decades, courses all over the world have been forced to expand to accommodate the vast distances generated by modern players. They are helped by drivers with large sweet-spots and balls that spin less and travel further.\nMany courses have been rendered obsolete for the professional game because they are simply too short. Others, such as the Old Course at St Andrews, need to use tees outside the boundaries of the course to create the requisite distance to make holes sufficiently testing.\nFormer greats including Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Greg Norman insist the ball is travelling too far. Indeed Nicklaus, an 18-time major champion, told BBC Sport last year: \"It is the most ridiculous thing in the game.\"\nYet the authorities have done nothing to shorten the distance a ball flies. They appear accepting of the status quo, and the R&A and USGA published recent data they claim proves that length off the tee has plateaued.\nThis may be the case, however few tournament weeks go by without stories of professionals dispatching drives more than 400 yards.\nAnd Davis has now admitted there is a problem with distance. In a wide-ranging interview with US online magazine Golfworld, he said: \"My biggest regret would be what has happened with distance.\n\"It's been the thing, probably more than any, that has been the most harmful to the game. Billions of dollars have been spent to alter golf courses - and for what?\"\nDavis acknowledges manufacturers do not want to make equipment that is less powerful, and players love to see their ball travel long distances.\n\"Nobody wants to hit the ball shorter,\" he said. \"On the other hand, increased distance has had a profoundly negative effect on golf courses.\n\"They've had to expand, they've had to use more resources to maintain. It takes more time to play. It takes more land and construction costs for new golf courses.\n\"And, in some cases, architectural integrity has been compromised. Are any of these things good?\n\"I sometimes wish we could just snap our fingers and say: 'We're going to roll the entire golf world back on distance.' But the stark reality is that would be chaotic and would likely not be supported by the masses.\"\nAnd this is why we should not expect much change in the coming years, despite the overwhelming logic that says a shorter game would make the sport cheaper and more attractive.\nIndeed, European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley argues fans love to see the likes of Rory McIlroy propel drives more than 350 yards. He believes it is a genuine spectacle.\nAnd when fans stand around tournament tees and witness such prodigious hitting, their awe is audible.\nDavis, though, believes it is incumbent upon the rules-makers to at least discuss the issue.\n\"We've really not talked about it,\" he said. \"But with the R&A and the USGA's responsibility to look out to the future, there's a genuine interest to say: 'Maybe we won't get there, but shame on us if we don't at least talk about it.'\"\nDuring the lengthy interview, Davis raised a number of issues pertinent to the running of courses at the level of the humble amateur.\nIn the UK, we are entering a period of the year when our greens start to be shaved to maximise speed, and rough is grown as fairways are narrowed.\nFrom personal experience, these developments tend to be welcomed but, post-round, many club golfers feel beaten by tricky, penal course set-ups.\nDavis, who has been laying out US Open courses since 2006, sympathises with those for whom the game is rendered too difficult.\n\"When I talk to architects, for about 40 years, hard equalled good,\" he said.\n\"Now you're definitely seeing that go in the other direction, where fun equals good. These practices of narrower fairways, higher rough, not encouraging play from the proper tees, it's no good.\n\"Today, people equate fast greens with good greens. But fast greens cost more to maintain. Fast greens are more susceptible to disease.\n\"Fast greens compromise some of the architectural integrity of great courses. Fast greens have absolutely caused more cases of the yips. And they've hurt pace of play.\"\nDavis also contends that fairway grass tends to be cut too short, leaving tighter lies that make ball-striking and chipping more difficult.\n\"Growing up, we didn't hear about people skulling chip shots,\" the 52-year-old said. \"Now you hear about the chip yips. So we've been trying to message: 'Keep your fairways drier, but longer.'\"\nWhether this message is heard by golf clubs of the world remains to be seen.\nBut on the key issue of distance, Davis has shown he does have ears and has listened to the argument that the ball travels too far.\nFurthermore, he clearly accepts the logic. The problem is, it seems too late to do anything about it.", "summary": "One of the game's most influential leaders has admitted the modern golf ball travels too far for the good of the sport." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Yang Youde, a 56-year old farmer, was told his land was needed to build new offices.\nThe developers offered him compensation but he did not think it was enough.\nThe case highlights the efforts some Chinese are taking to preserve their property rights in the face of forced relocation by government officials.\nMr Youde built a watchtower. When demolition teams arrived, he fired home made rockets towards them, repelling them twice.\nHis actions were reported in the Chinese media and by foreign journalists. But local officials were very unhappy.\nHis elder brother who helped him guard the land was attacked and severely injured at the end of last month.\nThe authorities deny they were involved.\nBut Mr Yang has told Chinese state media that since the incident the officials have changed their attitude and become more cooperative.\nHis lawyer told the BBC the farmer will now receive a compensation package worth more than $112,000 (£74,000), five times the amount offered initially by the developers.\nHis case has drawn attention to the so-called \"nail households\" - a phrase used to describe people who refuse to be beaten down by pressure from the authorities.\nMany have taken extreme measures to try to protect their property from being seized by officials or developers.\nIn March, two elderly men in Jiangsu province set themselves on fire to try to stop the local government demolishing their pig farm.\nA woman in Shanghai threw petrol bombs at a demolition team last year to protest at their efforts to tear down her home.\nForced evictions are one of the most common causes of unrest in China.\nSome lawyers in China say new legislation is needed to ensure that forced demolitions are properly supervised to safeguard the rights of property owners.", "summary": "A farmer in China who fired improvised rockets at demolition teams says he has been rewarded with a generous compensation package." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Marvin Douglas, 33, of Milton Keynes, was jailed for nine years and nine months at St Albans Crown Court for conspiracy to supply cocaine.\nHe had led a gang selling drugs across Bedfordshire, London and the Home Counties.\nWhen arrested, he was on licence from jail after a drugs conviction in 2010.\nCrack cocaine with a street value of up to £32,000 and £20,000 in cash were found in his Volkswagen Scirocco car on 23 September last year.\nHe had tried to break free as police cars surrounded his vehicle but rammed into two police vehicles, flipping the car onto its roof.\nAnother leading member of the gang, Lee Dixon, 31, was caught with cash and cocaine when arrested at his home in Williamson Road, Kempston, on 15 October last year.\nHe was jailed at St Albans Crown Court for six years and six months.\nDixon and Douglas had been linked through forensics and phone records to Robert Willoughby, 45, arrested at a drugs \"safe house\" in Harlinger Street, Woolwich, on 5 March, last year, police said.\nNational Crime Agency (NCA) officers seized a substantial amount of cocaine and £19,740 during that arrest. Willoughby was jailed for 14 years.\nForensics also linked the men with Kimberley Oyewole, 35, who was arrested at house in Bethwin Road, Southwark, south London, on 20 November.\nOfficers discovered cocaine and heroin with a street value of more than £3,000 and £4,835 cash. He will be sentenced later.\nDouglas, Dixon and Oyewole all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine between 1 February 2014 and 21 November 2014.\nDet Insp Paul Baron said: \"Douglas is a prolific drug dealer who has persistently continued his criminality despite being previously arrested and even jailed.\n\"These people were involved in the supply and distribution of a large amount of class A drugs.\"", "summary": "A drugs gang boss stopped on the A1 in Bedfordshire carrying crack cocaine rammed police cars in pursuit and flipped his car over, a court heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hull City Council, which brought the action, said the chain should provide sanitary facilities if food and drink are consumed on the premises.\nNewcastle City Council, Greggs' home town authority, opposed the move.\nAn earlier ruling in Greggs favour said outlets serving simple takeaway food did not need toilet facilities.\nMore on this and other local stories in Hull and East Yorkshire\nHull City Council took legal action after Newcastle City Council issued guidance relating to toilet provision in food outlets.\nThe guidance, approved by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills' Better Regulation Delivery Office, argued bathroom provision at food outlets should be based on a predominant trade test.\nOfficials said, that if \"takeaway trade was predominant\" food and drink would not \"normally\" be sold for consumption on the premises, and outlet owners should therefore not be required to provide toilet facilities.\nHull City Council said that approach could not be right, as such an interpretation gave the two Greggs' bakeries in Hull an \"unlawful and unfair\" commercial advantage.\nIn his ruling at a hearing in Leeds on Tuesday, Mr Justice Kerr said Hull council's claim was \"well-founded\" and the advice given by Newcastle council \"flawed\".\nHe said he would quash the Better Regulation Delivery Office's decision to approve Newcastle council's guidance.\nThe judge added: \"It is obvious that if a person sits down in a Greggs outlet at the seats provided and proceeds to eat a pasty and a fizzy drink just purchased at the counter for that purpose, that is a normal use of the premises.\n\"The fact that most customers take away their purchases and those who stay do not normally stay long, does not change that.\"\nA Department for Business, Innovation & Skills spokesman said: \"We have lodged an appeal.\"\nResponding to the latest ruling, a Greggs spokesperson said: \"This is the first time the statutory Primary Authority scheme as set up in 2008 has been challenged in the courts.\n\"Until this matter has been finally determined by the courts it would not be appropriate for us to comment.\"\nThe firm said it expected a final decision within the next nine months.", "summary": "Greggs could be forced to provide toilets in all its stores that have customer seating following a High Court ruling." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Kanhaiya Kumar was beaten by lawyers shouting slogans, reports said.\nThe court has sent him to prison for two weeks, when the case will next be heard.\nMr Kumar was arrested after a rally against the 2013 hanging of Mohammed Afzal Guru at which anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.\nAfzal Guru was convicted over a 2001 plot to attack India's parliament - charges he always denied.\nThe attack was carried out by Kashmiri militants and left 14 people dead.\nThe violence comes despite the Supreme Court of India laying down strict guidelines after a previous hearing into the case also turned violent.\nThe top court has now rushed a delegation to the Patiala court house to assess the situation.\nMr Kumar has reportedly received injuries as a result of the attack.\nBBC News journalists at the Patiala court say that a brick was thrown towards media personnel covering the event.\nTarique Anwar of the Indian web portal Firstpost was attacked outside the court house before Mr Kumar was brought to the court.\nHe told BBC News that he had been attacked by lawyers as he attempted to take a picture of them beating up a supporter of Mr Kanhaiya.\n\"They deleted the picture and dragged me inside a court room where they beat me up,\" he said.\nMr Anwar also alleged that police had done nothing to help him.\nThe arrest of Mr Kumar on the charge of \"sedition\" sparked outraged protests from faculty members, university students and sections of the media, who called it an overblown reaction to student action.\nPolitical parties have also joined the protest, with opposition groups condemning the government action.\nHowever, angry government ministers have not backed down, and vowed to punish the \"anti-national elements\".", "summary": "A student leader from a top Indian university charged with \"sedition\" has been beaten up in a Delhi court by a group of lawyers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The People's Liberation Army Daily, the Chinese military's official newspaper, said security concerns had been raised after one recruit had received a smartwatch as a birthday gift.\nNews site NBC said its sources had confirmed a ban was now in place.\nOne expert said the move was a natural extension of restrictions already placed by most armies on mobile phones.\nThe PLA Daily said army leaders had sought the advice of experts last month after being alerted to an incident in which a soldier had tried to use a smartwatch to take a photo of his comrades stationed at the eastern city of Nanjing.\nIt said the country's agency responsible for protecting state secrets subsequently issued the following decree: \"The use of wearables with internet access, location information, and voice-calling functions should be considered a violation of confidential regulations when used by military personnel.\"\nThe newspaper reported that teaching materials and warning signs had subsequently been created to ensure that the message was spread among military personnel.\n\"The moment a soldier puts on a device that can record high-definition audio and video, take photos, and process and transmit data, it's very possible for him or her to be tracked or to reveal military secrets,\" it added.\nA spokeswoman from the UK's Ministry of Defence was unable to provide a statement about its own rules.\nBut the BBC understands that it does not currently prevent the use of devices that receive or transmit information unless personnel are operating in a security sensitive environment or on operations.\nOne expert suggested, however, that the rise of wearable tech posed a challenge to military forces across the globe.\n\"Any self-aware organisation will have measures for operational security,\" said Peter Quentin, a research fellow at the British defence think tank Rusi.\n\"Anything that is networked - whether it is in your pocket or on your wrist - can be remotely accessed and exploited by others to provide an advantage to adversaries.\n\"That can happen inadvertently or be done deliberately, so it needs to be controlled wherever possible.\n\"It's why you already see leaving of phones outside of areas where sensitive discussions take place.\"\nHe added, however, that there could sometimes be benefits from letting soldiers use wearable tech beyond battlefield duties.\nMr Quentin highlighted the case of Our War, a BBC Three documentary series that made use of footage filmed by British troops who had fitted small video cameras to their helmets.\nOfficials had initially tried to clamp down on the troops' personal use of the kit before it became apparent that the resulting video was useful.\n\"It helped the Army communicate the realities of the operations in Afghanistan through the soldiers' own eyes, which was very powerful,\" Mr Quentin said.", "summary": "China has forbidden its armed forces from wearing internet-connected wearable tech, according to reports." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "19 November 2015 Last updated at 13:06 GMT\nMore than 120 people lost their lives and what took place in the French capital shocked the world.\nNewsround's Jenny has been speaking to one family about how they're trying to move forward.", "summary": "People living in Paris are trying to return to normal life after the city was attacked on Friday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The self-proclaimed \"email prankster\" convinced a senior cyber security adviser he was the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, CNN says.\nHe also goaded the then media chief, Anthony Scaramucci, in the guise of ex-chief of staff Reince Priebus.\nConcerns about cyber security are running high amid claims hackers interfered in the US election.\nThe White House told CNN it was investigating the latest incident and took the issue very seriously.\nThe prankster posted some of the email exchanges on Twitter, where he describes himself as a \"lazy anarchist\", and said he was doing it for fun. On Tuesday he promised not to target the White House again, but said \"you need to tighten up IT policy\".\nHere are three of the most memorable parts of the hoax:\nHomeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert was apparently tricked into believing Mr Kushner had invited him to a party and gave out his personal email address unsolicited.\n\"Tom, we are arranging a bit of a soirée towards the end of August,\" the fake Mr Kushner wrote in emails shared with CNN. \"It would be great if you could make it, I promise food of at least comparible [sic] quality to that which we ate in Iraq. Should be a great evening.\"\nMr Bossert replied: \"Thanks, Jared. With a promise like that, I can't refuse. Also, if you ever need it, my personal email is [redacted].\"\nThe cyber security adviser has not commented publicly on the reports.\nA day after Mr Priebus was removed as White House chief of staff, the hacker emailed then-White House media chief Mr Scaramucci pretending to be his adversary.\nThe fake Mr Priebus accused Mr Scaramucci of being \"breathtakingly hypocritical\" and acting in a way not \"even remotely classy\".\nMr Scaramucci, appointed communications director a week earlier, had accused Mr Priebus - a Republican Party stalwart - of leaking to the press. He also phoned a reporter to unleash a profanity-filled rant against Mr Priebus, whom he called a \"paranoid schizophrenic\".\nTricked by the fake emails on Saturday, the real Mr Scaramucci said: \"You know what you did. We all do. Even today. But rest assured we were prepared. A Man would apologize.\"\nWhen the pretend Mr Priebus wrote back defending his work, Mr Scaramucci responded: \"Read Shakespeare. Particularly Othello.\"\nEnd of Twitter post by @SINON_REBORN\nMr Scaramucci was sacked as President Trump's media chief on Monday.\nEric Trump, too, was briefly hoodwinked by the prankster emailing as his older brother, Donald Trump Jr, about a long-range hunting rifle.\nBut Donald Jr soon realised it was a scam and replied: \"I have sent this to law enforcement who will handle from here.\"\nExperts told CNN the incidents showed how even the most powerful people in America remained vulnerable to phishing attacks, where hackers send fake emails to induce individuals to reveal personal information.\nConcern about politicians being targeted is particularly high after the attack on the Democratic National Committee during the US presidential election.\nUS authorities attributed that incident to Russia and said that a significant component of the attack involved phishing.\nMore recently, the electoral campaign of President Emmanuel Macron in France was targeted by a similar campaign.\nAnalysis: 'All they do is spoof the email'\nChris Baraniuk, BBC News technology reporter\nIf you think your email address is proof of who you are, think again. It's long been a feature of the technology that someone can set up a mail server to send emails that look as though they have come from another person. Say \"reince.priebus@whitehouse.gov\".\nBut in such cases, any reply to that message will go to the real \"reince.priebus@whitehouse.gov\". The email prankster was able to receive the replies, of course, because he or she published them. How?\nWhile we don't know the details, it's possible that an email address was set up at a domain name that was very similar to \"whitehouse.gov\".\nIt's a well-known problem, says cyber security expert Prof Alan Woodward at the University of Surrey. He points out that scammers in the UK have been known to email house buyers with an apparent message from their solicitor. It asks them to transfer payment to the scammer's account.\n\"All they do is they spoof the email by changing one character,\" says Prof Woodward. The recipient's eye hastily skims over the altered or missing letter, and the message is simply taken as legitimate.", "summary": "A UK hacker reportedly fooled top White House officials into engaging in fake email exchanges." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She has written to Boris Johnson asking why Transport for London allows cars to take bookings through the app without a licence to operate in the capital.\nMrs Hodge claims the firm is \"opting out of the UK tax regime\" but Uber said it complied with \"all applicable tax laws\".\nThousands of taxi drivers protested against the app in June.\nThe smartphone app works out the cost of fares using GPS. Cab drivers say it is similar to using a taxi meter, which only they are legally entitled to do.\nThe app's Dutch operating company, Uber BV, does not pay tax in the UK - but Mrs Hodge said TfL could insist that it does so.\nShe said: \"I am particularly concerned about the tax structure that Uber and others have apparently constructed and the impact this has both on the public purse and on the livelihoods of London cabbies and private hire drivers.\n\"This structure allows these new entrants to unfairly undercut London operators by opting out of the UK tax regime.\n\"TfL allows this to happen by failing to apply the appropriate regulations to Uber.\"\nIn the letter to Mr Johnson, the mayor of London, Mrs Hodge, who chairs the cross-party Commons Public Accounts Committee, added: \"Surely TfL has a duty to enforce legislation that will ensure a fair and level playing field for all taxi and private hire operators?\n\"I would be grateful if you could set out the steps you will take to ensure that TfL does not inadvertently allow tax avoidance in London and that all taxi and private hire drivers receive a fair deal.\"\nShe has been backed by the Licensed Private Hire Car Association (LPHCA), which represents 20,000 cabbies.\nLPHCA chairman Steve Wright said: \"London's taxi and private hire industries are being compromised by inconsistent licensing enforcement by TfL and the apparent ability for app-based operators like Uber to operate through an offshore tax regime.\n\"As well as the loss in revenue to the country, a whole industry that has a wonderful compliance record - unlike some of these new apps - is being undermined by foreign entities, working the UK tax system for corporate greed.\"\nBut an Uber spokesman said: \"Uber complies with all applicable tax laws, and pays taxes in all jurisdictions, such as corporate income tax, payroll tax, sales and use tax, and VAT.\n\"Uber London Limited is a licensed private hire vehicle operator and recently passed the largest inspection of records ever conducted by TfL.\"\nChief operating officer at TfL Garrett Emmerson said he was \"fully satisfied\" the app was operating lawfully.\nHe added: \"TfL's role is to licence and regulate the taxi and private hire industry in London. We do not have any powers in relation to an operator's corporate structure and how or where they pay tax.\"", "summary": "The Uber taxi app is \"competing unfairly\" with London's black cabs, senior Labour MP Margaret Hodge says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She was on her way to a patient when she was flagged down by three men who appeared to be in distress in Tottenham Hale, north London.\nThe 32-year-old stopped to help but they pulled bandanas over their faces before one threw liquid through her window.\nShe was taken to hospital after the attack on 16 July but later discharged.\nA Met Police spokesman said the substance was non-corrosive but it is investigating the incident.\nSince 2010, there have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks involving corrosive fluids in the capital. Last year, it was used in 458 crimes, compared to 261 in 2015, according to Met Police figures.\nThe paramedic, who did not want to be named, was on her way to help a man suffering from chest pains when she was targeted in the early hours.\n\"It was terrifying. This was so cowardly,\" she said.\n\"It is my job to help people. I was on my way to help a patient and I stopped because I am caring and I thought they needed my help.\n\"They have taken away my trust.\n\"What they've done is horrific in so many ways. It was premeditated and it delayed a patient getting treatment.\"\nShe said the attack took a paramedic off the road that night.\n\"And yet if one my attackers were hurt, I would still treat them because that is the job,\" she added.\nThe substance caused irritation to her face, neck and chest. The man who threw it was wearing latex gloves.\nLondon Ambulance Service is reminding its staff of the need to be cautious when flagged down by anyone requesting help or assistance.", "summary": "A lone paramedic had a substance thrown on to her face, neck and chest while answering a 999 call." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Becky's stepbrother Nathan Matthews, 28, and his girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21, deny murder.\nBristol Crown Court heard the pair sent Facebook messages and texts referring to pornography and schoolgirls months before Becky was killed.\nThe 16-year-old's dismembered body was found in a shed in March.\nCrime intelligence analyst Shaun Groves told the jury Facebook conversations and instant messages were exchanged between Ms Hoare and Mr Matthews last November and December.\nThe court heard one message sent on 20 November, from the Facebook profile of Mr Matthews, read: \"Blonde school girls I be tapping? Hmmm LOL xxx\".\nText messages exchanged on 9 December, the jury was told, read \"Bring me back two pretty schoolgirls\", and a reply of \"LOL yeh, I will just kidnap them from school\".\nAnother message read \"Just went into Costcutters and saw a very pretty girl. Almost knocked her out to bring home LOL\"\nThe reply ordered them to do it, the court heard.\nEarlier Mr Groves told the court Ms Hoare had searched for online articles about the missing teenager on 23 February, four days after she was last seen alive.\nOn a day in which a juror was dismissed by the judge because he recognised a witness, the court heard Mr Matthews sent a text to his mother - Becky's stepmother - on 24 February, which said \"the police have searched Shauna's house and obviously found nothing\".\nHe later sent a text to his boss saying he would not come into work for four weeks due to \"major family issues\".\n\"Everything is crazy, I'm very sorry,\" he wrote.\nThe court heard a log of phone calls between Mr Matthews and Karl Demetrius, who has pleaded guilty to assisting an offender, on the night Becky's body was allegedly moved to the shed, was deleted.\nMr Matthews, 28, of Hazelbury Drive, South Gloucestershire, admits killing his stepsister but denies murder and conspiring to kidnap her.\nHe also admits perverting the course of justice, preventing Becky's burial and possessing a prohibited weapon.\nMiss Hoare, 21, of Cotton Mill Lane, Bristol, denies murder and conspiracy to kidnap, the weapons charge, perverting the course of justice and preventing a burial.\nTwo other men, Donovan Demetrius, 29, and James Ireland, 23, deny assisting an offender.\nThe trial continues.", "summary": "The man and woman accused of murdering Becky Watts exchanged text messages about kidnapping \"a pretty girl\", a court has heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police said they were held not because of their veils but for joining an unauthorised protest, and they were later released.\nFrance is the first country in Europe to publicly ban a form of dress some Muslims regard as a religious duty.\nOffenders face a fine of 150 euros (£133; $217) and a citizenship course.\nPeople forcing women to wear the veil face a much larger fine and a prison sentence of up to two years.\nThe two women detained had taken part in a demonstration outside Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Police said the protest had not been authorised and so people were asked to move on. When they did not, they were arrested.\nBy Gavin HewittBBC Europe editor\nRead Gavin's thoughts in full\nOne of the women, Kenza Drider, had arrived in Paris from the southern city of Avignon, boarding a train wearing a niqab, and unchallenged by police.\n\"We were held for three and a half hours at the police station while the prosecutors decided what to do,\" she told AFP news agency.\n\"Three and a half hours later they told us: 'It's fine, you can go'.\"\nUnder the law, any woman - French or foreign - walking on the street or in a park in France and wearing a face-concealing veil such as the niqab or burka can be stopped by police and given a fine.\nIt is a small fine, but symbolically this is a huge change, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris.\nGuidelines issued to police say they should not ask women to remove their veils in the street, but should escort them to a police station where they would be asked to uncover their faces for identification.\nThe French government says the face-covering veil undermines the basic standards required for living in a shared society and also relegates its wearers to an inferior status incompatible with French notions of equality.\nThe ban on face coverings - which does not explicitly mention Islamic veils, but exempts various other forms - has angered some Muslims and libertarians.\nSource: Radio France International\nA French Muslim property dealer, Rachid Nekkaz, said he was creating a fund to pay women's fines, and encouraged \"all free women who so wish to wear the veil in the street and engage in civil disobedience\".\nMr Nekkaz said he and \"a female friend wearing the niqab\" were arrested at a separate demonstration in front of President Nicolas Sarkozy's Elysee Palace.\n\"We wanted to be fined for wearing the niqab, but the police didn't want to issue a fine,\" he told AFP.\nBut opposition protests by Islamists and libertarians are unlikely to make much of an impression, our correspondent says.\nWhat is more open to question, he says, is whether an out-and-out legal ban is necessary when, on most estimates, only 2,000-or-so women in France actually wear the niqab or burka.\nCritics of French President Nicolas Sarkozy say it suits him to play up the Muslim question because he is an unpopular president in need of an easy vote-winner.", "summary": "At least two women have been briefly detained in France while wearing Islamic veils, after a law banning the garment in public came into force." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rodgers accepts the reasons clubs in Scotland - such as Hamilton Academical, who host his side on Saturday - opt for 3G pitches rather than natural grass.\nHowever he insists they \"aren't ideal\" for players or supporters.\n\"I've yet to see a good game on a plastic pitch,\" he said. \"Any coach or manager will tell you it's always a different game on a plastic pitch.\"\nCeltic have already played on an artificial pitch this season - when they defeated Kilmarnock at Rugby Park - and Rodgers says the playing surface will not influence his team selection.\n\"I respect the conditions for every club are different,\" he explained. \"Hamilton are a club that has produced many great young players, so they have a way of working that works for them and that's fine.\n\"In global football, most people will tell you that plastic pitches aren't ideal, and that's where you feel for supporters because are they seeing the best game of football possible?\n\"We have to be professional and get the job done. It's about going there and getting a result. It brings lots of different elements to the game, unpredictability that you wouldn't see in normal circumstances.\n\"It's going to be a difficult challenge for us, Hamilton were tough to break down the last time we played and it's on an astro turf pitch, which makes it even more difficult.\"\nRodgers, who hopes to have midfielder Tom Rogic back in time to face Rangers on 31 December, expects to reshape his squad during the January transfer window, with players arriving and leaving.\nHowever, he has yet to make a decision about extending 33-year-old Kris Commons' loan spell at Hibernian.\n\"We have a month [of the transfer window], and the first three weeks we'll be resting for a little bit and working very hard in some warm weather,\" Rodgers said in reference to the winter break.\n\"I expect us to do some business, [whether it's] the beginning or the end, as long as it's done that's all I'm really concerned about.\n\"There will be [players leaving], that's a natural way when players aren't playing so much, especially if they're mid-20s and beyond. They want to play regularly. Some will come in to help the squad that's already here.\n\"I can't have any complaints about any player, the attitude. We've got a number who are outside the squad, but their professionalism and devotion to what we're doing here - they're at the best weight they've ever been - is a huge testament to them.\n\"I'll sit with Kris, I'll talk to [Hibs head coach] Neil [Lennon] and between us all we'll come up with the best solution for Kris. At his age he needs to be playing games.\"", "summary": "Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers believes artificial surfaces affect the quality of football played on them." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Jayden, 17, was strangled by Ben Blakeley, 22, from Reading, in December 2013, and buried in his uncle's grave.\nVolunteers created the garden on donated land close to where Jayden's body was found in All Saints Church, Didcot.\nIt was opened by Mick Quinn, founding member of the band Supergrass, who were from Oxford.\nThe garden was built with the help of volunteers from employment charity Aspire Oxford and planted with some of Jayden's favourite flowers and shrubs.\nGez Porter, the charity's landscapes team leader who designed the garden, said: \"This is a very important project for us as it raises awareness of what we can do, not only helping individuals from homelessness to employment, but for the wider community.\"\nBlakeley was jailed for life in July last year for the murder of Jayden.\nHis brother Jake, 18, of Abbotts Road, Didcot, was jailed for three years for perverting the course of justice.", "summary": "A garden created in memory of murdered teenager Jayden Parkinson has been officially opened." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "At least two people were injured, including the policeman, in the blast at an anti-terrorism court in the city of Karachi.\nSome reports say the device was a grenade taken from the defendant.\nPolice later said it was just a detonator with an explosive element that should have been defused.\nThe incident took place on Monday at the trial of a man accused of extortion and of carrying out a number of grenade attacks.\nPolice said several devices had been found when they arrested him.\nThe device presented in court was at the request of the defence. Judge Shakil Haider then asked how it worked.\nA part of the device was pulled from it and it exploded, throwing the judge off his chair.\nSenior police official Jamil Ahmed said that explosives around the detonator had been made harmless, but added: \"We are investigating as to how the detonator was brought to the court without being defused.\"", "summary": "A device being presented as evidence at a trial in a Pakistani court blew up after the judge asked a police officer to show how it worked." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Natalie Usher told BBC Radio Scotland the delays were due to the complications of working with the private sector.\nThe plan being considered is for a studio in Cumbernauld, close to the site used by the TV series Outlander.\nTalks on the project are ongoing.\nMs Usher, a member of the Film Studio Delivery Group, was set up three years ago, said: \"We want a private sector led studio and we are committed to deliver that for Scotland. It is essential.\n\"It is notoriously difficult to make a studio work. We are committed to delivering it but it's not easy.\"\nCreative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise have been in talks with a private developer since last year.\nIn the meantime, a second proposal - entirely privately funded - has been submitted.\nPentland Studios Ltd want to build a combined Film Studio and backlot on a 50-acre site at Straiton, Midlothian.\nBut Midlothian Council has so far failed to give planning permission, and the company has asked the Scottish government to call it in for further inquiry.\nMs Usher said Creative Scotland was happy to support the project - as well as developing a public studio option.\n\"We are open to other proposals - not just one thing,\" she said.\n\"Pentlands is a mixed-use facility. It's a fantastic proposition which we would be happy to see happen.\"\nBut those who work in the industry believe Scotland is in danger of missing out to other more pro-active areas of the UK.\nMandy Sykes who has worked as an actress and a director said: \"The backers aren't going to be around for ever.\n\"This low ambition, 'make do and mend' attitude is not going to work. We need to raise the ceiling in Scotland or we will never have a film industry which supplies and supports and creates wealth for our workers.\"\nShe's one of thousands who've signed a petition supporting the Pentlands Studio, but she believes it doesn't rule out a public studio as well.\n\"There's room for both. This would start a system of studios but it's important to do something now. It's there to go. It just needs planning permission,\" she said.\n\"We're losing business at the moment. There were six feature films that filmed here in 2011 - and they all went back to London to do their studio work. So we got 0.6 % of the UK share. We are losing out on that money which would filter down to indigenous films and local crews.\"\nAssistant director Tommy Gormley agrees. Earlier this week, he wrote an open letter to Creative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise to say he thought any further delay in building a studio would be \"catastrophic\" for the industry.\n\"At the moment the UK tax advantage for film making is extremely attractive,\" he said.\n\"Film making is an amazing fusion of industry and art and that industrial process brings a lot of work, a lot of jobs and we're missing out on that.\n\"Ten years ago, the Northern Ireland industry was nowhere and now they're massively overtaking us. The studios in Northern Ireland and Wales are not a drain on resources. They are bringing money to those countries.\"\nHe added: \"I'm not asking for a publicly financed studio. It could be private. It could be public. It could be either/or but the lack of ambition from the people in charge, I find quite staggering.\"\nHe also warned of a talent drain.\n\"Scotland is not a backwater, never has been, but we are gradually losing our crew base. I was on the set of Wonder Woman yesterday and I counted nine highly skilled Scottish technicians in London because nothing was happening in their home country.\n\"Scotland has the personnel available but they're gradually being leeched away because there's nothing happening and the spend is so low.\"\nBut not everyone agrees that a public film studio is a wise investment.\nMichael Caton Jones, director of Rob Roy and Memphis Belle, whose latest film Urban Hymn had its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival this weekend, is not convinced.\n\"I think it's a red herring,\" to be honest, he said.\n\"It would be useful to someone who owns a studio. Will it make a business? I'm not so sure, just an aspect of the business.\n\"Film follows money is the tenet. In my time, I have seen the Irish film industry become popular because of tax credits, the Australian, Czech, Hungarian. All of these places made it financially attractive and viable.\"\nHe added: \"A studio is four walls. It needs to be fed. It doesn't make an industry. When I made Rob Roy we simply needed a big building.\n\"We ended up using a distillery warehouse in Fort William and a shed in Perth. It didn't stop us coming because what we wanted was the exteriors and that's what's unique to Scotland.", "summary": "Creative Scotland's director of film says she believes a national film studio will happen, despite criticism from key figures in the industry about lengthy delays." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mrs Lewis, who died in 2009, aged 93, wrote a book, A Time To Speak, about her experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp.\nAfter World War Two, she moved to Belfast and became a pioneer of modern dance in Northern Ireland.\nThe Ulster History Circle blue plaque was unveiled on Friday at the Crescent Arts Centre in south Belfast.\nThe Czech-born mother-of-two was a founder member of the Belfast Modern Dance Group and was awarded an MBE for her services to contemporary dance in 2001.\nSpeaking to the BBC at the time, she said: \"It was a very rare and welcome acknowledgement of the importance of the art of dance in our present lives.\n\"But not just the importance of dance as an art form but also as a social factor. Through dance people can come together who would never had met in other circumstances.\"\nThe plaque was unveiled on Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday, which remembers the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust under Nazi persecution during World War Two, as well as those killed in other genocides.\nThe theme this year is how life can go for those left behind after a genocide.\nThe Ulster History Circle is a voluntary not-for-profit organisation that places commemorative plaques in public places all over Northern Ireland in commemoration of men and women who have contributed to its culture, industry and history.", "summary": "Dance teacher and Holocaust survivor Helen Lewis has been honoured by a blue plaque at a Belfast arts centre." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Brett Kyle's pick-up went off the road and rolled over into a ditch close to Foxx's California home.\nFoxx said the truck became engulfed in flames \"within five seconds\" after he got the driver out.\n\"I don't look at it as heroic\", he told reporters, \"I just look at it like, you know, you just had to do something. And it all just worked out.''\nThe Oscar-winning actor said he heard the crash from his house and called 911 before running to the scene.\nAn off-duty paramedic who was driving by also stopped to help. They used his emergency room scissors to break the window and cut the man's seatbelt and pull him out.\n\"I told him as we were talking, as I'm getting him out, I said 'you've got to help me get you out because I don't want to have to leave you'\", Foxx said.\n\"And I said 'You've got angels around you.'''\nThe driver's father Brad Kyle met Foxx to thank him for his actions.\nHe said he had been shown surveillance footage of the crash site and said several cars had passed by the scene without helping.\nHe broke down in tears when he spoke to reporters about what Foxx had done.\n\"I just kept watching it and going `My god, my god, he didn't have to do a thing,'\" he said.\n\"I think we all hope that we can do something when the time is there. But the question is, do we? do we act or do we fear for our own lives? and he did not.''\nThe 32-year-old driver has broken bones and a punctured lung, but he is expected to recover.", "summary": "Jamie Foxx has been praised for saving a man who was trapped in a burning truck." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "According to John Stewart, if Boris Johnson follows David Cameron as prime minister his opposition to Heathrow expansion leaves it \"up in the air\".\nBut Heathrow's boss John Holland-Kaye said its expansion \"is the right choice for a stronger Britain\".\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said it was \"committed\" to the project.\nThe government was to decide on whether to expand Heathrow or Gatwick in July.\nA statement from the DfT said: \"The government remains fully committed to delivering the important infrastructure projects it has set out and will also continue to take forward important legislation put before Parliament in the Queen's Speech.\"\nThe Airport Commission had recommended last July for a third runway at Heathrow - a new 3,500m runway north of the two existing runways - at an estimated cost of £18.6bn.\nBut in December the government delayed its decision saying further work on noise, pollution and compensation needed to be carried out.\nMany campaigners have cited traffic pollution from vehicles, noise pollution from flights and having to sell their homes as reasons to halt Heathrow's expansion.\nMr Stewart said: \"Brexit must cast doubts on whether a third runway at Heathrow will ever be given the green light.\n\"The prime minister and the chancellor have lost the fight of their lives and 'outers' like Boris Johnson, who is fiercely opposed to Heathrow expansion, have won.\n\"At the very least, a decision on a new runway must now be up in the air.\"\nMr Stewart wants the new prime minister to \"look again at its desirability, its deliverability and the cost\".\n\"The government had pencilled in 7 or 8 July to announce its runway decision.\n\"It would be surprising if a lame-duck prime minister risked further splits within the Conservative party by making such a controversial decision just weeks before he leaves office.\"\nBut Heathrow Chief Executive John Holland-Kaye said: \"Now more than ever, people across Britain are counting on the government to take bold decisions that show we are a confident outward looking trading nation.\n\"Heathrow is the right choice for a stronger Britain.\"", "summary": "Brexit \"must cast doubts\" on whether Heathrow Airport will get a third runway, the chairman of the anti-expansion group Hacan has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The road, which links the village of Dallas with the B9010, is expected to be closed until the middle of next week.\nA stretch which was badly damaged will have to be resurfaced.\nMoray Council said motorists were advised to take an alternative route via Dallas Lodge and Branchill before rejoining the B9010.", "summary": "Repairs to a Moray road damaged in Wednesday's floods are to get under way, the council has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Barnaby Jack died on Thursday, the city's medical examiner's office told Reuters, but did not give more details.\nHe had been due to give a presentation into medical device vulnerabilities at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas taking place next week.\nHe had said one technique could kill a man from 30 feet (nine metres) away.\nIOActive, the security firm at which Mr Jack was director of embedded devices, said it was preparing a statement.\nIn a tweet, the company said: \"Lost but never forgotten our beloved pirate, Barnaby Jack has passed.\"\nHis sister Amberleigh Jack, who lives in New Zealand, told Reuters news agency he was 35.\nMr Jack became one of the most famous hackers on the planet after a 2010 demonstration in which he hacked a cash machine, making it give out money. The technique was dubbed \"Jackpotting\".\nMore recently, he emerged as a leading expert in the weaknesses that could be found in medical technology.\nLast year, he told the BBC about how he had discovered flaws in widely-used insulin pumps which allowed him to compromise the devices.\nThe hack made it possible to control them and administer a fatal level of insulin, Mr Jack said.\n\"My purpose was not to allow anyone to be harmed by this because it is not easy to reproduce,\" he told the BBC during an interview in April 2012.\n\"But hopefully it will promote some change in these companies and get some meaningful security in these devices.\"\nMr Jack's expertise and vivid demonstrations of his knowledge at events like Black Hat earned him the respect of many security professionals.\nAmberleigh Jack thanked those who have been posting messages of sympathy online.\n\"So humbled by the social media flood of people that loved @barnaby_jack,\" she tweeted.\n\"Thank you all so much for your kind words.\"", "summary": "An elite hacker who was due to demonstrate how heart implants could be hacked has died unexpectedly in San Francisco." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Siobhan Yap, 27, from Hertfordshire, treated her mother to dinner after her Audi A3 convertible was hit while parked on Watford Audi's forecourt.\nWatford Audi agreed to pay for a meal for two, so Ms Yap headed to L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon in Covent Garden.\nWatford Audi said the £714.61 bill was \"excessive\", and offered to pay half.\nIn response, Ms Yap said that Audi should have \"specified a price limit\".\nThe garage repaired Ms Yap's car - which she had bought second-hand for £20,000 - after it was damaged by a delivery vehicle before she could pick it up from the forecourt.\nAudi gave her a courtesy car and offered to cover the cost of a meal for two \"for the inconvenience caused\".\nWhile at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, Ms Yap and her mother enjoyed four glasses of champagne, two bottles of wine costing £69 each, six cocktails totalling £86 and a sloe gin.\nThe \"small tasting dishes\" they tried included one La Truffe Noire at £35, two St Jacques scallop dishes costing £29 each and two La Volatille risottos totalling £42.\nMs Yap told the JVS show on BBC Three Counties Radio that Audi should pay the whole bill because she had to send the car back for further repairs, and the cost was \"relative to what they put me through and their customer service levels\".\n\"They put me through a lot of stress and it was a really nice restaurant,\" Ms Yap said. \"They should have specified a limit.\"\nA Watford Audi spokesman said it was \"excessive expenditure for two diners\", but as it was \"keen to make amends for the incident\" it agreed to cover half the bill, equating to £357.\n\"We believe this is a fair and reasonable amount given the circumstances, and we stand by the decision taken,\" said the spokesman.\nEtiquette expert William Hanson said the garage should have set an upper limit and should \"learn a lesson\" and \"absorb the cost\". But he said that \"you don't need to perhaps drink that much if someone else is paying\".\nSource: L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon website", "summary": "A woman who was offered a free meal by an Audi garage which damaged her car ran up a £700 bill at a celebrated Michelin-starred London restaurant." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Nobody seems to have come up with a definitive answer, which confirms that we do indeed live in unusual times.\nStephen Crabb has spent Monday talking to DWP staff in their office at Westminster before confirming the UK government's U-turn on personal independence payments.\nThe U-turn was welcomed by his Labour shadow - Owen Smith - who welcomed him to the new job in Welsh and reminded MPs: \"He and I have history at the Wales Office.\"\nI interviewed Mr Crabb's successor, Alun Cairns, at Gwydyr House in Whitehall, where three vacant picture hooks confirm the ministerial flux.\nI asked him how he would do the job differently. \"I plan to follow the pragmatic approach that Stephen Crabb followed as secretary of state. I think that worked well both in his relationship with the Welsh Government but also in his relationship with the business sector, with local authorities, with communities across Wales. I want to be a pragmatic secretary of state.\"\nThe Welsh Government might dispute that view of their relationship but Mr Cairns was later grilled by MPs on the public administration and constitutional affairs committee, of which he was once a member.\nIts chair, Bernard Jenkin, pointed out that he once wanted to merge the Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland roles in a single office of constitutional affairs - a point that prompted a gulp and nervous laughter from the new cabinet minister.", "summary": "I'm told it's a question that's been gripping some of the brightest ministerial brains at Westminster: when, if ever, were there last two MPs with Welsh constituencies sitting in a Conservative cabinet?" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It was commissioned last September and written by Chris Gibb, a non-executive director at Network Rail.\nThe union claims the Department for Transport (DfT) has kept it \"under wraps since the back end of last year\".\nThe DfT said the report could not be published in the pre-election period but would be \"in due course\".\nA spokesman said Mr Gibb was appointed by the transport secretary \"to lead a project board to improve Southern services\", and that it had received his findings.\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said it was \"scandalous\" the report \"remains under lock and key in a vault at the Department for Transport\".\n\"The RMT is demanding its immediate publication as the stench of the Southern rail fiasco hangs like a cloud over this rotten government and reminds passengers that the alternative option of public ownership is now right up the agenda,\" he said.\n\"We were told that the report would be published 'after the election'.\n\"Well, the election has been and gone and the Tories took a hammering along the length of the Southern routes as the electorate sent out the clearest possible message about their failing transport services.\"\nThe union has been embroiled in a long-running dispute with Southern's parent company Govia Thameslink Railway over proposed changes to the role of guards on driver-only operated trains.\nIn a statement, the DfT spokesman added that it was investing £300m \"to improve performance and resilience\" on Southern.\n\"Performance has been consistently better since the new year and making sure passengers keep seeing a reliable and efficient service is a priority for the government and the operator,\" he said.", "summary": "A report into the troubled Southern rail franchise should be published immediately by the government, the RMT union has demanded." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "I went to meet Dyche to find out how his style of leadership has helped him build the Clarets' fantastic team spirit, and ended up learning how his philosophy underpins the entire club.\nI know, from my playing career, how effective his type of open, honest and inclusive approach can be in getting the best out of a team, but Dyche's influence extends far beyond the dressing room and training ground.\nPart of Dyche's success has been with his signings - it has to be. The club has the lowest turnover in the Premier League, so he cannot afford many mistakes.\nHe tries to avoid making any by checking out the character of prospective buys as rigorously as he does their playing skills when he assesses how they will fit in with his way of working.\nHe uses personality profiling as a tool with his existing players, too, and the reason he gives such importance to their psychology is because, as he says: \"If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.\"\nThat outlook is at the core of how he operates, and he clearly pays the same level of detail to his relationship with his coaching staff, the board, the media - and the Clarets supporters.\nI found it fascinating, and not only because I am from Burnley, that he has unpicked the mentality of the whole town - hard-working, humble, unassuming and resilient - to work out who the people are, and what we appreciate.\nDyche has done that for a reason, of course. Clarity of purpose is one of his mantras.\nHe has matched the players he has signed and the way his team plays with the club and its fans, and doing that makes it easier for everyone to sing from the same hymn sheet.\nDyche tells his players to \"leave their egos at the gates\" at the entrance to the driveway that takes you to the Clarets' old training ground at Gawthorpe Hall, and also leads on to their impressive new £10m Barnfield complex, which is right next door.\nTo get there you cross a bridge over the River Calder, which is in flood at the moment and is also freezing cold - but goalkeeper Nick Pope still had to lie in it for a minute last week.\nA dip in the river is one of the challenges on the Burnley squad's infamous 'wheel of fortune', used to decide the forfeit for anyone stepping out of line - which includes offences like lateness and leaving a cup in the wrong place.\nIt is one of the ways Dyche has fostered a formidable group mentality in his players, and also backs up the family analogy he is fond of when he talks about his club.\nIn this case, when he talks about his players' manners and them tidying up, it is like he is talking about raising his children and moulding and nurturing them into what he wants them to be.\nBurnley are not completely dependent on Dyche as a father figure, however. He does not have to do it all on his own - he has made sure of that.\nHis success in his four and a half years with the Clarets has bought him time. In his own words, he is well into \"the red zone\" when it comes to the average time - about 1.23 years - that a manager spends in charge at a professional club.\nDyche has used that time to build a structure that allows him to step back and let others make decisions while enforcing the standards and principles he has introduced.\nThat includes his squad, who get across to new arrivals what is expected of them and what the club is all about.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nHis coaching staff do the same too. From the moment he took charge in 2012, he made sure they knew how to respond if a player moaned about something, and to reply by turning it into a positive instead.\nI have played in teams where I have seen what happens if you let that moaning continue - it puts a big wedge in the squad that just grows and grows. This way, nothing can escalate.\nBurnley's approach boils down to hard work and togetherness. It is a consistent message and, like everything Dyche says, is easy to understand.\nHe makes everything seem so simple and achievable, which is no doubt a big part of the reason why his team are close to securing top-flight survival this season - something the club has not managed since the mid-1970s.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nBeing honest with his team is important to him, too. He is not interested in spin.\nFrom his perspective, if you tell a lie, you have to be very clever to remember to keep it up. It is much easier to tell the truth.\nOn top of that, it is also beneficial for players to always know where they stand. At a basic level, if you are not playing then you want to know why you are not in the team, and you appreciate his type of plain talking.\nDyche still gets involved on the training ground, and the tactical and coaching side of his job is clearly something he knows a lot about - but there is far more to him than that.\nI was left thinking his real skill is dealing with people, because of his ability to establish empathy and understand what makes different characters tick.\nHis team are impeccably organised, of course, and never stop running either.\nBut the biggest reason they are getting results is because Dyche knows which buttons to press with his players. I can see why they give everything for him.\nRachel Brown-Finnis was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.", "summary": "Spend any time with Burnley boss Sean Dyche and you will want to become a manager - I know I did after a couple of hours in his company." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 21-year-old, who moved to the Terriers from Oldham Athletic last summer, has played 10 first-team games and kept five clean sheets.\n\"Joel has shown what a capable young goalkeeper he is,\" head coach David Wagner said.\n\"He performed very well every time he came into the team.\"\nColeman played 45 appearances for Oldham before moving to the John Smith's Stadium for an undisclosed fee.", "summary": "Goalkeeper Joel Coleman has extended his stay at Huddersfield Town until the summer of 2019, after signing improved contract terms." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cromarty Firth Port Authority wants permission to transfer millions of tonnes of crude oil at sea.\nCampaigners around the Moray Firth said the risk of an oil spill would be catastrophic to the marine environment.\nBut the port authority has insisted procedures are in place to prevent the accidental discharge of oil and said the risk of a spill was minimal.\nThe Moray Firth is home to bottlenose dolphins, harbour porpoises, minke whales and other marine and bird life.\nThe port already has a licence to transfer oil between vessels tied to the quayside at the Nigg oil terminal.\nHowever, the authority now wants a licence from the Westminster government to conduct ship-to-ship oil transfers further out in the Cromarty Firth.\nThe application has prompted objections from local people and politicians all around the Moray Firth.\nThe protesters gathered on Nairn beach from about 14:00 on Sunday to highlight the dangers to the marine environment and demonstrate the scale of opposition to the plans all around the firth.", "summary": "A protest against ship-to-ship oil transfers in the Moray Firth has taken place in Nairn." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The team from the University of Reading made the discovery while excavating Wilsford henge in the Vale of Pewsey.\nThe body was found lying in a foetal position and wearing an amber necklace.\nReading University archaeologist Dr Jim Leary described the skeleton as a \"wonderful discovery\".\nHe said: \"Scientific analysis will provide information on the gender of the child, diet, pathologies and date of burial.\n\"It may also shed light on where this young individual had lived.\"\nThe three-year Vale of Pewsey dig is a partnership between the University of Reading, Historic England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Wiltshire Museum.\nThe aim is to gain a better understanding of the people who lived in the areas surrounding Stonehenge.\nFindings to date include flint arrowheads and blades, decorated pottery, shale and copper bracelets and a Roman brooch.\nDuring the last six weeks the team has focused on Marden henge and Wilsford henge.\nDr Leary said: \"Finds from the first five weeks of the dig were exciting - but as so often during excavations the best is revealed last.\"\nBuilt in 2,400 BC, Marden henge is the largest prehistoric monument of its kind in the country.\nDuncan Wilson, of Historic England, said: \"Bigger than Avebury, 10 times the size of Stonehenge and halfway between the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Sites, comparatively little is known about this fascinating and ancient landscape.\n\"The work will help Historic England focus on identifying sites for protection and improved management, as well as adding a new dimension to our understanding of this important archaeological environment.\"", "summary": "A 4,000-year-old Bronze Age skeleton, believed to be that of a child, has been unearthed by archaeologists at a dig in Wiltshire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe Nigeria striker, who came on in the 72nd minute, grabbed the winner with a minute remaining when he fired in from close range.\nHe now has 10 goals in his last 15 games, and 15 in total this season.\nWatford also went close through new signing Nordin Amrabat, whose volley was saved by Dorus de Vries.\nWatford showed little bite until Ighalo's second-half arrival, the 26-year-old brought on for regular strike partner Troy Deeney.\nWith a replay looming, Ighalo capitalised on Forest's failure to clear Allan Nyom's cross when he slotted home from inside the area.\nMorocco winger Amrabat, who cost Watford over £6m, had earlier tested De Vries twice, while the keeper also made a good stop from Scotland international Ikechi Anya.\nForest manager Dougie Freedman will have been frustrated to see his side carve out just one effort on target, when Eric Lichaj's tame half-volley was easily held by debutant Costel Pantilimon.\nThe home side's best chance to score came moments before Ighalo struck, Dexter Blackstock picked out by Chris Cohen in the area but failing to get his shot on target.\nForest manager Dougie Freedman: \"Overall I think we have contributed to a fantastic game today. In the first half we stood off a little bit too much - I think we paid them too much respect, although saying that we had the best chance of the game in the 45th minute.\n\"Second half we got at them and showed we could win this tie. We moved up a gear, had some exciting moments and created enough chances to win the game but half a chance and Watford have got the winner.\n\"Did they deserve it? No they didn't. But as long as I can see commitment in our performances we'll keep on marching forward.\"\nWatford boss Quique Sanchez Flores: \"Forest are a good team, but we controlled the match, had more possession and created more chances.\n\"Amrabat needs to know the system and the team-mates. He also needs to get used to the football in England.\n\"We were happy with the presence of Pantilimon and Amrabat today.\"", "summary": "Watford's top scorer Odion Ighalo came off the bench to fire the Premier League side into the FA Cup fifth round at the expense of Nottingham Forest." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The phrase was used in a media release after he was dropped from the Davis Cup team for criticising TA.\nThe governing body said it \"sincerely apologises for the typo\", blamed \"a simple clerical error\" and claimed \"there was no malicious intent\".\nThe match in question involved Tomic playing John-Patrick Smith in the Hall of Fame championships in Newport, USA.\nThe 22-year-old, Australia's highest-ranked player at 25, went on to lose 6-3 7-5 to his compatriot and world number 156.\nTomic accused the governing body of abandoning him after he had hip surgery last year and was also critical of former world number one Pat Rafter, Tennis Australia's director of player performance.\nRafter believes the rift between Tomic and Tennis Australia may never heal as he told an Australian newspaper the national tennis body's focus was developing players \"we can be proud of\".", "summary": "Tennis Australia (TA) has apologised for saying Bernard Tomic was playing in a 'Hall of Shame' match." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Elizabeth Mulcahy, of Llandaff, Cardiff, said her accuser had fabricated the claims against her.\nShe denies six counts of indecent assault against a girl under 13.\nCardiff Crown Court heard that when the allegations were put to her by police, she said: \"It's a big lie - total, blatant - I never touched her.\"\nMs Mulcahy is accused of touching the girl inappropriately, starting when the alleged victim was under 10 and continuing until she was 13.\nIn interview, she said: \"For me to touch her like that, I've never heard anything so horrible in my whole life.\"\nThe case continues.", "summary": "Claims an 82-year-old woman sexually assaulted a young girl in the 1970s and 1980s are \"total lies\", a court has heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe original tie at The Hawthorns ended 2-2 as Posh twice came from a goal down to earn a draw.\nThe only other replay is between top-flight rivals West Ham and Liverpool.\nThe two sides drew 0-0 at Anfield and their replay on Tuesday, 9 February at Upton Park will be shown live on BT Sport.", "summary": "The FA Cup fourth round replay between League One Peterborough and Premier League West Brom will be shown live on BBC One on Wednesday, 10 February." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Fans protested inside and outside Emirates Stadium, voicing frustration at their team's failure to mount a title challenge in recent years.\nThere was little for Arsenal to cheer until substitute Danny Welbeck put them ahead with a crisp half-volley.\nNorwich are two points from safety with three games left.\nThey had chances - twice Petr Cech stopped Nathan Redmond from scoring. But for all their endeavour, Norwich left north London with nothing and with Newcastle beating Crystal Palace and Sunderland securing a draw against Stoke earlier in the day, their hopes of survival appear slim.\nThe Canaries are second from bottom and two points behind Newcastle, who moved out of the bottom three thanks to their win over Palace.\nWenger and his players had been warned there would be a toxic atmosphere at the Emirates, and protests calling for the end of the Frenchman's 19-year tenure began outside the stadium.\nFans from the Arsenal Supporters' Trust, the Black Scarf Movement and Red Action handed out posters with the message 'time for change' and a minority held them up after 12 and 78 minutes - 12 being the number of years the club has gone without winning the league.\nVarious banners were held up, one saying 'Wenger - 12 years of excuses, Ranieri - 9 months, champions' in reference to Leicester's march towards the league title.\nStoking the flames this week were Wenger's pre-match comments - that fans had gone \"overboard\" with their criticisms, and that his team had played in \"a very difficult climate\" at home over recent months, contributing to their failure in the league.\nIn a divided stadium, there were those who supported their manager, singing \"there's only one Arsene Wenger\" in response to the 12th-minute protest. They would point to the six FA Cups, three league titles and 18 consecutive seasons of Champions League football the club have enjoyed under Wenger.\nVictory over Norwich moved them to third in the table, three points above Manchester City, and a step closer to securing another season in Europe's elite cup competition.\nThere was little to unite the factions as the first half played out like the majority of Arsenal's games this year: plenty of possession, but little bite.\nFor the fourth time in their past nine home league games, Wenger's men failed to conjure a shot on target in the opening 45 minutes.\nAt the other end of the pitch, and despite the visitors having just 30% of possession, Cech twice stopped Redmond from scoring, while a third effort from the striker before the break bounced just wide.\nIt was the 56th-minute introduction of Welbeck that turned the match in Arsenal's favour. The striker gave his team much-needed spark and, within three minutes of coming on, he placed Olivier Giroud's well-directed header into the bottom-left corner. Welbeck's goal came from his team's first shot on target.\nThe Canaries have won at Old Trafford, drawn at Anfield and Upton Park and held Arsenal at home this season so there was hope before this match, especially against a team who have collected just 10 points from their past seven home league games.\nArsenal were often uncomfortable defending Norwich's counter-attacks and had it not been for a well-timed Gabriel tackle on substitute Dieumerci Mbokani the visitors might have equalised.\nBut only relegated Aston Villa have lost more league games than Norwich this year and this defeat - their 11th in 15 league games - leaves them heading in the wrong direction.\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger: \"We were warned about the protestors. You want to make the fans happy. I'm sorry if I don't achieve it. I'm irritated and frustrated if I cannot keep people happy. I have respect for the club and gave so much for the club. I want to make people happy.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"Our job is to do the best. I think this season we hoped that we could win the league. It didn't happen and that's why people are frustrated. I can share that frustration. The aim is to come back and do what is needed to do it next year. The last three years the club has moved forward.\"\nNorwich boss Alex Neil: \"Our gameplan worked really well. Petr Cech made three or four good saves. There was a five-minute spell when we were stretched and Arsenal managed to score in that spell.\n\"The last thing you can do down in the dogfight is feel sorry for yourselves. We didn't get what we deserved. We need three displays like that in the next three games. If you start worrying about the maths and what other people are doing then it'll drive you crazy.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nTwo of Norwich's remaining three league games are at Carrow Road, against Manchester United (7 May) and Watford (11 May). They desperately need to secure points at home if they are to go to Everton's Goodison Park on the last day of the season with hopes of survival still alive.\nThe Gunners have two games to play - against fourth-placed Manchester City and relegated Villa.", "summary": "Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger had to endure calls for his departure as his side beat a Norwich team whose Premier League future looks increasingly bleak." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Here at Russia's Star City centre near Moscow, he and two fellow astronauts endured three hours in a Soyuz simulator this morning.\nDressed in spacesuits, the three men clambered into the tiny capsule for a rehearsal of the end of their mission.\nThis is when the crew uncouple from the ISS and descend back to Earth.\nJust before the exercise began, I suggested to Tim Peake that he looked far more sombre than he had during a big media day in London last week when he seemed to enjoy fielding light-hearted questions.\n\"It is a serious business,\" he said, sitting on the steps leading to the spacecraft.\n\"There's a fun side to space and what we do and the educational programmes we run but when it comes to actually getting into a Soyuz rocket - and the operational tasks that we have to perform - you need to be focused and serious.\"\nAsked about the greatest challenges during the simulation, he said: \"The most difficult thing to deal with is multiple failures.\n\"If you have just one failure then you can work through it as a crew. But if you have several it's much harder to keep track of all the problems.\"\nTim Peake: Career in brief\nTim Peake: How I became a British astronaut\nTim Peake: 360 degree photos\nWatching the process relayed by CCTV to the simulator control centre, all three of the astronauts looked busy and tense.\nDuring the exercise, instructors created a series of pretend challenges including a leak in the spacesuit worn by US astronaut Tim Kopra, a slow leak of the capsule itself causing depressurisation - and at the same time a computer failure.\nEmerging later, Tim Peake looked quite tired and slightly unsteady on his legs - a normal reaction after sitting hunched in such a confined space.\nBut he was pleased with the way the team had coped with the malfunctions that the instructors had faced them with - and was keen to emphasise how the training is a positive experience.\n\"I always feel more confident when I come out of the simulator - they throw these emergencies at you but we coped with them and we got back safely,\" he told me.\nUnlike Tim Kopra and the Russian mission commander Yuri Malenchenko, this will be Tim Peake's first flight into space.\nBut Tim Kopra said: \"Tim is an ideal crew member - he's so sharp and so friendly. He's a great crew member to work with.\"\nThe trio will continue their training here at Star City before being flown on 30 November to Baikonur, the Russian space launch centre in Kazakhstan, Central Asia.\nThere they will be kept in quarantine to minimise any risk of picking up a cold or flu.\nLast week, Tim Peake told me his greatest worry, as the Russian winter starts to bring snow and ice, was slipping and twisting an ankle.\n\"I'm going to keep myself safe with bubblewrap,\" he said.\nThe launch is set for December 15.\nFollow David on Twitter.", "summary": "British astronaut Tim Peake is going through a gruelling round of final training before liftoff to the International Space Station next month." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Henry did not to return to his home at the castle following an afternoon display for visitors on Saturday.\nThe castle said it was not uncommon for young birds of prey to spread their wings and fly off for a few days, but the public is being asked to remain eagle-eyed.\nHowever, people should not approach Henry, who is about a year old with a 6ft wing span.\nThe eagle is not a danger to the public but for his safety, handlers have asked people to report any sightings to the castle.\nMore updates on this and other stories in Warwickshire\nHenry is described as brown but does not yet have his full adult feathers and was last seen with a bell on his tail and wearing jesses - thin straps, usually leather, used to tether birds.\n\"Our guests enjoy two birds of prey displays each day which can involve up to six birds being in the air at one time,\" the spokesman said.\n\"Sometimes, the birds will decide to explore the local countryside for a while before returning to their home at the castle.\nStanley, a white tailed sea eagle went missing during a show at the tourist attraction in 2012.\nBut despite sightings and attempts to recapture him he has not since returned.", "summary": "A bald eagle has escaped after a display at Warwick Castle." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cases included a drugged and mutilated Staffordshire bull terrier and a rabbit left to starve in a cupboard.\nLast year, 120 convictions were secured in magistrates' courts - compared with 89 in 2015 and 116 in 2014.\nThe charity wants an offender register for those convicted of animal abuse and disqualified from keeping them.\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been asked for a comment.\nRSPCA Cymru said the 120 convictions related to 61 defendants - the highest number in Wales for the three-year period.\nIt said a further 67 offenders were also cautioned by the charity in 2016.\nLast year, it investigated a total of 10,540 complaints of cruelty in Wales, compared with 9,895 in 2015 and 11,740 in 2014.\nCases in 2016 included:\nRSPCA Cymru superintendent Martyn Hubbard, said: \"This doesn't suggest more cruelty is necessarily taking place - but that people in Wales are potentially more likely to report it and tools like social media becoming more adept in bringing incidences to light.\n\"Clearly, however, big challenges remain in protecting the nation's animals.\"\nThe charity said a register of offenders would help deter cruelty offences and better protect animals from falling victim to someone who had already been disqualified from keeping them.\nSince 2013 in Wales, the RSPCA has prosecuted 11 people for breaching their disqualification from owning and keeping animals.\nClaire Lawson, RSPCA Cymru's assistant director of external relations, said: \"Animals are now better protected in Wales than ever before - but more still needs to be done to ensure a framework is in place offering them better protection.\"", "summary": "More successful animal welfare prosecutions were secured by RSPCA Cymru in 2016 than either of the two previous years the charity has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Chris Dos Santos fell onto the rail while walking on the track at Totton, Hampshire, after drinking with friends.\nHe said the 750-volt rail \"sucked me in\" until friends managed to pull him free.\nThe Health and Safety Executive said an electric shock causes a loss of muscle control meaning the person cannot move away from the power source.\nMr Dos Santos, 29, spent three months recovering in hospital from severe burns and multiple cardiac arrests.\nHe said the incident in August 2015 had left him suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and nightmares.\nMr Dos Santos recalled seeing purple flashes and smelling burnt body tissue as he lay on the ground.\nHe said: \"The power was so immense, you can't get off the rail. I sort of accepted my fate.\n\"I had a moment of clarity and then I decided, no, this isn't going to happen to me, and that's when I pushed harder and shouted at my friends.\"\nMr Dos Santos said he had needed eight operations for injuries which included a two-inch (5cm) hole in his back.\n\"My kidneys were failing, they were saying I would have to have the leg amputated, things were very touch and go\", he added.\nHe said he had agreed to speak about the incident to make people aware of the effects of the 750-volt rail.\nNetwork Rail said it was publicising the story because December usually saw a 25% rise in alcohol-related incidents on the railway.", "summary": "A man has described how he nearly died after his leg was \"sucked\" on to an electrified rail by the current." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He famously owed the developing world for his presidential election in 1974 - and despite the allegations of corruption that mired his career towards the end of his life, he is credited with huge globalisation of the game.\nThe canny sports administrator had done his maths on the voting system, realising that he needed to court Africa and Asia in order to win - an insight lost on his main rival in the leadership contest for football's world governing body.\nThe Brazilian came to power on the back of African votes - which then accounted for nearly a third of the total - primarily because his predecessor, Englishman Stanley Rous, had alienated the continent through his unremitting support for apartheid South Africa.\nHis standing was greatly boosted by the three World Cups Brazil had won under his control as federation president, and the former Olympian adroitly exploited the issue and pledged to kick out South Africa if he took control.\nThere were other promises to the continent as well: An expanded World Cup, new youth tournaments and, among others, developmental help.\nSo, after his election, it was time to give back.\nWith Rous out of the way, Havelange dealt with South Africa fairly swiftly, expelling the country from Fifa in 1976, a ban which lasted until 1992, as the end of apartheid neared.\nHe also introduced junior tournaments - handing Tunisia the first hosting rights, in 1977, for what is called the Under-20 World Cup today.\nEight years later, he ensured Africa had the same representation as Europe and South America in the Under-17 World Cup as the tournament launched in 1985.\nHe was slightly hamstrung with his World Cup offer despite overseeing huge global expansion - having partnered with Horst Dassler, the son of the Adidas founder and the father of sports sponsorship.\nWith the help of improving television broadcast technology and football's hugely attractive lure for sponsors, the pair hugely enhanced football's global reach, Fifa's coffers and - as has been well documented - those of Havelange too.\nAfrica was not a huge market for sponsors at the time though and had to patiently wait for its World Cup places to increase from one to two in 1982, when the finals expanded from 16 to 24 teams.\nIn the interim, Havelange offered a host of developmental programmes and increased funding.\nFifa's finances had previously been so threadbare Rous had been limited on one occasion to handing out 20 footballs to one African country.\nToday, each African country receives $500,000 (£380,000) a year as a continuation of the funding grants initiated by Havelange.\nA year after his election, Havelange chose someone who came to love African football (and its voting power) to head Fifa's global developmental work: Sepp Blatter.\nIn 1976, the Fifa technical director's first overseas trip was to Ethiopia where he ran an administrative course.\nWhen the Swiss protege replaced Havelange in the 1998 Fifa elections, he continued to assist Africa in a variety of ways.\nProminent among them was the change to Fifa's method of determining a World Cup host, a decision taken to ensure that Africa got the World Cup, having controversially missed out on the 2006 finals.\nAs the 2010 finals kicked off in South Africa, the work started by Havelange in Africa had reached its current zenith.\nLike the organisation he led for so long, Havelange was far from faultless but his campaign manifesto forced him to help Africa - which he did, despite various delays.\nToday, the five World Cup places that he awarded Africa during his reign is the tally the continent still holds.\nMore African sports reporting from Piers Edwards:", "summary": "Joao Havelange, the former Fifa president who has died at his home in Rio de Janeiro aged 100, could be regarded as the unlikely godfather of African football." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "This is a 96-year-old who is reported to be in \"good spirits\" and who is in hospital as a \"precautionary measure\".\nHe was driven there in a car, not an ambulance, from Windsor, where he was said to have been on great form when he attended the first day of the Ascot races.\nIn sweltering heat on Tuesday, he was dressed in a morning suit.\nThe prince, like his wife and countless other people, isn't overly keen on publicising the precise nature of what ails him.\nGiven that he is being treated for a pre-existing condition, it is safe to assume that he is suffering from a reoccurrence of a bladder infection that laid him low on two occasions in 2012.\nHe is not bedridden, according to officials, but up and about inside the private hospital.\nPhilip's current good mood may be tested if, as was the case five years ago, he remains an in-patient for several days.", "summary": "The palace statement about Prince Philip's health has been designed to reassure." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Five-year-old Andrea Gada died after she was hit by a car in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on 16 December.\nHer grandparents and aunt were refused visas to come to the UK from Zimbabwe.\nThe petition says the family \"pose no risk to the country\" and \"they simply want to support us and grieve the loss of our beautiful girl\".\nAndrea's mother, Charity Gada, of Downland Close, Eastbourne, will be joined by family and friends when she delivers the petition to Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May later.\nThe matter was raised by local Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Lloyd during Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons on 14 January.\nThe Prime Minister said he would intervene but the Home Office upheld its decision when it reviewed the family's application for a second time.\nIt said it had considered its \"individual merits including any compelling and compassionate circumstances and in line with the immigration rules\".\nThe petition was started by Mrs Gada, who said her family were \"street sellers from Zimbabwe\" and had been denied visas simply because they were \"too poor\", leading the Home Office to believe they wished to stay in the UK illegally.\nMrs Gada said her local community had helped raise money so her family could attend the funeral, and that they had offered to do anything in order to be there, including wearing electronic tags and reporting to a police station.\n\"At the heart of it, all I really want is to have my mother at my side whilst I grieve the loss of my child,\" she said.", "summary": "A petition signed by more than 93,000 people calling for a girl's family to be allowed into the UK for her funeral is being handed in at Downing Street." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 2013 Children's Dental Health Survey for England, Wales and Northern Ireland also found that 46% of 15-year-olds had decay in their teeth.\nBut there were signs of improvement compared with 10 years ago, with an overall reduction in the number of cavities in children's teeth.\nNearly 10,000 children were surveyed.\nThe survey - commissioned by the Health and Social Care Information Centre - is carried out every 10 years and is seen as a good barometer of children's dental health.\nOverall the figures are encouraging. There were reductions in tooth decay present in the permanent teeth of 12 and 15-year-olds in England, Wales and Northern Ireland between 2003 and 2013.\nThe percentage of 12-year-olds affected by tooth decay fell from 43% in 2003 to 34% in 2013.\nIn 15-year-olds, there was a reduction from 56% to 46%.\nIn Scotland, dental inspections also show continued reductions in the percentage of children with tooth decay.\nFigures from 2014 found that 32% of children aged five had tooth decay. Among children aged 10-11, around 28% were affected.\nBut large proportions of young and teenaged children continue to be affected by oral disease across the UK.\nThe survey found that rates of tooth decay were much higher among children in more deprived families, where more than 40% of five-year-olds have some decay - compared with just 29% among better-off families.\nIn 15-year-olds, that figure rises to nearly 60%, while among those from wealthier backgrounds, it is 43%.\nOlder children who were affected by oral health problems said they had impacted on their daily lives.\nOne in five 12 and 15-year-olds said they had experienced difficulty eating in the past three months while one in three 12-year-olds said they were embarrassed to smile or laugh because of the condition of teeth.\nAnd parents were not immune to the impact of dental health problems.\nOne in five parents of 15-year-olds said they had taken time off work because of their child's oral health in the last six months.\nDr Sandra White, director of dental public health at Public Health England, said it was good news that tooth decay levels were falling and more children were brushing their teeth twice a day, but there was no room for complacency.\n\"Tooth decay is a serious, preventable disease and this survey echoes the need to urgently reduce the amount of sugary snacks and drinks in our children's diets.\n\"Fluoride is indisputable in preventing tooth decay and by brushing teeth using fluoride toothpaste and also introducing water fluoridation where needed, we can significantly improve our children's dental health.\"", "summary": "Nearly half of eight-year-olds and a third of five-year-olds have signs of decay in their milk teeth, a national dental health survey has found." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She was best known for her television roles in the 1960s sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show and the eponymous The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 1970s.\nShe was also nominated for a best actress Oscar in 1980 for the film Ordinary People.\nMara Buxbaum said in a statement she died in the company of friends and her husband, Dr S. Robert Levine.\nBorn in Brooklyn, New York, Moore moved to Los Angeles when she was eight years old and started her career in show business as a dancer aged 17.\nHer first appearance was in a Hotpoint advert in the 1950s, dressed as an elf.\nBut her parts grew in size during that decade, before she landed the role of wife Laura Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show in 1961.\nLater, she starred as TV producer Mary Richards in her self-titled sitcom. Running for seven seasons from 1970 to 1977, it was named by Time Magazine as one of 17 shows that \"changed television\".\nMoore emerged onscreen at a time when women in leading roles were traditional housewife characters.\nBut with her modern trousers and Jackie Kennedy-style hair, she challenged the stereotype in front of millions of viewers.", "summary": "US Emmy award-winning actress Mary Tyler Moore has died aged 80, her publicist says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The British and Irish Lions skipper is having treatment on the right shoulder he injured in Cardiff Blues' Pro12 defeat by Ospreys on Saturday.\nAlun Wyn Jones and Samson Lee are also set to be fit to face the All Blacks.\n\"These injuries depend on the person and their professionalism to the rehab,\" said Blues coach Danny Wilson.\n\"There's no doubt in my mind that he's such a good professional he'll go through everything he needs to get back.\n\"As long as there's no other issues it should be shortish term process.\n\"I couldn't give you a time frame. Short term probably does mean hopefully he'll give himself every opportunity to be available for that tour. I don't see a major issue with that.\"\nWarburton, who has skippered his country a record 45 times in his 64 Wales appearances, is expected to lead Wales on the three-Test tour to face the world champions.\nThe openside flanker came off after 28 minutes against the Ospreys after a collision with Wales team-mate Dan Lydiate and will miss Blues final Pro12 game at Edinburgh on Saturday.\nWarburton has suffered shoulder injuries in the past and the 27-year-old missed Wales' tour to South Africa in June 2014 because of a dislocated shoulder.\nGatland is set to name his Wales squad on May 10 and the Wales coach will return to his home-land without flanker Justin Tipuric and wing Alex Cuthbert while Toulon full-back Leigh Halfpenny and Ospreys prop Paul James are injury doubts.\nTipuric's absence means that Ospreys back-rower James King, Scarlets number seven James Davies and Blues flanker Ellis Jenkins are in contention when Gatland names his New Zealand squad next week.\nWales play Grand Slam winners England at Twickenham on May 29 before their trip to New Zealand where Gatland's men will play the All Blacks in Auckland on 11 June, Wellington on 18 June and Dunedin on 25 June and also face Super Rugby side Chiefs in Hamilton on 14 June.", "summary": "Captain Sam Warburton is expected to be fit for Wales' summer tour to New Zealand as it has been revealed his shoulder injury is \"short-term.\"" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Two women were also taken to hospital after their cars were involved in the collision with the man's silver Skoda Octavia.\nThe crash happened on the A4058 Trehafod bypass in Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, at about 20:00 GMT on Tuesday.\nBoth the women, aged 31 and 46, were drivers in the other two cars.\nSouth Wales Police said they were both taken to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital but their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.", "summary": "A 78-year-old driver has died after his vehicle collided with two cars travelling in the opposite direction." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The search began after the Renault Clio hit a bollard in Sheerness, Kent, just after 23:00 GMT on Friday.\nIt has now been called off after police said they believed the man found his own way out of the water.\nThree people were detained on suspicion of taking a car without consent.\nA 19-year-old woman and a 29-year-old woman who had been arrested on suspicion of taking a car without consent were later released without charge.\nA 27-year-old man from Sheerness, also arrested on suspicion of taking a car without consent, has been been released on bail.\nA Kent Police spokeswoman said the search for the missing man resumed at 10:00 BST, after overnight searches were carried out, but has now been called off.\nDet Ch Insp Adam Ball said: \"The sea was extremely rough and there was a genuine concern for the man's safety.\n\"However, after extensive enquiries, we now believe that he found his own way out of the water.\n\"Initial enquiries suggest that the Renault Clio had been stolen earlier that evening from the car park of a pub in The Leas, Minster-on-Sea.\"\nKent Police said they still wished to speak to the man, who remains missing.", "summary": "A man who went missing after running in to rough seas as he fled police following a crash in a stolen car is believed to be safe." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Writing for Country Life magazine, Prince Charles said farmers made a \"huge contribution\" to the UK's \"food security, environment and prosperity\".\nHe said farmers and rural communities were facing a \"grave situation\" but added people \"really can help by buying British food whenever we can.\"\nThe heir to the throne wrote the piece to mark turning 67 on 14 November.\nHe and the Duchess of Cornwall are currently on an official 12-day tour of New Zealand and Australia where they have visited a number of rural communities and met local producers.\nIn his article Prince Charles wrote: \"On a sufficient scale the purchasing decisions of individuals can and do change markets.\"\nHe said buying British food meant customers were \"more likely to be getting fresh, high quality produce from a known and trusted source, offering good value for money\".\nHe added: \"It seems to me that the key is to make it as easy as possible for people to know when they are buying British - and why that is a good choice.\"\nThe prince suggested many people were perhaps overlooking the importance of farmers to the UK.\n\"The rural economy is largely invisible to many people,\" he said. \"So, it is perhaps worth spelling out, especially to those who - whether by choice or necessity - live largely urban lifestyles, that we rely on farmers to make a huge contribution to our nation's food security, environment and prosperity.\n\"And in all three respects, we live in an increasingly uncertain world. That is why we need to do everything we can to keep our farmers farming.\"\nThe prince concluded: \"This may be considered merely romantic but, to me, our living, breathing, working countryside is one of the great glories of this country. I think we should treasure it, including its people, while we still can.\"\nMark Hedges, Country Life's editor, welcomed the prince's \"romantic\" view.\n\"There's nothing wrong with having a romantic view. It's not going to be particularly romantic when it's all gone,\" said Mr Hedges.\nHe added: \"The prince has a powerful message where we can all make a difference. By buying British food, we will all be playing a vital part to safeguard the future of our precious countryside and everyone who works and lives in rural communities.\"", "summary": "The Prince of Wales has urged people to buy British food to support family farms and help save the countryside." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Less than five minutes into the match, Daly took out Leonardo Senatore in mid-air, becoming only the fifth England player to be sent off in a Test.\nA statement issued by World Rugby said the disciplinary committee had found that the Wasps wing \"acted recklessly\".\nDaly, 24, will miss Saturday's international against Australia.\nHe was initially given a six-week ban, but the punishment was halved after the player acknowledged wrongdoing.\nHe also apologised to Senatore, who took no further part in the match after the incident.\nEngland went on to win their 13th match in a row by beating Argentina 27-14, despite Daly's red card. Victory over Australia on Saturday would equal England's record of 14 consecutive wins, set under Sir Clive Woodward in 2003.\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "summary": "England's Elliot Daly has been banned for three weeks for the dangerous tackle which led to him being sent off in Saturday's victory over Argentina." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Newcastle City Council intends to fund 449 properties with the allocation, which it says is the largest in the north-east of England.\nCabinet member for housing, Jane Streather, said they wanted to create \"sustainable and balanced communities\".\nThe different types of accommodation planned include shared ownership and rent-to-buy.\nHousing for older people and those with disabilities or other care needs are also proposed.\nThe council has prepared council-owned land for development, \"encouraging investment and minimising the risk for developers\", it said.\nHowever, some communities in places like High West Jesmond and Kenton have protested against the allocation of green space in the city for housing.\nThe £11.8m funding comes from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) which has already allocated money for affordable homes such as bungalows at Daisy Hill in Walkergate.\nMs Streather said new homes for vulnerable residents would \"allow those with care needs to live independently, easing the pressure on care budgets\".", "summary": "A council has been awarded nearly £12m to build hundreds of new affordable homes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "From 12 October to 8 November, 24% of Thameslink services were delayed and 18% of Great Northern trains arrived late, according to figures from Govia Thameslink Railway.\nLondon TravelWatch said a \"significant gesture\" was needed to regain trust.\nThe Govia Thameslink Railway franchise apologised for the network's service.\nLondon TravelWatch said it was extremely concerned about the lack of train drivers across the franchise.\nStephen Locke, chair of the watchdog, said: \"A significant gesture is necessary now if they are to have any chance of recovering the trust and confidence of increasingly cynical commuters who, being effectively a captive market, have no choice but to put up with the situation.\"\nHe added lessons needed to be learned from the \"frustrating start\" to the new franchise.\nGovia, which is 65%-owned by Go-Ahead and 35%-owned by French firm Keolis, took over the franchise in September.\nFrom 9 November until 6 December, 4% of Thameslink services were cancelled and 21.3% were delayed, while 2.9% of Great Northern services were cancelled and 16% were delayed, according to figures from Govia.\nIn a statement, Govia said: \"We apologise for the recent service on our network and in particular on Thameslink.\n\"As well as issues such as train failures which we are determined to address, there have been many problems with infrastructure, such as signal failures.\"\nThe company also blamed a shortage of drivers for the cancellations and said they were recruiting more drivers.\nGovia said passengers who had been delayed at least 12 times in a four-week period would be entitled to claim enhanced compensation.\nThameslink services run between Bedford and Brighton; and Luton, St Albans, Sutton and Wimbledon, while Great Northern Trains run between London and Peterborough, Cambridge and King's Lynn and Welwyn Garden City.", "summary": "A watchdog has called for commuters to receive \"significant\" compensation after a series of delays and cancellations at a new rail franchise." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Kenya's health secretary said Kenyans and medical workers flying in from those states would still be allowed in.\nKenyan Airways says it will stop flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone when the ban comes in on Wednesday.\nThe World Health Organisation (WHO) says Kenya is at \"high risk\" from Ebola because it is a major transport hub.\nThe epidemic began in Guinea in February and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.\nOn Friday, the death toll rose to 1,145 after the WHO said 76 new deaths had been reported in the two days to 13 August. There have been 2,127 cases reported in total.\nEarlier, Kenya's health ministry said four suspected cases of Ebola in the country had tested negative for the virus.\nThe cases had involved a Liberian national and two Nigerians who had recently travelled to Kenya as well as a Zimbabwean.\nKenyan Airways said it had decided to cancel flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone's capitals after advice from Kenya's government.\nIt said all passengers booked on the suspended flights would get a full refund.\nThe company said its flights to Nigeria were not affected by the suspension.\nAnnouncing the government's decision, Kenyan Health Minister James Macharia said it was \"in the interest of public health\".\nHe warned that Kenyans and health workers who had returned from the three west African states would face \"strict checks\" and would be quarantined if necessary.\nOn Friday, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said the outbreak would take at least six months to bring under control.\nMSF President Joanne Liu said the situation was \"deteriorating faster, and moving faster, than we can respond to\".\nThe WHO also admitted that the scale of the outbreak appeared to be \"vastly underestimated\" and said \"extraordinary measures\" were needed to contain it.\nEbola is transmitted by direct contact with the body fluids of a person who is infected.\nInitial flu-like symptoms can lead to external haemorrhaging from areas such as eyes and gums, and internal bleeding which can lead to organ failure.\nThe WHO says the risk of transmission of Ebola during air travel remains low.", "summary": "Kenyan officials say the country is closing its borders to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in response to the deadly Ebola outbreak." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It will maintain up to 100 jobs and enhance skills at the plant in Larne, County Antrim, the US company said.\nThe decision to permanently source axles from Larne follows a preliminary production period over past months.\nThe company said it recognised the high standard of facilities, processes, and expertise in Northern Ireland.\nCaterpillar Northern Ireland operations director Robert Kennedy added: \"It is also a testament to the cost competitiveness of manufacturing in Northern Ireland and advantages the local facilities have in terms of proximity to customers, access to ports and other transportation infrastructure.\"\nThe company, formerly known as FG Wilson, has operations in Larne and west Belfast.\nCaterpillar is a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.\nThe axles are a key part of trucks, which are used for earth moving, mining and quarrying throughout the world.\nCaterpillar managing director for articulated trucks Phil Handley said: \"Caterpillar NI operations are proven and very capable.\n\"We're happy with the level of quality we've had there, the team has been very responsive to our needs and has been really collaborating and working closely with us. It's an excellent source for these key components.\"\nAbout 18 months ago, 700 staff were laid off as the production of one of its generators was moved to a Caterpillar plant in China.\nListen to the interview with Caterpillar NI operations director Robert Kennedy on the Northern Ireland Business News podcast.", "summary": "US engineering firm Caterpillar is to invest $9m (£5.4m) to expand its Northern Ireland truck parts manufacturing operation." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The SNP said they would make Scotland a fairer place for female workers.\nLabour said their government would be \"Scotland's greenest ever\", while the Lib Dems pledged to increase the active travel budget by £20m.\nThe Scottish Conservatives warned about the potential impact of higher income tax rates.\nThe politicans campaigned as thousands of cyclists took part in mass bike rides in Edinburgh and Aberdeen.\nThe Edinburgh event, Pedal on Parliament, was billed as Scotland's largest demonstration for safer streets.\nNicola Sturgeon launched the SNP's manifesto commitments on women and gender equality at an event in Glasgow.\nShe said: \"We will double free childcare to help parents return to work, and we will increase the numbers of people earning the living wage - helping many women on low pay.\n\"Women are increasingly visible in public life - but we want to break down barriers even further and ensure that women have equal opportunities and receive equal pay for their work.\n\"We'll take action to increase women's representation, to support female entrepreneurs and put pressure on any local authorities that are yet to settle outstanding equal pay claims.\"\nScottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said a Labour Scottish government would be Scotland's \"greenest government ever\".\nShe said: \"With the party's promise to ban fracking and overhaul Scotland's public transport system, we are going much further than the SNP ever will to tackle climate change.\n\"Under the SNP only 30% of us are commuting to work by public transport, walking and cycling - a figure that hasn't shifted in a decade.\n\"With our plans to regulate bus services, introduce a single payment on public transport and invest in cycling we will deliver a culture change in the way people travel across Scotland.\"\nScottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson visited Dumfriesshire to discuss the potential impact of higher income tax rates imposed by Holyrood.\nShe said: \"The south of Scotland would be hardest hit - why would firms choose to set up just north of the border when a few miles further south would give their employees a better deal?\n\"We've already seen this week that higher taxes on home buying has left a multi-million pound black hole in the Scottish economy with revenue plummeting.\n\"We need to put jobs and a strong economy first - not reckless election tax grabs from politicians determined to out-flank one another.\"\nLib Dem leader Wille Rennie pledged to implement a plan to help meet the 2020 active travel target.\nHe said: \"We need action to increase investment in both cycling and walking, improve dedicated cycling infrastructure and ensure that people are confident that they can ride their bike safely.\n\"The Liberal Democrat three-point plan would deliver millions of pounds of investment and put cycling and active travel at the very heart of the planning process.\"\nThe Scottish Greens said they intend to deliver on campaigners' demands by committing 10% of the transport budget to active travel.\nThe party's co-convenor Patrick Harvie said: \"Investing in cycle infrastructure and road maintenance is far better for local businesses and our economy than ploughing extra millions into massive new road projects.\n\"Research shows it creates far more job hours, so we should be focusing on fixing and improving what we've got rather than adding even further to the cost of maintaining our road network.\n\"Successive SNP and Labour-led governments have failed to act. We need a bolder Holyrood with more Green voices to get us on track.\"", "summary": "Scotland's politicians are campaigning about women's issues, tax rates and active travel with 12 days to go until the Holyrood election." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The latest inflation rate is the highest since June 2013, and above the Bank of England's 2% target.\nThe Office for National Statistics said the price of food and clothing also went up slightly but fuel costs fell for a third month in a row.\nThe pick-up in inflation is likely to continue the squeeze on consumers.\nThe fall in the value of the pound since last year's Brexit referendum has increased the cost of imports, which has been one of the key factors behind the rise in inflation.\nHowever, wage increases have not kept up with the rise in prices. The most recent ONS data on wages showed that average weekly earnings excluding bonuses increased by 2.1% in the three months to March. Earnings data for the three months to April will be released on Wednesday.\nComputer games are part of the recreational and cultural goods and services sector, where prices rose overall by 0.9% between April and May compared with a fall of 0.4% a year ago.\nAs computer games are mostly imported they have been affected by the weaker pound, while the drop in sterling has also meant holidays abroad are more expensive.\nThe sugar, jam, confectionery and children's clothing markets were mainly responsible for the increase in food and clothing prices.\nThere were also rises in the price of furniture and household goods, and in the cost of electricity - with further price increases coming into effect in May.\nTravellers did have some good news, however, with the decrease in fuel costs coupled with a drop in the cost of air and sea travel, which was influenced by Easter falling in April instead of March as in 2016.\nAmit Kara, head of UK macroeconomic forecasting at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said: \"We expect inflation to rise further over the course of this year and to reach a peak in the final quarter of 2017.\n\"This spike in inflation will exert further downward pressure on real household disposable income, at a time when wage growth remains modest and in turn squeeze consumer spending.\"\nNick Dixon, investment director at life insurance and pensions firm Aegon, said: \"This high rate will particularly affect the purchasing power of retirees locked into a fixed income and the growing number whose wages have failed to keep pace.\"\nWhen you hear politicians lament the squeeze on living standards caused by higher inflation and sagging pay rises, it's worth remembering another squeeze - one the largest parties are deliberately imposing.\nThe biggest single austerity measure, imposed first by George Osborne, is the freezing of \"working-age\" benefits. If you receive child benefit, tax credits or jobseeker's allowance, your benefits no longer rise with inflation.\nLast year that made little difference because CPI inflation was zero. But with inflation now at 2.9%, the real value of your benefits is dropping sharply.\nThis is projected to cost benefit recipients (and therefore save the government) £3.6bn a year by 2021.\nIn addition, further cuts to universal credit chalked in by Mr Osborne (cutting the amount you can earn before tax credits are withdrawn and withdrawing extra support if you have more than two children) will take another £6bn a year off low-income families by 2020.\nAs the low-income think tank the Resolution Foundation points out, Labour may have said it will reduce welfare cuts by £2bn a year, but that's too little to reverse the cuts.\nBoth parties are effectively planning to keep the biggest austerity measures and the austerity \"squeeze\" on benefit recipients is only just beginning.\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said inflation looked set to peak at about 3.2% in the fourth quarter of the year, \"as retailers continue to pass on higher import prices to consumers\".\n\"We doubt, however, that a majority of MPC members will feel compelled to raise interest rates this year,\" he added.\nSuren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), warned that businesses were being hit hard by the rise in inflation.\n\"Higher inflation is a key business concern as it squeezes margins and weakens their ability to invest, particularly during this time of heightened political uncertainty.\" he said.\n\"The BCC's quarterly economic survey confirms that businesses continue to feel the inflationary pressures, with a significant proportion of firms struggling to absorb the rising cost of raw materials and other overheads.\n\"If the current political uncertainty persists, this is likely to increase the downward pressure on sterling's value, pushing inflation even higher over the next year.\"\nThe ONS's new preferred measure of inflation CPIH - which includes a measure of owner occupiers' housing costs - rose to 2.7% last month, up from 2.6% in April.\nThe Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation increased to 3.7% in June, up from 3.5% the month before.", "summary": "The rising cost of foreign package holidays and imported computer games helped to push the UK inflation rate up to 2.9% last month from 2.7% in April." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dozens of calls were received about the fire which has damaged the fifth floor and roof space of the University of Bristol building in Colston Street.\nFour fire engines, a turntable ladder and more than 40 firefighters have been dealing with the blaze, Avon Fire and Rescue said.\nIt was thought no-one was inside and there were no reports of any injuries.\nEyewitnesses said it started as a small fire in one corner but very quickly took hold.\n\"We saw tiles falling off as the fire brigade arrived and not long after the wall on the south-west side of the building started to buckle,\" said an eyewitness called Ellie.\n\"Nearly two hours after it started the whole roof was completely gutted.\"\nRichard Meal, who works on the 13th floor of the neighbouring Colston Tower, said: \"As the fire took hold, tiles from the roof were crashing down from the roof on to the fire engines below.\n\"The top couple of storeys of the building are gutted and blackened and the fire is still burning over two hours later.\"\nA university spokeswoman confirmed the fire at 33 Colston Street was in a residential block.\n\"Students have been evacuated from the building and as far as we are aware no-one has been hurt,\" she said.\n\"Students resident in the building will be rehoused and supported through the process. We will be working with Avon Fire and Rescue Service to determine the cause of the fire.\"\nAvon and Somerset Police have asked motorists to avoid Colston Street and the surrounding roads.", "summary": "A major fire has ripped through the roof of a block of student accommodation in Bristol city centre." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "United Utilities said it is installing ultraviolet light rigs at five sites on the Fylde coast to eradicate the bug.\nThe microbial parasite is killed when irradiated with short wave UVC light.\nThe water company said levels are now \"very low\" but urged people to continue boiling water.\nThe warning was originally issued on 6 August after traces of the bug were found at the Franklaw treatment works near Preston.\nThe affected areas include Blackpool, Chorley, Fylde, Preston, South Ribble, Wyre and the Mellor area of Blackburn.\nGary Dixon, customer services director for United Utilities said: \"We have identified a number of locations where we will position the rigs as we observed water flowing through the system.\"\nHe said when traces of the bug come out of the service area and come into contact with the light, it is eradicated immediately.\n\"The levels of cryptosporidium were extremely low in the first place and are now very low,\" he said.\n\"Until we get clear samples our advice to customers is to continue to boil water.\"", "summary": "The level of the cryptosporidium bug that has affected water supplies to 300,000 homes in Lancashire has fallen significantly, it has been claimed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The ex-England defender replaces Stuart Pearce, who left in June following a disappointing European Championship.\nSouthgate was previously the Football Association head of elite development, leaving the post in July 2012.\n\"I'm extremely excited about the prospect of working with the best and brightest young players in the country,\" the 42-year-old said.\nSouthgate made 57 appearances for England during a career in which he played for Crystal Palace, Aston Villa and Middlesbrough.\nHe featured at Euro 96, missing the crucial penalty in the semi-final defeat by Germany at Wembley, the 1998 World Cup and the European Championship in 2000.\n\"I'm a proud Englishman and playing for my country was the pinnacle of my playing career,\" said Southgate, who managed Middlesbrough from June 2006 to October 2009.\n\"Since retiring as a player I have gained a lot of knowledge and experience of the game both here and abroad, and I'm eager to play my part in preparing players to compete at the highest level.\n\"Whenever any team steps onto the pitch for England, being successful is of huge importance, but it is also about developing a clear style of play that can allow our talented young players to flourish.\"\nSouthgate was part of England's coaching staff at the Under-20 World Cup in 2011 and has been working as a pundit for ITV.\nHe will report to the FA's director of elite development Dan Ashworth and will oversee the coaches with responsibility for the under-16s through to the under-20s.\nAshworth said: \"Gareth shares our belief that now is an important moment for English football. It is the time for change and his ideas and experience will be crucial to the direction we wish to take the development teams in the future.\"\nSouthgate's first game in charge will be the 2015 European Championship qualifier against Moldova on Thursday, 5 September at Reading's Madejski Stadium before his team face Finland away four days later.\nEngland manager Roy Hodgson took charge of the last under-21 game, a 6-0 defeat of Scotland at Bramall Lane.", "summary": "Former Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate has been named England Under-21 boss on a three-year contract." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Wilson, who has been with City for 10 years, will work along manager David Moyes and chief executive Martin Bain from 1 January.\nBain said Wilson will have input into \"scouting, recruitment, medical services, player pathways and youth development\" in the new role.\nHe previously worked with Moyes at Preston North End.\n\"My role will be to ensure that we have the best practices, systems and people in place in order to give the club the best platform to achieve its goals,\" said Wilson.", "summary": "Sunderland have appointed Manchester City's director of football services Simon Wilson as chief football officer." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rumours about his death surfaced earlier this year, after reports that he had been seriously wounded in an air strike in March by the US-led coalition that is opposing IS.\nBut the Pentagon said that Baghdadi's fate remained unclear.\nThe IS chief allegedly broke a months-long silence in May by releasing an audio message in which he urged Muslims to emigrate to the \"caliphate\" that the group has proclaimed in areas of Syria and Iraq.\nBut his only public appearance on video has been to deliver a sermon in Mosul after IS took the northern Iraqi city last year.\nBefore then, there were only two authenticated photos of him.\nThe IS chief also appears to wear a mask to address his commanders, earning the nickname \"the invisible sheikh\".\nBut Baghdadi - a nom de guerre, rather than his real name - has good reason to maintain a veil of mystery, says the BBC's Security Correspondent, Frank Gardner.\nOne of his predecessors, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi who headed the most violent jihadist group in Iraq until his death, was a high-profile showman whose secret location was eventually tracked down. He was killed in a US bombing raid in 2006.\nHe may be a shadowy figure, but the organisation he leads is pulling in thousands of new recruits and has become one of the most cohesive militias in the Middle East, our correspondent adds.\nBaghdadi is believed to have been born in Samarra, north of Baghdad, in 1971.\nReports suggest he was a cleric in a mosque in the city around the time of the US-led invasion in 2003.\nSome believe he was already a militant jihadist during the rule of Saddam Hussein. Others suggest he was radicalised during the four years he was held at Camp Bucca, a US facility in southern Iraq where many al-Qaeda commanders were detained.\nHe emerged as the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, one of the groups that later became Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), in 2010, and rose to prominence during the attempted merger with al-Nusra Front in Syria.\nHe did not swear allegiance to the leader of the al-Qaeda network, Zawahiri, who had urged ISIS to focus on Iraq and leave Syria to al-Nusra.\nBaghdadi and his fighters have openly defied the al-Qaeda chief, leading some commentators to believe he now holds higher prestige among many Islamist militants.\nZawahiri still has a lot of power by virtue of his franchises in Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa.\nBut Baghdadi has a reputation as a highly organised and ruthless battlefield tactician, which analysts say makes his organisation more attractive to young jihadists than that of Zawahiri, an Islamic theologian.\nIn October 2011, the US officially designated Baghdadi as \"terrorist\" and offered a $10m (£5.8m; 7.3m euros) reward for information leading to his capture or death.\nIt notes Baghdadi's aliases, including Abu Duaa and Dr Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai.\nAs well as the uncertainty surrounding his true identity, his whereabouts are also unclear with reports he was in Raqqa in Syria.\nSo there remain more questions than answers about the leader of one of the world's most dangerous jihadist groups.", "summary": "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the Islamic State (IS) militant group, has been careful to reveal little about himself and his whereabouts." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said there have been isolated incidents at reserves across Wales recently.\nTwo bags of used and discarded fireworks were collected from the Dyfi Ynyslas nature reserve beach, near Aberystwyth.\nNRW said noise from a firework can cause stress to wild animals, forcing them to abandon nests or their young.\nRubbish left behind can also contain chemicals which, if eaten by animals, can be fatal.\nCeredigion assistant reserve manager, Ali Chedgy said: \"Having a camp fire or letting off fireworks at a nature reserve might seem like fun but it is a risk to wildlife, the habitats they call home, and people living nearby.\"", "summary": "Visitors to nature reserves are being asked not to start fires or set off fireworks as they threaten wildlife." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It turns out Mr Trump may have been right.\nOn Monday, federal prosecutors in the trial of two New Jersey government officials over their involvement in what has become known as the \"Bridgegate\" scandal said one of the defendants and a star witness boasted about their actions to the New Jersey governor at the time.\nIt's a rare point of agreement between the prosecutors and the defence attorneys whose case largely rests on Mr Christie's knowledge - and approval - of the lane closures.\nThe prosecution asserts that even though Mr Christie obviously knew of his aides' actions, which were taken to punish a local Democratic mayor who declined to endorse the governor in his 2013 re-election bid, the staff members should still be held culpable.\n\"At the end of this case the only issue for you to decide is whether Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni are guilty of the crimes with which they are charged beyond a reasonable doubt,\" prosecutor Vikas Khanna said. \"That's it.\"\nMonday's revelation runs counter to the governor's repeated insistence that he knew nothing about the actions of his subordinates, which he said were \"completely inappropriate and unsanctioned\". More than that, it caps what can only be described as an epic reversal of fortune for the man who five years ago was considered a rising star in the Republican Party and had once been talked about as presidential front-runner in both 2012 and 2016.\nThe Bridgegate scandal first ensnared Mr Christie in January 2014, when news spread that a series of traffic jams on the George Washington Bridge were more than just a routine bridge maintenance project.\nIn the ensuing months, Mr Christie's in-state approval numbers tanked, putting his 2016 White House hopes in danger.\nFederal prosecutors conducted an investigation and indicted Mr Christie's aides, not the governor, in the matter in 2015. He ended up making a run for the Republican presidential nomination despite the lingering doubts about the controversy, but his bid was cut short due to meagre fundraising and an underwhelming performance in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.\nThe New Jersey governor's campaign may be best remembered for his rhetorical garrotting of fellow candidate Marco Rubio on a New Hampshire debate stage just days before that state's primary. At the time, Mr Rubio was riding a surge of support following a surprisingly close third-place finish in Iowa, and he appeared poised to go toe-to-toe with Mr Trump in the coming nomination contests. Instead his support cratered, and his campaign never fully recovered.\nDespite his own campaign collapse, Mr Christie wasn't finished, as he shocked the political world in late February when he became the first major party officeholder to endorse Mr Trump.\nThe New Yorker, the governor said, \"is rewriting the playbook of American politics because he is providing strong leadership that is not dependent upon the status quo\".\nIn the coming weeks, however, Mr Christie would become the butt of jokes for standing wide-eyed and unblinking behind his new political ally at campaign appearances. He'd also occasionally be the target of Mr Trump's caustic humour, such as when he joked about Mr Christie's weight or that the governor had spent more time in New Hampshire than in his home state.\nMr Christie did make Mr Trump's vice-presidential short list - and may have been the nominee's personal favourite, given his pugnacious style.\nIn the end, however, Mr Trump went with Indiana Governor Mike Pence - leaving Mr Christie to speculate that the Bridgegate scandal may have diminished his chances here, as well.\nNow, his fortunes rest entirely on Mr Trump's political success. If the Republican wins, he will be in charge of the transition process and may end up with a plum position in the new administration. If he loses, Mr Christie's reputation among establishment Republicans will be in tatters in the final year of his governorship.\nDespite the bad news on Monday, Mr Trump is still sticking with his loyal ally, issuing a statement that did not specifically mention the lastest Bridgegate developments.\n\"I have known and liked Chris for 15 years,\" Mr. Trump said. \"After his recent run for president, he called me to say that he would like to endorse me in that he sees a movement like he has never seen before. I was greatly honoured, accepted his endorsement, and he has been a spectacular advocate ever since.\"\nWhat may be the New Jersey governor's final star turn came at the Republican National Convention in July, when he gave a blistering denunciation of Hillary Clinton during a prime-time speech. In it, the former federal prosecutor pretended to preside over the trial of the Democratic nominee, leading the convention crowd in cries of \"guilty!\"\nNow, in a real courtroom with real prosecutors, Mr Christie's political career is effectively on trial. And whether the defendants are found guilty or not, the punishment for the New Jersey governor has already been severe.", "summary": "Back in December Donald Trump said New Jersey Governor Chris Christie \"totally knew\" about his staff engaging in a politically motivated closing in 2013 of several lanes on a key bridge from his state into New York City." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The hall was destroyed and a Presbyterian church was damaged in the village on Friday.\nThe two men, who are in their 30's, were arrested on Monday and are being questioned at Letterkenny Garda (Irish police) station.\nIt was the second attack on an Orange hall in the county in as many weeks.\nLast month, a fire destroyed Newtowncunningham Orange hall. Gardai said they were treating it as an arson attack.\nIn County Armagh, a third Orange hall was attacked when a device partially exploded outside the hall at Carnagh..", "summary": "Two men have been arrested by police investigating arson attacks on an Orange hall and a church in Convoy, County Donegal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The ninth instalment will conclude the third trilogy of movies that begins with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which is out in cinemas in December.\nEpisode IX is set for release in 2019, but initial work with production artists will begin later this year.\nTrevorrow wrote and directed Jurassic World, which has taken more than $1.5bn (£960m) at the global box office.\nPrior to that, he had only made one feature film - the 2012 indie comedy Safety Not Guaranteed.\nLucasfilm's president Kathleen Kennedy described the 38-year-old as \"an incredible talent\".\n\"Colin is someone I've been interested in working with ever since I saw Safety Not Guaranteed,\" she said.\n\"The power of that film paired with the enormous success of Jurassic World speaks volumes about his abilities both as a storyteller and skilled film-maker.\"\n'Boundless creativity'\nTrevorrow said his new role was \"not a job or an assignment\".\n\"It is a seat at a campfire, surrounded by an extraordinary group of storytellers, film-makers, artists and craftspeople,\" he said.\n\"We've been charged with telling new stories for a younger generation because they deserve what we all had - a mythology to call their own. We will do this by channelling something George Lucas instilled in all of us: boundless creativity, pure invention and hope.\"\nFollowing JJ Abrams' The Force Awakens, Looper director Rian Johnson will take the helm for Star Wars: Episode VIII, due for release in 2017.\nTrevorrow's appointment was made at the D23 Disney Expo in California, where a number of Star Wars-related announcements were made on Saturday.\nThe first image from spin-off film Rogue One was revealed - giving a glimpse of British stars Felicity Jones and Riz Ahmed - while other cast members confirmed included Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen and Donnie Yen.\nDisney also announced plans to create two Star Wars-themed lands in its theme parks in Orlando and Anaheim.\nEach 14-acre site will include a replica Millennium Falcon which visitors will be able to fly on a \"secret mission\" and will be designed as an immersive experience featuring characters, shops and other attractions from the Star Wars universe.\n\"We're bringing Star Wars to life in a big way,\" Disney chairman Bob Iger said.\n\"These new lands will transport guests to a whole new Star Wars planet. Nothing will be out of character, you've never seen a cantina like this before.\"\nDisney has yet to confirm when the new experiences would be opening, but said they would be \"coming soon\".\nThe day ended with an appearance from Abrams and the cast of The Force Awakens - along with Harrison Ford, who unveiled a new poster for the film featuring himself as Han Solo.\nHe gave credit to Star Wars creator George Lucas, who was honoured on Friday with a Disney Legends award for his contribution to the corporation.\n\"I'm very happy following in the footsteps of George Lucas, the author of the early chapters of my story,\" he said.\n\"I'm delighted to be here with JJ [Abrams] and this wonderful cast. It's a great thrill to be here with you; you have made this whole thing happen. I couldn't be happier.\"", "summary": "Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow is to direct Star Wars: Episode IX, it has been announced." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The protesters quickly fled the park, but later erected barricades across nearby streets and lit bonfires.\nWitnesses said it was one of the worst nights of unrest since the park was occupied 18 days ago.\nPolice blocked off the Bosphorus Bridge to stop demonstrators reaching Taksim Square, where the park is located.\nClashes continued into Sunday morning in the streets around the square, eyewitnesses say. On the square itself, bulldozers went to work, clearing away the protesters' abandoned barricades.\nThousands of people also took to the streets of the capital, Ankara, to express support for the protests.\nThe Confederation of Public Workers' Unions (KESK) also said it would call a nationwide strike on Monday, while another union grouping is deciding whether to join the action.\nMedical officials estimate that 5,000 people have been injured and at least four killed since protests began in earnest on 31 May.\nPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to hold a rally in Istanbul later on Sunday.\nThe protests began as a local protest against a plan to redevelop Gezi Park, but snowballed into nationwide anti-government protests after the perceived high-handed response of the authorities.\nEarlier in the week the police cleared Taksim Square, in which the park is located, but the government had since appeared to be more conciliatory.\n31 May: Protests begin in Gezi Park over plans to redevelop one of Istanbul's few green spaces\n3 June: Protesters establish camps with makeshift facilities from libraries to food centres\n4-10 June: Protests widen into show of anti-government dissent in towns and cities across Turkey; clashes between police and demonstrators\n11/12 June: Night of clashes see riot police disperse anti-government demonstrators in Taksim Square, which adjoins Gezi Park; camps in the park remain\n13 June: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan issues a \"final warning\" to protesters to leave Gezi Park\n14 June: Government agrees to suspend Gezi Park redevelopment plans until a court rules on the issue, PM holds talks with members of a key protest group\n15 June: Police move in, clearing protesters from Gezi Park\nQ&A: Protests in Turkey\nWhy is Gezi Park so important?\nTurkey sails further into dangerous waters\nMr Erdogan, a hate figure for the protesters, had agreed to postpone the redevelopment while the courts considered the project's legality.\nHowever, in a speech to supporters of his Justice and Development (AK) Party in Ankara on Saturday he said the park had to be \"evacuated\" by the security forces.\nAnd late on Saturday riot squads moved in, taking just 30 minutes to dislodge the protesters.\nThe BBC's James Reynolds, who was at the park, says the officers advanced slowly, wearing gas masks and carrying riot shields, amid a cloud of white tear gas.\nMost protesters chose to leave to avoid getting hurt. Some regrouped in nearby streets, but police fired more tear gas in an effort to disperse them.\nClashes then erupted around the city, with protesters ripping up paving stones and tearing down fences to use as barricades. In some areas they chanted: \"Tayyip resign.\"\nPolice chased protesters to hotels where they had taken refuge, and some activists claimed medical facilities were targeted with water cannon and tear gas.\nOne resident, who lives 10 minutes from Gezi park, told the BBC he had been woken at 06:00 (03:00 GMT) on Sunday by the noise of police chasing protesters. People had to shut their windows, he said, because of the tear gas filling the street.\nIn Ankara, thousands of protesters gathered for a rally near the US embassy.\nOur correspondent says the prime minister has won back the ground that he lost to protesters two weeks ago.\nBut it is not yet clear which side has won the larger fight for the country's support.\nLast month, an Istanbul court issued an initial injunction against the plan to cut down trees in the park to make way for a shopping centre and replica 18th-Century military barracks. The government has appealed against the ruling.\nDemonstrators have accused Mr Erdogan's government of becoming increasingly authoritarian and of trying to impose conservative Islamic values on a secular state.\nThe police crackdown on protesters in Istanbul, Ankara, and other towns and cities has drawn international concern, especially from Europe.", "summary": "Protesters have clashed with Turkish police in Istanbul, after riot squads used tear gas and water cannon to eject demonstrators from Gezi Park." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Over the last few years, we've been enjoying milder winters and earlier springs.\nThis means that our plants bud and flower much earlier than they used to.\nWe have just had one of the mildest, wettest winters since records began with reports of daffodils, snowdrops and even cherry blossom in bloom as early as last December across the UK.\nThe average date for a snowdrop to bloom in the UK is 9 February.\nThe earliest recorded snowdrop in flower here in Northern Ireland was in Newtownards in County Down on January 10 in the winter of 2014.\nHowever, Kaye Coates from the Woodland Trust says that this season, the first flowering snowdrop was in Kircubbin, County Down, on 28 December 2015.\nWhile it's heartening to see colourful blooms break up the winter gloom, there's always the risk of a cold snap, which can affect plants later in the season.\nDr Kate Lewthwaite is the citizen science manager at the Woodland's Trust. She says \"species that traditionally flower later in the spring, like hawthorn or wild cherry, are more vulnerable to the effects of frost, especially if this follows a mild spell that has encouraged early flowering.\n\"Frost-damaged flowers may fail to set fruit, which obviously has an impact on wildlife later in the season.\"\nThis happened during 2015 when a sharp spring frost almost wiped out County Armagh's famous apple crop at the centre of a £20m industry.\nAny early frogspawn could freeze if the temperatures drop for a time - clearly not good news for the frog population.\nBut fingers crossed, winter may be behind us.\nDr Lewthwaite says early sightings of the first signs of spring are becoming more commonplace, and could be expected as a result of climate change.\nThe Trust is always adding to its records and is calling for the public to help them collect as much information as possible.\nDirector Patrick Cregg said: \"We're keen to get a good geographical spread of observations and are appealing to local people to take part. Please remember that your records - no matter how few - will make a valuable contribution to scientific research.\"\nFind out more at naturescalendar.org.uk", "summary": "Spring may have sprung in gardens across Northern Ireland - but does that mean that winter's really gone?" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Figures from the Republic's Department of Foreign Affairs showed that applications had risen by 26% overall.\nThe department had received a record number of overall applications in 2016.\nThere has been an increase in applications from Britain and Northern Ireland since the UK voted to leave the EU.\nAn Irish passport would allow its holder to continue to move and work freely within other EU member states once the UK withdraws.\nIn 2016, applications from Northern Ireland increased by 27% from the previous year while applications from Britain went up by 42%.\nThe latest figures show that this trend has continued in the opening months of 2017.\nBetween January and March this year, 27,898 applications were received from Northern Ireland and 23,181 were received from Britain.\nIn the corresponding period of 2016, 16,581 applications were received from Northern Ireland and there were 13,722 from Britain.\nThe Department of Foreign Affairs said the the overall increase in applications was \"attributable to a variety of causes including an expanding population and a significant increase in outbound travel in recent years\".\n\"The decision by the UK to leave the EU may also have had some impact, although the department does not ask people why they are applying for a passport, only whether they are eligible.\"\nThe Republic's Passport Service had already seen a surge in demand prior to Brexit, due to an increase in outbound travel, the Euro 2016 football championships and new US travel requirements for biometric passports.\nPeople with a parent or grandparent born in Ireland are among those who can apply for an Irish passport.", "summary": "Applications for Irish passports from Northern Ireland and Britain have risen by 68% in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same period last year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The judges said the consent of the father was not required if the mother did not wish to disclose his identity.\nMonday's ruling overturned earlier court orders which said a woman needed the father's consent if she wanted to be a legal guardian of her child.\nWomen's rights activists have welcomed the ruling and called it \"progressive\".\nThe case was filed by a Delhi mother who had asked the court's permission to become her child's \"legal guardian\" without informing the father who, she said, did not know about the child's existence.\nA trial court and the Delhi high court had earlier ruled that she needed to disclose the father's name and get his consent for the purpose.\nBut on Monday, Justices Vikramjit Sen and Abhay Manohar Sapre said there was \"no need to insist on the father's name\" and that in the case of an unwed mother, her \"name is sufficient\".\nThe judgement has been praised by lawyers and activists:", "summary": "India's Supreme Court has in a landmark ruling said an unwed mother does not have to reveal the name of her child's father to claim guardianship." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The possible grounds for an appeal is understood to be a claim that Carrick Rangers manager Gary Haveron should not have been in his club's dugout for the win over Dungannon Swifts on 23 April.\nHaveron was handed a three-match ban but it is claimed one of the games should have included the Swifts match.\nThere is a suggestion Haveron sat out a game when he wasn't actually banned.\nIrish FA rules state that the sanction for a player or manager failing to serve a ban is a minimum £350 fine for the club concerned and the forfeiting of the match on a 3-0 scoreline.\nIf Carrick's win over Dungannon was overturned, they would drop to the automatic relegation spot while it would leave Warrenpoint Town in the promotion-relegation play-off spot.\nThe situation is complicated by that fact that the first leg of the promotion-relegation play-off between Ballinamallard United and Institute took place on Friday night with the Fermanagh club earning a 2-1 win over Institute at Drumahoe.\nWarrenpoint were left furious by their relegation on the final day of the season after a highly contentious injury-time penalty led to Dungannon snatching a 1-1 draw which meant that the county Down club dropped to bottom spot.\nA Warrenpoint victory in that game would maintained their Premiership status.\nCarrick, who started the final day bottom of the table, avoided the drop as they scored two late goals to beat Ballinamallard United 2-1.", "summary": "Warrenpoint Town are considering an appeal against their controversial relegation from the Irish Premiership." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Addicks sit 23rd in the Championship, six points from safety.\n\"The season has been a major disappointment but from the adversity we have got to find something to look forward to,\" he told BBC Radio London.\n\"If we are able to get ourselves out of trouble it will be a success. We have to look at it as almost like a trophy for us to stay in the league.\"\nThe 33-year-old added: \"I have been in this situation before and managed to stay up on the penultimate day and it was one of the triumphs in my career.\"\nAfter a promising start to the campaign, which saw the club sitting third in the table after a four-match unbeaten run, Charlton have endured a season of struggle.\nThe south-east London club are on their third head coach this season and off the pitch supporters have held a series of protests calling on owner Roland Duchatelet to sell up.\nHowever, Jackson believes current boss Jose Riga is capable of preserving their second-tier status after the Belgian guided the club to safety in his first spell in charge at The Valley, in 2014.\n\"Jose has brought a calmness because of his previous tenure at the club,\" the midfielder said.\n\"He has experience of it and what it took before and he is trying to implement that again.\n\"The situation is a bit more serious this time around as we are cut adrift a little bit.\n\"There are enough games and enough points to play for, so we are not about to down tools and give up. You have seen teams put runs together and get out of trouble.\"\nCharlton, who have won one of their last 14 league games, travel across London to face Fulham on Saturday afternoon (15:00 GMT).", "summary": "Charlton captain Johnnie Jackson says avoiding relegation this season would be \"like winning a trophy\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 4x4 vehicle was airlifted three miles (4.8km) by a RAF Chinook helicopter on to Caldey island, home to 40 inhabitants including 18 monks who live at a monastery.\nThe red rural response pump was attached by metal hoists to the underside of the chopper, and dangled 70ft (21m) below.\nThe fire appliance will be manned by volunteers.\nThe monks themselves were once responsible for running the fire service, but it has since been taken over by Mid and West Wales Fire Service.\nWing Commander Phil Greville, RAF regional liaison officer in Wales, said: \"Air-lifting this type of vehicle underneath a Chinook has not been done before.\n\"The fire service needed to get a new fire appliance out to the island and we wanted to get this type of fire-vehicle approved for air-lift by Chinook.\n\"The rural response pump vehicle is in widespread use throughout the UK and in the future, we will be able to fly it to where it is needed when responding to major floods and other emergency situations.\"", "summary": "A Pembrokeshire island has had a new fire engine delivered by helicopter." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dominic Selvaraj allegedly drove off with the van six days ago while his colleague was using the toilet.\nHe was arrested on Wednesday morning while returning to Bangalore from neighbouring Tamil Nadu, police said.\nATMs have seen long lines since India banned 500 and 1,000 rupee notes.\nThe government said that the ban was part of an effort to crack down on corruption and force those with undeclared wealth out into the open.\nIndia driver makes off with $134,000\nIndia film star takes piggy to the bank\nWhy India wiped out 86% of its cash\nMeet the 'money mules' of India's cash crisis\nA police official told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi that they have only managed to recover 7.9m rupees from the amount that was stolen.\n\"He has told the police that he used the rest of the money to repay his debts and give out a loan to a friend. In any case, we are investigating,\" he said.\nMr Selvaraj had been hired as a driver three weeks ago by a firm that transfers cash between ATMs and banks.\nThe van he was driving did not have a GPS facility, which Mr Selvaraj had been aware of, police said.\nThere have been chaotic scenes in India ever since the currency ban was announced two weeks ago.\nIt has brought India's largely cash economy to a virtual standstill as the two banned notes accounted for 86% of the money in circulation.\nThe government has introduced new 500 and 2,000 rupee notes, but these are still in the process of being injected into the economy and banks often run out of the new money.\nPeople have been told they can deposit or change their old notes in banks until 30 December.\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi, who made the surprise announcement in an address to the nation, said the decision was made to target people who have hoards of unaccounted cash, known in India as \"black money\".", "summary": "Police in the Indian city of Bangalore have arrested the driver of a van carrying cash for ATMs who is accused of stealing 9.2m rupees ($134,000; £107,000) in new 2,000 rupee notes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The animal was found in Bonnyrigg by dog walker John Stevenson on Saturday.\nStephanie McCrossan, of the Scottish SPCA, said: \"Mr Stevenson had tried to make a ramp with lots of branches to enable the badger to free herself, but the drop was too steep.\n\"We eventually got a ladder to reach her.\"\nShe added: \"I was able to catch her very easily and she managed to survive her ordeal unscathed.\n\"Due to her being so fit and healthy, I was able to release her straight back into the wild, where she can roam freely.\"", "summary": "A badger has been rescued after being stuck down a mine ventilation shaft in Midlothian." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Evans, playing in the main draw for the first time, broke twice to win the first set but could not sustain his challenge in temperatures of 33C.\nRobredo, 35, is a five-time Paris quarter-finalist and would be ranked higher than his 271 but for injuries.\nThe Spaniard's experience proved too much as he sealed a deserved victory.\nThere are now four British players left in the singles draws at Roland Garros, with Aljaz Bedene in action on Monday and Andy Murray, Kyle Edmund and Johanna Konta playing on Tuesday.\nEvans left the court to vomit after the first set, later revealing that his pre-match routine had been disrupted by the preceding match ending unexpectedly quickly with a retirement.\nThe Briton was keen to point out that was not an excuse for his defeat, adding that Robredo was clearly \"a better player\" on clay.\nEvans was heard to say on court that he was struggling to breathe, describing the experience as \"like torture\".\n\"It was really tough,\" he said after the match.\n\"It was difficult conditions especially for such a physical surface, as well, for me. I clearly found it really hard.\"\nAsked if he had considered quitting, Evans added: \"I always try to complete the matches.\n\"I didn't feel good at all, but I think it's in the spirit to just carry on playing.\"\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller in Paris\nEvans fought hard in stifling heat, but his lack of pre-match confidence was not misplaced.\nRobredo recovered from two sets to love down three times in a row at the 2013 French Open, and likes nothing more than a sapping clay-court struggle.\nEvans has improved on the surface in recent weeks - he now hits through his backhand with much more force - but won't be sorry his next event is on grass.\nElsewhere on day one, Austria's Dominic Thiem - the only player to defeat nine-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal on clay this season - powered past Bernard Tomic 6-4 6-0 6-2 in 80 minutes.\n\"It was very hot out there, so I'm happy that I won in three sets,\" said the 23-year-old sixth seed.\n\"It was a tough opponent and a close first set. I was also a little bit nervous before the match and because of these circumstances I'm happy with my performance.\"\nMeanwhile, 11th seed Grigor Dimitrov will be Robredo's next opponent after the Bulgarian defeated France's Stephane Robert 6-2 6-3 6-4 to reach the second round for the first time in four years.", "summary": "British number four Dan Evans struggled with the heat as he lost 5-7 6-4 6-3 6-1 to Spanish veteran Tommy Robredo in the French Open first round." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lopez, appointed at the end of January, was dismissed after a 4-0 defeat at AC Milan on Sunday which left Palermo eight points adrift of safety.\nPresident Paul Baccaglini said: \"A big shake-up is needed. I am trying everything possible to get the team to react with their heads up.\"\nCoach Diego Bortoluzzi will take over.\nBaccaglini was named as president last month, replacing Maurizio Zamparini, who oversaw nearly 40 coaching changes during his 15 turbulent years in charge.\nPalermo went through five coaches in just three months last season, and former Swansea City coach Bortoluzzi is the 12th change of manager in two seasons.\nThey began the season under Davide Ballardini who left by mutual consent in early September.\nHe was replaced by Roberto de Zerbi who was sacked at the end of November and followed by Eugenio Corini, who resigned in January.", "summary": "Serie A side Palermo have sacked their fourth manager of the season as Diego Lopez paid the price for winning just one of his 10 games in charge." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Seattle firm earned $197m (£151m) in profit in the three months to the end of June, down 77%.\nThe fall came as the company pursues expansion overseas and invests in new products and services, including video.\nExpenses increased to $37.3bn, up 28% year-on-year.\nAmazon has a reputation for ignoring profits and opting to spend on expansion.\nThe firm in recent months has announced plans to hire thousands of workers, bringing on engineers, sales teams and workers, while opening new warehouses, data centres and bricks-and-mortar book stores.\nAmazon is pushing into new markets, such as India. It has unveiled new versions of its tablet and home robot and announced movies and television shows.\nIn June the company capped the activity with the announcement that it would buy the Whole Foods supermarket chain for an estimated $13.7bn.\nThe spending increase - which did not factor in the pending Whole Foods deal - still took investors by surprise. Its share price fell more than 3% in after-hours trade.\nAmazon said business remains healthy. Consumer retail sales in the three months to the end of June totalled $33.9bn, rising 17% overseas and 27% in North America, still the firm's biggest market.\nRevenues at its profitable web services division, which sells cloud computing services such as data storage, jumped 42% to $4.1bn.\nSales of subscription services - including the Prime membership the firm wants to see widely adopted - rose more than 50%.\n\"Our teams remain heads-down and focused on customers,\" said Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\nEarlier on Thursday, Mr Bezos briefly became the world's richest man, overtaking Bill Gates as Amazon's share price rose.\nBut he relinquished the title as Amazon's shares slid lower over the course of the day.\nThe company on Thursday warned that spending will continue.\nBrian Olsavsky, Amazon's chief financial officer, said Amazon is working to increase the capacity of its Fulfillment by Amazon shipping service for third-party sellers.\nThe web services division has also seen costs grow, as Amazon cuts prices and increases its infrastructure investment. Amazon is expanding those offerings to new countries and faces stepped-up competition from Microsoft and Google.", "summary": "Amazon sales rose in the second quarter but profits plunged, as the e-commerce giant spent heavily in a bid to become the go-to shop globally for everything from food to television." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 23-year-old Scot, who was seeded sixth, beat Germany's Fabienne Deprez 21-17 21-9 in the final.\nIt is a first major title for the Commonwealth Games and European silver medallist since October 2015.\nHaving recovered from knee surgery, Gilmour was playing in her first international event since last summer's Rio Olympics.\n\"It feels really great to be back on top of that podium,\" she said.\n\"This tournament went exactly to plan and I've managed to achieve some of the smaller goals that I set myself from the outset, too.\n\"Working with Tat Meng [Scotland's new head coach] is great so far. He's quite relaxed and calm behind the court. It will be interesting to see how we go forward in training from here.\"", "summary": "Kirsty Gilmour marked her comeback from injury by winning the Austrian Open title in Vienna." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "His epic fantasy novels, set in a parallel universe, have already been adapted for stage, radio and cinema.\nThe 2006 film The Golden Compass, based on the first novel, starred Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman.\n\"It's been a constant source of pleasure to me to see this story adapted to different forms,\" Pullman said.\n\"It's been a radio play, a stage play, a film, an audiobook, a graphic novel - and now comes this version for television.\n\"In recent years we've seen how long stories on television, whether adaptations [Game of Thrones] or original [The Sopranos, The Wire], can reach depths of characterisation and heights of suspense by taking the time for events to make their proper impact and for consequences to unravel.\n\"And the sheer talent now working in the world of long-form television is formidable. For all those reasons I'm delighted at the prospect of a television version of His Dark Materials.\"\nHis Dark Materials - which consists of the novels Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass - has been published in more than 40 languages and has sold nearly 17.5 million copies worldwide.\nThe story centres on Lyra, a girl who lives at an Oxford college, who embarks on a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust.\nIn the second book she is joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between alternative worlds.\nThe TV adaptation will be shot in Wales and is produced by Bad Wolf - a production company founded by former BBC executives Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner - and New Line Cinema, which is making its first move into TV production.\nNew Line had also produced The Golden Compass film, which featured Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra.\n\"Ever since they were first published these books have been a huge influence on so much of my thinking and imagination and it is enormously inspiring to be now working on them for television adaptation,\" said Tranter.\n\"The broad horizons of television suggests itself as the best of vehicles to capture the expansiveness of the story and worlds of Lyra and Will.\"", "summary": "Philip Pullman has expressed delight that his trilogy, His Dark Materials, is to be made into a BBC One drama." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Defeat by Brighton ended a run of back-to-back wins that had given Wigan hope of survival and leaves them five points adrift in the relegation zone.\nBarrow says he was frustrated with the Seagulls' first goal in the loss.\n\"That's where we are with the points,\" Barrow told BBC Radio Manchester.\n\"It's as simple as that, that's what we have to do. There's no need to give up yet.\"\nGoalkeeper Jakob Haugaard and his defenders were criticised by Barrow in the post-match press interview, as Brighton took the lead through Glenn Murray's goal from a ball over the top.\nHaugaard, who is on loan from Stoke City, has started the past three games for Wigan in the place of Matt Gilks.\n\"He didn't have a lot to do,\" Barrow continued. \"The first goal has really got me, from being in no trouble at all whatsoever. it's a Sunday league goal.\n\"We've got to look at that and see what we can do.\"\nBarrow also seemed to suggest the decision as to who did play in goal has not been a personal one.\n\"That's the case, we'll have to see,\" he continued.\n\"We need to have conversations and see where we go. The worrying thing is it didn't get any better through the game.\"", "summary": "Wigan Athletic need to win every game if they are to escape relegation to the Championship, a cause not helped by Monday's 2-1 \"Sunday league\" defeat by Brighton, says boss Graham Barrow." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "24 August 2016 Last updated at 18:57 BST\nBut it seems to be frozen in time – still deserted. Those people who remain in the area are camped in the grounds of Bama’s hospital in dire humanitarian need. The BBC's Martin Patience takes a tour of the town.", "summary": "The Islamist militant group Boko Haram controlled Bama for seven months before it was retaken by the Nigerian military in March 2015." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Eve Muirhead's rink had lost their previous two games, including by 10-4 drubbing by Japan, and lost 9-4 to the tournament hosts.\nThe Scots, winners in 2002 and 2013, finished the round robin stage fifth with seven wins from 11.\nDefending champions Switzerland topped the standings and are joined in the play-offs by Japan, Russia and Canada.\nThe winner of Switzerland v Japan will progress to the final, while the loser will go into the semi-final to play the winner of Russia v Canada.", "summary": "Scotland are out of the World Women's Curling Championship in Saskatchewan after being defeated by Canada." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "North Lanarkshire said it would not pass what it called government cuts on to residents.\nStirling, which also has a Labour leader, said it had voted to freeze council tax \"to protect the pockets of Stirling residents\".\nIt takes the number of Labour-led councils to back a freeze to eight. Most councils have opted for 3% rises.\nThe eight Labour-led councils to confirm voluntary council tax freezes are:\nAll those councils have Labour leaders.\nResidents whose homes are in property bands E, F, G or H will still see their bills rise as a result of national changes.\nHowever, the freeze in basic bills will inevitably add to the pressure on these council's finances.\nThe leader of North Lanarkshire Council, councillor Jim Logue, said: \"There has been much speculation about the council's ability to raise council tax by up to 3%.\n\"However, the Scottish government have already increased substantially the amount people in Bands E to H will pay.\n\"That means households in Band E will have their bill hiked by 7.5%, rising to 22.5% for Band H households. We are not prepared to put more pressure on struggling families, so there will be no council-imposed increase.\n\"This is a budget which invests where it is needed most: more money for vulnerable older adults, more money for vulnerable young adults with complex needs and more money to head teachers to determine expenditure directly according to the specific needs of the communities they serve.\"\nStirling Council leader Johanna Boyd said: \"This budget aims to protect the vital services Stirling Council provides while ensuring that we also protect the pockets of Stirling's residents.\n\"We are dedicated to improving Stirling's urban and rural infrastructure and our commitment to fund various capital projects over the coming year will mean that various areas will benefit.\n\"Our City Region Deal will also provide a huge boost to both the local and national economy, and over the next 12 months funding will be provided for projects to support this.\"\nThree other councils, East Dunbartonshire, East Ayrshire and Argyll and Bute, on Thursday agreed to 3% increases in the basic rate of council tax. Three more, Dumfries and Galloway, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire, have still to set their rate.\nCritics may say a council tax rise would at least help to reduce the pressure on finances and help mitigate any cuts in services or savings targets.\nSupporters of the Scottish government would argue a council which freezes council tax may find it hard to argue convincingly that it gets too little government cash.", "summary": "Two more Labour-led councils have voted to voluntarily freeze the basic rate of council tax." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "This campaign has already been marked by bitter disputes and astonishingly personal attacks.\nBut the fact that dozens of Conservative MPs have been willing to sign up to criticise the chancellor so very publicly today illustrates that some bonds have been broken beyond repair - and that the conduct of the referendum has damaged George Osborne's reputation among his colleagues.\nVote Leave isn't just edging towards presenting an alternative view of Tory government, but a coup in waiting.\nIt is certainly bold, if not extreme, for a chancellor to sketch out a hypothetical budget in this way - with warnings of cuts and tax rises.\nBut the motivation is clear - with the referendum, and careers on the line, the Remain camp still believes their best hope is to shout about the potential downsides to the economy we'd all feel if we vote to leave.\nAs one insider put it they are going with the grain of public anxiety - with the economic consensus that leaving is a huge gamble with the country's prosperity on their side.\nBut shout too loudly, and the message might simply deafen, rather than persuade.", "summary": "\"Smart guy, stupid move\" - one of the kindest descriptions by Leave MPs of George Osborne's Brexit Budget move." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A teaching union said it showed Wales is facing a problem with recruiting new teachers.\nOnly 553 students started initial secondary teacher training in September 2015 but the official target is 880.\nThe Welsh Government said the overall teacher vacancy rate \"remains very low\".\nThe Ucac teaching union said the figures were \"dramatic\" and blamed the \"out of control\" workload as one factor in making the profession less attractive.\nCarmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Conservative AM Angela Burns said: \"With almost 40% of secondary school teacher training places not filled, these worrying figures further emphasise the deeply worrying recruitment problems faced in Wales.\n\"The new administration must place a greater emphasis on supporting teachers, with a renewed focus on continuous professional development, and giving the profession greater freedom and control.\"\nTeacher training in Wales is currently provided by three centres involving five universities.\nEach year, the centres are set recruitment targets for initial teacher training.\nThe all-Wales target for secondary teacher training courses starting in September 2015 was 880 but figures from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales show only 553 places were filled - 37% below the target.\nRecruitment to primary teacher training courses showed a slight drop in relation to the target.\nMajor reforms of teacher training in Wales are due to be introduced by September 2018.\nRebecca Williams, policy officer at Ucac, said she believed it was not pay and conditions in Wales which was the issue, but workload, which was leading to stress.\n\"The figures are beginning to tell quite a strong story that we have a recruitment problem into the teaching profession in Wales,\" she said.\n\"In a way it's just the tip of the iceberg, it doesn't take into account the drop out of those who don't finish the course and those who drop out in the early years in the profession because they find it's not what they wanted or it doesn't suit them.\"\nThe Welsh Government said it wanted to make sure the low vacancy rate continues with the \"drive to improve standards and raise the status of the profession\".\nA spokesman added: \"We are committed to recruiting individuals with the right skills, qualifications and commitment into the profession which is why training incentives are available in Wales to encourage high performing graduates to consider teaching as a career.\"", "summary": "A third of secondary school teacher training places were not filled at the start of this academic year, official figures show." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 24-year-old won the title with Finn Kontinen, 26, on Sunday having not played together before the event.\n\"I loved every second of playing with him and we just gel and get along so well,\" Watson told BBC Radio Guernsey.\n\"The only thing that would really stop us is the rankings, in being able to get into the draw.\"\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.\nWatson went out in the first round of the singles to Annika Beck after failing to convert three match points in a dramatic final set.\nIn the mixed doubles the pair received two walkovers before beating defending champions Martina Hingis and Leander Paes in round three.\n\"I had great partners in both doubles and mixed doubles to lift me up and I ended up playing really well in both, so I'm glad I stuck with it,\" she added.\n\"Henri said as soon as we won our first match he thought we'd win it and I thought, 'you know what, me too.\"\nNext up for the Guernsey player is the Olympics in August with Watson one of four players confirmed to represent Great Britain in Brazil.\n\"It's been a big goal of mine and I've been talking about it a lot,\" she said.\n\"It was big for me to make the cut to get in and be able to play in Rio, so now that I'm going I can't wait.\"\nYou can now add tennis alerts in the BBC Sport app - simply head to the menu and My Alerts section", "summary": "Wimbledon mixed doubles champion Heather Watson says she is keen to team up with partner Henri Kontinen again after the Olympic Games in Rio." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 26-year-old Spain international had surgery on his right hand and wrist following the blast, which happened ahead of a Champions League quarter-final tie against Monaco on 11 April.\nHe completed a first training session back with his team-mates on Wednesday.\n\"I've been looking forward to this moment for weeks,\" Bartra tweeted.\nThree devices containing pieces of metal exploded shortly after Dortmund left their hotel to travel to the home leg of their last-eight tie against Monaco.\nPolice in Germany have charged a man suspected of being behind the attack. Prosecutors say he was a market trader hoping to make money if the price of shares in the team fell.\nBartra, who joined Dortmund from Spanish champions Barcelona last June, was the only player to receive serious injuries in the blast.\nHe wore a cast on his right arm and posed for a selfie with his team-mates as he made his training-ground return.\nDortmund, who are third in the Bundesliga table, have two more league games to play this season, while they meet Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Cup final on 27 May.", "summary": "Borussia Dortmund defender Marc Bartra has returned to full training, a month after being injured in a bomb attack on the German club's team bus." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The victim, 40, was stabbed in his lower abdomen in Brintons Park, Sutton Road, at around 22:00 GMT on Friday.\nHe was taken to hospital, where his condition is described as stable, West Mercia Police said.\nDet Sgt Jason Maiden said: \"This was a nasty attack that has left a man with serious injuries and it could have been a lot worse.\n\"We are still trying to piece together exactly what happened and at this time we are appealing for anyone who was in the area at the time and who may have seen the incident or something suspicious to contact us.\"", "summary": "Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was seriously injured in a stabbing in a Kidderminster park." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Speaking in the Senedd chamber during tributes to 77-year-old Mr Morgan, she told fellow AMs: \"He loved this place.\"\nMrs Morgan, who is AM for Cardiff North, added: \"Losing Rhodri is a terrible personal blow to me and to the family... It is an aching loss.\"\nLater the assembly confirmed Mr Morgan's funeral would be held in the Senedd on 31 May.\nFormer AM Lorraine Barrett, now a humanist celebrant, will conduct the public ceremony, which will begin at 11:00 BST.\nA service of committal will be held at the Wenallt chapel, Thornhill Crematorium, the following day on 1 June at 14:00, and the assembly said all are welcome.\nMrs Morgan watched colleagues deliver praise for the former Welsh Labour leader from her seat in the Senedd chamber on Tuesday as other family members looked on from the public gallery.\n\"We've had, I would say, a roller coaster sort of life,\" Mrs Morgan said. \"It's been rosettes, rosettes all the way.\"\n\"He had a wonderful life and he enjoyed every minute,\" she added, to the applause of her colleagues.\nThe tributes the family had received from all over Wales \"had been a huge comfort\", she said.\nRhodri Morgan's successor, Carwyn Jones, told AMs: \"Last week we lost one of our nation's giants.\n\"He may be gone, but his name is written into our history.\"\nMr Jones was speaking after making a statement on Monday night's Manchester Arena suicide attack, which left 22 people dead.\nTo an emotional Senedd chamber, the first minister said Mr Morgan had \"served with distinction\" as first minister for nearly 10 years.\n\"He was somebody who commanded such respect but, of course, he was somebody who was down to earth,\" the Welsh Labour leader said.\n\"No ceremony, no airs and graces.\"\nMr Jones described Rhodri Morgan as a \"hugely intelligent man with a fine mind\" but who was \"at home with anybody\".\n\"He was a great mixer and a great character and he will be missed by his family, of course, but so many people around Wales and beyond,\" he said.\nWelsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: \"He was a man who had a willingness to want to know, a thirst to understand and above all he was a genuine, decent and upright individual.\"\nReferring to Mr Morgan's role after the turbulent first nine months of the Welsh Assembly, Mr Davies added: \"We as a country owe him a great debt of gratitude for the way... he stabilised the ship, along with others, when this institution's future wasn't secure and there was a huge question mark.\n\"We are fortunate that he was there, at the helm, working with others, making sure that devolution did turn into a permanent part of our democracy\".\nPlaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said Mr Morgan well deserved to be called a \"man of the people\".\n\"He was always willing to engage, he was quick thinking. He was a real character and he was a patriot,\" she said.\nHis mantra was to do things differently in a \"unique Welsh way\", Mr Wood said.\n\"Without Rhodri Morgan Wales wouldn't be the country it is today,\" she added.\nUKIP group leader and a former MP Neil Hamilton said he was in the House of Commons with Mr Morgan from 1987 to 1997.\n\"I warmed to him because it was immediately clear that whilst fiercely loyal to his own party he was always going to be his own man and a fully paid up member of the awkward squad,\" he said.\n\"As a selfless public servant he was universally respected across the political spectrum and loved as the warmest of human beings by legions of people he encountered in all walks of life.\"\nHe called him one of \"the most admirable men I've had the pleasure to know\".\nIn an emotional speech Liberal Democrat AM Kirsty Williams said Mr Morgan \"stood out, and he stood taller than us... as a politician, as a leader, as a father figure and friend to those of us from the class of '99 and in the communities across Wales,\".\n\"When my mother passed away he wrote not only to me but to my late father.\n\"My father couldn't believe that the first minister of Wales had taken the time to write to him about his loss,\" she told the Senedd, fighting tears.\nPresiding Officer Elin Jones said Cardiff Bay would \"never see the like of Rhodri Morgan again\".\n\"For those of us who have served here since 1999, we will not forget his courage and boldness in creating and leading the Welsh Government.\n\"Rhodri ploughed his own furrow, and did so in order to do what he believed was best for this nation.\"\nFormer presiding officer Dafydd Elis Thomas told the chamber that he was \"delighted that we are to celebrate his passing in this place, appropriately in this building next week\".\n\"It's the building of the people of Wales,\" he said, adding: \"Rhodri Morgan built the politics that made it possible.\"", "summary": "Julie Morgan has spoken about the death of her husband, former first minister Rhodri Morgan, who died last week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nOn Friday, Moyes made his first public appearance since succeeding the retired Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford - and Rooney's future was at the top of the agenda.\n\"Wayne Rooney is not for sale. He's a Manchester United player and will remain a Manchester United player. Wayne won't be sold by Manchester United,\" the former Everton boss said.\nMoyes, however, refused to say whether Rooney had expressed a desire to stay.\nFerguson said the 27-year-old striker had asked to leave at the end of last season - although Rooney is believed to contest Ferguson's suggestion he wanted to quit United.\nMoyes explained he had spoken to Rooney, who has been linked with Arsenal and Chelsea, \"several times\" since being appointed.\n\"Whatever happened before has gone now,\" insisted the new United boss.\n\"We are working together now. I have seen a glint in his eye, he looks happy and looks as if he is going to knuckle down.\"\nMoyes said Rooney's meeting with Ferguson \"was a private meeting between two people\".\n\"I was not privy to it,\" added Moyes. \"I don't know what those two gentlemen said. That conversation was private and as far as I am concerned I'm looking forward to working with Wayne.\"\nAnd Moyes declared all his efforts were now going into improving Rooney's condition and form for club and country, with the player hoping to figure for England at the World Cup in Brazil next summer.\nThe Scot added: \"We are working and trying everything to get Wayne to the level where everybody can benefit. I can tell you categorically Wayne is training fantastically well.\"\nUnited captain Nemanja Vidic, sitting alongside Moyes at his introductory news conference, added: \"Wayne has trained really well and is in the best shape for the last five years.\"\nMoyes refused to be drawn on transfer moves for United old boy Cristiano Ronaldo and Everton's Leighton Baines after having a £12m bid rejected for the England left-back.\nMoyes said: \"I will never speak about players at other clubs. I think it's wrong. But this club is always interested in the best players.\"", "summary": "Manchester United's new manager David Moyes has started his reign by insisting unsettled striker Wayne Rooney will not be sold." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Giants, who are 11th in Super League and will now compete in The Qualifiers, had been without a head coach since sacking Paul Anderson in June.\nStone, 49, took charge of Knights for a second time in September 2014, but was sacked in July 2015.\nHe had previously been Newcastle boss from 2009-12.\n\"It's been a pretty tough year for the club with injuries, tragedy and sacking their coach, so I understand there's been a lot of turmoil at the club.\" he told BBC Radio Leeds.\n\"It's a unique situation for us [going into The Qualifiers], but I've got my head around it a little bit and understand the importance and urgency once you get into that bottom eight.\"\nStone, who was assistant to England coach Wayne Bennett at Newcastle in the time between his head coaching spells, also coached Fiji from 2011 to 2014 and led the country to the World Cup semi-finals in 2013.", "summary": "Super League side Huddersfield Giants have appointed former Newcastle Knights boss Rick Stone as their new head coach until the end of the 2018 season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Stoke-on-Trent based British Ceramic Confederation said the Leave outcome was not what the majority of its members wanted.\nEU tariffs on tiles and tableware protect UK jobs, the industry said.\nBut a former business minister called the result a \"wonderful opportunity.\"\nThe confederation includes various trades involved in the ceramics industry, many of which, such as Burleigh, Churchill, Wade Ceramics and Duchess China, are based in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.\nChief executive Dr Laura Cohen said half of UK ceramic sector exports are to the European Union and added that tariffs prevent \"Chinese dumping\", flooding the market with cheaper products.\n\"Our members also have benefitted from some recent free trade agreements,\" she said.\nUK ceramics manufacturers employ 6,000 people between them and suppliers are worried, she added.\n\"We need the government to work with us urgently to find a way to allay these fears and develop a way forward that supports these UK manufacturing businesses, so allowing investment and growth to continue in this sector,\" she said.\nAlmost 70% of voters in Stoke-on-Trent elected to leave the EU in Thursday's referendum.\nFormer business minister Lord Digby Jones has said the result could benefit businesses and that it was an opportunity to enter a global race.\n\"You have a golden opportunity, Britain is the most globalised country on earth,\" he said.", "summary": "The organisation which looks after the interests of the ceramics industry has said it urgently needs the government to work with it to allay fears caused by the decision to leave the EU." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The UN estimates 5,500 Tunisians (1,500 more than previous estimates) have joined the ranks of IS in Iraq and Syria, the self-styled caliphate's largest contingent of foreign nationals.\nOf these, about 500 have returned and are under surveillance, and a further 15,000 have been prevented from leaving to join IS.\nThe threat is also regional, as an estimated 1,500 Tunisians have attended jihadist training camps in neighbouring Libya, while a third (11) of the group that attacked the In Amenas gas plant in southern Algeria in January 2013 were also Tunisian nationals.\nTunisia's international partners, including the UK, have offered advice and technical assistance in counterterrorism, security planning and training, but no new funding.\nSomething more than prevention is now needed to tackle the deeper socio-political and economic roots of Tunisia's current malaise.\nPresident Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali had a background in policing and ran Tunisia effectively as a police state from the late 1980s.\nFrom the early 1990s, the Islamist movement, which re-emerged as the Ennahda party in 2011, was banned, and its members subject to long prison sentences and/or exile.\nThe Tunisian army has never played as strong a political and security role as in neighbouring Algeria, although the senior military command was instrumental in hastening President Ben Ali's departure from Tunisia in January 2011.\nA number of senior Ben Ali-era officials and police commanders were dismissed and/or arrested following the Arab Spring, leaving Tunisia's security institutions and Ministry of Interior prey to political infighting over new appointments and the pace and direction of internal reforms, above all within the police force.\nThe period from 2011 also saw the rise of the Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group, which the first post-Arab Spring elected government, led by the Ennahda party, was initially hesitant to rein in.\nFollowing two high-level political assassinations, and the growing infiltration of weaponry and violence from neighbouring Libya, Ansar al-Sharia was outlawed as a terrorist organisation in 2013.\nThe Tunisian army has also needed the assistance of the Algerian army in combating a jihadist insurgency in the Chaambi mountains on their common border, while regional terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have increased their inroads in the coastal hinterlands of southern and western Tunisia and in jihadist training camps across the country's porous border with Libya.\nAs the influence of IS has grown in neighbouring Libya since early 2015, so has its attraction among already radicalised Tunisian youth.\nIn the wake of the terrorist attack claimed by the AQIM offshoot group Okba Ibn Nafaa on the Bardo Museum in Tunis on 18 March 2015, the Tunisian authorities issued assurances they would deploy at least 1,000 more security agents to tourist sites.\nIt later emerged that the Sousse attacker, Seifeddine Rezgui, had been linked to the main organisers of the Bardo attack and trained with them in Libya, but had not been under police surveillance.\nIn the weeks preceding the Sousse attack, an IS declaration expressly warned \"Christians\" from taking to the beaches of Tunisia during the holy month of Ramadan (from mid-June to mid-July 2015) but made no explicit threat on the region of Sousse itself.\nThe Tunisian government has declared a nationwide state of emergency and deployed extra security personnel to tourist resorts, many of whom are armed.\nIt is also building a 160km (100-mile) wall along the most vulnerable section (comprising approximately a third) of Tunisia's southern border with Libya, due for completion in the early autumn of 2015.\nNew anti-terrorist laws are due to be approved by the end of July 2015.\nThe governor of Sousse and corresponding local police chiefs have also been removed from office.\nReforms within the Ministry of the Interior to speed up the response to future threats have been slower.\nPlans to restructure internal and operational command structures are continuing, while the key ministerial post in charge of national security for the police has remained vacant since the dismissal of its former incumbent in March 2015 following the Bardo attack.\nThe focus on the role of IS as having inspired the Sousse attack has highlighted the influence of events in the wider Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on developments in the Maghreb.\nHowever, for a number of years the region has also been subject to greater trans-nationally co-ordinated terror attacks by residual and offshoot al Qaeda-inspired groups, involving multiple nationalities, and with a reach into and across the impoverished and weakly policed states of the African Sahel regions to the south of the Maghreb.\nTunisia's democratic transition since 2011 has made it a particular target of armed groups and ideologies opposed to its alliances with Europe and the US, and its economic dependence on tourism as a source of foreign revenue.\nOnly Morocco has similar levels of foreign tourism, but it has better-equipped intelligence and security services than Tunisia.\nForeign nationals have been explicit terrorist targets in Algeria, where 37 foreign workers were killed at the In Amenas gas plant in January 2013 and a French tourist decapitated by an IS-affiliate group in September 2014.\nThe ability of small armed groups to train and operate across the whole Maghreb-Sahel region argues in favour of co-ordinating a region-wide response to this shared threat, especially while Libya remains essentially an ungoverned territory.\nUnfortunately, at the heart of the region, Algeria and Morocco remain politically divided and do not co-operate over security issues.\nThe main regional security challenges to outside policymakers will be to work on overcoming this deadlock.\nClaire Spencer is senior research fellow for the Middle East and North Africa Programme and Second Century Initiative at Chatham House.", "summary": "A month on from the armed attack that killed 38 people, 30 of whom were British, in the resort town of Sousse, the Tunisian government is still grappling with its security responses to the threat of terrorism." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The hosts went in front through Harry Cardwell's close-range effort after half an hour.\nBut Northern Ireland created plenty of late chances, with Fra Nolan's superb strike pulling them level after he had gone close on two previous occasions.\nSubstitute Daniel Reynolds fired in the winner for the visitors with less than five minutes remaining.\n\"I thought at 1-1 we would see the game out,\" home boss Martin Cassidy told BBC Radio Jersey.\n\"I'm just disappointed for the players, they put so much in and deserved a draw at least.\n\"We gave them a game plan to stick to and they delivered it perfectly.\"\nThe Northern Irish squad, who visit the Channel Islands annually as part of their preparations for the Centenary Shield tournament, had found themselves behind when Cardwell stabbed the ball into the roof of the net.\nJersey's Evan Nobes then had an effort well saved by Declan Dunne, while at the other end Ryan Strain's deflected strike was comfortably held by Euan van der Vliet.\nAfter the break Max Thompson fired over the bar at the end of neat Jersey counter-attack, but it was Northern Ireland who dominated as the half wore on.\nNolan's curling shot went wide, then he volleyed over from 10 yards out, before eventually finding his range in style to fire home the equaliser with just under quarter-of-an-hour to go.\nThe chances kept coming for the visitors, with Reynolds amongst those to squander opportunities before he smashed in the winner with time ticking away.\n\"It was a fantastic exercise for us,\" said Northern Ireland boss Frank Wilson.\n\"It gives us a chance to get four days with our boys to try and make them into a team because the Centenary Shield is fast approaching.\n\"Tonight was a very difficult game, we were very frustrated - we had the lion's share of possession but Jersey had done their homework on us.\"\nThe game came just 48 hours after the same Northern Ireland squad were 3-1 winners over Jersey's Under-18s.", "summary": "Two late goals enabled Northern Ireland Under-18s to come from behind and beat Jersey Under-21s at Springfield." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The rules will affect multinational firms with more than €750m in sales.\nThey will have to detail how much tax they pay in which EU countries as well as any activities carried out in specific tax havens.\nThe plans come amid heightened scrutiny of the use of tax havens following the Panama Papers revelations.\nLord Hill, the EU's financial services commissioner, said: \"This is a carefully thought through but ambitious proposal for more transparency on tax.\n\"While our proposal on [country-by-country reporting] is not of course focused principally on the response to the Panama Papers, there is an important connection between our continuing work on tax transparency and tax havens that we are building into the proposal.\"\nCountry-by-country reporting rules already apply to banks, mining and forestry companies, according to an EU spokesperson.\nUnder the new proposals, that would be expanded to cover companies accounting for about 90% of corporate revenues in the EU, they added.\nThe BBC understands that companies will need to disclose information such as total net turnover, profit before tax, income tax due, amount of tax actually paid and accumulated earnings.\nThe changes come after G20 leaders agreed to follow an OECD action plan to tackle corporate tax minimisation.\nThis proposal is bound to be controversial. The Commission's plan would oblige companies to report what they earn and how much tax they pay in EU countries. But it would also force them to reveal details of their tax affairs in \"third countries which do not respect international tax good governance standards\". In other words, secretive tax havens.\nThis sounds perfectly sensible. Companies which use artificial structures to avoid or minimise tax, or to shelter their gains in tax havens, would find their arrangements exposed to the full glare of public scrutiny. The old legalistic argument that they pay all the tax that they owe might not be enough to deflect bad publicity.\nBut how do you decide which regions' tax laws aren't up to scratch? Last year, the Commission published a blacklist of 30 'non-cooperative jurisdictions'. The move was condemned by the head of the OECD, who described the criteria it used as unfair and subjective.", "summary": "Plans to force the largest companies to disclose more about their tax affairs will be unveiled by the European Union on Tuesday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Gloucester potter said it was hard to judge his form after winning a scrappy match, littered with mistakes.\nThe 39-year-old told BBC Sport: \"Vinnie really struggled. I am not going to go over the top on the result.\n\"At the start I was really struggling. I was too nervous as I have not had the best start to the season.\"\nMilkins, a five-time ranking event semi-finalist, plays David Grace in the second round on Sunday.\n\"There was a lot of pressure on me,\" Milkins added. \"But hopefully now I have won a match, I can kick on and start playing better.\n\"Vinnie made it easy for me. He is a much better player than that and a very dangerous player.\n\"I was expecting more but these things can happen. I have lost 6-0 and made it easy for my opponent. It worked out well for me.\n\"It's a great tournament and a great place and everyone loves playing here - and there is massive pressure to do well.\n\"Everyone wants to get the first one out of the way and get in to the tournament.\"", "summary": "Robert Milkins was just relieved to progress to the televised stages of the UK Championship, despite a thumping 6-0 first-round win over Vinnie Calabrese." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Find a Player was founded by former junior Scottish badminton champion Jim Law two years ago.\nHe set it up after struggling to find a reliable five-a-side game.\nHis funding boost has come from property and technology investor Michael Sacks.\nLast year, Find a Player raised £150,000 through a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, hitting its £110,000 target within two days.\nThe company said the app had since \"facilitated\" more than 75,000 games across more than 140 different sports.\nMr Law said he believed the app could \"become Tinder for the sports world\".\nHe said: \"Our app solves a huge problem - there are still far too many barriers which stop people from organising or getting involved in sport.\n\"Find a Player makes it easier than ever before to find the sports and games that are right for you at the touch of a button.\n\"Ultimately, this investment will help us boost the number of users and games on the platform.\"\nFind a Player is currently exploring several business models for making cash out of the free app.\nThey include using advertising or getting users to pay for games through the app.\nMr Sacks, a former Manchester United youth team player who later founded property firm Sequre Property Investment, said: \"My first reaction when I heard about Find a Player was surprise.\n\"When you think about it, it's such an obvious idea, I couldn't believe it hadn't already been done - I wish I'd thought of it.\"", "summary": "A Scottish start-up has secured £100,000 of funding from a tech entrepreneur for a sports app which \"helps players find games and games find players\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "FanDuel was set up in Edinburgh, where much of its technology is developed.\nIts headquarters were moved to New York to make it more of an American firm in appealing to a large US and Canadian market for fantasy sports.\nIt has become one of the two giants of that sector, along with US-based Draft Kings.\nThey provide a technology platform for fans of the four main American sports to pick fantasy teams from real players, and follow their performances. Changes are allowed from day to day, which helps drive more traffic than fantasy teams which are fixed for a season, and there are significant prizes on offer.\nThe fantasy sports companies have come under pressure from civil cases along with state regulators and legislators, with effective ban on the online games as being based on chance rather than skill.\nFacing action from legal authorities, FanDuel has had to wind down its activities in Texas from the start of this month and in New York State for the past two months.\nLast week, members of the US Congress in Washington DC began an investigation into the industry. And with uncertainty about its legality, the companies have faced obstacles from at least one payment processing firm that are a vital conduit to their revenue.\nThe audited accounts have just been published and state that the legal challenges cast doubt on the continued solvency of the company.\nSo far, the limits on its activities have only affected states which represent less than half of its revenue. Attorney generals in several states have advised that fantasy sports are illegal, five state legislatures have passed laws to clarify the legal position, with more expected.\nBut auditors warn that if there is a rise in the share of the market blocked by legal doubts, \"such a possibility represents a material uncertainty that casts significant doubt on the group's ability to continue as a going concern\".\nFanDuel \"considers itself to be operating lawfully, is currently defending its position and therefore the directors have reasonable expectations that the group has adequate resources to continue for the foreseeable future.\"\nThe accounts say it is making contingency plans, including a cut in variable expenses, likely to include marketing, advertising and prize money ,as well as delaying some operating cost payments.\nThe most recent accounts cover the 18 months to the end of June last year, before a blizzard of advertising and promotion last autumn brought attention to the scale of the business, and began the legal challenges.\nDuring that time, FanDuel had turnover of $87.7m (£61m), up from $12m (£8.3m) in the preceding 12 months.\nThe number of active players rose from 253,000 during 2013 to 1.25m to the middle of 2015.\nBetween January 2014 and June 2015, it paid out $102m (£71m) in \"service fees\", and spent heavily on a fierce battle to build market share.\nThere was an operating loss for the 18 months to last June of $77.7m (£54m), up from $10.3m (£7m) during 2013. It continued to raise substantial funds through issuing equity, and remains in discussions on further investor fund-raising.\nFacing the risk of being shut down by regulation and law, the company has cut its cash balances from approximately $274m (£190m) in the middle of last year to less than $48m, which it says should be adequate to keep it trading for a further 12 months - assuming it succeeds in its legal defence.", "summary": "One of Scotland's leading technology firms has warned it may not be able to continue as a going concern due to legal obstacles in its American market." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 28-year-old entered the Clifford Street building at about 08:00 BST and held several members of staff hostage.\nHe surrendered to armed officers at 11:15 and was arrested for threats to kill. He remains in custody.\nNorthumbria Police said they had \"very real concerns\" the man could have caused serious harm.\nThe force said officers responded within nine minutes.\nThey quickly shut down roads, closed the nearby Byker Metro Station, evacuated nearby buildings including the student accommodation and began negotiating with the suspect.\nA spokesman said the incident was not terror-related and the man was known to Jobcentre staff.\nAn explosive device reportedly strapped to the man's chest was later found to be fake.\nBomb disposal experts swept the building and searches of the building and of other properties in the area were carried out.\nOfficers said it had been suggested on social media and by members of the public at the scene that some people had been stabbed, but the force said that was \"not the case\".\nAt about 10:20 police tweeted the hostages had been released and later confirmed the staff had been freed at about 08:30, half an hour after the incident began.\nAssistant Ch Con Darren Best said: \"In recent weeks we have heard many positive stories about the police and how quickly they have responded to some of the atrocities we have witnessed in London and Manchester.\n\"When we first received the call there were very real concerns that this individual could have caused serious harm and to be on the scene in a matter of minutes is a fantastic response.\n\"It must have been particularly traumatising for those staff members who were kept inside the premises.\n\"Our specialist negotiators engaged with the man very early on and their efforts are one of the main reasons that this incident was brought to a safe conclusion and that nobody was injured.\"\nA spokesman for the Public and Commercial Services (PCS), which represents most Jobcentre staff, said: \"We are pleased to confirm that police were quick to respond, all staff are confirmed as safe and have been evacuated, but the Jobcentre remains closed as a precaution.\n\"Department of Work and Pensions management and our officials are with the members to support them and no injuries have been reported.\"", "summary": "Staff at a Jobcentre in Newcastle were released unharmed after being held by a man armed with a knife who was wearing a fake explosive device." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "However, the level of mortgages being agreed fell away in the second half of the year.\nLenders advanced 27,700 loans to first-time buyers over the 12 months, totalling £2.9bn.\nThis was 16% up in volume, compared to the previous year, and 23% up in value.\nThe average first-time buyer's loan was 2.9 times gross income, of nearly £34,000, compared with a UK average of 3.4 times.\nIn the fourth quarter of the year, the average first-time buyer loan was £97,400. With interest rates low, the cost of servicing that averaged 17% of gross income.\nWith other lending seeing slower growth, house price activity was up by 6.6% of all UK activity, down from a 6.9% share in 2013.\nWithin that, home movers in Scotland - selling and then buying homes - took out 31,800 loans, 5% more than the previous year. The value of these loans was up £4.6bn, or 10%.\nThis was 2.6 times average £51,000 gross earnings for those taking out loans, whereas the UK average was 3 times.\nThere were 23,400 loans for re-mortgaging homes during last year, totalling £2.6bn. This was 14% down on 2013 by volume of transactions, and 9% down by value.\nLinda Docherty, chair of Council of Mortgage Lenders in Scotland, commented: \"More people bought a home in Scotland last year than in any year since 2008, with a pronounced increase in first-time buyer activity in particular.\n\"As in the UK overall, there was a quarter-on-quarter dip in activity in the final quarter of the year. However, with inflation being low, employment increasing and there being signs of growth in household income, we believe there are grounds for optimism for continuing growth, albeit at a likely slower rate.\n\"The introduction in Scotland of Land and Buildings Transaction Tax, replacing stamp duty from April, should help provide a boost to the housing market, which could see half of new borrowers paying no tax when purchasing a home.\"\nMeanwhile, Homes for Scotland, the construction industry body, called on the Scottish government to follow the example of the Welsh Assembly administration, in extending the Help to Buy shared equity scheme, which quickly ran out of funds last year due to the level of demand.\nChief executive Philip Hogg said more than 4,000 properties have been purchased through the Scottish Help to Buy scheme since it was launched, boosting the construction industry.\n\"The lending slowdown in the last six months of 2014 matches with our concerns regarding the impact the interruption in Help to Buy funding has had on the home building industry and our projections that total new housing output will have been chiefly flat over the last calendar year,\" Mr Hogg explained.\n\"With the need to ensure we have enough homes in the right locations to meet Scotland's diverse housing needs fundamental to the First Minister's objective of improving opportunity for all, we therefore keenly await the next Scottish Government housing statistics which are due to be published shortly.\"", "summary": "First-time buyers in Scotland were key to helping increase activity in the housing market during 2014, according to industry figures." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Warriors ended a run of three successive league defeats with a 25-12 victory at Murrayfield.\nHowever, spirits had been boosted with back-to-back successes against Racing 92 in the Champions Cup.\n\"We can be a lot better but it's great that we've built on those last couple of wins,\" said head coach Townsend.\n\"We've not won here in the last two seasons and we needed a big performance.\"\nJunior Bulumakau and Josh Strauss touched down to give the visitors at 15-6 lead at the interval, with Alex Dunbar adding a fine score in the second half, while Edinburgh were restricted to four Duncan Weir penalties.\n\"Derby games can be physical affairs where the rugby doesn't flow as much,\" Townsend told BBC Scotland.\n\"There was some good rugby from both teams though. Good defence. I think we needed about a hundred phases for Alex Dunbar's try!\nBulumakau benefited from a terrible Blair Kinghorn error for the first try but Edinburgh responded well and Glasgow lost Alex Allen to a yellow card before falling 6-5 behind.\n\"Once we got the man in the sin bin we played our best rugby of the game,\" said Townsend.\n\"Scoring early is not always a blessing and Edinburgh had most of the ball and the referee seemed to penalising the defensive side a lot more.\n\"It was tough for us to get any rhythm and a couple of times we weren't accurate enough.\n\"Once we got the ball, we looked much better.\n\"We should have scored a try in the first 10 minutes of the second half when we were really on the front foot.\n\"It's three tries and we had opportunities to go to four, so there's a fair bit to build on.\n\"Our forwards played really well, line-out drive and line-out defence was good.\n\"Brian Alainu'uese and Josh Strauss really got us over the gain line with their ball carrying but we didn't get to the number of phases we normally do.\"\nEdinburgh, who had won the last three derbies at Murrayfield, made more turnovers, missed fewer tackles and conceded fewer penalties but could not find a way to cross the line, even in the last act of the game when Viliame Mata ran under the posts only to be held up.\n\"It's a huge disappointment,\" said acting head coach Duncan Hodge. \"We just couldn't quite get close enough.\n\"We had possession and territory but couldn't convert it into points\n\"We didn't get enough quick ball. The ball they had was probably quicker and they made better use of it.\n\"It didn't seem like there was a lot of space out there for both teams to really attack well.\n\"The last 15 minutes of the first half was a big turning point. We conceded five or six penalties in a row and they managed to get in front.\"\nBoth sides are in Italy at the weekend, with Warriors taking on Treviso and Edinburgh at Zebre.\n\"We need to pick ourselves up and get some league points on the board,\" said Hodge. \"We've got to learn and move on and today we didn't do that and that upsets us all.\"", "summary": "Gregor Townsend was delighted Glasgow Warriors were able to translate their recent European form into Pro12 points with a derby win in Edinburgh." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In Pearson's absence Chris Powell took charge of the Rams, who led thanks to Tom Ince's low second-half strike.\nNick Blackman scored with a penalty after he was tripped by Matt Connolly, who was sent off for the foul.\nVictory lifts Derby up to 20th in the table, with Cardiff taking their place in the relegation zone.\nDerby's players were only told about Pearson's suspension three hours before kick-off in south Wales, and the news made for a sense of bemusement inside the Cardiff City Stadium.\nAlthough the visitors enjoyed more possession, Cardiff had the better chances in a low-key first half, the best falling to Sean Morrison, whose free header was well saved by Scott Carson.\nDerby improved after the break and took a deserved lead when Ince fired past Cardiff's scrambling defence to score what was only the Rams' fourth goal in 10 Championship matches this season.\nThe Bluebirds' fate was sealed when Connolly saw red for tripping Blackman and denying him a scoring opportunity, with the Derby substitute calmly converting the spot-kick himself to condemn Cardiff to a sixth defeat from 10 league games.\nMatch ends, Cardiff City 0, Derby County 2.\nSecond Half ends, Cardiff City 0, Derby County 2.\nAttempt missed. Jacob Butterfield (Derby County) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Johnny Russell with a headed pass.\nSubstitution, Derby County. Andreas Weimann replaces Ikechi Anya.\nWill Hughes (Derby County) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Stuart O'Keefe (Cardiff City).\nBradley Johnson (Derby County) is shown the yellow card.\nFoul by Jacob Butterfield (Derby County).\nPeter Whittingham (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Will Hughes (Derby County).\nCraig Noone (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt blocked. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Declan John.\nAttempt saved. Jacob Butterfield (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Will Hughes.\nAttempt missed. Nick Blackman (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Jacob Butterfield.\nAttempt saved. Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nSubstitution, Cardiff City. Bruno Ecuele Manga replaces Lex Immers because of an injury.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nSubstitution, Derby County. Johnny Russell replaces Tom Ince.\nDelay in match Lex Immers (Cardiff City) because of an injury.\nFoul by Bradley Johnson (Derby County).\nKenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nGoal! Cardiff City 0, Derby County 2. Nick Blackman (Derby County) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\nMatthew Connolly (Cardiff City) is shown the red card.\nPenalty Derby County. Nick Blackman draws a foul in the penalty area.\nPenalty conceded by Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City) after a foul in the penalty area.\nRichard Keogh (Derby County) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Lex Immers (Cardiff City).\nSubstitution, Derby County. Nick Blackman replaces Matej Vydra.\nCyrus Christie (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City).\nCorner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Alex Pearce.\nAttempt missed. Max Lowe (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jacob Butterfield.\nIkechi Anya (Derby County) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City).\nAttempt missed. Stuart O'Keefe (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\nFoul by Cyrus Christie (Derby County).\nKadeem Harris (Cardiff City) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nSubstitution, Cardiff City. Kadeem Harris replaces Joe Ralls.\nAttempt missed. Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Peter Whittingham with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Cyrus Christie.", "summary": "Derby claimed their second Championship win of the season as they beat Cardiff without manager Nigel Pearson following his suspension by the club." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Councils in Wales say they face a funding gap of £92m next year in social care alone.\nA Welsh Government-backed programme is encouraging more care providers to think of the co-operative model.\nExamples include a Monmouthshire dental practice which has become the first in Wales to run as a co-operative.\nThe Me, Myself and I Club in Neath Port Talbot is a place to go for people living with memory loss and activities include a walking club.\nWhat makes it different from council bodies or private providers is that it is a co-operative, owned and run by its members and it operates as a not-for-profit organisation.\nJoyce Samuel, 84, and Tony Lane, 71, say it is a vital lifeline for them at a time when they have seen other services being taken away.\n\"It's very important because you're getting out of the house, meeting people, talking and forgetting about your worries. Your family are having a little break,\" said Mr Lane.\nMrs Samuel added: \"It makes a lot of difference to me. I'm getting ready on Monday to come here on Wednesday afternoon.\"\nMe, Myself and I also trains unemployed people to be specialist carers so they can get paid work with councils to look after people in their homes.\nThe Wales Co-operative Centre has the backing of the Welsh Government to create more organisations like this as part of its Care to Co-operate programme.\nDerek Walker, chief executive of the Wales Co-operative Centre, said: \"Social co-operatives aren't a silver bullet to the big pressures facing budgets.\n\"But they can play a role in a number of ways. They take the private profit out of the business - rather than going to distant shareholders they go back into the business.\n\"Also, there is access to financial support which might not be available to a private business.\"\nHeath care is also dealing with funding pressures.\nIn Abergavenny, a new way of delivering dental treatment is being tested.\nWhen the owner moved to a new job with a health board, 17 staff including dentists, nurses and receptionists took over the business as a workers' co-operative.\nIt is the first practice of its kind in Wales and possibly the UK.\nThe founder of the practice, Michael Allen, left it behind for a new NHS role treating people who need special care, including those with advanced dementia and Alzheimer's disease.\nMr Allen said: \"There are ways in which organisations can structure themselves so the people at the coalface are taking some of that ownership of how they work and how their working environment develops and the decisions that need to be made.\"\nAllowing the staff to take over this business meant it kept ownership local rather than it closing down or being taken over by a national chain dental company.\nDentist and co-owner Hannah Hutchison said: \"It's quite a leap to being responsible for quite a lot of the business side - which as dentists working as associates in a practice we'd not really experienced before.\n\"So taking over the business side is completely different. But the joy of the co-operative is that people have strengths in different areas and they're able to do those things.\"\nWith an ageing population and budgets tightening, it is clear that health and social care services cannot be delivered in the way they have always been. In that case, co-operatives may play an increasing role in helping solve those issues.", "summary": "More worker-owned businesses could help deal with the budget shortfall for health and social care, according to the Wales Co-operative Centre." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police said the incident happened at City of Birmingham School, Erdington, just after 13:30 GMT when a group of people entered the school.\nThe pupil is in a stable condition. Police said he was outside the school when he saw two people who chased him back inside.\nTwo boys aged 16 and 17 have been arrested over attempted murder.\nIt is not known if they are pupils at the school, the police spokesman added.\nMore updates on this and other stories in Birmingham and the Black Country\nOfficers are continuing to search for other suspects.\nSupt Mark Payne said it was a \"fast-paced investigation\".\nHe added: \"We are working closely with the school and if anyone has any information then I am urging them to speak to police or to call us as a matter of urgency.\"\nCity of Birmingham School is the main pupil referral unit for Birmingham, taking in children with a range of behavioural issues.\nIt has 10 sites across the city, and the stabbing occurred at its school in Fentham Road.", "summary": "A 15-year-old boy is in hospital with serious injuries after he was stabbed at school." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews insisted the case was \"compelling and widely accepted\".\nBut opposition is widespread and varied, even within his own party.\nFlintshire deputy leader Bernie Attridge described it as \"political suicide\" adding Welsh Labour needed \"urgent change at the top\".\nThe future for the north is still uncertain with proposals suggesting either two super authorities comprising Gwynedd, Anglesey and Conwy in the north west, and Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire in the north east.\nAn alternative allows further consultation over three councils, with Denbighshire joining with Conwy instead.\nLeading councillors suggested that the two authorities proposal could deliver a Plaid Cymru stronghold to the west and Labour to the east.\nOthers questioned whether Gwynedd's policy strongly promoting the Welsh language could be put at risk from a merger with authorities with a less strict approach.\nGeoff Edkins, Unison's regional organiser, said that estimates based on the Welsh Local Government Association's figures, warned of 15,000 workers in Wales facing redundancy in merged authorities, including around 4,000 in north Wales.\nWednesday's announcement has prolonged the uncertainty for the union's members in the north.\nFinancial pressures on council spending has already prompted some to look to close or to privatise services, he said, like libraries, leisure, welfare rights and home care.\n\"Whether the outcome is two or three authorities in north Wales is uncertain and will remain so till after the assembly elections and possibly up till 2020. Yet sticking as we are isn't tenable,\" he said.\n\"The greatest fear for our members is the loss of jobs and privatisation. They wonder just what services will be left to be merged.\"\nHugh Evans the independent leader of Denbighshire council said that merging the county into a new authority with Flintshire and Wrexham was his \"worst fear realised\".\nDenbighshire and Conwy had reached a voluntary agreement for merger which was earlier rejected by Leighton Andrews.\nBut he is now suggesting that the arrangement could go out to consultation in a model of three new north Wales authorities.\nMr Evans said the scale of the two council models in the north would be a major concern and saw a 'glimmer of light' in the further consultation.\n\"There are also the cultural and linguistic differences with the strong urban industrial areas against the rural areas, particularly in Denbighshire,\" he said.\n\"It should be about how best to deliver local services not about boundaries,\" he said, adding that the Williams Commission which drew up proposals for 10 or 11 authorities \"seemed to be a complete waste of time and money\".\n\"Two authorities would take communities further away from the decision makers. I would be really concerned. Haven't we learned the lessons of the Betsi Cadwaladr health board?\n\"This whole process is a distraction beyond 2020 when we should be concentrating on providing services.\"\nBut Dyfed Edwards, Plaid Cymru leader of Gwynedd council, said that reform of the map of local government was essential and needed political leadership in all parties.\nHe added: \"Will someone please get on with it? If the status quo isn't sustainable, then tell us what is.\n\"I think personally one council for north west and one for north east Wales makes sense in terms of spatial planning.\n\"The big question is over health and social care, where we have a health board across the whole of north Wales.\"\nMr Andrews said no final decisions had been taken.\n\"The case in north Wales is finely balanced between two or three local authorities. We therefore feel that there is a case for a further debate and would welcome views,\" he said.\n\"I want to emphasise this is not a final decision. It is the next phase in our public debate.\"", "summary": "North Wales council chiefs are split over plans to carve the region up into two or three authorities as unions warn of job cuts and privatisation." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The four-year-old gelding, ridden by Harry Bentley, surged clear and despite veering right late on, won by two lengths for a first Group One success.\nSuedois (25-1) finished second, beating 7-1 shot Quiet Reflection into third by a head.\nFrankie Dettori, bidding for his first July Cup, was seventh of 18 runners on Magical Memory on good to firm ground.\nLimato won his first five races over six furlongs but was only fourth of 12 over a mile in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury in May, though Candy suggested there could be a return to that longer distance for the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood this month.\n\"It would be rather fun if he ran in the Sussex,\" the trainer said.\" I wouldn't rule it out totally - it's a thought.\n\"I thought he ran a cracking race in the Lockinge and I thought he settled very well.\n\"My horses weren't right at the time and I thought he got the mile that day. I've been training him pretty much to stay.\"\nBBC Racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght\n\"The 2016 July Cup was billed as an outstanding staging of the historic Group One sprint with no horse absent that you would have wanted to see, so for Limato to drop down from a mile to win by two lengths in a very fast time - one minute, 9.97 seconds - and despite drifting off a straight line late on, is outstanding.\n\"The horse's veteran trainer Henry Candy famously keeps his feet on the ground, and it's quite a compliment that he indicated a crack at Guineas winners Galileo Gold and The Gurkha in the Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood is now a possibility.\"\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "summary": "Henry Candy's 9-2 favourite Limato claimed the coveted July Cup over six furlongs at Newmarket." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Paralympic star was jailed for five years in 2014 for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp.\nMs Steenkamp's parents have said that the time he has served is \"not enough for taking a life\".\nA state appeal against his acquittal on murder charges is due in November.\nUnder South African law, Pistorius is eligible for release under \"correctional supervision\" having served a sixth of his sentence.\nSouth African Commissioner of Correctional Services Zach Modise told the BBC that the case management committee at the Kgosi Mampuru II prison in Pretoria, where Pistorius is being held, made the recommendation last week.\nThe decision is likely to mean a spell under house arrest for Pistorius.\nThe double amputee shot and killed Ms Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door at his Pretoria home, believing she was an intruder, he told his trial.\nIn March a Johannesburg court blocked his legal team's attempts to stop the prosecutors' appeal.\nState prosecutors say Pistorius should have been found guilty of murder - if convicted he could face a much more lengthy jail term.\nTania Koen, a lawyer for Ms Steenkamp's parents Barry and June, said that while the two had forgiven Pistorius, \"ten months is not enough\".\n\"It also doesn't send out the proper message and serve as the proper deterrent as the way it should.\"\nThe decision will reignite a national debate in South Africa about the rule of law, says the BBC's Milton Nkosi.\nPistorius was born without the fibulas in both of his legs, and had surgery to amputate both below the knee while still a baby.\nHe went on to become one of South Africa's best-known sports stars, and was the first amputee to compete against able-bodied athletes at the 2012 London Olympics.", "summary": "Oscar Pistorius is set to be released on probation on 21 August, South African prison authorities say, after serving 10 months in jail for shooting dead his girlfriend." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Smith broke the news, describing Parks as \"the best actor I've ever known\" and \"the most incredible thespian I ever had the pleasure to watch perform\".\nSmith cast him in Red State and Tusk, while he appeared in both of Tarantino's Kill Bill films.\nTarantino described him in 1997 as \"one of my favourite actors in the world\".\nParks made his name on US TV in the 1960s and with film roles including Adam in director John Huston's 1966 epic The Bible: In the Beginning...\nHe had the lead role in TV series Then Came Bronson in 1969-70 - which Tarantino described as \"the most naturalistic acting I've ever seen on a TV show\".\nHe was likened at the time to James Dean - but never had a major breakthrough and his career faded.\nThere were suggestions that he was shunned by Hollywood studios - which has been attributed to him speaking out about the violence in Then Came Bronson, a contract dispute with Universal, or being difficult to work with.\nSomething of a career revival began when David Lynch cast him as Jean Renault in the second season of Twin Peaks, which aired in 1990.\nHis other film credits included Django Unchained, Grindhouse, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Argo.\nDirector Robert Rodriguez, who cast him in From Dusk Till Dawn, said in 2011: \"He was always considered to be the actor who should replace James Dean when James Dean passed, and his naturalism was just amazing to watch.\"\nResponding to the news of Parks's death, Rodriguez wrote on Twitter: \"A heartfelt farewell to the one and only Michael Parks. A very kind man and a true legend.\"\nIn his Instagram tribute on Wednesday, Kevin Smith added: \"He elevated any flick or TV show he was in and elevated every director he ever acted for. I was so... blessed to have worked with this bona fide genius.\"\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Michael Parks, who was named by directors Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith as one of their favourite actors, has died at the age of 77." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "23 December 2015 Last updated at 20:14 GMT\nOn the haunting Delta blues-inspired track Ake, Bassy plays the harmonica and wistfully sings in his mother tongue Bassa.", "summary": "The most original live performance of 2015 goes to Cameroonian magician Blick Bassy at the Africa Utopia Festival in London." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 24-year-old Brazilian striker was the subject of a £21m bid by Liverpool on 1 August.\nCosta joined Atletico from Valladolid in 2010 and scored 10 goals in the Primera Liga last season.\n\"I am very happy with the deal, it is a very special moment,\" he told Atletico's website.\n\"I am delighted with this agreement after fighting for a long time to win the respect and affection of the fans, my team-mates and people in the club.\"\nAtletico finished third in La Liga last season, earning a Champions League place, and beat Real Madrid to win the Copa del Rey.\nThey sold striker Radamel Falcao to Monaco for a reported £50m fee on 31 May.", "summary": "Atletico Madrid have extended the contract of Liverpool target Diego Costa by three years until June 2018." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Megrahi, 60, was convicted by a special court in the Netherlands in 2001.\nHe was freed from Scottish jail in 2009 on compassionate grounds because of cancer, stirring controversy when he outlived doctors' expectations.\nUK Prime Minister David Cameron said it was a day to remember the 270 victims of \"an appalling terrorist act\".\nMr Cameron, who is in Chicago for a Nato summit, said Megrahi should never have been freed, Reuters news agency reports.\nBy Rana JawadBBC News, Tripoli\nThere are just over a dozen cars lining up the street outside Megrahi's house, on the outskirts of central Tripoli.\nChairs are being put up - presumably for guests who will be paying their condolences, although it is still very quiet here.\nI spoke earlier today to Megrahi's brother, who said he wished his brother had lived to see the day when his innocence was proven.\nMegrahi - and his family - had long maintained that he was not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing.\nDuring Col Gaddafi's rule, many Libyans maintained that Megrahi was innocent whatever the court decided.\nI have spoken to a number of Libyans since Col Gaddafi was ousted last year who believe that Megrahi was guilty.\nBut you still find that many Libyans say that Megrahi did not directly participate in the bombing, that he was used as a scapegoat by the former regime.\nSo there are mixed views in Libya on this matter.\nScottish First Minister Alex Salmond also said Megrahi's death was an occasion to remember the victims of Lockerbie.\nHe said Lockerbie was still a live investigation and that Scottish prosecutors had never believed Megrahi was the only person responsible.\nMegrahi's release sparked the fury of many of the relatives of the victims of the Lockerbie disaster. The US - whose citizens accounted for 189 of the dead - also criticised the move.\nBut others believed he was not guilty of the bombing.\nDr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died at Lockerbie, called Megrahi's death a \"very sad event\".\n\"Right up to the end he was determined, for his family's sake... [that] the verdict against him should be overturned,\" said Dr Swire, who is a member of the Justice for Megrahi group.\nDied at home\nHis brother Abdulhakim said on Sunday that Megrahi's health had deteriorated quickly and he died at home in Tripoli.\nHe told the AFP news agency that Megrahi died at 13:00 local time (11:00 GMT).\nMegrahi's sister told the Libyan Wal news agency that his funeral would take place at Tripoli's main cemetery on Monday, following early afternoon prayers.\nMegrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, always denied any responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988.\nIt remains the deadliest terrorist incident ever to have taken place on British soil.\nAll 259 people aboard the plane, which was travelling from London to New York, were killed, along with 11 others on the ground.\nInvestigators tracing the origins of scraps of clothes wrapped around the bomb followed a trail to a shop in Malta which led them, eventually, to Megrahi.\nHe and another Libyan, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, were indicted by the Scottish and US courts in November 1991.\nBut Libya refused to extradite them. In 1999, after protracted negotiations, Libya handed the two men over for trial, under Scottish law but on neutral ground, the former US airbase at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands.\nTheir trial began in May 2000. Fhimah was acquitted of all charges, but Megrahi was found guilty and sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in prison.\nHe served the first part of his sentence at the maximum-security prison at Barlinnie, in Glasgow, but was transferred in 2005 to Greenock prison.\nHe lost his first appeal against conviction in 2002 but in 2007, his case was referred back to senior Scottish judges. He dropped that second case two days before he was released.\nLast August, after the fall of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, Megrahi was reported to be \"in and out of a coma\" at his home in Tripoli.\nThere have been calls for him to be returned to jail in the UK or tried in the US.\nBut shortly after they toppled Col Gaddafi, Libyan rebel leaders said they would not extradite Megrahi or any other Libyan.\nThe BBC's Scotland correspondent James Cook says Scottish and American officials have been to Tripoli, trying to persuade the new Libyan government to grant visas to detectives from Dumfriesshire.\nThey are still searching for the answers to the questions of who ordered the bombing and who else was involved, our correspondent says, but it is not clear whether the Libyans will co-operate.\nHowever, a spokesman for the interim government in Tripoli, the National Transitional Council (NTC), told Reuters that that Megrahi's death would not end its investigations into Lockerbie.\nLife in pictures\n\"The Libyan government will continue to investigate the crimes committed by the Gaddafi regime using other witnesses,\" NTC spokesman Mohamed al-Harizy was quoted as saying.\nLast September, it emerged that former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair had raised Megrahi's case in talks with Gaddafi in 2008 and 2009 in Libya, shortly before Megrahi was freed.\nAt the time, Libya was threatening to sever commercial links with Britain if Megrahi was not released.\nBut Mr Blair's spokesman told Col Gaddafi it was a case for the Scottish authorities and no business deals were discussed.\nIn his last interview, filmed in December 2011, Megrahi said: \"I am an innocent man. I am about to die and I ask now to be left in peace with my family.\"\nHe had previously claimed he would release new information about the atrocity but little new has emerged.\nMegrahi had rarely been seen since his return to Tripoli, but he was spotted on Libyan television at what appeared to be a pro-government rally in July 2011.", "summary": "Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland which killed 270 people, has died at his home in Libya." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Twenty-two people were killed and 59 injured when a man set off a bomb in the foyer at the end of a concert by Ariana Grande, on Monday.\nHumberside Police said they were bringing in extra armed officers, and explosive sniffer dogs in response.\nBBC Radio 1 said its focus was safety and it was working with police ahead of the festival.\nAndy McDyer, Assistant Chief Constable of Humberside Police, said concertgoers would see \"heightened security\" at entrances and dropping-off points.\nHe said armed officers would be present for public protection, with airport-style security measures in place.\nPolice explosive sniffers dogs will also be on site, he said.\nHowever, Mr McDyer added that the measures were a precaution and there was no intelligence to suggest the event would be targeted.\nThe UK terror threat level is now up to its highest level of \"critical\", meaning more attacks may be imminent.\nIn a statement, BBC Radio 1 said: \"Our thoughts are with the victims and the families of those affected by the tragic events in Manchester.\n\"The health and safety of everyone involved in Big Weekend is now our primary focus and we are carrying out a full assessment, with the police and our partners, of every aspect of the festival.\"\nUp to 50,000 music fans are expected to attend the free-ticketed event at Burton Constable near Hull, on 27 and 28 May.", "summary": "Security at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Hull is being stepped up in the wake of the terror attack on Manchester Arena." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The money had been announced last year to fund a plan to require all schools to become academies.\nBut the Department for Education has revealed that when the compulsory academy plan was ditched, the Treasury took back most of this extra funding.\nHeads said this was \"outrageous\" when schools could not \"make ends meet\".\nBut the Department for Education said the return of funds was appropriate if a project did not go ahead.\nWith warnings from head teachers that lack of funds could force a four-day week, there have been growing questions about the extra cash announced alongside plans to make all schools convert to academies.\nHead teachers in West Sussex, who are campaigning against spending cuts, wrote last week to all their local MPs asking what had happened to the extra £500m for schools announced last year by the former Chancellor George Osborne.\nA letter this week from Bristol head teachers to the education secretary, warning about \"extreme\" funding problems, also asked why the academy funding cash could not be used.\nEducation ministers had told MPs in April 2016 that there was \"over £500m\" for the government's academy policy.\nBut the compulsory academy plan was abandoned after a rebellion by backbench Conservative MPs.\nAnd the Department for Education now says most of the extra funding earmarked for schools then disappeared back into the Treasury.\nThe department says that the remaining money, in excess of £100m, was spent on other education projects.\nThe Dedicated Schools Grant for England's schools is about £40bn a year.\nEducation Secretary Justine Greening has faced growing pressure over gaps in school funding.\nThe National Audit Office has warned that current funding levels will mean £3bn in reduced spending for schools by 2020.\nSchool leaders say that their budgets cannot stretch to the level of rising costs and have warned of having to cut teaching staff or reduce school hours.\nGrammar school leaders have said that they could soon have to start asking for extra payments from parents.\nBut the Department for Education says that schools are receiving record levels of funding and that a new funding formula will distribute this more fairly.\nThe leader of the National Union of Teachers, Kevin Courtney, said the withdrawal of the announced school funding was \"absolutely inexplicable\" and that \"every parent should be furious\".\n\"People might say education is expensive, but ignorance is even more expensive,\" said Mr Courtney.\nMalcolm Trobe, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said that heads would be \"extremely disappointed and angry\" that the extra funding announced had not stayed in the education budget, when \"schools are so hard pushed\".\nJules White, a West Sussex head teacher calling for a budget increase, said his local schools faced a \"dire financial situation\".\n\"It seems extraordinary that money was there for an unnecessary policy initiative, but suddenly not available for children, families and schools that are currently not even just managing to make ends meet.\"\nAngela Rayner, Labour's shadow education secretary, said: \"It is astonishing that the Treasury is now clawing money back from the education budget at the same time as schools spending is being drastically cut.\"", "summary": "The Treasury has taken back £384m originally promised for schools in England - at a time when head teachers are protesting about a cash crisis." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Metropolitan Police were called to Crown Street in Acton at about 11:50 BST.\nThe teenager was taken to hospital in central London but was pronounced dead a short time later. His next-of-kin are yet to be informed, police said.\nA 17-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being questioned.\nSome local businesses, including Acton Pet Stores, closed following the stabbing, with one employee saying police were \"everywhere\".", "summary": "A 17-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in a street in west London." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The vast majority of Boro supporters will be making the 250-mile (400km) trip to London from Teesside.\nBut some will be coming from much further afield for just 90 minutes of football - plus extra time and penalties, if needed.\nKick-off at Wembley at 15:00 BST\nDistance to Wembley: 11,740 miles (18,900km)\nDistance to Wembley: 3,200 miles (5,170km)\nDistance to Wembley: 3,220 miles (5,190km)\nDistance to Wembley: 1,050 miles (1,700km)\nGraham Morgan - Spain\nWhen Graham Morgan's wife Amanda booked a bank holiday trip to Benalmadena on Spain's Costa Del Sol, he knew he could have a big choice to make: family or football.\nThe holiday was booked last year, and he instantly spotted the potential clash with a Wembley play-off final.\n\"I politely pointed this out to her, but she retorted with 'it's not Christmas yet - the slide is yet to come',\" he said.\n\"Ever since the day the holiday was booked I've been exceedingly nice to the wife, but I was ripped apart from choosing either the company of my delightful family or a bucket-list day with the lads.\"\nBut moments after Middlesbrough's place at Wembley was confirmed, Mrs Morgan made the difficult decision for her fraught husband.\n\"My wonderful wife booked flights from Malaga to Gatwick and plotted my route through the Underground to Wembley Stadium, making sure I return on the Tuesday to sunny Spain,\" said Mr Morgan.\n\"Thanks to the thoughtful, empathic wisdom of my beloved partner I can now give my love to both the family and the Boro. She's a great lass.\"\nPaul Harrison - Ghana\nPaul Harrison will travel more than 5,000 miles (8,000km) on six aeroplanes to get to Wembley from Ghana - via Redcar to pick up his son, Jacob.\nBut although he is making the trip for 72 hours to see his beloved Boro, he will not be doing it for his youngest son's birthday two weeks later.\nMr Harrison, who works for a transportation company in Takoradi in southern Ghana, said: \"The wife is not a football fan at all and thinks we are pretty crazy.\n\"She's asked why I'm not coming back for the birthday. I've not explained that one to her yet.\"\nHe said seeing his beloved team at Wembley was too good an opportunity to miss.\n\"It's for the Boro; it's what we do,\" he said.\n\"We're a strange breed, football fans in general; we do crazy things for our teams. Week in, week out, we spend hard-earned cash following our team around the country.\"\nPete and Zack Roberts - Portsmouth\nPete Roberts and his son Zack, five, may not have to travel too far - just 80 miles (128km) - but the fact they are going to the match at all is testament to the generosity of their fellow fans.\nMr Roberts was unable to afford tickets for him and his disabled son, but an appeal on social media has seen Boro fans pay for the pair to go to the match.\nHe told BBC Tees: \"It's just unbelievable; I can't thank them enough. Middlesbrough FC is my life.\n\"It's bewildering; amazing. Teesside has pulled together for my son.\"\nLee and Toby Hall - Qatar\nLee Hall and his eight-year-old son Toby will make a 6,400-mile (10,000km) round trip from Qatar to support Middlesbrough at Wembley.\nThe pair will be in the UK for three days after Mr Hall, who works in building design, made a promise to his son.\nHe said: \"I promised Toby that if we managed to get through the play-offs to the final then I would take him and that's what we are doing.\n\"We will be joining up with family and friends, some of which Toby has never met and I have not seen since the Eindhoven UEFA Cup Final [in 2006 when Middlesbrough lost 4-0].\n\"We wouldn't miss it for the world, even if it is costing a small fortune and we are missing three days of work and school.\n\"My wife Nicola and older daughter Charlotte would like to have come but Charlotte can't miss school as she is in her GCSE years so we are set for a boys' weekend in the capital.\"\nDaniel Eskdale - New Zealand\nDaniel Eskdale will make a round trip of 23,600 miles (38,000km) to spend just two-and-a-half days in the UK.\nThe 28-year-old, who works as a painter in Wanaka on New Zealand's South Island, said it was worth the 38 hours of travelling.\n\"My only trip to Wembley was when I was 10. I was too young to appreciate what it meant,\" he said.\n\"Since then I have followed the team from Blackpool to Xanthi, seen us win a trophy and watched as we beat some of the biggest names in Europe.\n\"But the dream was always to see us again at Wembley, to have us in a final, to walk down Wembley Way and soak in that special feeling only that place can give.\n\"These chances don't come round very often. It's what dreams are made of. Why wouldn't I make the effort?\"\nTosh Warwick - Miami\nHistorian Tosh Warwick, 31, went to Miami to to present a paper at the North American Society for Sport History Conference on the pastimes of Victorian steel workers in Middlesbrough.\nBut he has now rearranged his speaking slot so he can make the 4,420-mile (7,110km) trip to Wembley.\nMr Warwick said: \"I have been going to the Boro matches for decades. I've always hoped I would get to see the Boro win at Wembley.\n\"As soon as we got to Wembley it was a frantic switch in plans rearranging flights and conference details. It's a long trip but hopefully it will be worth it - even if we get beat at least I'll have been there supporting the Boro.\"", "summary": "Taking their seats among the 90,000-strong crowd for the Championship play-off final between Middlesbrough and Norwich City will be some fans who have made mammoth trips to be there." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Readings taken in Brixton Road found levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), linked to nearly 5,900 early deaths a year, repeatedly breached the EU limit.\nKing's College London, which runs the air quality monitoring stations, said similar pollution problems are found along many of London's main roads.\nOxford Street, Kings Road and the Strand are other pollution hotspots.\nUnder EU law the average hourly level of NO2, mostly caused by diesel vehicles, must not exceed 200 micrograms per cubic metre more than 18 times in a year.\nIn the first five days of 2017 Brixton Road had exceeded this annual limit on a further 19 occasions, according to the London Air Quality Network at King's College London.\nAt one point NO2 levels were nearly double the legal limit.\nPutney High Street, which was the first London road to exceed its legal limit last year, went on to exceed the hourly limit more than 1,100 times in 2016.\nThe news has come on the day Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced 10 new low emission bus zones in the capital.\nThe new routes bring the total number of Low Emission Zones planned to 12, including previously announced zones in Putney High Street and Brixton.\nThe mayor has pledged to double funding to tackle air pollution to £875m over five years.\nDr Gary Fuller and Andrew Grieve, Kings College London\nStudies in cities around the world have found more early deaths and visits to A&E in cities where nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is high.\nIn the UK it is estimated that the air pollution that we breathe causes an estimated 40,000 early deaths per year.\nLegal limits were set in 1999 to protect our health, with a deadline to meet them by 2010. Now, in 2017, they have been breached in the first five days of the year.\nIn towns and cities, the main source of NO2 is diesel traffic. Concentrations are worst alongside busy roads enclosed by buildings; especially those with many buses, lorries and taxis.\nThese are the streets where we live and shop.\nSince 2010, the situation has started to improve alongside some of London's roads but, as yesterday's result shows, there is still a long way to go to meet the 2010 limits.\nBut Caroline Russell, who represents the Green Party on the London Assembly, said the plans were \"just not enough\".\n\"Too many people have had their lives shortened, their asthma and other respiratory problems worsened and their quality of life reduced as a result of weak mayoral policies and government inaction,\" she said.\nIn April a committee of MPs called air pollution in the UK a \"public health emergency\".\nThis week a study suggested as many as 11% of cases of dementia in people living near busy roads could be linked to air pollution.", "summary": "A south London road has breached its annual air pollution limit for 2017 in just five days." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The recording was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today as part of the annual nationwide poetry celebration.\nThis year's theme is Messages, and the public are being encouraged to \"say it with a poem\".\nThe Royal Mail will also use a special postmark on millions of items on Thursday.\nIn addition, 40 BBC local radio stations have engaged 40 poets to celebrate England's best-loved local landmarks in verse.\n\"A poem can reach places that prose just can't,\" National Poetry Day director Susannah Herbert said.\n\"That's why we're inviting all with anything important to say today to say it with a poem. It can be new or old, utterly original or a familiar favourite.\n\"It can be deep and dark, funny or memorable. By enjoying, discovering or sharing a poem - words that draw attention to themselves - you change the nature of the national conversation.\"\nOther poetry events around the UK include:\nLater on Thursday, The Poetry Society will announce the top 15 winners and 85 commended poets of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016 at London's Festival Hall.\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "The Prince of Wales has been heard reading Seamus Heaney's poem The Shipping Forecast poem to mark National Poetry Day." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Williams, who can also play at centre, has made three appearances for Bath since joining the club from the England Sevens side in April 2015.\nThe 26-year-old scored 39 tries in 22 games for the England Sevens after making his debut in 2012.\n\"It's a great environment to be in and I feel like I'm constantly improving,\" he told the club website.\n\"Bath is a fantastic city to live in, and I've really settled in well so I didn't have any hesitation about staying.\"", "summary": "Bath winger Jeff Williams has signed a one-year contract extension with the Premiership club." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Jozabed joined Fulham from Rayo Vallecano for an undisclosed fee in August 2016, but made only eight appearances for the Championship club.\nThe 26-year-old Spaniard last featured for the Cottagers as a substitute in a 2-1 loss to QPR on 1 October.\nHe joined Celta Vigo on loan in January, scoring twice in 28 appearances in all competitions.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "La Liga side Celta Vigo have signed Fulham midfielder Jozabed for an undisclosed fee." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said it expects to make the recommendation in its final report into the crash later this year.\nThe Croydon tram crash left seven people dead and 51 injured on 9 November last year.\nThe RAIB will also urge tram operators to improve passenger safety.\nIt is also expected to commission research into how the alertness of tram drivers can be checked after several drivers were caught asleep at the controls of trams.\nRAIB is aiming to release its final report within a year of the accident, but warned the publication date is \"subject to a number of factors\".\nLondon's Transport Commissioner Mike Brown said a number of additional safety measures had been introduced to the Croydon tram network since the derailment, including more speed restrictions, new signage for drivers and an upgraded CCTV system.\nAn in-cab vigilance system is being trialled and is expected to be fitted to all trams by the autumn to alert drivers if distraction or fatigue is detected, he added.\nHe said: \"We continue to work with the wider tram industry on these improvements and will consider any further measures that could be introduced to improve safety.\"\nAround 70 passengers were on the two-carriage tram when it came off the tracks, overturned and slid for 25 metres.\nAn interim accident report found it was travelling at 46mph as it entered a sharp bend at Sandilands Junction, which had a 13mph limit.\nThe late application of the brakes, and the absence of emergency braking, suggested the driver had \"lost awareness\", according to RAIB.\nThe driver, Alfred Dorris, 42, from Beckenham, south-east London, was arrested at the scene and questioned on suspicion of manslaughter.\nHe has been bailed until September.", "summary": "The investigation into the Croydon tram crash is likely to call for increased measures to prevent trams from speeding at high-risk locations, it is claimed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Brook, 30, is the IBF welterweight champion and is moving up two weight divisions to take on the Kazakh boxer.\n\"I'm going to bring the speed up to the middleweight division,\" Brook said.\n\"I'm going to bring big power as well. I'm ready for this fight. To be the best you've got to beat the best - it doesn't get any bigger than GGG.\"\nFind out how to get into boxing with our special guide.\nBrook says the bout in London will be \"the biggest fight in world boxing\" and that he has been \"training like a wild horse\".\nThe Briton is unbeaten in 36 fights, while undisputed world middleweight champion Golovkin, 34, has won all 35 of his professional bouts.\n\"I'm going to be so alive for that night,\" Brook said.\n\"No-one has ever got the best out of me. I want to test myself. I know we are going to see the best in me. I'm excited to see what I can do.\"\nHe added: \"I'm the best welterweight on the planet and no-one seems to want to fight me. GGG is the same in the middleweight division.\"", "summary": "Kell Brook says he can maintain his speed and bring power to the ring when he steps up to middleweight to fight Gennady Golovkin on 10 September." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "BBC Hindi's Ravinder Singh Robin explains why the Sikhs are angry.\nThe spark for the current bout of protests came after a torn-up copy of Sri Guru Granth Sahib - Sikhism's holy book - was found in the village of Bargari, near Kot Kapura in Faridkot district.\nThe alleged desecration of the holy book angered many who came out to protest in Behbal Kalan, a nearby village, last Wednesday.\nAs tempers soared, police opened fire. They say they shot in the air, but two protesters were killed and dozens of others wounded.\nThe killings have further angered Sikh community members who have taken to blocking highways and bridges, demanding action against those who they say desecrated the holy book.\nThe protesters have said they will continue the blockade for three hours every day for another week.\nNo, in the past week there have been at least five reports of copies of the Guru Granth Sahib being desecrated.\nTorn-up copies of the holy book have been found in different areas of the state - at Jandiala village in Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Tarn Taran near Amritsar, Kot Kapura and Gurusar Jalal village in Bathinda district in the south of the state.\nPolice say they are investigating all the cases and claim to have some leads.\nDozens of people have been questioned and at least two people have been arrested in connection with the desecrations. Police said on 19 October that another 52 had been arrested \"as a precaution\".\nThe protests have disrupted life in large parts of Punjab in the past week.\nThe protesters, numbering in their hundreds, are mostly from unorganised groups although some radical Sikh organisations like the Damdami Taksal and Ajnala faction have also been seen at demonstrations.\nThe protesters are demanding that those they accuse of desecrating the holy book are arrested and compensation be paid to the families of the two men who were killed in police firing.\nIn some places, there have also been spontaneous protests by ordinary Sikhs who say they are fed up of eight-and-a-half years of misrule by the state government - a coalition of the regional Shiromani Akali Dal and India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party.\nIn some districts, farmers - who had protested earlier this month accusing the government of being anti-farmer - have also joined the protests.\nAlthough some Sikh lobby groups and protesters have accused \"a religious faction\" of desecrating their holy book, the authorities say they are not sure who is to blame.\nPunjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has said there was a \"deep-rooted conspiracy\" to target religious places in the state by \"some anti-social elements\".\nHe has promised that anyone found guilty in \"this unpardonable offence would not be spared at any cost and exemplary action would be taken against them so that it acts as a deterrent for others to indulge in such a dastardly act in future\".\nIndia's Home Minister Rajnath Singh has promised Chief Minister Badal \"all possible help\" to restore peace in the state.\nThe Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of Sikhs, the opposition Congress party and the Sikh clergy have all appealed for peace.\nWith the protests showing no sign of dissipating, many are warning that order must be restored quickly in a state which has a troubled past.\nAlthough Punjab has been peaceful for nearly two decades, the state was the scene of a violent insurgency for an independent Sikh homeland in the 1980s and the 1990s.\nIn 1984 Indian security forces killed many Sikh militants after they seized the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Sikh religion's most important site.\nIn revenge, Indira Gandhi, the then-prime minister, was shot dead by her Sikh bodyguards.", "summary": "Sikhs in the northern Indian state of Punjab have staged protests, enforced strikes and blocked roads in several towns and cities in the past week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He will make a statement to the House of Commons about the future of negotiations on Monday.\nMr Brokenshire has three options: to transfer the powers from Northern Ireland to the UK government in Westminster, call the third Northern Irish election in 14 months, or extend talks into the summer until the parties compromise over thorny issues such as the Irish language act.\nThe first option, to return Northern Ireland to direct rule, is one of the most contentious.\nBecause of its history, Northern Ireland has a special type of government called power-sharing. Political parties representing different sections of the community have to share power, in a mandatory coalition, on matters such as housing, policing, prisons and transport.\nIf they can't agree, the Northern Ireland Assembly is suspended and UK government intervenes.\nDirect rule is the mechanism for taking over the functions and powers of the government of Northern Ireland - the Northern Ireland Executive - and giving them to London.\nLaws affecting Northern Ireland would be passed through the government department run by ministers in London, and the Privy Council.\nDirect rule is viewed with suspicion by many in the nationalist community because it takes power out of local hands.\nIn the past, direct rule could be implemented by the government easily, just by triggering section one of the 1998 Northern Ireland Act.\nHowever, since the 2006 signing of the St Andrews Agreement, which devolved further powers to the Northern Ireland Executive, direct rule can only be implemented if the UK government passes a law through the UK Parliament.\nDirect rule was last used between 2002 and 2006 when Tony Blair was the British prime minister.\nAfter five years of talks, eventually the DUP and Sinn Fein were able to form a power-sharing deal in May 2007.\nNorthern Ireland has been ruled directly from London in 32 of the 44 years since 1973.\nThere is some speculation, particularly from parties like the Irish nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), the third biggest party after the last election, that there could be a different form of direct rule from the one previously used to rule Northern Ireland.\nIn the St Andrews agreement, the UK government agreed not to implement direct rule without passing a law in the UK Parliament.\nSo to keep the nationalist parties on board there is speculation this will be \"limited\" direct rule, where civil servants take over responsibility for the day-to-day running while the UK government only passes legislation for important bills, such as the budget for Northern Ireland.\nMany republicans in Northern Ireland are pushing for more input from the Irish government, so called \"green direct rule\".\nHowever, recently the government ruled out any kind of joint authority.", "summary": "James Brokenshire, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has extended the deadline for talks between the two largest parties in the province - the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein - in the hope that they will agree over the weekend how to share power." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a spin-off of the Harry Potter series, Newt Scamander uses magizoology, a science studied in JK Rowling's imaginary wizarding world, to help him understand these strange creatures.\nBut does such a branch of science exist in the \"muggle\" (or non -magical) world?\nPerhaps cryptozoology, the science which identifies and describes creatures from folklore and fossil records, could give us some clues.\nAnthony McAtamney, 44, is from County Armagh and describes himself as an \"ordinary bloke\" who has \"a life-long interest in the paranormal and cryptozoology\"\nHe said: \"It's an enigmatic field that few scientists delve into and it's not just about the myths and what-ifs.\n\"Remember the giant squid - referred to as the Kraken in cryptozoology before it was renamed by scientists upon its discovery - was not photographed or filmed live until 2004.\"\nJames Newton, a university disability advisor by day, is the founder of The London Cryptozoology Club and offers his advice to any budding cryptozoologists.\n\"I would say read books, don't get all your info off the internet - there's a lot of good information on the internet but you have to sift through a load of rubbish too.\"\n\"I would also say research older materials,\" he said. \"Lots of contemporary resources - books, TV shows etc - are very fast-paced but with little depth.\n\"If people are really interested in zoology in general and cryptozoology in particular I would advise them to make inroads wherever possible into mainstream science and work on getting at least certain aspects of the study more credibility.\n\"Don't be embarrassed about your interest - it's what makes you a thinking and interesting individual.\"\nAnthony cites one of his heroes and main influences within this field as Dr Karl Shuker.\n\"In my mind he was balanced and provided the folklore and the facts where he could around the sightings but also gave alternates to the sightings where possible,\" he said.\n\"He also gave examples of how such creatures may exist which almost inspired a romantic notion in me that the world has more to offer even as we become more modern.\n\"Whilst he does have a scientific approach he doesn't openly ridicule - his work is thought provoking and well researched.\"\nFrom Murtlaps to Mooncalfs JK Rowling has added a whole menagerie of magical creatures to the wizarding world in this, the first of the Fantastic Beasts film franchise.\nAnd Anthony can see parallels with certain animals identified in cryptozoology, known as cryptids.\nOne such creature is the Thunderbird, described on Pottermore as \"a magical American bird closely related to the phoenix\" who can \"sense danger and create storms as it flies.\"\nThunderbirds also have one of the houses of the American school of witchcraft and wizardry, Ilvermorny, named after them.\n\"People sometimes equate Thunderbirds to modern day sightings of Pterosaur that we hear from in Ohio, New Mexico and Papa New Guinea,\" Anthony said.\n\"However the Thunderbird is a North American cryptid and has basis in legend with the Native Americans.\n\"So her [Rowling's] linking it to Native Americans is very good and indicative of her research.\n\"There are theories that Thunderbirds were large birds that used the currents from storms, much like eagles, to whip up warm updrafts to aid them in flights, hence they may have been spotted following paths of thunderstorms which in turn gave rise to the flapping of the wings creating thunder.\"\nHe can see parallels with the \"ape-like\" Demiguise and many cryptids based on ape-like creatures such as Bigfoot and the Ebu Gogo too.\nAlthough Anthony also believes that there are characteristics of standard zoological apes present in this character as well.\n\"There are so many real species of monkey and especially the marmoset monkey which I think it resembles,\" he said.", "summary": "Birds that create storms when they fly, long-snouted \"mole-like\" creatures who have a talent for sniffing out treasure and \"ape-like\" animals who have the power to become invisible - yes, the fantastic beasts have arrived." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They claimed the local authority had a \"moral duty\" to spend the money needed to retain Haulfre in Llangoed.\nAnglesey council has started a consultation on its future, amid concern about the building's condition.\nResidents at the meeting on Friday were told the council will make a final decision in October.\nA report to councillors highlighted a detailed fire risk assessment, commissioned by the county council, which found a number of serious deficiencies within the building.\nIt is home to 18 residents.\nAnglesey council's community director Gwen Carrington said: \"It's acknowledged that there has been under-investment over the years.\n\"The overall assessment is that the current facilities are not suitable and that it will become more and more difficult to ensure safe care within the building.\n\"Our priority, first and foremost, must be to ensure safe and appropriate care of Haulfre's residents and the staff who look after them.\"", "summary": "Around 150 people attended a meeting to discuss the future of a residential home as part of a review of council-run care for older people at Anglesey." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The country's main opposition parties boycotted the elections, saying they would not be free and fair.\nTurnout was officially 46% but BBC Sudan analyst James Copnall says many believe the real figure was even lower.\nMr Bashir, who has been in power since 1989, denies International Criminal Court (ICC) charges of ordering a genocide in the Darfur conflict.\nWestern countries, including the US, Britain and Norway, criticised the polls for not being free and fair.\nThe African Union monitors said that basic freedoms and human rights would have \"enhanced\" the polls.\nMost Western countries will not accept the elections as meaningful, but 71-year-old President Bashir can count on support from the likes of the Arab League, and Russia, says our correspondent.\nThe ICC arrest warrant for Mr Bashir relates to the Darfur conflict, which began in 2003, and in which the UN estimates 300,000 people died and more than two million displaced.\nThe African Union (AU) has rejected the ICC's attempts to have him arrested, arguing that Mr Bashir enjoys presidential immunity and therefore cannot be tried while in office.\nIn December 2014, the ICC dropped its investigation into the crimes, blaming inaction by the UN Security Council.", "summary": "Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has been re-elected with 94% of the vote, according to official results." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rizlaine Boular, 21, from central London, Mina Dich, 43, from south-west London, and Khawla Barghouthi, 20, from north-west London have also been charged with conspiracy to murder.\nThey were arrested following a counter-terror operation last month in which Ms Boular was shot by police.\nThey will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\nMs Dich, who is the mother of Ms Boular, was arrested in Kent and Ms Barghouthi was arrested in north-west London on 27 April.\nMs Boular was arrested three days later after being discharged from hospital.\nAll others arrested in connection with the investigation have been released from police custody, the Metropolitan Police said.", "summary": "Three women, including one who was shot during a London police raid, have been charged with preparing a terrorist act." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Kenton Cool, 38, from Gloucestershire, reached the summit at midnight UK time.\nIt breaks his own British record for the most summits of Everest - he has now scaled the world's highest peak 10 times.\nMr Cool carried a medal from the 1924 Winter Olympics, fulfilling a pledge made by a member of the 1922 British Everest expedition.\nHis team said he spent about 30 minutes at the top before beginning his descent.\n\"To stand on the summit for the 10th time is simply amazing,\" Mr Cool said in a message sent via his expedition team.\n\"To have with me an Olympic Gold medal awarded to the 1922 team is humbling.\n\"This promise needed keeping, and after 90 years the pledge has been honoured for Britain.\"\nThe British Everest expedition in 1922 came within 500m of the summit, but failed three times to reach the top.\nAt the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 21 team members were honoured with medals for mountaineering.\nLt Col Edward Strutt, who was the expedition's deputy leader, pledged to place one of the medals on the summit of Everest, but the promise was never kept.\nSpeaking to the BBC from Camp 3 on his way down, Mr Cool said: \"When we got the medal out at the top I pretty much broke down in tears.\n\"At the summit we took it out and did some filming, took some photographs and I made a few silent prayers.\"\nMr Cool added that he had left the medal alone for a few minutes at the top because \"it deserved some time there on its own\".\n\"As soon as we'd finished the winds were really vicious so it was straight back down to safety.\"\nRhys Jones, who became the youngest person to climb Everest in 2006, congratulated Mr Cool on his feat.\n\"Kenton is in a league of his own,\" he said.\n\"It takes so much guts and endurance to put your body through that once - not just the climb itself, but the months of preparation and training - to do it 10 times is a truly fantastic achievement.\"\nMr Cool was loaned one of the medals awarded to the team from 1922 by Charles Wakefield, the grandson of Dr Arthur Wakefield who was a member of the expedition.\nMr Cool has also been chosen to be an Olympic torchbearer in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games and is due to be back in the UK in time to take part in July.", "summary": "A British climber has successfully carried an Olympic gold medal to the top of Mount Everest." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Brooker, a creator and main writer of the anthology series that explores anxiety and human relationships around technology, apologised in 2004 after writing a satirical article for The Guardian on George W Bush in which he wrote: \"Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?\". The line caused a public outcry.\n\"That experience definitely fed into that episode, which we call Hated in the Nation, as it deals with people getting trolled on Twitter,\" says Brooker.\n\"My own incident pre-dated Twitter, and my vilification was done by good old-fashioned email, but some of the characters in Hated in the Nation say things that I was experiencing at the time, and I also read a book for research that deals with people caught up in Twitter storms. The author hangs out with them and sees how devastated they are, often by the sheer volume of comments they receive. The whole thing is terrifying.\"\nCompared to a modern Twilight Zone or Tales of the Unexpected, Black Mirror - using technology instead of the supernatural to unnerve - first aired on Channel 4 in 2011.\nBrooker had previously worked on satirical comedy programmes, including Brass Eye and the 11 O' Clock Show.\nBecause Black Mirror usually deals with a futuristic scenario, Brooker and his producer Annabel Jones have been accused of uncannily predicting the future - notably in 2013's The Waldo Moment, which documents a fake politician's unexpected rise to power.\n\"It certainly wasn't based on him, but now a lot of people have come up to me and said, 'that episode predicted Donald Trump,'\" Brooker explains.\n\"The idea actually pre-dates 2011 when I was working on satirical comedy shows. I wanted to do an MP based on a Gorillaz character, and we thought, 'What if you had an ironic MP who ran for office in London's Shoreditch?'.\n\"It was inspired by figures like Boris Johnson and Ali G, and it was exploring the 'what if' scenario with a figurehead who was artificial, so that was a plus for many of the electorate, but he was also crude and unpleasant. However, we thought the episode would fall down as we said 'no one would ever vote for anything so witless and crude'. It wasn't a good comic character, deliberately so.\n\"I think the thing about the appeal of politicians like Boris and Trump is that they are entertainers, and they upend normality. Also, I think we are in a time when someone can be a legend at breakfast, detested by lunchtime and then loved again by dinner - society is that fickle and fast-moving.\"\nEach episode of Black Mirror runs for up to 90 minutes as a self-contained film. The current series, which will appear on the streaming site Netflix, features actors Bryce Dallas-Howard, Alice Eve, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Kelly MacDonald, as well as an episode directed by Atonement's Joe Wright.\n\"Bryce in particular is playing a character that really has totally lost it,\" says Brooker.\n\"The episode, Nosedive, is about how people can rate each other instantly using their phones, and she has lost all sense of self in her bid to gain likes. We're not so far away from it, are we? We rate our cab drivers, our hotels and our food - and I believe another app tried to rate encounters with people until there was a complete outcry.\n\"I don't read the news though and then think 'what's the angle?', I start with a 'what if' idea, and if it relates to something in the real world, so much the better.\n\"A couple of times we've got accidentally lucky. We did one episode on a woman who brings her dead boyfriend back as an Artificial Intelligence, and that's a service that now exists - apparently someone watched the show, and then went and created the technology. One of our new episodes features drone bees, and that is being worked on too because of fear of real bee colony collapse.\"\n\"But I hope I'm not a prophet,\" he adds. \"Because Black Mirror is really based upon my incessant worrying about everything. The thing that really keeps me awake at night, and has done since I was a child, is the thought of nuclear war. I really don't want to create an episode on that.\"\nBrooker believes that technology is now moving so fast \"that Black Mirror will struggle to keep up with it\".\n\"The challenge is to keep one step ahead of the real world. So we won't do any shows about Brexit or the migrant crisis, but we are aware of all these things in the ether, and then the reality it creates will be part of new episodes.\"\nWhile the writer says he mourns what he describes as \"the debris of 2016, the year you couldn't even be a clown any more without it being creepy,\" he adds that he is \"incredibly optimistic about technology\".\n\"You wouldn't know if from the show, but I am. I think, by and large, the internet is a force for good. There may be a lot of toxicity online, but I think eventually humans will work out a code of conduct without the need for legislation.\n\"And I do believe that tech will solve more problems than it causes - a cure for cancer, in the future, for example. And I definitely haven't started worrying in the night about robots taking over. Yet.\"\nAll six episodes of Black Mirror's third season are on Netflix from 21 October.\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Black Mirror writer Charlie Brooker says his own experience of a public backlash influenced one of the latest episodes of the acclaimed series which deals with hatred on social media." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Initial plans have already identified at least £12m of cuts across both forces.\nDecisions about which functions will be merged or handed to external organisations will be made over the next 12 months, a statement said.\nNo announcement has been made about how many jobs could be lost.\nA Dorset Police spokesman said both forces would remain as separate organisations with their own commissioners and chief constables but more policing would be delivered jointly by the two forces, resulting in shared leadership for some functions.\nIn a statement, Devon and Cornwall Police said: \"Working together more closely and sharing many services is a significant move that will allow the forces to continue to provide efficient and effective policing.\"\nMost changes will be to internal structures so \"will not be noticeable to local people\", the statement said.\nDevon & Cornwall Police Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer said: \"We have lost 450 police officers from Devon and Cornwall with up to 500 police staff as well.\n\"If we don't make these kind of savings and work this way it'll be another 800 people.\"\nNigel Rabbitts, chairman of the Devon & Cornwall Police Federation, said: \"We welcome anything which is going to help with the budget but it is a consequence of the budgetary disaster which both forces are in.\n\"Will this actually put resources thinner over the three counties and islands rather than making us more efficient?\n\"If it does make the savings, we will welcome this but our concern is it will lead to further job reductions.\"\nDorset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Martyn Underhill said: \"We are facing unprecedented times in policing. We need to deliver more for less and this alliance will help us achieve that.\"", "summary": "Dorset Police is to share some services with Devon & Cornwall's force following an agreement to form a cost-cutting \"strategic alliance\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Arter, 25, and his partner lost their child at birth in midweek.\nDespite his loss, Arter played for 86 minutes as the Cherries added to last Saturday's 1-0 win over Chelsea.\n\"I just felt coming in and trying to take my mind off things would make it a bit easier. My family would want me to play,\" Arter told the club website.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nRepublic of Ireland international Arter was close to tears after being booked after 84 minutes, and was substituted two minutes later before being embraced by his manager Eddie Howe at the full-time whistle.\nHowe said the player \"handled himself with real dignity throughout the process\".\n\"While people maybe grieve in their own way, I found it easier to come in and play and try and do everyone proud,\" Arter said.\n\"I said before the game that one reason I wanted to play was to dedicate the game to everyone associated with my family - my family that are here and not here.\"\nArter also paid tribute to his team-mates and staff at AFC Bournemouth.\n\"The support of everyone at the club is why I felt like I wanted to play as well,\" he said.\n\"They have been unbelievable for me this week and made things a tad easier. I am sure my partner at home will be really proud too. It's a game that we can look back on with a lot of pride.\"", "summary": "Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter dedicated Saturday's victory over Manchester United to his family following the death of his daughter." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rovers went closest in the first half when Ben Marshall's deflected shot came back off the bar.\nFode Koita headed another excellent chance straight at Forest keeper Dorus de Vries after the break.\nMatt Mills was denied a Forest winner in stoppage time when his header was pushed on to the post by Jason Steele.\nThe Rovers keeper's save to preserve a point means his side remain 11th in the table and unbeaten under new boss Paul Lambert, while Forest stay 15th after extending their own unbeaten run to four matches.\nBlackburn enjoyed the better of the first half and saw Hope Akpan and Jordan Rhodes both miss chances before Marshall's half-volley took a slight deflection and came back off the underside of the bar.\nHowever, the second half was a more even affair and neither side were able to create an opening of note until French forward Koita fired over from 30 yards before directing a free header straight at De Vries.\nSteele pulled off a routine save at his near post to deny Ben Osborn but in the second of eight minutes of injury time instinctively threw out his right hand to brilliantly keep out Mills' header from Henri Lansbury's corner.\nBlackburn manager Paul Lambert: \"I thought we should have had more. The first half was the best 45 minutes since I've been here.\n\"We should have been a couple of goals up, we had Ben Marshall's shot that hit the bar and I thought Jordan Rhodes was really unlucky with his header.\n\"We dominated the game against a good side so from that point of view I'm delighted with the effort. Taking 11 points from 15 is a massive return and I can't fault the lads for the way they are playing and the effort they have given.\n\"We tired before the end but that is normal playing two games in three days, but that was a big effort. A point in this league can be big at times.\"\nNottingham Forest boss Dougie Freedman: \"I'm so pleased. The resilience of the defending and the picking up of second balls in the first half was exactly what we needed.\n\"I thought we coped very well against a physical, direct Blackburn side.\n\"In the second half we came out, we started passing the ball a little bit better and created one or two opportunities. But for a wonderful save, we would have won the game. I'm very, very pleased with what I've seen tonight.\"\nMatch ends, Blackburn Rovers 0, Nottingham Forest 0.\nSecond Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 0, Nottingham Forest 0.\nCraig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Henri Lansbury (Nottingham Forest).\nAttempt saved. Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest) with an attempt from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Matt Mills.\nAttempt missed. Matt Mills (Nottingham Forest) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Henri Lansbury with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Corry Evans.\nFoul by Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers).\nJamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nSubstitution, Nottingham Forest. Chris O'Grady replaces Dexter Blackstock.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Lee Williamson (Blackburn Rovers) because of an injury.\nSubstitution, Blackburn Rovers. Lee Williamson replaces Hope Akpan.\nCorner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Matt Mills.\nAttempt missed. Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ben Osborn with a cross following a set piece situation.\nAttempt blocked. Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nFoul by Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers).\nBen Osborn (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nAttempt blocked. Bangaly-Fodé Koita (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from long range on the right is blocked. Assisted by Adam Henley.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nSubstitution, Blackburn Rovers. Chris Taylor replaces Ben Marshall.\nDelay in match Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) because of an injury.\nAttempt saved. Bangaly-Fodé Koita (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Corry Evans with a cross.\nCorner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Daniel Pinillos.\nAttempt missed. Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Nélson Oliveira.\nFoul by Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers).\nHenri Lansbury (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nCorry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest).\nAttempt missed. Bangaly-Fodé Koita (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Corry Evans.\nMarkus Olsson (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest).\nSubstitution, Blackburn Rovers. Corry Evans replaces Danny Guthrie.\nCorner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Michael Mancienne.\nBangaly-Fodé Koita (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Bangaly-Fodé Koita (Blackburn Rovers).\nEric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Nélson Oliveira (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Robert Tesche.\nSubstitution, Nottingham Forest. Nélson Oliveira replaces Jonathan Williams.\nMarkus Olsson (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.", "summary": "Blackburn Rovers extended their unbeaten Championship run to eight games as they were held to a goalless draw by Nottingham Forest." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lee, 25, is three shots ahead of Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand.\nEngland's Charley Hull, playing on her home course, is tied 11th on three under par while Scotland's Catriona Matthew is two under.\nNew Zealand's world number one Lydia Ko is two over, alongside England's four-time major winner Dame Laura Davies.\nLee, whose 62 also equalled the record for the lowest round at a Women's British Open, said: \"Today was great, but it is only the first round.\"\nLee led this month's US Women's Open by three shots after the opening round, before fading to finish in a tie for 11th.\nHull told BBC Sport: \"I was happy with my round. I was a bit nervous on the first tee obviously because it's my home golf course and it's a pretty easy shot so I'd have looked pretty silly if I'd screwed it up.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nWe've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.", "summary": "South Korea's Mirim Lee leads the Women's British Open at the end of day one after shooting a course-record 10-under-par 62 at Woburn." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A Daily Telegraph investigation says Allardyce, 61, used his role to negotiate a £400,000 deal and also offered advice on how to \"get around\" rules on player transfers.\nAllardyce is yet to respond to the allegations and was due to meet with Football Association chairman Greg Clarke and chief executive Martin Glenn on Tuesday.\nThe former Bolton, Newcastle and West Ham manager also appears to criticise the FA, his international predecessor Roy Hodgson and ex-England assistant Gary Neville.\n\"You have to let Sam Allardyce defend himself and I just hope he will clear his name,\" said Wenger.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThe Telegraph says it will pass transcripts from its investigation to the FA, although they run to \"to many hundreds of pages\" and \"will take some time to collate.\"\nAllardyce, who has only been in charge for one game and 67 days, was named England boss in July, succeeding Hodgson after a disastrous European Championship campaign.\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 live, former Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright said it would be a \"terrible shame\" for Allardyce to lose his job for \"non-footballing reasons\".\n\"When you look at Sam and his career, he was never ever going to get the opportunity to manage a top-four club,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\"He got the England job and for him to now stand on the brink of losing that job is a crying shame.\"\nKarren Brady, chief executive of Allardyce's former club West Ham, said she is \"both saddened and disappointed\" by the developments.\n\"This is a man who spent his whole life trying to get that job, and got it in his 60s. What a great shame if he loses that job through non-footballing reasons,\" she told Radio 1 Newsbeat.\nFormer FA communications director Julian Eccles has said Allardyce's actions are \"at the very least bad judgement\", and said he will have to justify his claims that third-party ownership is still prevalent.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nDuring the meeting with undercover reporters posing as businessmen, it is alleged Allardyce said it was \"not a problem\" to bypass the rules and he knew of agents who were \"doing it all the time\".\n\"I think if he is to keep his job at the very least he has to provide the evidence where he says that agents are still involved in this and he has to apologise for stating that these rules are 'ridiculous',\" Eccles told BBC News.\n\"We cannot have such a senior figure in our game being so disrespectful of such important rules.\"\nThat view was supported by Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker, who tweeted saying Allardyce \"advising on getting around third-party rules\" was the \"biggest problem\".\nThird-party ownership of players was banned by the FA in 2008.\nIt is further alleged by the paper that a deal was struck with the England boss worth £400,000 for him to represent the company to Far East investors and to be a keynote speaker at events.\nHowever, Allardyce told the undercover reporters that any arrangement would have to be cleared by the FA.\nAllardyce is set to name his second England squad on Sunday, before the World Cup qualifier against Malta on 8 October.", "summary": "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said England boss Sam Allardyce \"needs to be allowed to defend himself\", following allegations in a newspaper." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Islamophobia Awareness Month is run by organisation Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend).\nMend says the logo of a finger pointing upwards signifies the \"oneness of God in Islamic prayer ritual\".\nHowever, in recent years it has also been used by so-called Islamic State militants in propaganda images.\nBedfordshire Police initially tweeted its support for the campaign using the logo before later removing the posts.\nThe force said: \"It has come to our attention the pointing finger logo used to illustrate social media posts around Islamophobia Awareness Month is similar to that used by Isis.\n\"The logo was produced by a national charity and was used in good faith.\n\"As a consequence and to avoid offence, Bedfordshire Police has deleted these posts and will not tolerate Islamophobia or any other form of hatred or discrimination.\"\nA spokesman for MEND said it was \"surprised\" Bedfordshire Police decided to stop using the #Iam logo for the campaign, which shows a finger on a hand pointing upwards.\nHe added the logo had been used since 2012 and signified the \"oneness of God in Islamic prayer ritual\" and the I in #Iam2016.\nThe organisation believes it was a \"knee-jerk\" reaction to some harassment and does not think anyone else has stopped using the logo.\nIt added it was \"open to comments\" and could \"review\" it.", "summary": "Bedfordshire Police deleted social media posts about Islamophobia after it emerged a logo was similar to a hand gesture popular with Islamic militants." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Flower, 28, was dismissed for a late tackle on Warrington's Declan Patton in the 57th minute.\nWigan went on to win the game 35-28 despite Flower's dismissal.\nIf found guilty, Flower could miss the remainder of the season as the Grade C offence carries a maximum punishment of a three-week suspension.\nHis hearing will be held on Tuesday.\nFlower saw red in the match at Halliwell Jones Stadium for the first time since his dismissal in the 2014 Grand Final against St Helens.\nHis punch on Lance Hohaia in the second minute at Old Trafford led to him being banned for six months - the longest in Super League history.", "summary": "Wigan prop Ben Flower has been charged with recklessly using an elbow after being sent off against Warrington in Super League on Friday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Phil Halsall was suspended on full pay in August pending the outcome of a disciplinary investigation into a £5m tendering contract.\nMr Halsall, who took up the role in 2011, said the decision to leave \"has not been an easy one\".\nThe Labour-led council's leader Jennifer Mein said she wished him \"the best of luck for the future\".\nMr Halsall was neutrally suspended as chief executive while an investigation into the tendering of a fleet contract is being conducted.\nThe deal to run the council's fleet services was agreed in April by the former Conservative administration.\nIt was awarded to BT and One Connect Ltd, a partnership between BT and the council.\nThe continuing probe followed an independent review of the tender process.\nMr Halsall has denied any wrong-doing and has previously said he was \"vigorously\" pursuing his reinstatement.\nHe joined Lancashire County Council in 2009 as executive director of resources and took up the role of chief executive in 2011.\nHe said he had \"enjoyed my time in Lancashire\".", "summary": "The suspended chief executive of Lancashire County Council has left the authority by \"mutual consent\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A highly anticipated vote on the motion had been expected to take place on Wednesday.\nBut it failed to get the support it needed from activists in a ballot selecting the issues to be discussed.\nMr Corbyn will still have to convince his MPs and ministers to back nuclear disarmament when Parliament votes.\nSome trade unions are against scrapping Trident because it will cost jobs but Mr Corbyn says Britain should ditch its \"weapons of mass destruction\".\nLabour MPs are \"likely\" to get a free vote on renewing Trident when Parliament votes on the issue next year.\nMr Corbyn said Labour was an \"open and democratic party and the members at conference have decided to discuss the issues that they want to debate this week.\n\"These are important issues like the NHS, the refugee crisis, mental health and housing.\"\nLabour MP John Woodcock, who represents Barrow-in-Furness, where the Trident submarines are built, said it was a \"sign many Labour supporters want to focus on public not re-run old battles that will split the party\".\nThe eight issues selected for debate by Labour delegates are: Austerity and public services, employment rights, Europe, housing, the BBC licence fee, mental health, the NHS and the refugee crisis.\nAnalysis: Ross Hawkins, BBC political correspondent, in Brighton\nLabour's big row about Trident has been delayed, not resolved.\nA reckoning will come, probably when the House of Commons votes next year. Then, Jeremy Corbyn may well have to vote against some of his own frontbenchers, and perhaps see his view rejected by a majority of his MPs.\nWould that amount to a new kind of politics, or a bitter blow to a new leader's authority? One shadow minister shrugs, baffled when the question is put.\nFor now, there is bad blood. Mr Corbyn is opposed not only by two huge unions but some senior colleagues. One describes a day that saw a vote on Trident talked up then axed by conference as an utter shambles. Some even thought they might have to resign over the issue here in Brighton.\nSo they are perplexed not to have heard more directly from their leader. There is talk of frontbenchers learning where he stands on this party-defining issue via Twitter.\nAs Mr Corbyn reaches out to new voters, some of his colleagues wish he would spend a bit more time talking to them, whether they are persuaded by his arguments or not.\nTrident is the UK's sea-based nuclear weapons system - made up of submarines, missiles and warheads - and while the current generation will not begin to end their working lives until some time in the late 2020s, work on a replacement cannot be delayed because of the time it will take to complete.\nMr Corbyn, who is a longstanding anti-nuclear campaigner, said he hoped to do his \"persuasive best\" to get his deputy Tom Watson and other shadow cabinet members, such as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn and shadow justice secretary Lord Falconer, to back him on Trident, but it would not be a \"disaster\" if there was a difference of opinion.\nHe said: \"We are going to come to an accommodation of some sort.\"\nMr Watson, a former defence minister, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics: \"Jeremy says he seeks to persuade us - I seek to persuade him too.\"\nHe added that in \"modern politics... you simply cannot have homogeneous positions where 200 people follow a line on everything\".\nBut former Labour leadership contender Chuka Umunna, who ruled out serving in the shadow cabinet because of differences with Mr Corbyn over issues including Trident, said it was \"not plausible for us as an opposition not to have a position on the defence of the realm\".\n\"I'm all for debate but, ultimately, we are going to have to have settled positions on things if people are to know what it is they are voting for,\" he told a fringe meeting.\nIn other conference developments:", "summary": "Labour will not debate the case for scrapping Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system at its conference in Brighton this week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "BB has hired a US lawyer, but has not yet filed a lawsuit.\nIn February, hackers succeeded in instructing the New York Fed to transfer money from BB's account to accounts in The Philippines.\nAfter the theft, the NY Fed said the breach did not occur in its system.\nIt also said that the payments were vetted through the \"standard authentication protocols.\"\n\"To date, there is no evidence of any attempt to penetrate Federal Reserve systems in connection with the payments in question, and there is no evidence that any Fed systems were compromised,\" the bank said in a statement.\nCriminal charges were filed in Manila against two suspects, on Tuesday.\nThe cyber heist is one of the largest ever committed.\nAccording to a report seen by Reuters, the BB is \"preparing the ground to make a legitimate claim for the loss of funds against the [Federal Reserve Bank of New York] through a legal process\".\nThe report from the BB alleges that 35 sets of payment transfer instructions were sent to the New York Fed, 30 of which were rejected by the US bank.\nThe incident has led to the resignation of Bangladesh's central bank governor Atiur Rahman.\nBangladeshi investigators are still combing through the central banks' systems for more evidence and US investigators have stepped in to help.", "summary": "Bangladesh Bank (BB) - the country's central bank- is considering filing a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve Bank of New York after cyber hackers stole $81m (£57m) from its account." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Brexit, as we have been told by the prime minister, means Brexit. But inflation also means inflation.\nThe pound has repeatedly lurched lower in value since the outcome of the June 2016 referendum. Against the dollar, it is now worth 20% less than it was before the vote, and that fall is unlikely to be reversed in a hurry.\nThe basic laws of economics dictate that this will translate into higher inflation: foreign firms exporting goods to the UK will continue to charge the same amount for them in euros, dollars or whatever, but they will cost more in sterling when the prices are converted.\nUK inflation rate jumps to 1.6%\nThat goes for finished goods, such as food and drink or clothing, but also for raw materials that are processed here, such as car parts. Global supply chains mean that more than 50% of the components in cars \"made in the UK\" are actually sourced from overseas.\nPetrol, too, is likely to go up in price, because oil is priced in dollars.\nSo higher rates of inflation appear to be a foregone conclusion. The question is, how much higher? What will the consequences be? And will anyone gain from this, or are we all set to lose out?\nOne estimate of the extent of possible price rises has come from the former boss of Northern Foods, Lord Haskins, who told the BBC that he expected to see food price increases running at an annual rate of 5% by this time next year.\nHe was speaking in response to supermarket chain Tesco's recent spat with Unilever, which was trying to pass on its higher costs incurred because of sterling's weakness - though that dispute has since been resolved.\nThe cost of food is an important factor in calculating the overall inflation rate, the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), which is published on a monthly basis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\nSome economists are predicting that the CPI could hit 3% by the end of 2017.\nIf overall inflation did climb to the level predicted by Lord Haskins, it could be nudging close to the highest rate in a decade. In recent years, there have been two peaks in CPI inflation, in September 2008 and September 2011. In both those months, it reached 5.2%.\nBy historical standards, however, that pales in comparison with the levels reached in the 1970s, when the UK experienced several years of double-digit inflation. The worst year was 1975, during which prices went up by an eye-watering 24.2%.\nWe are unlikely to return to those days. But of course, back then, the industrial climate was different, trade unions were stronger and large groups of workers were able to obtain pay rises to match, despite government attempts to impose wage restraint.\nNowadays, substantial pay rises are harder to come by, so a lower level of inflation can have a bigger effect on living standards.\nIf we have to spend more money on goods while our salaries fail to keep pace with rising prices, then we are all likely to suffer to some degree.\nIt will certainly make Bank of England governor Mark Carney's job harder, because the Bank has a 2% inflation target.\nIf it goes above that, it increases the likelihood that he will raise interest rates to combat it, thus making life harder for those who owe money, such as on mortgages.\nMr Carney has said that \"monetary policy can respond, in either direction, to changes in the economic outlook\" - meaning that the next move in interest rates could be up or down.\nHe has also spoken at length of the trade-off between price stability and other economic factors, meaning that the Bank will not necessarily rush to raise rates.\nBringing inflation back to target too rapidly could cause undesirable \"volatility in output and employment\", he says.\nBut at the same time, Mr Carney says \"there are limits to the extent to which above-target inflation can be tolerated\".\nIf you have a student loan, the level of interest charged is linked to a slightly different measure of inflation, the Retail Prices Index (RPI), and is not subject to the Bank of England's decisions.\nBut in most cases, a prolonged period of inflation reduces the value of people's debts, making them easier to pay off.\nIf inflation were to stay at that 5.2% level for 12 years, your debt would, in effect, be worth only half as much in real terms, because you would still owe the same number of pounds, but each of those pounds would have declined in value.\nThe outcome is similarly mixed for pensioners. In their favour, state pensions are guaranteed by what is known as the \"triple lock\". In other words, they rise each year by the inflation rate, average earnings or 2.5%, whichever is the highest.\nHowever, private pensions are not similarly protected. And to make matters worse, retired people are likely to spend a higher proportion of their income on food and fuel, which are particularly affected by the pound's big devaluation.\nPensioners are also more likely to be living off income from savings, and savers are clobbered by high inflation. Just as inflation erodes the value of debts, it also reduces the spending power of money kept in bank accounts, because prices go up and your money doesn't, especially with the ultra-low interest rates paid by banks at the moment.\nSo there is no unalloyed benefit from higher inflation for anyone. But some will feel more pain than others, while borrowers will certainly benefit more than savers.", "summary": "The downward pressure on the pound since the UK's vote to leave the European Union is starting to lead to upward pressure on the prices of most things we buy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dina Amos-Larkin, 21, from Poole, Dorset was at a sports festival in Salou when she fell backwards over the railings, smashing her spine.\nShe said she was \"overwhelmed\" by the money raised after insurers refused to pay out.\nThe law student said the medical repatriation alone would cost £10,000.\nMs Amos-Larkin, who has represented Great Britain in trampolining, told the BBC: \"It was the final night, I'd had a bit to drink and I was a bit upset because I had some differences with my friends throughout the whole week.\n\"I was on the phone to my mum later in the evening, I went outside, had a cigarette and leant backwards on the ledge of the balcony.\"\nThe Surrey University student then fell 50ft (15m) and landed on to the corrugated roof of a storage shed.\nShe said: \"I broke my spine, I severed my spinal cord, I had two bleeds on my brain, I broke both my wrists.\n\"I'm paralysed from the chest down. The doctors told me that I very nearly didn't make it to hospital.\"\nShe added it was hard to cope with the suddenness of her injury: \"I was on holiday, I was having a good time, I woke up two weeks later and was told I would never walk again.\"\nMs Amos-Larkin said the insurers have not paid out because of the amount of alcohol in her blood at the time she fell.\nHer friend James Cochrane set up a fundraising campaign on 25 April to help pay for the flight home.\nA spokeswoman for insurance company AXA said Ms Amos-Larkin's claim had been declined due to exclusions in the policy including \"self-inflicted injury or illness, suicide or attempted suicide, sexually transmitted diseases, solvent abuse, alcohol abuse, the use of drugs, self-exposure to needless peril (except in an attempt to save human life)\".\nShe added: \"However, we have been assisting Dina's family throughout their ordeal and continue to provide assistance operationally and financially on an ex-gratia basis for her repatriation.\"", "summary": "A campaign has raised £20,000 in two days for a gymnast who was left paralysed after falling 50ft from a hotel balcony in Spain." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said it would help those \"on the margins break the cycle of poverty\".\nThe cards could only be used for some items in some stores, and would not be valid in betting shops or off licences.\nThe scheme will be initially piloted on a voluntary basis and will be targeted on those with addiction problems.\nThe BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said government sources said the move was aimed at helping claimants with drug or alcohol issues and protecting their families.\nThe sources said an estimated one in 15 working-age benefit claimants in England suffer from addiction to drugs, such as crack-cocaine and heroin, while an estimated one in 25 working-age benefit claimants is suffering from alcohol dependency.\nIn his speech to the Conservative conference, Mr Duncan Smith said families in the \"deepest difficulty\" needed specific help.\n\"I have long believed where parents have fallen into damaging spirals of alcohol or drug addiction, or even problem debt, we need to find ways to safeguard them and their families and ensure their basic needs are met.\"\n\"That means benefits being paid should go to supporting the wellbeing of their families not to feed their destructive habits.\"\nWhile the plans would initially be tested, he said he believed it would be \"a change... that we as a Conservative government will be proud of\".\nThe concept of a pre-paid benefit card has been championed by the Conservative backbencher Alec Shelbrooke, who first raised it in the Commons early in 2013.\nHe has called for claimants to be stopped from spending their weekly income on items that damage their health and increase the financial burden on the NHS.\nSpending on cigarettes, alcohol and gambling - what he has described as \"non-essential, desirable and damaging\" goods - should be banned, he has argued.\nThe welfare state, he has said, is being abused by a small minority of claimants and it should return to its original philosophy of supporting those unable to work and offering a \"safety net\" to those not currently earning by paying for basic items such as food and transport.\nHe has said the cards - which would not apply to pensioners or those with disabilities - will act as a \"last-stop deterrent\" to those living off the state with no intention of working.\nMr Duncan Smith also told delegates in Birmingham that the Universal Credit would be accelerated in 2015, with a national roll-out of the consolidated benefit system in February.\nThe work and pensions secretary pledged to \"finish\" the much-criticised initiative, in which six working-age benefits are being merged into a single monthly payment, on schedule.\nHe also announced Neil Couling, the head of the UK Job Centre Plus, would take over operational responsibility for the scheme from Howard Shiplee.\nHe also promised to do more to tackle the \"terrible scar\" of youth unemployment, including sending Job Centre staff into schools.\nIn future, he said all 15-year olds at risk of becoming \"neets\" - not in education, employment or training - would have dedicated support from Job Centre advisers in their schools.\nOn top of a scheme announced on Sunday for 18 to 21 year olds out of work for more than six months to train as an apprentice, he said there would be a \"single package of help\" for all 15 to 21 year olds.\nEarlier on Monday, Chancellor George Osborne announced a planned two-year freeze on working-age benefits to come into effect in 2016 if the Tories form the next government.", "summary": "The government is to introduce pre-paid benefit cards to stop claimants spending their money on alcohol, drugs or gambling habits." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Charlie Clift, 56, was last seen buying outdoor clothing on Tuesday 30 January in Fort William town centre.\nLochaber Police said a body found on the lower North slopes of Meall Nan Cleireach on Saturday had been indentified as Mr Clift.\nThere are not thought to be any suspicious circumstances. Mr Croft's next of kin have been informed.", "summary": "A man from south Wales who went missing while hiking in Scotland has been found dead, police say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The row is over the refusal by clergy in the diocese of Ahiara to accept the appointment of a bishop made in 2012.\nThe pontiff told an audience of Nigerian Catholics in Rome last week that the \"people of God are scandalised\" by what has happened.\nIt is unusual for the pope to issue this kind of threat, says the BBC's religion correspondent Martin Bashir.\nHe gave the clergy until 9 July to each write a letter declaring their obedience to him and asking for forgiveness.\nThe president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama, was at the meeting in Rome and told the BBC that the pope was very sad about what was happening and he could see \"the pain in his eyes\".\n\"He was upset that his children were going in a different direction,\" the archbishop added.\nEver since Bishop Peter Okpaleke was appointed by the Pope's predecessor, Benedict XVI, Archbishop Kaigama has been part of a group trying to persuade the clergy in Ahiara, south-eastern Nigeria, to accept the appointment.\nHe told the BBC that the problem was that the local clergy and the bishop were from different clans of the Igbo ethnic group.\nHe added that the priests also questioned why someone from outside the diocese was appointed when one of them was just as qualified,\nIn 2012, the clergy held protests and coordinated petitions asking for a bishop to be chosen from the area.\nBut Archbishop Kaigama argued that the \"Catholic church has been operating like this for hundreds of years and that's not going to change now because they want someone from their area.\n\"The Pope needs absolute obedience.\"\nAhiara is in Mbaise, a predominantly Catholic region of Imo State, while Bishop Okpaleke is from neighbouring Anambra State.\nIt is not clear if the clergy has responded to the ultimatum.\nIn the meantime, Archbishop Kaigama said, he, and other Nigerian Catholics, were praying \"for God's intervention\" to help find a solution.", "summary": "Pope Francis has told a group of Nigerian priests to pledge obedience to him or face suspension from the church." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Baggies face the Swans in the Premier League on Wednesday hoping to halt the Welsh club's progress after Saturday's 3-0 win over Sunderland.\nSpain international Llorente scored twice in that victory, and Pulis admits he tried to sign the striker when he was in charge of Stoke.\n\"He picked Juventus instead of Stoke,\" said the Welshman.\n\"We watched him when we were at Stoke City and when he was playing for [Athletic] Bilbao and doing exceptionally well there.\n\"We thought he was a very good player and someone who would suit us but he went on to Juventus.\"\nThe 31-year-old Llorente was signed for Swansea by Francesco Guidolin, who was replaced by American Bob Bradley as manager in October after he was sacked.\nLlorente scored twice in the win over Sunderland which lifted Swansea off the base of the Premier League.\nThe goals took his tally to five for the season and four in his last three Premier League matches.\nWest Brom are eight points and eight places above Swansea, who dropped back into the relegation zone after West Ham drew 1-1 with Manchester United on Sunday.\nAmerican Bradley is looking for his third win since taking over at the Liberty Stadium but expects a tough challenge from Pulis' team, who were beaten 1-0 by Premier League leaders Chelsea on Sunday.\n\"His team has a lot of very tall guys and they utilise that with some direct play, while it also gives them good match-ups at set-pieces,\" he said.\n\"They do a lot of things well, and we will have to do the same if we are going to get a result there.\"", "summary": "West Bromwich Albion boss Tony Pulis has revealed how he tried to sign Swansea striker Fernando Llorente." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a two-day visit to Iran.\nReferring to each other as brothers, the two leaders said no one could stop them strengthening ties.\nMr Ahmadinejad said they would build a \"new world order\" free of US domination.\nMr Chavez condemned international sanctions and \"military threats\" against Iran over its nuclear programme.\nBoth leaders said they were convinced that the age of Western domination was coming to an end.\n\"Imperialism has reached a decisive phase of decline and is headed, like an elephant, to its graveyard\", Mr Chavez said.\n\"The enemies of our nations will go one day\", said Mr Ahmadinejad.\n\"This is the promise of God and the promise of God will definitely be fulfilled\".\nThe two leaders looked on as officials signed a number of agreements on co-operation in areas including oil and gas, trade and construction.\nVenezuela's state oil company, PDVSA, said it was forming a joint shipping venture with Iran to deliver Venezuelan oil to markets in Europe and Asia.\nAfter Mr Chavez visited a new town development outside Tehran, Iranian officials offered to help Venezuela build similar public housing projects.\nMr Chavez has been a regular visitor to Tehran over the past decade.\nHe and Mr Ahmadinejad have forged a close relationship based on their strong opposition to the US.\nIran and Venezuela are both major oil producers, and they have co-operated closely in the oil exporting cartel, Opec.\nMr Chavez has been a strong opponent of international sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme.\nThe US and other Western powers believe Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran insists its programme is aimed at generating energy and medical isotopes.\nBefore arriving in Iran, Mr Chavez was in Moscow, where he secured Russian help to build a nuclear plant in Venezuela.", "summary": "The presidents of Iran and Venezuela have promised to deepen their \"strategic alliance\" against US \"imperialism\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Clarke was answering Commons Select Committee questions at the government's governance of football inquiry.\n\"I'm cautious of encouraging people to come out until we do our part of the bargain and stamp out abuse,\" he said.\n\"I am personally ashamed they don't feel safe to come out.\"\nJustin Fashanu became the first player in England to come out as gay in 1990, but took his own life aged 37 in 1998. No male professional player has come out while playing in England since.\nFormer Germany and Aston Villa player Thomas Hitzlsperger became the first player with Premier League experience to publicly reveal his homosexuality, in January 2014, after he had finished playing in England.\nFormer England women's captain Casey Stoney was the first active footballer to come out in England since Fashanu, in February 2014.\n\"I would be amazed if we haven't got gay players in the Premier League,\" Clarke added.\nClarke was questioned about a Daily Mirror article from 2015 that claimed two Premier League players, including an England international, had been preparing to come out.\nThe Mirror also alleged a Premier League player came out to his team-mates in 2011, but did not go public after a homophobic slur was painted on his car.\nClarke, 49, denied knowing the identity of the players - and told the committee members he would not name them even if he did.\nClarke also cited the weekend's League Two fixture between Leyton Orient and Luton Town, at which homophobic chanting was reported, saying he would \"come down like a tonne of bricks\" on anyone found guilty.\n\"If I was a gay man, why would I expose myself to that?\" Clarke asked.\n\"Before we encourage people to come out we must provide the safe space where they have the expectation to play or watch football and not get abused.\n\"There's a very small minority of people who hurl vile abuse at people who they perceive are different. Our job is to stamp down hard on their behaviour.\"\nAsked what would happen if a Premier League player came out, Clarke said: \"There would be significant abuse because we haven't cracked the problem.\n\"I was at Egham Town v St Albans in the FA Cup. There were about 300 people and everybody knew everybody else, there was no vile abuse.\n\"When you're in a big crowd, you're anonymous and the bad people get brave.\n\"The good news is we're not in denial. We may not have figured out how to crack it yet but there's a deep loathing of that sort of behaviour within football.\"\nClarke said he would next week attend his first FA inclusion advisory board, which provides guidance on all equality matters.", "summary": "Premier League players would still suffer \"significant abuse\" if they chose to reveal they are gay, Football Association chairman Greg Clarke has warned." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The duke's first shift began at Cambridge Airport on Monday morning.\nHe flew to his first incident in Garboldisham in Norfolk on Tuesday.\nOn Wednesday the prince was deployed to Felixstowe in Suffolk and to Colchester, Essex. His final mission of the week was on Thursday, to Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.\n\"Patient confidentiality\" prevented the EAAA giving details of some incidents, however the life-saving mission to Felixstowe involved a man in his 50s who had suffered a cardiac arrest.\nAfter being treated at the scene the patient was airlifted to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.\nPrince William completed a civilian pilot course in September before taking dedicated 999-response training in order to take up his role with the air ambulance service.\nThe former RAF helicopter pilot's duties will cover incidents in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.\nOn Monday the prince admitted to \"feeling the nerves\" as he began his first nine-and-a-half hour shift as co-pilot alongside medical staff.\nHowever, he added: \"It's sort of a follow-on from where I was in the military with my search and rescue role.\n\"There are many of the same kind of skills and a job like this is very worthwhile, valuable and there's an element of duty.\"\nThe prince's shift pattern is expected to be four days on, four days off, but will take into account his official royal duties.\nBond Air Services operates the air ambulance on behalf of the EAAA and the prince is being paid a salary which he is donating to charity.", "summary": "The Duke of Cambridge flew four active rescue missions during his first week as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA)." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It has announced it will begin the process of leaving the London Fisheries Convention, giving two years notice of its intention.\nSigned in 1964, it allows vessels from six European countries to fish between six and 12 miles from the coast.\nUK environment secretary Michael Gove said it was an important step in \"taking back control\" of fishing.\nBritish vessels will lose the right to fish in waters belonging to the other countries which signed the convention: France, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands.\nMr Gove said: \"Leaving the London Fisheries Convention is an important moment as we take back control of our fishing policy.\n\"It means for the first time in more than 50 years we will be able to decide who can access our waters.\n\"This is an historic first step towards building a new domestic fishing policy as we leave the European Union - one which leads to a more competitive, profitable and sustainable industry for the whole of the UK.\"\nThe EU Common Fisheries Policy allows, in addition to the London convention, vessels from all EU countries to fish beyond the 12-mile limit.\nNational Federation of Fishermen's Organisations chief executive Barrie Deas praised the announcement.\nHe said: \"This is welcome news and an important part of establishing the UK as an independent coastal state with sovereignty over its own exclusive economic zone.\"\nEnvironmental campaigners have expressed caution about the regulation of fishing once the UK leaves the current international framework.\nWill McCallum, Greenpeace UK head of oceans, said: \"For years, successive UK governments have blamed Brussels for their own failure to support the small-scale, sustainable fishers who are the backbone of our fishing fleet.\n\"If Brexit is to herald a better future for our fishers, the new Environment Secretary Michael Gove must keep the 2015 Conservative Party manifesto commitment to re-balance fishing quotas in favour of 'small-scale, specific locally based fishing communities'.\"\nThe Scottish government supports the principle of leaving the London convention.\nFisheries Secretary Fergus Ewing said: \"The UK government's decision to withdraw from the London Fisheries Convention is a move we have been pressing for some time now.\n\"Our priority is to protect our fishing industry and allowing unrestricted access to our waters to remain through this convention clearly would not be doing that.\"\nHe added: \"The Scottish government will always stand up for our fishing industry, which too often has been let down by the UK government.\"", "summary": "The UK government is to withdraw from an agreement which allows foreign fisherman access to British waters." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Conservatives and Labour were level on 36 seats while a recount was held in Chester's two-seat Newton ward.\nMeanwhile Labour have retained control of Warrington Borough Council with 42 seats.\nCheshire East remains a Conservative majority, with the party gaining a further two seats.\nTo find out your election result, go to BBC Election 2015.", "summary": "Labour have taken control of Cheshire West and Chester Council from the Conservatives after a recount in the final ward." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Four-year-old Christina Thomas was diagnosed about two weeks ago.\nDoctors told her parents chemotherapy or radiotherapy might prolong her life but would not save her.\nMr Thomas, who lives in Norfolk, said this would result in \"enormous suffering\" and he wished to raise funds to \"find alternative\" treatments.\nThe 48-year-old, whose song Thinking About Your Love was a hit in 1991, said: \"At worst, we hope she will have a comfortable time and live longer than expected.\n\"At best we hope it could have an impact on the tumour.\"\nAs first reported in The Sun, Christina was diagnosed with a midbrain glioma on the brain stem about two weeks ago, after she developed a limp.\nWithin two hours of the diagnosis, Mr Thomas was \"with Christina in a back of an ambulance, at very high speed, going over to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge\".\nSource: Brainstrust\nThe musician said: \"I can only compare it to your worst nightmare that you simply can't wake up from.\"\nMr and Mrs Thomas set up a fundraising webpage, which has so far raised more than £34,000, in the hope of finding alternative treatment.\nHe is currently researching \"non-harmful\" procedures in the United States and Mexico.\nChristina is being given \"all the nutrients and correct diet she needs\" and they hope this will give her the strength to travel if they find a hospital which might be able to help prolong her life.\nMr Thomas said: \"If you can buy yourself another year, in that time some other treatment might present itself.\"\nBut he added \"if the worst happened, the money would go to charity\".", "summary": "The 1990s soul singer Kenny Thomas has launched an £80,000 fundraising appeal to pay for treatment for his daughter, who has a brain tumour." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Aherne, star and writer of The Royle Family and The Mrs Merton Show, had suffered from cancer, her publicist said.\nThe actress said two years ago that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer, having previously had bladder and eye cancer.\nAherne was also the narrator of Gogglebox and appeared in The Fast Show.\nHer publicist Neil Reading said on Saturday: \"Caroline Aherne has sadly passed away, after a brave battle with cancer.\n\"The Bafta award-winning writer and comedy actor died earlier today at her home in Timperley, Greater Manchester. She was 52.\n\"The family ask for privacy at this very sad time.\"\nAherne had spoken of her diagnosis with cancer while addressing an appeal to approve cancer care in Manchester in 2014, saying: \"I've had cancer and my brother's had cancer and we know how it affects people.\"\nShe said she and her brother had been born with cancer of the retina, adding: \"My mum told us that only special people get cancer. I must be very special because I've had it in my lungs and my bladder as well.\"\nAherne's co-stars and fellow comics have been paying tribute to her.\nSue Johnston, who played Barbara - the mother of Aherne's character Denise - in The Royle Family, said: \"I am devastated at her passing and I am numb with grief.\"\nRalf Little, Denise's brother Antony in the show, said Aherne was \"a sister, real and (for me) fake\", as well as a genius and a friend with a \"big, big heart\".\nThe Fast Show co-star Arabella Weir told the BBC Aherne was \"an absolute genius\" and that \"everything she said was funny\".\nShe said: \"She was one of those people who was - without being attention seeking - always, always funny, even when you weren't filming.\n\"Everything she said was just killingly funny. She was just a great and she was a gentle, kind, easygoing person. She was great to work with. She never made a fuss. She was just a real laugh to be around.\"\nBroadcaster Terry Christian, who had also worked alongside Aherne, said: \"What it was with Caroline was she was genuinely one of the funniest people just in the pub.\n\"A lot of comedians aren't. You know they go away, write it all down and you know in real life there's nothing.\n\"Whereas with Caroline, she was so naturally sharp and witty and that's why everything she did had that risk factor in. You know if you look at the Mrs Merton Show, none of it was set up. Not a single question with the audience was set up.\"\nBy David Sillito, BBC media and arts correspondent\n\"Did you ever think if you hadn't done all that running around playing football, would you have been as thirsty?\"\n\"Did you ever think when you were a little kid....you would be famous in every pub in Britain?\"\nGeorge Best gave a little smile and looked round to the audience.\nIf anyone else had asked it, they would have been on his side - but the laughter said it all.\nPoor George just had to sit there and accept that, Mrs Merton, this young woman in a wig and glasses, could ask the questions no one else could dare. And they loved her for it.\nThe same lines from someone else could easily have just sounded cruel.\nEqually on The Royle Family, flatulent Jim, camped permanently on the sofa, and feckless selfish Denise seem to be, on paper, hard characters to warm to. But there was always something affectionate in this comedy.\nCaroline Aherne had many troubles but perhaps they also helped her convey something that's often missing in comedy - empathy.\nThe Royle Family didn't seem patronising or mocking because it so clearly grew out of her own life and experiences. She was one of us - just funnier.\nActor and writer Mark Gatiss said Aherne was \"so gifted\", and Little Britain star David Walliams wrote on Twitter: \"Absolutely devastating news about Caroline Aherne. A true comedy genius, her work was equally funny & touching.\"\nJenny Eclair wrote: \"Poor dear Caroline Aherne, how terribly sad.\"\nComedian Sarah Millican said: \"So sad. What a wonderful talent she was.\"\nDavid Baddiel paid tribute by writing: \"The talent, you all knew about. But she was a really lovely woman. Vulnerable and complex and damaged but... lovely. #CarolineAherneRIP.\"\nSome also recalled their favourite lines, with DJ and writer Danny Baker writing on Twitter: \"Goodbye great Caroline Aherne. A gift & language that lives on. A vegetarian? That's a shame. Could she have some wafer-thin ham, Barbara?\"\nAherne was born in London but grew up in Wythenshawe, Manchester. Her brother Patrick has said she was the family joker, adding: \"Nobody else in the family was like that. But she was funny from the time she was really little.\"\nShe studied drama at Liverpool Polytechnic then started work as a secretary at the BBC before finding national fame in the mid-1990s with Mrs Merton, in which she starred as the eponymous chat show host, and The Fast Show.\nThe Royle Family, which ran for three series and featured in several specials, told the story of a dysfunctional family. Aherne wrote it with co-star Craig Cash, drawing on her own childhood experiences and the people she met growing up.\nIt won four awards, including best actress for Aherne, at the 1999 British Comedy Awards, before going on to pick up the best sitcom Bafta in 2000 and 2007.\nIn the Mrs Merton Show, a series of guests were subjected to questions in front of an audience of pensioners. One much-quoted example is when Mrs Merton asked Debbie McGee: \"And what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?\".\nThe Mrs Merton Christmas Show won the best talk show Bafta in 1997. Aherne was nominated for Baftas for her performances in both shows, as well as for directing The Royle Family in 2001.\nBBC director general Tony Hall said: \"We are deeply saddened to learn of Caroline's death.\n\"She was a brilliant, award-winning comedy writer and performer, much loved by audiences - especially for The Royle Family and Mrs Merton and for her wonderful voicing of many shows.\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and friends.\"\nGogglebox tweeted that everyone involved with the programme was \"devastated about the passing of our dearest Caroline, who we all adored\".\nFormer ITV chairman Lord Grade said: \"We have lost a most original talent. The Royle Family will live in the mind with the greatest situation comedies.\"", "summary": "Comedy writer and actress Caroline Aherne has died at the age of 52." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Radcliffe was named best actor in a play for his role in Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, which opens on Broadway in April.\nGrint took the newcomer of the year award for his West End debut in the revival of Jez Butterworth's Mojo.\nThe awards, voted for by the public, were handed out at a ceremony at London's Prince of Wales Theatre.\nIt is the second WhatsOnStage award for Radcliffe, who previously won Grint's prize in 2008 for his role in Equus.\n\"I am deeply honoured to receive this prestigious award and I accept it on behalf of the whole cast who together helped make this production... a truly joyous experience for me as an actor,\" Radcliffe said.\nHe also thanked Michael Grandage for his \"inspirational direction\".\nThe inaugural season of Grandage's new company was a big winner on the night, picking up four awards in total.\nAs well as Radcliffe's award, David Walliams won the best supporting actor prize for his role in A Midsummer Night's Dream, while the play itself won best Shakespearean production.\nGrandage was also named best director for his five-play season.\nThe Book of Mormon was the other big winner, also collecting four awards and dominating the musical categories.\nIt beat competition from the likes of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Once to be crowned best new musical.\nIt also won three out of the four acting prizes, with Gavin Creel named best actor in a musical, Stephen Ashfield winning best supporting actor in a musical and Alexia Khadime best supporting actress in a musical.\nScarlett Strallen's role in A Chorus Line earned her the best actress in a musical honour. The production also won best ensemble performance.\nPeter Morgan's The Audience picked up best new play with Dame Helen Mirren awarded best actress in a play for her role as the Queen.\nUnable to attend the ceremony, Dame Helen said in a filmed acceptance speech: \"I'm so thrilled to receive this. I'm honoured that it was voted for by the public, that's the most wonderful thing.\"\nHaydn Gwynne also won best supporting actress in a play for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in Morgan's production.\nBarry Humphries - better known for his alter ego, Dame Edna Everage - collected the best solo performance award for his Eat Pray Laugh! farewell tour at the London Palladium.\nMatilda the Musical fought off strong competition from Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, War Horse and Wicked to be voted best West End show.\nThe full list of winners across 27 categories can be found on the WhatsOnStage website.", "summary": "Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint have both won acting prizes at the WhatsOnStage awards." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Japanese star will join Justin Rose, Jon Rahm, Danny Willett and Rory McIlroy in the field at Portstewart.\nThe world number four has been in superb form over the past 12 months with three wins on the PGA Tour, including the WGC-HSBC Champions.\nThis year's Irish Open is one of the eight tournaments on the European Tour's lucrative new Rolex Series.\nMatsuyama, 25, has amassed an impressive majors record since turning professional in 2013 with five top-10 finishes and a further two in the top 20.\nMatsuyama, who tied for 11th place at the Masters in April, will use the tournament to prepare for The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale from 20-23 July.\n\"It is important to play some links golf ahead of The Open Championship and I'm sure Portstewart will be the perfect preparation for me,\" he said.\n\"I know Rory puts a lot into this tournament and he has done an incredible job raising its profile. I'm really excited and I know it will be a great week.\"\nMatsuyama is the third player in the current top 10 in the world to be named in the Irish Open field - following Rahm and defending champion McIlroy, whose charity, the Rory Foundation, host the event.\nFellow Japanese player Hideto Tanihara has also confirmed he will take part in the tournament, which will feature a record prize fund of nearly £5.5m when it takes place at Portstewart Golf Club for the first time.\nThe new Rolex Series, which includes the Irish Open, is a premium category of events on the European Tour calendar each with a minimum prize fund of $7m.", "summary": "Hideki Matsuyama is the latest top-10 golfer to confirm he will compete at the Irish Open from 6-9 July." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Redmayne faces competition from Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Fassbender.\nDame Maggie Smith is up for best actress for The Lady in the Van - pitting her against Cate Blanchett.\nBlanchett's romance Carol and Steven Spielberg's drama Bridge of Spies lead the nominations with nine each.\nAlongside Blanchett and Dame Maggie on the best actress list are Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl, Saoirse Ronan for Brooklyn and Brie Larson for Room.\nCarol and Bridge of Spies are both nominated for best film, alongside financial crash drama The Big Short, DiCaprio's survival epic The Revenant and Spotlight, about a newspaper investigation into child abuse in the Catholic Church.\nThe Danish Girl, in which Redmayne plays transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, is named on the shortlist for outstanding British film, along with Brooklyn, in which Ronan plays a young Irish woman who emigrates to New York.\nAmy Winehouse documentary Amy is also up for best British film, as are marital drama 45 Years, Ex Machina - in which Vikander plays a synthetic human - and surreal comedy drama The Lobster.\nMost nominated films:\nOther British talents up for awards include Julie Walters, whose role as a boarding house owner in Brooklyn pits her against Kate Winslet, who plays an Apple marketing executive in the biopic of Steve Jobs, for best supporting actress.\nThree Brits are in the best supporting actor category - Christian Bale for The Big Short, Idris Elba for Beasts of No Nation and Mark Rylance for Bridge of Spies.\nRidley Scott will fly the flag in the best director category thanks to his work on space survival saga The Martian.\nHowever there were no nominations for James Bond film Spectre, Jennifer Lawrence's Oscar-tipped Joy or Suffragette.\nCarey Mulligan's hopes of a best actress nomination for Suffragette were dashed, while other Brits to miss out included Charlotte Rampling, who was tipped for 45 Years, and Steve Jobs director Danny Boyle.\nStar Wars: The Force Awakens could be rewarded for its huge success after being nominated for best production design, sound, original music and special visual effects.\nOne of the film's young stars, Londoner John Boyega, has already received his nomination for the Bafta Rising Star Award alongside Brie Larson, Dakota Johnson, Taron Egerton and Bel Powley.\nThe annual Bafta ceremony takes place at London's Royal Opera House on 14 February - two weeks before the Oscars.\nFind out more about the nominated films:", "summary": "Eddie Redmayne is aiming for a Bafta double after being nominated for best actor for The Danish Girl, a year after winning for The Theory of Everything." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The company said half of the job losses would go through redundancies. Most of the cuts are expected to be in the UK.\nHowever, Centrica said it would also create jobs in growth areas, so the net loss in jobs will be 4,000 from the firm's current total of 37,500.\nFirst half profits at British Gas's residential arm rose to £528m.\nThat was up from £265m a year earlier. Centrica group profits fell 3% to £1bn.\nCentrica said the rise in profits at British Gas was due to higher gas consumption, which was triggered by the cold weather earlier this year compared with milder weather in the first half of 2014.\nHowever, the strong performance at British Gas was offset by a collapse in profits at Centrica's oil and gas production division. Profits in this unit fell 78% to £116m as a result of lower oil prices.\nCentrica appointed Iain Conn as chief executive at the start of this year.\nHe has been conducting a strategic review of the business over the past five months, which has concluded Centrica should concentrate on the British Gas side of the business and reduce its activities in actual energy production, which takes major investment.\nThat is a less attractive business currently, as raw energy costs, such as oil, are around $50-60 a barrel, half the levels of last year.\nCentrica said it was assuming the oil price would not move far from that for the foreseeable future.\nMr Conn denied the company was making excessive profits at British Gas.\nBritish Gas cut prices by 5% earlier this year, and is due to cut gas prices by a further 5% next month, which the firm says will mean average savings of £72 a year.\nMr Conn said profits per customer would remain at the same level as in other years, at about £40-£65 a year.\nThis is a major change in direction for one of Britain's most important energy firms.\nIn a world of $60-a-barrel oil, out goes the heavy investment of recent years in offshore oil and gas production.\nInstead the company will refocus on its millions of customers, offering them new products and services. It sees a particular opportunity managing the needs of big commercial energy users.\nThe cost cutting goes further and faster than some expected. The majority of the 6,000 job losses will be in the UK, and 3,000 will go by the end of 2017.\nIain Conn told me that the move was necessary to become internationally efficient and to grow in the future.\nBut the doubling in profits at British Gas is likely to raise concerns, coming just weeks after a major competition probe concluded that the big six energy firms have been overcharging their customers for years.\nGary Smith, national officer of the GMB union, said: \"This will be a day of deep concern across British Gas.\"\nHowever, he added that the news was not all bad.\n\"What we do take from this announcement is a focus on the long term and investment in customer service which gives us room for optimism over front-line jobs.\"\nHe said that these were already being created, and were high quality posts. \"This year, there are over 1,200 jobs being created for smart metering installers and in repairing and installing appliances.\n\"These are real jobs, skilled jobs and they are being filled by ex-military personnel, a lot of women and of course, young people.\"\nBritish Gas supplies nine million households, meaning that it has more domestic customers than any of its rivals.\nThe energy sector has come under scrutiny by the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA), which earlier this month said energy companies were collectively overcharging customers by £1bn a year.\nMr Conn disputed the figure, telling the BBC that it amounted to more than the profits of the entire industry.\nCentrica also announced it would cut the interim dividend by 30%, a move that affects some 650,000 individual small shareholders.", "summary": "Energy firm Centrica has said it will cut 6,000 jobs as it reported a doubling of profits at its British Gas business in the first half of the year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 26-year-old winger, who is 6ft 4ins, will join the club in the summer ahead of the 2015-16 season.\n\"I am really looking forward to joining Warriors and linking up with my new teammates in England,\" said Heem.\n\"I am excited about the prospect of joining a club which is progressing and look forward to playing a role in the long-term success.\"\nHeem was a member of the New Zealand Sevens team between 2011 and 2014 during which he won a silver medal at last summer's Commonwealth Games.\nThe winger began his career at hometown club Auckland, and had a spell at Cambridge Blues before moving on to Tasman and then the Chiefs.\n\"Bryce has demonstrated his talents in a number of competitions,\" said Warriors director of rugby Dean Ryan.\n\"He is now hungry to realise his potential at a club which has significantly changed its direction over the last 18 months.\n\"His season in Super Rugby has been a successful one and his presence at Sixways will give this squad another lift as we continue our progress.\"\nWarriors, who recently won the British and Irish Cup, are chasing promotion back to the Premiership for next season and are currently second in the Championship, behind Bristol, having already secured their play-off place.\nWorcester will also lose Argentina international captain Agustin Creevy at the end of the season as he joins up with the Argentina Rugby Federation for their inaugural Super Rugby season.\n\"I have immensely enjoyed my time at Sixways and I must say a huge thank you to Dean Ryan and all the backroom staff at the club for their support,\" said Creevy.\n\"It was an extremely tough decision to leave a club which is progressing so rapidly but I could not turn down the opportunity to return to Argentina ahead of the Rugby World Cup.\n\"As Argentina captain, Gus felt the opportunity to return to his home country was one he needed to take and we wish him every success in the future.\"", "summary": "Worcester Warriors have signed New Zealand Sevens international Bryce Heem from Super 15 side Waikato Chiefs." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dozens of teenagers blocked a road with burning pallets and tyres during the incident on Thursday night.\nThe windscreen of a police vehicle was smashed and the fire service was stopped from entering the area.\nIt happened when police were searching a house at Altcar Park.\nAn imitation gun and a small amount of suspected cannabis were seized during the search and a 57-year-old woman and 33-year-old man were arrested.\nThey have been released on police bail pending further enquiries.\nGalliagh resident Ailise McCallion said one youth told her they had burnt the shed in her garden and were going to target her oil tank next.\nShe said she now wanted to leave the area.\n\"I was terrified, I didn't want to aggravate them or say anything so I just went inside,\" she added.\n\"The whole night they were jumping in and out of my garden.\n\"They knocked stones off my wall, the lampposts they knocked them out, it was crazy.\"\nThree windows at St Paul's Primary School in Moss Park were damaged as a result of the disturbances.\nIts principal, Catriona McFeely, said she was disappointed at what had happened and warned someone could get \"badly hurt\".\n\"That is going to come out of our school budget, there is no other way of paying for that,\" she said.\n\"This is taking away resources from children in the school who are our main priority.\n\"We have already looked at security lighting for the outside of the school now we are going to look at security cameras.\"\nCommenting on the trouble, Tommy Mullan, who lives in Galliagh, said some parents should be doing more to monitor their children.\n\"In this day and age, this is unbelievable,\" he said.\n\"What is wrong is there are too many young people running around here and you ask 'Where are the parents?'\n\"That is what it is all about, because if the parents were looking after them they wouldn't be out doing what they are doing.\"", "summary": "Police have said up to 100 young people were involved in trouble in the Galliagh area of Londonderry, which saw officers attacked with bottles, stones and paint bombs." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "One factory has \"reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots\", a government official told the South China Morning Post.\nXu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: \"More companies are likely to follow suit.\"\nChina is investing heavily in a robot workforce.\nIn a statement to the BBC, Foxconn Technology Group confirmed that it was automating \"many of the manufacturing tasks associated with our operations\" but denied that it meant long-term job losses.\n\"We are applying robotics engineering and other innovative manufacturing technologies to replace repetitive tasks previously done by employees, and through training, also enable our employees to focus on higher value-added elements in the manufacturing process, such as research and development, process control and quality control.\n\"We will continue to harness automation and manpower in our manufacturing operations, and we expect to maintain our significant workforce in China.\"\nSince September 2014, 505 factories across Dongguan, in the Guangdong province, have invested 4.2bn yuan (£430m) in robots, aiming to replace thousands of workers.\nKunshan, Jiangsu province, is a manufacturing hub for the electronics industry.\nEconomists have issued dire warnings about how automation will affect the job market, with one report, from consultants Deloitte in partnership with Oxford University, suggesting that 35% of jobs were at risk over the next 20 years.\nFormer McDonald's chief executive Ed Rensi recently told the US's Fox Business programme a minimum-wage increase to $15 an hour would make companies consider robot workers.\n\"It's cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who is inefficient, making $15 an hour bagging French fries,\" he said.", "summary": "Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Konta reached the quarter-finals last year before losing to eventual winner Belinda Bencic.\nThe fans will get to enjoy some \"world-class tennis\" said Konta, as she returns to her home town.\nWatson will be looking to repeat her 2015 grass-court form which saw her one game from defeating Serena Williams.\n\"They are two of the best players this country has seen and the crowd will really enjoy getting behind them,\" said tournament director Gavin Fletcher.\nEntries for the tournament, which runs from 18-25 June, are to close this week with further high-profile names expected to be added.\nWatson has lost 6-4 6-2 to the Czech Republic's Barbora Strycova in round two of the Italian Open on Wednesday. Konta faces Italy's Roberta Vinci at the same stage.\nNever want to miss the latest tennis news? You can now add this sport and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home.", "summary": "British numbers one and two Johanna Konta and Heather Watson will play at the Aegon International, Eastbourne in preparation for Wimbledon." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Darcey Morgan, from Leeds, fell unconscious when she was trapped underwater for more than two minutes.\nHer mother Alex said fellow holidaymakers helped to pull her daughter to safety.\nTravel company First Choice said it had launched a \"full and thorough investigation\" into the incident.\nMore stories from across Yorkshire\nMrs Morgan, 32, from Leeds, said the \"terrifying\" incident happened while she and her husband Gareth, 35, were on staying at the H10 Rubicon Palace, in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, with their three children in April.\nHer daughter was given CPR by the poolside before being rushed to hospital in Arrecife where she was kept overnight.\n\"It took over two minutes to get her hair free, by which time she was unconscious. She was blue,\" said Mrs Morgan.\n\"There are no words for what I was feeling. It's every parent's worst nightmare.\"\nShe said her daughter lost four clumps of hair but had made a full recovery.\nShe said she reported to the incident to the hotel but the management \"did nothing\".\n\"The swimming pool was not closed, the waterfall and the filter remained on,\" she said.\nAfter the incident she said other people told her they had reported the filter to staff and said one boy had got his swimming trunks sucked in to the device two days earlier.\nFirst Choice said it had received no other reports and said that the device had been switched off as soon as it was made aware of the incident.\nMrs Morgan, who highlighted the incident on Facebook, said she wanted to make people aware of the potential dangers.\nThe post has been shared more than 100,000 times and has attracted more than 11,000 comments.\n\"Myself and Gareth don't want any other parents or family members to go through what we experienced that day,\" she wrote.\n\"We will never get over what happened that day, but if this post can raise some awareness, save someone's life, then we will be happy.\"\nA spokesperson for First Choice said it had taken \"immediate action\" to resolve the issue and had been in contact with Mrs Morgan to \"update and reassure them on the steps we have taken\".\nThey said: \"We continue to ensure that the health and safety of all of our holidaymakers is our top priority.\"", "summary": "A six-year-old British girl almost drowned when her hair was sucked into a swimming pool filter at a hotel in Lanzarote, her mother has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Russia's 267-strong team has been banned from next month's Paralympic Games in Rio because of state-sponsored doping uncovered in the McLaren Report.\n\"We feel great sympathy for those athletes,\" Spence told the BBC.\n\"But I think the apology needs to come from those who are leading this state-sponsored doping programme in Russia.\"\nRussian athletes were permitted to compete at the Rio Olympic Games if their sport's governing body allowed them, but the International Paralympic Committee has taken a tougher stance.\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) announced on Tuesday that they had upheld the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) ban on all Russian competitors.\nRussia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said: \"The investigation about the Russian doping is a thick and disgusting mix containing 80% of politics and 20% of the actual doping, the politics targeting against sports, Russian athletes and Russia as a country.\"\nRussian TV on Tuesday carried interviews with Paralympic athletes denied the chance to compete in Rio, among them track-and-field athlete Alexei Ashapatov.\n\"When they tell us that we do not meet Paralympic standards, I don't know what to do,\" he said. \"You do all you can to develop Paralympic sports and then you are accused of not meeting those standards.\n\"I don't understand the officials who made such a harsh decision.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nAndrei Strokin, five-time Paralympic swimming champion, said the decision was \"cynical\" and \"baseless\".\nHowever, Spence - the IPC's director of media and communications - insisted it was those behind the Russian doping system who should shoulder the blame.\n\"It's because of them - the people at the very top - who have introduced this system where there's doping across all sports as shown in the McLaren Report,\" said Spence.\n\"It is they who are responsible for this and that is why we have had to take this decision.\n\"It needs to change or the Russian Paralympic Committee will continue to be suspended, or won't be able to compete in further Paralympic Games or IPC sanctioned world championships.\"\nA further appeal by Russia to Switzerland's federal court is possible, but it is unlikely to take place before the Games open in Rio on 7 September.\n\"Long-term we hope this is a catalyst for Russia and that the state-sponsored doping system which is plaguing their sport at the moment disappears,\" Spence told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\"We really want the Russian team back competing, but we only want that to happen if we can ensure a level playing field for all our athletes.\"", "summary": "Officials behind Russia's state-sponsored doping should apologise to its athletes, International Paralympic Committee spokesman Craig Spence says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The bodies of Tony Woodward and Bob Archer were found with the wreckage of their plane after it failed to arrive in Carlisle on Thursday.\nThey had left Oban after completing the 9.5 hour fundraising challenge for the Shooting Star Chase children's charity.\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch is looking into the crash.\nThe alarm was raised after the light aircraft, which was being piloted by Mr Woodward, failed to reach its destination after taking off from Oban Airport at 11:30 on Thursday.\nThe crash happened about two miles off the coast, near Skipness.\nThe men, who were believed to be from Surrey, had taken part in the charity challenge with their friend, Peter Ogivie, on Tuesday.\nHe had written about their climb, saying the team were \"hugely proud\" of their achievement to raise more than £2,000 for the charity.\nHe said: \"We marched and then struggled through relentless rain with plummeting temperatures. Below freezing at the top we were hit by freezing rain being blown by 45 KT winds.\"\nIn a statement posted on the Shooting Star Chase Just Giving page, Mr Woodward's family called his loss devastating.\nThe statement said: \"After completing the epic journey up Ben Nevis, tragically Tony and one of the other walkers, Bob, died in a light aircraft crash on their way home.\n\"This was devastating news for all involved.\"\nAir First Ltd, who taught Mr Woodward to fly, also paid tribute to him.\nThey said: \"He had been piloting the plane himself having left Oban to go to Carlisle, the full details at this time are unknown.\n\"He had just completed the ascent to Ben Nevis prior to the accident with two friends raising money for Shooting Star Chase that he was extremely passionate about.\n\"We at Airfirst had the privilege of teaching Tony to fly to fulfil his dream of becoming a pilot.\n\"His passion, love and enthusiasm for flying was evident in his support and participation of school fly outs and social events.\"\nThe cause of the crash remains unknown.", "summary": "Two men who died in a plane crash off the Kintyre peninsula had just completed an ascent of Ben Nevis for charity, it has emerged." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Shanay Walker was found dead in her bed in Nottingham in July 2014.\nShe was living with her aunt, Kay-Ann Morris, 24, who denies murder.\nShanay's mother Leann Walker told Nottingham Crown Court she had struggled to cope after the birth of Shanay's sister.\nShe told how she developed depression and anxiety in the year after her second child's birth and eventually agreed to Shanay being put into care.\nMs Walker said she was unhappy when Ms Morris was granted guardianship in 2011.\nShe said Shanay's father nominated his sister Kay-Ann Morris, of Beckhampton Road, Nottingham, as guardian - which was eventually made official.\nThe court heard in subsequent visits Shanay showed signs of bruising and \"seemed distant\".\nShe told the jury she received a phone message on the morning of Shanay's death from Ms Morris saying: \"I'm sorry. I wasn't strong enough.\"\nA post-mortem report showed Shanay had more than 50 injuries on her body and had died of a brain injury.\nThe court has heard Ms Morris told police officers Shanay had accidently fallen down the stairs.\nThe prosecution said the aunt was \"covering up the truth\" that she had subjected her niece to a \"sustained, vicious and brutal beating\".\nShanay's grandmother Juanila Smikle, 53, of Easegill Court in Top Valley, also denies cruelty charges relating to Shanay and four other children.\nMs Morris is also charged with cruelty against two other children in 2011.\nThe trial continues.", "summary": "The mother of a seven-year-old girl who died of brain injuries has told a murder trial she noticed \"signs of bruising\" on her daughter after she was put in care." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The move is among changes to public procurement rules being proposed by the Scottish government.\nThe Procurement Reform Bill aims to improve the way the public sector buys goods, works and services.\nMinisters said it would make it easier for small firms to bid for contracts.\nGuidance under the bill would allow public sector bosses to consider the inappropriateness of awarding contracts to companies using controversial zero-hours contracts, which allow employers to hire staff with no guarantee of work.\nPublic sector bosses could also consider, when deciding on a contract award, whether firms use blacklisting.\nThe issue of blacklisting has angered unions and politicians, following disclosures about a UK-wide database of names used by major construction firms to vet workers.\nDeputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the legislation promoted an approach that was \"both business friendly and socially responsible\".\nThe proposed new rules could also lead to greater use of community benefit clauses.\nThese clauses could require companies to provide training, apprenticeships or opportunities for disabled people as part of the contract.\n\"Changes to public procurement rules will ensure Scotland retains its place as a world leader in public procurement reform, promoting an approach that is both business friendly and socially responsible,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\nResponding to the bill, Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary Grahame Smith said: \"The STUC enthusiastically welcomes parts of this important bill, especially its provisions to disqualify firms engaging in tax avoidance and blacklisting from the public procurement process and the commitment to introduce further guidance on workforce matters.\"\nBut Mr Smith described parts of the legislation as \"very disappointing\", adding: \"It is difficult to believe that community benefits will be extended and improved by simply handing contracting authorities a duty to 'consider' whether to impose as part of the contract.\n\"The STUC is also sceptical that the significant additional requirements placed on local authorities and other contracting agencies will have 'no overall net impact on costs'.\"\nScottish Building Federation managing director Vaughan Hart welcomed the publication of the bill.\nHe said: \"With a growing pipeline of publicly funded infrastructure projects planned over the years ahead, this bill offers the potential to transform the efficiency of public procurement - and to encourage many more particularly smaller building companies to bid for public sector contracts.\n\"We will look forward to scrutinising the detail in the months ahead.\"\nCBI Scotland said the bill contained \"a number of encouraging measures\", but added that ministers risked missing out on an opportunity to open up the delivery of public services to independent providers.\nAssistant director David Lonsdale added: \"The bill should enshrine in legislation a 'right to bid' for private and third sector organisations, so that any provider who can demonstrate the capacity and wherewithal to deliver a public service more effectively, innovatively, and for better value is given the opportunity to do so.\"", "summary": "Public sector bodies could be allowed to consider issues such as blacklisting and zero-hours contracts when awarding work to firms, according to planned reforms." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Waheed Ahmed, a Labour councillor's son, was held in Turkey on suspicion of trying to enter Syria illegally.\nHe was detained along with eight other Britons in Hatay near the Syrian border on 1 April. He has now returned to the UK after being deported from Turkey.\nHe is thought to have flown from Dalaman into Birmingham, where he was arrested by Greater Manchester Police.\nThe group of nine from Rochdale included five adults and four children.\nFootage released on Sunday shows Mr Ahmed leaving a police station in Hatay before getting onto a coach to Antalya.\nHis father, Rochdale Labour councillor Shakil Ahmed, said he \"wanted his son to come home as soon as possible\".\nGreater Manchester Police and the North West Counter Terrorism Unit have launched an investigation to establish why the group apparently tried to enter Syria.\nAssistant Chief Constable Ian Wiggett has said the primary concern was the \"safety and welfare\" of the children, and efforts were being made to ensure a \"full safeguarding strategy\" was in place upon their return.\nPolice have been searching Mr Waheed's family home in Rochdale.\nHis father said he had thought his son was on holiday.\nIn a statement Councillor Shakil Ahmed said: \"My son is a good Muslim and his loyalties belong to Britain, so I don't understand what he's doing there.\n\"If I thought for a second that he was in danger of being radicalised, I would have reported him to the authorities.\n\"He's studying a degree in politics and sociology at Manchester University and has a good future ahead of him.\"", "summary": "A 21-year-old man has been arrested at Birmingham Airport on suspicion of terrorism, police say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The pets are all thought to have been poisoned on the Hambleton estate in Thirsk between February and April.\nNorth Yorkshire Police is jointly investigating the deaths with the RSPCA.\nCat owners in the area are being urged to be vigilant to any changes in their pets' behaviour and to check garages and gardens for any spillages.\nPC Clare Mayes said: \"If your cat appears to be lethargic or unsteady on their feet, you need to seek urgent veterinary assistance.\n\"The sooner your pet receives treatment, the better their chances of survival.\"", "summary": "Five cats have died in a spate of suspected anti-freeze attacks in a North Yorkshire town." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The lentil-sized pellets are used as a raw material to make plastic products. A search of 279 shorelines between Shetland and the Scilly Isles found 205 (73%) had industrial pellets on them.\nThey can cause damage to such wildlife as birds and fish, which eat them.\nThe survey results will be added to a government consultation on microplastics.\nCampaigners estimate that up to 53 billion of the tiny pellets escape into the UK's environment each year.\nThis happens during the manufacture, transport or use of plastic products.\nThe nurdles are often spilt accidentally into rivers and oceans or fall into drains where they are washed out to sea.\nExperts warn nurdles can soak up chemical pollutants from their surroundings and then release toxins into the animals that eat them.\nThe Great Winter Nurdle Hunt survey was carried out by 600 volunteers over a weekend in early February.\nThe largest number recorded were found at Widemouth Bay, Cornwall, where 33 volunteers collected some 127,500 pellets found on a 100-metre stretch of beach.\nThey are one of the main sources of \"primary microplastics\" - small pieces of plastic which have come from larger items broken down into little bits - in European seas.\nMadeleine Berg of Fidra, a Scottish environmental charity which organised the hunt, said she was delighted so many people took part in the hunt - and says it shows that action is needed.\n\"Simple precautionary measures can help spillages and ensure nurdles don't end up in our environment,\" she said.\n\"We are asking the UK government to ensure best practice is in place along the full plastic supply chain, and any further nurdle pollution is stopped.\"\nFidra organised the nurdle hunt along with the Environmental Investigation Agency, Fauna and Flora International, Greenpeace, the Marine Conservation Society and Surfers Against Sewage.\nPlastic oceans: What do we know?\nThe beaches where Lego washes up\nThe findings come after another successful campaign by Fidra, which saw Johnson & Johnson announce that their cotton buds will no longer have plastic stems.\nAs of this week, the multinational company will change their buds from plastic to paper in almost half the world's countries, including the whole of Europe, in an attempt to cut marine pollution.\nPlastic stems are one of the most common items of litter found on UK beaches. They end up in our oceans after the cotton buds - which are not supposed to be flushed down the toilet - enter the sewage system.\nWaitrose, John Lewis, Marks and Spencer and the Body Shop are among the brands already selling non-plastic cotton buds.\nA further 10 retailers including Tesco, Boots and Mothercare have said they will change from plastic to paper stems by the end of 2017.", "summary": "Almost three-quarters of beaches in the UK are littered with tiny plastic \"nurdles\", a survey suggests." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Labour lost one of its seats in the local election, leaving them one short of being able to remain in control at 28.\nConservatives have 26 seats and UKIP have three. Party leaders are due to meet to discuss the way forward.\nLabour remains in control of Exeter City Council as they party won nine out of the 13 wards in the election.\nLeader of Plymouth's Labour group, Tudor Evans, retained his seat in Ham.\nHe said it was \"remarkable\" the party had \"bucked the trend\" after the national Conservative Party landslide.\n\"People were expecting us to go under and we didn't,\" he said.\nBefore the final result was known, Conservative Party group leader Ian Bowyer refused to rule out a possible coalition with UKIP - the only other party on the council.\nIn Exeter, former city centre manager John Harvey won the Alphington seat for the Conservatives.\nFormer council leader and Liberal Democrat group leader in the city, Adrian Fullham, lost his council seat.", "summary": "Labour has lost its narrow majority at Plymouth City Council meaning no party has overall control." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Eddy Reuben Illah denied publishing the photos on the messaging service WhatsApp and was remanded in custody.\nProsecutors said the images were likely to cause fear and alarm.\nAl-shabab said it had killed more 100 Kenyan soldiers when it raided an African Union base outside the town of al-Adde on Friday.\nThe Kenyan military has denied the claim but has not come up with its own casualty figures.\nThe bodies of four soldiers killed in the fighting were repatriated to the capital, Nairobi, on Monday night.\nAt least 20 soldiers have so far returned home, some critically wounded.\nKenya contributes more than 4,000 troops to the 22,000-strong AU force that is in Somalia helping the UN-backed government battle al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda.\nDespite the attack, President Uhuru Kenyatta says the country remains \"unbowed and undeterred\" in the fight against the militants who want to establish an Islamic state in Somalia.\nAl-Shabab was ousted from the capital, Mogadishu, in August 2011, but still has a presence in large areas of southern Somalia and often stages attacks across the country.\nWho are al-Shabab? Al-Shabab means The Youth in Arabic. It emerged as the radical youth wing of Somalia's now-defunct Union of Islamic Courts, which controlled Mogadishu in 2006, before being forced out by Ethiopian forces.\nWhat are al-Shabab's foreign links? In a joint video released in February 2012, former al-Shabab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane said he \"pledged obedience\" to al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri. The two groups have long worked together and foreigners are known to fight alongside Somali militants.\nWhat is happening in Somalia? Somalia has not had an effective national government for more than 20 years, during which much of the country has been a war-zone. Al-Shabab gained support by promising people security. But its credibility was knocked when it rejected Western food aid to combat a 2011 drought and famine. With Mogadishu and other towns now under government control, there is a new feeling of optimism and many Somalis have returned from exile, bringing their money and skills with them.\nHow much of Somalia does al-Shabab control? Although it has lost control of most towns and cities, it still dominates in many rural areas.", "summary": "A Kenyan man has been charged for allegedly sharing pictures of Kenyan soldiers killed last week by militant Islamist group al-Shabab in Somalia." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The win took them level with the Irish, three points behind leaders Poland.\n\"As a spectacle of pure football, it wasn't that great,\" he said. \"But, as two groups of players not wanting to give an inch, it was mesmerising.\n\"There wasn't much football as such, but any chance they had they did that.\"\nBut the Scotland boss again played down suggestions that it had been a must-win game for his side, who are also level with Germany in Group D with seven points from four games.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"I think I said earlier in the week there was one goal deciding all the games up until tonight outwith Gibraltar,\" he said. \"It has happened again.\"\nAsked whether he would now make changes for Tuesday's friendly against England, Strachan said: \"I think so, because they put so much into that game.\n\"That was like one of those big heavyweight boxing matches.\n\"We've played in football games and believed in that and we've played in a more physical duel tonight and dealt with that as well.\"\nStrachan credited coach Stuart McCall with the inspiration for Maloney's decisive goal.\n\"We are just fortunate Stuart came away with that set-play,\" he said. \"It was a Stuart McCall goal.\"\nStrachan said the move - a short corner, with Maloney playing the ball into the feet of Scott Brown, before scoring with a curled finish from the back-heeled return pass - was a variation of a set-piece used by McCall at Motherwell before he resigned from the Scottish Premiership club earlier this month.\n\"We can put on a set play, but you have to be able to finish and that's down to ability,\" he added in praise of Wigan Athletic midfielder Maloney's 75th-minute winner.\nHe added that he was delighted at the way Maloney and diminutive figures such as Steven Naismith and Ikechi Anya battled against the Irish.\n\"I have to say that our smaller guys, considering the height and power they were playing against, were very brave,\" he said.\n\"There wasn't much football as such, but any chance they had to do that they did. They were brave on and off the ball, the three behind the main strikers.\"\nAnd he singled out midfielder Charlie Mulgrew for particular praise.\nCeltic man Mulgrew missed Scotland's previous two games through suspension and injury but returned in place of James Morrison, sidelined by illness.\n\"Charlie was absolutely immense,\" said the manager. \"Normally, you would come in and say what a game Scott Brown had, but Charlie's actually taken the mantle tonight and ably backed up by the people round about him. He was the best man on the pitch.\"", "summary": "Scotland boss Gordon Strachan said his side's 1-0 Euro 2016 qualifying victory over the Republic of Ireland was \"like a heavyweight boxing match\" after Shaun Maloney got the winner at Celtic Park." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former Inter Milan goalkeeper, 56, was appointed on Saturday after Kenny Jackett was sacked the previous day.\n\"Experience is very important in life. I have coached in three continents and eight different countries,\" he said.\n\"When you are a citizen of the world and go around the world, you understand the culture. It's not difficult.\"\nZenga watched from the stands on Saturday as Wolves lost 4-0 to Swansea City at Molineux in their final pre-season friendly before they begin their Championship campaign at Rotherham United on Saturday.\nWolves are the sixteenth side Zenga has managed, after spells in the USA, Romania and most recently the United Arab Emirates, where he coached Al-Shaab for a short spell earlier this year.\nZenga has been given the task of \"promotion to the Premier League\" after the club were taken over by Chinese conglomerate Fosun International last month.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"Fortunately for me, last year I followed the Championship from February because I was at home and every week I watched it,\" Zenga told BBC WM.\n\"It is a competition I love so much because it is like the Premier League. I don't say that I understand everything but some major things are in my mind.\"\nIn addition to the signings of goalkeeper Andy Lonergan, winger Helder Costa and defender Silvio, the club are set to sign 22-year-old midfielder Joao Teixeira from Benfica on a season-long loan.", "summary": "Wolves head coach Walter Zenga says he is experienced enough to take charge of the Championship club despite never managing in England before." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Michael Fallon told BBC News that UK troops could be sent to a country neighbouring Syria, possibly Jordan.\nHe insisted however that UK forces would not engage in direct combat.\nThe US is leading efforts to train a Syrian opposition to fight IS, also known as ISIS, which has captured large parts of of the country.\nThe country's National Security Adviser Susan Rice said a deal had been reached with Turkey to allow the US to train Syrian rebels on its soil, although this has been denied by Turkish officials.\nMr Fallon discussed the possibility of launching training operations, while visiting the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Ship, Argus, in Falmouth.\nA specialist team of 12 soldiers from the Yorkshire Regiment is already training Kurdish fighters in Iraq to use UK-supplied heavy machine guns.\nAnd the UK is to fund bomb disposal training for the Kurdish Peshmerga forces to counter the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond announced on Monday.\nThe Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan Nechirvan Barzani said he was \"thankful\" for the international community's support.\nBut he added that Kurdish forces needed \"more advanced weapons to fight against ISIS\".", "summary": "UK troops could be deployed to train moderate Syrian rebels in the fight against Islamic State militants (IS), the defence secretary has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The cut, equivalent to nearly £50m, was revealed by NHS England in a parliamentary answer.\nLabour, which had asked for the figures, accused the government of breaking its promise to make mental health a priority.\nMinisters point to an extra £7m spent this year on more psychiatric beds.\nIn addition, they say new investment is also planned to prevent eating disorders and self-harm.\nChild and adolescent mental health services are under increasing pressure, juggling tight resources and with increasing demand.\nIn November, a 16-year-old girl from Devon spent two nights in a police cell as no psychiatric bed was available.\nInvestigations by BBC News and the online journal Community Care last year revealed an increasing number of children were being treated on adult wards while others were travelling hundreds of miles to get care.\nCare Minister Norman Lamb has previously described children's mental health services in England as \"not fit for purpose\".\nAccording to a parliamentary answer this week, NHS spending on children's mental health services in 2009-10, the final year of the Labour government, was equivalent to £766m (at 2013-14 prices).\nIn 2012-13, the last year for which figures are available, it had fallen to the equivalent of £717m.\nThe cuts by the NHS in England come on top of reduced spending by councils.\nAn investigation by the charity Young Minds last year found more than half of councils in England had cut or frozen budgets for child and adolescent mental health between 2010-11 and 2014-15.\nCommenting on the funding cuts by the NHS, the chief executive of Young Minds, Sarah Brennan said: \"These are deeply worrying figures.\n\"Children and young people's mental health services have been chronically underfunded for decades and the current cuts to their funding have just added to the crisis that many local services face.\n\"These figures along with YoungMinds' previous research demonstrates the 'double whammy' that children and adolescent mental health services face as both local NHS services and local government cut funding.\"\nLuciana Berger MP, the shadow public health minister said: \"These figures prove the government has broken its promise on mental health.\n\"Instead of making it a priority, ministers have cut the spending on children's mental health services each year since they came to power.\n\"The impact of these disastrous decisions has been devastating with increased waiting times, children having to travel hundreds of miles to get the help they need or being detained in police cells because there isn't a bed available for them.\n\"The government must take urgent action now to get to grips with this crisis.\"\nMinisters say that overall NHS spending has been protected by the government and point to a five-year investment to prevent self-harm and eating disorders.\nMr Lamb said: \"We have legislated for mental health to get its fair share of local funding but too often children's mental health still loses out.\n\"That's why I have brought together experts from across health, education and social care to look at how we can give children the best possible mental health care.\"\nHe said the government was also investing £150m in services for young people with self-harming and eating disorders.", "summary": "NHS spending on children's mental health services in England has fallen by more than 6% in real terms since 2010, according to official figures." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The document, which dates back to the late 17th Century, was destined for the skip when it was discovered during a house renovation.\nUsed as a draught excluder, it was encrusted with dirt and had been attacked by vermin and insects.\nBut it has now been meticulously cleaned and restored by the National Library of Scotland (NLS).\nThe map of the world was produced by the Dutch engraver Gerald Valck and there are thought to be only two other copies in existence.\nIn its heyday, the map, which measures 2.2m by 1.6m (7x5ft) would have been hung on a wall to be admired by visitors.\nDespite its impressive history, the map was rolled up in a plastic bag and looked like a \"bundle of rags\" when it arrived at the Edinburgh library.\nIt was so delicate that every time it was moved, fragments of the map fell off \"like confetti\".\nNational librarian Dr John Scally said: \"This is one of the most challenging tasks our conservation team has faced and they have done a terrific job.\n\"Although significant sections of the map have been lost, the remainder has been cleaned and stabilised for future study and enjoyment.\n\"It would have been very easy for this map to end up at the bottom of a skip but thankfully it can now take its place among the magnificent maps held within our collection.\"\nThe conservation process by the NLS involved:\nClaire Thomson, the library's book and paper conservator, said: \"Once the map was unfurled I was able to assess its condition, which I must admit filled me with dread.\n\"Much of the paper had been lost, and the remainder was hard and brittle in places and soft and thin in others.\n\"We needed to stabilise it to prevent any further deterioration, make it robust and easier to handle to get to a point where it could be studied by researchers.\"\nThe NLS said the map, which was donated to the library, will be available to view and study once the conservation work is completely finished.", "summary": "A rare antique map found stuffed up a chimney in Aberdeen has been saved by conservation experts." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The central government has already approved the reef dumping plan, which is linked to a major port expansion.\nBut the decision has proved hugely controversial, prompting stringent criticism from environmentalists.\nThe Queensland government said its plan to dispose of the sediment on land would \"create a win-win situation\".\n\"It will protect the unique values of the Great Barrier Reef and allow for the staged development of the important port of Abbot Point,\" State Premier Campbell Newman said in a statement.\nSeveral companies want to use the Abbot Point port to export coal reserves from the Galilee Basin area in central Queensland. Late last year, the government approved an application for the coal terminal to be expanded.\nDredging is needed to allow bigger ships into the port, and earlier this year a plan to dump three million cubic metres of dredged sediment in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park area was approved.\nBut scientists have warned the sediment could smother or poison coral, further damaging a reef already hit by climate change and other factors. The plan was also facing a legal challenge from a Queensland environmental group.\nThe Queensland government said that under its proposal, the dredged material could be dumped onshore at an existing site within the Abbot Point State Development Area.\nThe state government would now apply to the federal government for permission to dispose of the dredged material on land, it said.\n\"We will now ask Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt to fast-track approval of our strategy under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 to ensure dredging for the expansion of Abbot Point can begin on schedule,\" Minister for State Development and Planning Jeff Seeney said.\nDredging is due to begin in 2015.\nThe Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral structure, rich in marine life.\nIt is a Unesco-listed World Heritage Site, but in recent years the UN body has warned that it could be put on its World Heritage in Danger list because of its worsening condition.\nIn August, a five-yearly report by the marine park authority said that the outlook for the reef was poor despite conservation efforts, with further deterioration expected in coming years.\nClimate change remained the biggest threat to the site, the report said, but poor water quality from land-based run-off, coastal development and fishing also posed challenges.", "summary": "The Queensland government has proposed a plan that would prevent sediment being dumped in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cricketers batted and bowled through the night, attempting 2,000 overs in 24 hours.\nThe record attempt is set to end at 18:00 BST, but Alex Riddell said the club had smashed the target by 11:30 BST with more than 2,500 overs.\nMr Riddell said he bowled the 2,000th at 06:50.\nThe attempt - part of the club's annual open weekend to raise funds for Rodley's junior cricket teams - is being filmed and logged by official umpires but will need verifying by Guinness World Record officials.\nMr Riddell, who played on and off for 11 hours, said: \"We bowled like maniacs overnight and we beat 2,000.\n\"I bowled the 2,000th over at 06:50 and then went to sleep on the sofa for an hour and a half.\n\"I'm really, really pleased but really, really tired.\"\nOther players put in straight eight-hour stints.\nLast year, the club successfully set the Guinness World Record for most overs bowled in eight hours, with a result of 734.\nMr Riddell said: \"We love a challenge. After smashing last year's amazing world record we thought: 'How can we top that this year?' The answer was obvious - go bigger and better!\"\nSteve Bradbury, chairman of the Bradford and District League club, said: \"It's amazing that we could be double Guinness World Record holders.\n\"Until three years ago we had no clubhouse, 30 players and no junior teams.\n\"Now we're proud to have a cracking clubhouse, three senior teams and five junior sides with over 80 kids playing cricket regularly.\"", "summary": "Rodley Cricket Club in Leeds is believed to have set the record for the most overs bowled in 24 hours." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "With second-placed Brighton losing at Nottingham Forest, Newcastle knew a win would extend their lead and give them an 11-point cushion over the Terriers.\nMatt Ritchie put the Magpies in front from the penalty spot and Daryl Murphy made it two with an angled finish.\nAaron Mooy pulled one back from the spot but Dwight Gayle tapped in after substitute keeper Joel Coleman's slip.\nNewcastle had to work hard for their victory, which was watched by a record league crowd at the John Smith's Stadium of 23,213.\nAnd they had to withstand tremendous pressure from David Wagner's side to follow up Tuesday's win at fellow promotion challengers Brighton with another three points.\nHuddersfield, who dominated possession, started brightly but fell behind when Ritchie was tripped by Nakhi Wells in the box and picked himself up to send keeper Danny Ward the wrong way from the spot.\nMichael Hefele headed wide and Newcastle keeper Karl Darlow saved well from Philip Billing as the hosts went close to an equaliser.\nBut they instead fell further behind when Murphy beat the offside trap and nicked the ball away from Ward before slotting in through the keeper's legs from a tight angle.\nThe Terriers had to bring on Coleman for Ward, who picked up a thigh injury, at the break but they camped in the Magpies' half and deservedly pulled one back when Jonjo Shelvey brought down Elias Kachunga and Mooy coolly scored from the spot.\nBut substitute Gayle, fit again after a hamstring injury, settled it for Newcastle, who now travel to fifth-placed Reading on Tuesday, in stoppage time when he tapped into an open goal after Coleman slipped when trying to head a long punt clear as he retreated after going up for a Huddersfield corner.\nHuddersfield head coach David Wagner: \"I'm not sure about the first penalty. I think there was a handball before it and for the second goal Danny Ward touched the ball and had it under control and he got attacked.\n\"Ward then got a knock and we had to take him off at half-time. So many situations went against us. I told the players I have no complaints and I am very proud.\n\"We can leave this result behind us very quickly. There are some very smart and intelligent players in the dressing room and they know we were very unlucky.\"\nNewcastle boss Rafael Benitez: \"We now have to play Reading and there are still a lot of points to play for. We just get ready for the next game.\n\"I was really pleased with everyone. Huddersfield have some good players and we knew what to expect from this game.\n\"It does not matter whether you have a game plan if you don't have the players. The players gave everything.\"\nMatch ends, Huddersfield Town 1, Newcastle United 3.\nSecond Half ends, Huddersfield Town 1, Newcastle United 3.\nFoul by Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town).\nYoan Gouffran (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nGoal! Huddersfield Town 1, Newcastle United 3. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) header from outside the box to the centre of the goal.\nCorner, Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Mohamed Diamé.\nAttempt blocked. Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Rajiv van La Parra.\nAttempt saved. Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aaron Mooy.\nFoul by Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town).\nDwight Gayle (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nSubstitution, Huddersfield Town. Collin Quaner replaces Chris Löwe.\nCorner, Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Karl Darlow.\nAttempt blocked. Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Chris Löwe.\nJonathan Hogg (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United).\nAttempt missed. Elias Kachunga (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Tommy Smith.\nSubstitution, Newcastle United. DeAndre Yedlin replaces Christian Atsu.\nJonathan Hogg (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).\nOffside, Huddersfield Town. Aaron Mooy tries a through ball, but Tommy Smith is caught offside.\nChristopher Schindler (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United).\nGoal! Huddersfield Town 1, Newcastle United 2. Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\nSubstitution, Newcastle United. Yoan Gouffran replaces Jack Colback.\nPenalty Huddersfield Town. Elias Kachunga draws a foul in the penalty area.\nPenalty conceded by Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) after a foul in the penalty area.\nAttempt blocked. Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Chris Löwe with a cross.\nCorner, Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Ciaran Clark.\nTommy Smith (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United).\nFoul by Elias Kachunga (Huddersfield Town).\nJack Colback (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nNahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).\nSubstitution, Huddersfield Town. Jonathan Hogg replaces Philip Billing because of an injury.\nSubstitution, Newcastle United. Dwight Gayle replaces Daryl Murphy.\nFoul by Philip Billing (Huddersfield Town).\nMatt Ritchie (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\nJonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.", "summary": "Newcastle moved five points clear at the top of the Championship with victory at third-placed Huddersfield." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Thameslink trains between Farringdon and City Thameslink travel beneath Smithfield market where the museum plans to move to.\nLead curator Alex Werner said the viewing area would allow visitors to see trains run along \"some of London's earliest railway tunnels\".\nThe new site is due to open in 2022.\nMr Werner said the museum wanted to use what was already in the area to \"uncover the hidden landscape beneath London\".\nPlans from the 19th Century show the area had a \"great Victorian network of railway lines\" which was used by workers at the former meat market, he said.\nThe \"lost\" River Fleet, which runs beneath Farringdon Road, acted as a water supply for the market as well as a Victorian sewer and the museum hopes to incorporate viewpoints of the water.\n\"There are lots of stories to tell in relation to just this part of London\", Mr Werner said.\nDiscussions have begun about the proposed move but planning permission for the £250m project has yet to be submitted.\nThe City of London Corporation and City Hall have pledged £180m towards the project but the museum is looking to raise another £70m to move to its new home.", "summary": "Commuters could become exhibits after Museum of London bosses revealed they hoped to make a train tunnel that runs through their new site see-through." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 1,186 people taking part exceeded the 869 holders of the current record.\nThe fight took place at the annual Another Fine Fest in Ulverston, held in honour of comic actor Stan Laurel, who was born in the town.\nCeri Hutton, from Team Pie, said it was \"a moment of pure joy when the pies started to fly\".\n\"Just the sound of over 1,000 people squealing and laughing,\" she said.\n\"It's only right that Ulverston, birthplace of comedy legend Stan Laurel, should hold this record.\"\nOrganisers have to send evidence to Guinness to confirm the new world record, they said.\nThey said they were confident of validation having followed official counting protocol with a \"huge electronic turnstile\" and thrown nearly 3,000 pies of the regulation size of 16.5cm (6.4\") for one minute.\nThe previous record was set in Belfast in 2015.", "summary": "More than 1,000 people got \"pie faced\" and broke a world record for the largest shaving-cream pie fight." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She is leading with 52% of the vote over her rival Bernie Sanders' 48%.\nShe had been hoping for a big victory in Nevada where she is popular with Hispanic and minority voters.\nThe Republican primary is also under way in South Carolina, where frontrunner Donald Trump is trying to fend off Texas Senator Ted Cruz.\nThe votes could be key ahead of the \"Super Tuesday\" round on 1 March.\nOn that day, about a dozen states will choose their Republican and Democratic contenders for the 8 November presidential election, with about a quarter of all nominating delegates up for grabs.\nHillary Clinton, who won Iowa but was beaten convincingly in New Hampshire by Mr Sanders, declared victory in a tweet, thanking people who voted for her, saying \"this is your win\".\nFollow live updates.\nWhat are primaries and caucuses?\nHow does it all work?\n\"Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted each other,\" Mrs Clinton told supporters at a victory rally in Las Vegas. \"This is your campaign.\"\nThe presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders has grown increasingly close in recent weeks, with the former secretary of state expected to win Nevada in double digits just weeks ago.\nBut the Vermont senator, who has successfully galvanised young voters with his calls for free university education, appears to have performed better than expected with the heavy minority population in Nevada.\nAccording to NBC exit polls, Mr Sanders won among Hispanics with 53% of the vote but lost among black voters earning just 22% of their vote.\n\"Five weeks ago we were 25 points behind and we ended up in a very close election. And we probably will leave Nevada with a solid share of the delegates,\" Bernie Sanders said in a statement on his rival's victory.\nThe state represents the most racially diverse battleground so far, with both candidates courting the vote of African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans, who make up about 50% of the state's population.\nElsewhere, in South Carolina, Republican supporters are choosing who they want to see run for the White House in a vote that is due to end at 19:00 local time (00:00 GMT).\nThe leading Republican pair split the first two rounds - Mr Trump winning in New Hampshire, a week after Mr Cruz had triumphed in Iowa.\nMrs Clinton's next test will be in the Democrats' South Carolina primary on 27 February. Republicans will hold their own caucuses in Nevada on Tuesday.\nThese rounds could be crucial in particular for Republican candidates Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Ben Carson, who have been lagging behind the leading pair.", "summary": "US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has narrowly won the Nevada caucuses in the latest stage of the Democratic race for presidential nominee." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Billericay Town are not your average non-league club - and Glenn Tamplin is not your average manager.\nTamplin motivates his players by getting them to sing R Kelly's 'The World's Greatest' before every match. He has also introduced a lion-themed home dressing room to inspire his team.\nThe flamboyant multi-millionaire, raised on a Dagenham council estate and now worth around £30m after setting up his own steel business from scratch, has pumped more than £2m into Billericay since buying the Essex part-timers nine months ago.\nHis signings include former Liverpool players Jermaine Pennant, 34, and Paul Konchesky, 36, and he wants Billericay in the Football League in five years.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nOn Saturday, Pennant, a finalist with Stoke City in 2011, will play in the FA Cup first qualifying round for his new seventh-tier club against Didcot Town (12:30 BST) - a match you can watch live across BBC Sport's digital platforms.\nTamplin's short reign has not been without controversy, while Billericay have become the team every non-league club wants to beat.\n\"I will get League Two in five years, I'll have a bet with any man in the world,\" said 45-year-old Tamplin. \"But why can't this club go all the way? Why can't we have 25,000 and be in the Premier League like Bournemouth in 10 years time? Who's stopping us?\"\nListen: We're aiming for League Two in five years\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nTamplin paid £120,000 for a 95% stake in the Isthmian Premier Division outfit last December after a failed attempt to acquire National League Dagenham & Redbridge.\nLife at the club nicknamed Ricay has not been the same since.\nGates have rocketed from 211 12 months ago to 4,582 for a pre-season friendly against West Ham's Under-23 side last month, while season ticket sales are somewhere between 700-800.\nCrowds are not the only thing on the increase at the renovated AGP Arena - so too is the wage bill.\nFormer Charlton and Leicester full-back Konchesky, who played two games for England, was the first of four high-profile signings. He was swiftly followed through the dressing room door in March by 30-year-old ex-Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Jamie O'Hara.\nSince then Tamplin has tempted winger Pennant, a Champions League finalist with Liverpool in 2007, and 32-year-old full-back Kevin Foley, who had three seasons in the Premier League with Wolverhampton Wanderers between 2009-12, to join.\nThe arrival of the quartet - 745 Premier League appearances between them - led to reports that Billericay's weekly wage bill is more than £30,000 and players are being paid 10-times-plus more than their rivals.\n\"I had seven or eight ex-Premier League players come to me - some asking for £5,000-a-week, some wanting £1,500. I can tell you now, the most any of our players earn is £1,000-a-week,\" Tamplin told BBC Sport.\n\"There are others on £300. The weekly wage bill is around £20,000 but that includes all the coaching staff.\n\"My players have big hearts, they're humble and they are here for the right reasons.\"\nBillericay were mid-table when Tamplin bought the club.\n\"The facilities were falling down, there weren't many coming to watch, and people thought I was mad,\" he said.\nWithin three months, and despite no previous football managerial experience, he had appointed himself interim boss after Craig Edwards, the highly-respected manager in charge for the past seven years, resigned citing \"broken promises\".\nSix months on, Tamplin remains manager.\n\"I went looking for a new manager but some of those I spoke to thought they were about to win the lottery,\" he said. \"I know how to manage people because that's what I have done all through my working life.\n\"If we don't win the league this season, I will step down as manager.\"\nBillericay, who finished eighth in 2016-17, are top of the the table after winning four of the opening five games. Their one defeat was at home to Kingstonian, managed by former Ricay boss Edwards.\nListen: None of this is a PR stunt\nTamplin's short reign has not been without controversy.\nHe reacted badly to criticism of the newly designed home dressing room, which have pictures of lions spray painted on to the walls alongside motivational messages.\nIn response to photographs posted on Twitter by Tamplin, a fan wrote: \"Stop the world, I want to get off.\" Tamplin replied with: \"Tall building or fast train fella…just jump if you had enough.\"\n\"I hugely regret that tweet,\" the father-of-five added.\n\"When I sent it one of the family dogs had just died in front of the children. I have lots of people who troll me and my family every single day. But there are no excuses. I make more mistakes than anyone, but I won't make the same mistake again.\"\nCritics claim Billericay are a 'circus' under Tamplin, while a recent editorial in The Non-League Paper argued for and against the entrepreneur.\n\"There is nothing wrong with having a vision, which Tamplin unquestionably has, and if the owner of a football club wishes to spend his own money, that's his prerogative,\" it said, adding: \"The painted murals in and around the ground, the pre-match singing and war cries - all posted on social media by Tamplin himself for the world to see. It's taking the gloss off what the players and the football club are really about.\"\nTamplin launched his AGP Steel business in a small yard with a handful of staff in 2002 after taking out a bank loan for £50,000. He now lives in a £12m mansion and owns eight sports cars.\n\"When I first started work, I remember getting a K Reg Ford Orion Ghia, it was the best car of my life,\" he added.\n\"Then I upgraded to a Mercedes, then as I started my own business it went to Bentleys, then it went to Ferraris, now it's collectable cars.\n\"What I'm trying to say is as you grow your targets get greater.\"\nYet the pressure of building a company took its toll and, a few years ago, Tamplin became severely depressed.\n\"I tried to take my own life, I was in the devil's pit. I was working between 15 and 17 hours a day, I had overheads and pressure was building at work,\" he explained.\nTamplin has since become a born-again Christian and has the inspirational quote 'I thought about quitting until I realised who was watching' tattooed on his body as a reminder of that dark chapter in his life.\n\"My children, my family, depend on me. I'm the king of the jungle in their eyes,\" he said. \"The biggest influence in my life? God.\"\nTamplin, who has spent around £1m upgrading Billericay's ground, says he is trying to galvanise the local community.\nHe's introduced street pastors to home games so fans can talk over problems, while Billericay's ground has 50 seats for disabled children, who receive free admission, food and drink.\nRecently, Billericay named a new stand after young football fan Harry Parker, who has a rare form of cerebral palsy.\nTamplin donated £45,000 towards the cost of an operation to help the seven-year-old walk again.\nWhen Billericay missed out on promotion last season, they were taunted by opposition fans with chants of \"what a waste of money\".\nWhen the full-time whistle sounded after a 5-0 win at Thurrock on Monday, up went the chant again.\nThis time, it was Tamplin who was leading it - a tongue-in-cheek response to the criticism he and his club have received.\nLove it or loathe it, it is impossible to ignore the noise coming out of Billericay Town.", "summary": "A weekly wage bill of £20,000, a battalion of former Premier League players and an owner who has made himself manager and films team-talks for social media." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nMurray and Soares, who beat the Scot in the 2014 final, came through 6-2 6-3 to claim their sixth title together.\nThe pair teamed up in 2016 and have since won major titles at the Australian and US Open.\n\"We played some amazing tennis today,\" said Murray, 31.\nMurray is the first British player to win the doubles at Queen's since Jeremy Bates and American Kevin Curren won in 1990.\nMurray and Soares first had to complete their semi-final, as they trailed Croatia's Marin Cilic and Poland's Marcin Matkowski 1-6 5-3, 40-40, when play was suspended because of rain on Saturday.\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.\nCilic returned to the court less than an hour after losing the singles final to Feliciano Lopez, but Murray and Soares won 1-6 6-3 10-8.\nThey carried that momentum into the final, which followed immediately - once their next opponents had arrived on Centre Court.\nA Soares return gave them the first break for 3-1 and another brought them the set in game eight.\nMurray fended off two break points at the start of the second and again it was a Soares return that provided the breakthrough in game eight.\nThat left Murray to serve for the title and, after the French pair saved two match points, a first serve clinched the third.\n\"I think my heart rate dropped below 180 for the first time once we won the first set of this match, having had to get through the semi-final before,\" added Murray.\n\"We played a great match, a long day today, but it was worthwhile.\"", "summary": "Britain's Jamie Murray won his first Queen's Club title as he and Brazilian Bruno Soares beat France's Julien Beneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin at the Aegon Championships in London." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Vytautas Jokubauskas, 57, of Mayor's Walk in Peterborough has been charged with murdering Ramute Butkiene.\nThe body of Ms Butkiene, 42, who was formally indentified earlier, was found with no arms, legs or head at a house in Mayor's Walk last Friday.\nMr Jokubauskas will appear at Huntingdon Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\nMother-of-one Ms Butkiene was an agency worker in the city, Cambridgeshire Police said.\nOfficers said \"some body parts\" had been found and searches were continuing.\nThe torso was found after other tenants in the shared house reported a \"pungent smell\" and called police.\nA post-mortem examination failed to establish how Ms Butkiene died.\nMs Butkiene's family members in Peterborough and Lithuania have been informed, a police spokesman said.\nThe murder is being treated as an isolated incident and a dedicated team has been set up to investigate.", "summary": "A man has been charged with murder following the discovery of a woman's torso inside a suitcase." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Several hundred demonstrators rallied outside the reception hall in Rishon LeZion on Sunday, amid high security.\nThe groom, Mahmoud Mansour, had sought a court order to try to stop the protest from taking place but failed.\nIsraeli President Reuven Rivlin has condemned the demonstrations against the couple's union.\nSupporters of the far-right Jewish Lehava group, who oppose the intermarriage of Arab Muslims and Jews, were granted permission to picket the wedding as long as they did not come within 200 metres of the wedding hall.\nBut four protesters were arrested for failing to follow police instructions, Israel's Ynet News website reported.\nA counter-demonstration of left-wing protesters was also staged in support of the couple's marriage, with hundreds of police deployed to keep the two sets of demonstrators apart.\nThe bride, Morel Malka, and her husband invited 500 guests to celebrate their marriage on Sunday. Ms Malka, 23, had converted to Islam ahead of the ceremony.\n\"We live in true coexistence, and I don't really care what people say,\" Mr Mansour, 26, told Israel's Channel 2 ahead of the wedding,\nPresident Rivlin has been quoted by Israeli media describing the Lehava demonstrators as \"rodents gnawing under the shared democratic and Jewish foundation of Israel\".", "summary": "Four far-right Jewish protesters have been arrested at the wedding of a Jewish-born woman who converted to Islam and an Arab Muslim man in Israel." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a newspaper interview, David Coburn is alleged to have said: \"Humza Yousaf, or as I call him, Abu Hamza\".\nMr Yousaf told BBC Scotland the comment was \"Islamophobic\" and \"among the worst racial slurs\" he had ever received.\nA UKIP spokesman denied the comparison had been made and said it was a \"slip of the tongue\" on Mr Coburn's part.\nMr Yousaf, Scotland's minister for external affairs and international development, has written to UKIP leader Nigel Farage demanding that Mr Coburn, who is Scotland's only UKIP MEP, is expelled from the party.\nMr Yousaf said he was taking legal advice on the matter.\n\"I'm the first to tell people to report it, so if potentially a crime has been committed - and as I say, I'm seeking legal advice on that - then of course I will report him to the police.\n\"If not, then, you know, at least - at the very least - the political party UKIP should certainly be taking disciplinary action against him.\"\nRadical cleric Abu Hamza was sentenced to life in prison for a string of terrorism offences by a judge in New York in January, after being extradited from the UK.\nHamza, who previously lived in London, was jailed in the UK for seven years in 2006 for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred.\nThe comments were reportedly made over the telephone to a Daily Mail reporter during a conversation about the BBC Scotland's Big Immigration Debate, which took place earlier this week.\nMr Coburn is reported to have said: \"Humza Yousaf, or as I call him, Abu Hamza, didn't seem to turn up.\"\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland, Glasgow MSP Mr Yousaf said: \"I have had racist and Islamophobic slurs many times over the years, but this is among the worst. For this to come from an elected representative is beyond the pale and completely unacceptable.\"\nHe added: \"This is an insult to the entire Muslim community, which is fighting Islamophobia in society. It has caused hurt and deep offense. David Coburn should resign, and if he does not, Nigel Farage should remove him from UKIP.\"\nScotland's main political parties have united in condemning Mr Coburn's reported comments, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon describing them as \"reprehensible\".\nShe added: \"For David Coburn to effectively compare Humza to a convicted terrorist because he is Muslim is disgraceful and he must surely face consequences for that.\"\nScottish Labour leader Jim Murphy said: \"This isn't the first time that Mr Coburn has been caught out for having vile views. People across Scotland, including even those who voted for him, will now want to see the back of him.\"\nRuth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives tweeted: \"Totally unacceptable. Our country is better than this. And he's got form. Mindless idiot.\"\nMeanwhile, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie called Mr Coburn \"an offensive fool\".\nMazhar Khan, spokesman for the Muslim Council of Scotland, said: \"The stereotyping of Muslims as extremists and terrorists is one the most shameful forms of Islamophobia, and constantly used by right-wing groups such as the BNP and the English/Scottish Defence League to caricature Muslims.\n\"The fact that UKIP is no stranger to such controversy and has regularly been accused of having racists within its ranks only exacerbates the offence.\"\nMr Coburn was reported in the Daily Mail as saying he offered his \"sincerest apologies\" for the comments.\nHowever, UKIP's Scottish chairman, Arthur Misty Thackeray, denied a comparison with Abu Hamza had been made, and said his colleague had made a \"slip of the tongue\" and \"got a name wrong\".\nHe added: \"He simply got a name wrong, which many people do on a daily basis.\n\"For example, I very often get referred to as Minty, which I believe is a character from EastEnders, but I don't take offence at that and run greeting to the papers about Mistyphobia.\"", "summary": "Humza Yousaf has called on a UKIP MEP to resign after the Scottish government minister was reportedly compared to a convicted terrorist." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The England international, 30, joined Surrey from Worcestershire in 2009.\nHe has scored 10,878 runs in 182 first-class matches, including 21 centuries.\n\"He is a player of high class. Steven still harbours ambitions of playing for England and we will all work hard to support him,\" director of cricket Matt Maynard told the club website.\nDavies has been second-choice keeper to Ben Foakes at Surrey this summer.\n\"I have made no secret of my desire to play for England again and I hope that a new challenge along with a return to wicket-keeping will help kick my career onto the next level,\" he said.\nThe left-hander will make his last appearance for Surrey in Saturday's One-Day Cup final against Warwickshire, having scored 373 runs to help the county reach Lord's.", "summary": "Surrey wicketkeeper-batsman Steven Davies will join Somerset on an three-year deal from next season after he rejected a new contract at The Oval." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "BBC Sport's Marc Higginson has put together a little quiz to get the grey matter ticking over. Good luck!", "summary": "There's some weird and wonderful tales to tell in the Europa League... but how much do you know about the competition?" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "More than 800 pages on NHS.uk automatically redirected unsuspecting users to pages that contain either malware or advertising.\nThe affected pages were highlighted by a user who posted details of the problem on Reddit.\nIn a statement, the NHS said its site had not been maliciously attacked and that it had fixed the problem.\n\"An internal coding error has caused an incorrect redirect on some pages on NHS Choices since Sunday evening,\" a statement explained.\n\"Routine security checks alerted us to this problem on Monday morning at which point we identified the problem and corrected the code.\"\nReddit user Muzzers said he had stumbled across an infected page while he had been browsing for information about the flu.\n\"Digging a bit deeper I found hundreds more pages which redirect to either an advertisement or malware infested page,\" he wrote.\nUsers trying to find details on dementia, pregnancy, vaccinations, mental health and other areas also found themselves sent to the malicious pages.\nThe fault occurred due to a typo within the NHS website's source code.\nA developer accidentally wrote \"googleaspis.com\" rather than \"googleapis.com\" when creating the site.\nThe mistake went unnoticed until the incorrectly-spelt address was registered by someone in the Czech Republic over the weekend, and was then used to capitalise on the error.\nThe NHS said the site would not be completely clear of the problem until later on Monday.\nIt added: \"NHS Choices is treating this issue with urgency and once resolved we plan to undertake a thorough and detailed analysis to ensure that a full code review is undertaken and steps put in place to ensure no reoccurrence.\"", "summary": "A \"coding error\" on the NHS website exposed users to harmful websites rather than health advice." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nDevils recovered from Darian Dzuirzynski's early goal to lead 3-1 with goals by Andrew Lord, Patrick Asselin and Sean Bentivoglio.\nMark Heatley reduced the lead with four minutes to go before Joey Haddad sealed the points for Devils.\nCardiff play Sheffield Steelers in the Challenge Cup final on Sunday.", "summary": "Cardiff Devils are nine points clear of Belfast at the top of Ice Hockey's Elite League following their 4-2 win over Manchester Storm on Friday night." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The PM was speaking in the early hours after formally setting out his aims to EU counterparts in Brussels.\nHe addressed EU leaders for 10 minutes at a summit dominated by the migrant crisis and Greek debt, although his exact speech was not reported.\nThe European Council's Donald Tusk said there was a will to help the UK.\nHowever Mr Tusk, who is overseeing the membership negotiations, added that basic values, such as freedom of movement to live and work within the EU, \"were not for sale\".\nDetailed discussions would now begin in earnest, he added, with EU leaders next considering the matter in December.\nMr Cameron, who wants to reform the UK's membership of the EU before holding an in/out referendum of the British public by the end of 2017, tweeted that \"significant progress\" had been made in Brussels.\nThe prime minister, who is under pressure from his Conservative backbenchers to deliver a far-reaching and lasting deal, has not set out in full detail what he wants but his key demands include:\nTo get what it wants the UK believes it will need to rewrite treaties agreed by all 28 EU members.\nDowning Street has said the prime minister remains committed to \"proper, full-on treaty change\" but it has acknowledged this is unlikely by the end of 2017 since it would trigger referendums in other EU countries as well.\nThe government is understood to be seeking \"legally-binding\" guarantees by the time of the referendum that EU treaties would be changed at some point in the future.\nIt was during the night's long, acrimonious discussion about Europe's migrant crisis that David Cameron was given time to set out his case. The prime minister's remarks to fellow EU leaders were brief and will not have been a surprise.\nHe had spoken to each of them in the weeks leading up to this summit - explaining why Britain will have an in/out referendum by the end of 2017 and sketching out his aims.\nHe has also made it clear Britain could leave the EU if he doesn't get a meaningful deal. For Britain, for Europe, this summit has marked a significant moment - and the start of official renegotiation talks between London and Brussels.\nThe prime minister of Malta said David Cameron \"had worked the crowd well\" over recent weeks. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was broadly supportive too, but said EU leaders had some different ideas to those proposed by Mr Cameron.\nThere remains a big question mark over exactly what the prime minister will be asking for.\nAspirations such as new powers for national parliaments, a British exemption from \"ever closer union\" and efforts to curb EU migration to Britain through welfare changes will be controversial.\nWhat does David Cameron want?\nThe BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler said EU leaders accepted treaty change would be needed further down the line to reflect closer integration within the eurozone.\n\"The idea is to use that to get in the British changes as well but that cannot happen before 2017,\" she said.\nEstonian prime minister Taavi Roivas told the BBC that treaty change could not be ruled out but a process which required a referendum in every country could pose some \"difficulties\".\n\"First of all we have to agree what we want to achieve and then we will talk the legal aspects, whether it is treaty change or secondary legislation,\" he told Radio 4's Today.\nWhile the principle of freedom of movement could not be circumscribed in any way, he said EU leaders should be willing to listen to all the UK's ideas, including on benefit restrictions.\n\"I wouldn't draw any red lines just yet. My country men are coming to Britain only to work and to study and are not travelling for benefits so if Britain has this serious concern, we should be open for this discussion.\"\nUKIP leader Nigel Farage said the prime minister was \"accepting the inevitable\" that there would be no treaty change.\nHe said there would be \"nothing really fundamental in Britain's renegotiation of its membership\".\nFormer Conservative Home Office minister Damian Green, a pro-European MP, said it was \"perfectly sensible for the prime minister to leave his options open\" to get the results he wanted.\nBut Labour's shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn said Mr Cameron was \"signalling retreat while pretending that all he ever wanted was a post-dated cheque\".\nMr Benn said Mr Cameron had \"made a mess\" and \"should have known what the position of other countries would be\".\nTory MP Steve Baker, co-founder of Conservatives for Britain, said he and colleagues were \"more concerned\" about the \"substance\" of any new relationship between the UK and the EU \"rather than the mechanism\" which will deliver it.", "summary": "David Cameron says he is delighted the process of \"reform and renegotiation\" of the UK's membership of the EU is \"properly under way\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Suffolk Police said the victim, in her late 20s, was attacked in Ipswich by two men sometime between 03:00 and 03:45 GMT on Saturday.\nShe was walking along Rope Walk and crossing Grimwade Street when she was grabbed from behind by the men who forced her into a nearby car park.\nShe suffered neck and face injuries.\nTrained specialist officers and police staff have been working with the victim whilst extensive inquiries are ongoing in the local area.\nDet Supt Eamonn Bridger said, \"This is a despicable, sustained sexual attack by two unknown individuals on an innocent young woman, who has been left traumatised and with significant injuries as a result of the actions of the men involved\".\nThe force is appealing for witnesses, including anyone with dash cam footage who was driving in the area at the time of the offence.", "summary": "A woman has been left unconscious and seriously injured after what police have described as a \"despicable, sustained sexual assault\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Trailing 2-1 from the home leg, Saints lost 1-0 to a late Trakai goal.\n\"Our approach play was good, but we lacked quality in the final third and that's killed us,\" said Wright.\n\"We need to get more quality in to take us to the next level. If we don't then we'll end up with more frustrating performances like that.\"\nThe Perth side had plenty of possession, but defender Joe Shaughnessy, who scored in the first leg, squandered three headed chances.\nMaksim Maksimov netted the only goal on 88 minutes, with Trakai playing most of the second half with 10 men after the dismissal of captain Arunas Klimavicius for a second booking.\n\"You can't say we played badly,\" Wright told BBC Scotland. \"We made opportunities.\n\"I'm extremely disappointed for the players because they put a lot into the game.\n\"We put two good crosses into the box all night and the keeper has had to make two saves.\n\"The final ball let us down. Crosses just weren't good enough.\n\"We have given away three poor goals and that's been the difference. They have defended better than us.\"\nSummer signings Stefan Scougall and Scott Tanser both started in Vilnius, but Wright is anxious to strengthen his squad further.\n\"We're a good side,\" he said. \"We're hard to beat. But, when it comes to games like this and we need to break teams dow,n we don't have that quality.\n\"We're a small club with the ninth or 10th (smallest) budget in the league. When it comes to Europe and we don't have that quality, that's when it's highlighted most.\"\nSaints' exit follows Rangers' shock defeat by Progres Niederkorn of Luxembourg, while Celtic and Aberdeen begin their European campaigns next week.\n\"You could argue Scottish football in Europe has been in decline for a long period,\" added Wright.\n\"I go back to the fact we are a small club. If we get past the first round, it's a great achievement, but we've let ourselves down.\n\"I can't speak for other managers, I can only focus on my team and trying to improve my squad.\n\"I've got really good players and they give everything, but how do you get better in Europe? You need that extra quality.\n\"I look at the league and it's so strong. I think we'll do well again. But, if we want to maintain fourth place, we've got to get players in.\"", "summary": "Manager Tommy Wright made a case for new signings after St Johnstone were eliminated from the first round of Europa League qualifying in Lithuania." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "On Thursday afternoon, fans booking weekend flights to Paris and Lyon were met with eye-watering prices.\nRyanair announced that it would schedule five extra return flights from Dublin to Lyon on Saturday and Sunday.\nBy 14:00 BST, a Dublin to Lyon return flight was priced at €629 (£482).\nFlybe said on Thursday afternoon that seats were available on flights from Belfast to Paris via English airports.\nHowever, these flights were also coming in at about £500 return.\nMeanwhile, an Aer Lingus return flight from Dublin to Paris, leaving on Friday and returning on Monday, was priced at €855 (£656) on Thursday afternoon.\nThe only available Stena Line direct sailing from Rosslare to Cherbourg departs at 20:30 BST on Thursday evening and will see football fans arrive in France at 16:30 local time on Friday.\nThe website advertises sailings on this route for prices as low as £89 for a single car and adult.\nHowever, on Thursday afternoon a single car with one adult and one seat on board rose to £297.\nNorthern Ireland fan Gary Arrell went online on Thursday to book return flights to Paris for himself and his wife, but decided against it when he realised it would cost £1,050.\n\"To be honest, I was tempted, but my wife was dead against paying that much for flights that, on Wednesday evening, were less than half that price.\n\"That wasn't even a direct flight - it was going through England.\n\"I would have booked earlier, but I thought there was no point before knowing if I'd have a ticket to the match.\n\"I know it's a matter of supply and demand, but it does feel like they're sticking the arm in a bit.\"\nMr Arrell faced further frustration when he logged on to the Irish FA site to secure one of the Northern Ireland v Wales tickets that went on sale at 13.00 on Thursday.\n\"After 50 minutes in an online queue, I was told all the tickets were sold,\" he said, although the Dundonald man managed to be philosophical about his bad luck.\n\"Maybe I'll get on the bike and take my chances with a ticket when I get there!\n\"It would have been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but it just wasn't meant to be.\"\nBelfast International Airport said it has experienced a few knock-on delays due to French air traffic controllers strike, but no cancellations", "summary": "For anyone who failed to secure tickets to the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland matches this weekend, there may be one consolation - the travel costs for those who did." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 34-year-old assumed the lead on the first lap and held off the challenge of Ducati-mounted Shane Byrne to secure his ninth career win in the series.\nLaverty was sixth in race two and lies second overall, behind leader Byrne.\nAndy Reid won the British Supersport 600 race and Josh Elliott was second in the British Superstock 1000cc event.\nFermanagh rider Elliott, who is defending the title he won last season, overtook fellow Tyco BMW rider Ian Hutchinson on the final lap to clinch runner-up spot.\nThe race was won by Scotsman Taylor Mackenzie, with another former champion, Clogher's Keith Farmer, in sixth position.\nJordanstown man Reid was making his first appearance for the Quattro Plant Kawasaki team and competing for the first time since suffering a fractured wrist at Oulton Park last August.\nAnother Northern Ireland competitor, Andrew Irwin, led during the early stages of the Supersport outing but retired on the fifth lap of 12.\nLaverty has finished in fourth place in the British Superbike standings in 2010, 2011 and 2015 and is in his second season with his Moneymore-based team, run by Hector and Philip Neill.\n\"It is difficult to just run out front and look at your lap timer. I only looked at my pitboard once as I just wanted to concentrate on being as smooth as I could and not making any mistakes and the toughest thing was mid-race as my hands went a bit numb,\" said Laverty following his race win.\n\"I didn't feel as comfortable as I wanted to be and I was losing time in a few areas and then I pushed on and it was enough to bring it home.\"\nLaverty was battling for the lead with eventual race two winner Peter Hickman, but fell back to sixth, and has 35 points, with series leader Byrne on 40, thanks to two runner-up positions.\nLaverty's Tyco BMW team-mate Christian Iddon was third in both events, while Glenn Irwin was 14th and 13th, with his fellow Carrickfergus man Alastair Seeley 14th in the second outing after failing to finish the first.\nThe next round of the championships will be held at Oulton Park on 2 May.", "summary": "Toomebridge rider Michael Laverty took victory for the Tyco TAS BMW team in the first race of this season's British Superbike Championship at Silverstone." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Iwata underwent surgery last year and had resumed his duties after a brief period of recovery.\nA highly revered figure in the Japanese gaming scene, he was considered the leading figure behind some of Nintendo's most popular devices since he joined the company in 2000.\nMost recently, he led Nintendo into the rapidly growing mobile gaming sector.\nGrowing up in Japan in the 1980s, Super Mario was a gaming character that you couldn't avoid. But as the gaming population started to decline in the late 90s, Mr Iwata knew that he needed to make products that were more appealing to non-gamers.\nAnd he succeeded. Nintendo DS quickly became the world's best-selling handheld game console when it was released in 2004.\nTwo years later, there came another successful launch of Wii which was dubbed the computer game that even your grandma can play. Together, they switched on millions of new converts to computer games.\nBut the rise of mobile phone games has posed a serious threat to Nintendo and some investors questioned his decision not to enter the market sooner.\nAs he put it himself, Mr Iwata was a chief executive who had the brain of a games developer and the heart of a gamer.\nNintendo's beloved gamer CEO\nThe iconic game maker has been losing market share to top competitors like Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's XBox, with its latest Wii U console third in line.\nNintendo made its first annual operating profit in four years to the year that ended in March.\nMr Iwata started out as a programmer in a Nintendo subsidiary in the 1980s and became president of Nintendo in 2002.\nUnder his leadership, the company launched its hugely successful Wii and Nintendo DS consoles and he was considered the crucial driver behind the focus on easy-to-use consoles, a move that allowed the company to tap into a much wider audience beyond the traditional gaming community.\n\"Mr Iwata was a titan - he certainly will be missed,\" Marc Einstein, head of digital media at Frost & Sullivan in Tokyo, told the BBC.\n\"He was very much known for being a gamer first and a [chief executive] second - a game changing figure.\"\nTributes have been coming in on social media with the team at PlayStation tweeting: \"Thank you for everything, Mr. Iwata.\"\nâ€", "summary": "Japanese video game maker Nintendo has said its chief executive Satoru Iwata has died of cancer at the age of 55." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Speed skating mass start and alpine skiing nations team events will also take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea.\nThe International Olympic Committee hopes the changes will provide \"youth appeal\" and boost female participation.\nIn big air competitors perform a trick off a large jump and snowboarder Lesley McKenna said the addition of the event will \"double\" Britain's medal chances.\n\"If big air becomes an Olympic sport it would be a very exciting prospect,\" McKenna, who competed in halfpipe in three Winter Olympics and is now GB Park and Pipe programme manager, told BBC Sport in April.\n\"We have world-class big air athletes and there is strength and depth with lots of youngsters coming through too.\"\nGreat Britain won a record-equalling four medals at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Half of those were provided by curling teams, who will have a chance to help Britain to an improved medal haul in 2018 with the addition of a mixed doubles event.\nLizzy Yarnold's skeleton gold, silver for the men's curlers and bronze for the women's curlers and Jenny Jones in snowboard slopestyle in 2014 matched the four medals won at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix in 1924.\nSpeed skating mass start involves up to 20 skaters racing around the oval at the same time.\nThe alpine skiing nations team event is for both men and women.", "summary": "Four events are to be added to the 2018 Winter Olympics, including snowboard big air and curling mixed doubles." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He is to become the university's head of public affairs for one year, covering for maternity leave.\nSir Simon, who served as justice minister during the coalition, will represent the university in areas such as dealing with government.\nThe OU's Steve Hill said \"effective engagement\" with the government and \"key influencers\" was \"vital\".\nSir Simon was a longstanding MP for Bermondsey in south London, winning a by-election in 1983 and remaining as MP until losing in last year's general election.\nAs a prominent Liberal Democrat, Sir Simon had faced strong criticism from student leaders during protests over the increase in tuition fees in England to £9,000, when the party had pledged to oppose any rise in fees.\nSir Simon eventually abstained in the fees vote in the House of Commons.\nHe is now joining the Open University, which has been campaigning for more support for part-time students and greater recognition of the economic and social value of part-time university courses.\nThe university, which also created the online learning platform Futurelearn, wants to reverse the significant decline in part-time and mature students.\nSteve Hill, the Open University's director of external engagement, said: \"Part-time study has an important role to play in our country in terms of skills, social mobility and economic prosperity.\n\"Effective engagement with the UK Government and other key influencers is therefore vital to ensure these benefits are fully realised.\n\"Simon brings with him a wealth of relevant experience and insight, as well as sharing our commitment to social mobility and opening up access to education.\"", "summary": "Sir Simon Hughes, former deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, is taking up a post with the Open University." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Two gang leaders received 10-year jail terms for heading the group supplying cocaine worth tens of thousands of pounds into the area.\nSix others also received jail terms at Caernarfon Crown Court.\nNorth Wales Police said it would \"tirelessly pursue\" such offenders.\nOfficers mounted a covert operation in 2013, bugging the business premises of Simon Roberts, 40, from Cefn Mawr.\nHe received a 10 years after admitting drugs conspiracy and money laundering charges along with Wayne McKenzie, 40, from Manchester, who received a similar term on Thursday.\nSpeaking after the case, Det Con John Gage said: \"The arrests were made as part of Operation Scorpion's continued fight against serious and organised crime in the region.\n\"These sentences under this latest phase of the operation prove to our communities that North Wales Police will tirelessly pursue those who inflict this level of criminality on our streets.\"\nDavid Taylor, 55, from Pentre Gwyn, Wrexham, and Philip Burke, 44, from Whiston, Liverpool, who acted as couriers for the gang, were also jailed.\nTaylor got six years and eight months with five years and four months for Burke who had been found in possession of £45,000.\nSix year sentences were imposed on David Arfon Jones, 31, from Ruabon, and Jason Maddocks-Jones, 35, from Chirk.\nLaura Roberts, 26, from Cefn Mawr, got an 18-month suspended sentence with 300 hours of unpaid work for providing banking arrangements for her husband.\nShe was the only defendant to have pleaded not guilty.\nLyndsey Bradley, 26, from Liverpool, the partner of McKenzie, got a 14-month suspended sentence, also with 300 hours unpaid work, for a similar offence.", "summary": "Police have welcomed jail sentences given to a drugs gang in Wrexham as part of a wider operation to tackle organised crime in north Wales." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Powys and Ceredigion will be among the first UK areas to benefit from the UK government's plan to end mobile black spots at 60,000 homes and businesses.\nMontgomeryshire AM Russell George and MP Glyn Davies said it would help communities and local economies.\nThe first of the new sites could \"go live\" by the end of this year.\nA total of £150m has been set aside for the Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP), which was first announced in October 2011.\nThe UK government has given more details, including naming which parts of the country will share the cash and in what order.\nMr Davies said the announcement that mid Wales would be among the first areas to benefit from the scheme was \"good news\".\n\"This project will see mobile phone coverage extended to areas of rural Powys where currently none exists,\" he said.\n\"It will also provide a significant boost to local economies across the region and allow people to do business in a much easier way.\"\nMr George, chair of the National Assembly's cross party group on digital communication, said: \"Wales has tended to be well behind the UK curve when it comes to the development of digital communications infrastructure and we continue to play catch-up, which certainly hasn't helped our general economic performance.\n\"We desperately need to strengthen and enhance our digital infrastructure if we are going to ensure our rural communities are viable places to live and work in the future.\"\nThe government funding will be used to buy the right to erect masts on properties and pay for the infrastructure.\nThe equipment will then be used by network operators Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three.\nThe scheme has been divided into five phases, the first two of which are already under way.\nThe UK government said efforts to identify sites for new masts are already under way in much of Wales, Lancashire and Aberdeenshire.\nThe Scottish Highlands are among areas where the work will be completed last.\nA map showing which areas are being given priority by communications infrastructure company Arqiva - which is running the project - has been published by the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS).", "summary": "Plans to extend mobile phone coverage to rural mid Wales will make a \"real difference\" to people living and working there, politicians say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 68-year-old owner of French Top 14 side Montpellier wants to take over the Cherry and Whites, reports L'Equipe.\nMartin St Quinton has been the sole owner of Gloucester since February.\n\"Any potential investment in Gloucester would be seen as an important opportunity to develop the club,\" a club statement said.\n\"Any agreement would need to have the consent of the relevant regulatory bodies and currently there is no agreement entered into or guarantee of an investment.\n\"In the event of any investment, both Gloucester and Montpellier will remain separate entities, independent and autonomous from each other.\"\nMontpellier are second in the French top flight, while Gloucester are eighth in the Premiership with three wins from 10 league games.\nPaul Furley, BBC Radio Gloucestershire sports editor\nThe big thing is getting approval from the game's governing bodies to any proposed dual ownership by Mohed Altrad.\nI understand there are five governing bodies who would have to approve the investment. Whether they would intend to veto any such plans remains to be seen.", "summary": "Gloucester have had \"discussions\" with France-based billionaire Mohed Altrad over a potential purchase of shares, the Premiership club have confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 34-year-old, who led his country to 2012 Africa Cup of Nations title, is still playing for Zambian top-flight side Green Buffaloes.\n\"Now I'm still thinking about playing. But after retiring, I'll know what I want to do next,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\"Coaching is just one of the options hence me getting the basic training.\"\nKatongo has already acquired some coaching qualifications with Zambian Football Association as well as the Confederation of African Football.\n\"It's important for me to get these badges because anything can happen in life,\" added the 2012 BBC African Footballer of the Year.\n\"I am approaching the end of my career though I feel my legs can take me up to another four years or so before I start thinking about retiring.\"\nMeanwhile, Katongo has criticised Zambia for what he sees as an ability to plan for the future - in stark contrast to his own forethought.\nAfter being crowned African champions almost five years ago, Chipolopolo have suffered two first-round exits since and have not made it to next year's tournament in Gabon.\n\"I think we failed to qualify for the tournament because the transition after winning the cup in 2012 was not handled properly,\" Katongo said.\n\"A lot of players that won the tournament have been discarded for new ones who lack the necessary experience.\n\"We need to be patient in order for us to build a strong team for the future and avoid rushing young players.\"", "summary": "Former Zambia captain Christopher Katongo has begun studying for his coaching badges as he considers a future career in coaching." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The IPCC confirmed it was investigating the evidence Lord Stevens gave to the Macpherson Inquiry in 1998.\nThe Met said it referred the matter to the IPCC following a public complaint.\nLord Stevens has previously denied any wrongdoing.\nHe was Deputy Commissioner of the Met from 1998 to 2000, while the Macpherson report - which found evidence of institutional racism within the force - was being compiled.\nIt was ordered following concerns about the force's investigation into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, who was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack by a gang of white youths in April 1993.\nIn a statement the Met said: \"Following the receipt of a public complaint in relation to Lord John Stevens, former commissioner, the Metropolitan Police Service made a referral to the Independent Police Complaints Commission on 4 November 2014.\n\"The complaint has been made in relation to Lord Stevens' role as the then Deputy Commissioner and disclosure to the Macpherson Inquiry.\n\"This issue was raised in the Stephen Lawrence Independent Review by Mark Ellison QC, published on 6 March, where he concluded there were defects in the level of information that the MPS revealed to the Inquiry.\"\nIt took more than 18 years to bring two of Mr Lawrence's killers - Gary Dobson and David Norris - to justice. They were found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey in January 2012, and given life sentences.\nThe pair had initially been arrested along with three other men in 1993, but prosecutors decided there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.\nThen in 2007 the case was reviewed following a BBC documentary which raised fresh questions about the suspects. After using new forensic technology police charged Dobson and Norris with the murder in 2011.", "summary": "Former Metropolitan Police chief Lord Stevens is being investigated by the police watchdog over information he gave to the inquiry into the Met's handling of the Stephen Lawrence murder case." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The move means firms will have to demonstrate \"financial responsibility\" for drilling operations before a licence is granted.\nIt follows a review held in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.\nBut environmental group WWF Scotland said the guidelines would do little to prevent oil spills.\nIt also claimed the guidelines would make no difference to wildlife caught up in any future incident.\nThe UK Department of Energy and Climate Change ordered a review of regulations in light of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.\nThe resulting Maitland Review was published in December 2011.\nIn announcing the government response to the review last month, UK Energy Minister John Hayes said it was \"vital\" that oil and gas activities met \"the highest possible standards of safety and environmental protection\".\nUnder the new guidance, UK offshore oil and gas firms will need to show they are able to pay for an incident which occurs during a specific operation.\nThe guidelines suggest existing insurance cover remains broadly appropriate for many operators, but call for increased levels of cover from explorers in more difficult waters, where the cost of a spill could be greater.\nLang Banks, of WWF Scotland, said: \"While it's only right that oil and gas explorers should be forced to be insured to levels high enough to cover the costs of capping and clean-up, these new rules will do little to prevent future spills.\n\"Total's Elgin and Shell's Gannet Alpha platforms were all insured but it still didn't prevent accidents at those facilities.\n\"Any level of insurance cover is meaningless to the thousands of marine birds, mammals and other wildlife that would be wiped out by a single deepwater oil spill.\"\nHe added: \"The only way to prevent future spills and accidents is to end our addiction to oil, stop giving tax breaks to the oil industry and stop exploration for new oil and gas in dangerous deepwater locations.\"", "summary": "New guidelines on covering the cost of oil spills in the North Sea have come into effect." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said military action must end against separatists in the east.\nMr Poroshenko said he would meet Russian leaders soon but vowed to take a tough line on any armed separatists.\nUnrest continues in the east, with pro-Russia militiamen halting flights at Donetsk airport.\nHeavy gunfire is now reported there, with thick black smoke rising from the area. Military aircraft have been seen overhead.\nMeanwhile election observers said Sunday's vote was a genuine one that largely met international standards.\nThe mission from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) also said it gave the new president \"legitimacy\" to open a dialogue with separatists in the east.\nMr Lavrov told a press conference in Moscow: \"We are ready for dialogue with Kiev's representatives, with Petro Poroshenko.\"\nMr Lavrov said EU and US mediation were not needed, but warned Kiev that continuing military operations against the separatists would be a \"colossal mistake\".\nHe said: \"As our president [Vladimir Putin] has said, we shall treat the results of the expression of will of the Ukrainian people with respect.\"\nBut Mr Lavrov said Kiev must also treat its people with respect and that dialogue with the east was necessary to resolve the crisis.\nMr Poroshenko said he hoped to meet Russian leaders early next month, after a trip to Poland where he will meet the US president and EU leaders.\nHowever, he warned he would take a tough line on armed militiamen.\nHe said: \"Their goal is to turn Donbass [east Ukraine] into Somalia. I will not let anyone do this to our state and I hope that Russia will support my approach.\"\nMr Poroshenko also indicated he would keep current Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, saying: \"There are no plans to change the government leadership.\"\nMr Poroshenko, 48, currently has 53.75% of the vote, with 70% of the ballots counted, and would not need a run-off. Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is a distant second on 13.1%.\nFull results are expected on Monday.\nThe election came three months after pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev amid bloody street protests and calls for closer ties with the EU.\nSince then, Russia has annexed the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine and armed separatists in the eastern provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk have declared independence.\nMr Yanukovych has also said he will accept the election result, \"no matter which regions and what percentage of the population voted\", Russian media reported.\nUkraine's interim government is engaged in an offensive in the east to quash the uprising that has left scores dead.\nPro-Russian separatists severely disrupted voting there. No polling stations were open in Donetsk city, and across the region only seven out of 12 district electoral commissions were operating.\n\"Has Ukraine been reborn?\" asks the Ukrainian edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda. It says the election \"will have a special place in the history books\". But the paper notes that Crimeans did not vote and the voting in Donbass and Luhansk - formerly Ukraine's \"electoral core\", proceeded with \"great difficulty\".\n\"We have survived,\" proclaims popular Ukrainian daily Segodnya.\nClaims in the Russian media that Ukraine is overrun by extremists and neo-Nazis are ridiculed by some social media commentators. The two right-wing candidates - Dmytro Yarosh and Oleh Tyahnybok - polled less than 2% in total.\nProminent Ukrainian journalist Mustafa Nayyem proclaims an \"epic fail\" of Russian propaganda. \"Vladimir Putin won't sleep tonight,\" he predicts.\n:A turning point, or business as usual?\nHowever, the central elections commission said about 60% of Ukraine's 35.5 million eligible voters had turned out.\nUnrest continued on Monday.\nFlights were suspended at Sergei Prokofiev airport in Donetsk after several dozen separatists from the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic demanded Ukrainian troops guarding the inner perimeter be removed.\nOfficials said there had been \"shots and confrontation\".\nThe head of Donetsk airport's press service, Dmitry Kosinov, said: \"On the territory of the airport there are armed people, this is ample reason to halt our work on security grounds.\"\nUkrainian TV is also reporting clashes in the villages of Semenivka and Andriyivka near the separatist stronghold of Sloviansk.", "summary": "Russia says it is \"open to dialogue\" with the new president of Ukraine, as initial results suggested Petro Poroshenko would win its election." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Bartlomiej, 30, who was in rehab in his native Poland, lost 1.5 litres of blood in a haemorrhage caused by his habit.\nMeanwhile, Freedom of Information requests revealed dozens of reports of thefts across seven hospitals.\nSince 2012 police have been called, staff attacked and patients, not linked to the gang, have lost consciousness.\nBartlomiej, who did not wish to give his surname, lived in London for more than a year. He said: \"We lived in various places, always nearby hospitals.\n\"We were squatting, or we just illegally lived in houses or different accommodation.\n\"Those were the places we were binge drinking. It's a really simple life.\"\nHe listed Charing Cross Hospital, King's College Hospital, North Middlesex Hospital, St George's Hospital, Lambeth Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital as among the institutions they targeted.\nBartlomiej continued: \"You don't have to steal it because it's widely available - we've just been walking in with a plastic cup.\n\"If it was manual dispenser we just filled a half of a cup of this spirit gel and we mixed it with water, half-and-half.\n\"You don't need to drink a lot of it to get drunk.\n\"I've lost a few of my friends, the ones who drank Ace cider and hand wash gel.\"\nThe deaths of at least three people in London have been linked by coroners to the consumption of alcohol hand wash since 2008. Two were poisoned while one drowned in a canal in Paddington after visiting St Mary's Hospital.\nAnd a BBC London Freedom of Information request found cases reported at Barts Health NHS Trust, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, St George's Hospital, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals, Homerton Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and Guy's and St Thomas Hospital.\nGuy's and St Thomas saw the most cases, with 29 reports of hand wash theft in the past three years.\nA spokeswoman for the hospital said hand wash was vital to maintain hygiene, but staff were told to remain vigilant about people drinking it and to report anything suspicious.\nHowever, incident logs obtained by the BBC made clear the problems caused on London's hospital wards by those swallowing the substance.\n• At the Royal Free Hospital a patient was found unconscious in his bed with alcohol gel by the bedside and another container in his bag. Emergency care had to be given.\n• At St George's Hospital a patient was found drinking the gel in bed. According to the medical report he was constantly trying to get up, and then tripped and fell. The log described the subsequent action taken as: \"Patient put back to bed.\"\n• At the Royal London Hospital a member of staff was assaulted by someone stealing hand gel. Security or police have been called by the trust on four occasions over the issue.\nJanice Stevens, interim chief nurse at the Royal London, said: \"A nurse was assaulted when a member of the public was trying to take alcohol gel, which they were going to consume.\n\"Security was immediately called, the person was removed and the nurse was supported following the assault.\"\nShe continued: \"The alcohol gel is locked and we've removed alcohol gel from the non-clinical areas such as outpatients, which is lower in risk of infection.\n\"Staff are aware of the importance of keeping an eye on the gel and we are just piloting an alcohol-free gel to see whether that has the same impact on the bugs. It's there to prevent infections such as MRSA.\"\nDr Sarah Jarvis, a leading GP, warned: \"These alcohol gels are not made to be drunk. Therefore they will have all sorts of things added to them which will be very toxic.\n\"They can cause severe inflammation on the inside of your gut.\n\"This is going to be a particular problem for alcoholics because they tend to have inflammation on the stomach and they can have swollen veins inside their stomach, so they are much more prone to bleeding.\"\nShe continued: \"You can also get alcohol poisoning, which can be fatal.\n\"There's absolutely no question that these things can kill and there have been several situations where patients have been killed.\"\nHospitals across London detailed the extra precautions they were taking, which included installing lockable dispensers. In other cases a foam was used rather than a gel, hand wash was removed from some public areas and non-alcoholic wash or gel with a thicker consistency trialled.\nAn NHS England spokeswoman said: \"In the interests of patient safety, hospitals take a vigilant approach to preventing infection.\n\"Hospitals have alcohol hand wash to protect patients, the public and NHS staff, and to support high standards of cleanliness.\n\"We would condemn any gangs or individuals targeting hand gel for their own purposes which could put patients' health wellbeing at risk.\"\nThe Metropolitan Police and the Department for Health made no comment.", "summary": "A street drinker who nearly died from drinking alcoholic hand wash has detailed how his gang systematically raided London hospitals for the fluid." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The right-back, 27, has joined until the end of the season, after leaving Greek outfit PAS Giannina, Hearts confirmed.\nStruna made his Slovenia debut in 2012 and has earned 25 caps for his country.\n\"I'm an attacking full-back and I think I'll be a good fit based on the ideas presented to me by the club and the head coach,\" he said.\n\"I like possession football and I understand that is the way Hearts want to play, so I am optimistic.\"\nHead coach Ian Cathro has been seeking to add to his defence after Igor Rossi left Hearts to join Saudi Arabian side Al-Faisaly Harmah.\nHearts also lost Alim Ozturk to Turkish club Boluspor, while full-back Callum Paterson is out for the rest of the season with knee ligament damage and Faycal Rherras will be at the Africa Cup of Nations with Morocco.\nMeanwhile, Paterson has undergone surgery on the knee injury he sustained in the 4-0 win over Kilmarnock on 27 December.\nScotland cap Paterson, 22, will be out of contract in the summer and scored 10 goals in 24 appearances this season.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "Hearts have bolstered their defensive options by signing Slovenian international Andraz Struna." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Alan Clater, from Grantham in Lincolnshire, was found with hand-rolling and raw tobacco when he was stopped on the M4 near Swindon.\nHM Revenue and Customs estimated it would have lost £260,000 in tax.\nClater was given two 18-month jail terms, suspended for two years, to run concurrently after he was found guilty of tax evasion last month.\nThe 62-year-old was also given a nine month supervision order, made to do 100 hours of unpaid work, pay £1,000 costs and the £100 victim surcharge at Swindon Crown Court.\nClater, of Hornsby Road in Grantham, was stopped on the motorway in a routine operation by Wiltshire police and HMRC.\nOfficers searched his hire van discovering boxes and bin liners filled with the illegal tobacco.\nThey found 404kg (890lbs) of hand-rolling tobacco and 1.2 tonnes of raw tobacco.\nInsp Steve Cox, from Wiltshire police, said: \"We cannot underestimate the impact of this sort of crime on the public purse and it is only right that this man was not able to get away with it.\"\nThe court ordered the destruction of the tobacco.", "summary": "A taxi driver caught with more than 1.5 tonnes of illegal tobacco has been handed a suspended jail term." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Health Foundation review of official NHS data between 2011-12 and 2016-17 found longer waits for cancer, A&E and routine operations.\nLast year the NHS missed all three targets for the first time in its history - and researchers warned it could get worse before it improves.\nBut the Conservatives said investment was being made to improve services.\n\"Under Theresa May's leadership, the NHS has more doctors, more nurses and record funding,\" a spokesman added.\nThe Health Foundation chose the last five years because 2012 is when the most recent target - the 18-week wait for routine operations - came into force.\nIt found growing numbers of people were waiting longer than the official target times for each of the three measures:\nResearcher Tim Gardner said: \"Maintaining, let alone improving, the quality of care provided is going to be very difficult in the current financial climate.\n\"Funding for the NHS in England will need to increase if these hard won gains to the quality of patient care are to be upheld and built upon in the future.\n\"Waiting time targets for A&E, cancer and consultant-led treatment are a useful barometer of pressure on the NHS.\"\nThe four-hour A&E target was established in 2004 - although the way it was measured changed in 2010.\nCurrently 95% of patients are expected to be seen and treated or admitted in four hours, but that was achieved in only 89.1% of cases last year - the worst performance since the target was introduced.\nThe 2.5 million patients who waited more than four hours was seven times higher than the numbers who waited that long a decade ago.\nOn hospital operations, which includes things such as knee and hip replacements, 92% of patients should get treatment within 18 weeks of going on the waiting list.\nThat was introduced in 2012 - another target was used previously for routine care - and has been met each year since, until 2016-17 when 90.7% were seen in that timeframe.\nThe cancer target dates back to 2009. It measures the length of time between an urgent referral from a GP to the point at which treatment starts. This is meant to take no longer than 62 days in 85% of cases.\nBut last year only 81.8% of patients were seen that quickly, according to the Health Foundation.\nEngland is not unique in that it is struggling to hit its targets. The way performance is measured is different in the rest of the UK.\nFor example, Wales only aims to carry out hospital operations in 26 weeks rather than 18.\nBut on each of the three measures, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been struggling to achieve what they have set themselves.\nThe full year figures are not yet available for any of them. But looking at monthly performance, it is clear that Northern Ireland has the worst.\nOn A&E performance some months have seen over a quarter of patients waiting longer than four.\nScotland - on a month-by-month basis - has tended to have the best performance.", "summary": "Hospitals waiting times in England have deteriorated markedly in the past five years, an analysis shows." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The seven-year-old suffered a minor lip injury when a bullet casing from the assault rifle hit her after it was shot into the ground at Nottinghamshire Police headquarters last year.\nThe officer, who has not been named, has been taken off firearms duties following an incompetency hearing.\nThe officer said he did not remember the weapon being offered to the girl.\nHer mother told the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) her daughter was offered the gun for a photograph shortly before it was fired.\nUpdates on this story and more from Nottinghamshire\nThe IPCC, which has released a report into the incident, asked the officer about the mother's allegation to which he said it was \"not something I recall specifically\".\nHe went on to say: \"that's not to say that it maybe didn't happen, it's certainly something I don't recall\".\nThe girl, from Worksop, was on a tour of the force's headquarters in Hucknall with a group of youngsters, aged six to 13, and their parents, in October.\nShe suffered a burn to her lip when she was hit in the face after the gun, a Heckler & Koch G36C assault rifle, was fired.\nDerrick Campbell, from the IPCC, said: \"The seriousness of this matter cannot be underestimated. It is through good fortune that no one was more seriously injured.\n\"The officer's actions, while not deliberate, posed a genuine risk to those present.\"\nFollowing the investigation, the IPCC concluded that operational firearms officers must keep their weapons loaded and therefore should not be involved in community events.\nIt also criticised Nottinghamshire Police for not having a policy in place regarding firearms at public events or carrying out a risk assessment before the display.\nAnother officer, involved in the incident, has since left the firearms department while a third has been recommended to undergo further training.", "summary": "A girl was offered a loaded gun before it was fired accidentally causing her an injury, her mother has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Belfast club's leading goalscorer is leaving Solitude for an undisclosed fee after a four-year association with the Irish Premiership side.\nGormley scored 40 goals in 2014-15, including five hat-tricks, breaking the club's record for goals in a season.\nThe 26-year-old had three years remaining on his contract.\n\"Another signing to compliment our young squad,\" Posh owner Darragh MacAnthony tweeted.\n\"Won't be a lot this summer but key ones in key areas we feel we have been missing.\"\nGormley, the Northern Ireland Football Writers' player of the year in 2014, joined Cliftonville from amateur club Crumlin Star in 2011.\nHe won back-to-back Premiership titles with Tommy Breslin's side, as well as three successive League Cup triumphs.\nFormer Northern Ireland midfielder Grant McCann is now assistant manager to Dave Robertson at Peterborough following a spell with Linfield.", "summary": "Peterborough United have agreed to sign Cliftonville's record-breaking striker Joe Gormley on a three-year contract to commence from 1 July." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Marwan, also called Zulkifli bin Hir, was a leading figure in Islamist militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI).\nHe was believed to have been killed in a raid in the southern Philippines earlier this year that left 44 police commandos dead, but this is the first formal confirmation of his death.\nThe FBI said forensic evidence had proved conclusive.\n\"After a thorough review of forensic data and information obtained from our Philippine law enforcement partners, the FBI has assessed that terrorism subject Zulkifli Abdhir [the FBI gives several versions of his name], also known as Marwan, is deceased,\" it said in a statement quoted by AFP news agency.\nHe had as a result \"been removed from the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists\", it said.\nReuters news agency, citing an unnamed FBI source, said the identification was made in part using his severed finger for DNA analysis.\nMarwan was said to have been behind a series of bomb attacks in the southern Philippines since 2006. The US had offered a $5m (£3.2m) reward for his capture.\nJemaah Islamiyah, of which he was a member, has links to al-Qaeda and a long track record of attacks in Indonesia. It is believed to have been behind the Bali bombings of 2002.\nThe Malaysian militant was killed in a raid on 25 January along with suspected bomb expert Abdul Basit Usman. Both men had been incorrectly reported killed in the past.\nThe raid has been the subject of considerable criticism in the Philippines, both because of the high police death toll and because critics say it placed a fragile peace process in the restive southern region in jeopardy.\nPolice entered a town in the southern province of Maguindanao held by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf), which signed a peace deal with the government last year.\nBut the rebels say police did not liaise with them about the operation as required under the deal, leading to a clash.\nPhilippine officials welcomed the FBI confirmation of Marwan's death.\n\"We have got our man and (the operation) was a success,\" AFP news agency quoted Philippine national police spokesman Chief Superintendent Generoso Cerbo as saying.", "summary": "The FBI has confirmed that Marwan, a Malaysian militant, was killed in a raid in the Philippines in January." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "McClaren, 55, replaces Nigel Pearson, who left by mutual consent on Saturday after less than five months, with temporary boss Chris Powell returning to his role as assistant manager.\n\"I regret how my time at Derby ended in 2015,\" said McClaren.\n\"I am very motivated to put things right for the club and supporters.\"\nMcClaren left Derby in acrimonious circumstances in May 2015 following constant speculation linking him with the job at Newcastle.\nHe subsequently joined the Magpies but was sacked in March 2016.\nDerby president and chief executive Sam Rush said: \"We enjoyed some fantastic and memorable moments under Steve during his previous tenure in charge.\n\"Steve's arrival and subsequent work helped transform how we played our football.\n\"Steve's time at Derby came to a premature end and I know he regrets that greatly. He values hugely his relationship with our supporters and I know that he will work very hard to ensure that the special connection returns.\"\nMore to follow.", "summary": "Former England boss Steve McClaren has been confirmed as Derby County's new manager, just 17 months after he was sacked by the Championship club." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A growing number of tech entrepreneurs believe they have an answer.\nBut does using more technology offer time-starved parents valuable new ways to interact with their kids or simply make them more paranoid?\nMolawa Adesuyi is co-founder and chief executive of Mytoddlr, an app that gives you updates on what your little one is up to at nursery or creche. He is in no doubt about the usefulness of such tech.\n\"Most working parents drop off their children in day nurseries as early as 8 or 9am, and can't pick them up till 5 or 6pm,\" he says.\n\"And in this time, they have absolutely no way of keeping in touch or staying abreast of their children's welfare all through the day. This is a major, major problem.\"\nWith the Mytoddlr app and website, nurseries input data about the child's routine and behaviour throughout the day - from potty breaks to naps - and parents receive these updates in real time on their phones or computers.\n\"The nursery is happy, parents are happy, it's a win-win for everyone really,\" says Mr Adesuyi.\nBut isn't this an extra administrative burden for nursery staff?\nMr Adesuyi claims not, as it can actually reduce paperwork and provide an easier, faster way of communicating with parents, he says.\n\"There are such great apps out there now for parents... solutions to real problems parents have. It's just nice to see technology change parenting,\" he concludes.\nLaunched in 2015, Mytoddlr is being used by 2,000 parents in Lagos, Nigeria, and is currently being trialled by some nurseries in London.\nHarsh Songra, 19-year-old founder and chief executive of smartphone app My Child, was inspired to launch his child development monitoring app after having dyspraxia when growing up.\nThis developmental disorder affecting co-ordination and movement can be difficult to diagnose if parents don't know what to look out for.\n\"I have known the struggle of a family where the child has a disorder,\" he says. \"It took my parents over nine years to figure out the specific problem, and I still go through some health issues,\" says Mr Songra.\nThe My Child app helps parents monitor the development of a child up to 24 months old, asking questions, aggregating relevant content, and identifying local experts.\nLaunched in early 2015, the app has been downloaded more than 11,000 times in over 140 countries, and is particularly popular in the US, India, Singapore and the UK.\nMr Songra believes technology is a useful parenting tool, but concedes that it may sometimes interfere with the work of professionals.\n\"At times it does affect their relations with doctors, because parents become paranoid about their child because of what they searched on Google,\" he says.\n\"The problem is that we tend to believe the content of one link over 100 others, and then take actions based on that knowledge.\n\"But we believe all this will surely change with time, as there is going to be more awareness about these issues in the future.\"\nParenting apps - from webcam baby monitors to location-tracking services, interactive games to health checkers - are definitely on the rise, as busy parents integrate the latest tech into their lives.\nOne woman in Australia even used Siri, Apple's voice-activated iPhone assistant, to call an ambulance when her toddler daughter stopped breathing.\nBut for New Jersey-based entrepreneur Amit Murumkar, the motivation for creating an app was purely practical.\n\"My daughter was three... and would bring a piece of art back daily from her Montessori school, but there is only so much you can put on a refrigerator door,\" he says.\n\"I also was a good artist as a kid, and when I became a parent I thought, 'If only I could show the art I did to my own kids.'\"\nSo he built a smartphone app called Canvsly, that allows parents to capture these works of art on the app, organise them into albums, and invite grandparents or other family members to see and comment on them.\nThe artwork can also be printed through the app and used to create gifts. As long as you trust the app's cloud storage provider, you could then ditch the originals.\n\"Parents can go guilt-free and clutter-free,\" Mr Murumkar says, adding that the app has been downloaded in more than 100 countries.\nAnesu Charamba, a tech analyst at research consultancy Frost & Sullivan, believes such apps are helping parents raise and interact with their children in \"new and exciting ways\".\nAnd as smartphones and cheaper, more reliable internet access spreads beyond developed economies to the rest of the world, early adopters will be joined by the majority, he believes.\nFollow Technology of Business editor @matthew_wall on Twitter\nClick here for more Technology of Business features", "summary": "How can busy working mums and dads keep tabs on their toddlers and stay connected to them during the working day?" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ranjit Singh Power disappeared on a business trip to the Punjab region in May and a taxi driver confessed to his murder, local police said.\nHis family claims others were involved.\nEarlier this month a body found in an Indian river was initially thought to be that of Mr Power but DNA and dental analysis ruled out this possibility.\nMr Power's body has still not been traced.\nUpdates from this story and more from the Black Country\nAmrik Singh Power said he believed people with information about what had happened to his brother had yet to contact police.\nHe said: \"What I can't understand is, out of the vast amount of friends and business associates that my brother had, why people aren't standing by me and wanting to come forward.\"\nMr Power's 82-year-old mother, Gurjit Kaur Power, said she was lost without her son, who she called by the pet name Rana.\nShe travelled to India with her son Amrik in order to speak to police and \"kick-start\" the investigation.\n\"The police were helpful, they said not to worry. But how can I not worry?\n\"I did it because I want justice for my son - if he gets justice, my heart will be at peace,\" Mrs Power said.\nRanjit Singh Power, who owned The Ramada Park Hall Hotel in Goldthorn Park, Wolverhampton, was last seen at an airport in Amritsar, Punjab, on 8 May.\nHis family reported him missing after he did not contact them for a week.\nSukhdev Singh, a taxi driver, confessed to killing the 54-year-old and divers found a body in a canal in Ropar District.\nThe body was flown to Wolverhampton after a family friend who identified the body said it was the right height and wore \"exactly the same bangle\" as the businessman.\nThe Black Country coroner's office said DNA tests and dental records had proved \"beyond doubt\" that the body was not that of Mr Power.\nWest Midlands Police are now liaising with police in India in an attempt to identify the body.\n\"If we exhaust all avenues, the body will be recorded as 'unknown', an inquest will be opened and social services will deal with it,\" the coroner's officer said.\nWest Midlands Police said Mr Power's murder investigation was being led by Indian police but the force was ready to assist if a request was made.", "summary": "The family of a wealthy hotelier believed to have been murdered in India say they remain hopeful his killers will be brought to justice." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ms Royal said the chocolate-hazelnut spread contributed to deforestation because oil palms were replacing trees.\nFerrero, the Italian chocolate firm which owns Nutella, said it has made commitments to source palm oil in a responsible way.\nFrench senators tried unsuccessfully to impose a 300% tax on palm oil in 2011.\nThey argued that the oil was dangerously fattening and that its cultivation harmed the environment.\nOn Tuesday, Ms Royal said that Nutella should be made from \"other ingredients\".\n\"We have to replant a lot of trees because there is massive deforestation that also leads to global warming. We should stop eating Nutella, for example, because it's made with palm oil,\" she said, during an interview with French television network Canal+.\nFerrero gets almost 80% of its palm oil from Malaysia, according to AFP news agency. The rest of its supply comes from Brazil, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.\nThe Italian group said that it was aware of the environmental stakes involved.\nIn February, it announced that all of its products were produced with palm fruit oil that was 100% certified as sustainable according to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) supply chain.", "summary": "France's Ecology Minister Segolene Royal has urged people to stop eating Nutella because it is made with palm oil and damages the environment." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sharon Kellaway, from Kilworth, recreated the look with five-month-old-twins Senan and Zoe, in less salubrious surroundings - her own back garden.\nSharon told the BBC: \"I saw the picture and thought it was great, so I threw on a pink blanket and did my own version.\n\"My daughter Megan who'll be six on Sunday took the photo.\n\"It wasn't meant to be a big deal, I just threw on the pink blanket for a laugh and sent it to my husband and friend in Canada.\n\"I would be a fan of Beyoncé - I love her pictures, music and her photographs.\"\nHowever her friend thought it was too good to be kept just between them and urged her to share it on social media.\nSince then Sharon's phone has been \"ringing off the hook\" and she's in danger of turning into as big a star as Queen Bey. She has been on local, national and international media.\n\"It's gone bananas, I've been on air in Canada and Australia this morning alone\".\nBeyonce twins: Sir Carter and Rumi pictured for first time\nBeyonce's dad says Beyonce and Jay Z's twins 'are here'\nSharon, who is a full-time mum to the twins and Megan as well as Darragh, nine, and Hollie, seven, said she is just a \"regular joe whose idea of a good day out is a trip to Dublin Zoo\".\nShe said while she is \"loving\" the interest it has all become \"a bit overwhelming\".\n\"I've never had anything like this - I've got reporters looking for me constantly.\"", "summary": "Beyoncé's first picture of twins Rumi and Sir Carter has over 9,000,000 likes and counting but a mother from County Cork is giving her a run for her money." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sheriff Alastair Brown told Joel Justice's court hearing there had been \"increased sensitivities\" following the Brexit vote on Friday.\nDundee Sheriff Court was told that Justice launched the tirade at staff in Curry House in April.\nHe admitted telling two male workers: \"You treat your women like slaves.\"\nDepute fiscal Trina Sinclair told the court: \"He asked 'are you from Afghanistan' then told the two employees 'go back to your own country'.\"\n\"Police were called and arrived at 23:50.\n\"They found the accused standing at the counter eating his food.\"\nJustice was taken to police headquarters where he continued to make racist remarks.\nThe 25-year-old, from Dundee, admitted acting in a racially aggravated manner towards Rifa Nezir and Rehan Khan on 29 April.\nDefence solicitor John Boyle said: \"It is clear from the background reports there are some misguided views that he holds.\n\"He has an alcohol addiction and though he doesn't drink every day he does regularly, and when he drinks it is always to excess.\"\nSheriff Alastair Brown deferred sentence until 26 July for an alcohol treatment assessment.\nHe said: \"It needs to be understood very clearly that this sort of racist abuse has never been something that this court will tolerate.\n\"I'm aware that there is increased sensitivity now and there is some evidence that there has been an upsurge in racist abuse.\n\"That has been roundly rejected by the Scottish government and is rejected by this court.\n\"Anyone who indulges in it will be dealt with seriously.\"", "summary": "A man who told takeaway workers to \"go back to your own country\" has been warned by a sheriff he will be \"dealt with seriously\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She is expected to begin a new role at News Corp-owned media agency Storyful that will focus on new avenues for digital and social media.\nSources told the BBC no announcement was imminent and Ms Brooks' salary was \"still being worked out.\"\nThe role is likely to be based in the UK but involve frequent trips to Dublin, where Storyful is based.\nMs Brooks is the former editor of the Sun and now defunct News of the World newspapers.\nShe was acquitted last year of charges related to phone hacking during her time as editor of both newspapers and perverting the course of justice.\nThe revelations that journalists at the News of the World hacked the phone of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler in 2002, ultimately led to the demise of the 178 year-old newspaper in 2011.\nStoryful is an Irish social media news agency founded by former RTE current affairs presenter Mark Little and bought by News Corp in 2013 for £15m.\nCurrent chief executive Rahul Chopra, who joined Storyful from News Corp as part of that takeover deal, only took up his current position in December, replacing Mr Little, who became director of editorial innovation.\nHe is a long time News Corp executive and, according to Storyful's website, also holds the position of senior vice president of video at News Corp, where he is responsible for video expansion across all of the company's properties worldwide.\nHe previously held several roles within business development at Dow Jones, primarily focusing on the Wall Street Journal's video, mobile and tablet expansion strategy.\nInitial reports suggested Ms Brooks would be taking over at the top of Storyful, but sources told the BBC her role has yet to be fully determined.\nNo one from News Corp was available to provide comment.", "summary": "Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to be re-hired by Rupert Murdoch." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Emily Price, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, had recently handed in her Aberystwyth University dissertation where she studied maths and physics.\nShe was also due to study for a Master's degree in the town next year.\nThe council held a minute's silence at its meeting on Monday, where Ms Price was due to make her declaration to become a councillor.\nShe was taken ill after being elected to the town's central ward, representing the Liberal Democrats.\nCeredigion MP Mark Williams posted a photograph of Ms Price on Twitter and wrote: \"Terribly sad news today. We have lost a truly wonderful member of our Liberal family here in Ceredigion. RIP Emily.\"\nMs Price was also the incoming vice chair of the Welsh Young Liberals, IR Cymru.\nMark Cole, Honorary President of IR Cymru, said: \"She will be greatly missed by all who knew her but she will be remembered with great fondness and love for everything that she achieved in her tragically short life and for everything that was left undone.\n\"Emily's time with us may have been heartbreakingly short, but what she gave to those around her will inform, inspire and motivate her friends for the rest of their lives.\"\nHe added Ms Price was a \"real character\" and a \"beloved member\" of the Aberystwyth University students' group, of which she was a former president.\n\"I was delighted when Emily herself was elected to Aberystwyth town council... she was going to contribute so much more to the civic life of her university town.\"\nAn Aberystwyth Students' Union spokesperson said: \"Her passing will be deeply felt by many and our thoughts go out to all those who are close to Emily.\"\nProf Qiang Shen, director of the Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Sciences, said: \"Emily had a particular interest and talent in communicating science to young people and encouraging them to study the subjects that she cared about so much.\n\"She was always the first to volunteer as a student ambassador and to help with outreach events within the university and at schools and festivals.\n\"With her quiet smile and enthusiasm, Emily will be fondly remembered and sorely missed by all her fellow students and staff at Aberystwyth.\"", "summary": "A 22-year-old woman who had just been elected to Aberystwyth town council has died after a short illness." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The body of Alexander Duncan, 59, was found in a house in Primrose Street on 19 April.\nThe women, aged 29 and 31, are expected to appear in court on Tuesday.\nDet Insp Martin MacLean said: \"I would like to thank the public for their patience and cooperation while we carried out enquiries in relation to this incident.\"", "summary": "Two women have been charged with murder following the death of a man in the Leith area of Edinburgh." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Branding it \"Fat Cat Wednesday\", it says that is the time executives will pass the average UK salary of £28,200.\nHigh Pay Centre director Stefan Stern said it was an important reminder of the unfair pay gap in the UK.\nThe government is considering plans to make firms reveal the pay gap between chief executives and average workers.\nThe High Pay Centre's calculation assumes that the executives work 12 hours a day, most weekends and take fewer than 10 days holiday a year.\n\"We hope the government will recognise that further reform to pay practices are needed if this gap is to be closed, said Mr Stern.\"\n\"Effective representation for ordinary workers on the company remuneration committees that set executive pay, and publication of the pay ratio between the highest and average earner within a company, would bring a greater sense of proportion to the setting of top pay,\" he added.\nThe think-tank has made the calculation for the the past three years, but this year it is comparing the top bosses' median salary of about £4m a year with the median UK employees' salary of £28,200.\nPreviously it has used the average FTSE 100 pay packet - but this is slightly skewed by two or three particularly large salaries.\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said tackling corporate excess is a priority for her government. It is currently looking at whether to force companies to introduce pay ratios, which would show the gap in earnings between the chief executive and an average employee.\nThe business lobby group, the CBI, said it was right for approaches to corporate governance to evolve but that shareholders should be holding companies to account.\n\"Businesses shouldn't award exceptional pay for poor performance and shareholders have a key role in ensuring sensible, sustainable and reasonable pay setting policies,\" said Josh Hardie, the CBI's deputy director general.\nThe HR body the CIPD said there was still \"a shocking disconnect between the pay for those at the top and the rest of the workforce\" and that the \"disconnect de-motivates staff at work\".", "summary": "Top bosses will have earned more by midday on Wednesday than typical workers earn in the entire year, the High Pay Centre think tank has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In the first few weeks of 2017, Ms Dugdale split up with her partner of nine years, Louise Riddell.\nShe was then left mourning the death of Labour activist and motor neurone disease campaigner Gordon Aikman.\nMs Dugdale was speaking at a Daily Record organised fringe event at the Scottish Labour conference in Perth.\nShe told the gathering: \"My attitude in recent weeks has just been to keep putting one foot in front of the other.\n\"I broke up with my partner, who I had been together with for nine years, and that was undoubtedly very difficult and very challenging.\n\"To do it in the public eye - it's bad enough for anybody, let alone to do it on the front of the newspapers.\n\"Then I lost my best friend [Gordon] to a disease I knew was killing him, I just didn't expect it to take him quite so soon. So, 2017 hasn't been the greatest year so far.\"\nShe quipped: \"I thought 2016 was bad - I'm almost tempted to revisit it.\"\nAt the event Ms Dugdale said it was an \"immense privilege\" for her to lead her party in Scotland.\nShe added: \"I've got a very strong sense of who I am and what my strengths are, what I can contribute and what I want to do with job.\n\"You do have personal sacrifice - it is public service - but I do it for a reason, I love this party, I love its potential. I love what it achieved in the past and I believe it can achieve great things again.\"", "summary": "Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has spoken about the double heartache of breaking up with her fiancee and losing her best friend." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A full collection of the books, from its first edition to the most recent published this year for the comic's 80th anniversary, went under the hammer at Curr and Dewar in Dundee.\nThe very first book fetched £2,800, with the second and third selling for £1,500 and £900 respectively.\nAn original piece of artwork by Beano artist Dudley D Watkins sold for £950.\nThe third edition of the Broons annual fetched £1,400 at the auction.\nAuctioneer Steven Dewar said there had been \"significant interest\" in the comic collection from buyers.\nThe set of books was discovered by a man in his loft years after they had been handed down to him by his father.\nThe vendor, who opted to remain anonymous, was in the saleroom to see the books go under the hammer.\nMr Dewar said: \"He is delighted, and so are we. There was a lot of interest and the sale has gone really well.\"\nThe full-size framed Lord Snooty cartoon, an original hand drawn by Dudley D. Watkins, shows German bombers suspending a bee hive from swastika adorned planes.\nThe artwork, which was published in the Beano in April 1940 was described by auctioneers as \"an outstanding work\".\nMr Dewar said the Oor Wullie books had been found in an attic by their owner after he had spotted an identical one on the BBC's Antique Roadshow.\nMr Dewar said: \"He saw it and thought 'I've seen that' and went into the loft and there it was.\n\"They were his father's, but he has no family and so the time was right to sell them.\"\nMr Dewar said another seller approached him with the Dudley D. Watkins artwork after he put a note about the Oor Wullie books on the auctioneer's website.\nMr Dewar said: \"The vendor says he almost certainly bought it from my father at auction in the 70s - and wouldn't have paid more than £20 for it.\n\"It was drawn for Beano number 92 and appeared on 27 April 1940.\n\"Whether there was a little bit of a government push to boost the people's morale we don't know.\n\"It is a great story - it really is.\"", "summary": "A rare set of the earliest Oor Wullie books has sold for more than £5,000 at auction." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The planning committee approved Phase One of the Rochdale Riverside scheme for a complex of new shops and a cinema in the east of the town centre.\nThe development features new Marks and Spencer and Next stores with Reel Cinemas operating the cinema.\nDeveloper Genr8 said it would be the \"final element\" of the town's regeneration.\nThe scheme will have about 24 shops and restaurants.\nCouncil leader Richard Farnell (Labour) said: \"This is yet more progress for this important development, which will bring High Street names that are not currently represented in Rochdale, as well as thriving restaurants and a cinema, which will create a fantastic destination for our residents and visitors.\n\"It will also boost our local economy by more than £17m and create around 1,000 jobs.\"\nGary Davies, of the Rochdale Development Agency, said the approval showed Rochdale was bucking the national trend of town centre decline.\n\"This decision is part of a wider regeneration which also includes the way the council has encouraged new retail outlets with discounted business rates - at present 17 out of 20 retail units are occupied in the town centre,\" he said.\nMike Smith, Partner at Genr8 Developments, said: \"We recognise that this scheme will play a significant role in the regeneration of Rochdale and it is therefore imperative that we attract the right mix of occupiers to boost the local economy and establish Rochdale as a key leisure and retail destination.\"\nCouncillors also approved outline plans for the scheme's second phase, which will see a further investment into the town centre, with potential for new offices, a hotel, apartments and commercial uses.\nThe communities secretary will give the final decision.\nWork could start on the site in Smith Street in the autumn.", "summary": "A plan for a £60m retail development in Rochdale town centre has been backed by councillors." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The warship HMAS Warramunga made sharp turns at speed during training exercises in Malborough Sounds harbour off New Zealand's South Island last week.\nThe turns generated waves that damaged boats and a fish farm.\nTwelve complaints were lodged with the Malborough Sounds harbourmaster.\nPaul Keating, a member of local advocacy group Guardian of the Sounds, said no reason had been given for the decision to do sharp turns in the bay.\n\"Maritime hoonery would be a good way to describe [it],\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).\nAustralian Defence Minister Marise Payne told the ABC that the Navy adjusted its training approach after being made aware of community concerns.", "summary": "Conduct described as \"maritime hoonery\" has left a New Zealand community unhappy with the Royal Australian Navy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A marketplace, homes and official buildings were all hit, reports say. Bodies were still being pulled from the rubble, a civil defence worker said.\nRussia has not confirmed whether it carried out strikes in the area.\nRussia began an air campaign to bolster President Bashar al-Assad in September.\nIt says it has targeted only \"terrorists\", above all jihadist militants from the Islamic State (IS) group, but activists say its strikes have mainly hit Western-backed rebel groups.\nThe Local Co-ordination Committees, a network of anti-regime activists, said that more than 170 people had been injured in the strikes.\nA coalition of Islamist anti-government rebels captured the city of Idlib earlier this year.\nIt is only the second provincial centre to fall into rebel hands during the conflict, after Raqqa was seized by IS.\nTheir advances in the area pose a threat to the nearby coastal region, which is a bastion of support for the government of President Assad.\nAlso on Sunday, an explosion on a military bus on the outskirts of the capital Damascus injured several people.\nEarlier this week, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution outlining a peace process in Syria.\nThe resolution endorsed talks between the Syrian government and opposition in early January, as well as a ceasefire, but disagreements remain between world powers over Mr Assad's role in Syria's future.\nThe Syrian war, which is heading towards its fifth year, has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced millions more, the UN says.", "summary": "At least 43 people have been killed in a series of air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian planes in the Syrian city of Idlib, according to activists and residents." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A 41-year-old man has not been seen since the boat overturned at Shepperton at about 18:00 BST on Thursday.\nWitness John Mumford said people on the bank tried to get a buoy to him. He said: \"They were shouting to hold on to his shirt and then it just went quiet.\"\nThe search team from Shoreham described underwater visibility as \"very poor\".\nAn 18-year-old man and a 39-year-old man managed to get to safety after the boat capsized near Russell Road but the other man was seen calling for help.\nMr Mumford said: \"I heard a speedboat or a jet ski come around the bend, then it apparently tipped over and I heard screaming and yelling for help.\"\n\"Because the current was running so fast, the boat went down stream and out of sight,\" he added.\nA search for the man on Thursday evening was called off for the night but resumed on Friday at Shepperton park, opposite Desborough Island.\nThe Environment Agency is helping to recover the boat, Surrey Police said.", "summary": "Specialist underwater teams have resumed the search for a man who went missing after a boat capsized on the River Thames in Surrey." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Group leader Mohammed Alamgir, 37, was jailed for six years for inviting support for IS at the Old Bailey.\nSpeeches made by Alamgir and four other men in Luton were secretly recorded by the officer, known only as Kamal.\nJudge Michael Topolski QC said he had displayed \"considerable resourcefulness and even greater courage\".\nLIVE: Updates on this and other Bedfordshire news\nHe said the evidence he had gathered had played a \"pivotal role\" in the case and that it was not difficult to imagine the fate \"that might befall him had he been exposed\".\nThe court heard how the men had made speeches at a marquee and a church hall.\nThe judge described how Alamgir, of Kenilworth Road, Luton, spoke in June 2015 at St Margaret's Church \"of the sun setting on the British Empire and the sun trying to rise on the Islamic State\".\nSentencing him, the judge said: \"You are in my judgement deeply committed to an a extreme and violent Jihad mindset.\n\"You are in that sense a dangerous man.\"\nRajib Khan, 37, of Biscot Road, Luton, was jailed for five years, and Yousaf Bashir, 36, of Dane Road, Luton, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison.\nMohammed Choudry, 23, of Laggan Road, Maidenhead, was jailed for four years.\nJudge Topolski said: \"In the cases of Alamgir, Khan, Bashir and Choudry, I am entirely satisfied that they revealed in their indicted speeches and indeed elsewhere, opinions which were clearly supportive of terrorism and specifically of IS.\"\nThe court heard how Ziaur Rahman, 39, of Ferndale Road, Luton, was also convicted of arranging the meetings at which there were children present.\nHe was sentenced to two years and six months.", "summary": "A judge has praised an undercover police officer who infiltrated a group of British supporters of so-called Islamic State to gather evidence." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The five-day wedding of businessman and ex-state minister G Janardhana Reddy's daughter, Brahmani, is estimated to cost about 5bn rupees ($74m; £59m).\nBut with gold-plated invitations and Bollywood stars expected to perform, the nuptials have proved controversial.\nCritics have described it as an \"obscene display of wealth\".\nThe wedding kicked off just days after the Indian government announced it would scrap 500 and 1,000 rupee notes in a crackdown on undeclared wealth, making redundant the vast majority of cash that Indians use on a daily basis. Millions of Indians have been standing in queues in an effort to deposit or exchange the old currency and frustration is widespread.\nSource: Indian media reports\nWeddings in India are no exception to India's largely cash-based economy and many payments for wedding services are typically made in cash.\nMr Reddy was quoted as saying that he had mortgaged properties in Bangalore and Singapore to raise money for the wedding and that all payments were made six months ago when the planning started.\nIt hasn't stopped Indians taking to social media to ridicule the expensive wedding. His political opponents meanwhile have used it to speculate if the prime minister's drive against illegal \"black money\" would include elites.\nA former member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka state, Mr Reddy recently spent three years in jail on corruption charges, which he denies, and was freed on bail last year.\nPreparations at the Bangalore Palace, the sprawling venue, began months in advance and reports said eight Bollywood directors were called on to create sets resembling ancient Hindu temples where the ceremonies would be conducted.\nLuxury bullock carts will ferry guests from the palace gates and they will be fed at a village that has been created inside the grounds specifically for the purpose.\nThis wedding may have been expensive, but it is far from being alone. Here are just a few of the world's most expensive weddings.", "summary": "The lavish wedding of the daughter of an Indian politician has sparked outrage as millions across the country are in the midst of a cashflow crisis." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lucy Commins, 16, was in a Mercedes driven by Ross Clark, 38, of Kent when it was hit by one of two racing cars.\nThe crash happened in Ansty Road, Walsgrave on Sowe, in February 2014.\nIn June, Clark was found guilty of causing death by careless driving and convicted of failing to provide a blood specimen while under the influence of drink.\nHe was also disqualified from driving for four years at his sentencing at Warwick Crown Court.\nWest Midlands Police said Clark, of London Road, Sevenoaks, had met Miss Commins and a friend at a pub and had taken them to get cigarettes from a nearby petrol station.\nReece Jones and Sean Sparkes, who were sentenced in November, were street racing when Clark pulled into their path.\nA Ford Fiesta swerved to avoid the silver Mercedes but a VW Golf ploughed into the side of it, causing Lucy's death and serious injury to her friend.\nClark was also badly injured.\nSparkes, 33, of Nuneaton Road, Bulkington, was jailed for six years and six months and Jones, 24, of Attoxhall Road, Coventry, was sentenced to eight years and nine months over the crash.\nMs Commins' family said in a statement: \"The people responsible have not only taken Lucy's life, they have taken the life from our whole family. We are left serving a life sentence.\"\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Sgt Adam Green said: \"Reece Jones, Sean Sparkes and Ross Clark will have to live with their actions, as will Lucy's family. Throughout the court appearances Lucy's family have been commended by the judge for the dignity shown in such difficult circumstances.\"", "summary": "A man has been jailed for seven years for his part in the death of a teenage girl in a car crash near Coventry." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "An archaeological excavation in Clones, County Monaghan, had failed to uncover the remains of the castle.\nBut, unknown to the experts the walls of the four-storey building were still standing nearby.\nThe walls were covered in ivy and hidden in undergrowth but there were clues that had been overlooked.\nIt was found behind a Georgian terrace known as Castle Street, which contains a building called Castle House.\nMonaghan county heritage officer Shirley Clerkin said it shows \"when you start opening your eyes, looking afresh at things, you can rediscover really, really interesting buildings\".\nShe said although the castle was hidden in plain sight, no one had been really looking for it.\n\"There had been an excavation done in a southerly direction from here looking for the castle as part of a commercial dig but they didn't really find any upstanding remains and then we assumed there was no castle here,\" she said.\nShe came across the building a few months ago along with local historian George Knight when they explored an area just a few metres away from the Diamond in the centre of the town.\n\"We crossed over a lot of barbed wire, a lot of brambles, woody-stuff and we came in front of this building and looked up at the front wall and realised we were standing in front of something potentially very significant,\" she said.\n\"This building had been re-used as an agricultural building and had been completely forgotten about from the point of view of it being a potential castle candidate.\n\"I think there was probably a wee bit of folklore around it - kids maybe played here when they were young and pretended it was a castle and they were absolutely right, it is a castle.\"\nGeorge Knight said he was aware the building existed but experts had previously dismissed it \"with a cursory glance\" as being \"of no great historical importance\".\n\"It has been used as a rubbish dump for many years. The joists carrying the first floor, only one is still in place the rest have collapsed down,\" he said.\n\"We think the original slate roof has probably collapsed down into the building as well.\"\nThe fortified house is thought to have been built in the 1600s by the local landlords, the Lennard-Barret family, who may only have lived in it for 50 years until the outbreak of the Jacobite wars in 1688.\nIt is shown on a 1741 drawing of Clones in the collection of the National Library in Dublin along with the town's other historical landmarks.\n\"Clones has a lot of historical depth to it We already have early Christian sites here, we have an Augustinian abbey, a motte and bailey from Norman times and this is the next piece of the jigsaw,\" Shirley Clerkin said.\n\"We have what we believe here to be a remnant of the plantation castle that we can see on the 1741 drawing.\n\"It means that Clones really has got little bits of every period in Irish history upstanding in the town.\"\nLocal volunteers have been cutting back some of the undergrowth to reveal more of the building, including the musket slits, fortified door, corbels and wooden floor beams.\nAn open day has been held for people to come and see the castle and learn more about its history.\nArchaeologists will return to Clones to carry out excavations involving the local community to see what other artefacts can be unearthed.\nGeorge Knight said the discovery has become the talk of the town and people were keen to learn more about the history hidden on their doorstep.\n\"It really is a missing link in the story of Clones, a unique building and something that we're very keen to preserve for future generations,\" he said.\n\"We hope that any artefacts found will remain here in Clones and the building and the artefacts associated with it will tell the full story and the history of what happened within these walls.\"\nShirley Clerkin is convinced that there are more discoveries to be made.\n\"I think this place has got unlimited potential,\" she said.\n\"We already have two tunnels, we have one under the staircase here and we have one in the wall outside and there's lots of legends of tunnels in Clones, so I think maybe this is one of those little links and it's a tantalising glimpse of the past.\"", "summary": "A 17th century castle \"lost\" for more than 250 years has been rediscovered in the centre of a town on the Irish border." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The semi-professional side from Gibraltar stunned the Scottish champions last week thanks to a second-half goal from striker Lee Casciaro.\n\"We're living the dream,\" the defender told BBC Scotland.\n\"There was no pressure on us before the first leg, so there is probably even less pressure this time.\"\nBrendan Rodgers' side remain strong favourites to progress but Chipolina and many of his team-mates have experience of playing in front of big crowds and they are revelling in the attention after making the headlines.\nEnfield-born Chipolina, 33, is also the Gibraltar captain and played against Scotland, Germany, Poland and Republic of Ireland in the qualifying group for Euro 2016.\n\"It's a big ask because you can't begin to compare the teams,\" added Chipolina.\n\"But at the end of the day it's 11 v 11 and we'll go out there and give it our best shot.\n\"All the media attention has been unbelievable. It's all new to us but the lads are enjoying it.\n\"There was no expectation to look beyond the preliminary round but we've made it to the second round for the second year running.\"\nDespite only having five full-time players, the Red Imps will have a full squad to choose from in Glasgow.\n\"If we do go through, we might struggle,\" added Chipolina, who works as a customs officer.\n\"I've used up all my special leave and now I'm into my annual leave.\"\nThe winners of the tie play Zalgiris Vilnius or Astana in the next round, with a play-off round to follow to reach the group stage of the Champions League.\nLithuanian side Zalgiris and Astana are tied at 0-0 ahead of the deciding leg in Kazakhstan.\nAstana made it to the group stage last season, drawing at home with Benfica, Galatasaray and eventual runners-up Atletico Madrid.", "summary": "Lincoln Red Imps will not be fazed as they defend a 1-0 lead at Celtic Park in Champions League qualifying on Wednesday, says captain Roy Chipolina." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cameron McGeehan's 15th-minute opener was the first noteworthy chance of the game, and only found its way to goal thanks to a heavy deflection that wrong-footed Stevenage goalkeeper Jamie Jones.\nThe home side did not trouble the Luton goal in the first half but Hatters duo Jake Gray and Danny Hylton both struck wide as half-time approached.\nStevenage found a way back into the game early in the second half as Godden found Connor Hunte unmarked at the back post and he headed calmly past Christian Walton.\nStephen O'Donnell then rifled the ball off the underside of the crossbar before McGeehan saw his subsequent shot blocked on the line, as the visitors looked for a way back into the match.\nAfter hitting the bar, Luton watched on as Tom Pett broke away and played the ball to Godden who converted to give Boro their first ever home win against Luton.\nReport supplied by Press Association.\nMatch ends, Stevenage 2, Luton Town 1.\nSecond Half ends, Stevenage 2, Luton Town 1.\nAttempt missed. Olly Lee (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\nGoal! Stevenage 2, Luton Town 1. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Ben Kennedy.\nOlly Lee (Luton Town) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box.\nAttempt saved. Dan Potts (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\nSubstitution, Luton Town. Josh McQuoid replaces Cameron McGeehan.\nFraser Franks (Stevenage) hits the bar with a header from the right side of the box.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Tom Conlon (Stevenage) because of an injury.\nBen Kennedy (Stevenage) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the left side of the box.\nLuke Wilkinson (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card.\nTom Conlon (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Isaac Vassell (Luton Town).\nAttempt missed. Tom Pett (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\nAttempt saved. Cameron McGeehan (Luton Town) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.\nCorner, Luton Town. Conceded by Charlie Lee.\nCorner, Luton Town. Conceded by Jamie Jones.\nAttempt saved. Danny Hylton (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\nRonnie Henry (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Danny Hylton (Luton Town).\nCorner, Luton Town. Conceded by Jamie Jones.\nAttempt saved. Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\nSubstitution, Stevenage. Tom Conlon replaces Connor Hunte.\nAttempt saved. Cameron McGeehan (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Ben Kennedy (Stevenage) because of an injury.\nAttempt missed. Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\nAttempt blocked. Isaac Vassell (Luton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\nSubstitution, Luton Town. Isaac Vassell replaces Jack Marriott.\nAttempt missed. Charlie Lee (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\nOlly Lee (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nBen Kennedy (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Olly Lee (Luton Town).\nAttempt saved. Jordan Cook (Luton Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.\nStephen O'Donnell (Luton Town) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the right side of the box.\nAttempt blocked. Dean Wells (Stevenage) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\nCorner, Stevenage. Conceded by Pelly Ruddock.\nFraser Franks (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Jordan Cook (Luton Town).", "summary": "Stevenage came from behind to secure a win over local rivals Luton thanks to Matt Godden's winner in the sixth minute of injury time." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Farid Khan was stripped naked by the crowd, beaten and dragged through streets before being hanged in Dimapur, the main city in Nagaland state.\nPolice officers opened fire to try to stop the mob, wounding several people.\nTensions in the country are high following the government's decision to ban India's Daughter, a film about the 2012 gang rape of a student.\nThe Hindustan Times newspaper reports that the crowd \"tore down two gates and took custody\" of the suspect, before dragging him to the town's landmark clock tower.\nPolice say the man was a Bengali-speaking Muslim trader from neighbouring Assam state. He was arrested in February on charges of rape.\nThere have been recurring tensions in some parts of north-eastern India between Bengali speakers, accused of being immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh, and local ethnic groups.\nLocal groups began protests on Wednesday demanding action against the alleged rapist.\nVigilante justice is not unheard of in India but it is rarely seen on this scale. A curfew has been imposed in Dimapur following incidents of arson in some parts of the city.\nIndia's rape crisis has been pushed back to the forefront of public discourse by the decision of the government to ban the BBC documentary India's Daughter, which examines the 2012 gang rape of a young student in Delhi.\nThe documentary features an interview with one of the men sentenced to death for the attack.\nHis lack of remorse and suggestions that the victim might have survived if she had not resisted has drawn international outrage and sparked protests across India.\nThe film was broadcast in the UK on Wednesday night.", "summary": "A mob of thousands of people lynched a suspected rapist after breaking into a prison in north-east India, police say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 19-year-old left-back had been sidelined since October because of ankle ligament damage and a troublesome shoulder problem.\n\"It was like making my debut again, I had been out for so long,\" Tierney said of featuring in the Scottish Cup victory at Albion Rovers.\n\"The last two or three months have been hard work.\"\nSpeaking ahead of Sunday's trip to St Johnstone, Tierney added: \"That was the first injury I had since breaking through and I felt brilliant.\n\"Now I am back and I am enjoying it. A lot of the times you are probably working harder than the boys who are training.\n\"It is game after game for them then recovering. I was working hard in the gym so yes, I feel fit. I was always going to get my shoulder done eventually, it needed doing and I was as well doing it when I had injured my ankle.\n\"We killed two birds with one stone there and there is nothing holding me back.\"\nTierney singled out skipper Scott Brown as having the greatest influence on him at the club.\nBrown recently made his 400th appearance for Celtic and Tierney hopes the midfielder adds to that tally.\n\"Every young guy who comes and trains, the players make them feel welcome, especially Broony,\" said the defender.\n\"The 400 games is some achievement for him and everybody around the club is really grateful for what he does.\n\"Broony's a legend here. We've seen that over the last 10 years and hopefully he can go on and get a lot more appearances.\"\nWith 58 games for Celtic to his name, Tierney was asked if he might emulate Brown's service to the club.\n\"I'm not sure, I hope so!\" he said.\n\"For my age I've done well with appearances and I just hope it continues.\"", "summary": "Celtic defender Kieran Tierney has spoken of his relief at returning to first-team action following injury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The proposed changes would make it easier for officials to arrest anyone suspected of planning an attack.\nAuthorities are said to fear that returning jihadis could launch more attacks in Indonesia.\nBut critics have said that the new laws could be used as a tool of repression.\nThe proposed new legislation would also allow officials to hold suspects for longer than a week without charge and would make it illegal for Indonesians to fight with militants of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq.\nOfficials believe that roughly 500 Indonesians have travelled to the Middle East to join IS, Reuters news agency reports. About 100 are believed to have returned to the country, most of whom apparently did not see front line combat.\nThe law changes are likely to be approved in parliament as all major parties have expressed support for the proposals.\n\"This is very pressing. Many people have left for Syria or returned,\" Mr Widodo was quoted by Reuters as saying, without specifying when a decision would be made.\nThe call for review comes in the wake of last week's attacks in Jakarta, which were claimed by IS, and left eight people dead, including four civilians.\nIt was Indonesia's worst attack since 2009. Its suspected mastermind, Indonesian national Bahrun Naim, is currently thought to be in Syria with IS.\nAt a press conference in the Indonesian city of Solo, his family confirmed that it was his voice in an audio message released online on Monday.\nThey urged the authorities to \"show mercy\" to him.\nThe review of Indonesia's anti-terror laws has faced opposition from some political parties, human rights organisations and more radical Islamic groups.\nThere is particular concern over the situation in Papua province, where the government is fighting a low-level separatist movement.\nCritics also say the changes would be a step back to the sweeping powers which the police had under the dictatorship of General Suharto.\nMr Suharto ruled Indonesia for 32 years under a brutal regime that persecuted dissenters and silenced the opposition.\nThe country's Vice President, Jusuf Kalla, said that there was no urgent need to revise the law, and he was supported by the speaker of the upper house, Zulkifli Hasan, from the Islamic party PAN.\nBut another Islamic party, the PKS, said it would support the revisions as long as there were checks and balances.", "summary": "Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has called for revisions to the country's anti-terrorism laws after last week's attacks in the capital, Jakarta." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ziauddin Yousafzai said his daughter would \"rise again\" to pursue her dreams.\nHe said he had cried when he saw for the first time Malala standing at the hospital in Birmingham.\nHe said it was \"a miracle\" she had survived a bullet grazing her brain.\nThe first time he had seen her after the shooting her \"whole body was swollen\".\nMr Yousafzai said he had considered making preparations for her funeral.\nBut when he saw her clean her own mouth with her shawl on a helicopter flight, he thought maybe her condition was not too serious.\nMalala Yusafzai was first admitted to a hospital in the Swat valley, then flown by helicopter to Peshawar after gunmen shot her on her school bus in the main town of Mingora.\nThe Pakistan Taliban has claimed the attack, saying it shot her for \"promoting secularism\".\nMalala had campaigned for the rights of girls to have an education and had written a diary for the BBC Urdu service when the Pakistan Taleban controlled Swat in 2009.\nSurgeons in Pakistan worked for days to save her life, operating on her to remove a bullet which had lodged in her neck.\nShe was moved to Britain because of the need for a safe environment for her recovery.\nMr Yousafzai said the Pakistani president had taken the decision to move her.\nBut he said his daughter had received \"the right treatment at the right place at the right time\".\n\"The person who attacked her, they wanted to kill her,\" Mr Yousafzai said. \"But I will simply say that she fell temporarily.\n\"She will rise again. She will stand again and she can stand now. But when she fell, Pakistan stood.\"\nHe said he hoped the incident would be a turning point.\nMr Yousufzai has said his daughter will return to Pakistan once she has recovered and that she was determined to continue her schooling.\nDoctors at Queen Elizabeth hospital said she was still weak but stood every chance of making a good recovery.\nThey added that the girl will need a period of recuperation before undergoing further surgery.\nPart of her skull will need to be reconstructed either by reinserting bone that was removed or by using a titanium plate.\nSince the attack, the teenager has received thousands of goodwill messages from around the world.", "summary": "The father of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot by the Taliban, has said his daughter is recovering well in the UK." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Work will be done to address structural corrosion and to repaint the bridge, which was first opened to traffic in 1958 and carries vehicles on the A547 over the River Conwy.\nThe 20-week project will begin in January, with one lane closed at times.\nCabinet member Dave Cowans said the council will \"minimise\" any disruption.\nThe majority of the work on the bridge will take place beneath or to the side of the road surface.\nMr Cowans said: \"The town is busy all year round, but particularly so during the summer season and the timing of this work is very sensitive.\n\"We realise the refurbishment work will cause some disruption but we will monitor the project carefully and make every effort to minimise any difficulties.\"", "summary": "Refurbishments to the Conwy Bridge in Conwy will begin in the new year, the county council has announced." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The event followed the conclusion of the inquests into the deaths of the 96 victims in 1989, which determined the fans were unlawfully killed.\nWalking hand in hand, the large crowd gathered in front of St George's Hall chanted: \"Justice for the 96.\"\nEarlier, the chief constable of South Yorkshire was suspended in the wake of the inquests' findings.\nTo huge cheers and applause, the families of the Hillsborough victims were led out to the front of the Plateau by Mayor Joe Anderson and Lord Mayor Tony Concepcion.\nMr Anderson said the event was a thank you to the families who had won \"a tremendous battle on behalf of their loved ones and on behalf of their city.\"\nHe said: \"Yesterday, the wall of lies was finally torn down. The real truth came out yesterday.\"\nMr Anderson said that it was because of the \"incompetence of those in charge\" who, he added, \"tried to lay the blame at the door of our fans\", that the 96 had lost their lives.\nHe added that Rupert Murdoch's newspapers \"didn't even bother\" to put Hillsborough on their front covers, adding they were denying the fans the \"spotlight they deserve\".\nHillsborough campaigner Margaret Aspinall, who lost her son James, welcomed the suspension of the chief constable of South Yorkshire and warned others who were singled out for blame in the inquests.\n\"The system, the police force of South Yorkshire ought to be ashamed of themselves and hang their heads in shame.\"\nShe added: \"Let's hope that's only the beginning of what's going to happen - we have had 27 years of sleepless nights - let's hope you are getting yours now.\"\nSheila Coleman, on behalf of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, also took to the stage saying the authorities had \"picked on the wrong city\".\nShe also applauded the tenacity of families, who \"never gave up hope...in the face of lies, cover up and conspiracy\".\n\"Hope and humanity, that's what this fight for justice has brought to our society. You make me proud to be from this city,\" she said.\nA prayer was read by Kenny Dalglish, the former Liverpool player and then manager, while the poem for the victims by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy was also read.\nHuge banners with the words Truth and Justice, which include the names of all 96 who died, were unfurled at St George's Hall along with 96 lanterns.\nPeople can lay their own tributes at St George's Plateau until the end of the week.", "summary": "Thirty thousand people attended a vigil in Liverpool in memory of those who died in the Hillsborough disaster." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Matthew Baker, 29, and James Whitlock, 32, went on the run in November after breaking out of HMP Pentonville.\nBaker's girlfriend Chelsea Gibson, 25, of Bow, east London, pleaded guilty to assisting an offender while his sister Kelly Baker, 22, of Ilford, admitted harbouring an escaped prisoner.\nThey were both sentenced to eight months in jail suspended for 18 months.\nBaker and Whitlock escaped from prison by sawing through a metal bar to open an external window cover.\nTwo days later, Baker was found hiding under a bed at his sister's home in Ilford. He had dyed his hair and had a fractured leg.\nWhitlock was found at an address in Homerton, east London, after six days on the run.\nGibson was also ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work, while Baker was told to complete 100 hours of unpaid work.", "summary": "A prisoner's girlfriend and his sister have been sentenced for helping him to escape." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The official figures for April to September mark the half-way mark of the 2015-16 financial year - and mean the deficit has grown from the £930m posted in the first three months.\nRegulators have described the problems as the \"worst for a generation\".\nThe figures cover 241 trusts running hospital, mental health, ambulance and some community services.\nBetween them they account for about two-thirds of the NHS's £116bn budget - with the rest going on other areas including GPs, drug prescribing and training.\nOverall, eight in 10 trusts were in deficit by the end of September.\nIt means the combined overspend is already nearly double what it was for the entire 2014-15 financial year.\nThen, the NHS finished £822m in the red - with the health service as a whole balancing the books only after a cash injection from the Treasury and by raiding the capital budget earmarked for buildings.\nOverspending on agency staff has been highlighted as one of the major problems as well as rising demand for services - and there will now be further pressure on health bosses to cut back on spending.\nThe regulators also warned hospitals were facing growing problems discharging patients - this happens when there are not enough services available in the community either from councils or the NHS to care for the most vulnerable.\nThe news comes at a difficult time for the NHS. Performance is already suffering with many of the major targets, including ones for A&E, ambulances and cancer care, being missed, while health chiefs are having to prepare for three days of industrial action by junior doctors.\nThe release of the figures by the regulators Monitor and the Trust Development Authority comes ahead of the spending review next week when Chancellor George Osborne will announced his plans for this Parliament.\nThe government has promised the NHS an extra £8bn by 2020. Health service leaders have called for that money to be \"front-loaded\" so that most of it comes in the first few years to help them get on top of the pressures.\nJim Mackey, the incoming chief executive of the regulatory bodies, said the current situation was \"really challenging\".\nAnita Charlesworth, chief economist at the Health Foundation, said: \"The figures confirm the truly dire state of NHS finances.\n\"Next week's spending review needs to address the unprecedented scale of challenge.\"\nMeanwhile, the BBC has learnt that, ahead of the spending review, there is consideration being given to cutting some parts of health spending.\nThe promises made by government have been specifically aimed at the front-line of the NHS.\nThe Treasury is understood to be pushing for cuts to public health budgets, held by councils for services such as stop smoking and sexual health clinics and training budgets.", "summary": "Overspending by NHS trusts in England has risen to £1.6bn this year as concerns about financial problems grow." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A woman was also injured in the raid which took place on Monday afternoon.\nXinjiang province, home to a significant Muslim Uighur population, has seen several clashes and public attacks in recent years, which police have attributed to terrorists.\nMonday's incident was one of the few such clashes outside of Xinjiang.\nSeveral state media outlets quoted a statement posted on Monday night on micro-blogging site Weibo. The account is owned by the government of Liaoning province, whose capital is Shenyang.\nThe statement appeared to have been taken down by Tuesday morning. It remains unclear why it was removed, but China regularly censors online content deemed to be sensitive.\nThe statement, as reproduced in Chinese media, said that police caught 16 \"terrorism suspects\" in a raid in Shenyang.\nDuring the raid, officers entered a rented apartment where they \"discovered Xinjiang terrorist suspects\" and were attacked by four people \"wearing headgear, holding long knives, and shouting 'holy war' slogans,\" the statement said.\nPolice then retreated and called for back-up. More than 200 officers, including an anti-terrorist unit, evacuated nearby residents and surrounded the building. A cherry picker was used to reach the seventh-floor apartment.\nPictures of the raid posted on a Weibo account owned by state broadcaster CCTV showed armed, uniformed men stationed on a rooftop and in a cherry picker cabin.\nPolice said they also took into custody a 28-year-old Uighur woman and three children.\nUighur rights group World Uyghur Congress said the suspects were among a group of Uighurs who were trying to flee China and claimed authorities shot those who resisted.\nChina tightly controls information on attacks and alleged terrorist incidents, making it difficult to independently verify claims.\nThe country has seen frequent reports of deadly clashes with police and public attacks in Xinjiang attributed to terrorism, but few incidents have been reported outside of the restive region.\nIn March 2014 a stabbing spree in Kunming city which killed 29 people was blamed on Xinjiang separatists, as was an October 2013 incident where a car ploughed into a crowd and burst into flames in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.\nRights groups have accused China of persecution and torture of the Uighur minority, but China has rejected such claims.", "summary": "Police in the north-eastern Chinese city of Shenyang have shot dead three \"knife-wielding\" men, state media said, calling them Xinjiang terrorists." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Jeff Bray, who won former party donor Arron Banks's support, decided not to compete for selection after the Huffington Post claimed on Tuesday he had posted controversial tweets.\nHe then later changed his mind and stayed in the selection race.\nThe district councillor told the BBC his Twitter feed had been doctored.\nMr Bray won by three votes against London-based barrister Paul Oakley.\nClacton's sitting MP Douglas Carswell had been UKIP's only MP until he quit the party and later announced he would not stand for re-election.", "summary": "A UKIP councillor has been chosen to contest Clacton in the general election for the party after earlier nearly abandoning his bid over a Twitter row." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They are reporting \"horrific stains\" spreading across screens, in the forms of spots and patches.\nPhi Chong, a software engineer, told the BBC he has had to replace his screen twice in the last two years. He said he had been told Apple would not carry out further screen repairs.\nThe firm told the BBC users should contact its Apple support centre.\nOne Macbook repair specialist indicated that this was not a common problem.\nBut users who have been affected are concerned they will face expensive service fees once their warranties and/or extended AppleCare protection plans expire.\n\"My last screen replacement had its anti-reflective coating start peeling off within a month,\" said Phi Chong.\n\"I'm worried it will start peeling again after my AppleCare has expired.\"\nA website called \"Staingate\" has been set up by a group unhappy with Apple's response.\nSome of them say they have been told they will have to pay $800 (£519) for repair work, the Staingate website states.\nA Facebook group formed by people experiencing problems with their Macbook screens has 1,752 members, and Staingate claims to have been contacted by more than 2,500 people so far.\nUS legal firm Whitfield Bryson & Mason has contacted the Facebook group offering to investigate.\nThe group has also set up a petition on the Change.org website which asks Apple chief executive Tim Cook to \"take immediate action\" to address the issue.\nSome people say problems with the screen can start appearing within a few months of purchasing the laptops, with the 13in (33cm) screen version retailing at £749 - £999 ($1,181 - $1,575) on the Apple UK website.\nWhile many people on the Facebook page are reporting that Apple stores around the world - including in Berlin, Hong Kong, Jersey and New Zealand - are agreeing to carry out free screen repairs outside the warranty period, others said they had been told it was \"cosmetic damage\", which is not usually covered.\nApple has not confirmed whether there is an issue with the screens, or what might be causing the damage.\nIts 2013 models seem to be worst affected, but there are online forums discussing the problem dating back to 2009.\n\"Customers who experience problems with their Apple products should contact AppleCare,\" a spokesperson told the BBC.\nAJ Forsythe, founder and chief executive of the Silicon Valley-based screen repair firm iCracked told the BBC it was not an issue that had come to his company's attention in the 11 countries in which it operates.\n\"We generally see that when people buy a $2,000 computer or a £700 iPad they take really good care of it for the first couple of months and then it becomes an extension of their lives,\" he said.\n\"It's not necessarily the user's fault... but it's incredibly hard to build a product that can withstand millions of real-world usages.\n\"I'd be interested to see what happens on the manufacturer's side.\"", "summary": "Thousands of Apple Macbook owners are campaigning for action over reported issues with the laptop's retina screen." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Syrian refugees are banned from entry until further notice.\nVisas for nationals of six countries, including Iran and Iraq, will not be issued for the next three months.\nGoogle has told the BBC it is concerned about the order and any measures which could block great talent from the US.\nThe BBC's business correspondent Joe Lynam says President Trump's order means that thousands of citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya may not be allowed to board flights bound for the US - even if they hold a so-called \"green card\" (permanent residents' permit).\nMr Trump said the measure would \"keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the US\".\nBut rights groups say there is no link between Syrian refugees in the US and terrorism.\nThere are already reports of travellers from the countries targeted being turned away as they try to board flights to the US.\nThe American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said this appeared to include \"green card holders and other visa holders\".\nIt advised nationals from the affected countries but living in the US not to travel abroad.\nSome Republicans have welcomed Mr Trump's announcement, including the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, who said it was \"time to re-evaluate and strengthen the visa vetting process\".\nThe new policy is also affecting visits from relatives.\nAn Iraqi journalist living in the US, Mohammed al-Rawi, posted on Facebook, saying his father had been turned away from a Los Angeles-bound flight in Qatar.\nJamal Abdi from the National Iranian American Council told the investigative journalism organisation Pro Publica: \"We are inundated with calls and questions of how this is going to affect people.\"\nThe Council on American Islamic Relations says it will file a lawsuit against the executive order.\nSilicon Valley, where many employed in the technology industry are of non-US origin, is also worried.\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted a lengthy note, saying he was \"concerned\" about the president's executive orders, and noting that he, like many Americans, is the descendant of immigrants.\nUnder Mr Trump's wide-ranging executive order, all refugee admissions have been suspended for four months.\nThe text of the order was released several hours after it was signed. Other measures include:\nThe order also said all immigration programmes should include questions to \"evaluate the applicant's likelihood of becoming a positively contributing member of society.\"\nIn a TV interview broadcast earlier on Friday, the president said Christians would be given priority among Syrians who apply for refugee status in the future.\nOther measures include a broad review of the information required from all countries to approve a visa; a review of visa schemes between nations to ensure they are \"truly reciprocal\" for US citizens; and the immediate suspension of the Visa Interview Waiver Programme.\nBut the document says exceptions to most restrictions could be made on a case-by-case basis.\nDuring the election campaign, Mr Trump suggested a \"total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on\".\nThe executive order has been met with criticism from rights organisations, Democrats and notable figures.\nDemocratic Senator Kamala Harris noted that the order had been signed on Holocaust Memorial Day. \"Make no mistake - this is a Muslim ban,\" she wrote.\n\"During the Holocaust, we failed to let refugees like Anne Frank into our country. We can't let history repeat itself,\" she said.\nMalala Yousafzai, the teenage Nobel Peace Laureate who was shot by the Taliban following her advocacy for women's education in Pakistan, wrote that she was \"heartbroken\".\n\"America is turning its back on a proud history of welcoming refugees and immigrants - the people who helped build your country, ready to work hard in exchange for a fair chance at a new life,\" she added.\nThe head of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemned the use of the words \"extreme vetting\", saying it was a \"euphemism for discriminating against Muslims\".\n\"Identifying specific countries with Muslim majorities and carving out exceptions for minority religions flies in the face of the constitutional principle that bans the government from either favouring or discriminating against particular religions,\" Anthony Romero said in a statement.\nIf you have any questions about the new vetting measures which President Trump has announced, send them to us and a BBC correspondent will answer the most popular.\nUse this form to ask your question:\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "summary": "Google has recalled travelling staff members to the US after an executive order from President Donald Trump restricting entry for nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Now, some of these figures will be plucked out of the air, but some of them will be based on serious economic modelling - carried out by folk with brains the size of planets, most likely swimming around in think tanks.\nShould you believe all of them, some of them or none of them and how do you know which to treasure and which to discard?\nNo, they're a bit more realistic than that. But not much.\nA lot of people trying to decide whether to vote to leave the European Union or stay in want to know what would happen if the UK left.\nAnd the trouble is that we don't know.\nHonestly we don't. And anyone who tells you they do is lying.\nAmong the key questions to which we don't know the answers are what sort of trade deals the UK would manage to do after leaving, how long they would take to negotiate, how much of the UK's contribution to the EU Budget would be saved, what that saved money would be spent on, whether the regulations that the UK government devised to replace the EU ones were better than the EU ones and what effect all that had on the economy.\nThere are also more subtle effects on the economy that are even harder to measure such as whether a Brexit would create some sort of feelgood factor in the UK economy, or the opposite.\nYes it is. Remember the Budget? The Office for Budget Responsibility, which does the forecasts that the government bases its decisions on, made really big changes to the predictions it had made for the economy only about four months before. And that was without a really major event such as leaving the EU to cloud its predictions.\nAlso, that was looking at what will happen in four or five years, while the EU questions has ramifications for decades, during which the global economy could change beyond recognition.\nThe PwC report commissioned by the CBI concluded that the cost of Brexit could be as much as 5% of GDP and 950,000 jobs by 2020, figures heartily disputed by the Leave side. How would they have worked that out?\nThe way it works is that you build a model to predict the future based largely on how particular things happening in the past have affected the economy.\nFor example, your model will be programmed for what effect the pound being weaker or stronger against the euro would have on the economy, or what effect an increase in tariffs on particular exports or imports would have.\nIf you plug in all the right numbers to start with then it might do, but this is where the problems start.\nBecause in order to work the model you have to make some assumptions in order to have the figures to put in.\nYou need to take a view of what trade deals would be done and when, what difference it would make to trade, whether the pound would fall and a whole host of other variables.\nAnd the numbers you come out with at the end are enormously sensitive to these assumptions. The margin of error on such forecasts would generally completely dwarf the effects they were trying to identify, if people bothered to try to quantify it.\nGeorge Box, one of the greatest statisticians of the 20th Century, said: \"All models are wrong, but some are useful.\"\nWhile the numbers may be of little value, the direction the models predict and some of the assumptions they make are quite interesting.\nFriday's report from the Centre for Economic Performance said that leaving would be bad for the economy, predicting falling trade because of rising non-tariff barriers to British goods.\nHow big a hit the economy would take, whether it's the equivalent of £850 per household in its \"optimistic\" scenario, £1,700 in its pessimistic one, or between £4,200 and £6,400 per household in the long term is less important.\nThat's the tricky question.\nLook at how well-respected the people conducting the research are. Look at who has commissioned it and who is paying for it.\nIf it's been commissioned by organisations campaigning for one side or the other then you could reasonably be a bit suspicious of its findings.\nBut that's not necessarily a firm rule. A well-funded, independent group can be just as wrong as a biased one.\n\"People are not necessarily wrong because they're biased any more than they're necessarily right because they're rich,\" says Will Moy, director of the fact-checking organisation Full Fact.\nAlso, be a bit careful with the question of EU funding. Lots of research organisations bid to do some work for the EU and many universities receive some funding from the EU. Almost none can say they have never received any European money, but it doesn't necessarily mean they are in favour of staying in the union.\nThen have a look at the assumptions they are making, what they are predicting will happen and whether it seems too pessimistic or optimistic.\nIn particular, make sure the organisation is clarifying what assumptions it has made and how the model works. If not, don't believe it.\nAnd remember there's also the option to decide that you don't care what even the finest economists predict, or even that you don't think the economic impact is the most important thing about EU membership.\nREAD MORE: The facts behind claims in the EU debate", "summary": "As the EU referendum campaign continues you will be seeing lots of headlines about how much Brexit would cost or benefit the UK economy, or indeed how much staying in will cost the economy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dan Bull spends 10 weeks a year on a cherrypicker trying to tame this 55ft (17 metre) hedge at Powis Castle, Welshpool, Powys.\nHe admitted it was \"a bit scary\" initially, but considers himself lucky.\nBack in the day, the 300-year-old yew took a team of 10 with huge ladders to clip the bushes using just hand shears and scythes.\nHead gardener David Swanton added: \"It's a huge task for us to get all the trimming done.\n\"Two gardeners spend six weeks trimming the box hedge and two more spend 12 weeks working on the yew.\n\"One gardener spends about 10 weeks in the air on this hydraulic cherry-picker getting all the high trimming done.\"", "summary": "If you struggle to simply mow the lawn at this time of year, spare a thought for this extreme gardener." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Patrick Ryan, 25, hit Phillip Evans while they were were drinking on 11 October, after Mr Evans claimed he had \"never been knocked out before\".\nThe 42-year-old could not be revived, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.\nRyan, of Blackwood Avenue, Wednesfield, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at an earlier hearing and was sentenced on Tuesday.\nMore on this, plus other Black Country stories\nDet Insp Martin Slevin, from West Midlands Police, said: \"Mr Evans had been a happy family man until working night shifts affected his sleeping pattern and he took to drink to relax, which resulted in him losing his family and spiralling into alcoholism.\n\"He lost his life tragically and his neighbour and friend is now serving time for his death and will have to live with the consequences of their brutal pastime for the rest of his life.\"", "summary": "A man has been jailed for three years after killing a friend who asked to be punched in the face, police said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Los Angeles police told the BBC that Shandling \"suffered a medical emergency\" on Thursday.\nShandling was known for \"breaking the fourth wall\" - speaking directly to the audience - in his show, which aired from 1986 to 1990.\nHe starred in the Emmy award winning Larry Sanders Show from 1992 to 1998.\nHis self-aware brand of comedy, which relentlessly mocked the artificial nature of show business, is credited with influencing other hit shows like Tina Fey's 30 Rock and Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm.\nShandling was born in Chicago in 1949 and grew up in Tucson, Arizona before moving to Los Angeles in the early 1970s.\nHe got his start in Hollywood as a sitcom writer for shows such as Sanford and Son and Welcome Back, Kotter.\nA popular stand-up comedian, Shandling often appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson during the 1980s.\nHe was in the running to replace Carson when the chat show host retired in 1992. The job eventually went to Jay Leno.\nFellow comedians Amy Schumer and Ricky Gervais are among the many who have been paying tribute to Shandling.\n\"Goodbye Gary Shandling thank you for your kindness and your generosity and for making me laugh so damn much,\" said Schumer.\nGervais wrote: \"RIP the great Garry Shandling. Surely, one of the most influential comedians of a generation.\"\nActor and Saturday Night Live veteran Rob Schneider posted: \"We all owe you, Gary Shandling.\"\nA high point of Shandling's career was as Larry Sanders, the host of a fictional talk show which aired from 1992 to 1998.\nCelebrities frequently appeared on the programme and were playfully mocked by the character.\n\"It's an extremely delicate process because no one wants to be made fun of,\" Shandling told The LA Times in 1995.\n\"I do not think this is a mean-spirited show in any way. There's a level of satire in which, if one gets it, then they're willing to play with that. This show allows an opportunity for some people to play themselves in a way that they haven't been able to do before.\"\nThe show saw Shandling directly address the audience in a technique known as breaking the \"fourth wall\".\nThe comedian also did not use a laugh track in the series - something that was seen as controversial at the time but has since become commonplace on sitcoms such as The Office, 30 Rock and Modern Family.\nShandling was a frequent awards show host - emceeing both the Grammy and Emmy awards for several years.\nActor Steve Martin wrote on Thursday that when he hosted the Academy Awards, Shandling would offer suggestions.\nShandling most recently starred as a villainous senator in Iron Man 2 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.\nConan O'Brien paid tribute to Shandling on his talk show on Thursday evening.\n\"He was a masterful writer, a performer who went on to create incredibly groundbreaking comedy shows that inspired an entire generation of comedians, myself included,\" O'Brien said.\n\"He was also extremely sensitive and he really did care about other people. That is something in the comedy business that is incredibly rare.\"", "summary": "US actor Garry Shandling who influenced a generation of comedians with his Emmy nominated TV series It's Garry Shandling's Show has died, aged 66." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It was in Japan and all he could have was a milkshake.\nHe loved it.\nHe is now the man behind McDonald's in India, responsible for the phenomenal growth the company has had in the country.\nWhen the American fast-food giant first contacted him in 1994 Amit's first challenge was close to home, convincing his vegetarian family to invest in the business.\n\"From my family's point of view we thought through this carefully,\" he tells the BBC.\n\"What convinced us was that McDonald's was willing to localise. They promised that there would be no beef or pork on the menu.\n\"Nearly half of Indians are vegetarian so choosing a vegetarian to run their outlets here makes sense.\"\nAcross the world the Big Mac beefburger is the company's signature product. Amit and his partners had to come up with their own signature product for India, so the Chicken Maharajah Mac was born.\nOriginally Amit was the local partner in the south and west of India, running the chain as a joint venture with the global McDonald's company.\nLater he bought out the McDonald's stake and now solely runs the chain in the south and west of the country.\nIt hasn't been an easy journey.\n\"From a consumer point of view I had to start with the message that a burger is a meal,\" he says.\nHis research shows that in 2003, of 100 meals that people ate in a month, only three were eaten out.\nThey introduced a 20 rupees (20p) burger called Aloo Tikki Burger, a burger with a cutlet made of mashed potatoes, peas and flavoured with Indian spices.\n\"It's something you would find on Indian streets, it was essentially the McDonald's version of street food. The price and the taste together, the value we introduced, was a hit. It revolutionised the industry in India,\" he says.\nNow eating out has gone up to 9-10 times per 100 meals and McDonald's in India has more than 320 million customers a year.\n\"Whether you love or hate McDonald's, they deliver a formula very well,\" says Edward Dixon, chief operating officer of Sannam S4, which provides market entry advice and support for multinationals in India, Brazil and China.\n\"Localised menu, delivered with precision quality at a price that works. One other trick they have used very effectively [is] an entry level ice cream which fuels the ability for consumers who might not ordinarily be able to afford to become a customer.\"\nThe kind of customers McDonald's attracts in India is very different from other countries.\nThere are still families with young children who frequent it. But diners also include many young people, aged between 19 and 30, with no kids.\nDuring the week, Amit says, this crowd dominates the restaurants.\nI wanted to see how true this was so I decided to have lunch in the McDonald's in Delhi's crowded Lajpat Nagar market area.\nSitting to my right, a young IT worker munches on a McSpicy Paneer while conducting a Skype meeting on his laptop.\nBreaking into a new market is never easy but many have achieved massive success far from home.\nThe BBC's global business team meet those who have managed to break into the fast growing global markets and find out what secrets they have learnt about how to succeed in them.\nHow to succeed in...\nOn my left, a group of college students share a meal.\nBut what's most interesting are the two tables behind me.\nOne table has two elderly couples in serious discussion; the other has a coy-looking woman and man trying to have a conversation amidst the din.\nWith a bit of eavesdropping I find out that this is traditional matchmaking but in the modern Indian way.\nThe parents have introduced the potential bride and groom who are having their first official date under the watchful eyes of their mothers and fathers. The parents meanwhile are sorting out the details of the proposed marriage, all over a Maharaja Mac Meal.\nSo Amit's research seems to be right: unlike McDonald's around the world, there are hardly any parents with young children here.\nMcDonald's doesn't have the Indian fast-food market to itself:\nAdapting McDonald's for the uniquely Indian market was a big expense when he started but Amit believes it has paid off in the long term.\nWhen they started there was no lettuce supply chain in India. Most people used cabbage on burgers.\nSo they had to set it up from scratch.\nThe infrastructure is also now becoming a local venture.\n\"In 2001 we began to localise all the equipment that goes into the kitchen to build a burger,\" he says.\n\"For example, we took a burger and took it apart; now piece by piece every component is made locally.\n\"All the kitchen fabrication is done locally. All the refrigeration, chillers and freezers and furniture are made locally.\"\nIn most cases their global suppliers have worked with local businesses to make that happen.\nHe wants to take it further. His current challenge is to make fryers locally.\nWhile recent weakening of consumer spending has seen a slowdown in sales, overall Amit has managed to grow same-store sales by 200% and he says he's not done yet.\nThe plans are to open another 1,000 restaurants in the next decade.\n\"Think about it,\" he says, \"India has 1.2 billion people and we have just 350 McDonald's [restaurants] to service them.\"\nBut India is not an easy market to work in, especially for multinational companies.\nMcDonald's in India has another partner in the north with whom they are still in the process of addressing the issue of ownership amid an ongoing legal battle.\nSo how did Amit Jhatia get around it?\n\"There are a lot of regulatory approvals needed to get something done,\" he says.\n\"But that is known. Once you know it, you factor it into your business plan.\"", "summary": "A staunch vegetarian, Amit Jatia was 14 when he walked into a McDonald's for the first time." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The San Francisco-based firm disclosed the investment in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.\nAirBnB did not comment on how it would use the funding, but is expected to expand its operations globally.\nIt has grown rapidly since its launch in 2008, and currently operates in 65,000 cities worldwide.\nThe firm, which does not publish its sales figures, makes its money by enabling homeowners to rent out their homes.\nIt takes a 3% cut of each booking and a 6% to 12% service charge from guests.\nIt made its first profit in the second half of 2016, and will continue to be profitable this year on an underlying basis, according to media stories.\nThey also reported that the firm had no plans to list its shares on the stock market in the near future.\nAirBnB has been diversifying and recently began offering users new services, such as tailor-made city tours and exclusive experiences with local experts.\nHowever, it has also faced criticism over claims it is driving up rents and contributing to housing shortages in some cities.\nIn December, under pressure from MPs, the firm said it would block hosts in London from renting out homes for more than 90 days a year without official consent.\nIt is also facing tougher regulations in New York, Berlin and Barcelona.\nThe accommodation site lets people rent out their properties, often at prices undercutting hotels and traditional Bed and Breakfasts.\nIt was started by university friends Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia in 2008 to help pay the rent on their San Francisco flat.\nAs the site expanded into more and more cities, helped by the use of professional photographers, it attracted backers including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Ashton Kutcher.\nIn total it has raised more than $3bn from investors and it is now the second most valuable start-up in the US after Uber, which is valued at about $70bn.", "summary": "Home rental company AirBnB has raised $1bn (£821m) of investment funding in a deal that values the firm at $31bn." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The deluge brought by Friday's storm left thousands of homes flooded and caused widespread damage.\nAs was the case in 2005 and 2009, the community has rallied together to offer help, places to stay and provide donations to those affected.\nAnd the county's newspapers are no exception - coming together to help in the efforts by starting the online campaign #SpiritofCumbria.\nHelen Statham, social media specialist at the CN newspaper group, said: \"After the floods lots of different people were tweeting about offers of help, messages of support and businesses saying they were open.\n\"The messages were all really positive so we decided to get together to reflect that mood.\n\"We decided to create a website as a sort of online hub to capture that vibe and it's really caught on.\"\nSet up by the CN newspaper group, the website has four sections to connect residents together. People can find out which businesses are open, see who is offering and in need of help, and leave messages of thanks to those who have helped them.\nOffers of furniture, clothing and assistance have not only come in from those in the county - but from all over the UK.\nCN Group said it used the Hashtracking.com website to find the #spiritofcumbria hashtag had reached 13 million people via tweets and retweets.\nMs Statham added: \"It's very inspiring - I think the hashtag speaks for itself and it's a testament to the effort that has been put in from all over the region.\"\nAn online appeal set up to help those affected by flooding in Cumbria has raised more than £560,000.", "summary": "As the clean-up continues in Cumbria after the county was battered by Storm Desmond, a digital campaign to capture the solidarity of those offering help has reached more than 13 million people on Twitter, its organisers say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Roofe has joined for an undisclosed fee understood to be about £3m, a club-record sale for the U's.\nThe 23-year-old started his career at West Brom, who are owed a share of the transfer fee due to a sell-on clause.\nGrimes, 20, has struggled to break into the Swansea first team, making only one Premier League start.\nThe England Under-21 international joins up with former Swans boss Garry Monk, who signed him as a teenager from League Two side Exeter City for £1.75m in January 2015.\nHe played 13 times for Blackburn Rovers during a loan spell last season.\nRoofe scored 18 goals in 40 league games for Oxford last season to help the U's earn promotion to League One, and he also contributed nine assists.\nThe Walsall-born player joined Oxford on an initial loan deal in February 2015, before making the move permanent in May of that year.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "Leeds have signed Oxford United forward Kemar Roofe on a four-year deal and brought in Swansea midfielder Matt Grimes on a season-long loan." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A children's version of the talent show is expected to run for at least two series,\nThere are already 30 versions of The Voice Kids globally, including in Australia and France, but this is the first time it will be on in the UK.\nPeter Fincham, director of television at ITV, said he was \"thrilled\" to have the singing contest.\nHe said it would be joining other popular talent contests already on ITV including The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent.\nThe last series on the BBC will feature Paloma Faith, Boy George, Ricky Wilson and will.i.am as judges.", "summary": "ITV has announced that it will be broadcasting The Voice and The Voice Kids from 2017." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Pupils and staff at Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College have set a new world record for the highest number of people doing sit-ups simultaneously.\nIts head of physical education, Stuart Donald, said they had to surpass the previous record which stood at 503.\n\"We got 827 people. We smashed it - we annihilated it,\" he told the BBC.\n\"In the process we raised thousands for Sport Relief.\"\nHe described it as an \"outstanding achievement for the school\".\nMr Donald was the driving force behind the world record challenge, which took place in March, on the final day of term before Easter.\nHowever, they had to wait until this week before the record was officially confirmed.\n\"It was quite a wait, because with Guinness World Records it's such a credible and reputable process that you have to provide so much evidence. You have to justify and prove your record,\" the head of PE said.\n\"I spent five weeks submitting and collating evidence - my colleagues actually said I'd be getting a world record for submitting so much paperwork.\n\"But it was fantastic. It was all about giving our kids a unique and educational experience.\"\nThe record attempt was witnessed by independent counters, timekeepers as well as stewards from the police, Army, RAF and Royal Navy.\nSeveral other departments from the school also got involved in helping to organise and promote the event, and a video of their efforts was published online.\nThis week, details of the school's accomplishment were published on the Guinness World Records website.\n\"It was really, really lovely way to end the term and it was a fantastic start to the term to have the record confirmed,\" Mr Donald said.\nThe PE teacher came up with the idea by taking inspiration from sporting stars who have achieved global success - such as sprinter Usain Bolt and other world record breakers.\nHe said his pupils would now also \"be able to say they're number one\".\n\"Our kids will get a copy of that certificate that says they broke the record.\n\"They'll be able to frame it, put it on their wall and whenever they are fathers, grandfathers, mothers, grandmothers, they can tell their kids 'that's from when I was number one'.\"", "summary": "A Northern Ireland school has made the world sit up and take notice by breaking a world record while raising thousands of pounds for charity." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The southbound road on the approach to Blair Atholl was partially blocked due to the incident.\nTraffic Scotland advised motorists to exercise caution and expect longer than normal journey times.\nThe incident happened shortly before 14:30.", "summary": "Motorists on the A9 faced delays after a lorry shed its load of fish onto the carriageway." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Republic of Ireland under-19 international Holland has yet to feature for Swansea since signing from Manchester City in July 2015.\nThe 18-year-old started his career at Bradford City, and also had a spell at Leeds United.\nEastleigh currently sit eighth in the National League table, four points outside the play-off places.", "summary": "National League side Eastleigh have signed Swansea midfielder Tom Holland on loan until the end of the season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The EU spacecraft uses a technique called interferometry to sense surface movements.\nIts data shows rock above the blast zone going down by up to 7cm in one area and rising 2-3cm in another.\nThe imagery was released by Germany's Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR).\nIt advises the federal government on matters related to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).\nThe 6 January event was described by North Korean media as a miniaturised hydrogen bomb detonation, but there has been no independent confirmation of this claim.\nAll of North Korea's tests (2006, 2009, 2013, 2016) appear to have occurred at a site called Punggye-ri, also known as P'unggye-yok, in a remote region in the east of the country, near the town of Kilju.\nThe data picked up by international seismometers has given very good location information, but the new Sentinel imagery refines these estimates further.\nSatellite interferometry works by finding the difference in \"before\" and \"after\" radar pictures of the Earth's surface. It allows even quite subtle ground movements to be detected.\nSentinel-1a got its first view of the test site following the explosion on 13 January, and this was compared with an observation acquired on 1 January.\nThe effects of both subsidence and uplift are evident.\n\"This is a very important result because in the past the location of nuclear tests was based only on seismological data and now we have an indication from other technologies,\" said BGR's Nicolai Gestermann.\nAt the moment, the 12-day repeat in observations is the best this radar satellite can achieve, but on Friday a sister spacecraft will be launched by the European Space Agency that should reduce the re-visit time to just six days.\nBecause of the gap in time between the blast and the subsequent image retrieval, scientists cannot say whether the ground deformation occurred at the same time as the detonation or a few days later.\nSeismologists say the bomb test had a magnitude of 5.1.\nIts characteristics were very similar to the previous explosion conducted in 2013, suggesting the 6 January event was not, as claimed, a thermonuclear blast, said Dr Gestermann.\nThe estimated yield was 10 kilotons of TNT-equivalent, plus or minus three kilotons, he added.\nThe BGR scientist was presenting his institute's work here at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly.\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "summary": "The ground convulsion resulting from North Korea's underground nuclear bomb test in January has been mapped by Europe's Sentinel-1a radar satellite." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dywedodd y prif weinidog bod yr adroddiad, ddigwyddodd y llynedd, hefyd yn argymell helpu'r gwasanaeth i dyfu.\nMae nifer o gwmnïau wedi rhedeg y gwasanaeth ers ei sefydlu yn 2007.\nEastern Airways sy'n hedfan ar hyn o bryd, wedi i Citywing fynd i'r wal gan ddweud bod y gwasanaeth yn \"anghynaladwy\".\nMae'r gwasanaeth yn cysylltu Caerdydd a'r Fali ar Ynys Môn o ddydd Llun i ddydd Gwener.\nMae wedi derbyn nawdd cyhoeddus ers cael ei sefydlu, gyda rhai'n cwestiynu'r gwerth am arian i'r trethdalwyr.\nDywedodd y Ceidwadwyr ddydd Mercher ei bod hi'n bryd cael gwared â'r gwasanaeth.\nOnd yn ei ddatganiad, dywedodd Carwyn Jones bod yr hediadau'n \"ffordd gyflym a chyfleus o deithio rhwng y de a'r gogledd, sy'n hanfodol i'n heconomi\".\nDywedodd mai \"oherwydd gweithredwyr blaenorol yn fwy na dim\" roedd y gwasanaeth wedi \"wynebu anawsterau yn y gorffennol\".\nFe ddywedodd bod yr adroddiad hefyd yn argymell \"helpu'r gwasanaeth awyr i dyfu\" a bod Llywodraeth Cymru \"bellach yn edrych ar sut y gellid datblygu'r llwybr dros y pedair blynedd nesaf\".\nYchwanegodd y bydd Eastern Airways, wnaeth gamu i'r adwy yn sgil tranc Citywing, yn dal i redeg y gwasanaeth am y tro, ond y bydd \"y broses gystadleuol o gaffael gweithredwr hirdymor\" yn cychwyn \"yn y misoedd nesaf\".\nDywedodd llefarydd y Ceidwadwyr ar yr economi mai \"gwasanaeth gwennol i weision sifil a gweinidogion\" yw'r cyswllt, a bod \"dim tystiolaeth\" ei fod o werth i'r economi'n ehangach.\n\"Mae cymhorthdal Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer y cyswllt yn fwy na £100 y pen, sy'n ddrytach na thocyn dwy ffordd\", meddai Russell George AC.\n\"Os nad ydyn nhw'n gallu profi bod y gwasanaeth yn gallu bod yn gost effeithiol yn y tymor hir, yna dylid cael gwared ag e.\"", "summary": "Fe fydd y gwasanaeth awyren rhwng Caerdydd ac Ynys Môn yn parhau yn dilyn adolygiad." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe Germans missed three spot-kicks - more in one shootout than in their history - before Jonas Hector converted for a 6-5 win.\nHummels, who scored his penalty, told BBC World Service: \"We didn't shoot like a German team.\n\"I saw Gary Lineker posted about it already and of course he's right.\"\nThomas Muller, Mesut Ozil and Bastian Schweinsteiger failed to score from the spot, with Muller's miss Germany's first in a shootout since 1982.\nThey have been involved in six penalty contests, losing only once in the final of the 1976 European Championship against Czechoslovakia.\nSaturday's failures, albeit in victory, prompted Match of the Day presenter Lineker - who was part of the England team beaten on penalties by West Germany in the 1990 World Cup semi-finals - to jokingly tweet: \"Germany are useless at penalties these days.\"\nHummels, who has just moved from Borussia Dortmund to German champions Bayern Munich, added: \"You won't believe it, but yes we [practised penalties] in training a few times.\n\"I was very happy that I did because I worked out which shot would work well for me today - because it worked well yesterday.\n\"It's hard to simulate the real situation.\"\nItaly missed four penalties during the shootout, including one from Leonardo Bonucci who had scored from the spot in normal time to earn his side a 1-1 draw and extra time.", "summary": "Germany defender Mats Hummels says Gary Lineker was correct to describe their penalty taking in the Euro 2016 last-eight win over Italy as \"useless\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It has also been made into a musical stage show, which has been a huge success - and now, it's coming to the big screen...again!\nWalt Disney Studios has confirmed that the film is having a live action remake, a bit like The Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast have recently.\nSo what do we know about the new film?\nLovers of the original songs in the film, like I Just Can't Wait To Be King and Circle of Life, will be pleased to hear that the new film will include songs from the original film.\nDonald Glover will play the lead role of Simba, while James Earl Jones - who played Simba's father Mufasa in the original animated film - will play the role again.\nThe Wrap has recently reported that comedian John Oliver will voice Mufasa's mouthy sidekick Zazu, although Disney has not confirmed this.\nSimilarly, there have been reports that Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner will voice loveable pals Pumbaa and Timon, but again, we don't know for sure.\nThere have been rumours that makers of the film want none other than singing superstar Beyonce to play the voice of Simba's best friend in the film Nala.\nJohn Faveau, who directed the recent remake of The Jungle Book, will be directing this new film.\nThe studios said: \"We can officially confirm that The Walt Disney Studios and director Jon Favreau are putting a new reimagining of The Lion King on the fast track to production.\"\nDisney has said that it is currently planned for release in July 2019.", "summary": "The Disney film The Lion King is one of the biggest animated films of all time." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Former PC Philip Foster told the jury that, as Liverpool fans carried Paul Brady, 21, on a makeshift stretcher, they were targeted by some Forest fans.\nTrained first-aider Mr Foster had earlier tried to resuscitate him.\nMr Brady and 95 other fans were fatally injured in a crush at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield.\nThe refrigeration engineer from Liverpool had travelled to the match with friends Colin Auton, Michael O'Keefe and Joseph McCarthy, the jury heard.\nMr McCarthy also died in the disaster, while Mr Auton and Mr O'Keefe both lost consciousness.\nMr O'Keefe, a Liverpool season ticket holder, told the jury he spent three days in hospital.\nMr Brady and Mr O'Keefe were pictured inside pen three on the Leppings Lane terraces, at 14:56 BST - four minutes before the game kicked off.\nIn a statement read to the court, John Bilsborough, another Liverpool fan, recalled that Mr Brady was smiling and appeared \"buoyant\" and \"with a twinkle in his eye\" before the disaster unfolded.\nThe court heard Mr Brady was carried out of the terraces at 15:21 BST.\nDr Colin Flenley and Mr Foster both tried to resuscitate him on the pitch, along with a volunteer medic from the St John Ambulance service.\nMr Foster said that at one point he was \"confident\" he felt \"one or two beats\" of a pulse but added that may have been caused by someone else giving Mr Brady heart massage at the same time.\nMr Foster said: \"At one point, I'm sure I felt something at the wrist - a pulse - and that's when I decided I couldn't do any more for him and I needed to get some more help.\n\"We needed airways, we needed lots of things, we needed oxygen. I couldn't do that on a football pitch.\"\nDr Flenley said Mr Brady showed no \"signs of life\" during the time he was with him.\nAt about 15:30 BST, Mr Foster helped a group including Liverpool fans carry Mr Brady on a makeshift stretcher the length of the pitch towards an ambulance.\nThe former officer said he was sure the group carrying Mr Brady included Liverpool fans because Forest supporters \"spat\" on them as they reached the other end of the pitch.\nGeorge Jacob, a surgeon and medical doctor, was part of a team that tried to resuscitate Mr Brady at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield but he was declared dead at 16:05.\nMr Brady's body was taken back to the stadium that night and Harry Brady, his father, identified his son the following morning.\nThe inquests, in Warrington, Cheshire, are due to resume at 13:00 BST on Friday.\nBBC News: Profiles of all those who died", "summary": "Nottingham Forest fans spat on a group of rescuers ferrying a victim of the Hillsborough disaster towards an ambulance, the inquests have heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ospreys are understood to be leading the chase to sign the 29-year-old former Cardiff Blues player.\nDavies has a year left on his current contract at Wasps, which means potential suitors may have to pay a compensation fee for his early release.\n\"From our point of view there's been nothing finalised or agreed,\" said Young.\n\"But there's certainly been interest shown and it's ongoing discussions at this moment in time.\"\nThose negotiations are believed to be at an advanced stage with Ospreys.\nDavies had been linked with a return to the Blues but, despite previously confirming interest from Welsh regions, ex-Blues boss Young said there had been no approach from the Arms Park side.", "summary": "Wasps director of rugby Dai Young has confirmed lock Bradley Davies has held talks about a return to Wales." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "After falling sharply on Thursday, Brent crude fell below $47 a barrel at one point, before recovering to $49.14.\nPrices are still around their lowest level since November, when the Opec oil producers' group agreed to cut output.\nInvestors are worried that Opec nations will fail to rein in output further at their next meeting later this month.\nThe price of US crude also dropped sharply on Friday morning, but then recovered to stand at $46.28 a barrel.\nOil prices are down by about 15% since the start of the year, despite Opec's agreement in November which cut output by 1.8 million barrels a day.\nSupply is still outpacing demand, with US oil production alone up by 10% since summer 2016.\nIt now pumps out some 9.3 million barrels a day - not far short of the two giant oil producing nations of Russia and Saudi Arabia.\nOpec's deal in November, and subsequent supply cuts agreed by other oil producing countries, helped to boost prices earlier this year, said David Hunter, an energy industry analyst with Schneider Electric.\nBut the market has been \"jittery\" as countries decide whether to extend those cuts, he said.\nOpec and other oil nations are meeting on 25 May where they will discuss the success of the six-month cutback and whether it should be deepened.\nRussia, one of the non-Opec countries to sign up to the cuts, gave mixed signals on Thursday about whether it would continue.\n\"While the cartel is expected to extend a self-imposed production cap by another six months, it will be a challenge to convince several non-Opec members to follow suit,\" said Abhishek Kumar, senior energy analyst at Interfax Energy's Global Gas Analytics.\n\"Persistent growth in US oil production ... will also make extensions of the Opec cap beyond 2017 unlikely.\"\nData released on Tuesday indicated US crude stocks fell 930,000 barrels last week. Analysts had been expecting a drop of 2.3 million barrels.", "summary": "Oil prices have stabilised after hitting fresh five-month lows in early trade on Friday, amid renewed concerns about a worldwide supply glut." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The lorry overturned between junctions 12 and 11 of the London-bound M4 near Reading on Wednesday. The 49-year-old driver, from Essex, died at the scene.\nRepair work was carried out through the night on the road and central reservation that had been damaged.\nThe closure meant some drivers were stuck in their cars in tailbacks for up to seven hours.\nAnyone who witnessed the crash has been urged to contact police.", "summary": "A stretch of motorway in Berkshire that was closed for 19 hours after a fatal lorry crash has reopened." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Joyce Mitchell admitted on Tuesday to giving tools to the men, who broke out through tunnels under the prison.\nMitchell, 51, faces two to seven years in prison under a plea agreement.\nInmates Richard Matt and David Sweat were on the run for almost three weeks in June, setting off a massive manhunt involving hundreds of police officers.\nPolice shot and killed Matt near the Canadian border on 26 June. Sweat was later caught in the same area and sent back to prison.\nMitchell was a tailor shop instructor at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. She was arrested soon after Matt and Sweat escaped on 5 June.\nShe told prosecutors that she hid the tools - including hacksaw blades, chisels and a screwdriver - inside frozen hamburger meat. The inmates were housed in a part of the prison where they were allowed to cook their own food.\nMitchell had also offered to drive the getaway car but backed out on the day of the escape, leaving the inmates to flee on foot.\nThe pair escaped through the prison sewer system after using the tools to break out of their cell. The escape set off a massive manhunt across northern New York and Vermont.\nAlthough another prison worker has been charged in the case, authorities do not believe other plot extended beyond Mitchell and the inmates.\nMatt was serving time for kidnapping and dismembering his former boss, while Sweat was imprisoned for killing a sheriff's deputy.", "summary": "A former prison worker has pleaded guilty to charges that she helped two convicted killers escape from a maximum-security facility in New York." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Shaun Ritchie, 20, was last seen with friends at a remote woodland area near Strichen on the night of Friday 31 October into the Saturday morning.\nInspector Simon Reid said: \"We want to stress this is still a missing person enquiry.\"\nHe added: \"It is difficult terrain and it will take us some time to complete this.\"\nA CCTV image released earlier showed Mr Ritchie wearing dark grey skinny jeans, a white t-shirt, a grey hoodie and brown trainers.", "summary": "The search for a Fraserburgh man missing for a month is now focusing on \"challenging areas of terrain\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 22-year-old, who has made 18 appearances this term, was hurt in a tackle during the first half of last Saturday's 18-17 loss against Bath.\nMatt Garvey received a yellow card for the tackle on Evans.\nGloucester boss Nigel Davies told BBC Radio Gloucestershire it looked like a ligament injury and was \"pretty serious\".\nHe added: \"It is very disappointing for him because he has been fabulous.\n\"He can't have been far away from international honours. He can, at this stage, play for Scotland, Wales or England. It's a real shame.\"\nEvans, who came through the club's academy to make his senior debut in 2012, earned his first Premiership and Heineken Cup starts this season.\nHe was among nine players to sign new deals earlier this month.", "summary": "Gloucester back-row forward Gareth Evans could be out for up to six months with a knee injury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Watson won 190 one-day international caps, scoring 5,757 runs at an average of 40.54 and taking 168 wickets at 31.79 apiece.\nThe 34-year-old has played in 56 T20 internationals and is in Australia's squad to face Pakistan on Friday.\nWatson, who retired from Tests in 2015, is the only Australian to have scored centuries in all forms of the game.\nHe will continue to play in domestic T20 tournaments, including the Big Bash.\n\"Shane should be proud of his contribution to Australian cricket,\" Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said.\n\"To be bracketed with [former captain] Steve Waugh as Australia's most prolific batting all-rounder in Test and one-day cricket is a very significant statement about his international career.\"\nA powerful batsman and seam bowler, Watson, who made his ODI debut in 2002, has the highest score in that format by an Australian - 185 against Bangladesh in 2011.\nTwice a winner of the Allan Border Medal as Australian player of the year, he featured in three World Cups and was part of the Australian sides which triumphed in the 2007 and 2015 tournaments.\nHe has also appeared in all six World T20s and was player of the tournament in 2012.\nWatson retired from Tests following last summer's Ashes series in England having won 59 caps, scoring 3,731 runs at 35.19 and taking 75 wickets at 33.68.\nHe captained his country in one Test in India in 2013.", "summary": "Australia all-rounder Shane Watson will retire from all international cricket after the World Twenty20 in India." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A mass dance warm-up took place at Saundersfoot before the swimmers braved the sea, cheered on by thousands of spectators.\nPembrokeshire-born adventurer Tori James, the first Welsh woman to climb Mount Everest, was on hand to start the swim.\nNow in its 32rd year, the event has raised more than £500,000 for charity.\nHighlights among the fancy dress included a large Star Wars Millennium Falcon and Mrs Brown's Boys.", "summary": "More than 1,500 swimmers in fancy dress have welcomed in the New Year at an annual swim in Pembrokeshire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The fly-half, 28, has joined up with the English Premiership side following Wales' exit from the World Cup.\nPriestland, who has won 40 caps for Wales, signed for Bath this year after 10 years playing for Scarlets and made his debut in Saturday's loss at Wasps.\n\"We want Rhys with us and he's going to take a break from international rugby for the next 18 months,\" Ford said.\n\"[It's] his choice and he wants to develop here, get settled at Bath and put a lot of effort and time into being the best player he can be at Bath.\n\"When George [Ford, the England fly-half and son of Mike Ford] is away with the Six Nations, Rhys will be our 10.\n\"Eighteen months later is still two years away from the next World Cup and he's still young enough, if he wants to carry on playing for his country, he can do.\"\nPriestland had been first choice for much of Warren Gatland's reign as Wales coach, and rose to prominence in the build-up to the 2011 World Cup.\nA late injury replacement for Stephen Jones in the first warm-up match against England, he went on to play a prominent role in Wales' journey to the semi-finals, and was an ever-present during the Grand Slam the following year.\nLike most who have worn the Wales number 10 shirt, Priestland was subjected to intense scrutiny during his Test career, and once admitted to seeking psychological help to cope with the rigours of international rugby.\nDan Biggar was Wales' first-choice number 10 during the 2015 World Cup, with Priestland the reserve.\nOn Saturday, he came on for Bath after Kyle Eastmond suffered an injury at Wasps, taking over at fly-half with Ford switching to scrum-half in the 16-9 defeat.\n\"I thought he did very well, and he's been excellent in training for us,\" added Ford, speaking to BBC Radio Bristol.\n\"It's a good acquisition for us to have George and Rhys fighting for that 10 position, because we relied too much on George last year.\"", "summary": "Rhys Priestland will take an 18-month break from playing for Wales, according to his Bath coach Mike Ford." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The family-owned firm, formally known as AP Moller-Maersk, will focus on its transport and logistics business.\nThe energy division is to shrink its global reach and focus more on the North Sea, where it has expertise.\nThat division has around 800 employees based in Aberdeen, working both on and offshore.\nThe company employs 88,000 people and operates across 130 countries, with turnover of more than $40bn (£31bn).\nWork will continue on existing energy projects, including some of the biggest projects in the UK offshore sector. But the company signalled that new investment commitments may be low, particularly in tankers and drilling.\nMaersk Oil has been operating in the UK central North Sea sector for 11 years, and is a partner in some of the biggest developments during that time, including the Golden Eagle.\nFrom a small country perspective, Maersk looks like a giant. So it is uncomfortable for Denmark that the giant has been weakened in both legs.\nShipping has been hit by sharp reductions in rates for containers - a notoriously volatile market. That is partly due to a downturn in trade, and also to the extra tonnage added to the world container fleet.\nHanjin Shipping, the seventh-biggest in container transport and based in South Korea, recently filed for bankruptcy. It is struggling to find the finance to offload cargo from its ships, worth several billion pounds.\nMaersk's energy business faces problems which are at least as deep as shipping, due to the fall in the price of oil. The company's strategic review speaks of finding \"solutions\" including joint ventures, mergers or spinning off companies for separate listing. The vagueness of the plan makes it look like an intention to exit as much of that sector as possible, and shipping is clearly the priority.\nThe North Sea presence may be one part of the energy division that is retained, as the technology involved is an area of expertise. That's unless a buyer can be found.\nBreaking up the 112-year-old conglomerate is a reversal of the strategy under which Maersk Line grew to have a fleet of 590 ships, plus 500 smaller service ships. It was guided by its chairman Maersk McKinney Moller, who remained active in the company until his death four years ago, aged 98.\nIt is operator of the Culzean gas field development, which is one of the biggest in UK waters for 25 years. It is expected to meet 5% of Britain's gas demand after it comes on-stream, scheduled for 2019.\nIts other production is from Denmark, Qatar, Kazakhstan, the US Gulf of Mexico and Algeria. Exploration and development activities are also under way in Angola, Kenya, Ethiopia, Greenland, Brazil, Kurdistan, and the huge Johan Sverdrup field being developed in the Norwegian North Sea.\nMichael Pram Rasmussen, the chairman, said in a statement: \"Separating our transport and logistics businesses and our oil and oil related businesses...will enable both to focus on their respective markets. Both face very different underlying fundamentals and competitive environments.\"\nThe oil, drilling, offshore services and tanker divisions face moves towards joint ventures, sales and stock market floats over the next two years. Profits in that division have recently come in well below expectations.\nThe company's strategy states: \"Maersk Oil will adjust its current strategy to focus its portfolio in fewer geographies to gain scale in basins, particularly in the North Sea, where it can leverage its strong capabilities within subsurface modelling, well technology and efficient operations. Maersk Oil will aim to strengthen its portfolio through acquisitions or mergers.\n\"Further, Maersk Oil will mature existing key development projects, while keeping exploration activities and expenses at a low level. While the strategic focus will be reflected in a disciplined capital allocation, investments in strategic projects already sanctioned or under development will continue as planned.\n\"Maersk Drilling, Maersk Supply Services, and Maersk Tankers will continue to optimise their market position and operation with the existing fleet and order book. Additional investments in the group's offshore service businesses and Maersk Tankers will be limited.\"\nDenmark's Sydbank estimated the value of the logistics business at, very roughly, £23bn. Its central estimate for the energy division was close to £13bn.", "summary": "Maersk, the Copenhagen-based shipping giant, is to be split up with its energy interests directed more towards the North Sea." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The woman had gone to use the toilet ahead of the opening of the Newlyn Fish Festival in Cornwall.\nHarbour master Rob Parsons said she must have \"thought she had teleported\" when she came out of the toilet in a new location.\nThe woman was not injured in the incident on Monday, organisers confirmed.\nMr Parsons told BBC Radio Cornwall: \"She got in the loo and then it was picked up and taken to the other side of the harbour with her in it.\n\"I think she was suffering from a bit of shock or she thought she had teleported across to the other side of the harbour.\"\nMark Kempthorne, director of toilet provider Andyloos, said it was not the first time a forklift driver had picked up a toilet with somebody inside, although on this occasion it had not been done by a member of his staff.\nHe said it was an easy mistake to make as drivers \"go in through the back entrance\" to pick up the toilet.\nHe said: \"It does happen quite a bit to be honest - I've done it a few times.\"", "summary": "A portable toilet with a woman inside was accidentally carried across a festival site by a forklift truck." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Former WBO light-heavyweight champion Cleverly is chasing another world title after his exciting performance, albeit in defeat, against Andrzej Fonfara.\nBraehmer and Cleverly have come close to fighting several times in the past.\nIt's a big ask, going to Germany and upsetting Braehmer, but I fancy it,\" Cleverly explained.\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, Cleverly's promoters Matchroom confirmed that talks are ongoing about a fight with WBA light heavyweight champion Braehmer.\n\"We are in discussions with the Sauerlands looking at an autumn fight with Braehmer,\" they said.\n\"Nathan should be back in action on a bill in May.\"\nBraehmer has won 16 successive fights and has defended his WBA title six times. His first successful defence came against Cleverly's former stablemate, Enzo Maccarinelli.\nCleverly, 29, told Sky Sports: \"I've got big plans for the future. I'm in a good place after the Fonfara fight.\n\"I've gained credibility from that fight and I'm going to take it forward.\n\"There's the rematch [option] with Fonfara, but we're going for Juergen Braehmer.\n\"There'll be a little tune-up fight in May, but then it'll be on to Braehmer.\n\"We were supposed to fight three times in the past but for some reason he didn't fight me. It's time to get it on now. I'm prepared to go to Germany and I can't wait.\n\"The Sauerlands [Braehmer's promoters] and Eddie Hearn [of Matchroom] have started preliminary talks, so let's hope they can nail down this date for Braehmer's next fight in Germany. \"", "summary": "Nathan Cleverly is set for a fight in Germany against Juergen Braehmer and a chance to become a two-time world champion, his promoter has confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The move follows two deadly attacks on tourism sites - a beach and hotel at Sousse in June and the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March.\nUnder the new law, those convicted of terrorism could face the death penalty and expressions of support for terrorism are a jailable offence.\nHowever, rights groups have criticised the new measures as draconian.\nMPs passed the law overwhelmingly after three days of debate.\nMohamed Ennaceur, president of the assembly, called it a \"historic\" moment and said the new law would \"reassure\" Tunisians.\nThe law will also make it easier for investigators to tap suspects' phones.\nAdvocacy groups have warned that the law's definition of terrorist crimes is too vague and they say it fails to safeguard the rights of defendants.\nThe new powers allow authorities to detain suspects for 15 days without access to a lawyer or appearance before a judge.\nCritics have also condemned the return of capital punishment after a lengthy moratorium on executions.\nA gunman killed 38 people in Sousse on 26 June in an attack claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).\nIn March, 21 tourists died when gunmen stormed the Bardo museum in the capital, Tunis.\nIS later said it was behind the raid.", "summary": "Tunisia's parliament has adopted a new anti-terror law which seeks to counter the threat posed by Islamist militants." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But the official body that assesses the need for skills forecasts the sector's growth will be only a fifth of the average UK rate.\nThat is mainly due to the completion of transport projects in Scotland.\nThe Construction Skills Network report also reflects the start of new nuclear power plants in England and Wales.\nThe Network includes the Construction Industry Training Board and concludes that the workforce in Scotland will peak this year. That is after 6% growth over the past three years.\nBut after peaking around 230,000 this year, that is expected to fall to roughly 219,000 by the end of 2020. Scotland has the slowest growth rate in construction of any nation or region, and is the only part of the UK to expect a fall in the construction workforce over that period.\nDespite the 0.7% annual decline, the report estimates there will still be a need to recruit around 4,200 people each year to replace the outflow of workers. That does not include those now in apprenticeships.\nThe recent strong showing of the construction industry has been clear from Scottish government statistics. They have shown that the sector has ensured that the economy as a whole did not go into recession during 2015.\nIn 2014, the Construction Skills Network reckons that the industry was only 9% short of the activity peak it reached in 2006 - recovering from a very sharp decline around the recession.\nGovernment funds have been deployed to build the Queensferry Crossing over the Forth, and improvements to major roads, including the M8 through Lanarkshire. It is reckoned that 21% of output was in infrastructure in 2014, whereas the UK share was 11%.\nWhile public spending is cut back in the next few years, industry experts expect to see growth of 3.6% in public sector house-building, 4.1% growth in private housing, and 2.3% growth in repair and maintenance.\nFor the rest of this decade, the construction industry's growth rate in Scotland is forecast at 0.5% per year, while the UK forecast is 2.5%.\nThe major projects being started include new nuclear power stations in the south of England and Wales. London is also to have continued investment in its transport.\nMajor construction projects that could help maintain construction industry output in Scotland include; the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, a 1,000-home development planned for Loudoun Castle in East Ayrshire, the Aberdeen exhibition and conference centre, new buildings for the universities of St Andrews, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt, new schools, the Macallan distillery visitor centre in Moray, and redevelopment of the St James' Centre in central Edinburgh.\nBeyond 2020, the Network report looks to work on dualling the A9 road between Perth and Inverness, upgrades to rail and road between Inverness and Aberdeen, rail improvements in the central belt, and the installation of offshore wind farms.", "summary": "The construction industry in Scotland will need more than 21,000 recruits over the next five years to replace those leaving the workforce." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Although some would say that HMV has sold the UK's largest high street book retailer for a knock-down price, and the group's latest trading results are frightful, I have learned that the group expects to reach agreement with its banks on a new £200m (or so) borrowing agreement within the next two weeks.\nOr to put it another way, HMV isn't going bust (or at least not this year).\nIts banks, led by Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds, have decided in principle to back the plan of Simon Fox, HMV's chief executive, to revive HMV stores by switching more of their stock into electronic goods, especially tablets (see my note, \"Can HMV reinvents itself\", for more on this).\nThat rescue plan also involves the closure of 40 HMV and 20 Waterstone's stores, of which more than half have already been closed, together with the sale of the Waterstone's business, to reduce debt and the complexity of the group at this challenging time.\nFormal agreement from the banks is expected by early June, when HMV will send a document to shareholders detailing the reconstruction of HMV and asking for their approval.\nThe assent of the Pensions Regulator is also required, because the single group pension scheme will henceforth be funded by an HMV that no longer contains Waterstone's - so the Pensions Regulator has to be persuaded that HMV isn't being weakened by the sale of Waterstone's.\nIt would be difficult, I think, for the Pensions Regulator to block the disposal of Waterstone's - because the alternative, almost certainly, is that HMV would collapse into administration. And it is hard to see how HMV's current and future pension would benefit from the death of HMV.\nSo much for the good news. The rest of what HMV had to say wasn't exactly cause to crack open the bubbly.\nLike-for-like or underlying sales at HMV in UK and Ireland continue to shrink at a scary and accelerating rate. So in the 10 weeks to 1 January, they were down 14.1%. Since then, in the 17 weeks to 30 April, the shrinkage has been 15.1%\nOr to put it another way, HMV's problems run a lot deeper than that horrendous pre-Christmas snow which was blamed by everyone from ministers to business leaders for the weakness of the consumer side of the economy at the end of last year.\nBut in the six stores where HMV has been experimenting with its new tech-heavy format - all those bloomin' tablets - sales were only a bit worse than flat. Result!\nHere's the bad joke: for HMV it's plainly a case of keep taking the tablets.\nAs for Waterstone's, the Russian purchaser, Alexander Mamut, looks like he may be getting quite a bargain, something a bit better than Waterstone's staple twofers.\nViable future?\nHe is paying cash of £53m for a business that was turned round by Mr Fox and his team in the past year. So in the 12 months just finished Waterstone's made a trading profit of somewhere between £10m and £12m, I understand, up from £2.8m in the previous year.\nThe Russian plutocrat gets 296 stores and gross assets of £283m that are free of debt or any UK pension liability. And annual sales of Waterstone's are about £500m.\nSo HMV's woes may well turn into Mr Mamut's good fortune. That said, book retailing also faces formidable structural challenges from the rise and rise of e-books, online retailers and supermarkets that sell best-sellers.\nBut if the sale of Waterstone's is what it takes to persuade HMV's banks to provide the group with the finance necessary for its survival - and therefore protects some 13,000 jobs - then few will doubt that it was necessary.\nHere is where HMV hopes that the magic of restoring financial confidence will make all the difference. In just a few months, HMV's net debt has shot up from £130m to £170m, in part because some of HMV's suppliers have been demanding cash for their goods, rather than supplying the DVDs, CDs and the rest on credit.\nWith any luck, once they see that the banks are standing behind HMV, then HMV will be able to trade with them again on normal credit terms. Which would take HMV out of the vicious cycle of rising debt and rising financing costs.\nNow for the genuinely hard bit, after all that slog for HMV's senior executives led by Simon Fox in winning round the banks. All they have to do is deliver a recovery in sales via an almost total reinvention of the look and stock of their stores, so that next year or the year after HMV's creditors don't change their minds about the group having a viable future.", "summary": "Sometimes good news comes in a form that doesn't really look like good news - and so it is with HMV's statement on trading and the sale of Waterstone's this morning." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hidden canals wind their way under the main shopping centre in Cardiff, while beneath the fan campsite in a city centre park there lies a medieval friar's tunnel, its entrance just a couple of feet high.\nWhile behind a \"staff only\" door in a city centre burger bar, opposite the castle where a dragon was guarding the Champions League trophy, lies an elaborately decorated mahogany panelled room.\nExplorer Will Millard, who previously focused on more exotic locations, has discovered some of the hidden parts of Cardiff as part of a new BBC programme.\nHe said: \"The tunnel in Bute Park was built in the medieval era where Blackfriars and Greyfriars were still operational.\n\"They had this secret tunnel which runs under the city and through the city centre park. It was a 2ft (0.6m) access tunnel with tightly woven stones which had been hand-placed there by friars in the past. No-one knows what it is for. It is amazing to speculate what it was used for.\n\"After 25m (82ft) it collapses and it is hard to continue on, but it links up to the friary in Bute Park. There have been rumours of a hoard from a bank robbery being hidden in there in the past.\"\nHe also discovered a secret dining room located in what is now the fast food chain Burger King on Queen Street.\n\"I had no idea there was this opulent drinking and smoking room through the door of Burger King. They own the building but that room is a listed room so they can't do anything with it. They can't change it, and it is not really in their interests for people to know about it. But it is an incredible museum piece. It has got a church grandeur to it.\"\nHe also uncovered Cardiff's role in the UK's defence against nuclear war where he entered a huge concrete shelter through an air vent - an experience he found unnerving.\n\"I've walked across jungles on my own in western Africa. I've stayed with isolated tribes in New Guinea, but walking around this place up on the hill in the dark, this is definitely as scary as it gets for me,\" he said.", "summary": "For the thousands of people visiting Cardiff over this Champion's League Final weekend - the best kept secrets of the city have been under their feet." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Andy Lonergan is likely to stay in goal in place of Carl Ikeme (hamstring).\nBlackburn's battle against the drop is bolstered by having five players back.\nKeeper Jason Steele and defenders Darragh Lenihan and Gordon Greer are back in training along with two former Wolves players, the versatile Charlie Mulgrew and striker Danny Graham.\nWolves secured their Championship status with their Easter Monday win at Leeds but 22nd-placed Blackburn are in trouble, a point behind Nottingham Forest, who entertain Reading, and three behind Birmingham City, who do not play until Sunday.\nFollowing Walter Zenga's sacking three days earlier, Wolves were still under the caretaker management of Rob Edwards when they drew 1-1 at Ewood Park in late October, with Paul Lambert appointed as head coach a week later.\nAndy Bayes, BBC Radio Lancashire\nFour points out of six over Easter have given Rovers more cause for optimism than perhaps they had before.\nA defeat this weekend, might not be the end for Rovers' survival hopes, but it's accepted by Tony Mowbray that they are reliant on other clubs to slip up.\nThe potential returns of Charlie Mulgrew, Darragh Lenihan and Danny Graham are enormous boosts, when it had looked like, particularly the defenders wouldn't play again this season.\nWith Birmingham not playing until Sunday, Rovers know a win will see them climb out of the bottom three, maybe for less than twenty-four hours. But, psychologically it could be huge for a squad who've spent so much of the season below the dotted line.\nMatch facts", "summary": "Forward Helder Costa remains sidelined with an ankle problem for the fifth consecutive game as Wolves face struggling Blackburn Rovers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Delays of at least nine months for Personal Independence Payments (PIPs) for these \"most vulnerable\" of people were unreasonable, a judge ruled.\nBut the court ruled the pair's human rights were not breached, which means they are not entitled to compensation.\nThe pair's lawyers said the ruling showed \"clear failings\" in the system, but ministers said it was improving.\nPIPs, which began replacing Disability Living Allowance in 2013, are meant to help the long-term sick and disabled with some of their extra costs.\nThere are currently 78,700 people waiting to hear if they can claim PIPs, of whom 3,200 have waited more than a year to have their claims processed, and 22,800 have waited more than 20 weeks.\nThe claimants, known only as Ms C and Mr W, said the delays meant they struggled to pay for food and fuel, and this caused their health to decline.\nMs C, from Kent, who has ME, severe depression and other health problems, waited from September 2013 to October 2014 to have her eligibility assessed.\nThe court heard she lived a \"hand-to-mouth\" existence, spending £8 per week on food, and only left her home once a week to visit the supermarket.\nIn her judgement, Mrs Justice Patterson said Ms C was required to travel some distance for face-to-face PIP assessments despite the fact she had \"explained her difficulty in travelling\".\nMs C said she could not travel and was told her application would be cancelled, causing her \"considerable stress and anxiety\", but PIPs were eventually granted based on phone and paper evidence.\nMr W, who was a carpenter until he contracted ulcerative colitis in 2013 and had his colon removed, waited from February to December 2014 for a PIP decision.\nThe court heard both claimants were struggling financially, with their only income being Employment Support Allowance and Housing Benefit\nTheir lawyers said they had a right to the benefits and should have received them within a \"reasonable time\".\nBy Nikki Fox, BBC disability news correspondent\nNo-one is denying that the waiting times for a decision, even an assessment for PIP, has for many people taken far too long. Iain Duncan Smith himself admitted in June last year that the delays were unacceptable.\nBut now the High Court has gone as far as to say these long delays are unlawful. What, if any, impact will this have on the thousands of people still lost in the system?\nJustice Patterson refused to say this could have wider implications apart from for the two anonymous claimants. Their solicitors hope this will open the door to further discussion with the DWP, so those thousands who have suffered financial hardship could get some kind of compensation.\nBut there may be many more legal challenges before that happens. However, for now, it does put pressure on the government over its plans to roll out PIP to 1.5 million disabled people across the UK.\nThere is a minimum accepted processing time of two months for each claim, and that can be extended if appointments for assessment are missed, as was the case with one of the claimants.\nMrs Justice Patterson said the claimants suffered significant disabilities and therefore their cases required speedy consideration.\nShe ruled that the delays in the cases before her were \"not only unacceptable\" but unlawful.\nThe claimants had argued their claim should be a treated as a test case but the judge rejected this.\nMrs Justice Patterson said the \"considerable variations in individual circumstances\" meant it would be \"inappropriate\" to grant a declaration in wider terms covering other cases of late payments.\nThe two claimants asked the court to declare that Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith breached common law and human rights duties to make payments within a reasonable time.\nThis breach was caused, they said, because of the magnitude of the delay - but the judge ruled this was not the case.\nThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had agreed the delays were unacceptable but argued they were not unlawful, and said more than 800 extra staff were assigned to work on PIPs after problems emerged.\nAnne-Marie Irwin, the public lawyer leading the cases, called the court's ruling \"significant\".\n\"Today's decision sends a clear message that the unacceptable delays faced by many people, may also be unlawful,\" she said.\n\"Attention must now turn to rethinking the planned wider rollout in October until reassurances can be provided that the delays seen in the past are not repeated in the future.\"\nThe DWP said successful PIP claims were always backdated.\nMinister for Disabled People Justin Tomlinson said he was pleased the court had recognised the \"huge progress\" made by the DWP.\n\"The average new PIP claimant now waits only seven weeks for an assessment,\" he said.\n\"The court has rightly dismissed the claimants' absurd suggestion that their human rights had been breached.\"\nA spokeswoman for Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged there were problems in the original roll out of PIPs.\nHe fully supports the approach of the DWP, which is looking at where it could learn lessons, she added.\nLabour's shadow minister for disabled people, Kate Green, said the ruling was \"a damning indictment on the government's failure to get a grip of benefit delays\" which had forced \"thousands of people to rely on food banks to survive\".\nPIPs are benefit payments to help people aged 16-64 with \"some of the extra costs caused by long-term ill-health or a disability\".\nThey are available to employed and unemployed people, and claimants can receive £21.80 to £139.75 a week, depending on how their condition affects them.\nThis is determined by an assessment, and claimants are regularly reassessed, but government figures show more than 3,000 have been waiting for more than a year for their claims to be processed.\nFrom April 2013, PIPs began replacing Disability Living Allowance.\nThis process is ongoing and the government says everyone who needs to switch to PIPs should have been contacted by late 2017.\nElliot Dunster, of the disability charity Scope, said the judgement \"demonstrates the importance of extra costs payments to disabled people\".\n\"Life costs more if you are disabled. Extra costs can make it extremely hard for disabled people to pay the bills. Every day without them is another day unable to afford the essentials in life.\"\nRichard Kramer, from the national deafblind charity Sense, said these cases were \"a reminder that there is some way to go before the system can be regarded as fit for purpose and customer-facing for all disabled people\".\nGillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said delays to PIP assessments are \"unacceptably common\" and that the system was not fit for purpose.\n\"PIP is a key part of our welfare system. It defies common decency that some disabled people are waiting months on end just to find out if they're entitled to the necessary support.\"\nChris Mould, chairman of the Trussell Trust, which runs more than 400 UK food banks, said \"benefit sanctions, changes and delays\" were the biggest reason why people were referred to its food banks in 2014-15.", "summary": "A delay in paying welfare benefits to two disabled people was unlawful, the High Court has ruled." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, said growth next year would now by 1.4%, well down on previous forecasts for 2.2% growth.\nThe FTSE 100 was down 2 at 6817.71.\nIn the FTSE 250, news of the ban on letting agents' fees hit property stocks hard. Foxtons was among the worst fallers, losing 14%.\nCountrywide was down 5% and Berkeley Group down 4%.\nNews of the ban was described as a \"hammer blow\" to estate agents.\nNeil Wilson, markets analyst at ETX Capital, said: \"Estate agents have suffered since the Brexit vote - shares in Foxtons are still trading down around 30% from their pre-referendum level amid falling client activity. Countrywide stock is now worth a third of what it was in May 2015.\"\nInvestors' minds were on the prospect of rising inflation with £23bn promised in the Autumn Statement for infrastructure spending.\nBonds fell and yields rose. The rate of return to investors on 10-year British government bonds rose by 0.1% to 1.466%.\nMichael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, said: \"It would appear that bond investors are starting to price in the prospect of higher inflation expectations as he [Philip Hammond] announced extra spending on rail, telecoms and housing as he pushed back plans to balance the books by the end of the parliament.\"\nAway from the Statement, United Utilities was initially among the top risers, up 3%, after it posted a small increase in half-year profits, but those gains eroded throughout the day and it closed with a 1% rise.\nShares in travel company Thomas Cook rose more than 5% despite it reporting a dip in full-year profits.\nUnderlying earnings fell by £2m to £308m in a year where the travel industry has been affected by terror attacks in Europe and political instability in Turkey.\nBut the results were slightly better than expected, and Thomas Cook also announced a dividend payment, of 0.5p a share, for the first time in five years.\nOn the currency markets, the pound rose 0.2% against the dollar to $1.2444, and gained 1% against the euro to €1.1794.", "summary": "(Close): The UK market opened higher but those gains withered as the lunchtime Autumn Statement sharply revised down UK growth prospects." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "After the first leg of their play-off finished goalless, Fraser Mullen, for Beath, and Kieran Gibbons, for Kilby, netted in normal time.\nWith no further score after 30 more minutes of play, the hosts scored all five of their spot-kicks.\nLiam Henderson struck the decisive penalty, keeping Gary Locke's side in Scottish League Two.\nThe home side came flying out of the traps and duly took the lead after just three minutes. There was excellent build-up play down the left involving Robbie Buchannan and Dale Carrick, before Henderson laid the ball off for Mullen.\nThe former Hearts and Hibernian defender drilled a low shot beyond Matthew McGinley in the visiting goal to break the deadlock.\nThe Blue Brazil keep their foot on the gas, and only a magnificent stop by McGinley denied Carrick from doubling the lead. The striker also crashed a header off the crossbar before Kris Renton's deflected volley flew inches wide.\nEast Kilbride slowly eased their way into the game and Joao Victoria, then Sean Winter, came close to a leveller.\nThe Lowland League champions began the second half on the front foot and had claims for a penalty turned down by referee Craig Charleston after the ball appeared to strike the arm of David Syme.\nThe Lanarkshire side's pressure did pay off, though, when the home defence failed to clear their lines, allowing Gibbons to drill the ball along the slippery surface from 25 yards out and find the bottom corner.\nNeither side were able to strike a knockout blow before normal time expired, and the game\nEast Kilbride's Adam Strachan fired in a deflected 20-yard effort that struck the crossbar on its way over.\nBoth teams looked weary as the rain-soaked pitch began to take its toll. but Cowdenbeath almost snatched a late winner through Craig Johnston, whose effort was tipped over by McGinley.\nWith Mullen, Johnston, Renton and Syme netting spot-kicks for Cowdenbeath, and Strachan, Russell McLean and Victoria replying, it was Jamie Sneddon's save from Paul Woods that proved crucial.\nThe stop gave Henderson the opportunity to seal victory for the Blue Brazil, and the defender duly converted his penalty, preserving Cowden's SPFL status, and consigning East Kilbride to another season of junior football.\nCowdenbeath manager Gary Locke: \"I don't think it's really anything to celebrate. The chairman is a flamboyant character, and when I came to the club, he said, we're in the play-offs, just win them for us.\n\"Credit to the players, they've battled really hard over the two games. East Kilbride were fantastic, I certainly feel if they came up they'd be top-four or top-five team in this league.\n\"So it was a really difficult two games, it gets to be a bit of a lottery when it goes to penalties, but I'm delighted the club's kept their place in the league, because the consequences of going down would've been pretty tough, I'd have thought.\"\nEast Kilbride manager Martin Lauchlan: \"It's devastating - we put so much into the game. We lost a goal early - the worst possible start we could've had - but after that we looked the better team and the more likely to score.\n\"I think our fitness levels looked terrific. It's so difficult to get to this point, with so many play-off games, and to get here and lose it is tough.\n\"I think they showed in the game they're well capable of playing at this level, but we're bitterly disappointed.\"\nMatch ends, Cowdenbeath 1(5), East Kilbride 1(3).\nPenalty Shootout ends, Cowdenbeath 1(5), East Kilbride 1(3).\nGoal! Cowdenbeath 1(5), East Kilbride 1(3). Liam Henderson (Cowdenbeath) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\nGoal! Cowdenbeath 1(4), East Kilbride 1(3). Joao Pereira Vitoria (East Kilbride) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\nGoal! Cowdenbeath 1(4), East Kilbride 1(2). Craig Johnston (Cowdenbeath) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\nPenalty saved! Paul Woods (East Kilbride) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\nGoal! Cowdenbeath 1(3), East Kilbride 1(2). David Syme (Cowdenbeath) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\nGoal! Cowdenbeath 1(2), East Kilbride 1(2). Russell McLean (East Kilbride) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\nGoal! Cowdenbeath 1(2), East Kilbride 1(1). Kris Renton (Cowdenbeath) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\nGoal! Cowdenbeath 1(1), East Kilbride 1(1). Adam Strachan (East Kilbride) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\nGoal! Cowdenbeath 1(1), East Kilbride 1. Fraser Mullen (Cowdenbeath) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\nPenalty Shootout begins Cowdenbeath 1, East Kilbride 1.\nSecond Half Extra Time ends, Cowdenbeath 1, East Kilbride 1.\nCorner, Cowdenbeath. Conceded by Matthew McGinley.\nAttempt saved. Craig Johnston (Cowdenbeath) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\nSubstitution, East Kilbride. Russell McLean replaces Sean Winter.\nCorner, Cowdenbeath. Conceded by Craig Howie.\nCorner, Cowdenbeath. Conceded by David Proctor.\nFoul by Craig Johnston (Cowdenbeath).\nDavid Proctor (East Kilbride) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nAttempt missed. Sean Winter (East Kilbride) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\nSubstitution, Cowdenbeath. Craig Johnston replaces Dale Carrick.\nCorner, Cowdenbeath. Conceded by Bernard Coll.\nAttempt blocked. Kris Renton (Cowdenbeath) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\nSubstitution, East Kilbride. Bernard Coll replaces Barry Russell.\nSecond Half Extra Time begins Cowdenbeath 1, East Kilbride 1.\nFirst Half Extra Time ends, Cowdenbeath 1, East Kilbride 1.\nAttempt missed. Gerry McLauchlan (Cowdenbeath) header from very close range is high and wide to the left.\nCorner, Cowdenbeath. Conceded by David Proctor.\nGerry McLauchlan (Cowdenbeath) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Sean Winter (East Kilbride).\nDelay in match Craig McLeish (East Kilbride) because of an injury.\nCorner, East Kilbride. Conceded by Gerry McLauchlan.\nAttempt blocked. Adam Strachan (East Kilbride) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nFirst Half Extra Time begins Cowdenbeath 1, East Kilbride 1.\nSecond Half ends, Cowdenbeath 1, East Kilbride 1.\nSubstitution, East Kilbride. Dominic McLaren replaces Scott Stevenson.\nCorner, East Kilbride. Conceded by Jamie Pyper.\nAttempt blocked. Adam Strachan (East Kilbride) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nFoul by Jamie Pyper (Cowdenbeath).", "summary": "Cowdenbeath retain their SPFL status after a dramatic penalty shoot-out victory over East Kilbride." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 24-year-old spent last season on loan at Eintracht Frankfurt, where he made 11 appearances.\nHe was suspended by the German club in May when he suffered an infection after getting a tattoo against orders.\nVarela became the first player to sign under David Moyes' reign at Old Trafford, when he joined on a five-year deal in 2013.\nHe went on loan to Real Madrid Castilla in Spain the following summer, having failed to make an appearance for United.\nOn his return, in 2015-16, he featured just four times in the Premier League.\nHe scored an injury-time winner to help United clinch the Under-21 Premier League title in April 2016.", "summary": "Uruguayan defender Guillermo Varela has left Manchester United to return to his home-town club Penarol." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former chancellor launched the Northern Powerhouse Partnership in September, to \"push and fight for\" ideas he championed when in government.\nBut the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments said it should have been consulted beforehand.\nThe committee advises ex-ministers on taking up jobs after they leave office.\nRules prevent ministers from lobbying government for two years after leaving office. and there are restrictions on the jobs they are able to take up during this time.\nMr Osborne's role is unpaid and the Northern Powerhouse Partnership is a not-for-profit organisation.\nIn a letter to Mr Osborne, the advisory committee said government departments had not expressed concerns about him taking on the job, but added: \"The committee noted with concern that you sought advice on this appointment after you had launched the Northern Powerhouse Partnership.\n\"The committee is unable to offer retrospective advice on appointments that have already been announced.\"\nIt told Mr Osborne he should not use \"privileged access\" gained from his time as a minister to influence government policy.\n\"The committee would also remind you that advice should be sought on all appointments, paid or unpaid, before they are taken up or announced,\" it added.\nThe Northern Powerhouse Partnership - described as an independent group of politicians, business people and civic leaders - has recruited the former mayor of New York, billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg, to advise the powerful new elected \"metro\" mayors being created in city regions including Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield.", "summary": "George Osborne has been reprimanded for launching a think tank without consulting the ex-ministers' lobbying watchdog." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The man was tracked down via the social network by animal rights activist Saurabh Gupta.\nAnimal lovers in India were outraged by the 23-second clip of the man swinging the dog by its hind legs and throwing it at a parked car.\nActivists had called for the arrest of the man soon after the video went viral on the social media.\nMr Gupta had had taken screenshots of the man's Facebook account before it was deleted, according to a report in the Times of India.\nThe report added that Mr Gupta, who works with people for animals, contacted friends of the man on Facebook to track him down and then approached the police with the man's mobile number and address.\n\"I had immediately saved the video and took screenshots of his Facebook profile. I knew he will deactivate his account if he gets noticed. I had, therefore, started contacting his friends, who had liked that video,\" The report quoted Mr Gupta as saying.\nPolice arrested the man on Monday night.", "summary": "An Indian man who posted a Facebook video of him assaulting a stray dog has been arrested." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "At present, up to 42 fundraisers can work across the city centre at a time but the city council will reduce it to 12 from mid-June to September.\nA report revealed \"high levels of annoyance\" from people being \"constantly approached\" resulted in them avoiding parts of the city.\nNew limits were agreed on Thursday.\nCouncillors and regulators agreed to the three-month trial, which will be reviewed.\nLatest on \"chugger\" decision, plus more Birmingham stories\nCurrently, up to six chuggers can work across one of seven zones in the city centre at any one time - totalling 42.\nBy comparison, Manchester has four zones with a maximum of five permits, so there are never more than fundraisers 20 in operation at a time.\nThe maximum number permitted in Liverpool is 10 and Sheffield 14.\nHow many chuggers are permitted in your area?\nThe Public Fundraising Regulatory Association (PFRA) works with councils to manage street and door step fundraising - setting rules on how, when and where they can work.\nThe PFRA's plan will reduce the number of chuggers allowed in Birmingham to four a day across three patches - with just two areas on a Wednesday.\nFace-to-face fundraising will be banned on New Street on Wednesdays and Saturdays.\nAnd Broad Street and Victoria Square will be out of bounds.\nChris Neville, the council's head of licensing, hopes a further reduction in chuggers will eventually be agreed.\nChief executive Peter Hills-Jones said: \"We welcome the decision which will lead to a significant reduction in fundraising numbers for Birmingham.\"", "summary": "The number of street-based charity fundraisers or \"chuggers\" in Birmingham will be cut by 70% during a three-month trial." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The human rights group says aid agencies must be allowed immediate access to the country, to prevent more civilians dying.\nSome fighters in the north have said they have stopped military operations.\nBut Amnesty says all food supplies and medicines stored by aid agencies have been looted and most workers have fled.\n\"The population is at imminent risk of severe food and medical shortages that could lead to many casualties, especially among women and children who are less able to fend for themselves,\" Amnesty's West Africa researcher Gaetan Mootoo said in a statement.\nThe group said the three northern towns of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu have experienced days of looting, abductions and chaos.\nThe Tuareg separatist rebels of the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA) said in a statement on their website that they had captured enough territory to form their own state.\nBut the position of Islamist insurgents, who fought alongside the Tuareg in northern Mali, is unclear.\nThe Algerian government says seven of its staff have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the northern city of Gao, which is in rebel hands.\nThe consul and six colleagues were forced to leave their diplomatic mission at gunpoint. The Algerian government says it is doing all it can to find them.\nJournalist Martin Vogl in Bamako says the situation in the northern town of Gao is particularly tense - and people are continuing to flee the north.\nBuses to the capital have been packed and people are desperate to get out, even jumping onto the backs of transport trucks, he says.\nAmnesty says women and girls are being abducted from their homes in Gao and Menaka, another northern town, and there are reports that some have been raped.\n\"Women and girls particularly are too terrified to leave their homes. People are describing an atmosphere of near total lawlessness,\" Amnesty's Gaetan Mootoo said.\nMeanwhile the regional mediator with the rebels, Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Djibrill Bassole, said he was hopeful sanctions could soon be lifted.\nSpeaking on local television after meeting the coup leader Capt Amadou Sanago in the Malian capital Bamako, he said an announcement in \"the right direction\" could be expected soon.\n\"We are going to do everything so that these sanctions are not only suspended but completely removed. We are getting there,\" said Mr Bassole. He added that Capt Sanago had \"the right attitude\".\nThe sanctions were imposed by neighbouring countries in an effort to force the coup leaders to hand over power.\nMali's junta seized power last month, saying that the civilian government had been too soft on the rebels.\nBut the MNLA and the Islamist group Ansar Dine took advantage of the military being distracted to take control of the whole of northern Mali, including the historic city of Timbuktu.\nOn Wednesday, the UN Security Council called for an end to the fighting in Mali - a request heeded by the MNLA.\n\"After the complete liberation of the Azawad territory and given the strong request by the international community\", the MNLA \"decides unilaterally to declare the end of military operations from midnight Thursday\", a statement on the group's website says.\nIn New York, the Security Council said it \"strongly condemns the continued attacks, looting and seizure of territory carried out by rebel groups in the north of Mali and demands an immediate cessation of hostilities\".\nThe UN also voiced alarm at the presence of Ansar Dine, which has links to al-Qaeda and wants to impose Islamic law, or Sharia, across the whole of the West African state.\nUnlike the MNLA, Ansar Dine is not in favour of an independent northern state.\nThe MNLA was formed last year, partly by well-armed Tuareg fighters returning from Libya, where they had backed former leader Muammar Gaddafi.\nThe UN also backed the efforts of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to restore order in Mali.\nMali's borders have been closed to trade, the country's access to funds at the central bank for the region's common currency frozen and travel bans slapped on coup leaders and their supporters.\nThe coup and Tuareg rebellion have exacerbated a humanitarian crisis in Mali and some neighbouring countries, with aid agencies warning that 13 million people need food aid following a drought in the region.\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross says it is attempting to open a dialogue with the rebels so that it can recommence its aid operations in remote parts of the north.\nIt said it had had to withdraw its international staff after its warehouses were looted in the northern town of Gao, which has been seized by the rebels.", "summary": "Mali is on the brink of a major humanitarian disaster following a coup and rebellion in the north, Amnesty International says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He joins Lulu, Squeeze, Tom Odell and a string of other acts in the Dumfries and Galloway event.\nCliff is best known for chart-topping hits like Wonderful World, Beautiful People and You Can Get It If You Really Want.\nThe festival takes place at Dundrennan on 24 and 25 July.\nThe Wickerman Festival's Brian Reynolds said: \"This year's Wickerman Festival is shaping up to be an epic weekend and we know that fans will be blown away by the fantastic live performances that our latest batch of artists will deliver.\n\"Jimmy Cliff, The Sonics and The Sugarhill Gang are legendary, genre-defining artists who will ensure that this year's festival will be a brilliant celebration of music.\"", "summary": "Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff has been added to this year's Wickerman Festival, along with the likes of Neneh Cherry, Stereo MCs and Julian Cope." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Stewart Rexter, 38, was found in Victoria Place in Airdrie at 17:30 on Thursday.\nDetectives believe he was attacked by a man described as being between 25-35 years old, 5ft 8in, of slim build with short dark hair and dark clothing.\nThey are also keen to trace the occupants of a dark Transit-type van seen nearby.\nMr Rexter, who was from Coatbridge, was taken to Monklands Hospital and then later transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow where he died on Saturday.\nDet Ch Insp Paul Livingstone of Police Scotland's major investigation team said: \"Officers have been carrying out extensive inquiries into this incident including carrying out house-to-house inquiries and studying CCTV footage gathered from the local area.\n\"We believe that Stewart was attacked by a man around 17:10 hours in Victoria Place between Craig Street and Devonview Street.\n\"Inquiries are ongoing to trace the man who is described as white, 25 -35 years old, approximately 5ft 8 inches in height and of slim build with short dark-coloured hair and wearing dark-coloured clothing.\n\"In particular, we are keen to trace the occupants of a dark-coloured Transit-type van that was parked on Victoria Place opposite the entrance to Airdrie train station.\n\"I believe that the occupants of the van may have vital information that would assist this inquiry and I would urge them to come forward.\"", "summary": "A murder investigation is under way after a man found injured in a street in North Lanarkshire died in hospital." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "On 19 February 1891 a group of men barged into a small terraced house in the mining town of Silksworth.\nAmid the jeers of a watching crowd, they carted out the furniture and dumped it unceremoniously on the pavement. The Silksworth evictions had begun.\nThe workers at Silksworth Colliery had been on strike since the previous November in a dispute over union membership.\nAlthough there was supposed to be a free choice over whether or not to join the Durham Miners Association, many miners suspected that those who refused to join \"enjoyed special management favour\".\nThere were also counter-claims of bullying to persuade people to sign up.\nAfter attempts at negotiation broke down, the men had walked out.\nThose on strike would have lived with the threat of eviction, as their homes belonged to the mine owner Lord Londonderry, who took rent directly from the workers' wages.\nAnd this threat became a reality after Lord Londonderry recruited a team of men from Hartlepool.\nSome were led to believe they would be moving timber, and left once they realised they were to act as bailiffs.\nKnown as \"candymen\" after the rag and bone men who sometimes gave sweets out to children, the men had to be housed in a nearby farm and escorted into Silksworth under police guard, due to the strength of public feeling.\nOnce the evictions were under way, crowds gathered - with many travelling from nearby mining towns to lend their support to the strikers. There were noisy protests, with singing and the banging of pots and pans.\nThere were attempts to hamper the evictions, with reports of people sprinkling pepper on to curtains - to make the bailiffs sneeze - hiding bricks in furniture to make it too heavy to move, or putting soap on the front step to make it slippery.\nSome of the men refused to leave their armchairs and had to be carried out in them.\nThere was only one incident of violence, when people who had travelled into Silksworth from Sunderland threw stones at police, who retaliated with batons, in what became known as \"the charge of the cops brigade\".\nThose turned out of their homes had the option of trying to find a place in the already overcrowded homes of families or friends, or camping out in the local Methodist church hall.\nSome even created makeshift shelters in the church grounds, despite the bitter weather.\nA total of 155 warrants for eviction were issued, but by the beginning of March agreement was reached between both sides.\nWork resumed at the colliery, and miners returned to their homes.\nPictures of the evictions can be viewed at the People's Collection of Beamish, the Living Museum of the North.", "summary": "One hundred and twenty five years ago the owner of a County Durham mine chose an extreme way of dealing with strike action - he evicted the miners from their homes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Islamabad High Court's order prohibits all Valentine's Day festivities in government offices and public spaces with immediate effect.\nIt also directs the media not to promote or cover Valentine's events.\nThe orders were a response to a private petition which argued that Valentine's Day was contrary to Islamic teaching.\nAccording to the Dawn newspaper, the petition argued that the festival promoted immorality, nudity and indecency under the cover of spreading love.\nValentine's Day has grown in popularity in many cities in Pakistan over the past decade, but some religious groups have denounced it as decadent.\nThe ban does not affect shops and restaurants, but it is the first time such a ruling has been imposed in the capital.\nCountries out of love with Valentine's Day\nIt comes a year after Pakistan's President Mamnoon Hussain said Valentine's Day should be avoided, calling it a Western tradition that was not part of Pakistan's culture.\nThere have been other localised measures. Last year local officials in Kohat, in north-west Pakistan, banned the sale of Valentine cards and goods, and Peshawar local council banned celebrations.\nHowever, officials in both places later said the bans had been discarded or ignored for being unpopular.\nThis is not the first time that Valentine's Day has made the news in Pakistan for the wrong reasons. Last year it was vigilantes burning Valentine cards, but now for the first time a court has barred it. Many believe this shows the reluctance of religiously conservative parts of Pakistani society to assimilate international events or ideas.\nMany religious hardliners believe Valentine's Day is a foreign idea with no roots in Pakistan. They argue that it is is essentially a Christian festival. Last year one conservative newspaper ran an advertisement which described it as \"a festival of obscenity\". They fear in the future they will also be celebrating Diwali, Christmas and who knows what else.\nAlso creating concern among ordinary Pakistanis is the fact that it is the commercial entities that are out promoting these days to make them spend their hard-earned money. Online stores and restaurants offer special deals, while prices of flowers, especially red roses, soar on the day.\nBut the real problem is probably the narrow definition of the Valentine's Day message. It is not seen as promoting love, but perceived in a more sexual way.\nHow the ban is implemented depends on how the government and, especially, the police interpret it. If they think it means going after shops selling Valentine's Day items, it could mean a ban on them too. But so far we have seen no such action.", "summary": "A court in Pakistan has banned public celebrations of Valentine's Day in the capital, Islamabad, on the grounds that it is not part of Muslim culture." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The team keep the same driver line-up for the third consecutive year, with Brazil's Felipe Massa partnering Valtteri Bottas of Finland.\nTeam principal Sir Frank Williams says it will be a \"challenge\" to retain the third-place finish in the constructors' championship over the past two seasons.\n\"But we are determined to keep improving because only winning will ever be good enough,\" he added.\nWilliams are likely to be challenged by Red Bull, Renault, McLaren and Force India this season as well as last year's top two of Mercedes and Ferrari.\nThe FW38 sports the same red, white and blue stripes as the past two editions and chief technical operator Pat Symonds says the team have addressed the poor performance of last year's car at slower circuits.\n\"The FW37 was a pretty effective car and so we concentrated on understanding the areas where we could improve it without losing the attributes which made it effective,\" he said.\n\"It is no secret that the low speed performance of the FW37 didn't match its high speed performance, so a lot of time was spent looking into why this was and is subsequently making changes, which we hope will improve the situation.\"\nThe 2016 season starts with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 18-20 March.", "summary": "Williams have unveiled their new FW38 car for the 2016 Formula 1 season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It looks like winning awards at the Brits helped both of them, with each getting a boost in sales.\nSam Smith went back to number one after picking up best breakthrough artist and the global success award.\nEd Sheeran, who won best British male and album jumped up to second place, while George Ezra climbed two places to number four. Royal Blood are third.\nBest international female winner Taylor Swift rose three places to number five - even though she took her music off Spotify last November, saying free streaming was damaging music.\nStreaming numbers doubled in the UK in 2014 while CD sales dropped by 8%.\nThe Official Charts Company has come up with a complicated way of adding streams from the likes of Spotify, Deezer and Google Play to the sales of downloads and CDs.\nThey use a mathematical formula to calculate how many times the tracks on an album have been streamed, and they work out how much that should add in sales.\nSam Smith's In the Lonely Hour sold 38,000 copies in the past week and its streaming figure was 2,900.\nEd Sheeran's X sold 35,000 copies and had a \"stream factor\" of 3,400.\n\"Sam and Ed are both established as genuine superstars now,\" said Martin Talbot, boss at the Official Charts Company.\n\"The fact that they appeal to fans who buy CDs, snap up album downloads and stream music highlights just how broad their appeal is.\"\nStreaming has been part of the singles chart since last July.\nThis week's top five singles are the same as last week: Ellie Goulding is spending a fourth week at the top, followed by Hozier; Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars; The Weeknd; and a song by Sir Paul McCartney, Rihanna and Kanye West.", "summary": "Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are at the top of the first UK album chart to take into account streams as well as sales." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Amina Agboola, of Scott Drive, Peterborough, was kicked 6ft (1.8m) across a room by Dean Harris, 19, last November.\nHarris admitted manslaughter but was convicted of murder at Cambridge Crown Court.\nAmina's mother, Sarah Racqueman, 29, was cleared by a jury of causing or allowing her daughter's death.\nThe trial heard Amina was kicked in the stomach when alone with Harris who said she had repeatedly soiled herself.\nParamedics who responded to a 999 call made by Harris described Amina as looking \"like a rag doll\" when they arrived.\nInitially Harris told them Amina had fallen off the toilet, Zoe Johnson, prosecuting, said.\nBut soiled nappies and clothing found at the house were \"the trigger that unleashed Harris's anger towards Amina\", she added.\nHarris said he did not mean to cause Amina serious harm.\nAfter the hearing Cambridgeshire Police released a confession letter, written by Harris. He describes how Amina had \"become limp\" after he kicked her and expressed remorse at his actions.\nMs Racqueman told the court a social worker had visited her before the incident and warned her that Harris had a history of domestic violence.\nHowever, she said she gave Harris \"the benefit of the doubt\", adding: \"I believe in second chances.\"\nThe court was told Amina's liver had been split in two by the kick and there was evidence of older injuries on her body including a recently broken arm, bruises to her face and skull, and bite marks on her cheek and forearm.\nDet Ch Insp Jon Hutchinson, of Cambridgeshire Police, said: \"His evil actions have resulted in the death of a young girl who had her whole life ahead of her.\n\"Harris used completely disproportionate violence against such a tiny child.\n\"There is never an excuse to hit a child and he should have had no doubt what the potential consequences were of using such force on a two-year-old.\"\nCambridgeshire County Council, whose social services had warned about Harris, said \"a serious case review into this tragic case is currently being undertaken by the Local Safeguarding Children's Board to see if there are any lessons to be learned for agencies from the tragic death of Amina\".", "summary": "A man has been convicted of murdering a two-year-old girl after he kicked her, rupturing her liver." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Trish Vickers had terminal cancer and had put out an appeal to have Grannifer's Legacy printed.\nThe 64-year-old lost her sight 11 years ago and wrote the book by hand, but 26 pages were blank as she did not realise her pen ran out of ink.\nA local firm was able to publish the book within two weeks, but the Charmouth resident died on Thursday.\nMs Vickers wrote the novel over six years and did not use a computer or Braille to write the novel.\nShe instead used a system of rubber bands and a clipboard to help guide the pen across the page.\nForensic experts from Dorset Police were able to recreate the words from the missing pages by analysing the indentation made by the pen on the page.\nIt was then given to Dorset-based publisher Magic Oxygen.\nA book would usually take about six months to publish, but editor Simon West made every effort to get the book published before Ms Vickers died.\nHe said: \"As soon as we met Trish we fell in love with her, but we soon realised that her condition was deteriorating and we needed to act fast.\n\"Sadly she passed on Thursday morning, and the book arrived two hours after she died.\n\"I'm absolutely elated we published the book within two weeks, and devastated that [Trish] was so cruelly taken before she could see the book.\"\nGrannifer's Legacy is about a woman called Jennifer who discovers a book written by her great-grandmother.\nIt will be officially launched later at an awards ceremony in Lyme Regis, and part of any profits made will be donated to South West Talking Newspapers.", "summary": "A blind author whose dying wish was to have her book published passed away the day it came off the presses." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "New rules to regulate burials and cremations were proposed in the wake of the baby ashes scandal.\nThe bill would set out a legal definition of ashes and require that authorities retain details of burials.\nMSPs said the bill risked being a \"missed opportunity\" unless a licensing scheme for undertakers was included.\nThe Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Bill aims to update the existing set of rules over services, which date back over 100 years.\nIt was introduced following a scandals uncovered in Mortonhall, Edinburgh, as well as Aberdeen, Fife and Glasgow, where babies ashes were disposed of without parents being informed.\nBereaved parents addressed the health committee during scrutiny of the bill, calling for funeral directors to be inspected and held to account by the government.\nThe report from the Local Government and Regeneration Committee reflected this, saying the bill should be enhanced by adding a licensing scheme \"to be implemented without delay\".\nMSPs also called for the bill to include provisions for burial records to be held electronically, a burial grounds management scheme for local authorities, and changes to the maximum period burial plots can be held for.\nCommittee convener Kevin Stewart said it was clear the bill in its present form \"leaves some questions unanswered\".\nHe said: \"This bill was a chance to fundamentally change the way the funeral industry operates and by doing so send a real signal on the issues of service standards and costs.\n\"It is disappointing the decision to license funeral directors was not taken - something which is surely a missed opportunity - and why we recommend licensing should be implemented without delay.\"", "summary": "A bill seeking to modernise burial and cremation services in Scotland \"lacks detail and ambition\", MSPs on the local government committee have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "World Rugby, the sport's governing body, is expected to sanction the move, which will be implemented on Saturday.\nNew Neath coach Gareth Llewellyn expects it to have a positive impact.\n\"There will be a premium for tries now, so you'll probably have fewer kicks at goal from within the 22,\" the former Wales lock told BBC Radio Wales.\n\"Teams will kick into the corner and you can score tries from driving line-outs.\n\"I'm not sure it will change the game that much, just make it a bit more positive in the scoring zone so people will not just take two points when you can get eight for a converted try.\"\nCurrently, a try is worth five points, with a conversion two points. Penalties and drop-goals are both worth three points.\nRugby's scoring system has been subject to change throughout its history, with the try rising from three points to four in the northern hemisphere in 1971 - followed worldwide in 1973 - and the value being increased again to five points in 1992.\nIt is understood the Welsh experiment is part of an ongoing review of the game's laws.\nThe Principality Premiership is made up of semi-professional teams and includes some of the biggest clubs in the history of the Welsh game. Pontypridd, Llanelli, Cardiff and Newport all play in the league.\nLlewellyn, who played for Neath before the introduction of regional rugby in Wales and played 92 times for his country, says his preparations for the new season have taken account of the points change.\n\"We will kick off with that on Saturday and we looked at it and how it will affect the game,\" he added.\n\"People have asked if it's going to lead to teams giving away more penalties because it's only two points for a penalty, but then you are going to end up defending more driving line-outs which you don't want to do.\"\nThe Welsh Rugby Union and World Rugby have not commented.", "summary": "Wales' second-tier rugby clubs will play under an experimental scoring system that awards six points for a try and two points for all kicks." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The alleged victim, then a teenager, said he had met Stephen Port, 41, via the gay dating app Grindr and went to his home in February 2012.\nHe said he felt \"very dizzy\" after drinking the wine, then briefly woke up naked and realised he was being raped.\nMr Port, of Barking, denies 29 charges including four murders and seven rapes.\nThe charges relate to 12 men over three-and-a-half years.\nThe Old Bailey jury heard the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had come to London to meet a friend but when the friend did not turn up he contacted Mr Port.\nHis first impression was that the accused, who he met at Barking station before being driven to Mr Port's home, was \"quite polite, friendly, nothing that would ring any alarm bells to me\".\nAs they watched a DVD Mr Port offered a small glass of red wine, the court heard.\nThe man told the court the drink \"tasted bitter, which I attributed to it being cheap wine.\"\nThe complainant told the court he \"noticed a sludge in the bottom of the glass\" and that \"you could tell it used to be powder\".\nMr Port said the wine must have been \"off\" and offered him another drink, jurors heard.\nThe complainant said he quickly felt \"very dizzy and tired\" and had a \"very sinister\" feeling.\nHe fell asleep on the sofa and the defendant suggested he went to bed, the court heard.\nThe man next recalled briefly \"waking up naked, face down\" being raped by the defendant, the court heard.\n\"I don't recall stopping him. I wasn't in the position to stop him,\" he said, as he was \"only half aware of what was happening.\"\nWhen prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC asked whether he had agreed to have sex with Stephen Port, he said: \"No I hadn't.\"\nThe man woke the next day feeling \"frightened because I couldn't remember large portions of the night\".\nThe jury was told: \"I knew I needed to get out of there as soon as possible because I didn't feel safe in the situation I was in.\"\nMr Port behaved as if \"nothing had happened\", said the complainant.\nLater, when he contacted Mr Port via Grindr and accused him of spiking his drink, the accused denied the allegation and was dismissive about threats to visit a doctor to prove it.\nThe man came forward in 2015 after reading that Stephen Port had been arrested on suspicion of murder.\nThe trial continues.", "summary": "A man accused of four murders and several sex attacks raped a man who passed out after drinking spiked red wine, the Old Bailey has heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "An extensive search operation was launched for Mr Davidson, 73, from Dalkeith, when he was reported missing on 26 April.\nHis body was found by a member of the public in the River North Esk, near Dalkeith, three days later.\nPolice said there were no suspicious circumstances.\nIn a statement, his family said: \"We wish to thank the local community and police for their understanding and support at this very sad time.\"\nSgt Stuart Aitchison, of Police Scotland, said: \"Our sympathies are with the family of Thomas Davidson and we wish to extend our gratitude to them for their assistance over the course of our search operation.\"", "summary": "Police have confirmed the body of a man recovered from a river in Midlothian is missing pensioner Thomas Davidson." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Garden Bridge Trust said Dame Margaret Hodge's review had ignored information.\nLord Davies, chairman of trust, said: \"It is a very one-sided report and full of errors.\"\nDame Margaret said she did not expect the trust to support her conclusions, which were \"grounded in evidence\".\nThe trust alleges the review ignored a survey that suggested three-quarters of Londoners supported the bridge and that Dame Margaret had engaged with a \"very selective - largely opponent - audience\".\nLord Davies said he remained focused on the bridge's future, which was in the hands of the London mayor Sadiq Khan.\n\"Our message to him is that this report, with its many errors and ill-informed opinions, is no basis upon which to take decisions about a project that has been through the complex democratic processes by which decisions on development are made in this city,\" he said.\nDame Margaret, MP for Barking and Dagenham, said: \"I conducted an extensive inquiry and the conclusions I reached are grounded in that evidence.\n\"My review has found that too many things went wrong in the development and implementation of the Garden Bridge project.\"\nShe added: \"Value for money for the taxpayer has not been secured.\"\nThe review, which was published on 7 April, said £37.4m had already been spent, and even if the bridge did not go ahead it would cost the taxpayer £46.4m.\nThe trust also lost two major private donors and had had no new pledges since August 2016, the review said.\nHowever, Lord Davies argued the trust had put fundraising on hold because of the review and it was confident it could raise the money from donors.\nPreviously, a City Hall spokesman said the Garden Bridge Trust remained responsible for delivering the project and the mayor of London would not spend any more taxpayer money on the Garden Bridge.", "summary": "The trust behind a project to build a bridge across the Thames in London has criticised a report that suggested the scheme should be scrapped." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Although the home side claimed a first-innings lead of six, the Proteas moved to 145-3 by the close, 139 ahead.\nEarlier, Jonny Bairstow fell five short of a maiden Test century for England, but a last-wicket stand of 32 between Graeme Swann, who made 37 not out, and Steven Finn earned them a slim first-innings advantage.\nSwann removed Graeme Smith and Stuart Broad accounted for Alviro Petersen in quick succession, before Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis looked set to take South Africa to the close.\nHowever, Finn nipped one down the slope to trap Kallis lbw for 31 late in the day, breaking a third-wicket stand of 81 and reviving England's fading hopes of securing the victory that will earn them a series draw.\nWith Amla - dropped on two by Matt Prior - unbeaten on 57, the hosts need further wickets on Sunday morning if they are to avoid being batted out of the match, the series and their place at the top of the rankings.\n\"South Africa still hold the upper hand. Unless they lose quick wickets on Sunday, these even matches usually favour the side batting third. England might hope to chase 250-260 - although it is still a decent pitch, you would not want to be chasing more than that.\"\nRead the rest of Aggers's blog\nUnder the burning London sun, the pitch played easier than over the two previous days, and England can expect little assistance in bowling out a South Africa side under no pressure to set a target.\nAndrew Strauss's side began the day hoping to at least match the tourists' first-innings 309, with hopes of parity seeming to rest on the shoulders of not-out pair Bairstow and Prior.\nThey moved through the early exchanges without trouble, only for Prior to drive wildly at the first delivery with the second new ball, bowled by Vernon Philander, and present Kallis with a sharp chance at second slip.\nBairstow, who played an integral role in again looked fluent, leaving well and driving on both sides of the wicket.\nAfter Broad popped a catch to short-leg off Dale Steyn, Bairstow found a willing ally in the aggressive Swann, but was stifled by some tight bowling, spending 43 minutes in the nineties.\nEventually, after facing 14 consecutive dot balls, he looked to force a straight delivery from Morne Morkel through the on side and was bowled middle and off stump.\nSwann added 19 with James Anderson, who dealt well with a barrage of short bowling before eventually fending another Steyn bumper to gully.\nStill England looked likely to concede a deficit, but with Finn - trusted by Swann to take the strike - dealing bravely with the short bowling and assured when defending the full, England inched onwards.\n19-23 July: First Test, The Oval - South Africa won by an innings and 12 runs\n2-6 August: Second Test, Headingley - Draw\n16-20 August: Third Test, Lord's\nWhen Steyn bowled around the wicket, Finn hooked for four, with the partisan crowd given further enjoyment when Smith dropped a regulation catch off the England number 11 at first slip.\nFinn eventually shovelled Morkel to JP Duminy at point, but the tide, momentarily, was with England.\nThey would have hoped to capitalise with wickets before tea, but Smith and Petersen were able to blunt the new ball with few problems.\nYet England restricted the scoring rate to around two runs an over and were rewarded when both openers fell lbw playing across the line, Smith to Swann and Petersen to Broad.\nAmla and Kallis repaired the damage, although Amla was reprieved by a diving Prior down the leg side and survived two huge lbw appeals from Swann.\nThe pair appeared to be batting South Africa into a position of control until Finn got one to seam back into Kallis's pads four overs from the close.\nThe veteran all-rounder immediately called for a review when umpire Simon Taufel's finger was raised. However, with Hawk-Eye suggesting the ball was clipping leg stump and no inside edge apparent, he left the field visibly unhappy with a decision for the second time in the match.\nEngland had the late boost they needed, but Sunday morning promises to be crucial as they try to preserve their number one status.\nListen to Jonathan Agnew and Geoff Boycott review each day's play on the Test Match Special Podcast.", "summary": "England's hopes of saving their number one ranking hang in the balance after a fascinating third day in the final Test against South Africa at Lord's." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 28-year-old replaces Colin Doyle, who joined Bradford for just £1 on 12 July after they met a release clause.\nEx-Scunthorpe keeper Slocombe has the option of a second year with the League Two club in his contract.\n\"He's been promoted with Scunthorpe United and Oxford United and is another strong addition to the squad,\" said Blackpool boss Gary Bowyer.\nSlocombe added: \"The project that the gaffer is putting together here seems quite appealing and we have a really good opportunity this season to give it a right good go.\"\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "Blackpool have signed goalkeeper Sam Slocombe on an initial one-year deal after his departure from Oxford United." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Club security staff became concerned about the light aircraft, which made a \"sharp turn\" and flew \"erratically\" while the team was playing Brighton.\nThe club and The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) hope supporters will have captured footage of the plane.\nIt is alleged the plane breached CAA guidelines by flying so low.\nA club spokesman said: \"The context of this appeal is that this plane was spotted flying erratically over the ground a few days after the Paris bombings.\"\nHe added: \"This caused a potentially serious safety issue at the game and, as part of the investigation, the CAA is seeking video or still photographic evidence from anyone who may have witnessed the incident.\n\"The CAA said that if they have footage or stills they should be able to calculate the plane's height.\"", "summary": "Football fans have been asked to share footage of a plane which flew at low altitude over Burnley's stadium nine days after November's Paris bombings." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rare earths are used in gadgets such as DVDs and mobile phones, and China accounts for more than 90% of their global production.\nBut it has put limits on their exports, which it says are aimed at reducing pollution and conserving resources.\nHowever, the organisation said the limits helped \"secure preferential use\" of the elements for domestic firms.\nIn its ruling, the WTO said: \"The overall effect of the foreign and domestic restrictions is to encourage domestic extraction and secure preferential use of those materials by Chinese manufacturers\".\n\"Accordingly, the panel concluded that China's trading rights restrictions breach its WTO obligations.\"\nThe demand for rare earth elements has jumped in recent years, triggered by growth in the number of high-tech gadgets being produced.\nThese elements have unique magnetic and optical properties making them a crucial part of almost all modern-day equipment.\nOver the past decade the demand for rare earths has increased three-fold to nearly 125,000 metric tons a year.\nAccording to some estimates, the figure could cross 200,000 tons this year.\nHowever, there have been concerns that mining and processing these elements generates toxic waste and impacts the environment.\nAs a result, many countries that have rare earth resources have imposed restrictions on their mining, making China the biggest global supplier.\nOver the past few years Beijing also imposed its own set of limits on the sector, citing similar concerns.\nIn a response to the WTO ruling, China's trade ministry said: \"The Chinese government has been reinforcing and improving its comprehensive regulation on high-polluting, high-energy-consuming and resource-consuming products in recent years\".\n\"China believes that these regulatory measures are perfectly consistent with the objective of sustainable development promoted by the WTO.\"\nHowever, China's restrictions saw prices of these elements surge, prompting the US, European Union and Japan to lodge a complaint with the WTO.\nAfter the ruling, Michael Forman, US Trade Representative, said: \"China's decision to promote its own industry and discriminate against US companies has caused US manufacturers to pay as much as three times more than what their Chinese competitors pay for the exact same rare earths.\"\nBeijing, which has 60 days to appeal against the ruling, said it was assessing the report.", "summary": "China's caps on exports of rare earth elements break global trade rules, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The New Zealand Herald reported that a \"sophisticated\" listening device found on Monday had been hidden in a chair.\nThe All Blacks beat Australia's Wallabies 42-8 on Saturday.\nThe CEO of New Zealand Rugby, Steve Tew, said in a statement that Australian police and the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) had been informed.\nSaturday's game is the first of three in the annual Bledisloe Cup between Australia and New Zealand - which the All Blacks have not lost in 13 years.\nTew said: \"We are taking this issue very seriously, and given it will be a police matter, it would not be prudent to go into further details.\"\nThe New South Wales Police Force said in a statement that they had become aware of the allegation on Saturday, and had attended a hotel in Double Bay, an area of Sydney.\nSuperintendent Brad Hodder told local media that a forensic team were looking at an \"electronic device\".\nTew added that he had spoken to ARU chief Bill Pulver who was \"just as shocked as I was\", but added that it was not a \"catastrophic issue\" for Saturday's match.\n\"We haven't made any accusations of anybody so there's no room for denials,\" said Tew.\nPulver told the New Zealand Herald that the idea of a bugging was \"ludicrous\" and said the ARU was not involved.\nHe said: \"Mate, of course [the ARU is not involved].\n\"I just think it's a ludicrous concept that there are listening devices being placed in team rooms. I don't know how that could happen.\"\nThe paper reported that hiding the bug \"was a highly skilled and meticulous act and whoever put it there would have needed a significant amount of time to have pulled off such an accomplished job\".\nIndications are that the device was working and would have transmitted conversations about the All Blacks' strategy for Saturday's match.\nThe game is the only one in this year's tournament scheduled to take place on Australian soil. The other two games are scheduled to be held in New Zealand cities. The All Blacks have won the Cup 43 times while the Wallabies have won 12 times.\nThe hotel where the All Blacks were staying has started its own investigation into the incident, the statement by New Zealand Rugby said.", "summary": "New Zealand Rugby says a Sydney hotel room where the All Blacks held meetings was bugged before their first Bledisloe Cup match against Australia." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Gary Carruthers pleaded guilty to having 30,000 indecent images of children.\nThe 35-year-old also pleaded guilty to having two paedophile manuals - the first person in Northern Ireland to be caught in possession of such material.\nSome of the children featured were as young as two years old.\nEntitled Childlovin and Producing kiddie porn for dummies, the manuals were discovered along with the indecent images and extreme pornography on 20 computer storage devices and discs hidden in a safe in his bedroom.\nJudge Sandra Crawford told Carruthers that the methods set out in the manuals to groom children were \"utterly shocking\".\nShe described his use of images of the faces of pupils from the primary school where he worked as \"grotesque\".\nBut she ordered that Carruthers, described as a \"social loner\", serve two years of his term on licence to ensure he completes a recommended probation programme aimed at preventing his re-offending.\nBecause of time already served awaiting trial, Carruthers, of Victoria Street in Belfast, is now due for release from prison.\nThe Downpatrick Crown Court judge, sitting in Newry, said that normally guilty pleas would attract substantial credit.\nHowever, she told Carruthers: \"The evidence against you was overwhelming and effectively you were caught red-handed.\"\nShe pointed out that when questioned initially, Carruthers \"brazened the matter out, denying all responsibility\" until he produced a prepared statement.\nIn it Carruthers accepted \"responsibility\" for all of the images, telling detectives: '\"I am deeply sorry for my actions. I do not wish to comment further.\"\nJudge Crawford also told Carruthers that the \"great harm\" caused to children being sexually abused was \"all too obvious\", and that by seeking and downloading such images from the internet he had helped maintain \"the illegal and depraved industry which exploits and abuses children for the sexual gratification of adults\".\nThe judge said that Carruthers had abused his position as a school caretaker to photograph pupils. He then superimposed these pictures on images of children being sexually abused \"in a vile and despicable fashion\".\nWhile Carruthers pleaded guilty to having the vast bulk of material from 2012, the judge said that analysis showed that some had been recovered from the internet shortly before his arrest in September 2015.\nCarruthers was placed on the Sexual Offender's Register indefinitely, and was also made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for the next 10 years.\nUnder the SOPO he is banned from using of any internet electronic devices without supervision. He is also banned from contacting anyone under 16, or people living in a household with youngsters unless approved by the authorities.\nAn NSPCC spokesperson said Carruthers had betrayed the trust placed on him.\n\"It must be remembered that these are not victimless crimes - each image includes a child who has been abused,\" said the spokesperson.\n\"It is right that Carruthers, and anyone else who accesses these images, is brought before the courts to face justice and to help ensure that children are not placed at further risk.\"", "summary": "A caretaker who superimposed pictures of children onto those of youngsters being sexually abused has been sentenced to three years in prison." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Health professionals dealing with Erin Sutherland were responsible for a series of failures, according to the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.\nMental health experts, GPs and health visitors failed to detect the extent of the mother-of-three's depression.\nIt made 14 recommendations to improve postnatal mental health care.\nThe report follows a court case last year in which Sutherland admitted the culpable homicide of her nine-month-old daughter Chloe.\nPsychiatric reports submitted to the court found that Sutherland, referred to in the reports only as Ms OP, was \"profoundly\" affected by postnatal depression.\nThe commission was asked by former mental health minister Jamie Hepburn to carry out a full investigation into her care before Chloe's death in Edinburgh.\nIt concluded that, had the failures in her care been addressed, Sutherland would have received appropriate care and treatment at an earlier stage.\nAlison Thomson, executive director (nursing) of the Mental Welfare Commission said the case was \"deeply tragic\".\nShe said: \"We have not found any single failing or omission which caused or directly contributed to the death.\n\"However, during the course of our investigation we found several aspects of Ms OP's care and treatment that should have been better.\"\nThe report reveals that Sutherland was in hospital for four weeks with post-natal depression following the birth of her second child\nIt said a psychiatrist's letter identifying risks in her previous pregnancy should she become unwell again were \"not sufficiently highlighted\".\nFollowing the birth of her third child, she appeared to display no outward signs of suffering such severe depression.\nMs Thomson said: \"Ms OP often presented with a good facade and did not express to any care professionals any thoughts of harm to herself or her children.\n\"This gave unfounded reassurance to those who were in contact with her.\n\"The combination of a previous history of thoughts of infanticide in the first postnatal year, and deteriorating mental health during a time of stressful life events should have alerted those involved to the need for increased vigilance and support.\"\nOther findings of the report include:\nRecommendations outlined by the commission include ensuring that women with \"significant histories\" can be referred to perinatal mental health services until their child is one year old.\nThey suggest large doctors surgeries nominate a \"go-to\" GP with a particular interest in perinatal health - in a bid to minimise inconsistencies.\nThe commission has called on the NHS board to review the remit and staffing of the PNMHS.\nAnd it has told the Scottish government that priority should be given to establishing a national clinical network for perinatal mental health.\nMinister for Mental Health, Maureen Watt, said it was \"absolutely imperative\" that lessons were learned from the issues highlighted in the report.\nShe added: \"The Scottish government accepts and welcomes the report's recommendation to establish a managed clinical network for perinatal mental health.\n\"Work has already been progressing on the creation of a new network and it is currently progressing through the approval process at NHS National Services Scotland.\n\"We are clear that we want it to be approved and implemented as soon as possible.\"", "summary": "A mother who suffocated her baby while suffering from postnatal depression did not receive adequate treatment for her illness, a report has found." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "There was one slight problem for the former Olympic rower.\nHe had not been invited to take the seat which had become vacant when David Cameron sent his party's previous MEP, Timothy Kirkhope, to the House of Lords in his resignation honours list.\nThere followed weeks of claim and counterclaim which must have completely baffled those who hold the simplistic view that in a democracy the local electorate decide who will be their member of parliament.\nWhat has emerged is that when it comes to the European Parliament things are a bit more complicated than that.\nAfter weeks of wrangling, John Procter, a Leeds city councillor, has now been chosen to become the new MEP.\nThe choice was made by the Conservative Party with no need to bother asking for a new vote from any of the 1,296,701 people who turned out in Yorkshire and the Humber at the 2014 European Elections.\nThe party had that power because at the Euro elections we vote for a party not an individual candidate under a system of proportional representation.\nUnder the EU election rules the party keeps the seat even if its choice at the time has to step down before the end of their five- year term.\nThat can be puzzling for a UK electorate used to the \"first-past-the-post\" system of electing MPs to the House of Commons where a by-election is triggered if the seat becomes vacant.\nSo why did Mr Story think the Conservative Party should hand the seat over to him and not the choice it eventually made?\nHe was so convinced that he went as far as applying for a High Court injunction in what turned out to be a vain attempt to stop it being awarded to anybody else.\nHe based his claim on another bit of the European Parliament election system which is unfamiliar to UK voters: the \"list system\".\nBefore the elections each party draws up a list of candidates chosen by local members and ranks them in order of preference.\nIn 2014 Mr Kirkhope, as the sitting MEP, held first place on the Conservative list for Yorkshire and the Humber and was re-elected to become the region's only Conservative MEP.\nMr Story was in second place on the party's list and Mr Procter third.\nIn most circumstances the list then becomes a piece of almost forgotten party political history.\nIt is only dug out of the filing cabinet when an MEP steps down because under the rules a replacement has to be one of the \"also-rans\" on the list.\nMr Story assumed he would be given the nod because he has been the official second-placed candidate in 2014. He reacted with a mixture of anger and frustration when he was passed over.\nParty managers told me it was up to them which candidate they chose and Mr Story was ineligible because since the European elections he had been given a poor \"report\" for the way in which he fought the 2015 UK General Election when he unsuccessfully stood for one of the Leeds seats.\nAs a result he had not been retained as a potential candidate for any future elections and that included being picked to take up the vacancy as an MEP .\nIt was put to me that this was a fairly routine decision fully complying with all election rules and the handover would be speedy and straightforward.\nIn the event a time slot which had been reserved for an announcement to be made at the party conference came and went.\nWeeks went by until a High Court judge decided not to give Mr Story the injunction which could have led to a judicial review.\nThe irony is that Mr Story was a leading Brexiteer during the Referendum campaign so has been fighting to take a job that he has ultimately helped abolish.\nAll this begs another question.\nIf the party keeps a seat when a sitting MEP steps down how can it lose one when an elected member switches party?\nStep forward Amjad Bashir who was one of the top three from UKIP's list who were awarded Yorkshire and the Humber seats after the party's barnstorming result in 2014.\nHe has now now defected to the Conservatives but, apparently, in those circumstances the candidate keeps the seat.\nSo that's all right then.", "summary": "Alex Story confidently announced as long ago as September that he was delighted to become the new Conservative MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Father Jesus Delgado sexually abused a young girl over an eight-year period during the 1980s, the Church said in statement.\nHe is willing to meet woman, who is now 42, and ask for forgiveness, reads the statement.\nThe Church was forced to act after the government of El Salvador warned that it would name the priest.\nSecretary of Social Inclusion Vanda Pignato informed the Catholic Church in October of the results of the government's findings, La Prensa Grafica newspaper reported.\n\"He likes to celebrates mass for the children but he is a paedophile,\" said Ms Pignato.\nAfter conducting an internal investigation, the Church decided to suspend the bishop of all his priestly functions.\nThe girl was abused from the aged of nine until she was 17.\nBishop Delgado, 77, was a respected figure in the Central American nation.\nHe was an aide and biographer of Archbishop Oscar Romero.\nMonsignor Romero was murdered by a death squad in 1980, in the early days of El Salvador's brutal civil war.\nPope Francis declared Monsignor Romero a martyr and unblocked the process for his beatification, which was being overseen by Father Delgado.", "summary": "The Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador has suspended a well-known priest for paedophilia." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But instead of a thank you, Toronto has blocked off access to the steps and asked Adi Astl, 73, to take them down.\nBefore the stairs were installed, Mr Astl said a few people had fallen down the steep muddy embankment to the park.\nMr Astl said he took matters into his own hands after his local councillor told him about the city's price tag.\n\"To me, the safety of people is more important than money,\" Mr Astl told CTV News. \"So if the city is not willing to do it, I have to do it myself.\"\nHe said the whole project took him and his neighbours about 14 hours.\nMr Astl's councillor, Justin Di Ciano, said the official estimate, which the city said could go from $65,000 to $150,000, was outlandish.\n\"With $150,000 you can put up half a house,\" Mr Di Ciano told GlobalNews.\nToronto Mayor John Tory agreed the price estimate was overblown, but said it just won't do for private citizens to \"go out to Home Depot and build a staircase in a park because that is what they would like to have\".\nCity staff say they are re-assessing the estimate, which was based on a staircase built at another park.\nResident Dana Beamon told CTV News she is thankful for Mr Astl's staircase.\n\"We have far too much bureaucracy,\" she said.\n\"We do not have enough self-initiative in our city, so I am impressed.\"", "summary": "A Canadian pensioner built a set of stairs at his local park for just C$550 when the city estimated it would cost at least C$65,000 ($51,500, £40,000)." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Australian-born Rudd, 61, had originally denied the charges but changed his plea in April.\nHe threatened to \"take out\" a former employee, the Tauranga court heard.\nWhen police went to question him over the threats they found a stash of marijuana and methamphetamine.\nHis sentence will be served at his beachfront home in Tauranga, with Judge Thomas Ingram warning he would be face jail if he breached the conditions, New Zealand media reported.\nHe had faced a jail term of up to seven years for the threat charges.\nArriving at court, Rudd made no comment to reporters but thanked fans for their support.\nThe court had heard how Rudd had fired several employees after the failure of his solo album, Head Job, in August last year.\nThen in September, he telephoned an associate in Australia saying he wanted one of those former employees \"taken care of\", said court documents.\nIn another call he offered the associate \"NZ$200,000, ($135,000; £88,000) a motorbike, one of his cars or a house\", which the man believed would be in exchange for carrying out the request.\nRudd also called the victim of the threat, saying: \"I'm going to come over and kill you.\"\nThe drugs were found when police raided his home on 6 November.\nRudd was originally charged with attempting to procure a murder, but that charge was dropped, as was a charge that he also threatened the victim's daughter.\nRudd's lawyer had said the threats were \"just an angry phone call\" and that a drug conviction would have serious final consequences for the drummer, meaning he could not travel to some countries to perform.\nJudge Thomas Ingram dismissed this, though accepted that Rudd had reconciled with the victim and paid compensation.\nRudd is not currently a member of AC/DC, one of the world's biggest rock bands, and has not been invited to join them on their tour of New Zealand and Australia later this year.", "summary": "Phil Rudd, a drummer with rock group AC/DC, has been sentenced in New Zealand to eight months in house detention for drug possession and making threats to kill." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "PC Rathband's family has brought a civil action against the force, claiming an alert should have been issued as soon as the gunman rang, threatening to hunt down officers.\nIt was Supt Jo Farrell's job to assess the threat and decide the response.\nShe said they were attempting to pinpoint his location via his phone.\nGiving evidence at the hearing at Newcastle's Moot Hall, Ms Farrell said: \"With the cell site analysis we would have gained more information and narrowed down which officers were at risk.\n\"I was seeing if I could further develop information about Moat to allow that warning to be given to a smaller group of officers to ensure it was effective.\"\nThe hearing was told there were about 700 officers on duty that night.\nGeoffrey Tattersall QC, for the family, said: \"In this case here there should have been a warning as soon as there were threats to shoot police officers, and later, if you got further information which confirmed a more precise location, you could deploy your armed response unit.\"\nMs Farrell said: \"I started a course of action in very quick time to try and identify where Moat was in order to protect the people he threatened, being the public and police officers.\n\"This was a legitimate and reasonable course of action.\"\nMoat had gone on the run after shooting his ex-partner Samantha Stobbart and murdering her new lover Chris Brown in Birtley, Gateshead, in the early hours of 3 July 2010.\nThe next night he spoke to a Northumbria Police call handler for almost five minutes, saying he would kill any officer who came near him, that he was not coming in alive and, at one point, that he was hunting for officers.\nThe civil claim states that had PC Rathband, who was sitting in his patrol car on a Newcastle roundabout above the A1, been warned about the threat, he would have kept moving.\nThe hearing continues.", "summary": "The senior officer in the Northumbria Police control room on the night PC David Rathband was shot and blinded by Raoul Moat has defended its actions." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Vice News journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury were detained by police as they filmed in the south-east region of Diyarbakir on Thursday.\nTheir lawyer told the BBC police interrogated them about alleged links to Islamic State and Kurdish militants.\nThey deny the charges, which Vice News calls \"baseless and alarmingly false\".\nThe trio had been in the region filming clashes between police and Kurdish militants, Vice News said.\nViolent exchanges between security forces and youths from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have erupted in recent days. Turkey has limited journalists' access to the region.\nBy Selin Girit, BBC News, Istanbul\nThe two British journalists and their translator were detained on Thursday at their hotel, their lawyer told the BBC.\nHe said they were initially accused of filming a military base nearby without permission. Then the material on their computers and cameras was investigated.\nThe lawyer said the journalists were subject to questions of whether they were working on behalf of the IS or the Kurdish militant group PKK. They denied the accusations, saying they were only doing their job.\nThe Vice News journalists were working in the predominantly Kurdish south-eastern town of Diyarbakır when they were detained, which has seen intense clashes between militants and security forces recently - it's increasingly difficult for journalists to report from the area.\nTurkey was dubbed as \"the biggest prison for journalists\" in 2012 and 2013 by journalism organisations. In general though, detained foreign journalists would either be released or deported.\nThe journalists' lawyer told the BBC they had a right to object to the court ruling within a week, but that they do not expect an overturn of the decision.\nThe journalists' lawyer said the trio were detained at their hotel and initially accused of filming a military base without permission.\nTheir camera and computers were seized and investigated, he said.\nThey were then asked questions about whether they had been collaborating with the PKK or the so-called Islamic State group, before being formally arrested by a local court. They have denied all charges.\nKevin Sutcliffe, Vice News's head of news programming in Europe, said the Turkish government had levelled \"baseless and alarmingly false charges\" in an attempt to intimidate and censor its coverage.\n\"Vice News condemns in the strongest possible terms the Turkish government's attempts to silence our reporters who have been providing vital coverage from the region,\" he said.\nNo further court dates have yet been set.", "summary": "Two British reporters and a translator have been formally charged by a Turkish court with \"working on behalf of a terrorist organisation\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It brought together a cast of characters, the like of which had not been seen since the days of Britain's imperial glory.\nYet for all its splendour and pageantry, the coronation of a British monarch is really a rather curious event.\nStrictly speaking it has no legal or constitutional significance. A king or queen is a fully-empowered sovereign from the moment of his or her predecessor's death.\nBut it can, and usually does, have a deep spiritual significance to the person being crowned.\nRemember, a British head of state is not \"sworn-in\" by a senior judge or - perish the thought - by some superannuated politician.\nThe people who have always presided at the Coronation are religious figures, the most senior clergymen - and they are still men - from the Church of England.\nAbove all, the Coronation is a religious event - a service which represents the consecration of the king or queen to a lifetime of service to his or her people.\nThat was its overwhelming significance to the young Elizabeth when, on 2 June 1953 she stood within the ancient walls of Westminster Abbey, where kings and queens have been crowned for nearly a thousand years, to be anointed with holy oil and pledge herself in the face of God to fulfil the role to which the hereditary vagaries of the British monarchy had drawn her.\nGuided by the Archbishop of Canterbury, she swore her Coronation oath. It is the only oath that a British head of state enters into.\nThat and, above all, the sacred nature of the entire event is the principal reason why Queen Elizabeth II will never abdicate. She believes deeply that the events of that coronation day set her apart and that hers is a duty from which only death can release her.\nSixty years on from the Coronation, the idea of a \"sacred duty\" which lasts a lifetime may seem to some, perhaps even to many, to be something of an anachronism. The coronation service may sound like some ancient tribal ritual and, in many senses of course, that is precisely what it is.\nIt is entirely symbolic, but it is a powerful, sacred symbolism which mattered deeply then - and continues to matter deeply now - to the woman who occupies the British throne.\nTen years ago, at the service marking the 50th anniversary of her coronation, it is said that someone from Westminster Abbey suggested to the Queen that she might like to retake her Coronation vows.\nThe Queen, it is said, was having none of it. Those vows were very personal. They were taken once. They would last a lifetime. They were not the sort of thing to be reprised. The idea was dropped.\nIn matters such as these the Queen has an unashamedly traditional perspective. Her coronation service contained many elements which would have changed little since the first coronation that took place in an abbey church by the river Thames at Westminster.\nThat was on Christmas Day 1066, when William the Conqueror was crowned.\nBut that is not to say that the form of the Coronation service will not change in the future. It hardly needs to be said that the United Kingdom of 2013 is a very different nation to that of 1953.\nDiscussions have already taken place, very discreetly, about how the next Coronation should look and sound. The views of both the Church of England and the man who would expect to be the central character in that service, Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, have been canvassed.\nThe Church of England is anxious to protect its position as the country's \"established Church\", a position which carries with it the responsibility of both constructing and conducting the Coronation service.\nNonetheless, there would appear to be a recognition that the Church of England cannot now alone represent the different Churches - to say nothing of the different faiths - of the United Kingdom and the other nations of which the British monarch is also head of state.\nIn 1953 the Coronation was an almost exclusively Church of England production.\nJust one other Church, the Church of Scotland, was permitted to have one representative at the service who presented the Queen with a Bible. Sixty years later it is accepted that the Church of England will have to be very much more hospitable.\nThat means that the next Coronation, whenever it comes, will need better to reflect the spiritual diversity of today's Britain. It will still be a Christian service conducted by the Church of England's most senior churchmen - or might even, conceivably, by then include a churchwoman.\nA Coronation is essentially a moment of profound symbolism. It is the joining of the monarch in service to his or her people.\nAnd so the next time an Archbishop of Canterbury lowers St Edward's Crown onto the head of a British monarch, we can expect representatives of those people, in all their diversity, to be in much closer and more visible attendance.", "summary": "It was a dazzling spectacle with solemn pledges and soaring music." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The project has been headed by Gordon Brown, former UK prime minister and UN special envoy for global education.\nThe aim is to raise $3.85bn (£2.66bn) over the next five years which could support the education of more than 13 million young people.\nMr Brown said it would help restore the sense of hope for refugee families.\nSpeaking at the summit in Istanbul in Turkey, Mr Brown said: \"For the first time, we have a humanitarian fund targeting education.\n\"A fund that plans - not just for weeks or months - but for years in support of a child's development. And a fund with a contingency reserve allowing us to act when a crisis hits ensuring no begging bowl has to be circulated.\"\nMr Brown said that education was a way to protect young people from exploitation.\n\"Without school, young children caught up in emergencies are at risk of becoming the youngest labourers in the field, the youngest brides at the altar, the youngest soldiers in the trench and, in some cases, the youngest recruits vulnerable to extremism and radicalisation,\" he said.\nThe emergency fund, called Education Cannot Wait, would be aimed at providing a rapid response to the need for schools for young people caught up in conflict.\nThe fund, launched with an initial $100m (£69m) in donations, has been backed by Unesco head, Irina Bokova, who said: \"Exceptional measures are urgently required to meet the educational needs of millions of children and youth whose future is jeopardised by conflicts, displacement and natural disasters.\"\nUnesco says education in emergencies has been \"grossly underfunded\" - and at present only receives 2% of humanitarian aid.\nMs Bokova is calling for a fivefold increase in this allocation for education.\nAhead of the summit, Unesco published figures with the UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) showing that only 50% of refugee children are in primary school and 25% of refugee adolescents are in secondary school.\nA report warned that there could be even worse problems about which little is known.\nInformation on refugee education is mostly gathered by agencies working in camps, but many refugees are outside these official camps - living in cities or other informal settlements.\nThere are also unknown numbers of young people who are displaced within their countries, such as those missing school in Nigeria because of attacks by Boko Haram.\nThe threat of violence against places of education was highlighted by Unicef, in a report published ahead of the summit.\nIt warned that there were on average four schools or hospitals attacked or occupied by armed forces every day.\n\"Attacks against schools and hospitals during conflict are an alarming, and disgraceful, trend. Intentional and direct strikes on these facilities, and on health workers and teachers, can be war crimes,\" said Afshan Khan, Unicef's director of emergency programmes.\nIt warned of attacks in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, South Sudan, Nigeria and the Palestinian Authority.\nUnicef is calling for international support for a Safe Schools Declaration, with more than 50 countries having signed an agreement for protected status to be given to places of education during war and violent conflict.", "summary": "An emergency fund to provide education during conflicts and natural disasters has been launched at the World Humanitarian Summit." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The condition, acute pulmonary oedema, was caused by \"a heart rhythm disorder\", post-mortem tests revealed.\nFoley, 42, died on Saturday night at the hotel in Paris where Munster were staying before Sunday's scheduled game against Racing 92.\nHis funeral will be held in Killaloe, County Clare, on Friday at 12:00 BST.\nFoley's body will be flown to Shannon Airport on Wednesday before being taken to the family home.\nFuneral mass will take place at St Flannan's Church, with burial afterwards at Relig Nua Cemetery.\nThe death of the former Ireland forward could \"be linked to a cardiac problem\", a spokeswoman for the Nanterre public prosecutor said on Tuesday.\nOther toxicological analysis is under way, with results due in the coming weeks.\nPulmonary oedema means excess fluid collects in numerous air sacks in the lungs, making it difficult to breathe.\nFoley's body was found in his room at 12:40 on Sunday by a member of hotel staff and a Munster player.\nThe European Champions Cup game was postponed.\nFoley won 62 Ireland caps and made 201 appearances in the back row for Munster, leading them to their first European Cup triumph in 2006.", "summary": "Munster head coach Anthony Foley died after a heart condition caused fluid to build up in his lungs, a French coroner has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Second-quarter revenues rose by 26.6% to a record £133.8m, with commercial revenues up 42.5% to £66.1m.\nBroadcast revenue rose 31.3% to £37.3m and sponsorship revenue rose by £1.6m, but matchday income was down 1.6%.\nThe Red Devils currently lie fifth in the Premier League table and have been knocked out of the Champions League.\n\"Our solid results off the pitch help contribute to what remains our number one priority - success on the pitch,\" said executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.\nUnited's chances of qualification for next season's Champions League hang in the balance after an inconsistent season under Louis van Gaal.\nMajority-owned by the American Glazer family, they are six points adrift of fourth-placed Manchester City.\nLeicester have a five-point lead at the top of the table - and defeated City last weekend with a team that cost £22.5m.\n\"Leicester is a fantastic reference point for everybody this year,\" said Woodward in a conference call with investors on Thursday.\n\"Some players are bought by other clubs with an eye to them developing into something special in a few years' time whereas there's perhaps more pressure on bigger clubs to bring in players who are going to hit the ground running, top players verging on world class almost immediately. There is a slightly different market in which people are buying.\"\nThe BBC understands Van Gaal's position is precarious after learning that Jose Mourinho has held talks with the club about taking over in the summer.", "summary": "Manchester United are on track to become the first British club to earn more than £500m in one year despite their lack of success on the pitch." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The study was commissioned after a series of reports focussed on the council during an inquiry into the so-called Trojan Horse letter.\nLed by Sir Bob Kerslake, the report also called for the council to review a new voting system and devolution model.\nThe council said it recognised and accepted the broad thrust of the document's recommendations.\nThe review of governance at the city council was commissioned by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and council leader Sir Albert Bore.\nIt was announced at the publication of the inquiry led by Peter Clarke, the former counter-terrorism chief of the Metropolitan Police, into the Trojan Horse letter in July.\nThat report found evidence of a \"co-ordinated\" effort to introduce an \"Islamic ethos\" into several schools in the city.\nSir Bob's review made 11 recommendations to the Labour-run council. The first of which was that the Secretary of State should appoint an independent improvement panel to work with the council to \"provide the robust challenge and support the council requires\".\nThe council's children's services department has been in special measures since 2009 and Ofsted's Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has suggested the local authority be split up.\nThe Kerslake report made clear it did not think the council is too big or should be completely broken up.\n\"Our view is that the council's problems are not just due to its size; many are the result of a series of poor decision over a number of years but they must be addressed,\" it said.\nElsewhere, the review said Birmingham should switch to an all-out voting system arguing the current set up, where a third of city councillors are voted in each year, had not helped \"strategic decisions\".\nThe report said the size of wards meant some councillors were \"struggling to connect with their communities\" and suggested the council established a new model of devolution where districts had a commissioning budget to purchase extra services.\nIt said councillors and senior officers had \"failed to take collectively the big strategic decisions needed to tackle the problems the city faces.\"\nIn other recommendations, it urged the council to produce a finance plan up to 2018-2019 and urged it to improve its human resources function, criticising it for \"relying on too many expensive agency staff\".\nThe council says it \"broadly welcomes\" the Kerslake report. But it does so through gritted teeth.\nBirmingham is used to being criticised, so to be told its problems \"are the result of a series of poor decisions over a number of years\" and to be accused of \"a lack of clear vision\", will take few by surprise.\nThe report recommends a three-tier system, which would mean devolving more powers to its wards, and allowing a regional authority more strategic powers. But Birmingham says it has already been working towards this.\nWhat the city doesn't like is the prescriptive nature of the report. It fears the Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, could enforce deadlines and proposals which it doesn't like, when he outlines the government's response in Parliament.\nAbove all, the city leadership says it really can't make many changes unless it is given more money - and public funds are in very short supply.\nSir Bob said Birmingham's economy had underperformed compared with London, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield and said there needed to be changes if it was to maintain its status as Britain's second city.\n\"Things have to change and they have to change quickly,\" said Sir Bob.\nCouncil leader Sir Albert said the council was already implementing many of the suggested changes but argued the detailed prescription of the recommendations could be a hindrance.\nFor example, the report welcomed the move towards a combined authority involving the Black Country and Solihull councils but Sir Albert said they were already working on a bigger partnership than that.\nHe said Sir Bob had got \"confused\" about the workings of the council in some ways and he was almost trying to \"reinvent local government\".\nChief Executive Mark Rogers said it felt a bit like they the script had been written for them and they had been left to \"correct the grammar and spellings.\"\n\"We will take the recommendations seriously but we will want a proper discussion about the best way for Birmingham to tackle them,\" he said.", "summary": "An independent panel should be set up to oversee improvements at Birmingham City Council, a review has found." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The distributors lost the exclusive right to sell Guernsey Milk after a vote by the States.\nBrian Martel, president of the Milk Retailers' Association, said being refused a pay out was unacceptable.\nA review by KPMG recommended compensation of up to £1.1m be paid.\nHowever, the department says: \"Members remain unconvinced that there is a substantive case for financial mitigation and consider, by a majority, that matters such as these should be settled using the existing legal processes.\"\nMr Martel said the distributors were owed between £1.7m and £3m as a result of the loss exclusivity.\nHe said: \"What we are hoping will happen in the next week or so is that States members will come around to recognising the cost impact.\n\"We are hopeful they will come back and discuss something that may go towards being more acceptable than the zero that is currently offered.\"\nDeputy Andrew Le Lievre, a former manager of Guernsey Dairy, suggested a compromise payment of £750,000.\nHe said: \"[The States] has interfered in business with milk retailers, it has interfered in business with farmers. It can't just walk away.\n\"We have to talk about compensation, these men have lost their businesses or will lose their businesses for sure.\"\nPoliticians will debate the issue of compensation next week.", "summary": "Milk retailers should not be compensated after losing doorstep delivery rights, Guernsey's Commerce and Employment department says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Dumfries and Galloway authority switched from a single bin to a multi-bin system in Wigtownshire last year.\nIn April it was flagged up that the costs had proved much higher than initially anticipated.\nHowever, an exact figure will not be put on that increase until later this year.\nA council statement said: \"The household waste and recycling collection service in the Wigtown area is a new service and both the operations and financial costs are under review.\n\"The outcome of this review will be first presented to members in autumn.\n\"The review process will help inform the future schemes to be rolled out over the rest of Dumfries and Galloway.\"\nDumfries and Galloway Council used to run a single wheelie-bin system thanks to an Eco Deco plant which separated waste so householders did not have to.\nNew regulations prompted the council to move to the multi-bin system with five new recycling containers issued.", "summary": "A council has said the scale of a \"significant increase\" in the cost of a new multi-bin waste collection system will not be revealed until the autumn." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Greg Revell from Long Eaton died on 11 June at HMP Glen Parva in Leicestershire.\nAn inquest jury at Leicester Town Hall heard he was depressed and had tried to take his own life three months earlier.\nHowever, a custody sergeant said the 18-year-old had given him \"no cause for concern\".\nOn the first day of the inquest, the coroner heard Mr Revell had been admitted to HMP Glen Parva on 9 June while awaiting a crown court trial for threatening a person with an offensive weapon.\nMr Revell's mother, Karin, said her son had called her on his first night in prison and described how he was distressed and angry about being in custody.\nShe said she thought he was with a member of staff when he made the call, and that someone would have noted his behaviour.\nGreg Revell first tried to commit suicide at a friend's flat in March 2014, before he was due in court on a previous charge.\nMrs Revell told the inquest he had been terrified he would go to jail.\nHe was sent to HMP Glen Parva, where she said he was bullied by other inmates, which had a \"massive impact\" on him.\nBefore Mr Revell was sent to the young offenders' institution for the second time, a police station custody sergeant, Nigel Rogers, told the inquest he was searched and put in a safety suit to reduce the risk of self harm.\nHe said he did not have any \"cause for concern\" about the teenager's mental health.\nStaff at the prison said they had checked on Mr Revell at 03:00 BST but during their next check at 05:30 BST he was found dead.\nThe inquest is expected to last four days.", "summary": "A teenager found hanged in his cell during his second night in custody at a young offenders' institution was \"distressed\", an inquest has been told." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A new video challenges the idea that women should be at home and not alongside their male counterparts in the air force.\nIt has been viewed more than 23,000 times on one YouTube channel alone.\nIn June 2016, the Indian Air Force inducted its first three female fighter pilots.\nAt the time, women made up just 2.5% of India's armed forces, working in mainly non-combat roles.", "summary": "Less than a year after India's first female fighter pilots took to the sky, the country's air force has taken aim at gender stereotypes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "26 May 2017 Last updated at 13:28 BST\nThe big vote on 8 June will reveal who runs the UK government and who moves into 10 Downing Street as prime minister.\nSo voting's pretty important! But how does it happen?\nWatch Whitney's report to find out.", "summary": "There's not long left until the general election, when adults across the UK will decide who they want to run the country." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Simon Johnson, 41, was found with stab wounds at an address in Cradley Road, Netherton, Dudley, on Thursday morning.\nA post-mortem examination revealed he died as a result of stab injuries.\nThe boy was arrested at an address in Old Hill on Saturday evening. A man, 18, from Dudley, arrested in connection with the killing on Friday night, is still in custody.\nWest Midlands Police is still appealing for anyone with information to come forward.", "summary": "A 16-year-old boy has been arrested over the murder of a man who was stabbed to death in the Black Country." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Officers forced entry to The Lectern in Pelham Terrace, Lewes Road, which had 30 people inside.\nTwo people received hospital treatment for injuries thought to have been caused at the squat. Several had injuries but refused medical treatment.\nFive of the occupants were arrested on suspicion of abstracting electricity.\nThey included one man who was found hiding in the building after a police search.\nFour men aged 25, 21, 27 and 42 and one women aged 21 are in custody.\nA Sussex Police spokesman said at the height of the raid, at 10:28 GMT, 20 officers were at the scene.\nOfficers had been called to reports of three separate incidents of violence overnight on Saturday but no-one from the squat would give any information.\nChief Insp Katy Woolford said the building was in a state of squalor.\n\"The internal fabric had been smashed, graffiti was sprayed on most walls and fixtures inside were destroyed,\" she said.\n\"We have made arrangements for the building to be secured to stop re-entry and to prevent any further disruption to the local community.\"\nPower tools believed to have been stolen from vans in the Brighton are were found during the police search.\nAnyone who believes the tools may be theirs is asked to contact Sussex Police.", "summary": "Five people have been arrested after police raided a squat in a former Brighton pub following reports of someone being badly hurt in a fight." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "17 May 2016 Last updated at 00:32 BST\nSales of Soylent, named after the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green set in a dystopian future, were up 300% in 2015.\nThe BBC's Michelle Fleury decided to put it to the taste test on the streets of New York.", "summary": "A Silicon Valley company says it has developed a drink that contains all the nutrients and calories a person needs." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lancaster University's AuroraWatch UK plans to install detection equipment in the islands.\nShetland would be its most northerly location for a detector. It currently has equipment in Aberdeen.\nOther organisations such as British Geological Survey plus Nasa and NOAA in the US offer information on the aurora.\nAuroraWatch UK's planned new magnetometer would involve using a low-cost Raspberry Pi computer.\nThe kit could become the model for a magnetometer affordable to citizen scientists in the future, the organisation has suggested.\nThe aurora, also known as the Northern Lights, is caused by the interaction of solar wind - a stream of charged particles escaping the Sun - and Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere.\nIn the UK, Scotland offers some of the best places to observe the aurora and spectacular displays have been photographed from locations in the Highlands, Aberdeenshire and East Lothian.\nLast month, aurora watchers were alerted to the chances of seeing a new type of light that had been indentified in the night sky and named Steve.", "summary": "An organisation offering alerts to potential sightings of the Aurora Borealis hopes to be able to provide them earlier from a new Shetland site." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Australian had a closing round of 12-over-par 84 at Doral, but picked up $48,000 (£33,700) for finishing 65th.\nBowditch, who completed his final round in two hours and 12 minutes, said: \"I shot 37 over par and still made a paycheck. All's not that bad.\"\nAdam Scott of Australia won by one shot on 12 under, from Bubba Watson.\nBowditch qualified for the tournament, which does not cut the worst players after two rounds, by virtue of his world ranking of 78.\nHe opened with a nine-over 81 on Thursday and followed it with consecutive 80s before having two triple bogeys in his final round 84 to record the highest-ever score at a WGC event but said he never considered quitting.\nHe had to play the final two rounds on his own after Brandt Snedeker pulled out with a rib injury.\nMike Dunaway was the last player to have four rounds in the 80s at the 1983 Las Vegas Pro-Celebrity Classic.", "summary": "Steven Bowditch became the first man since 1983 to shoot four rounds in the 80s at a PGA event as he ended the World Golf Championship on 37 over par." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In his TED talk, Francis says that people with power must act humbly. \"If you don't, your power will ruin you, and you will ruin the other,\" he says.\nHe also urged people to overcome the fear that a happy future is \"something impossible to achieve\".\nHis talk was aired to the annual TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada.\nThe short talks are posted free online by the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) media organisation, whose slogan is \"ideas worth spreading\".\nSpeakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas. Past speakers include former US president Bill Clinton, scientist Richard Dawkins, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and pop star Bono, although its most popular talks tend to be from less high-profile people.\nThey cover a vast range of subjects from \"the science of happiness\" to \"how to spot a liar\".\nIn his talk, Pope Francis says: \"Please, allow me to say it loud and clear: the more powerful you are, the more your actions will have an impact on people, the more responsible you are to act humbly.\"\nHe says: \"You will end up hurting yourself and those around you, if you don't connect your power with humility and tenderness.\n\"Through humility and concrete love, on the other hand, power - the highest, the strongest one - becomes a service, a force for good.\"\nHis speech touches on his own migration background and spends time retelling the story of the Good Samaritan.\n\"First and foremost, I would love it if this meeting could help to remind us that we all need each other, none of us is an island, an autonomous and independent 'I' separated from the other, and we can only build the future by standing together, including everyone.\"\nHe says that \"many of us seem to believe that a happy future is something impossible to achieve\".\nSuch concerns must be \"taken very seriously\", but \"are not invincible: they can be overcome when we do not lock our door to the outside world\".\nHe calls for solidarity, backs creativity and urges all to tackle the \"culture of waste\", not just in goods but in people \"who are cast aside by our techno-economic systems\".\nBruno Giussani, TED's international curator, said it took more than a year, \"many discussions\" and several trips to Rome to make the talk happen.\nHe said that initially \"it's fair to say that not many [in the Vatican] knew of TED\".\nThe Pope's talk was filmed in a small room at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the guesthouse where he lives in Vatican City.\nHe speaks in Italian but the address, which can be accessed on TED.com, is subtitled in more than 20 languages.\nTED was founded in 1984 and has its origins in Silicon Valley, but its talks have broadened beyond technology to include lifestyle, culture and business.", "summary": "Pope Francis has recorded an address for the influential TED media group, delivering a warning to the world's \"powerful\" leaders." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They say they are looking at \"anything electrical\" on the first floor of the venue, known as the Ghost Ship, where the blaze started late last Friday.\nOfficials in California say 36 people are now confirmed dead, and 35 have been already identified.\nThey earlier warned that murder charges were also possible.\nAlameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said on Monday that her office had yet to determine whether a crime had occurred.\nCharges could range from murder to involuntary manslaughter, she added.\nOn Tuesday, special agent Jill Snyder, the head of San Francisco's office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said a refrigerator was a potential source of the blaze.\nHowever, she stressed that the investigators were yet to make their final conclusions.\nMs Snyder added that \"we have no indication\" that the fire had been set intentionally.\nIt is thought 50-100 people were inside the venue when the fire broke out.\nThe blaze caused the roof to collapse on to the second floor, part of which then fell through to the ground floor.\nThe building was used to house artists in improvised studios but several reports say people were illegally living there too.\nMedia in Oakland named Derick Ion Almena as the co-operator of the collective with his partner, Micah Allison.\nA Facebook post by him lamenting the loss of his belongings but saying he was \"blessed that my children and Micah were at a hotel safe and sound\" drew a barrage of criticism online.", "summary": "A deadly fire at a warehouse party in Oakland may have been caused by a refrigerator or other electrical appliance, US investigators say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 45-year-old mother-of-two suffered a punctured lung and permanent damage to her sight following the crash on the Firth of Forth last summer.\nThe woman had been part of an organised trip to the Isle of May seabird haven.\nShe was crushed after being seated on an inflatable tube on the boat, used when passenger numbers were high.\nThe accident happened onboard the Osprey II, which normally carried eight passengers to the Isle of May from Anstruther Harbour.\nHowever, on 19 July 2016, the vessel was carrying 11 passengers, including seven adults and four children.\nThe boat's sister craft, Osprey, was also in the water and was carrying 12 passengers, including 11 adults and one child.\nInvestigators were told that passenger spaces on Osprey II were normally limited to the eight spaces available on its four bench seats, but in good weather two additional spaces were sold, with the extra passengers sitting in designated positions on its inflatable tubes.\nOn the day of the accident, the skipper of each boat - known as rigid inflatable boats (RIB) - had increased speed and started a power turn away from each other with the intention of passing each other in the course of completing a round turn.\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) report said that as the vessels turned towards each other, it became apparent to both skippers they were in danger of colliding. Despite skippers both acting quickly to reduce their speed, they were unable to prevent the collision.\nThe report said: \"Passengers not sitting on suitable inboard seating have an increased risk of falling overboard, are at significant risk of musculoskeletal injuries and are more exposed to serious injury in the event of a collision.\"\nThe injured woman, who was on the vessel with her husband and two children aged eight and 12, was taken to hospital after the incident and was put into an induced coma, having suffered two broken collar bones, five broken ribs, a punctured lung and lacerations and bruising to her back and torso.\nThe internal injuries she sustained in the accident also resulted in permanent damage to her sight in both eyes.\nThere are currently no regulations to prevent people on RIBs from sitting on the inflatable tubes, but the MAIB said they are at increased risk in that position.\nThe MAIB has recommended the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's (MCA) forthcoming recreational craft code includes the stipulation that the certified maximum number of passengers carried on commercially-operated passenger-carrying RIBs should be limited to the number of suitable seats designated for passengers.\nIsle of May Boat Trips Ltd, which owns and operates the two vessels, has banned passengers and crew from sitting on the inflatable tubes of Osprey and Osprey II, and has limited passenger numbers to 12 and eight respectively.\nIt has also issued an instruction that twin RIB operations are not to take place except in an emergency and has reviewed its risk assessments to ensure they incorporate all activities undertaken by Osprey and Osprey II.\nChief Inspector of Marine Accidents, Steve Clinch, said the MAIB had investigated several accidents in which people had been injured as a result of inappropriate seating on RIBs, and the faster the RIB was travelling, the greater the risk.\nHe confirmed passenger limit recommendations have been made to the MAC, and added: \"We have also made a recommendation to the Royal Yachting Association and Passenger Boating Association aimed at improving the guidance available to the operators of commercial passenger-carrying RIBs.\"", "summary": "Marine accident investigators have issued new safety instructions after a woman was seriously injured in a collision between two inflatable boats." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Care providers warn that growing staff shortages mean vulnerable people are receiving poorer levels of care.\nIn a letter to the prime minister, the chairman of the UK Homecare Association says the adult social care system - which applies to those over the age of 18 - has begun to collapse.\nThe government says an extra £2bn is being invested in social care.\nAn ageing population means demand is increasing for adult social care services.\nThose who provide care to people directly in their own homes, or in nursing homes, say a growing shortage of staff means people face receiving deteriorating levels of care.\n\"You just can't provide a consistent level of care if you have to keep recruiting new people\", said Sue Gregory, who has been a care home nurse in North Yorkshire for 13 years.\n\"Its very simple, not many people want to do this kind of work, and this is a profession that relies on you getting to know the people you are looking after.\"\nData gathered by the charity Skills for Care, shows that in 2015-16 there were more than 1.3 million people employed in the adult social care sector in England.\nAnalysing the data, BBC News has found that:\nThe figures show that social care providers are struggling to retain their staff, with the industry having a staff turnover rate of 27% - nearly twice the average for other professions in the UK.\n\"This is not the job I'm going to be doing for the rest of my career\" said 25 year old Trudi Hewitt, who works at a care home in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.\n\"I really care about the people I look after, but I just feel that the care sector is a dead end job\".\n\"It's upsetting and disheartening when you find out that people earn more than you do in a supermarket just for stacking shelves.\"\nThe government has recently committed to spending an extra £2bn on the social care system, and allowed local authorities to raise council tax bills in order to fund social care services.\nThe number of people aged over 75 is expected to double by the year 2040, according to the Office for National Statistics.\nThose trying to provide social care services say without radical change, there will not be enough people to care for an ageing population.\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May, Mike Padgham, Chairman of the UK Homecare Association, said: \"My biggest fear is that we will soon run out of capacity to provide care to those who cannot fund themselves.\n\"I agree wholeheartedly with Age UK's warning that the social care system will begin to collapse this year, but I would go further and say that the system has already begun to collapse.\"\nDowning Street said it thanked Mr Padgham for his letter.\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"Social care jobs have increased at an average of 3 per cent a year since 2010, but we want to see improvements in turnover rates, with talented staff attracted to a robust sector backed by an additional £2bn over the next three years.\n\"Meanwhile, we're investing in the workforce of the future, with a total of 87,800 apprentices starting last year - up 37,300 compared to 2010.\"", "summary": "More than 900 adult social care workers a day quit their job in England last year, new figures reveal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Amid economic uncertainty over Britain's relations with the EU, the country's tourist industry could be one of the sectors to see a boost to business following the referendum result.\n\"I think that a weaker currency, particularly the pound versus the euro, is good news for tourism in this country,\" says Nick Varney.\nHe's chairman of the British Hospitality Association and chief executive of Merlin Entertainments, which runs the Legoland theme park, and Madame Tussauds in London.\n\"Historically it's been the case that when we see the pound reach 1.4 euros, we see a falling off in the number of foreign visitors,\" he says.\nWhen the pound falls, the reverse is true and the UK becomes cheaper and more attractive to overseas tourists.\n\"Things need to settle down, but if sterling does stabilise at a more competitive rate - that will be good for an industry which is vital for the UK,\" he says.\nAnd his view that with sterling now worth less, UK tourism could be one of the clear winners from Brexit is echoed by others in the industry.\n\"A big percentage of our overseas visitors come from EU countries, so it will be cheaper for them,\" says Barbara Clark, of Scotland's tourist agency, Visit Scotland.\nBelgian business entrepreneur Peter Schellinck told the BBC he was planning more visits to the UK thanks to the weaker pound. \"This makes it much more attractive to me to come to Britain.\"\nTourism is one of the country's biggest earners, worth £121.1bn a year\nJim Forward, chief executive of HF Holidays, the walking and outdoor leisure specialist which runs holidays in the UK and abroad, says it is the longer-term value of sterling which is key.\n\"In previous years currency fluctuations have created a slight movement in the number of inbound or outbound passengers depending which way the currency has moved.\n\"In a book-in-advance travel business where our guests book up to a year in advance, we are affected less by sudden currency movement but more through long-term change,\" he says.\n\"Like all tour operators we will be watching the long-term currency forecast to plan and adapt our holidays.\"\nYet, not everybody is convinced that Brexit will prove to be that relevant to them.\nCenter Parcs UK, which runs five holiday villages in Britain, says it regularly has significant over-demand, and \"our villages are full all year round\".\nAnd while some of us may be changing our plans for the summer - especially if we've yet to book - those who have already paid for their overseas trips are unlikely to alter things just because their spending money will not now go as far.\nThere is also a question mark over just how much the UK's domestic tourism industry will be hit by a fall in business travellers - always more important for many hotels than leisure visitors.\n\"Hotels need almost twice as many new leisure visitors to make up for business travellers who've cancelled,\" says Stephen Broome, lead hotel consultant at PwC.\n\"That's because hotels earn a lot more from corporate guests than they do leisure travellers.\"\nThe weakening pound will help draw in new business, he says, but it is not going to be enough to replace the corporate travellers who're no longer coming to the UK as the political uncertainty sees businesses putting plans on hold.\n\"UK hotels face a slow down, not a meltdown. Since last year demand for hotel rooms has been slowing - particularly in London - due to nervousness on the part of business travellers.\"\nBut while this may be bad news for hotels, there's a silver lining if you're looking for a cheaper hotel room.\n\"If you take London, we've seen above-average supply growth in the past couple of years.\n\"This new supply [of hotel rooms] is now coming on stream,\" says Mr Broome, just at a time when demand is slowing.\n\"It could be a good time to get a bargain.\"", "summary": "More of us could be spending this summer holidaying at home following the UK's Brexit vote, as the weaker pound makes foreign holidays more expensive." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "This time the 19-year-old, who is yet to make a first-team appearance for Liverpool, has joined Belgian club Mouscron for the season.\nThe striker joined Liverpool on a long-term deal in August 2015 from Imperial Academy in Nigeria.\nHe joins DR Congo's Jonathan Bolingi and Cameroon's Fabrice Olinga on loan at the club.\nAwoniyi, who helped his country win the Under-17 World Cup in 2013, spent last season on loan at Dutch side NEC Nijmegen.\nHe also played at the 2015 Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand, netting twice and then helped Nigeria win the 2015 African Under-23 Championship in Senegal.\nHowever he missed out on playing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.\nHis other loan spell was at German second-tier club FSV Frankfurt in the 2015/16 campaign", "summary": "Nigeria youth international Taiwo Awoniyi has been sent for a third loan spell by his English club Liverpool." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Candidates and party representatives shared their ideas on a BBC Wiltshire debate ahead of the forthcoming Swindon Borough Council elections.\nThe Conservatives defended spending £2m on consultant fees saying the council did not have those skills in-house.\nSwindon Borough Council's budget was cut by £17m to £136.5m for 2015/16.\nLabour's Junab Ali called for consultant fees to be cut.\nHe added: \"We've got contracts with Capita - but we can do better, negotiate and take out whatever remaining contracts exist back in-house.\n\"We've found the ones that have been brought back in-house have been shown to be more efficient.\"\nLiberal Democrat Stan Pajak, said he would would prioritise services to decide on future cuts.\nGreen candidate, Andy Bentley, said his party would raise council taxes in order to save services.\nHe also backed Labour's idea of saving £319,000 by sending councillors to lobby Westminster instead of using external consultants.\nBut the Conservatives said it needed to pay for expertise.\nConservative council leader, David Renard added: \"The vast majority the council spends on consultants is on roads so it's about assessing and analysing the business case.\n\"We do lobby very hard for extra money for Swindon - the MPs and I have been very successful in getting a 4% uplift in the amount of money the schools receive in Swindon.\"\nUKIP's Jenny Jeffries, blamed \"poor management\" for money being lost from the council's budget and said a centralised purchasing department would save money on procuring council contracts.\nA third of seats on Swindon Borough Council will be contested on 7 May.\nAll of the candidates apart from Stan Pajak and Junab Ali are standing in the council elections. Mr Pajak and Mr Ali were chosen to represent their parties' views.", "summary": "Cutting out consultant fees and raising council tax have been suggested as ways to balance Swindon Borough Council's future budget." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The current position on social care fees - the cost of care outside free NHS provision - is complex and it varies depending on where you live in the UK.\nThe government has recently published an independent review of social care funding and support in England, drawn up by Andrew Dilnot.\nThe headline suggestion of the Dilnot recommendations is that care fees to be paid by an individual in their lifetime will be capped at £35,000.\nCurrently, fees paid by individuals are potentially unlimited.\nThis £35,000 limit is, however, still a suggestion which could be increased by the government.\nThis figure also only relates to care fees and there is an additional amount recommended, of £7,000 to £10,000 per annum, to be charged for what are sometimes called the hotel costs: food, heating, lighting etc.\nThe report says that this is only fair, since the person would have to pay for that anyway, wherever he or she was living.\nThe report says the means-tested threshold - the level of assets which an individual can own before they are liable to pay for the full cost of their social care needs - should rise from the current £23,250 to £100,000.\nThe £35,000 lifetime cap on fees would apply thereafter.\nThere should also be a national eligibility criteria, and portable assessments introduced, to ensure greater consistency.\nSo if you move to another local authority you should not need to be reassessed, as you will be required to be now.\nSay your close friend or relative, Ted, is admitted to hospital, perhaps following a fall or a stroke at his home.\nHis doctor has said that he cannot return home because he would not be able to cope.\nTed is a widower with a house worth £250,000 and yearly pension income of £10,000.\nHe is currently entitled to be assessed before he leaves hospital for fully-funded (non means-tested) NHS continuing care.\nFully-funded NHS continuing care is care provided in hospital, a care home or in one's home.\nEligibility guidelines are set down by the government but interpretation of those guidelines is up to the local NHS trust (in England and Wales).\nNHS continuing care is not the same as the nursing care contribution - a flat rate of £101 per week paid to care homes on behalf of residents.\nEligibility for NHS care is not an objective test based on diagnosis, but an assessment of the needs of the patient.\nTake for example two patients, both with Parkinson's, both due to be discharged to the same nursing home.\nOne of them has breathing difficulties, double incontinence, an unstable medical condition and needs regular supervision from, say, palliative care specialists.\nHis nursing home fees will be paid for by the NHS regardless of his means.\nThe other patient's needs do not, in the opinion of the medical staff making the assessment, meet the eligibility criteria.\nHe will pay for his own care until his capital falls to below the current limit.\nAt this point the local authority will contribute to his funding, or under the new Dilnot proposals till he has paid fees up to the suggested £35,000 cap.\nIt is the NHS which has to find the funding if it concludes that continuing care does apply, and the NHS makes that assessment.\nThis is why it is important that the patient awaiting discharge has an advocate to make sure that appropriate care is provided and appropriately funded.\nIf you think a friend or relative may be paying for his or care inappropriately, you can challenge the local authority's decision.\nYou may want to employ a solicitor with experience of such cases who will be able to guide you through the process.\nSometimes it is necessary to challenge the criteria themselves as there are still health authorities whose criteria do not conform fully with the law as laid down by the courts and the Department of Health guidelines.\nNHS continuing care is not affected by the new Dilnot proposals.\nTo do so would almost certainly require a politically unacceptable change to NHS legislation or the risk of a major challenge in the courts.\nIt would effectively mean that NHS care is no longer free at the point of entry for elderly people.\nBut let us assume that Ted does not qualify for NHS continuing care.\nCurrently, his social care will be means tested and the house will be taken into account after he has been in care for 12 weeks.\nThat means that to start off with, only his pension will be used to fund his care, leaving him £16.05 a week for personal expenses.\nThe balance of the care fees will be paid by the local authority, subject to the limit of the price per bed that that local authority will pay.\nOnce Ted has been in care for three months his house will be brought into account as capital available for his care.\nHe will then be required to fund himself until his capital goes below £23,500.\nIf Ted has, say, dementia he could be in care for several years and his entire capital could be used up leaving him only £23,500 to pass on to his family.\nWhereas if he were in care for only a short period of time, the majority of his capital would be preserved.\nThe Dilnot report says that the scenario above is not fair and that care fees should be capped.\nBut it has rejected a blanket tax on all people, whether or not they need care.\nAs now, under the new recommendations care will only be paid for by those who need it.\nIn our example, Ted would pay his care fees, up to a maximum of £35,000, with the local authority paying after that figure.\nIn addition, each year he would pay between £7,000 and £10,000 for general living expenses.\nIf Ted's initial capital were between £14,250 and £100,000 he would contribute on a sliding scale to his care.\nThe balance would be paid by the local authority, but he would not pay more than £35,000 for care (as opposed to living expenses) during his lifetime.\nDilnot emphasises in the report that the current system is not fit for purpose and obtaining information about it is very difficult.\nUnderstanding how the system currently works however can greatly contribute to ensuring that your friend or relative receives the care which is right for him or her.\nAn informed nationwide debate of the Dilnot proposals will help to ensure that we receive the care funding arrangements we deserve.\nThe opinions expressed are those of the author and are not held by the BBC unless specifically stated. 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Always obtain independent, professional advice for your own particular situation.", "summary": "Working out how much you might have to pay if you, or a relative, needs to go into care is daunting." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Grade-1 listed Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, is larger than Buckingham Palace.\nClifford Newbold, who bought it in 1999, died in April and his family has announced the \"reluctant decision\" to sell the property.\nAccording to campaign group Save Britain's Heritage, an estimated £42m needs to be spent on repairs.\nIn a statement, the family said they wanted \"someone to carry on our work and see the house in safe hands\".\nRestoration work was under way in the house but has been hampered by subsidence caused by mining, the statement added.\nWentworth Woodhouse is described as \"one of the finest Georgian houses in England\" by Savills, the agency handling the sale.\nSave Britain's Heritage has previously said that English Heritage surveys showed £42m was needed to be spent on the house over the next 15 years for repairs and subsidence damage.\nWentworth Woodhouse, which is open to the public, sits in 82 acres of grounds and the earliest wing of the house was started in 1725.\nThe Palladian-style east wing has a front that extends for 606 ft (184m).\nMining in the area was a key source of income to help with running costs for the house's former owners.\nThe interiors of the house are the work of three patrons -– the First and Second Marquess of Rockingham and the Fourth Earl Fitzwilliam.\nThe history of Wentworth Woodhouse and the nearby village of Wentworth is linked with three aristocratic families, the Wentworths, Watsons and Fitzwilliams.", "summary": "One of Europe's biggest private stately homes is up for sale in South Yorkshire with a price tag in excess of £8m." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The defender did not travel to Dortmund for Wednesday's friendly with Germany, instead going for scans and X-rays.\nJones, 25, was injured in an innocuous training ground tackle at St George's Park, with reports claiming it involved United team-mate Chris Smalling.\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate did not reveal whether that was the case.\nIf the injury turns out to be a break and keeps Jones on the sidelines for a lengthy spell, it will cause a selection concern for United manager Jose Mourinho as they prepare for nine games in April.\nSouthgate said: \"I don't know who it was with. It was just a nothing sort of thing really. It is very unfortunate for him and a huge disappointment as he has been playing very well and has had some injury difficulties in the past.\n\"We have respectfully sent him back to his club and we will know more once he has had scans and x-rays over the next 24-48 hours.\"\nSouthgate has no plans to call up a replacement as yet, but will \"assess his options\" after Wednesday's friendly in Germany, the FA said.\nEngland play a World Cup qualifier at home to Lithuania on Sunday, for which Chelsea's Gary Cahill is suspended.\nSouthgate's other options at centre-back are Smalling, Manchester City's John Stones and Burnley's uncapped Michael Keane.\nOn Sunday, West Ham winger Michail Antonio withdrew from the England squad with a hamstring injury.\nEngland squad:\nGoalkeepers: Fraser Forster (Southampton), Joe Hart (Torino, on loan from Man City), Tom Heaton (Burnley).\nDefenders: Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool), Michael Keane (Burnley), Luke Shaw (Man Utd), Chris Smalling (Man Utd), John Stones (Man City), Kyle Walker (Tottenham).\nMidfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham), Ross Barkley (Everton), Eric Dier (Tottenham), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), Jesse Lingard (Man Utd), Jake Livermore (West Brom), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Nathan Redmond (Southampton), Raheem Sterling (Man City), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).\nStrikers: Jermain Defoe (Sunderland), Marcus Rashford (Man Utd), Jamie Vardy (Leicester).", "summary": "Manchester United face an anxious wait to discover the seriousness of the toe injury that has forced Phil Jones out of the England squad." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Birmingham Children's Hospital was criticised eight years ago for having insufficient numbers of beds, operating theatres and trained staff.\nBut now the Care Quality Commission has praised the NHS trust for \"working effectively to provide the best care\".\nThe head of the hospital has paid tribute to her 3,700 staff.\nI spent a day there to hear from patients, families and staff.\nSeven-month-old Connor McCue was diagnosed with a rare liver condition at the age of 12 weeks.\nHe is recovering from his second transplant and sleeping peacefully on a large intensive care bed.\nConnor's mother, Jess, turned 28 recently - and the children's hospital staff put up balloons and cards for her.\nShe told me: \"We've nearly lost Connor several times in the last six weeks of being here - without them, we wouldn't have a child lying in this bed.\n\"While he is still quite poorly, we have every faith we'll get to take him home. That's the only thing you ask as the parent of a sick child.\"\nSupporting the whole family, and helping young patients feel relaxed in a busy and daunting environment, are extra challenges for specialist children's hospitals.\nIn the busy outpatients clinic, Macey Hardcastle, five, who has a genetic condition called Stickler syndrome, has just had her hearing and sight checked.\nShe said: \"I play so I don't get bored. I feel OK about coming here because I know it's going to be OK.\"\nAnother patient, Nyadhiel Nyoat, 12, told me: \"I was with a doctor here a couple of weeks ago. It was very relaxed - he wasn't scary or anything.\n\"He actually helped me, and I felt confident to talk about some issues.\"\nThe emotional support given to bereaved parents has also been praised in Tuesday's report.\nAnd families facing the worst of times, when a child needs end of life care, will now be able to use a new £1m unit within the hospital grounds, called Magnolia House.\nRachel Ollerenshaw, whose daughter Molly died from kidney cancer at the age of eight in 2011, has helped raise thousands of pounds for soft furnishings in the rooms, which have a show-home feel and some outdoor space.\nShe said: \"When your child has a terminal illness and you're being given news about that, you feel you can't breathe sometimes and you need fresh air.\n\"You need a place where you can absorb the information. There wasn't anywhere like this in the existing building in Birmingham at that time - where you could just be together as a family.\"\nFiona Reynolds is the hospital's most senior doctor - and has spent 16 years at Birmingham Children's Hospital.\nShe says listening to the views of patients and staff, and acting on their ideas, has helped turn the trust around.\nDr Reynolds said: \"It was a difficult time. Some of our specialist teams didn't have the right training and we weren't pulling together as a team.\n\"Since then we've used our beds more wisely, and co-ordinated our care in a more logical fashion, so we can look after more patients in around the same number of beds.\"\nThe inspectors say improvement is still needed in two significant areas, neonatal care and community mental health services.\nThe trusts's chief executive, Sarah-Jane Marsh, said: \"For the last five years we have been all about building and developing one giant healthcare team with 3,700 members - and it is wonderful to see this shining through in the report.\"", "summary": "A specialist children's hospital has become the first of its kind to receive a rating of \"outstanding\" from healthcare inspectors in England." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The city's Labour/SNP coalition has identified £85m worth of savings to balance next year's budget.\nThe proposals, which include selling off property as well as job cuts, will go before councillors next week.\nThe union Unison said it did not believe enough was being done to avoid compulsory redundancies.\nThe council admitted the cuts would damage services but insisted its priority was to protect the most vulnerable.\nCouncil tax will stay the same although council leader Andrew Burns said \"serious consideration\" was being given to raising it despite a Scottish government freeze.\nHe said there would be a rise in coming years and urged the quick reform of local government finance.\n2000\njobs to go in 12 months\n£85m savings needed\n60% of budget made up by workforce\nThe council previously said the workforce made up 60% of its budget and it would be \"unrealistic\" to make the required savings without reducing the number of employees.\nAlasdair Rankin, the council's finance convener, said: \"We are very clear about the scale of the financial challenge that the council is facing.\n\"The council is experiencing greater demand for services than ever before, with a growing population in Edinburgh and increasing numbers of older people and younger people, while our overall budget remains the same.\n\"We need to take action in order to achieve the necessary savings to meet this demand, and we are making every effort to do this in a way that will safeguard frontline services for the people of Edinburgh.\n\"We want to invest in the services that are important to the public but must also look to rationalise our spending where appropriate.\"\nJohn Stevenson, president of Unison's City of Edinburgh Branch, said: \"We're a bit worried about it frankly. The council needs to keep a very close eye on how this is being managed because we're worried that there's not enough being done to avoid compulsory redundancies.\n\"We would like to see them looking into things like redeploying people into jobs where people want to leave but are not being allowed to, and the other situations where people are being told to leave but they don't want to.\"", "summary": "Edinburgh council leaders are \"cautiously optimistic\" they can shed 2,000 jobs in 12 months without the need for compulsory redundancies." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The development includes three wind farms and up to 332 turbines and will be 64 miles off Hornsea.\nEnergy Secretary Ed Davey said the Hornsea Project One scheme would create 2,500 local jobs and bring millions of pounds into the UK economy.\nIt is expected to be start operating by the year 2020.\nThe project is a joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power, Siemens Project Ventures GmBH and Dong Energy.\nConsent for the scheme has been given on the condition that it has an employment and skills plan approved by North Lincolnshire Council, including local advertising of jobs and supply chain opportunities.\nFriends of the Earth campaigner Simon Bowens said it was \"fantastic news for the blossoming offshore wind industry on the North Sea coast\".\n\"The UK could be an offshore wind powerhouse, but the Government must show much greater ambition if we are to reap the full benefits and continue to drive down costs in the years ahead.\"", "summary": "Plans for a huge offshore wind farm project off the East Yorkshire coast has been given the green light by the government." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Workmen spotted a fire in plant room Q on the roof of the Victorian Palace of Westminster.\nDown in the Commons Chamber, MPs were listening to a statement on British Home Stores....\nUp on the roof, the workmen and firefighters put the blaze out.\nLater investigation suggested an electrical fault had been to blame.\nBut imagine what would have happened if they hadn't spotted it, or if the fire had started after knocking-off time, or at a weekend. The result could have been catastrophic, because the Palace is dangerously vulnerable to fire, thanks to the network of ventilation shafts that criss-cross the main building.\nIt's one of 60 such incidents which could have led to disaster since 2008 - and it is far from impossible that the next such event could result in MPs and peers being bundled out of their chambers in mid-debate, possibly by torchlight, if the electrical system packs up.\nThis week the Clerk of the Commons, David Natzler, told the Public Accounts Committee that if MPs and peers managed to continue sitting in their hallowed chambers until the projected start of a massive restoration project, in 2022, it would be \"on a wing and a prayer\".\nAnd under heavy cross questioning, he insisted that if MPs rejected the idea of moving out of Parliament and tried to stay put, with repair work taking place around them, they would probably end up facing an emergency evacuation. There was just too much chance of something going wrong.\nThe home of Parliament may be one of the three or four most recognisable buildings on the planet, but behind the gilded Victorian gothic splendour of the décor, it is in a terrible state.\nIn the prestigious offices reserved for top MPs, on the Upper Committee corridor, there's an audible crackle from the plugs. The lights could go phut!\nCrumbling asbestos might leak out, or the sewers could back up and turn the place into an out of control metaphor. Water could come cascading through the roof in some key area. And there are genuine fears that, if a fire took hold, it would be impossible to control.\nBut still Parliament has not voted on plans to move out of its venerable home, to allow a five-year \"Restoration and Renewal\" programme (or R&R in Westminster jargon) to sort the place out.\nLast year, a committee of MPs and peers recommended that Parliament approves plans to clear out of the building for, perhaps, five years to allow the building to be revamped, and helpfully provided a draft motion to be put before the House.\nLast week, the Leader of the House, David Lidington told MPs: \"The government's intention is that there should be debate in government time before the Easter recess.\" Don't hold your breath; the government had previously promised debates \"in the Autumn,\" and \"before Christmas,\" but no debate has been scheduled - and behind the scenes, many MPs suspect that the political will is simply not there to stump up the billions required.\nThere is no doubt that the scale of the project is vast - the Victorian buildings have 28 acres of floorspace, 1,100 rooms and 3,800 bronze Pugin-designed windows, not to mention hundreds of miles of pipes cables and steam ducts, many of which could fail at any moment.\nThe concerns of government, the two Houses of Parliament, the heritage lobby and the taxpayer, not to mention issues of security and accountability all have to be balanced, and at the hearing another witness, Tony Meggs, the Chief Executive of the Government's Infrastructure and Projects Authority, suggested that one reason for opting for the most rapid scheme possible was to minimise the danger of a costly change of course imposed after the politicians changed their minds.\nMr Natzler's evidence to the PAC, which is investigating whether the vast sums being mooted are really justified, gave a foretaste of the delicate diplomacy already needed to soothe ruffled sensibilities.\nIt was a masterpiece of deferential insistence. Of course, he said, it would be technically possible to find a way to keep MPs in the building if they absolutely insisted. He then painted a picture of the parliamentarians picking their way through polythene tunnels to get to their Chamber, hoping the insulation protecting them from the asbestos-contaminated air would hold. All at a vast additional cost.\nIt was possible, but not feasible.\nIt was a very strong performance and clearly swung opinion on the notoriously hard-nosed PAC. Richard Bacon, the senior Tory MP on the committee, previously an R&R-sceptic, was impressed, telling me afterwards that he now believed the best option was for the parliamentarians to move out so that the work could be done as quickly as possible.\nThe team of parliamentary officials who have been working on the R&R project are convinced there is no realistic alternative to emptying the Palace of Westminster, while the work is done; their toughest task may yet be to convince the parliamentarians who must go, and the ministers who must pay, but they edged closer to that goal, this week.\n* I'll be reporting on the PAC hearing and talking to Richard Bacon on Friday night's Today in Parliament on BBC Radio 4 at 11.30pm.", "summary": "On 10 June last year at 4.20pm, Parliament might have burned down." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "There have been arguments about whether it exists, the cause, the best treatments and even the name itself.\nThese disagreements have reached the level of abuse and death threats.\nThe disease itself, however, remains poorly understood - or as one doctor put it: \"The whole thing is surrounded by uncertainty\".\nFor a long time, the existence of CFS/ME was widely dismissed and labelled as \"yuppie flu\". That opinion has largely been reversed in the past decade.\nShould the illness be called CFS, ME or CFS/ME?\nDoctors prefer the term CFS as the main symptom is fatigue, while ME has a specific meaning related to inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.\nHowever, this is not popular with some patients' groups or charities, which talk about ME as a specific disease, saying \"fatigue\" is too broad a term.\nProf Michael Sharpe, of the University of Oxford, said: \"The concepts of CFS and ME have been conflated as CFS/ME. That may be right but it may be a bit like an apple/banana - we need to be clearer what we are talking about.\"\nIn 2002, then chief medical officer Prof Sir Liam Donaldson described it as a \"disease in the wilderness\". He was presenting a report which said CFS/ME was a \"genuine illness and imposes a substantial burden on the health of the UK population\".\nIt is thought to affect about a quarter of a million people in the UK.\nThe main symptom is severe fatigue, made worse by exertion, which does not go away after resting. Muscle pains, headaches, memory problems and depression can also be involved. In some cases it can be completely debilitating, resulting in patients being unable to leave their beds.\nUnderstanding of the disease is largely led by those symptoms. There is no test for CFS/ME, instead it is diagnosed by ruling out other conditions which might produce the same symptoms.\nThe underlying cause, or indeed causes, have been more elusive.\nOne of the issues in the field is that there is an emerging consensus that CFS/ME is not one illness.\nVictoria said she used to be a \"mega-fit, mega-healthy\" fell walker with a job she loved, and was \"incredibly happy\".\nShe collapsed in 2005. Two years later a neurologist diagnosed her with ME.\n\"I just feel incredibly ill all the time, I have no strength to even wash my face, I very rarely leave the house.\n\"I think people have a perception of what fatigue is, but not ME at this level.\"\nShe says she considers herself lucky that she can still get out of bed and make a cup of tea.\n\"I literally cannot do anything, it's an illness that takes your life, but it doesn't kill you.\"\nProf Stephen Holgate, chair of the Medical Research Council group on CFS/ME, told the BBC: \"I think the problem with it is the term is used as a bit of a dustbin.\"\nIn children there are thought to be three sub-groups, and even more in adults, all given the label CFS/ME.\nProf Peter White, of Barts and the London School of Medicine and Density, said: \"Most specialist doctors and scientists agree that it is more than one illness. It may be three to five separate illnesses.\n\"Like kidney failure, it has lots of different causes, but looks the same.\"\nThere was a brief moment of hope and optimism that a specific virus - XMRV - was the cause, however, that link has been largely discredited.\nViruses may have a role as a trigger for the illness, with many patients reporting that their symptoms started after infection.\nYet this has further levels of complication, as Prof White argues: \"If glandular fever is a trigger but a patient has symptoms five years later, then it is no longer the Epstein-Barr virus, its something else.\"\nWhile there have been suggestions that patients with CFS/ME have differences in their immune systems, pain perception and hormones, it is not known whether these are a cause or symptom of a chronic condition.\nThere has also been suspicion of a genetic or family element.\nIn Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Prof Holgate argued: \"One is left with a strong sense that post-viral events are a common trigger of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but how they lead to chronic persistent disease remains unresolved.\"\nGuidelines on CFS/ME\nSo far, a cure does not exist.\nProf Michael Sharpe, of the University of Oxford, said: \"A pill that made you better would be great.\" However, he added, medicine fell well short of that: \"The best shot right now is various forms of rehabilitation.\"\nThe PACE trial, which published results earlier this year, attempted to find out what the best therapies were.\nIt examined the use of both cognitive behavioural therapy, which alters the way people think and cope with their symptoms, and graded exercise therapy, a gradual and supervised increase in activity levels.\nThe trial suggested that patients using these therapies showed lower levels of fatigue and greater physical function.\nProf Holgate said: \"Combining graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy has undoubted benefit.\n\"Yes you can improve, but it mustn't be confused with the underlying cause.\"\nHe said these therapies might only be treating secondary symptoms.\nHowever, the study has generated controversy with patients' groups and charities saying the findings were exaggerated and went against their own evidence. In Action for ME's 2008 survey of patient experiences, more than one in three said graded exercise therapy actually made them worse. They prefer a method known as \"pacing\" - or learning to live within limits - which the PACE trial concluded was not effective.\nThe ME Association's Dr Charles Shepherd said: \"We consistently find pacing is the most effective. I'm not convinced graded exercise therapy is the answer to this disease, it is something more fundamental which cannot be reversed, an overly simplistic solution to an extremely complex problem.\"\nSome people do, however, get much better.\nDr Ester Crawley, who specialises in children with the illness, said: \"The prognosis for adults is poor, but for children it is really good, up to 94% get better.\"\nShe said the reason for this was unclear, but theories included \"neuronal plasticity\" - as children's brains are not fully developed, they can heal better - and \"the adult lifestyle being predicated against recovery\".\nIt is easier to adjust a child's lifestyle, such as doing two hours of school a day and gradually building it up, which is harder to do with adults who are in work.\nA deeper understanding of the illness is desired by all involved. Delving into the sub-types of the condition may help in finding causes, which could also have implications for treating each sub-type.\nOne hope is that the new biobank of blood samples of CFS/ME patients being set up at London's Royal Free Hospital will help provide the answers.", "summary": "When it comes to controversy and heated debate, few illnesses come close to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe Newtownards cyclist, defending the title he won last year, gained a lap with only seven remaining.\nHe held on to finish behind Russian Ivan Kovalev.\nIt was a third World Championship medal for Irivine, who was 12th in the individual pursuit qualifying earlier on Thursday.\nHe won silver in the pursuit last year but was well back after clocking 4:26.525, while Ireland team-mate Ryan Mullen was fourth in 4:22.419.\nIrvine will take part in the points race on Friday.\nAfter his double medal success at last year's World Championships in Belarus, Irvine won gold in the points race at the World Cup in Manchester in November.", "summary": "Ireland's Martyn Irvine won a silver medal in the men's 15km scratch race at the World Track Cycling Championships in Cali, Colombia." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Oxgangs Primary, St Peter's Primary and the Braidburn School will be the first of 17 schools to open their doors again following remedial works.\nYoungsters will return to classes on Tuesday with five other schools due to open again in June.\nCity of Edinburgh Council leader Andrew Burns said: \"It has been a very difficult time for everyone.\"\nHe added: \"I want to thank parents for their patience and understanding.\n\"I am sure the parents at these three schools will be relieved to see their children back at their own schools next week.\"\nAbout 7,600 primary and secondary school children in the capital were affected when the schools, which were all built or refurbished as part of the same public private partnership (PPP) scheme, were closed suddenly in April.\nThe council took the decision to shut them after Edinburgh Schools Partnership said it was unable to provide safety assurances for the properties.\nAs a result, thousands of youngsters have been bussed to schools across the city for lessons, although they have been taught by their regular teachers.\nMr Burns said: \"Staff at the schools and across the council have pulled out all the stops to ensure our young people's education could continue and they deserve praise for their commitment and flexibility.\n\"Our priority has always been the safety of our pupils and staff, and we have insisted that Edinburgh Schools Partnership and their contractors take a belt-and-braces approach to these works and associated paperwork.\n\"This approach has also been reviewed by an independent expert on behalf of the council.\n\"I hope parents will take comfort from the level of rigour we have applied and insisted upon throughout.\"\nHe added: \"The remedial work at the remaining schools is on track, with five due to reopen in June and the remaining nine by the middle of August for the start of the new term. If we can bring forward any of these dates, we will.\"\nFirrhill High is scheduled to reopen to pupils on 6 June, followed by Royal High and Drummond Community High on 20 June, and then Broomhouse Primary and St Joseph's Primary on 27 June.\nThe remaining nine schools affected are on course to reopen for the start of the new school year in August, according to the council.\nThe local authority has already confirmed an independent inquiry into the school closures will be held after the summer holiday.", "summary": "Three of the schools in Edinburgh which were closed over safety fears are to reopen to students next week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Before that Zawahiri was often referred to as Bin Laden's right-hand man and the chief ideologue of al-Qaeda.\nHe is believed by some experts to have been the \"operational brains\" behind the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States.\nHe has now pledged allegiance to the new Afghan Taliban chief, Mullah Akhtar Mansour.\nHis audio message was issued by Al-Qaeda's media arm Al-Sahab. It is believed to be Zawahiri's first address since September 2014.\nZawahiri was number two - behind only Bin Laden - in the 22 \"most wanted terrorists\" list announced by the US government in 2001 and continues to have a $25m (£16m) bounty on his head.\nZawahiri was reportedly last seen in the eastern Afghan town of Khost in October 2001, and went into hiding after a US-led coalition overthrew the Taliban.\nHe has since evaded capture and was thought to be hiding in the mountainous regions along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border with the help of sympathetic local tribes - though Bin Laden was tracked down and killed in a residential area of the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad.\nIn recent years, Zawahiri has emerged as al-Qaeda's most prominent spokesman, appearing in 16 videos and audiotapes in 2007 - four times as many as Bin Laden - as the group tries to radicalise and recruit Muslims around the world.\nZawahiri's increasingly high profile is thought to have led to a US missile strike on 13 January 2006 near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan aimed at killing him.\nThe attack killed four al-Qaeda members, but Zawahiri survived and appeared on video two weeks later warning US President George W Bush that neither he nor \"all the powers on earth\" could bring his death \"one second closer\".\nIn July 2007, Zawahiri appeared in a video an hour-and-a-half long, urging Muslims to unite behind al-Qaeda's global jihad and outlining its future strategy.\nHe said its short-term aim was to attack the interests of the \"crusaders and Jews\" - the US, its Western allies and Israel.\nIts long-term aim is to topple Muslim regimes such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and to use Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia as training grounds for Islamist militants.\nOn 8 June 2011, Zawahiri issued a statement on the web warning that Osama Bin Laden would continue to \"terrify\" the US from beyond the grave.\nBorn in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on 19 June 1951, Zawahiri came from a respectable middle-class family of doctors and scholars.\nHis grandfather, Rabia al-Zawahiri, was the grand imam of al-Azhar, the centre of Sunni Islamic learning in the Middle East, while one of his uncles was the first secretary-general of the Arab League.\nZawahiri became involved in political Islam while still at school and was arrested at the age of 15 for being a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood - Egypt's oldest and largest Islamist organisation.\nHis political activities did not, however, stop him from studying medicine at Cairo University's medical school, from which he graduated in 1974 and obtained a masters degree in surgery four years later.\nHis father Mohammed, who died in 1995, was a pharmacology professor at the same school.\nZawahiri initially continued the family tradition, building up a medical clinic in a suburb of Cairo, but soon became attracted to radical Islamist groups which were calling for the overthrow of the Egyptian government.\nWhen Egyptian Islamic Jihad was founded in 1973, he joined.\nIn 1981, he was rounded up along with hundreds of other suspected members of the group after several members of the group dressed as soldiers assassinated President Anwar Sadat during a military parade in Cairo.\nSadat had angered Islamist activists by signing a peace deal with Israel, and by arresting hundreds of his critics in an earlier security crackdown.\nDuring the mass trial, Zawahiri emerged as a leader of the defendants and was filmed telling the court: \"We are Muslims who believe in our religion. We are trying to establish an Islamic state and Islamic society.\"\nAlthough he was cleared of involvement in Sadat's assassination, Zawahiri was convicted of the illegal possession of arms, and served a three-year sentence.\nAccording to fellow Islamist prisoners, Zawahiri was regularly tortured and beaten by the authorities during his time in jail in Egypt, an experience which is said to have transformed him into a fanatical and violent extremist.\nFollowing his release in 1985, Zawahiri left for Saudi Arabia.\nSoon afterwards he headed for Peshawar in Pakistan and later to neighbouring Afghanistan, where he established a faction of Egyptian Islamic Jihad whilst working as a doctor in the country during the Soviet occupation.\nZawahiri took over the leadership of Egyptian Islamic Jihad after it re-emerged in 1993, and was a key figure behind a series of attacks by the group on Egyptian government ministers, including the Prime Minister, Atif Sidqi.\nThe group's campaign to topple the government and set up an Islamic state in the country during the mid-1990s led to the deaths of more than 1,200 Egyptians.\nIn 1997, the US state department named him as leader of the Vanguards of Conquest group - a faction of Islamic Jihad thought to have been behind the massacre of foreign tourists in Luxor the same year.\nTwo years later he was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian military court for his role in the group's many attacks.\nZawahiri is thought to have travelled around the world during the 1990s in search of sanctuary and sources of funding.\nIn the years following the Soviet withdrawal of Afghanistan, he is believed to have lived in Bulgaria, Denmark and Switzerland, and sometimes used a false passport to travel to the Balkans, Austria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran and the Philippines.\nIn December 1996 he reportedly spent six months in Russian custody after he was caught without a valid visa in Chechnya.\nAccording to an account allegedly written by Zawahiri, the Russian authorities failed to have the Arabic texts found on his computer translated and he was able to keep his identity secret.\nIn 1997, Zawahiri is believed to have moved to the Afghan city of Jalalabad, where Osama Bin Laden was based.\nA year later, Egyptian Islamic Jihad joined five other radical Islamist militant groups, including Bin Laden's al-Qaeda, in forming the World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders.\nThe front's first proclamation included a fatwa, or religious edict, permitting the killing of US civilians. Six months later, two simultaneous attacks destroyed the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 223 people.\nZawahiri was one of the figures whose satellite telephone conversations were used as proof that Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were behind the plot.\nTwo weeks after the attacks, the US bombed the group's training camps in Afghanistan. The next day, Zawahiri telephoned a Pakistani journalist and said:\n\"Tell America that its bombings, its threats, and its acts of aggression do not frighten us. The war has only just begun.\"", "summary": "Ayman al-Zawahiri, an eye surgeon who helped found the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militant group, took over the leadership of al-Qaeda following the killing by US forces of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The waste consisting of flat-pack bedroom furniture, toys and clothes was retrieved by officers from the water at Compton Dundon, Somerset on Tuesday.\nA spokesman said it took four staff two hours to pull out the dumped items, at a cost to the taxpayer of £200.\nThe furniture was taken to a depot to be recycled.\nIn a tweet, the Environment Agency wrote: \"To the person who seems to have lost a full children's bedroom set in Compton Dundon - we have fished it out.\n\"But where should we return it?\"\nA spokesman added that throwing rubbish into any watercourse creates a blockage with the risk of further pollution problems.\nHe added: \"It will grow and create further problems and could block Walton sluice in Eighteen Foot Rhyne, posing a flood risk to land upstream.\"", "summary": "The contents of a child's bedroom have been dumped in a river, sparking an Environment Agency appeal for information to track down the culprits." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Matthew Lucas told police in interview that it was \"common knowledge\" Adrian Pogmore visited naturist camps.\nPogmore, 51, has admitted making recordings of people sunbathing naked and a couple having sex.\nMr Lucas is one of four men on trial accused of misconduct in a public office in connection with the filming.\nMore stories from across Yorkshire\nPolice officers Mr Lucas , 42, and Lee Walls, 47 and police helicopter pilots Matthew Loosemore, 45, and Malcom Reeves, deny the charges.\nThe films are said to have been recorded from the South Yorkshire Police helicopter on four occasions between 2007 and 2012.\nA jury at Sheffield Crown Court was read transcripts of police interviews with all four men.\nAsked about Pogmore, Mr Lucas said: \"It was common knowledge that he was the team deviant and he went to naturist camps.\"\nHe said that members of the team used the term to his face \"but not in a bad way\".\nThe court has heard that in July 2008 Pogmore recorded a couple, who were his friends, having sex in their garden and filmed a couple sitting naked on a naturist campsite.\nMr Lucas said the helicopter had been on \"proactive duties\" at a hotspot for stolen motorbikes near to a housing estate.\n\"I recall my attention being drawn to the camera screen by a comment made by PC Pogmore,\" he said.\n\"I recall seeing a female with no clothes on. From the brief view I had she appeared to be aware of the aircraft.\n\"I would have made some comment like 'my God Poggy' then continued with the proactive search.\"\nHe said he remembered the pilot - Mr Loosemore - being \"shocked or flabbergasted\" by what was on the screen but did not think he was aware of what was going on.\nHe told the interviewer that had he known Pogmore was recording the incident he would \"have come down on him like a tonne of bricks\" and that he was \"naive\" not to have challenged him.\nMr Loosemore said he remembered hearing an \"exclamation\" and had looked at the screen as a result.\nHe said he had seen \"something inappropriate, some nudity\" and then had looked away and the aircraft left the scene.\nMr Walls said he had no recollection of the flight during which Pogmore filmed a woman sunbathing naked in August 2007.\nMr Reeves, a former RAF pilot, said he had flown more than 2,500 hours and attended in the region of 10,000 incidents during his time with the police and had no memory of the incidents.\nPogmore, of Guilthwaite Crescent, Whiston, Rotherham, has admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office.\nMr Reeves, of Farfield Avenue, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, denies two counts of the same charge.\nMr Walls, of Southlands Way, Aston, Sheffield, denies one count.\nMr Loosemore, of Briar Close, Auckley, Doncaster, denies one count.\nMr Lucas, of Coppice Rise, Chapeltown, Sheffield, denies three counts.\nThe trial continues.", "summary": "An ex-police officer who filmed people having sex using his force's helicopter was known by colleagues as the \"team deviant\", a court has heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Last October, Ai accused Lego of censorship when it refused to sell its bricks directly to him.\nOn Tuesday Lego said customers should instead make clear that the company does not endorse works shown in public.\nAi, a leading artist, is also known for criticism of the Chinese government.\nHe said Lego's U-turn would encourage people to use the product to express themselves.\n\"It is just a toy, but every toy reflects the company's understanding about what kind of future we are in and how we encourage our children to understand essential values,\" he said.\nWhen Lego first refused to sell a bulk order of plastic bricks to Ai Weiwei in September, he's thought to have kept the news to himself. But a few weeks later, the announcement that a new Legoland theme park would open in Shanghai led the artist to reveal Lego's decision to stay away from projects that had a \"political agenda\".\nIt was a surprising decision by Lego. After all, Ai Weiwei had used Lego before. He created a series of portraits of political dissidents that appeared at an exhibition in Alcatraz prison in 2014.\nBack in October, the artist tied Lego's financial interests in China with its decision to refuse his order. His accusation has some merit: KIRKBI, the private Danish company that owns the Lego brand also owns a significant amount of shares in Merlin Entertainment, the British company that operates Legolands around the world.\nChina is Lego's fastest growing market and the company wouldn't want to irritate Beijing. However, as Lego might attest, few would want to battle the feisty Ai Weiwei.\nThe artist added that Lego \"should not worry too much\" over possible fears that its use in his art could affect a proposed Lego theme park in Shanghai.\nIn a statement posted on its website on Tuesday, Lego said it used to ask customers ordering bulk purchases for the \"thematic purpose\" of their project, as it did not want to \"actively support or endorse specific agendas\".\n\"However, those guidelines could result in misunderstandings or be perceived as inconsistent, and the Lego Group has therefore adjusted the guidelines for sales of Lego bricks in very large quantities,\" it said.\nThe artist appeared to react to Lego's decision on Wednesday by posting a picture on Instagram of a young boy sticking bricks onto his face, accompanied by a grinning emoji caption.\nLego's refusal to provide bricks for Ai's artwork on political dissidents prompted people around the world to donate bricks at \"Lego collection points\" set up in different cities.\nThe artist ended up making a new series of artworks based on the incident as a commentary on freedom of speech and political art.", "summary": "Lego's decision to stop asking bulk customers what they want to do with the bricks is a \"victory for freedom of speech\", Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has told the BBC." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Michael Dynes, 39, targeted young people through online advertisements for life models.\nThe court heard he \"auditioned\" young people via webcam.\nPosing as a \"casting agent\", he would incite them to commit sexual acts.\nDynes, who is originally from Dungannon, County Tyrone, but now lives in a hostel in Ballymena, County Antrim, pleaded guilty to 41 sex charges, including making and possessing indecent images of children.\nHe also admitted inciting children, some of whom were younger than 13 years old, to engage in a sexual act as well as four charges of voyeurism.\nThe judge at Dungannon Crown Court said the public would be better protected by extending the supervised licence period to allow Dynes to undergo a full course of treatment, instead of returning him to prison for a month or two.\nThe court was told that Dynes has lost his job, marriage and his home as a result of his offending.\n\"All of that is now gone, solely due to your own criminal behaviour,\" the judge told him.\n\"The offences effectively ruined your life. That is entirely your own fault.\"\nHe added that the images Dynes owned and created were of \"real-life children... who have been sexually abused so that people like you can view them\".\n\"No one should be in any doubt, that market would not exist but for people like you.\"\nDynes was caught on his own recording equipment while installing it in a bedroom, which then filmed a female carrying out private acts.\nA camera was also installed by Dynes in a workplace kitchen, which resulted in \"up-skirt\" filming.\nThe defendant had spent 14 months remanded in custody in prison, which the judge said was the equivalent of a 28-month sentence.\nThe judge imposed a sentence of three years and one month on all counts, and set the period of custody at 13 months followed by 24 months supervision.\nHe said this was the minimum necessary for Dynes to complete the tailored sex offenders order that he needed.\nHe said the sentence would punish him for his criminal behaviour, serve as a deterrent to others and lead to his not committing any further offences.\nThe judge also said any breach of the heavily-monitored supervision would see him returned to prison for the full period of the sentence.\nThe judge added that as the internet continued to impact upon the modern world, \"the law will continue to develop in this area\".\nDynes was put on the sex offenders' register for life and will be subjected to terms of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) that will monitor him for the next 10 years.\nHe was arrested as part of Operation Jarra, a joint operation between the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\nHis home was searched in June 2015 and a forensic examination of his computers revealed 1,133 indecent images.\nAn NCA officer told an earlier court hearing that the investigation had revealed Dynes was chatting with boys and girls online and trying to incite them into committing sexual acts.\nThe officer described the matter as \"one of the most serious cases of sexual exploitation of children encountered by the agency\".", "summary": "A man involved in \"one of the most serious cases of sexual exploitation of children\" the National Crime Agency has ever tackled has been freed after being sentenced to time he has already served in prison." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "\"Never in a million years would I have believed it. I sit here many a day shaking my head and asking, 'What happened?'''\nMr Mitchinson is standing on the deck of his 40ft (12m) trawler Albion, which is moored on the dockside at Fleetwood, surveying the empty horizon; a horizon once dotted with masts and funnels from the port's heyday as the third-largest in the country.\nIn the 1950s and 60s the town boasted about 120 trawlers. Fishing employed 11,000 people directly and - indirectly - a third of the population.\nMr Mitchinson is now readying the engine of his 60-year old vessel for another trip out, a trip into the unknown. Will he catch enough fish to cover his fuel, insurance and other costs?\n\"It's getting to the point now where I ask myself if it's worth the effort,\" he says.\n\"If I could leave for the right on-shore job tomorrow, I probably would. It's a big decision to make.\n\"I was one of the youngest in the job, now I'm one of the last. But it's in the blood, it's hard to let go.\"\nHis story mirrors the decline of Fleetwood's fortunes.\nThe fish processed and sold at the early morning dock market now - alongside his catches - comes in by road from other ports. But processing still employs 600 people and plans for a new \"Fish Park\" could create more vital employment.\nThis will be another fish processing centre on a nearby dock site, which is currently empty. Government funding is in place to make this happen.\nJohn Wilson is one of two brothers running family business Jack Wright, one of the big processing firms on the docks.\n\"Once upon a time, we had a thousand yards of the market filled with fish being sold,\" he says. \"Now it's more like one hundred.\"\nLionel Marr, whose family owned and operated many of the port's trawlers, recalls: \"It was once possible to walk the length of the main dock across the bows of the boats, there were so many moored side-by-side.\"\nNow he is a trustee of \"Jacinta\", Fleetwood's heritage trawler, moored behind Freeport shopping centre as a living museum.\nThe history of fishing in Fleetwood is told at the town's museum which features \"The Harriet\", a former fishing boat stored in a giant warehouse.\nHistorian Dick Gillingham, who works there, cites two main factors in the town's demise.\n\"The 'cod wars' of the 1970s, when Iceland restricted how much fish could be caught in its waters, were really the death knell,\" he says.\n\"Then in the 1990s many fishermen sold their boats off under a government decommissioning scheme to preserve fish stocks. And that was the end of the industry here.\"\nMr Mitchinson followed his father into trawling and is one of the last vestiges of that industry, along with his one crew-mate, but he admits he's very close to ending that family line.\n\"You can't live off fresh air at the end of the day. You need money to live, and that's it.\"\nMoney was in plentiful supply in the glory days. The fishermen returning to port after three weeks out at sea would collect bulging wage packets.\n\"They were known as 'three-day millionaires',\" said Phil Thomas, who spent 30 years on the boats.\n\"They'd have more money than they could spend and the town was buzzing. But they were the most generous, kind-hearted men you could imagine. They might be walking down Dock Street, drunk as a fool, and they'd give you their last penny.\n\"I'm proud to have been a part of that. It can bring a tear to your eye.\"\nTalking of being drunk, Leon Flaherty sheepishly confesses to the time he came back to port, went straight to the British Legion club, sank one too many and missed the birth of one of his children.\n\"I was so inebriated I had to get a friend to ring the hospital! Norah, my wife, wasn't supposed to have the baby then.\"\n\"Have I forgiven him?\" said Norah with a wry smile. \"Well it was 42 years ago, so I suppose so!\"\nNorah was one of the \"women left behind\" when their menfolk went to sea. They had to be father as well as mother to their children, and often go to work as well to make ends meet.\nTheir stories are told in song by local folk duo Sue Bousfield and Liz Moore, who have performed for 40 years as Scolds Bridle.\n\"The women had to be so strong,\" Ms Bousfield said \"and they developed a very proud sense of sisterhood.\"\nThat strength was needed when tragedy struck and vessels were lost at sea. One of the songs the duo perform is called \"Lost\" and simply lists the names of the 44 boats which never returned.\nTwo tributes on the seafront recognise those aspects of Fleetwood's unique fishing history.\nWelcome Home is a statue of a mother holding a baby, beside a young child, gazing out across the ocean with hope and concern.\nThe other, a sculpture called Out To Sea, has a plaque which begins with the inscription: \"Past this place, the fishermen of Fleetwood have sailed for generations while their families have watched from the shore. Their courage and comradeship under hardship is a living legend.\"", "summary": "Fleetwood was once synonymous with the fishing industry, but now Gary Mitchinson finds himself as the Lancashire town's last trawlerman." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The recommendation was one of a series made by the Advisory Group on Tackling Sectarianism.\nScottish clubs do not currently operate a policy of \"strict liability\", which would see them held responsible for the behaviour of their fans.\nThe report challenged clubs to come up with an alternative.\nAnd it said sanctions were \"urgently needed\".\nThe final report follows a two year study by the advisory group, which saw it gather evidence, research and opinions from across wide sections of Scottish society.\nThe advisory group has now made a number of recommendations for churches, football clubs, media and government bodies.\nBut it highlighted football in particular as an area where action to tackle the issue was urgently required.\nThe report said: \"It is clear that a strategic and measured response to Scotland's remnants of sectarian attitudes and behaviour cannot succeed without squarely addressing the sectarian problems within and around football.\"\nThe group said it was \"struck by the reticence about leadership in addressing sectarianism from within Scottish football\".\nIt said that during meetings with both the football authorities and Celtic and Rangers Football Clubs, it was suggested the system of \"strict liability\" for fans misbehaviour - which has been in place for a number of years in UEFA competitions - would \"be difficult, if not impossible, to introduce in Scotland\".\nHowever, the group said: \"We feel very strongly that sanctions are urgently needed and remain of the view that their introduction would not simply be a step towards tackling sectarianism, but also an important step towards clubs and their fans taking responsibility for their actions as we all have to do elsewhere in society.\"\nOne of the reasons given by clubs and the football authorities for not adopting \"strict liability\" was the financial impact it could have.\nThe report said: \"We were told that one reason that strict liability was unworkable in Scotland was because certain stadia would be closed for months leading to severe financial hardship for particular clubs.\n\"However, that claim also makes the case for action. If elements within Scottish football make it so toxic that it cannot survive the introduction of strict liability, then we need to find ways to address these elements.\"\nThe report said the issue of marches and parades \"remains contentious.\"\nIt said: \"The ultimate responsibility for such events, the behaviour associated with them and those who turn up to spectate lies with those organising the event.\"\nThe group said more should be done by march organisers to reassure the general public about the nature of the parades, and issues of public safety and public order.\nIt also said those who organise the events should take more responsibility for the behaviour of so-called \"hangers-on\".\nThe report also urged the media to play a role in tackling sectarianism by not \"sensationalising\" or \"stoking the flames of sectarianism\" through headlines.\nIt cited the example of the Celtic v Rangers league cup semi-final in February.\nChairman of the advisory group, Dr Duncan Morrow said: \"Our work over the last two years has explored how sectarianism continues to manifest itself in Scotland today and how it still has the power to impact negatively on people's lives.\n\"But we have also seen a strong hunger for change across Scotland and a real desire to make sectarianism a thing of the past.\n\"I believe that this desire amounts to a real commitment from Scotland's communities and a challenge for leaders and institutions to set out a clear and inclusive vision that rejects avoidance and blame.\"\nThe Scottish government welcomed the recommendations made by the advisory group.\nCommunity Safety and Legal Affairs Minister Paul Wheelhouse, said: \"This Scottish government will continue to do all it can to create a Scotland free from the scourge of sectarianism through a range of approaches.\n\"As a result of the work undertaken by the independent advisory group and our many community based projects we now understand the nature and extent of sectarianism better than ever before.\"\nHe added: \"The report published today makes it clear that the approach we are taking is the right one.\n\"It also confirms that each and every person in Scotland has a part to play in tackling sectarianism and I would urge everyone in Scotland to consider how they can help stamp out this issue.\"\nAnti-sectarianism charity Nil By Mouth, which has repeatedly called for Scottish football to introduce the \"strict liability\" policy, welcomed the group's recommendations.\nCampaign director Dave Scott said: \"Football in particular has to face up to the reality of its responsibilities.\n\"We are pleased that the advisory group has recognised the importance of 'strict liability' being introduced into the Scottish game.\"\nHe added: \"The SFA AGM is to be held next month and we still have time to introduce strict liability for next season if the clubs have the will and courage to act.\n\"The choice for the game is simple: remain part of the problem or be part of the solution.\"", "summary": "The Scottish football authorities should come up with tougher ways of dealing with sectarianism, according to a government-commissioned study." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Along with some of the other pupils from Class 4D at Woodgrove Primary School, he's explaining the maths lesson I have just been watching.\nThe whole class has just been working on a problem, taking it in turns to stand up and explain how they worked it out.\nAnd they do this in English, one of several languages spoken in Singapore.\nIt turns out there is more than one way to reach the right solution.\nWhat is impressive is their commitment to understanding exactly how to do it.\n\"If we just blindly look at the teacher's answer, when we grow up we might not know how to do it any more,\" says Megna.\nThis is an approach known as maths mastery which some schools in the UK have begun using in an adapted form.\nIt is just part of a success story which has led to global interest.\nSingapore benefits from being a small system, where all the teachers are centrally trained at the vast National Institute of Education.\nThe Director, Professor Tan Oon Seng, told me they recruit teachers for their depth of subject knowledge and expect them to make sure each child grasps the building blocks.\n\"We believe in Singapore in the fundamentals, that in order for a child to be well educated you need to give them the fundamental language and grammar in various disciplines, a language where you can read, a language where you can understand numbers. \"\nSingapore has also thought a lot about how to make teaching a rewarding profession.\nThe status is relatively high because of the competition to get in.\nTeachers can follow a career path that takes them towards being a principal, a researcher into education or a master classroom teacher.\nThey get time to deepen their knowledge and prepare lessons.\nBut Singapore is not resting on its laurels.\nAt two secondary schools I saw attempts to inject more creativity into learning.\nIn Montfort Secondary school they are encouraging the teenage boys to make prototype products, ranging from a smart garden watering system to an electronic keyboard.\nUsing your science and maths skills to solve real world problems is exactly the kind of ability the PISA tests are intended to measure.\nAn empty room at the school is being turned into what they call a \"makers lab\".\nSimple tools and materials will be available for the pupils to use in their spare time to make things to take home.\nIf they want to work out how to light up their guitar with LED lights, this is where they can do it.\n\"We want to make learning authentic for students. It's got to be related to the real world, so it helps their learning, not just in science but in many other areas,\" said teacher Ricky Tan Pee Loon.\nAnother striking feature of Singapore's education is that head teachers are rotated between schools every six to eight years\nThere is also an increasing emphasis on collaboration.\nKhoo Tse Horng, the principal at St Hilda's secondary school, says teachers are working differently too.\nWhen he started in teaching it was much more about being mentored by someone more experienced.\n\"Today teachers work in teams, they grow together, they research together, they work together.\"\nBut perhaps the most powerful collaborators in Singapore's success are its parents.\nThe system is competitive, with a Primary School Leaving Exam that influences whether a child gets a place at their first choice school.\nSecondary school pupils are streamed into an academic \"express\" stream and what is described as the normal stream which is more likely to lead to a technical or vocational diploma.\nSo one evening at 20:00 I watch children as young as four practising maths at one of the 3Gabacus centres.\nLucas, who is six, is happily solving maths problems against the clock.\nHis parents Eric and Nicole Chan tell me they bring their children for an hour of extra tuition to give them extra confidence.\nThere is a downside, captured in a recent film by volunteers at a Singapore brand agency.\nIt is about a girl who becomes depressed and stressed in the run up to her end of primary exam.\nJerome Lau, one of the directors at Splash, says it was inspired by the experience of a friend.\n\"If you start judging them and giving them a label it's a really unfair. Every child has the potential to do well.\"\nSingapore's system is changing partly due to a recognition that the stakes are high.\nSo changes to the way scores are published and used to rank pupils are being introduced.\nThis is a system which recognises some of its weaknesses but remains committed to being remaining among the best.", "summary": "\"If you think maths is a hard subject you won't succeed,\" 10-year-old Hai Yang tells me." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Stephen McGowan, 23, was found with serious injuries in a common close in the Inverclyde town's Tobago Street at 03:20 on Sunday. He died at the scene.\nPolice also cordoned off an area of Lynedoch Street, which they said was linked to the same incident.\nThe murder inquiry was launched following a post-mortem examination. Police have appealed for information about Mr McGowan's last movements.\nDet Ch Insp Jim Smith, from Police Scotland's Major Investigation Teams, said: \"I am still keen to speak to anyone who may have seen or spoken to Mr McGowan in the vicinity of the James Watt Wetherspoons Bar, Waterline Bar or Reds Nightclub in Cathcart Street, Greenock, around 0320 hrs on Sunday 27 July 2014.\n\"In particular I am anxious to trace and speak to a man who was seen waiting for a taxi in Cathcart Street at this time.\n\"He was wearing dark trousers and training shoes and had his top off.\n\"This man may be able to provide vital information that could assist our enquiries and we urge him or anyone who recognises him to contact police immediately on 101, or alternatively through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, where anonymity can be maintained.\"", "summary": "Police have launched a murder inquiry after the death of a man in Greenock." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A judge was told the possibility of Avoniel Primary School instead being amalgamated with nearby Elmgrove Primary was never properly considered.\nA barrister for the school said: \"It was the solution that dare not speak its name.\"\nEducation Minister John O'Dowd announced the school's closure in May.\nA judicial review challenge has been brought on behalf of one child at the school with special educational needs.\nWith the school set to shut at the end of this month, lawyers for the child want the court to overturn Mr O'Dowd's decision.\nMr O'Dowd announced its closure as part of a rationalisation process that will see increased admissions and enrolment at Elmgrove.\nParents of pupils at Avoniel reacted with anger to the decision, claiming they have been left with little time to find a new school by September.\nLawyers representing the pupil claimed that the minister's decision should be quashed because a prior consultation process by the Belfast Education and Library Board was not properly or fairly conducted.\nAccording to their case the parents believe that when this exercise was carried out, back in 2014, the board's proposals were already at an advanced stage.\nThe barrister told the court that Avoniel had been performing well.\n\"This is not some sink school, the closure of which is inevitably going to save pupils therein from further bad education. This is a good school,\" the barrister said.\nAlleged failures by the education authorities to consider and consult on the possibility of amalgamation rendered the whole process flawed, it was claimed.\nAccusing the board of \"dismissively\" turning its back on the option, the barrister added: \"They treated it with disdain.\"\nHe contended that an expanded Elmgrove could ultimately end up moving into new or refurbished buildings on Avoniel's current site.\nThe barrister urged a judge to quash the outcome reached.\n\"This consultation process was flawed, and resulted in a flawed decision by the Minister,\" he said.\nHowever, Attorney General John Larkin QC, representing the minister, questioned the merits of the legal challenge.\n\"This is an application characterised by needlessness and utter pointlessness,\" he said.\n\"It cannot achieve any substantive advantage to the applicant.\"\nHe also said the minister was never misled during the process.\nThe hearing continues.", "summary": "Education authorities treated a potential alternative to closing an east Belfast school with \"disdain\", the High Court has been told." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The spin bowler, who plays for Sussex County Cricket Club, was fined for being drunk and disorderly outside the Shooshh club early on Monday morning.\nSussex Police said a 31-year-old man had received a fixed penalty notice for being drunk and disorderly.\nSussex County Cricket Club said it was investigating the incident.\nIt said in a statement: \"Sussex County Cricket Club can confirm that an incident took place involving Monty Panesar in the early hours of Monday August 5.\n\"The matter is under full investigation and the club will make no further comment at this stage.\"\nA spokesman for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said the incident was a matter for Panesar's club and the ECB would not be commenting on it.\nSimon Hoole, general manager of the nightclub, said: \"Unfortunately we can only confirm that there was an incident at that time.\"\nHe said the club would not make any further statement because the club valued its customers and their need for privacy.\nIt is the second drink-related incident involving Ashes players this summer.\nIn June, Australian batsman David Warner was reprimanded for striking England opener Joe Root in the face during a night out in Birmingham.\nWarner missed the first two Ashes Tests against England, but featured in the drawn Test at Old Trafford.\nPanesar was part of the 14-man England squad that retained the Ashes at Old Trafford on Monday but did not play in the match.\nThe left-arm bowler, who has taken 164 Test wickets for England, has not been included in the squad for the next Ashes Test at Durham, which starts on Friday.", "summary": "England cricket star Monty Panesar has been fined by police after being caught urinating on nightclub bouncers in Brighton, the BBC understands." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Aberglaslyn Mountain Rescue Team were called to Craig Bwlch Y Moch, Tremadog, at about 19:00 BST on Tuesday after the 50-year-old fell.\nA rescue helicopter from RAF Valley on Anglesey and paramedics were also sent to assist but Mr Waddell, from Leeds, was dead on arrival.\nThe coroner is investigating and there will be an inquest in due course.", "summary": "A man who died after falling while rock climbing on a cliff face in Gwynedd has been named as Keith William Waddell." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nSubstitute Danny Welbeck scored an injury-time winner on his first appearance since April 2015 after Jamie Vardy's disputed penalty put the Foxes ahead before Theo Walcott equalised.\nNow two points behind Leicester, Wenger said: \"It was a serious mental test because we found ourselves 1-0 down against a team that defends so well.\"\nWenger celebrated on the touchline at the end while the Gunners players mobbed the returning Welbeck.\nAnd the Gunners manager added: \"We came back with relentless energy and took all the risks because we knew a draw wasn't good enough. It was down to our mental desire.\n\"It was a big mental hurdle for us because we were in shock at being behind at half-time. We didn't see that coming. It is not a coincidence Leicester are top.\n\"This strengthens our belief that we are in the fight. It would have been massive for us to lose because we would have been eight points behind and that is three games for us to win while Leicester would also have to lose three.\"\nWelbeck's dramatic entrance came after two days in training that convinced Wenger he was fit enough for a place on the bench following knee surgery.\nThe manager said: \"It was a great decision in the end because Danny Welbeck is a great player and everybody is extremely happy for him because he has been out for 10 months.\n\"He has worked very hard with our fitness team to come back so strong and he got a great reception from the other players in the dressing room. He is a great guy with a great mentality.\"\nLeicester manager Claudio Ranieri felt referee Martin Atkinson had been \"a little bit severe\" on his side.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThe Italian was still so pleased with his table-topping team, however, that he has given them a week off - with the club not in FA Cup action next weekend.\nHe said: \"If I look at the game, I am angry because he gave two yellow cards for two normal fouls by Danny Simpson and the match was full of fouls. Maybe the crowd push and put him under pressure after the penalty. The referee was OK - but maybe a little bit severe on us.\n\"The players asked if they get nine points from our last three games could they have a week away? Now it is just six points but I am still so happy I told them to go away and we will see you next Monday.\n\"They gave a fantastic performance with a lot of force, soul and helping each other. I told them 'it's OK - we are still top.'\"\nFrom the moment Welbeck scored Arsenal's late winner, the England striker was trending in the United Kingdom. Former team-mates, ex-players and the public tweeted on what could prove a decisive moment in the title race.", "summary": "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes his side emerged successfully from a crucial mental test as they came from behind to beat 10-man Premier League leaders Leicester at Emirates Stadium." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Van Gerwen came out on top 11-10 in an exciting final to follow up his Grand Slam of Darts success in Wolverhampton seven days earlier with another tournament victory.\n\"I played well when I had to,\" said the 26-year-old Dutchman.\n\"I think I deserved to win the trophy and I'm really glad I did.\"\nVan Gerwen went 4-0 ahead in the best-of-21-legs final, but Suffolk-based Wright, 45, won the next five legs to take the lead - a run that was halted by a 170 checkout from Van Gerwen.\nAt 9-9, two missed darts at double 14 looked to have proved costly for Van Gerwen as Wright moved to within one leg of his first major televised title.\nBut Van Gerwen, the PDC world champion in 2014, produced a stunning 129 checkout to take the match into a deciding leg and he clinched victory with an 11-darter.\n\"Peter is a fantastic player and sooner or later he will win a big tournament,\" he added.", "summary": "World number one Michael van Gerwen defeated Scotland's Peter Wright to win the inaugural World Series of Darts Finals event in Glasgow." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The budget provides for measures to cut the deficit from 7.3% of economic output this year to 4.6% in 2011.\nIt will cut public spending and raise VAT - measures that have proved very unpopular with voters.\nPrime Minister Jose Socrates threatened to quit if the budget failed.\nThe opposition Social Democrats oppose tax rises, preferring spending cuts, but agreed last week to abstain from voting.\nConfidence in Portugal's economy was hit hard over the summer during the eurozone debt crisis.\nThe rate of interest that the government had to pay to investors in order to borrow money, in part to service existing debt, rose sharply.\nThis led a number of leading credit rating agencies to downgrade Portuguese government debt, compounding the problem.\nThere were fears that if the austerity budget had not been passed, the cost of borrowing would again increase dramatically.\nA number of countries have announced measures to reduce budget deficits that rose dramatically during the economic downturn, most notably Greece and the UK.", "summary": "Portugal's parliament has passed an austerity budget to cut the country's high debt levels, after the opposition upheld an agreement with the minority government to abstain from voting." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The body of Danielle McLaughlin, from County Donegal, was found in a field in Goa on Tuesday. The 28-year-old had been raped and strangled.\nPolice have said a man has confessed to the rape and murder of Ms McLaughlin.\nThe Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust is working to return her remains to her family home in Buncrana in the Republic of Ireland.\nColin Bell from the charity said arrangements are in place for the repatriation, and said he is waiting for Indian authorities to release the body.\n\"I have been speaking with the [UK] Foreign Office and also with the [Irish] Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin,\" he said.\n\"They are both hopeful that her body could be released [on Friday].\"\nMs McLaughlin had travelled to Goa with a friend and they were staying in a beach hut, a police officer told Associated Press.\nThey were attending the Hindu spring festival of Holi on Monday night in a nearby village, he added.\nMs McLaughlin's naked body was discovered the next day, less than 2km (1.2 miles) from Palolem, one of the most popular beaches in south Goa.\nHer mother, Andrea Brannigan, said the eldest of her five daughters would be \"sadly missed by all\" and the family is enduring a \"difficult and trying time\".\nA 24-year-old man, whose name has been reported as Vikat Bhagat, appeared in court on Wednesday, charged with murder.\nHe will also face a rape charge after a post-mortem examination of Ms McLaughlin's body confirmed that she had been sexually assaulted.", "summary": "The body of an Irishwoman murdered in India could be released on Friday, a repatriation charity has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Lew said that unless both sides made sacrifices, \"there is no path out of insolvency and back to growth.\"\nPuerto Rico is in its tenth year of rescission and struggling to cope with $70bn (£49bn) in debt.\nSeveral attempts at negotiations between the Puerto Rican government and creditors have failed.\n\"The people of Puerto Rico are sacrificing, but unless that sacrifice is shared by creditors in an orderly restructuring, there is no path out of insolvency and back to growth,\" he said during a visit to the US territory.\nMr Lew said the Treasury Department had dedicated a team to working with Puerto Rico on a \"daily basis\".\nHe has in the past ruled out the possibility of a federal bailout for the territory.\nPuerto Rico defaulted on part of its debt at the beginning of January and is on track to miss larger payments in the coming months.\nPuerto Rico does not have access to Chapter 9 of the US bankruptcy code, the provision that allowed cities such as Detroit to restructure their debts.\nPuerto Rico, with support from President Obama, is pushing Congress to change that law and grant them permission to use the Chapter 9 provision.\nIn 2015 a US judge struck down a law passed by the Puerto Rican government that would have allowed it to restructure its debt. The judge ruled the new law was unconstitutional.", "summary": "US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew urged Puerto Rico's creditors to make sacrifices that would allow the territory to restructure its debt." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "More than 234,000 Zafiras made between 2005 and 2014 are subject to safety recalls to prevent them bursting into flames.\nThe cars should not be passed on to new owners until they've been repaired.\nBut some cars have been sold without the necessary work done and without buyers being told about the problem.\nThe potentially illegal sales have been uncovered by BBC Radio 4's consumer programme, You & Yours.\nJemma Osbourne's family from Benfleet in Essex bought a second-hand Zafira in January 2016, six weeks after a safety recall had been launched on that model.\nVauxhall wanted all these Zafiras returned to garages where they could be checked over and fixed free of charge to prevent them catching fire.\nBut the repair work had not been done on the vehicle Jemma bought and, a few months later, it caught fire.\n\"That day we'd booked to get ourselves some tattoos done\", said Jemma. \"We set out with my youngest who is a year and a half, drove a few miles up the road to Southend-on-Sea and parked directly outside the tattooist's shop\".\nSoon afterwards she looked out of the shop window and spotted smoke inside the car.\n\"We managed to get out of the back of the shop and by the time we'd gone from the front to the back, the car was on fire. It was really scary to think that I'd just got my daughter out of there\".\nJemma and her partner Lewis Gillingham had bought their Zafira from a branch of the used-car dealers Big Cars Ltd at Witham in Essex. The couple say they were unaware of the problems with model B Vauxhall Zafiras and the sales team never said anything about it at the time of purchase.\n\"Nothing at all was mentioned about a recall\", said Jemma. \"It was the firemen that actually told us. I would never have put my children in that sort of car if I'd known the problems that they'd had\".\nIt is not certain the fire was caused by the known fault with Zafira Bs. Big Cars Ltd says an independent report found it was caused by a fuel leak instead. But whatever the cause, the point is there was an outstanding safety recall on the car when it was sold, and that could put Big Cars Ltd on the wrong side of the law.\nGuidance for the used-vehicle trade published by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency states that if you are selling a vehicle to a consumer you will need to check for outstanding recalls and these safety recalls must be attended to prior to the consumer purchasing the vehicle.\n\"It's really important for any motor dealer that is having a Vauxhall Zafira that is affected by this recall on their forecourt to actually have this work done prior to exposing it to sale\", said Tim Milsom, lead officer for the motor trade with the Chartered Institute of Trading Standards. \"If they fail to do that then they might be constituting a possible criminal offence\".\nThere's a duty under several pieces of legislation that any product sold in the UK must be safe for consumer use. It is a principle enshrined in both civil and criminal law.\nTim Milsom cites the Sale Of Goods Act, General Product Safety Regulations 2005, Consumer Protection From Unfair Trading Regulations and even - in the case of cars - the Road Traffic Act.\n\"Stating or otherwise creating the impression that a product can be legally sold when it cannot is also an offence. But it is important to say that only a court of law can interpret the law\", he said.\nYou & Yours asked Big Cars Ltd to explain why a Vauxhall Zafira with an outstanding safety recall was sold to Jemma Osbourne and Lewis Gillingham and why the couple had not been told about the issue at the time of their purchase. In a statement the company said \"after taking advice, we would not wish to comment at this time\".\nIt pointed out it had provided a courtesy car to the couple for six weeks after the fire and says it values all its customers. It has now offered to meet with the family to discuss an ex-gratia payment.\nVauxhall issued a second safety recall on model B Zafiras after the first \"fix\" failed to entirely solve the problem. The second recall was launched on the 28 May, 2016 but some other used-car dealers have continued to sell the vehicles even though they have not yet had the second recall work done.\nIt means some customers have unwittingly bought Zafiras subject to not one but two outstanding recalls because work from the first safety recall launched in December 2015 had still not been done on their cars.\nThere are 234,938 Zafira B models affected by the fire risk. There is no precise number on how many of them have actually caught fire but a figure of 300 has been reported.\nVauxhall is continuing to write to owners to get affected vehicles booked in for the latest remedial work. In the meantime, it says it is \"very important\" that the cars' heating and ventilation system is set only at fan speed zero or four to protect against the risk of fire.", "summary": "Used-car dealers may have broken the law by continuing to sell Vauxhall Zafiras which pose a possible fire risk." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "These were the words of footballer Ched Evans in his first interview since being found innocent of rape on Friday.\nHe was speaking about the issue of sexual consent, which became the central argument in the court proceedings that first sent him to jail but then established his innocence at a retrial. He has now told the Mail on Sunday that \"in this day and age, people need educating\" on the issue.\nBut do young men and women, particularly footballers, need to be taught about the law?\nMany football clubs are already taking preventative measures to make sure their players know the rules they need to follow to stay out of trouble in their life off the pitch.\nBrighton and Hove Albion was the first team in the UK to offer consent training and counselling to all its young players, both male and female.\n\"It is beneficial to our young players as part of their development as young adults,\" said a club spokesman. \"There is a lot of bravado and misinformation around what is consent, and it's our feeling that all young people should understand the law around sexual consent - and also what the consequences are should anyone break the law.\"\nThe Football League has provided sessions on sexual consent to the safeguarding officers employed at all 72 clubs it is responsible for and offered them the opportunity to follow up with further training.\nA spokesman said: \"We are continuing to help clubs educate their young [under-18] players in this area as part of ongoing educational programmes. We are also working closely with other bodies to ensure consistency in training.\"\nBoth courses have the backing of the FA, which told the BBC: \"Anything which raises awareness and educates people, whether it is players, club staff or fans, on this important topic, is a good thing.\"\nBut what do the players think?\nFormer Brighton academy centre-forward Chike Kandi - who started his career with Chelsea and has now moved on to Woking - told BBC Radio 5 live about the course he took while at Brighton: \"They really narrowed down that grey area between consent and non-consent, to one moment, or one point in an interaction, when you can definitely ask the question.\n\"And if the answer's yes, then it's ok and if it's no then you back off.\"\nBrighton academy goalkeeper Harry Doherty, 20, added: \"After recent events, like the Ched Evans case, I wouldn't say footballers are more prone, but they might get more attention and one incident could change their lives.\n\"One moment you could be at the top and the next minute it could all be over.\"\nChed Evans, then a striker at Sheffield United, had always insisted he was innocent while he was serving a jail sentence after originally being found guilty in 2012 of the rape of a 19-year-old woman - who was two-and-a-half times over the drink-driving limit.\nThe accuser got a taxi to the hotel with his friend and fellow footballer Clayton McDonald, where Mr Evans had booked a room. Mr McDonald rang him and said: \"I've got a girl.\"\nAbout 15 minutes later, the player arrived at the hotel and got a key to the room, before \"joining in\" with his friend in having sex with the woman, then leaving through a fire door.\nThe argument for the lawyers on both sides centred on whether the woman gave her consent.\nProsecuting counsel Simon Medland said in his closing speech at the retrial: \"This wealthy young footballer felt entitled to have her and did so regardless of what she would have wanted. In doing so, we submit this was rape and not consensual sex.\"\nBut defence counsel Judy Khan said: \"The evidence shows that despite her apparent memory blackout, the complainant was capable of making rational decisions. Drunken consent is nevertheless consent. Lack of memory does not equal lack of consent.\"\nOn Friday, the jury at Cardiff Crown Court found him not guilty.\nAfter having his name cleared, Mr Evans, who now plays for Chesterfield, told the Mail on Sunday: \"I was young at the time and I was stupid and I wasn't aware of the situations you could potentially find yourself in that would land you in trouble.\n\"I have never been taught about anything like that. You get your gambling and drinking training but nothing else on top of that. In this day and age people need educating on alcohol and consent.\"\nHowever, it is not just football clubs that think it is important to educate young people on the issues around sexual consent.\nOxford University students' union has run workshops for two years and this year they have become mandatory across the university's colleges.\nOrla White, vice president for women at the university's students' union, said it was key that both men and women were educated.\n\"We talk about the gender aspects of sexual violence and we think it is important to get rid of the misconceptions that it only happens to women,\" she said.\n\"We try to ensure that every person who walks away from the course is aware of their own responsibilities and to check in on others, and also ensure everyone knows that we, as a community of students, will not accept it.\"\nAnd students have widely embraced the concept.\nAlice Tithecott, from St Edmund Hall at the university, said: \"I felt reassured by the adult and mature discussions we had surrounding matters of consent, and in particular being given the opportunity to explore different perspectives and issues regarding consent in a safe environment.\n\"I feel that this workshop was an invaluable part of freshers' week because it creates dialogue about issues which may otherwise be considered taboo.\"\nThe courses run by colleges and football clubs have been praised by sex education experts, although some argue the issue of consent needs to be raised much earlier in a young person's life.\nA spokeswoman from Brook, the young people's sexual health and well-being charity, said: \"We believe that every young person should have these lessons at school and from a young age.\nShe quoted one of the young people that works with the charity, who said: \"If my sex education had taught that consent is a sober, continuous, verbal, and enthusiastic Yes rather than just the absence of a No, I might not have had to assure my friend that she didn't cheat on her boyfriend - another man raped her.\"", "summary": "\"I have never been taught about anything like that.\"" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 44-year-old signed a three-year deal in January 2014 to lead a revamped management set-up.\nDerbyshire are second from bottom of Division Two of the County Championship with two defeats and five draws from their opening seven matches.\nElite performance coach John Sadler will take charge, supported by captains Billy Godleman and Wes Durston.\nChairman Chris Grant said: \"Whilst results have been disappointing, Graeme leaves with stronger foundations in place.\n\"We have seen a number of players develop under Graeme's guidance. We have also seen a clear increase in the levels of professionalism and work ethic.\"\nDerbyshire finished second from bottom in the Championship in 2015 with just three wins from their 16 matches, while they failed to progress beyond the group stages of both one-day competitions.\nWelch added: \"I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at the club and learned so much.\n\"I would particularly like to thank the chairman and board for their support over the last few years and I wish them all the best for the future.\"\nDerbyshire face Leicestershire at home in the T20 Blast on Friday.", "summary": "Derbyshire elite performance director Graeme Welch has resigned after two and a half years in charge." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Robson chose not to use that privilege at the Australian Open while recovering from a series of wrist injuries.\nThe 22-year-old returned from a 17-month lay-off in June but had a relapse and did not play until Indian Wells last month, losing in the first round.\nThere will be four British women in France, with Robson joining Johanna Konta, Heather Watson and Naomi Broady.\nAndy Murray, Aljaz Bedene and Kyle Edmund enter the men's main draw at Roland Garros, running from 22 May to 5 June.\nNever want to miss the latest tennis news? You can now add this sport and all the other sports and teams you follow to yourpersonalised My Sport home.", "summary": "Laura Robson will use her protected ranking of 58 to gain direct entry into the French Open main draw in May." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Boro took three points from a possible 15 before ending their five game winless run with successive victories against Cardiff and Fulham last week.\n\"After MK Dons and Leeds when we were in a really bad run, it was really calm because the team had played really well,\" Karanka told BBC Tees.\n\"Playing in that way, with this squad, I knew that it was going to be time.\"\nBefore suffering back-to-back Championship defeats by Bristol City and Nottingham Forest in January, Karanka's side had lost just four league matches in 2015-16.\nHowever, the Boro boss insisted two wins in four days to move to within a point of top spot had restored confidence at the Riverside Stadium.\n\"The time arrived against Cardiff. The main thing was to win,\" Karanka said.\n\"Now the team is more confident again - the team feels that they can win every single game. So for that reason I am confident for the future.\"\nMiddlesbrough are third in the Championship, equal on points with Hull City in the second automatic promotion place, with at least one game in hand over both sides above them.\nThey next face Blackburn Rovers on Tuesday.", "summary": "Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka says he knew it would just take time for his side to recover their form." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 41-year-old announced on Thursday he would leave at the end of the season and indicated the sale of Robbie Muirhead was a factor in his decision.\nThe 19-year-old forward was sold to Dundee United shortly before the closure of the winter transfer window.\nAssistant Gary Locke will take charge for Saturday's game at Hamilton.\nA statement from the club read: \"The board of directors would like to express its thanks to Allan Johnston for his diligent service over the last eighteen months.\n\"Allan kept the club in the Premiership last season by recording crucial end of season victories and an excellent start to the current league season raised expectations.\n\"Unfortunately, a number of injuries to key players and a series of poor results followed and although the club sits in eighth place in the Premiership, Allan decided to announce his decision to leave the club to the media on Thursday.\n\"Allan will stand down as manager with immediate effect and the board has therefore appointed assistant manager Gary Locke as interim manager pending a permanent appointment.\n\"Alan Robertson will provide support as Gary's assistant.\n\"Applications for the post of manager are invited and will be considered by the Board over the coming weeks.\"\nKilmarnock's directors have acted quickly to remove manager Johnston despite chairman Michael Johnston being out of the country.\nAlthough the former Queen of the South boss insisted he would give his full commitment until the summer, the board believe it's best the manager steps aside now.\nFormer Hearts manager Locke, 39, was appointed as assistant at Rugby Park last summer, shortly after his departure from Tynecastle.\nA former Kilmarnock player, Locke will aim to get the team into the Premiership's top six from their current position of eighth.", "summary": "Allan Johnston has been relieved of his duties as Kilmarnock manager with immediate effect, BBC Scotland has learned." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It followed pre-planned raids on their addresses early on Tuesday, in the Sparkhill area of the city.\nThe suspects - three aged 19 and one aged 24 - are suspected of fundraising in the UK and travelling to train for terrorist purposes in Pakistan.\nEight others have already been charged in connection with the investigation, known as Operation Pitsford.\nSeven of those are currently on remand after appearing in court.\nDetectives have an initial 48 hours to question the four men arrested on Tuesday.\nOfficers must then either charge them, release them, or apply for a warrant to question them further.\nWest Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit said the arrests were not in response to any immediate threat to public safety.\nOfficers were unarmed during the operation, a police spokesman added.", "summary": "Four men have been arrested in a major counter terrorism operation, police in Birmingham have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Group profits rose 9.8% to ??759m in 2013, despite an \"extremely challenging\" first quarter, and a disappointing third quarter.\nIn the UK and Ireland B&Q's total sales rose slightly, to ??3.6bn, with Screwfix total sales up 17.6% to ??665m.\nKingfisher said prospects for the year to come were \"bright\" and it would return ??200m to shareholders this year.\nThe company said its performance had improved thanks to a combination of pricing, marketing, an expanded product range, and upgrades to its websites.\n\"Our prospects remain bright, giving us confidence to invest in the business and actively manage our portfolio,\" said chief executive Sir Ian Cheshire.\nKingfisher's most significant market is France where the economic backdrop \"was generally soft\", in line with the rest of Europe.\nKingfisher owns Brico Depot and Castorama in France, where sales were ??4.4bn.\nGenerally weak consumer confidence in France was reflected by a drop in like-for-like sales of 1.2%.\nThe company also said it intended to look for a strategic partner for B&Q China this year, and had already had expressions of interest.\nShares were up almost 5% in early trading on Tuesday after the results were published.\n\"The early share price spike is in reaction to better than expected profit numbers, accompanied by robust growth in key metrics such as earnings per share and a continuation of Kingfisher's progressive dividend policy,\" said Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers.\n\"The company is running a tight ship and even before today's reaction, the share price had risen 41% over the last year, as compared to a 2% improvement for the wider FTSE 100,\" he added.", "summary": "Kingfisher, the owner of DIY chains B&Q and Screwfix, has said it has finished a \"challenging year\" in \"good shape\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "As he trudges homeward, a young boy orphaned by the war latches on to him, looking for a father-figure. Once home, the man, Chandra - or Agni ('Fire') to give his nom-de-guerre - comes hard up against the traditions that the Maoists have tried to overturn, and finds resistance against changing them.\nWhite Sun, a new film from Nepal, isn't simply a good yarn with a majestic Himalayan backdrop. It holds up a mirror to today's Nepalese society.\nThe second feature by Nepalese director Deepak Rauniyar, the film opens in Nepal this week having won the Best Film award at the Singapore International Film Festival. Already screened at festivals in Venice, Toronto and Busan, it will soon show in Dubai, Rotterdam, Palm Springs and elsewhere.\nThe central point of contention in Chandra's village is how to give a respectful funeral to his deceased father, the late mayor. The taciturn Chandra (played by Dahayang Rai) clashes with his brother Suraj (Rabindra Singha Baniya), who is loyal to the now-defunct monarchy, and with the Hindu priest (Deepak Chhetri) and other traditionalist villagers, creating some very funny moments.\nModernity clashes with custom, not least when Suraj drapes his deceased father's funeral shroud in a royalist flag. Just getting the corpse out of the house and to the river is bitterly contentious.\nDirector Rauniyar told BBC News he wanted to show how the bitter experience of the 1996-2006 war still permeates people's lives.\n\"People like Chandra believe in change, believe traditional law is unfair to everyone else,\" he said. \"But people like Suraj still defend the older generation, even if they agree some rules were discriminatory. Because they [both sides in the war] had no mercy for opposing parties in the past, their past now haunts them.\"\nFor anyone who has spent time in Nepalese villages, the film feels astonishingly real - perhaps less surprising given that many of the roles are played by ordinary rural Nepalese. Most striking among these are the two young children - the orphaned boy, Badri (played by Amrit Pariyar) and Pooja (Sumi Malla), daughter of Chandra's wife Durga, who has been left behind for years in the village. Pooja's paternity is unclear but she wishes Chandra is her father.\nHere lies not just a human tragedy but also a political one, because under Nepal's contentious new constitution, neither child would easily get citizenship. Badri would fail because he doesn't have the paperwork to prove who his parents were. Pooja would fail because a mother cannot, in the absence of a father, simply confer her nationality on her child. \"She would be not be able to do anything,\" said Rauniyar. \"Job, passport, even renting a room in a hotel requires citizenship these days.\"\nLittle wonder that his estranged wife, Durga, tries her best to get him to sign documents saying he is Pooja's father. Durga has already fallen foul of village customs by touching the dead body of her father-in-law. That is not deemed acceptable, because she comes from a low social caste, but she does not care. Asha Magarati, who plays her, says Durga shows that even the civil war, which \"took thousands of lives and disabled and displaced many more\", might have a silver lining.\n\"Because of war, gender role in our society has changed for good,\" she said. \"Because men went to fight against regime or for regime, women like Durga were forced to take care and responsibility… Durga stands for post-war generation of strong women in Nepali society, at least for me.\"\nRauniyar - whose previous film, Highway, examined Nepal's culture of political strikes - said that in White Sun he wanted to look at the legacy of the war, but not in a hopeless way. Instead, he wanted to bring three generations together in his characters, \"force them to converse, and see what beautiful can happen\".\nHis symbolism is ambitious: the deceased man's body is a metaphor for the old constitution and royal rule. Consigning it to the past, to history, is difficult. \"The film's characters struggle to get the old man's corpse out of the house,\" Rauniyar said. \"They choose to make life harder on themselves. Whether it's small issues or bigger political issues like our constitution, we don't seem to look for the logical path.\"\nBut the film, infused with pathos and humour amid darkness and some violence, does not feel didactic. In his quest to bury his father, Chandra knocks on many doors. It all ends with a twist.", "summary": "A battle-hardened, world-weary but still young former Maoist guerrilla is summoned back to his native village after his father dies." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hundreds of Venezuelans have been crossing into Colombia to buy products that are scarce in their country.\nPresident Maduro had closed the border at the same time as announcing the withdrawal of the country's highest denomination bank note.\nHe has accused criminal gangs of hoarding vast amounts of cash.\nProducts subsidised by Venezuela's socialist government, including petrol, sugar and flour, can also end up being sold on the Colombian side of the border at much higher prices.\nPresident Maduro and his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, agreed to the gradual reopening in a phone call on Monday.\nUp to 2,000 people are expected to cross from Venezuela into Colombia on the first day, according to Colombian RCN radio.\n\"When I heard the news, I decided to come to the border crossing very early,\" Carolina Correa told RCN in the Venezuelan border city of Cucuta.\n\"I need rice, sugar, a new pot and other ingredients for the Christmas meal, as well as medication for my mother,\" she added.\nMr Maduro had argued the withdrawal of the 100-bolivar bill was vital to tackle \"mafias\" attempting to destroy the country.\nBut the measure sparked chaos, with protests and long queues forming outside bank branches.\nThe government was eventually forced to postpone the deadline for exchanging the notes until 2 January.\nVenezuela is facing a major economic crisis, which the opposition blames on the mistaken policies of its socialist government.", "summary": "Venezuela has reopened its border with Colombia, eight days after President Nicolas Maduro closed it in order to combat smuggling." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Germany's Die Welt says Europe \"waits in vain for a reform list from Athens\", while France's Le Figaro writes that Greek PM Alexis Tsipras \"plays with the nerves of the Europeans\".\nMany papers worry about the impact of the Greek crisis on the rest of Europe.\nA headline in Greece's Kathimerini daily asks \"Euro or Drachma on Sunday?\" - the day when European leaders meet for an emergency summit on the proposals.\nThe Greek papers are aware of the seriousness of the new deadline. \"This time, yes, it's an ultimatum. And in a form that leaves no doubt,\" writes the centrist Greek daily Ethnos.\n\"Within a few days we should decide what we want. And there are two prospects: either move to a new programme or forget the country's European course. It is up to us to choose what we prefer. And ultimately, at what cost.\"\nEthnos says this is the most difficult position that a Greek leader has found himself in since the end of military rule in the country in 1974.\n\"Now is the prime minister's hour. And this time it's not a figure of speech,\" the paper says.\nItaly's La Repubblica highlights the European Union's \"tough position\" on Greece, saying that \"For the first time, European governments appear united.\"\nBut many commentators argue that this position has not been tough enough.\n\"Merkel offers Greece a new package worth billions - after all,\" complains the German tabloid Bild, referring to the German chancellor's comments that leaders were discussing a third aid programme.\n\"Instead of signalling the end of this fool's game, Merkel, Francois Hollande and their colleagues seem to be likely to agree to another delay for Greece,\" writes France's Le Figaro.\nMichael Stuermer in Die Welt is equally angry.\n\"They [Greece] want to have their cake and eat it - in other words, to consume the transfer funds of the EU but not to obey the small print patiently demanded by the creditors,\" writes Stuermer.\n\"Greece cannot be allowed to get away with this,\" says the paper.\nDie Welt also worries that Greece's \"high-stake games\" could \"spread to others\".\nBut Spain's El Pais downplays this perceived threat.\n\"Some will say that if Greece manages to get more flexibility, then Spain, Portugal and even Italy may also want 'concessions'. But Greece is a unique case. The situation of the others is much more stable, they cannot hope for a debt pardon or an end to austerity.\"\nIt suggests that \"all efforts should focus on reaching an agreement\".\nSome commentators are also concerned about Russia's growing influence following a possible Grexit.\n\"Vladimir Putin's Russia has absolutely no means to save Greece and the crisis is not good news for the Russian economy. But Russia can still capitalise on its nuisance value,\" says an editorial in France's Les Echos.\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "summary": "There is a sense of urgency and exasperation in the European press as Greece prepares its new proposals." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Caroline Hannigan collected £287 for the British Heart Foundation at Glanhowy Primary School in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, in February 2015.\nBut she used the money to pay drug dealers after her son was threatened.\nMrs Hannigan told a fitness to practise committee hearing in Cardiff she was \"deeply remorseful\".\nMrs Hannigan, who had worked at the school in various roles for 23 years, was arrested after she admitted to her head teacher that she had never passed on the money to the British Heart Foundation.\nThe hearing was told she was given a 12-month conditional discharge after admitting theft by an employee at Caerphilly Magistrates' Court in February 2016.\nMrs Hannigan, who had qualified as a teaching assistant in 2009, raised the money at a school cross country event.\nThe hearing was told Mrs Hannigan asked head teacher Rebecca Fowler if she could raise money for the British Heart Foundation because it was a cause close to her heart as her daughter has a heart defect.\nWhen Mrs Fowler questioned what happened to the money in November 2015, Mrs Hannigan insisted she had given it to the charity.\nBut when Mrs Fowler asked to see a receipt, Mrs Hannigan confessed and the police were called.\nMrs Hannigan said she acted \"on the spur of the moment out of fright\".\nShe said she took the money home after missing the bank on the day of the fundraising event.\nInstead, she said she stored the cash in a bag in her wardrobe, intending to pay it into the bank on the Saturday.\nBut that night, there was banging on both her front and back doors and two men demanded £500 towards a £1,000 drug debt owed by her 31-year-old son, who was living with her.\nMrs Hannigan told the hearing: \"They made no qualms about what would happen to me [if they did not get the money].\n\"They threatened to hurt me and my son.\n\"They said if I phoned the police or anything, things would happen like your house would burn down, people would disappear.\"\nMrs Hannigan said her son was at the house at the time but she would not let him speak to the men as she was frightened for him. Instead, she got the money from the fundraising and made it up to £300.\nShe said the drug dealers accepted that sum on condition she paid off the rest of the debt at the end of the month.\nSarah Maunder, who carried out an independent investigation, told the panel: \"Caroline Hannigan panicked when drug dealers turned up at her house threatening her son with violence.\"\nShe added Mrs Hannigan was \"incredibly remorseful\" and wanted to return to her job as she had a \"deep connection\" with the school.\nMrs Hannigan, who has left Glanhowy Primary and is now working as a supply teaching assistant, admits unacceptable professional misconduct.\nThe hearing was told she had since paid the money to the British Heart Foundation.", "summary": "A teaching assistant stole money raised at her school for charity to pay off her son's drug debt, a hearing has been told." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The man was arrested by counter-terrorism police as he stepped off an aircraft that had arrived in London from Istanbul on Thursday evening.\nHe was taken to a south London police station and officers searched a property in east London.\nHe was bailed pending further enquiries until early June, Scotland Yard said.", "summary": "A 30-year-old man who was arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of preparing for terrorist acts and terrorist training has been bailed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Uncertainty shrouded Moorside, near Sellafield, as it was thought the corporation would withdraw from all nuclear operations outside Japan.\nIt follows heavy losses sustained by Toshiba over the past year.\nHowever, it says it will retain its role in the initial phase of Moorside before looking to sell its stake.\nThe Japanese corporation has a 60% share in NuGen, the firm behind the scheme.\nThe development phase includes involvement in areas such as public consultations, the planning process and licensing the reactor design in the UK.\nToshiba president Satoshi Tsunakawa told reporters in Tokyo his firm remained involved in the scheme \"with the condition that we don't take responsibility over construction work\".\nIn a statement, NuGen said Toshiba \"remains committed\" to developing the project and that it has made \"significant progress since Toshiba took over as major shareholder in 2014\".\nA spokesman told the BBC Toshiba had never committed to building the plant.\nBusiness and political leaders had warned the firm's total withdrawal from the £10bn project would have had significant implications for the county.\nSpeaking on Monday, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, the MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale in Cumbria, said it would be a \"hammer blow\" for the region if the firm cancelled its planned investment.\nDescribing the nuclear industry as \"the backbone of the local economy\", he added such a move would risk \"hurting the livelihoods of thousands of people\".\nChris Jukes, the GMB union's senior officer for Sellafield, had called on the government to commit to providing funding in the event of the company pulling out.\nHe said: \"New infrastructure, new roads, better railways, demand for housing, health and school places, would all follow a brand new power plant.\n\"All of these can fuel employment and keep skills in the area.\"\nThe plant, one of the \"next generation\" of UK nuclear power stations, is expected to provide electricity for six million homes.\nThe nuclear industry is crucial to West Cumbria's economy.\nMore than 10,000 people work at the Sellafield reprocessing site and thousands more in the nuclear supply chain.\nMoorside is seen by many as a vital investment in the area - although it is not without its detractors on environmental grounds.\nLast week the Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark was in West Cumbria and he told me the government was totally committed, despite recent uncertainty.\nThe Conservatives have put great emphasis on their support for the nuclear industry in the campaign for the upcoming Copeland by-election.\nThey see it as a weakness for Labour, with Jeremy Corbyn having previously opposed nuclear power.\nBut now the Labour leader has come out in favour of Moorside and Greg Clark's shadow Rebecca Long-Bailey has called for the government to invest public money to rescue the project if necessary.\nUKIP and the Liberal Democrats are also strongly supportive of Moorside, as are the two independent candidates standing in Copeland.", "summary": "Toshiba says it will continue to work on the development of a nuclear power station in Cumbria but will not be involved in its construction." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "How do I find out what sports are being covered?\nOur must not miss sport on the BBC page gives details of sport on BBC TV over the next seven days. From that page you can also find more specific details for sports including football, cricket and rugby union - including details of all our local radio commentaries.\nI missed something - how can i watch / listen to it?\nTo view all our TV and Red Button sports programming available on iPlayer, please visit this page.\nTo listen to all our radio sports programming available on iPlayer, please visit this page.\nTo access all our sports podcasts, please visit this page.\nWe also make short, edited clips of much of the best audio and video - these can be found on the relevant sport indexes.\nDo I need a TV licence to watch video online?\nIf you use any device to watch or record television programmes as they're being shown (live) on TV, then you need to be covered by a TV Licence.\nTo buy a TV licence or obtain further information about licensing requirements visit www.tvlicensing.co.uk.\nWhy aren't you covering a certain sport/world championships?\nWe only have limited resources and have to spread those resources across a great number of sports, including many minority sports which other commercial channels do not cover.\nWhy don't you advertise which interactive channel will be showing the available content?\nUnfortunately we are prevented from publicising which streams we are broadcasting our outputs for two reasons. Firstly, because the streams are not officially considered 'channels'. They are interactive video streams that are used to deliver interactive and enhanced content in line with the schedule.\nSecondly, because of the complexities of delivering interactive services across all genres and the desire to achieve optimum efficiency from the streams, the scheduling of content can be quite unpredictable and change at short notice. They are not managed in the same way as a channel.\nCan you send me a copy of a programme?\nUnfortunately we are unable to make copies for viewers who were in the crowd, in shot, or for viewers who simply missed the programme. Many programmes can be watched again via the BBC iPlayer.\nIf you've made a significant contribution to a BBC TV or radio programme (for example, if you were a performer or a member of the production team), you can request a contributor's copy of the show if it is held in the archives.\nVisit the Contributor Access Terms & Conditions for eligibility information and to apply online.\nHow do I contact the Question of Sport team?\nSend your questions to:\nA Question of Sport, Bridge House, MediaCityUK, Salford, M50 2EQ\nOr contact the show via this page\nHow do I get in touch with an individual in BBC Sport?\nWe cannot provide contact information for celebrities or members of production teams. We do pass on messages, but we cannot guarantee a response.\nCan you answer questions about other programmes?\nUnfortunately we cannot answer questions and answers about other programmes. Please contact the programmes directly.\nBBC feedback\nWhere can I find details of sports commentaries on BBC Radio?\nA rundown of our Radio coverage can be found here\nI heard a programme on BBC radio - can I hear it again?\nMany of our programmes are available in the radio section of the iPlayer.\nIf you have a question about Radio Five Live please go to their website.\nCATCH-UP\nTo view all our TV and Red Button sports programming available on iPlayer, please visit this page.\nTo listen to all our radio sports programming available on iPlayer, please visit this page.\nTo access all our sports podcasts, please visit this page.", "summary": "If you have a question about BBC Sport across TV and Radio please read these Frequently Asked Questions" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It predicts by 2030 men will be living 85.7 years on average - just two fewer than women.\nIn 1981 men lagged behind women by six years.\nThough life expectancy is improving for both sexes, it comes at the cost of widening inequalities between deprived and affluent areas, researchers say.\nThe researchers, from Imperial College London, predict by 2030 men will be living 2.4 years longer than official estimates from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) suggest. And women gain an extra year.\nUnlike ONS calculations, their methods put greater focus on improvements in lifespan over the past few years and make less pessimistic assumptions about the future.\nAnd while the ONS takes a more national approach, they collated death rates from 375 local authorities across England and Wales.\nThis is key as local authorities now take greater responsibility for planning health and social care services, they say.\nTheir main findings suggest many regional variations, including:\nThe new analysis did not cover Scotland, but government data suggests 76.8 years for males and 80.9 years for females.\nIf their predictions prove correct, they say pension pots would have larger payouts than currently planned.\nGreater investments would also be needed in health and social care, they warn.\nProf Majid Ezzati, lead researcher said: \"We forecast rising inequalities, with bigger increases in lifespan for people in affluent areas than those in disadvantaged areas.\n\"This means wealthy people will benefit more from health and social services than poor people.\"\nBrian Beach, at the International Longevity Centre think tank, said: \"The methods used look very solid and innovative.\n\"It has been known for some time that life expectancy can be influenced by social factors and where people live.\"\nBut he suggested other research went against assumptions that rising life expectancy lead to greater dependence on public services.\n\"Some would argue years of healthy life are increasing,\" he said.\n\"A 60-year-old living 100 years ago would have been considered a very frail person.\n\"But nowadays they might be viewed as middle-aged, living healthy and happy lives.\"\nThe ONS said figures would differ depending on the methods and assumptions used.\nA representative added: \"There is no clear consensus among academics around the likely speed of future mortality improvements among men and women.\n\"All future projections are uncertain, hence ONS publishes variant projections to illustrate some of this uncertainty and help those planning public services.\"\nAnd Prof Sir Michael Marmot, an expert at population health at University College London, said: \"Prediction is just that: prediction.\n\"Changes in social policy, for example, could mean that actual life expectancy in 2030 could be bigger or smaller than these predicted gains.\"", "summary": "Men are narrowing the gap on women when it comes to life expectancy in England and Wales, research in the Lancet indicates." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It was only the second time in the award's history that a children's book had won - and it was over a decade since Philip Pullman scooped the prize for The Amber Spyglass.\nBut change could be afoot as, only last month, The Fox and the Star - an illustrated fable about a fox and his friend - beat the competition to be named Waterstones Book of the Year.\nHardinge, delivering the winner's speech she had not thought she needed to prepare, urged more people to explore the \"beautiful jungle\" of children's and young adult (YA) fiction, whatever their age.\nHas the genre finally stepped out of the shadows to stand side-by-side with adult fiction?\nWe asked authors and industry experts for their views:\nI think there has been a general sea change - and we're definitely seeing it now, a move away from considering children's literature to be a little bit more lightweight.\nI'd have been happy to see the Costa Book of the Year go to any children's book - but I'm very happy it's mine.\nThe cross-over market is now much more established than it was. Many adults feel less self-conscious to be seen reading, enjoying and appreciating it.\nThere has been interesting and complex children's and young adult fiction for quite some time, but in terms of the consumer landscape and people's attitudes, I think Harry Potter had a lot to do with it.\nThere has been a tendency to make assumptions about the books, to deem them as simplistic. But now, people are seeing their complexity.\nThe idea of the 'beautiful jungle' sprung to mind because it's a place of excitement, danger, beauty - and the unexpected.\nWe have published seven books by her and to now get properly recognised in this way, because Costa is one of the largest awards, feels amazing.\nI think Frances does share some things with Philip Pullman, in that what she writes appeals to children and appeals to adults.\nThey are adult books, but the main character happens to be a child of 14. You get adults and children picking up the books.\nI hope that Frances will reach a much broader audience.\nChildren's books do tend to get less mainstream coverage than adult books, so when something like this happens, it's incredibly important.\nWe really need to help parents, teachers and children themselves to have access to quality literature and find out about it. So anything that engages them, inspires them and gets them to read is really important.\nThe wider world is realising what people within children's publishing have known for a while - which is that the quality and output is getting better, year on year.\nI don't think we're necessarily going to see children's and young adult books winning more adult book prizes, but in terms of people recognising the quality of children's literature, that will happen more often and people will pay more attention to children and young adult book prizes - there are so many of them.\nAs CS Lewis said, 'A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest' - and I think that's definitely the case.\nFor far too long, people have had this idea in their heads that children's and teenagers' literature was somehow inferior.\nBut the children's market has grown more quickly than the adult book market and hasn't been affected by the digital drive.\nHopefully, we will see more and more people recognising the quality of a really great children's book.\nYA fiction has been dismissed as 'issue lit', but The Lie Tree shows it can be incredibly varied and very diverse.\nIt can be very difficult for children's books to go up against adult books, but The Lie Tree has a wider appeal beyond younger readers.\nIn the UK in particular, we have such a rich heritage of children's books, going all the way back to Alice in Wonderland - there is such a rich seam, and some of the very best books are actually for children.\nNow, in terms of writing and production, children's publishers have really stepped up to the plate.\nThe Fox and the Star was about the quality and the beautiful design, while the Lie Tree is really about the storytelling and richness.\nBut I honestly don't know if I think it's going to be less rare for them to win such awards.\nI have definitely noticed within the industry there's a lot more respect for children's publishing and children's book selling as a crucial part of the market.\nChildren's books are selling so well, that people have been paying more attention.\"\nI feel that a story is a story, regardless of age, and this is something that has been recognised this year by the Costa awards, which is fantastic.\nI don't think it's the case it makes the genre more credible, it's just that other parts of the book publishing industry are realising that there is an inventiveness, enjoyment and profundity in these books which appeals to readers.\nThe books have to stand up to being read many times, and have layers of meaning, and it's something that the industry now realises.\nThere was such a big gap between the last children's book winning Costa book of the year and now, so we can only hope there will now be more. And to have two awards for children in a short space of time is great.\"\nI think Frances' prize is such a brilliant thing for young adult fiction.\nFor me, YA has been the biggest success story of the publishing industry over the past 25 years.\nPublishers were aware because of the sales figures, and young readers were aware, but it never got the critical attention it merited.\nThis [Costa award] has forced people to sit up and take notice of how great this fiction is.\nThere's been a traditional view in certain quarters that writing for children or teenagers is easier than writing for adults. Having done both, I can say it isn't.\nThere can also be a view it isn't 'proper' literature, but anyone who reads it would be surprised at just how good the books are - they aren't inferior in literary terms. But it takes a long time for these attitudes to disappear. I hope if enough of these books come to the public's attention, it will gradually erode this misconceived ideas.\nIt could be another 15 years before another children's book wins the Costa award - but it's a step in the right direction and will lead to more awareness.", "summary": "Anyone who saw Frances Hardinge's shocked face after her children's book The Lie Tree won the Costa Book of the Year prize On Wednesday night would know she was not expecting the accolade." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The lifeboat service was called in to help pull the woman and the man from the sea off St Osyth.\nWhen they arrived shortly before 06:00 BST on Friday, paramedics were already treating the pair at the water's edge.\nThe man, in his 40s, died later in hospital. Police have not confirmed the relationship between him and the arrested woman, aged 40.\nIt is understood the man is from the Clacton area.\nAn RNLI spokesman said the man and the woman \"had been in the water for a fair amount of time\".\n\"Our thoughts go out to the casualties, their friends and family,\" the spokesman said.\nEssex Police appealed for anybody who saw anything suspicious in the Spring Road area between 01:00 BST and 06:00 to contact them.", "summary": "A woman has been arrested on suspicion of assisting a suicide after a man was taken ill on a beach and later died." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Faletau has endured a fitful season because of injury, but showed signs of a return to form in Bath's European victory over Brive last weekend.\n\"I think he's one of the best number eights in the world,\" Blackadder said.\n\"I think he will be a Lion, I really do.\"\nEx-back-five forward Blackadder, who won 12 All Blacks caps, told BBC Radio 5 live: \"[Lions coach] Warren Gatland knows him really well and knows what he is capable of.\n\"You can feel the switch has been flicked and we are only going to see fantastic rugby from him.\"\nFaletau returned from his second knee injury of the season in the 2017 Six Nations, but was unable to oust Ross Moriarty from the starting back row.\n\"I think he has had a tough year to be honest,\" Blackadder said.\n\"Things haven't quite gone his way. When he did play for us we weren't exactly firing, and then him getting his injury and not getting a lot of time for Wales.\n\"But I thought there was a mindset shift last week. He looked like he was back in the groove.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nFaletau started for the Lions in the decisive Test against Australia in 2013, but faces competition this time around from the likes of England's Billy Vunipola, his childhood friend.\nHowever, Blackadder is excited about what is to come from Faletau, starting in Saturday's crucial Premiership clash with Leicester at Twickenham.\n\"We are only going to see fantastic rugby from him,\" the Kiwi added.\n\"He's only getting better. Last week [against Brive] was just an appetiser of what he is capable of, and I thought he was pretty special last week.\"", "summary": "Wales number eight Taulupe Faletau is \"back in the groove\" and is set to tour with the British and Irish Lions this summer, according to his director of rugby at Bath Todd Blackadder." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Members cheered and applauded in the Dáil (Irish parliament) on Wednesday as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny made the announcement.\nThere was a standing ovation as he gave status to the \"distinct ethnic group\".\nHe said the statement of recognition would go some way to ensuring they have a \"better future with less negativity\".\nThe Dáil was told that a \"large and unprecedented\" crowd had gathered outside the building to witness the moment.\nIrish President Michael D Higgins welcomed the move, describing it as \"a momentous decision, formally recognising Travellers' place in Irish society\".\nHe congratulated Travellers' organisations on their campaign.\n\"I have no doubt that today's clarification will be of assistance in interpreting legislation in relation to Travellers' rights, and ensuring respect for Travellers' distinct identity within the fabric of Irish society,\" the president added.\nIt is thought there are about 30,000 people living in the Republic of Ireland who are members of the Travelling community, representing 0.6% of the total population.\nMr Kenny said the Traveller community had \"for many years campaigned to have their unique heritage, culture and identify formally recognised by the Irish State\".\n\"Our Traveller community is an integral part of our society for over a millennium, with their own distinct identity - a people within our people,\" he added.\nHe said the government recognised \"the inequalities and the discrimination the Traveller community faces and has faced\" and added that they have \"a range of special programmes and interventions to help deal with this\".\nFollowing the standing ovation, Mr Kenny described state recognition as a \"historic day for Travellers and a proud day - a day of maturity - for Ireland\".\nA former director of the Irish Traveller Movement, Brigid Quilligan, told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that her community was overjoyed by the move.\nShe said that currently, the history, language and culture of Travellers was not valued and they were viewed as a failed set of people in the Republic of Ireland.\nMs Quilligan added that State recognition would help to change those perspectives.\nThe National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) said recognition as an ethnic group was \"critical, especially for young Travellers, so that they can be proud of their identity and heritage\".\nAnne Walsh of the NYCI said: \"This is a momentous day that promotes pride and dignity for a group that have, for far too long, often been left out of conversations about belonging, identity and integration held with other minority ethnic groups living in Ireland.\"", "summary": "The formal recognition of Irish Travellers as an indigenous ethnic minority by the Republic of Ireland has been hailed as a \"historic\" day." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sir Elton John said he was \"a giant of a man and a brilliant songwriter\", while Boy George called him a \"poignant force of energy\".\nRussell Crowe thanked the Hallelujah songwriter for \"the perspective, the wry smiles and the truth\".\nJK Rowling tweeted the singer's lyrics: \"There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in.\"\nActress Mia Farrow and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda were among others to quote the songwriter's lyrics on Twitter, while Carole King tweeted her respects with \"RIP\".\nPeter Gabriel said Cohen's \"unique voice painted unforgettable pictures\" and that \"there is a big hole where he stood\".\n\"Anyone looking at an empty page trying to write a song lyric sits in the shadow of the mountain that was Leonard Cohen,\" he wrote.\n\"Another magical voice stilled,\" wrote Bette Midler, while Justin Timberlake said Cohen had \"a spirit and soul beyond compare\".\nIn a lengthy tribute, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Cohen had \"managed to reach the highest of artistic achievement\".\n\"His ability to conjure the vast array of human emotion made him one of the most influential and enduring musicians ever.\"\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also paid tribute, describing him as \"a great creator\" and \"a talented artist\".\nAn impromptu vigil has been held outside the singer's Montreal home, with fans lighting candles and leaving messages and flowers.\nDire Straits' Mark Knopfler thanked Cohen \"for so many years of music\", while Canadian singer Alanis Morissette marked his passing with a crying face emoji.\nBritish singers Lily Allen and Paloma Faith also paid tribute, with the latter describing his death as \"a tragic loss\".\n\"As if the week could get any worse,\" tweeted Allen, one of a number of celebrities to allude to this week's election results in America.\nUS comedian Sarah Silverman said his death would make people \"remember songs like Come Healing which is a good one for these days\".\nDuran Duran singer Simon Le Bon wrote: \"Spent a good deal of my early teens, just me & #LeonardCohen alone together in my suburban bedroom. It was a gentle & fulfilling love affair.\"\nAlexandra Burke, whose cover version of Cohen's Hallelujah was the Christmas number one after she won The X Factor in 2008, said: \"Leonard Cohen, a lyrical legend, a man who will continue to inspire. A voice that will always live on. Thank you for the memories.\"\nNick Cave, who covered Cohen's Avalanche on his 1984 album From Her to Eternity, said he was \"the greatest songwriter of them all - utterly unique and impossible to imitate, no matter how hard we tried\".\nNeil Portnow, chief executive of the Recording Academy, which celebrates music through the Grammy Awards, described Cohen as \"one of the most revered pop poets and a musical touchstone for many songwriters\".\n\"His extraordinary talent had a profound impact on countless singers and songwriters, as well as the wider culture,\" he added.\n\"Unmatched in his creativity, insight and crippling candour, Leonard Cohen was a true visionary whose voice will be sorely missed,\" Cohen's manager Robert Kory told Rolling Stone.\n\"He leaves behind a legacy of work that will bring insight, inspiration and healing for generations to come.\"\nBBC DJ Mark Radcliffe said Cohen had been \"incredible to watch\" when he performed at the Glastonbury Festival in 2008.\n\"There were 70,000 people in front of that stage but he made it feel like a tiny club,\" he recalled.\nLike the late David Bowie, he went on, Cohen had \"made great music right to the end with the enigma intact.\"\nProducer John Lissauer, who worked with Cohen on such albums as New Skin for the Old Ceremony and Various Positions, said he had been \"an iconic figure.\"\n\"He was so consistent in his devotion to the craft and his devotion to recording and performing,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\nAppearing on the same programme, former chancellor Lord Darling said seeing Cohen play a gig in London had proved uplifting as he coped with the financial crisis.\n\"I went along prepared to be even more gloom-filled than I was feeling in the summer of 2008 and actually I came out of it very cheered up,\" he told the BBC earlier.\n\"It's no surprise he inspired so many people.\"\nSinger Jennifer Hudson thanked Cohen for his \"dedication to music\", accompanying her Twitter post with footage of a performance of Hallelujah she gave in 2014.\nYusuf, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, said Cohen's death had \"once again exposed... the fragileness of life\".\nCanadian author Margaret Atwood said his death had made her \"very sad\", sentiments echoed by Hobbit actor Luke Evans.\nOther actors to have paid their respects include Annette Bening, who described Cohen as \"the most inspiring performer\" and \"a genius\".\nAntonio Banderas called him \"a great poet\", while Kiefer Sutherland described his countryman as \"a brilliant Canadian artist\".\nAppearing on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show, music critic Neil McCormick described Cohen as \"an Old Testament poet combined with a hard-boiled comedian\".\n\"I've never met someone who took much care with his phrasing and words,\" he said. \"He could say the darkest things about the human condition, but lace it with a humour that made it palatable.\"\nSinger Frank Turner, appearing on the same programme, likened Cohen's songs to psalms - \"perfect creations that felt like he had discovered them rather than wrote them.\"\n\"He sets a standard for all songwriters everywhere,\" Turner continued. \"He wrote words that will stand the test of time and give the rest of us something to aspire to.\"\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Musicians, authors and politicians have paid tribute to singer Leonard Cohen following his death at the age of 82." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Blessed is the voice of one of three talking toilets in the Pyramid stage field to highlight the 2.3bn people who have no access to a basic toilet.\nActor Kathy Burke and musician Cerys Matthews will also voice \"babbling bogs\" to promote WaterAid's Toilets Save Lives campaign.\nAround 175,000 people are expected to attend the festival from Wednesday.\nWaterAid's Marcus Missen said: \"Who hasn't wanted to listen to Brian Blessed while sitting on the bog?\"\nBilled as the \"swankiest\" and \"best seats in the house\", the talking toilets are among more than 5,000 loos being installed across Worthy Farm ahead of this year's festival.\nThey are being used by the stars to share the \"huge problems of not having a toilet\".\nOne of the talking toilets also has a \"daunting two-way door\" which appears see-through to the person inside but as a mirror to those on the outside.\nA spokeswoman for WaterAid said it was designed to make the user feel \"exposed\" to highlight the one in three around the world who have \"nowhere safe to go to the toilet\".\n\"As they use the loo with a view, they'll have an epic view out to the Pyramid stage crowd,\" she said.\n\"Yet they'll also have to grapple with feeling visible to all outside, with their trousers down, whilst those waiting check their reflection.\"\nGates to the festival site open from 8:00 BST on Wednesday.\nActs scheduled to perform include Adele, Ellie Goulding, ZZ Top, Disclosure, Wolf Alice, Tame Impala, Beck, Stormzy, Madness and Foals.", "summary": "Actor Brian Blessed will be joining music lovers on the toilet at this year's Glastonbury Festival." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The rebels had abducted the policemen after stopping a bus carrying security personnel in Bijapur on Monday.\nThe Maoists say they are fighting for communist rule and greater rights for tribal people and the rural poor.\nTheir insurgency began in West Bengal in the late 1960s, spreading to more than a third of India's 676 districts.\nSenior Bijapur official KL Dhruv told BBC Hindi that the bodies had been recovered near Kutru [a village in Bijapur district] early on Wednesday.\nKutru is a rebel dominated area, some 525km (326 miles) south of the state capital, Raipur.\nChhattisgarh is often hit by Maoist violence. At least 14 policemen were killed in an ambush in the state in December.\nFormer Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described India's Maoist insurgency as its \"greatest internal security challenge\".", "summary": "The bodies of four policemen who were abducted by Maoist rebels have been recovered in India's Chhattisgarh state." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Nolan took over on 12 January and, after a win and a draw from his four games, the Magpies are only above the danger zone by one place and one point.\nBut with 17 matches remaining, Nolan told BBC Radio Nottingham he is confident they will stay up.\n\"Are we in a relegation scrap already? I don't think so,\" said Nolan, 34.\n\"There is a long way to go yet. If we go back 15 games we would be in the top six.\n\"I am not one to keep looking at tables and asking people to do us favours. It's about us. If we do our job we don't have to worry about anybody else.\n\"I know, with the quality of squad, if we start getting it right - getting the unit and the balance right - then we should be fine.\"\nNotts face Cheltenham on Saturday, knowing a victory would put them level on points with the 20th-placed Robins.\nPlayer-boss Nolan added: \"This league brings up all surprises. We could lose Saturday and go and beat Exeter on Saturday. I am trying to get some consistency and good performances. With good performances consistency comes, and you start getting wins.\n\"Once Cheltenham is over we will turn our heads towards Exeter.\n\"The next game is the best game. We will give it our best, and I truly believe if we do we will be okay.\"", "summary": "Notts County's seemingly precarious position in the bottom three of League Two does not mean they face a battle for survival, says manager Kevin Nolan." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "People living in the area had to leave their houses while workers tried to get everything under control.\nRadiation is a way that energy or heat moves around. Low levels of radiation are everywhere - this is known as background radiation.\nThe Sun, soil, rocks and even animals all give off low levels of radiation.\nA nuclear power plant produces a lot of radiation - but it is usually contained safely within the reactor.\nBut if the reactor becomes badly damaged - as happened in Fukushima in Japan in 2011 - radiation can escape and become dangerous to the environment.\nRadiation damages the cells that make up the human body.\nLow levels of radiation are not dangerous, but medium levels can lead to sickness, headaches, vomiting and a fever.\nHigh levels can kill you by causing damage to your internal organs. It's difficult to treat high radiation exposure.\nExposure to radiation over a long time can cause cancer.\nIt's thought that only emergency workers at the plant are at risk of harmful doses of radiation, but it's likely they are only being exposed for short lengths of time so there's less danger.\nThe level of exposure for people living close to the plant was a lot lower, and there should be little risk to people living further away.", "summary": "In 2011 an earthquake in Japan damaged a nuclear power plant causing it to leak radiation." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The House of Representatives approved the bill earlier this week, also by an overwhelming majority.\nHaving passed through both chambers, it will be sent to President Trump to sign into law.\nBut Mr Trump has sought closer ties with Russia, and has the power to veto the bill despite its political support.\nA presidential veto can, in turn, be overridden by a two-thirds vote in the House and Senate - where just a handful of politicians voted against the bill.\nThe sanctions were drawn up in part to punish Russia further over the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.\nBut the debate over the new measures has taken place against the backdrop of an ongoing investigation into alleged Russian meddling the in the 2016 presidential election.\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied the existence of any Russian involvement in the election to help his campaign.\nBut political correspondents say an attempt to veto the new sanctions could fuel suspicion that he is too supportive of the Kremlin.\nThe White House is also said to be particularly concerned over a provision in the new bill which would limit President Trump's ability to lift the sanctions.\nUnder the legislation, he would be forced to consult Congress first.\nSpeaking earlier this week after the House passed the bill, top-ranking Republican Paul Ryan said it \"tightens the screws on our most dangerous adversaries in order to keep Americans safe\".\nBut the bill was criticised by some European countries which deal with Russian energy pipelines - which may fall foul of the new sanctions.\nIt remains to be seen if the president will attempt to veto the bill.\nNew White House Communications director Anthony Scaramucci told CNN: \"He may sign the sanctions exactly the way they are or he may veto the sanctions and negotiate an even tougher deal against the Russians.\"\nEarlier this week, the White House simply said it was reviewing the bill, \"and awaits a final legislative package for the president's desk\".", "summary": "The United States Senate has voted 98-2 to impose new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea, despite objections from the White House." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "His more than 100 books were translated into 30 languages.\nHe was also a translator who was known for his French versions of the plays of William Shakespeare, and the poetry of W B Yeats, John Donne and Petrarch.\nHis style was surrealistic to a degree, but he sought to avoid the obscurity which might isolate his readers from the everyday world.\nBorn in 1923 in Tours, he was also an art critic who wrote on such modern masters as Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Piet Mondrian.\nHe also translated the works of his friend, the Greek poet George Seferis.\nBonnefoy published his first volume of poetry in 1946 and first achieved wider fame seven years with his third book.\nIn his writing he said he tried to capture some of primal emotions that he associated with his own happy childhood.\nIn his poetry he tried to seek \"what is immediate in life\" by staying faithful to the \"truth of language\".\n\"A poet's job is to show us a tree, before our mind tells us what a tree is,\" said Bonnefoy.\nHe taught comparative poetics at the prestigious College de France from 1981 to 1994, as well as teaching at a number of US universities.", "summary": "Yves Bonnefoy, one of France's most esteemed modern poets, has died at the age of 93, French media report." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The United States defender, 20, was part of the New York side that finished top of the regular-season standings in Major League Soccer last year.\nHis arrival follows that of Brazil striker Alexandre Pato, who has signed on loan for the rest of the season.\nMiazga, a centre-half, said Chelsea was \"the place to develop and learn from some of the best players in the world\".\nHe made 34 league appearances across three seasons with New York, with his solitary goal for the club coming in a derby victory over New York City FC last May.\nNew Jersey-born Miazga has made one international appearance, against St Vincent and the Grenadines in a World Cup qualifier in November.", "summary": "Chelsea have confirmed the signing of Matt Miazga from New York Red Bulls on a four-and-a-half-year contract." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "An inaugural show highlighting the Palestinian refugee experience was suspended amid a disagreement between the museum's board and former director.\nThe chairman says he expect the museum to be operating by the end of the year.\n\"Satellite exhibitions\" reflecting the Palestinian story will also be held in cities around the Middle East.\nNext week, Beirut will host one entitled \"At the seams: A political history of Palestinian embroidery.\"\nThe BBC's Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem says the Palestinians regard themselves as a people without a homeland - now they have a museum without an exhibition.\nThe empty building, built at a cost of $24m (£17m), is a striking low-rise structure in light local stone which sits in handsome gardens outside the university town of Birzeit, our correspondent adds.\nWhen it is up and running, the Palestinian Museum will chronicle the story of the Palestinian people and their displacement by the conflict which followed the establishment of the state of Israel at the end of the 1940s.\nIt will also provide a focal point for the gatherings of collections of private family photographs.\nThe museum's chairman said he did not consider its unusual opening to be a source of embarrassment.\n\"We are celebrating the fact it is completed on time. We are celebrating the gardens,\" Omar Qattan was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.\n\"We wanted to stick to a date - I think it is very important psychologically for us to be able to make promises that we keep. So we decided to open now rather than wait for the inaugural exhibition.\"\nAt Wednesday's inauguration ceremony, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared: \"This museum will tell the world - the entire world - that we were here, we are still here, and we will continue to be here to build our independent state. Nobody can deny us this right.\"\n\"We have been planted here since the dawn of history,\" he added.", "summary": "Palestinian leaders have formally opened a new national museum in the occupied West Bank, even though it does not yet have any exhibits." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "I had imagined rebuilding would have begun, but it is as if the country has been frozen in time.\nThe streets have been cleared of rubble and the most obviously unstable structures have been brought down, but that is where the so-called \"reconstruction effort\" stopped.\nVirtually none of the 800,000 buildings it is reckoned the quake destroyed have been rebuilt.\nThe lack of progress is most stark in the countryside. Whole villages are still shattered and broken.\nI am expecting boiling anger when I go back into one of the worst-hit provinces, Sindhupalchowk.\nBut instead I find something much more depressing: hopeless resignation.\nWe first met Beli Bishta, a mother of three, the day her husband had been killed by one of the series of massive aftershocks that followed the first big quake.\nThe family was in white robes and her two sons had shaved their heads in the traditional Hindu ritual of mourning.\nA year on and her situation is no better, in fact if anything it has only got worse.\n\"We have lost everything,\" she told me. \"No-one has helped us. I've had to sell our land. It is the only way we could manage.\"\nThe family is still living in a flimsy one-room tin shack built in the wreckage of the old family home.\nIt is a picture repeated across the country.\nAccording to the Red Cross, four million people are still living in sub-standard temporary shelters.\nThe victims of the earthquake have received some small payments from the government - for hardship and compensation for the loss of relatives - but it promised it would also give every family that has lost a home $2,000 (£1,390) towards the cost of rebuilding.\nMost of that money has not been paid.\n25 April 2015 - a 7.8-magnitude quake hits the capital Kathmandu and its surrounding areas, killing more than 8,000 people\nSome 120 aftershocks follow\n12 May 2015 - a second major earthquake, magnitude 7.3, hits in eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest. More than 100 people are killed and thousands more injured\nAmong the worst-hit districts was Sindhupalchok, where more than 2,000 died, and Kathmandu, where more than 1,000 perished\nMany of the country's historic sites were severely damaged, including temples and monuments. At least four out of seven Unesco World Heritage sites in the Kathmandu valley were badly affected.\nRead more:\nLike hundreds of thousands of other Nepalis, Beli Bishta says she worries that if she starts to rebuild the family will not be eligible for the cash.\nYou might think that the appalling state so many earthquake-hit areas of Nepal are still in would be a fatal indictment of the government.\nHow could any administration leave its people in destitution and still expect a mandate to govern?\nBut Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli appears to see himself as much of a victim of circumstance as earthquake survivors like Beli Bishta.\nWhen I ask whether he is happy about the speed of reconstruction, he doesn't try to dodge the issue.\n\"Of course it is slow,\" he says. \"It is late. I am not happy, but it is reality and I have to accept the reality and go ahead.\"\nNepal is a desperately poor country and many of the homes destroyed are in very remote areas, he tells me.\nBut, as I point out, that isn't enough to explain the lack of reconstruction effort.\nThe world community came together in sympathy in the weeks after the quake struck, pledging $4.1bn (£2.87bn) towards the rebuilding of the country.\nThat money is still waiting to be spent.\nWhen I ask about corruption, Mr Oli says he finds my question \"humiliating\", and suggests that some charities have raised the issue as a way of encouraging donors to give them money, rather than the government.\nBut corruption is a real concern in a country languishing in the bottom ranks of the anti-corruption organisation Transparency International's league tables.\nHe argues the main cause of the delays has been a political upheaval in the country.\nIt is true that, instead of tackling the earthquake damage, Nepal's politicians became caught up in a heated battle over the details of a long-overdue new constitution.\nThe details had been in discussion since the monarchy was abolished in 2008.\nThe hope was that fast-tracking the constitutional negotiations would speed up reconstruction. But, in the event, the opposite happened.\nAfter six months a new constitution was approved but it prompted a revolt amongst the ethnic groups in the lowland regions between Nepal and India, which led to a protracted blockade of the border.\nThat, in turn, caused shortages of essential supplies including food and fuel.\n\"They are angry, they are bereft, but the Nepali people also read the newspapers, they know why what is happening is happening,\" says the veteran Nepali journalist and political commentator, Kanak Mani Dixit.\nWe are talking on a balcony overlooking the broken stump of the Dharahara tower that once dominated the Kathmandu skyline.\nIt now jabs up from its plinth like an accusing finger.\n\"We did OK in rescue and relief,\" says Mr Dixit. \"But then the politics of constitution writing took over and it was a very polarising event. And that was followed by the blockade, which brought a humanitarian crisis on its own.\"\nThe people may understand the delays but, out in the countryside, I sense patience wearing thin.\nThe prime minister assured me that the first money was being released as we spoke last week.\nHaving endured the monsoon and Nepal's harsh winter, and with another monsoon on the way, it cannot come too soon.", "summary": "A year after the earthquake and Nepal is still a country of tarpaulins, tents and tin-roofed shacks." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They received death threats after supporting a move to describe the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.\nGermany's foreign ministry has warned MPs of Turkish origin against travelling to Turkey, saying their security there could not be guaranteed.\nThe German parliament's move outraged the Turkish government, which does not recognise the killings as genocide.\nGermany's genocide vote inflames tensions with Turkey\nThe 11 MPs of Turkish origin who voted for the resolution have faced a backlash of negative opinion from the Turkish government and from within Germany's sizable Turkish community.\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan castigated them, saying: \"What sort of Turks are they?\"\nAnkara's mayor showed the 11 MPs in a tweet, saying they had \"stabbed us in the back\". According to German media, it was retweeted by many Turkish nationalists, some of whom made death threats.\nAnd a group of Turkish lawyers has reportedly filed a complaint accusing the MPs of \"insulting Turkishness and the Turkish state\".\nEarlier this month, Turkey recalled its ambassador from Berlin in fury after the German parliament voted overwhelmingly for the Armenian \"genocide\" resolution.\nTurkish nationalists who rallied against the German MPs' vote made the sign of the Grey Wolves, a nationalist group that has murdered leftists and liberals in the past.\nThe leader of Germany's Green Party, Cem Ozdemir - who initiated the debate on the Armenian massacres in the Bundestag - told a newspaper he had been sent emails saying things like: \"We will find you anywhere.\"\nHe said well-informed friends in Turkey had told him to take the threats seriously.\nArmenians say up to 1.5 million of their people died in the atrocities of 1915, during the Ottoman Empire's collapse in World War One. Turkey says the toll was much lower and rejects the term \"genocide\".\nFind out more about what happened\nArmenian tragedy still raw in Turkey", "summary": "Eleven German MPs of Turkish origin have been put under police protection." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sarah Sands, 32, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Michael Pleasted, 77, by reason of loss of control.\nPleasted, who had previous convictions, was on bail awaiting trial when he was killed at his flat in east London.\nHe was stabbed eight times and bled to death, the Old Bailey heard.\nJudge Nicholas Cooke QC said it was a \"truly exceptional case\" as he reduced her sentence from seven years to three-and-a-half, taking into consideration her position as a single mother.\nSands, who was cleared of murder, had armed herself with a knife and carried out a \"determined and sustained attack\" on Pleasted at his flat in Canning Town, the court heard.\nPleasted, who also went by the name of Robin Moult, had 24 previous convictions for sexual offences spanning three decades.\nHe served sentences of between nine months and six years for sex crimes that included indecent assaults on a boys aged under 16 and under 14.\nHowever, he was not on the sex offenders register as he committed his offences before it was introduced in 1997.\nSands, who has been in custody for the past 10 months, could be released on parole in 11 months.\nThe judge emphasised the case was \"unique\" as Sands had lost control rather than taken the law into her own hands and engaged in \"vigilante conduct\".\nHe said: \"There must never be the slightest encouragement for mob rule.\"\nThe judge added: \"This was a case in which the defendant promptly gave herself up to the police in a highly stressed state, never disputed responsibility for the killing as a matter of fact, did not take the opportunity to get rid of evidence and demonstrated remorse.\"\nAt the time of the attack, Pleasted was on bail awaiting trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court on two charges of sexual assault on two children aged under 13.\nOfficers were also investigating a further allegation he had abused a third boy.\nDuring the trial, Sands told the court she had not intended to hurt Pleasted when she went to his flat with a knife, claiming instead she wanted him to admit to his crimes so his young accusers would not have to go to court.\nSands told the jury she was \"frightened\", adding: \"It was not how it was meant to go. He was meant to listen to me\".\nHowever she said Pleasted \"smirked\" when he answered the door and told her the boys were all liars who had ruined his life.\nDuring the trial, the judge said an inquiry was under way into the decision to bail Pleasted.", "summary": "A woman has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for killing a man charged with sexually assaulting young boys on the east London estate where they lived." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Smith, who will now sit as an independent councillor, said he was \"sick of internal backstabbers who hold minor roles in the party\".\nHe had been selected to fight the South Basildon and East Thurrock seat after ex-Tory MP Neil Hamilton pulled out.\nBut he had to resign after apologising for offensive remarks he made in a phone call.\nMr Smith said he supported the \"general goals\" of UKIP, but added that he needed to \"walk away\" and \"get my life back\".\nMr Smith is a councillor on both Essex County Council and Basildon District Council.\nUKIP hopes to make a serious challenge for the South Basildon and East Thurrock seat in the forthcoming general election, in which it is seeking to win a handful of seats and potentially hold the balance of power.\nBut Mr Smith's resignation, four days after he was re-adopted as a candidate, capped a week of negative headlines for the party.\nMr Hamilton pulled out of contention for the seat amid questions raised by the party over his expenses while another candidate, Natasha Bolter, withdrew amid an investigation into allegations she made against Roger Bird, whose job is to vet election candidates. Mr Bird denies the allegations.\nIn a recording obtained by the Mail On Sunday, Mr Smith made offensive remarks about gay people, other UKIP members and Chigwell in Essex.\nFollowing his resignation on Sunday, Mr Smith said in a statement: \"I want the best for South Basildon and Thurrock and I want to see the real issues discussed that touch the lives of people.\n\"Therefore I have chosen to resign so that UKIP can win this seat next May.\"\nUKIP leader Nigel Farage said Mr Smith resigned \"by mutual consent\", and described his behaviour as \"loutish and wholly inappropriate\".\nHe said UKIP had had \"great difficulty\" with the Basildon selection, adding: \"The party has got to grip this and sort it out, in short order\".\nMr Farage also said UKIP's national executive committee had the power to impose a candidate if it wanted.\nMr Smith stood for UKIP in the Basildon seat in 2010, where he came fourth behind the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems.\nBut the party now regards the seat as one that it could possibly win and the selection process is now likely to be re-opened.", "summary": "Kerry Smith has resigned from UKIP after being forced to quit as a prospective parliamentary candidate." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The pro-Leave justice secretary said the government could not limit the number of arrivals from inside the EU.\nOn a Question Time special, a Spanish woman who works in the UK criticised him and said: \"We are not the enemy\".\nMr Gove also attacked chancellor George Osborne's \"Brexit Budget\" warning of emergency spending cuts.\nA letter claiming the chancellor's position would be \"untenable\" if he tried to cut NHS, police and school spending has been signed by 65 MPs.\nMr Gove said he would not back such a Budget and criticised \"dire warnings\" coming from the Remain campaign.\n\"I think it's a shame that the Remain camp are talking this country down,\" he said.\nIn other referendum news:\nPrime Minister David Cameron will make the case to remain, in a second Question Time special on Sunday.\nDuring his 45-minute grilling, the justice secretary was challenged by audience members over warnings from financial institutions and other bodies about life outside the EU.\nResponding to a woman who said leaving would make it more difficult to trade with other EU countries which are the \"lifeblood\" of her business, he said other countries would \"take leave of their senses\" if they chose not to continue to trade with the UK.\nHe conceded there would be \"bumps in the road\" if voters back Brexit, but said the UK \"will be in a better position to deal with them\".\nHe said: \"My view is that whatever happens in the future we will be in a strong position to deal with any crises that occur as a result of leaving the EU.\"\nMr Gove said his father had to close his fish merchant business because of EU policy. And he criticised The Guardian after it said his father had contradicted his version.\n\"My dad was rung up by a reporter from the Guardian who tried to put words into his mouth,\" he said, adding that his father was \"clear... that the business he invested so much care and time in had to close as a result of the Common Fisheries Policy\".\nOn immigration, Mr Gove said if there is a vote to leave, the government would \"bring down the numbers\" in the Parliament after 2020, by which time the UK's exit would have been completed.\nA Spanish audience member - who is unable to vote on 23 June - said she had lived in England for 14 years and did not feel \"welcome\" as a result of Mr Gove's call for a crackdown on EU migration.\n\"You use us to your convenience, and when we are no use to you any more you chuck us out,\" she told him.\nMr Gove said he valued her contribution but that it was \"undeniable\" that \"to continue to have support for migration we need to be able to control the numbers\".\nWorking people's wages were \"held down\" by immigration, he said, calling for the UK to \"take back control\".\nThe Question Time programme is the latest in a series of special referendum shows being broadcast on the BBC.\nCampaigners from both sides will take each other on in a live debate at Wembley Arena on 21 June. The line-up has yet to be announced.", "summary": "Michael Gove says leaving the EU is necessary for people to support Britain's \"multi-racial, multi ethnic society\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "John Catt had spent years protesting over nuclear weapons, Vietnam, Iraq, racism in the police force, poll tax and increasing tuition fees.\nHe had argued that he was not engaged in criminal activity and the retention of the data was unlawful.\nThe High Court judges ruled his human rights were not being infringed.\nMr Catt began legal action after he discovered details of his protests against Brighton-based arms factory EDO were being held on the police's National Domestic Extremism Database.\nLord Justice Gross said the data in question \"is essentially comprised of records, or reports, made by police officers overtly policing demonstrations\" of a group known as Smash EDO.\n\"Smash ED0 is a protest group which has carried on a long-running campaign, calling for the closure of EDO, a US-owned arms company carrying on a lawful business and with a factory in Brighton.\"\nHe added: \"Smash EDO stages regular protests. Although many people at Smash EDO protests do not commit criminal offences, disorder and criminality has been a feature of a number of the protests.\"\nRejecting Mr Catt's case, Lord Justice Gross said: \"The compilation and retention of the reports were predictable consequences of Mr Catt's very public activities; they neither engaged nor infringed his right to privacy.\"\nActing on Mr Catt's behalf, Shamik Dutta said: \"This judgment raises matters of constitutional importance and could impact upon anyone engaging in peaceful protest. Mr Catt has therefore instructed me to seek permission to appeal.\"", "summary": "An 87-year-old man from Brighton has lost his legal bid to force police to remove records of his political activities from their database." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Saudi Arabia protested after the UN released a report saying the coalition was responsible for 60% of the child deaths and injuries in Yemen last year.\nIt said the casualty figures were \"wildly exaggerated\".\nThe UN said it would now carry out a joint review with the coalition of the cases listed in the report.\nBut the Saudi envoy to the UN insisted the removal of the coalition from the blacklist was \"final\".\nThe human rights campaign group Human Rights Watch sharply criticised the move, saying the UN chief's office had \"hit a new low\".\nThe coalition - which comprises Saudi Arabia and nine other Arab and Muslim nations, supported by the US and UK - began fighting the Houthis in March 2015, two months after the rebels drove Yemen's government from power and took full control of the capital, Sanaa.\nSince then, at least 6,200 people - about half of them civilians - have been killed and 2.8 million others have been displaced, according to the UN.\nLast Thursday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued his annual report on children and armed conflict, which described the situation in Yemen as \"particularly worrisome\".\nA year that has set Yemen back decades\nNo end in sight to war in Yemen\nPractising medicine under fire in Yemen\nA young girl and a city struggling for life\nIt said there was a five-fold increase in the number of children recruited and used by armed groups in 2015 and that six times more children were killed and maimed compared with 2014.\nThe report attributed 510 child deaths and 667 injuries last year to the Saudi-led coalition, most of them caused by air strikes, and 142 child deaths and 247 injuries to the Houthis. In 324 incidents, the responsible party could not be identified.\nJust under half of the 101 verified attacks on schools and hospitals were attributed to the coalition.\nOn Monday, Saudi Arabia's permanent representative to the UN, Abdullah al-Mouallimi, complained to Mr Ban about the report.\n\"If there are any casualties from the coalition side, they would be far, far lower,\" he said, adding that it used \"the most up-to-date equipment in precision targeting\".\nLater, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Mr Ban had accepted a Saudi proposal to remove the coalition from the blacklist pending a joint review of the cases and numbers cited in his report.\nThe secretary general had invited the coalition to send a team to New York as soon as possible for detailed discussions before the UN Security Council examines the report in August, he added.\nHowever, Mr Mouallimi described the removal of the coalition from the blacklist as a \"vindication\", and said the decision was \"irreversible and unconditional\".\n\"We were wrongly placed on the list,\" he added. \"We know that this removal is final.\"\nHuman Rights Watch accused UN officials of \"political manipulation\".\n\"After giving a similar pass to Israel last year, the UN secretary general's office has hit a new low by capitulating to Saudi Arabia's brazen pressure and taking the country off its just published list of shame,\" said the US-based group's deputy director for global advocacy, Philippe Bolopion. \"Yemen's children deserve better.\"\nThe UN left Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas off the blacklist in the 2014 report, after they had been included in an earlier draft.", "summary": "The Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen has been removed from a UN blacklist of states and groups that violate children's rights in conflict." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Knox, who is currently in the US, was sentenced to 28 years and six months.\nHer Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, also had his guilty verdict reinstated and received 25 years. He was \"struck dumb\", his lawyer said.\nThe Kercher family lawyer said that justice had been done.\nLawyers for both Knox and Sollecito have said they will appeal to the supreme Court of Cassation.\nBy Alan Johnston BBC News, Florence\nThis re-running of the appeal process was ordered by Italy's highest court, whose judges had demolished the grounds for Knox and Sollecito's acquittals.\nAnd so there was a sense that the momentum was with the prosecution as this latest appeal began. Now that it has secured a conviction, an eventual attempt to extradite Knox is a possibility.\nBut her legal team would fight it with everything it had.\nMost people in Italy would find it very difficult indeed to imagine the US authorities one day putting Amanda Knox on a plane and sending her back here to spend much of the rest of her life in jail.\nAs part of Thursday's ruling, Knox and Sollecito were also ordered to pay damages to the family of Miss Kercher, whose brother Lyle and sister Stephanie were in the courtroom in Florence.\nSpeaking soon after, Lyle Kercher said: \"It's hard to feel anything at the moment because we know it will go to a further appeal. No matter what the verdict was, it never was going to be a case of celebrating anything.\"\nTheir lawyer, Francesco Maresca, called the verdict \"justice for Meredith and the family\".\nSollecito's lawyer, Luca Maori, said his client had heard the verdict on TV and looked \"annihilated\".\n\"There isn't a shred of proof,\" Mr Maori said.\nMiss Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon in south London, was stabbed to death in the flat she shared with Knox in the college city of Perugia.\nKnox and Sollecito, 29, were jailed for her murder in 2009 but the verdicts were overturned in 2011 and the pair were freed.\nHowever, the acquittals were themselves overturned last year by the Court of Cassation, which returned the case to the Florence court.\nThe Court of Cassation will now hear the defendants' appeals.\nIn Italy, verdicts are not considered final until they are confirmed, usually by the Court of Cassation.\nLegal experts say it is unlikely Italy will request Knox's extradition until then.\nIn a statement issued after the verdict, Knox, 26, said: \"I am frightened and saddened by this unjust verdict.\n\"Having been found innocent before, I expected better from the Italian justice system.\"\nShe added: \"There has always been a marked lack of evidence. My family and I have suffered greatly from this wrongful persecution. This has gotten out of hand.\"\nKnox, who is currently studying for a degree in creative writing at the University of Washington, followed the court proceedings from her hometown of Seattle.\nAfter 12 hours of deliberation, the verdicts were delivered by presiding judge Alessando Nencini, who ordered that Sollecito's passport should be revoked.\nSollecito had been in court earlier on Thursday but left before the verdicts were delivered.\nThe judge made no requests for limits on Knox's movements.\nLegal experts say that if Italy requests extradition, the US would have to decide whether the case fell under the nations' extradition treaty. Political considerations could also come into play, they say.\nBy Taylor BrownBBC News, Washington\nStephen Vladeck, a law professor at American University in Washington DC, says that whether or not Knox is extradited to Italy is a question of the request's legal basis and America's political interest in the case.\nOnce Italy makes a request, the US will have to decide whether it falls under their extradition treaty.\nWhile there is \"no reason to think the US has a specific interest\" in blocking her extradition, Mr Vladeck says, countries can effectively stand in the way with a variety of \"creative\" interpretations of extradition treaties.\nIf the US does grant Italy's request, Knox can fight her extradition in a US court, citing among other things international human rights law.\nUS Senator Maria Cantwell, from Knox's home state of Washington, said she was \"very concerned and disappointed'' by the verdict and confident that the appeal would re-examine the decision.\n\"It is very troubling that Amanda and her family have had to endure this process for so many years,'' she said in a statement.\nRudy Guede from the Ivory Coast has already been convicted of Miss Kercher's murder at an earlier trial, and sentenced to 16 years in prison. That verdict specified that he did not commit the crime alone.\nProsecutors sought to prove Miss Kercher had died in a sex game involving Knox and Sollecito that went wrong.\nThey have since alleged that the murder resulted from a heated argument over cleanliness in the Perugia apartment.", "summary": "US student Amanda Knox says she is \"frightened and saddened\" after a court in Italy reinstated her guilty verdict for the 2007 murder of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In the last three years, the volume of residential sales within five miles of the new stops has risen.\nHowever, the increase is less than that in the wider local authority areas of Midlothian and the Scottish Borders.\nHouse prices have also risen along the route since 2006 but again the council-wide figure has been higher.\nWhat's happening in Scotland today? Keep in touch through our live page.\nSince 2012, the volume of residential sales within five miles of the new stops has risen by 50.2% in Midlothian, and 26.3% in the Borders.\nFigures for the whole council areas rose by 60.6% and 30.1% respectively and by 28.2% in Scotland as a whole.\nRoS also found house prices had been \"largely unaffected\".\nSince 2006 when the bill was approved to reopen the railway, average prices in the Midlothian catchment area have grown 6.1% to £166,639, while houses within five miles of the new Borders stations have seen average prices increase of 4.5% to £143,283.\nCouncil-wide area figures for the same period are 13.4% in Midlothian and 9.5% in the Borders with the Scottish increase at 16.1%\nRoS' head of data, Rhona Mackay, said: \"We have seen an increase in the volume of sales around the new Borders railway stations, but this is slightly lower than the volumes seen in the local authority areas as a whole.\n\"Prices are also up, but again this is lower in the five mile catchment areas than the wider local authority areas where the increase is more substantial.\n\"It is widely expected that the new line will stimulate interest in the property market in the areas close to the stations, and there have already been a number of new-build developments within the railway catchment areas in recent years, so it will be interesting to revisit these statistics again once the new link is up and running.\"\nThe Borders Railway opens to the public on Sunday between Tweedbank and Edinburgh.\nIt has seven new stops along its length including Newtongrange and Gorebridge in Midlothian, and Stow and Galashiels in the Borders.\nGet live news updates throughout the day from the Borders and Dumfries and Gallowayon our south of Scotland live page.", "summary": "The Borders Railway has yet to have an impact on the housing market along its route, according to new figures from Registers of Scotland (RoS)." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar, 37, had been celebrating Ms Khan's 21st birthday before the attack.\nAcid was thrown on them through their car window on 21 June while they were waiting at traffic lights in Beckton.\nJohn Tomlin, 24, has been charged with two counts of grievous bodily harm with intent and will appear at Thames Magistrates' Court later.\nMs Khan, a student at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Mr Muhktar suffered severe burns to the face and body in the attack.\nThe attacker then threw more of the acid at Mr Muhktar before fleeing the scene, police said.", "summary": "A man has been charged over an acid attack on a woman and her cousin in east London." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The wild beaver had been spotted at the Loch of the Lowes in August.\nStaff have managed to catch the animal, which has been identified as a two to three year old male European Beaver.\nThe aquatic mammal was taken to Edinburgh Zoo for a proper health check and DNA testing, before being released back into the reserve.\nThe Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT), along with the Tayside Beaver Study Group, has been monitoring the animal at the Loch of the Lowes since it was first spotted last summer.\nStaff placed a humane trap, baited with carrots and apples, near the beaver's lodge.\nOnce caught, it was taken to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) vet in Edinburgh, where the male beaver was given a full check for diseases and a sample of DNA taken.\nThe animal was re-released on the reserve later the same day, where staff said \"he ambled happily down to the water's edge\" and swam back to his lodge.\nA spokesman at the reserve said: \"We intend, of course, to continue monitoring the beaver at Loch of the Lowes and his behaviour, as well as any impact he has on the reserve's ecology.\n\"He is a charming animal who has provided us with some very funny moments on camera.\n\"So far there are no confirmed sightings of a second animal here, but it is possible that our male may attract a mate, we will be continuing to monitor him to follow the story.\"\nBeavers became extinct in the UK towards the end of the 16th century.\nThe current wild beaver populations in Scotland either belong to the government-licensed Scottish Beaver Trial in Knapdale in Argyll, or are the descendants of escapees from private collections in Angus and Perthshire over the past decade.", "summary": "The first wild beaver in more than 400 years has been trapped at a Perthshire nature reserve in order to perform health checks and a DNA test." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Labour's Rachael Maskell took York Central while the Conservative's Rishi Sunak replaced former foreign secretary William Hague in Richmond.\nIn Ryedale, the Tories retained Thirsk and Malton with the election of their new candidate Kevin Hollinrake.\nSpeaking to BBC Radio York's political reporter Gemma Dillon, the trio outlined their future priorities.\nKevin Hollinrake was chosen to fight Thirsk and Malton when the local Conservative Party de-selected former MP Anne McIntosh.\nThe father of four, who held the Conservative seat with 27,545 votes to Labour's 8,089, says he is \"proud to represent the area he has lived and worked in.\"\nDescribing his first week at the House of Commons, he said: \"It was a bit surreal to be having my lunch and suddenly see [chancellor] George Osborne on the next table.\"\nMr Hollinrake's goals include making sure North Yorkshire \"gets a fair share\" of money invested by government in rural areas.\nThe new MP for Richmond says he is all too aware of the boots he has to fill in William Hague's former constituency.\nThe son-in-law of Indian tech titan Narayana Nurthy described his first week at Westminster as being like \"a cross between freshers' week and Hogwarts.\"\nHe promised to put the large, rural patch on everyone's radar.\n\"That means better broadband, more accessible health care, supporting our farmers, and making sure we can have a vibrant local economy in a rural area with every opportunity that we are seeing in cities,\" he said.\nThe former Unite rep is the lone Labour voice and female representative from North Yorkshire at Westminster.\nMs Maskell bucked the national trend for Labour, winning a comfortable majority of 7,000 in York Central and boosting the party's share of the vote.\nShe replaces Sir Hugh Bayley who had represented voters in York since 1992, but stood down at this election.\n\"My focus is to protect people across York and to make sure parliament does the right thing for the electorate,\" she said.", "summary": "Three faces have joined the political line up in North Yorkshire following general election victories." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But East African countries could ban imports of used clothes and second-hand cars in the next three years, putting an end to a lucrative trade in the region.\nBurundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda could all ban second-hand clothes and leather.\nThey make up the East Africa Community (EAC).\nThe EAC directed member countries to buy their textiles and shoes from within the region with a view to phasing out imports by 2019.\nBefore the meeting on Wednesday, the EAC also proposed a reduction in imports of used cars.\nThe EAC suggested phasing out imports in the next three years.\nHowever, the newspaper The East African reports that it depends on the five countries' heads of states all agreeing to a common industrialisation policy.\nIt adds that the proposal suggests a ban would only come in after an increase in local textile production.\nThe idea is to give a boost to local manufacturing, and help the economy.\nOne argument is that the imported clothes are so cheap that the local textiles factories and self-employed tailors can't compete, so they either close down or don't do as well as they could.\nA release from a previous EAC manufacturing and business summit says the leather and textile industries are \"crucial for employment creation, poverty reduction and advancement in technological capability\" in the region.\nSecond-hand underwear has been called unhygienic.\nThe EAC urged governments to make sure that used-clothes imports complied with sanitary standards.\ninstead urging East African governments to make sure that used-clothes imports complied with sanitary standards.\nUsed knickers were banned in Ghana in 2011 and a Ugandan bill also proposed a ban in the country last year.\nSecond-hand cars have also been blamed for causing accidents.\nBBC Swahili analyst Alex Mureithi explains that, to avoid paying taxes, people pay bribes at ports to import cars.\nThose cars then do not go through any safety checks.\nTo give some idea of the extent of smuggled imports, it emerged in December that over 2,700 shipping containers had disappeared at Dar es Salaam port in Tanzania.\nIn Uganda, second-hand garments account for 81% of all clothing purchases, Andrew Brooks says in his book Clothing Poverty.\nAccording to UN figures from 2013, South Korea and Canada combined exported $59m worth of used clothes to Tanzania while the UK alone exported $42m worth of used clothes to Kenya.\nPeople in countries like the UK donate used clothes to charity.\nMr Brooks' research explains that demand for the clothes sold in charity shops is low compared to supply.\nHe estimates that more than 70% of all UK reused clothing goes overseas, where they are sold.\nMr Brooks says people believe that their clothes will be given to those in need or sold in High Street charity shops to raise funds and don't realise that their donations will be traded abroad for profit.", "summary": "Many people in Africa buy second-hand clothes sent from Europe and the US." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The sale follows the restitution of the painting to its subject's heirs.\nPainted in 1902, the portrait of 19-year-old Gertrud Loew was left behind when Loew, fearing Nazi persecution, left Vienna for the US in 1939.\nThe portrait came to be acquired by Gustav Ucicky, a film-maker who made propaganda for the Nazis.\nUcicky, considered to be Klimt's first illegitimate son, collected a number of Klimt's works that he left to his widow when he died in 1961.\nUrsula Ucicky established the Klimt Foundation in 2013, which reached an agreement with Gertrud Loew's family last year over her portrait's ownership and sale.\nThe painting - originally commissioned by Anton Loew, a physician who treated Klimt at his private sanatorium - will be sold at Sotheby's in London on 24 June.\nIn its online catalogue, the auction house describes the piece as \"an extraordinarily beautiful and captivating work from a crucial period in the artist's career\".\nThe restitution to its rightful owner of a Klimt painting that was looted by the Nazis was the subject of a recent film, Woman in Gold, starring Dame Helen Mirren.", "summary": "A portrait of a young Jewish woman by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt is expected to fetch up to £18m when it is auctioned in London later this month." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Ian Acheson admitted the suggestion was \"radical\" and \"controversial\" but said \"the risks of doing nothing are simply too high\".\nMr Acheson said there was a danger a staff member could be murdered.\nEarlier, the president of the Prison Governors Association published a damning open letter on the state of prisons in England and Wales.\nThere has been serious violence in prisons in Wiltshire and Hertfordshire in recent days - with riot-trained staff called into the latter earlier this week to restore order.\n\"There is a systemic and widespread instability in prisons and unless it is tackled, I really do fear that we're going to see a member of staff killed on duty,\" Mr Acheson told BBC Newsnight.\nHe said the justice secretary should consider an appeal to experienced staff who have recently left to return, creating a task force to \"get back control\" in the worst affected prisons.\n\"If that isn't sufficient, I would suggest that you need extra resources sent into prisons simply to stabilise them short term, and you could consider, for example, using the Army for that.\"\n\"It's a very radical measure. It's a controversial measure and it does carry some risk.\n\"But the risks of doing nothing are simply too high, in my view, to not at least consider - exceptionally and for a short period of time - getting resources onto the landings to restore order and control.\"\nMr Acheson, who last year led an independent review into Islamic extremism in prisons, lamented what he called the \"normalisation of extreme violence\".\nHe said self-harm, suicide, and serious assaults - particularly against staff - are all rising and are at levels that would have been \"completely inconceivable\" in the past.\nMinistry of Justice (MoJ) figures showed a rise in violence in prisons, with 26,643 assaults in the year to March 2017.\nOf these, a record 7,159 were attacks on staff - equivalent to 20 every day.\nThe MoJ insists action had been taken to increase prison officer numbers, but Mr Acheson said this needs to accelerated and that current staffing levels mean staff are \"harried, fearful and cannot function effectively\".\n\"There has to be some humility, frankly, from government to say, 'We made a catastrophic mistake here in reducing staff so far and so fast.\"\nHe said staff \"need help now - not in six months' time\" and warned the \"consequences would be unthinkable\" of not providing this extra support.\nBut the Director General of the National Offender Management Service and former Director General of HM Prison Service, Phil Wheatley, told Newsnight that sending in the Army would make things worse.\n\"The prison's ability to handle disorder when it occurs and end that disorder without injury to either staff or prisoner is quite considerable,\" he said.\n\"They're really skilled at doing it and they're succeeding in doing that. The army are not trained for that.\n\"To deploy them in that role would be folly.\"\nEarlier on Wednesday, the president of the Prison Governors Association Andrea Albutt issued a scathing attack on the government's management of prisons in England and Wales.\nShe said governors had been left \"devastated at the complete decline in our service\" and that staff faced a \"toxic mix\" of pressures and an \"unacceptable stress and anxiety\".\nShe criticised a recent government reform that separated operational control of offenders from policy decisions as \"perverse\".", "summary": "A former prison governor says the government should consider calling in the Army to restore order in prisons." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They say 18-30 year olds could borrow up to £1,500 from the government for a deposit, which would have to be paid off within two years.\nThe party says it will launch 'Help To Rent' in England, if it is in the UK government after the general election.\nThe Lib Dems say they would also make money available for Welsh ministers to bring in the policy across Wales.\nTo be eligible for the scheme, tenants would need to be in work and not be home owners or seeking social housing tenancy.\nThe Conservatives have called for an increase in housebuilding as part of their 'Vision For Welsh Housing'.\nLabour wants to overhaul the law relating to renting, giving tenants more protection.\nPlaid Cymru supports rent controls to help tenants and say the Liberal Democrat policy is \"misguided\".\nUKIP says it would prioritise social housing for people with parents born locally.", "summary": "A plan to make it easier for young people to rent homes in Wales has been proposed by the Liberal Democrats." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "With the hosts resuming on 227-5, Ansari added 81 runs to his overnight total before being trapped lbw by spinner Wes Durston (6-113) for 106.\nGary Wilson (72) and James Burke (79) also made valuable half-centuries, as Surrey were eventually bowled out for 560 after tea, a lead of 247.\nDerbyshire were unable to respond with the bat, as bad light ended play early.\nIf Surrey can secure victory on the final day, they will secure their return to County Championship Division One, having been relegated with a defeat by Warwickshire in 2013.\nSurrey all-rounder James Burke told BBC London 94.9:\n\"Coming in today, we weren't really sure of our position in this game, but we fought really well and got ourselves into a good position.\n\"Zafar [Ansari] batted brilliantly to get us into the position that we have so it's by no means easy to bat out there especially with the spinners.\n\"The ball's starting to do quite a bit out of the rough, so we know that if we stick to our guns we're in with a good shot.\"", "summary": "Zafar Ansari hit a century as Surrey dominated the third day's play against Derbyshire at The Oval." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The home side went in front inside 10 minutes as Gareth McAuley headed in a Craig Gardner corner at the far post.\nEverton carried more threat once Romelu Lukaku came on as a first-half substitute, and Kevin Mirallas rolled in an equaliser just before the break.\nBarry then forced the ball in after Mason Holgate's touch from a corner.\nKoeman said after the match that Lukaku would be staying at Everton - good news for Everton fans concerned that the striker may return to former club Chelsea.\nThe Belgium international, bought by Everton for a club-record £28m from Chelsea in 2014, was his team's top scorer last season, and his power up front played a significant part in turning the game around.\nKoeman's team were flailing in attack for much of the first half, with the 5ft 9in stature of Gerard Deulofeu proving little match for Albion's 6ft 5in centre-half Jonas Olsson.\nLukaku, still straining for fitness after a recent heel problem, was thrown on to give Olsson a rougher time, with Deulofeu switched to the right flank. It worked, even though the Belgian did not score himself.\nEverton, who dominated possession throughout, began to create more openings - and made them count. Lukaku passed up a great late chance to make sure of victory, as he was denied by a fine Ben Foster save, but his job was done.\nBefore kick-off Koeman was asked in a television interview if he had made special plans to counter West Brom's threat from set-pieces. He said that he had not.\nWhen McAuley headed in Gardner's corner early on, it looked as if Everton would pay for that approach.\nIt certainly raised hopes for Guochuan Lai, the Chinese businessman who led a takeover at Albion earlier this month, and who was watching his new club in person for the first time.\nAlbion were managing to make life uncomfortable for Everton's three-man central defence, despite having only around a third of the possession.\nYet if the loss of a goal seconds before half-time knocked the home side off their stride, it was the manner of Everton's second that was something of a surprise.\nHead coach Tony Pulis prides himself on having well-drilled teams, yet they were caught out defensively from a corner, with Barry getting free of his markers to turn in a loose ball that should have been dealt with.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nPulis expressed concerns before the match about the strength of Everton's bench - which included Lukaku, Yannick Bolasie and Ashley Williams.\n\"It's a top-six bench,\" said the West Brom coach, who has struggled to strengthen his own squad during the summer, bringing in only winger Matt Phillips from QPR for £5.5m.\nThe fact that Koeman had options in reserve undoubtedly helped. Winger Bolasie, signed from Crystal Palace during the week, was excellent after coming on, racing past Jonny Evans down the right to deliver a cross that Ross Barkley somehow headed wide with under 20 minutes to go.\nYet Everton's willingness to mix up their approach - not always the case when they played a possession-based game under Roberto Martinez last season - was also a factor in changing the game.\nTheir equaliser was straight out of the Martinez playbook, with Barry and Barkley exchanging quick passes to feed Mirallas, whose shot had just enough on it to beat Ben Foster.\nYet they were prepared to go direct to Lukaku when needed, and carried a threat at set-pieces, with Foster reacting well to save Ramiro Funes Mori's header from a free-kick seconds before Barry's winner.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThe EFL Cup is next up for both teams on Tuesday: Everton host League Two side Yeovil, while West Brom go to Northampton, of League One.\nMatch ends, West Bromwich Albion 1, Everton 2.\nSecond Half ends, West Bromwich Albion 1, Everton 2.\nAttempt missed. Ben Foster (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.\nHand ball by Mason Holgate (Everton).\nJonny Evans (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nYannick Bolasie (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Jonny Evans (West Bromwich Albion).\nAttempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\nMaarten Stekelenburg (Everton) is shown the yellow card.\nCorner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Leighton Baines.\nAttempt blocked. Rickie Lambert (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by James McClean.\nAttempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Yannick Bolasie.\nFoul by Mason Holgate (Everton).\nGareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Rickie Lambert with a headed pass following a corner.\nCorner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Romelu Lukaku.\nCorner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Mason Holgate.\nRoss Barkley (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Rickie Lambert (West Bromwich Albion).\nPhil Jagielka (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion).\nRoss Barkley (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion).\nAttempt saved. Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) with an attempt from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by James McClean with a cross.\nFoul by Leighton Baines (Everton).\nJonathan Leko (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nSubstitution, Everton. Ashley Williams replaces Kevin Mirallas.\nAttempt blocked. Rickie Lambert (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by James McClean with a cross.\nSubstitution, West Bromwich Albion. Rickie Lambert replaces Saido Berahino.\nAttempt missed. Yannick Bolasie (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Kevin Mirallas (Everton) because of an injury.\nFoul by Kevin Mirallas (Everton).\nCraig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by James McClean with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Gareth Barry.\nFoul by Romelu Lukaku (Everton).\nJonas Olsson (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Ross Barkley (Everton) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Yannick Bolasie with a cross.\nAttempt missed. Leighton Baines (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Idrissa Gueye.", "summary": "Gareth Barry's close-range header secured Ronald Koeman's first victory as Everton manager as they came from a goal down to win at West Brom." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Two tries by Greg Inglis and further scores from Valentine Holmes, Darius Boyd and Boyd Cordner earned the Australians consecutive wins in their first two games under Mal Meninga.\nKevin Proctor claimed the Kiwis' try.\nThe Australians meet Scotland in the Four Nations' opening match in Hull on Friday, 28 October. England play New Zealand in Huddersfield the next day.", "summary": "Australia concluded their preparations for the Four Nations in England with a 26-6 win over New Zealand in Perth." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A man in his 50s was riding a Triumph motorcycle which collided with a silver Suzuki Grand Vitara on Penrhos Road in Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, at about 14:45 BST.\nHe was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd and later transferred to a hospital in Stoke.\nNorth Wales Police has appealed for witnesses to come forward.", "summary": "A motorcyclist suffered serious injuries following a crash in Gwynedd on Saturday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The move is expected to lead to a double by-election in Leith Walk ward, which she has represented for the past eight years.\nThe councillor for Leith Walk wants to focus on winning a Green seat in the North East of Scotland in the 2016 Scottish Parliament elections.\nMs Chapman is co-convener of the Scottish Green Party.\nShe is also rector of Aberdeen University, and will be moving to Dundee.\nMs Chapman said: \"It has been a huge honour and privilege to serve and work with the people of Leith Walk for the last eight years.\n\"I am proud of my successes in introducing 'Leith Decides', opening up council decision-making as chair of the petitions committee, and being the first politician in Scotland to call for the introduction of a Living Wage.\n\"I am confident that voters in Leith Walk will respond positively to our campaign to elect a successor Green councillor to continue that hard work.\"\nSteve Burgess, convenor of Edinburgh city council's Green group, said: \"I thank Maggie for her work as a Green councillor over the last eight years.\n\"We will campaign hard to ensure a new Green councillor is elected at the by-election, on a promise that only the Greens can offer a progressive and constructive opposition to the current Labour-SNP administration at the City Chambers.", "summary": "Green councillor Maggie Chapman is to quit her seat to concentrate on her bid to become an MSP." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It was a result that ranks alongside the Ashes victories of recent years, with England showing incredible character to come back from their heavy defeat in the first Test in Ahmedabad.\nAfter that result, and taking into account the 3-0 defeat against Pakistan in the UAE earlier in the year, few could have predicted England would leave Nagpur with a series victory.\nPeople will ask what happened between that match in Ahmedabad and the victory in Mumbai in the second Test.\nFirst of all, England brought Monty Panesar back into the team and he gave them more balance.\nThen Kevin Pietersen changed.\nAfter two skittish and nervous innings in the first Test, he responded with a magnificent 186 in Mumbai. Alastair Cook also scored lots of runs and it became apparent that England had better spinners than India.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nI'm sure that has never been said before and it hurt the home side. They were puzzled and worried by it and many people are calling for a review into their domestic structure because of it.\nEngland lost the toss in Mumbai, but once they had shown they could win the hard way, it gave them the belief to do the same in Kolkata in the third Test.\nThey preyed on India's insecurities, but we must also be mindful that the hosts played poorly. They have got a number of issues to address following this series - like the futures of their star player, Sachin Tendulkar, their captain Mahendra Dhoni and their coach Duncan Fletcher.\nAustralia visit India early in 2013 and that will be a fascinating contest because we will see how they respond, and also what Australia have got because this will have been a wake-up call for them too.\nCook will return home from his first tour as Test captain a very happy man. He has proved that the captaincy would not detract from his performances - as he did in one-day cricket - and he has earned the respect of all his players with his runs.\n\"There is a mild irony that Duncan Fletcher didn't trust Graeme Swann when he was England coach and was never sure how valuable Monty Panesar really was. These two have been invaluable for England. Even when Panesar was wicketless in patches, he gave his captain control. They've both had terrific tours, as has Jimmy Anderson, and we saw glimpses of Steven Finn in Kolkata. On the batting side, Cook was immense and Pietersen played one brilliant innings in Mumbai.\"\nEngland still have some areas they need to think about when they tour New Zealand in March, but they are good issues.\nI hope they let Nick Compton have an extended run as opener in conditions that are more suited to run-scoring because he has battled hard at the top of the order in India.\nThen there is the number six position to think about, with Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow and Eoin Morgan all wanting that spot.\nPeople might also want England to consider playing two spinners in future - after the performances of Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar - but that is unlikely in places like New Zealand, Australia and at home.\nThere are always areas to improve, but England will be happy. I think the 2005 Ashes victory was as good as anything when you consider the personnel in the Australia team.\nPlayers like Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Ricky Ponting played in that series, but the way England played in India, and the character they showed, means this can be ranked alongside such achievements.\nJonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Marc Higginson.\nListen to match highlights and Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott's analysis of the day's play on the Test Match Special podcast.\nWe are using archive pictures for this Test because several photo agencies, including Getty Images, have been barred from the ground following a dispute with the Board of Control for Cricket in India, while other agencies have withdrawn their photographers in protest.", "summary": "England's was an outstanding achievement and will send a shiver down the spine of the Australians ahead of back-to-back Ashes series in 2013." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a televised speech, Hassan Rouhani said parliament was the \"house of the people, not a particular faction\".\nElections would be pointless if there were \"no competitors\", he warned.\nHis comments came a day after nine factions said the Guardian Council had approved only 1% of the reformist candidates who had registered to run.\nMany were disqualified because they were not considered sufficiently loyal to the ruling system by the committee, which is made up of six judges elected by the conservative-dominated parliament and six clerics appointed by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.\nAlmost 12,000 people applied to stand in the elections on 26 February for Iran's 290-seat parliament and 88-member Assembly of Experts, the body that will pick the country's next supreme leader.\nSome conservatives were among the 7,300 candidates who were disqualified by the Guardian Council.\nBut reformist factions, who favour more political and economic freedom, said they were overwhelmingly targeted, with only 30 of their 3,000 candidates approved.\n\"This is the biggest number of disqualifications in [Iran's] history,\" said prominent reformist Hossein Marashi on Wednesday.\nBut he added that reformists did not plan to boycott the elections, vowing: \"We will stay to fight because we don't want extremists to grow.\"\nReformists have been largely sidelined since the authorities launched a crackdown on the opposition Green Movement following the disputed presidential election in 2009, and few contested the last parliamentary polls in 2012.\nBut their hopes were raised by the the election the following year of Mr Rouhani, a moderate cleric, and his success in negotiating a landmark nuclear deal to get international sanctions lifted this month.\nIn his speech on Thursday, the president called for \"healthy competition\" in the forthcoming elections.\n\"We must create hope, enthusiasm, competition,\" he said.\n\"If there is one faction and the other is not there, they don't need the 26 February elections - they go to the parliament.\n\"No official without the vote of the people would be legitimate.\"\nHe also noted that religious minorities were accorded seats even when they made up only a fraction of the population.\n\"Yet there is a faction in this country with seven or 10 million [supporters and few seats],\" he added, alluding to reformists.\nMr Rouhani said that he had assigned Vice-President Eshagh Jahangiri to discuss the disqualifications with the Guardian Council.\nThe head of the committee, Ayatollah Ahmed Jannati, has said its members \"will not be influenced by pressure\".\nBut his deputy has also noted that up to 15% of those disqualified from running are likely to be reinstated during the reviewing process.\nA final list of approved candidates will be published on 4 February.", "summary": "Iran's president has called on the committee vetting candidates for next month's parliamentary elections to allow more reformists to stand." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 30-year-old was a free agent after leaving Championship side Leigh Centurions in May.\nChase left the Tigers in 2014 for Salford, when his impressive form earned him England recognition.\n\"I've been thinking about my Cas days, as those were the times when I was really happy,\" he said.\n\"When the opportunity came up to come back to this great club I took it with both hands, I wasn't going to let this opportunity slip away from me.\n\"It's like coming back home for me, I love the people here. This move is purely about the badge and the way it made me feel when I played for it.\"\nNew Zealand-born Chase won the 2011 Man of Steel while at Castleford, also earning his 11 England caps during a four-year stay.\nHe scored 15 tries in 42 games for Salford but had has his contract terminated following a \"disciplinary procedure.\"\n\"I am really pleased to be able to add to our squad at such a crucial stage in the season,\" added head coach Daryl Powell. \"Rangi is a high quality player who knows so much about Castleford Tigers and what it means to play for this club.\"", "summary": "Super League side Castleford Tigers have re-signed stand off Rangi Chase until the end of the season, with an option for a further year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ms Jayalalitha was convicted and sentenced for four years by a trial court in September.\nShe was found guilty of amassing unaccounted-for wealth of more than $10m (£6.4m) and had to quit as the chief minister.\nMonday's ruling means she can return as the head of Tamil Nadu government.\nJayalalitha, a former actress, is one of India's most controversial and colourful politicians. She has been a leading figure in south Indian politics for three decades.\n\"Truth and justice have prevailed,\" Ms Jayalalitha said in a statement after the court order.\n\"I am immensely satisfied, the verdict has paved the way for me to emerge as tested pure gold,\" she added.\nAs soon as the high court in the southern state of Karnataka announced its verdict on Monday morning, Ms Jayalalitha's supporters began celebrating outside the court in Bangalore.\nHer supporters outside her home in the southern city of Chennai were seen distributing sweets, shouting slogans and weeping tears of joy.\nThe high court also cleared three of her aides who were also convicted by the trial court.\nThe details of Monday's judgment are not yet available. Reports from the courtroom said the judge took \"10 seconds\" to deliver the verdict.\nThe conviction last September had cut short her fourth term as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu and she had picked party leader and loyalist O Panneerselvam as her replacement.\nMany Indians have taken to social media to criticise Monday's order and #JayaVerdict is the top Twitter trend in the country:", "summary": "An appeals court in India has cleared former chief minister of the southern state of Tamil Nadu Jayaram Jayalalitha of involvement in a corruption scandal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A total of 87.7% of patients were seen within a four-hour target time compared with 84.3% the year before.\nHowever, the 95% target was not reached once over the 15 months to March.\nThe Welsh government said the vast majority of patients receive intervention or assessment within two hours of arrival at A&E units.\nA&E units see between 70,000 and 90,000 people a month depending on the time of year, the figures show.\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with NHS Wales to develop intelligent measures which better describe the care provided to patients in A&E to complement the existing four-hour target.\"\nOn Wednesday, Health Minister Mark Drakeford announced a pilot project to monitor cancer treatment times to give a better picture of whether patients receive timely care.\nAnd in March he outlined a major overhaul of the way ambulance service and A&E department performance in Wales is monitored and measured.\nPolitical opponents have questioned the motives.\nThe Welsh government set health boards a target to admit, transfer or discharge 95% of A&E patients within four hours. It also monitors waiting times up to eight hours and more than 12.\nA Welsh government spokesman said that figure was \"disappointing\".\nBut he said he was \"encouraged\" to note separate monthly figures for diagnostic services waiting times of more than 14 weeks fell in March as \"health boards work on reducing all waits\".\n\"While it is disappointing that the total number of patients waiting more than eight weeks has not decreased this month, the standard wait remains between five-six weeks,\" he added.", "summary": "Hospital A&E department waiting time targets to see and treat patients have improved on the previous year, latest figures show." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He was speaking just before the seventh Summit of the Americas was due to kick off in Panama City.\nMr Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro will meet face-to-face for the first time since a December detente.\nBut their much-anticipated meeting could be overshadowed by tensions between the US and Venezuela.\nMr Obama told a forum of civil society leaders in Panama City that \"the days in which our agenda in this hemisphere presumed that the United States could meddle with impunity, those days are past\".\nAt past Summits of the Americas, which bring together the leaders of North, Central and South America, the US has come in for criticism for its embargo against Cuba and its objection to having Cuba participate in the gatherings.\nThis seventh summit is the first which Cuba will attend and much of the attention will be focussed on the body language between the former foes.\nThe meeting will the be first formal encounter between the leaders of the US and Communist-run Cuba in more than five decades.\nMr Obama stressed that he hoped the thaw in relations would improve the lives of the Cuban people.\n\"Not because it's imposed by us, the United States, but through the talent and ingenuity and aspiration and the conversation among Cubans, among all walks of life. So they can decide what is the best course of prosperity.\"\nWhile Mr Obama name-checked Cuba when he was talking about the US's days of meddling being in the past, the message was equally - if not more so - aimed at Venezuela.\nVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has not only accused the US of meddling but of fomenting a coup against his government.\nHis open distrust of Mr Obama was only heightened when the US president signed an executive order last month declaring Venezuela a threat the the national security of the US.\nUS officials have since said the wording was \"completely pro-forma\" but the damage had been done.\nIt had not only incensed Mr Maduro but also Latin American leaders sensitive to what they see as US imperialist rhetoric.\nThe tone of the summit could well hang on whether Mr Obama's latest assurances sway Mr Maduro and his left-wing allies, who form a powerful bloc at the summit.\nMr Obama's comments came a day after the State Department recommended that Cuba be removed from the US lists of countries which sponsor terrorism.\nIts presence on the list has been one of the main hurdles on the way to closer ties between the two countries.\nThe president said on Thursday that all he was waiting for now was a recommendation from his advisers, leaving many expecting an announcement at the summit.\nThe smooth progress made between Cuba and the US stands in contrast to the bumpy ride that have been relations between Venezuela and the US over the past months.\nThe two countries have not exchanged ambassadors for more than six years, but tensions rose last month when the US imposed sanctions on a group of Venezuelan officials it accuses of human rights abuses.\nAs part of the sanctions, Mr Obama issued an executive order declaring Venezuela a threat to the national security of the United States.\nPresident Maduro has collected more than 10 million signatures demanding its repeal.\nTheir meeting at the summit, while less historic than the one between Mr Castro and Mr Obama, is drawing as much attention for its unpredictability.\nMr Maduro sent out mixed messages on Friday.\nIn a clear swipe at the US, he visited a monument to the victims of the 1989 US invasion of Panama just hours after he landed.\nBut he also said that it was \"time nor for imperialism, but for peace\".\n\"We're in a battle of ideas, in a fight so that Venezuela is respected, we're coming here in a constructive spirit, to make history through respect,\" he said.\nWhether it will be Mr Maduro's combative spirit or his invocation for respect which will prevail should become clear on Saturday when the ceremonial part of the summit gives way to detailed discussions.", "summary": "US President Barack Obama has told Latin American leaders that the days when his country could freely interfere in regional affairs are past." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe Lionesses were attempting to reach their first World Cup final and only England's second after the men's team's victory in 1966.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThey looked on course to take the Olympic silver medallists to extra time after Fara Williams's penalty cancelled out Aya Miyama's spot-kick.\nBut as the game entered a second minute of stoppage time, Bassett diverted a rare Japanese cross over goalkeeper Karen Bardsley's head, the ball hitting the crossbar and agonisingly bouncing over the line.\nThere was barely time for England to respond and Notts County defender Bassett burst into tears at the final whistle as her team-mates sank to the turf.\nAfter making history by reaching the semi-finals for the first time, the manner of the defeat was cruel on Mark Sampson's side, who missed three good chances around the hour mark.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nKelly Simmons - the Football Association's director of women's football - said before the game that the tournament had led England to \"fall in love with the Lionesses\".\nBut that will be of little consolation as Japan prepare to face United States in a repeat of the 2011 final, which the Japanese won on penalties.\nEngland, meanwhile, will face Germany in Saturday's third-place play-off.\nSpurred on by a telephone call from the Duke of Cambridge prior to the match, England started confidently and Jodie Taylor almost scored in the first minute.\nThere were early chances too for Toni Duggan, who replaced Karen Carney in the starting line-up.\nJapan, who have been likened to Barcelona for their passing style, took time to find their rhythm, but after 20 minutes the pattern of the game was set with the Nadeshiko dominating possession and England looking to break on the counter attack.\nAs the world champions grew in confidence, they drew England out of their comfort zone and opened the scoring just after the half-hour mark.\nLeft-back Claire Rafferty was caught out of position and pushed Saori Ariyoshi as she bore down on goal, though the initial contact appeared to be outside the box.\nCaptain Miyama put the penalty confidently to Bardsley's right.\nEngland, who came from behind to beat Norway at the last-16 stage, did not trail for long, and again the goal came from the spot.\nFormer Chelsea striker Yuki Ogimi clipped Steph Houghton's left heel, although the contact seemed slight, and Williams scored her second penalty of the tournament.\nSampson's side looked buoyed by that response and enjoyed a period of supremacy after the break.\nDuggan struck the bar from the edge of the box before substitute Ellen White drew a fine save from Ayumi Kaihori. Scott then headed wide following the resulting corner.\nEngland's ascendancy was thrown off course by an injury to Lucy Bronze, who had to be substituted just after the introduction of the lively Mana Iwabuchi.\nBut they finished the stronger side and looked good to make an impact in extra time before Bassett's terrible misfortune.", "summary": "England were knocked out of the Women's World Cup in heartbreaking fashion as Laura Bassett's injury-time own goal sent holders Japan into Sunday's final." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The measure was backed by a coalition of conservatives who oppose execution as a form of punishment.\nNebraska joins 18 other states and the federal district of Washington, DC, in banning capital punishment, and is the first traditionally conservative state in four decades to do so.\nThe state has not executed an inmate since a 1997 electrocution.\nThe unicameral legislature passed the measure 30 to 19 - the exact number of votes needed to override Governor Pete Ricketts earlier veto.\nSome of the lawmakers said that they support the death penalty in principle, but said that legal obstacles meant the state would be unable to carry out executions in the future.\nA Nebraska State Patrol spokeswoman said her agency was investigating death threats made against a state senator who supported the measure.\nTen men are on currently Nebraska's death row.\nThe state has never executed a prisoner using lethal injection - the current method for carrying out the death penalty in the state.\nThe state lost its ability to carry out an execution in December 2013, when one of the three lethal injection drugs used in the procedure expired.\nNorth Dakota, another traditionally conservative state, abolished the death penalty in 1973.\nThe most recent state to eliminate the death penalty is Maryland, which ended capital punishment in 2013.", "summary": "The US state of Nebraska has abolished the death penalty after a veto-override was passed through its legislature." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Dons beat Ronny Deila's side 2-1 and now sit three points off the reigning champions.\n\"I get asked this all the time but none of you actually really believe it,\" replied McInnes when asked if there was now a real title race.\n\"I think you all want it but nobody really believes it.\"\nIt was Aberdeen's second home win over Celtic this season after four defeats by Deila's men last term.\n\"You ask everybody that's involved in football in Scotland and nobody would put money on Aberdeen winning the league,\" McInnes said.\n\"I feel I've got a team that can win more often than not. We've done that now for two-and-a-half years and hopefully we can continue to do that for the next 14 games, just go and win as many as we can.\n\"Last season, when we didn't beat Celtic, that had a big bearing of what people were saying. We let them get away from us.\n\"It was a good win tonight and I know that it's the same three points Saturday [against St Johnstone]. We've exerted a lot energy tonight and we've got to make sure we're prepared.\n\"The atmosphere was terrific. The supporters made it a special night for us and the players never let them down either.\"\nJonny Hayes' long-range strike and a close-range effort by debutant Simon Church put the hosts 2-0 by half-time.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nLeigh Griffiths replied with a late consolation for the visitors.\n\"The intent was there from us from the start,\" added McInnes. \"Jonny's goal certainly helps, it's a fantastic strike. It gave us the confidence to go and be more measured with our work.\n\"We had to put that seed of doubt in their heads and Jonny's goal does it.\n\"We then get the second goal, which makes it difficult for Celtic.\n\"We were worthy winners. In the second half, I thought the pressure on the ball from everybody and the energy we showed was fantastic.\n\"I thought we really kept Celtic at arm's length. Thankfully, Griffiths scores when there's very little time left.\"", "summary": "Derek McInnes insists \"nobody\" in Scottish football would bank on his Aberdeen side winning the Premiership after they cut Celtic's lead." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Guidelines will be set out aimed at securing more convictions for violent offences in prisons and young offenders institutions in England and Wales.\nPriority will be given to prosecuting those who assault staff.\nCriminal justice charity the Howard League said the government should focus on addressing staff shortages in order to reduce violence behind bars.\nGovernment figures show assaults on staff rose by 12% in the year up to June 2014 - from 3,065 incidents to 3,427.\nAdvice set out by the Prison Service, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Association of Chief Police Officers is intended to offer \"clear guidance\" on those crimes that must be considered for prosecution.\nUnder the new scheme:\nPrisons Minister Andrew Selous said the measures, expected to come into force by April 2015, \"will ensure that those that attack staff are prosecuted and fully brought to justice\".\n\"We have always had a complex and challenging prison population but are taking appropriate steps to ensure that we carefully manage the increased levels of violence,\" he added.\nAttorney General Jeremy Wright said: \"This protocol will make it clear that prosecution should usually follow when prisoners assault hard-working prison staff.\n\"Prison officers deserve the greatest clarity and the best protection we can give them.\"\nThe Prison Officers Association has blamed staff cuts for increasing violence and says 90 wardens a month are leaving their jobs because they fear for their safety.\nAndrew Neilson, campaigns director for the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"We welcome any move to combat the problem of increased violence in prison, but there are already measures in place to deal with these offenders.\n\"Prisons have faced steep budget cuts resulting in staff shortages and until we address that we will not be able to fully tackle violence behind bars.\"\nThe charity's chief executive, Frances Crook, said prisons were \"grossly overcrowded\", with adult men living in shared cells \"the size of a toilet\".\n\"They don't get out of the cell, and these are young men who have lots of energy, and you're just asking them to lie idle on a bunk for months on end,\" she said.\n\"And as one prison officer said to me, if you treat people like that they come out fighting.\"\nThe move to crack down on prison violence has coincided with the release of images showing an inmate attacking a member of staff at Feltham Young Offenders' Institute in London.\nIn CCTV footage shown exclusively to the BBC, a male prisoner is seen punching a female guard in the face.\nNicola Williams told the BBC she was eventually saved from her assailant by another prisoner, and commented: \"There are never enough officers on duty to protect us.\"\nThe inmate received a 21-month prison sentence for the attack.\nPrisons Minister Andrew Selous described the attack as \"despicable\".\nHe added: \"The new protocol will make sure that there are prosecutions with extra time being served by prisoners at the end of their sentence. This will have a much greater deterrent effect.\"\nMark Leech, editor of Converse, a newspaper for prisoners in England and Wales, said: \"Of course prison officers deserve justice. They do a dangerous job containing violent people, but this new policy is just rhetoric and likely to be a waste of time and money.\"\nHe said prosecuting prisoners who were already serving long sentences would have no \"discernible benefits\" to the public.\n\"The Parole Board are best placed to deal with such cases, not the courts,\" he added.\nThe government's bulletin on prison safety shows that overall, assaults in prisons and young offenders institutions rose 10% in the year to the end of June 2014, from 14,045 to 15,441.\nThere was a sharper increase in serious assaults, which went up 32% - from 1,377 to 1,817.\nWithin that category, serious assaults on staff have increased from 300 incidents to 395, or 32%.\nSerious assaults are defined as those requiring medical treatment or resulting in certain types of injury, such as a burn or bruise.\nThe Ministry of Justice has proposed its changes as part of a wider violence-reduction strategy by the Prison Service, including efforts to tackle gang-related crime in London prisons.\nThe Serious Crime Bill, currently before Parliament, will make the possession of an offensive weapon in jail punishable by up to four years in prison.", "summary": "Prisoners who carry out assaults will face harsher measures in future, the Ministry of Justice has announced." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "\"That village over there will be flooded,\" he points. \"Monkeys, birds, Indians - we'll all lose our homes.\"\nOver the last few months some 13,000 Munduruku have been protesting against government plans to build a series of hydroelectric dams that will flood part of their land on the upper reaches of the Tapajos river.\nAfter a week-long meeting back in April, the caciques (chiefs) from more than 60 villages issued a statement, demanding that the government listen to them before it presses ahead with the five dams planned for the river.\nWomen have not traditionally been fighters among the Munduruku, but now Maria Leusa Kaba Munduruku, the leader of a new group of female warriors, says that everyone must be involved.\n\"The government must recognise our rights, not just those of others,\" she stresses.\nDespite vociferous opposition from indigenous and environmental groups, construction is already well under way for the gigantic Belo Monte dam on the Xingu river.\nNow the new frontier for Brazil's hydropower expansion has moved to the Tapajos River - a huge tributary to the Amazon that lies further to the west.\nOpposition here is fierce as the region has some of the richest biodiversity in the world.\nAdrian Barnett, a British biologist working in the area, says that - even by the high standards of the Amazon basin - the Tapajos is an area of extreme biological richness.\nOf the 1,837 species of bird that occur in Brazil, 613 can be found in the Tapajos, he points out.\nThe government plans to award the contracts for the first of these dams, Sao Luiz do Tapajos, later this year.\nAlong with the next dam, Jatoba, it should come on stream by 2020.\nAs well as flooding 552 sq km (213 sq miles) of land, the dikes will change the river flow, disrupting the lives of indigenous and numerous fishing communities.\nThe dams will have an installed capacity of 8,471 megawatts and will generate as much electricity as Belo Monte.\nTo mitigate their environmental impact, the government is copying the oil-rig system used in the North Sea, bringing in workers by boat for two-week work shifts rather than building roads.\nThe authorities are adamant that they need to tap into the huge hydropower potential of the Amazon if Brazil is to have the energy to fuel its ambitious development programme.\nClaudio Salles, director of the Acende Brasil energy think tank, says that of the 19,000 additional megawatts the government plans to have by 2021, 16,000 will be generated in the Amazon.\n\"This gives you an idea of just how important this energy is for us,\" he says.\nBut some analysts believe that Brazil needs to rethink its development plans.\nCelio Bermann, a lecturer in energy and the environment at the University of Sao Paulo, says Brazil is providing big subsidies for electricity-hungry sectors, such as the smelting of bauxite in the Amazon to make aluminium, without thinking whether this is really in the country's long-term interests.\n\"We are exporting a tonne of aluminium for $1,450-1,500 (£855-884) while importing manufactured aluminium goods at twice the cost.\n\"It makes no sense. I think it is absolutely undesirable for the country's aluminium output to double over the next 10 years,\" Mr Bermann adds.\nBrazil, he points out, is going back to being a producer of primary goods, without adding value.\n\"And it is precisely the production of primary goods that needs a lot of energy and generates few jobs.\"\nPreparatory work for the construction of the Teles Pires dam to be built on the Teles Pires river, a tributary of the Tapajos, has already led to the bulldozing of land around the Sete Quedas (Seven Waterfalls) - an area considered sacred by the Munduruku and other indigenous people.\nIn an open letter, Munduruku leaders complained: \"There are funerary urns there, where our ancient warriors are buried. There is also a portal, only seen by spiritual shaman leaders, who can travel through it to another, unknown world.\"\n\"Why have they destroyed this?\" one cacique asked.\nFor others, however, progress cannot be halted.\nJoao Francisco Vieira, a local councillor in the town of Jacareacanga, told the BBC: \"The Indians don't want to go back 300 years. They want to evolve, as the river flows to the sea. They want mobile phones. They want the internet.\"\nMaria Leusa Kaba Munduruku agrees that they want modern goods.\n\"But we want them while conserving our culture. That is possible and we will fight for it.\"", "summary": "\"If these dams are built, everything will end,\" says Lamberto Painha, one of the chiefs of the Munduruku tribe in Brazil's Amazon region." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The pontiff is from Argentina. He received the sign from Gustavo Hoyo, leader of a campaign for dialogue on the islands, during a papal audience.\nA senior Vatican official told the BBC that Pope Francis \"did not know and did not realise what was written on it\".\nIn 1982 UK forces defeated Argentine troops, who had invaded the Falklands.\nThe war left Argentina and the UK still disputing the islands' sovereignty - but a UN resolution has called for dialogue to reach a settlement.\nThe sign held by the Pope on Wednesday said: \"It's time for dialogue between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands.''\nVatican official Ciro Benedittini said that \"during the general audience many people hand the Pope different items\". He said the Pope was unaware of the message on the sign, \"so there is no endorsement of what was written\".\nHowever, Mr Hoyo told Argentina's Clarin newspaper that \"when he (the Pope) passed by, I explained what this was about and he kindly took the placard and got the picture taken.\n\"He could have chosen not to do it, but he did.\"\nThe best time to try to hand something to the Pope is on Wednesday morning, during his General Audience.\nIn the four minutes it took Pope Francis to walk through the crowd at his most recent audience, he was offered the following: seven babies (all safely returned), five flags, three shirts, one painting, one boy scout neckerchief, one magazine, and one stuffed toy (a rabbit).\nThe Argentine campaigners didn't have to fight their way through this crowd. They met the Pope during a quieter moment in the Audience.\nThe Vatican now finds itself in an awkward position. It allowed the campaigners to meet the Pope - with a possible idea of what they might want. But it also insists that the Pope didn't know what was written on the placard, and is not endorsing the campaigners' cause.\nKissing babies is more straightforward.\nUntil March 2013, Pope Francis was Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires.\nAs cardinal he spoke emotionally about the Argentine soldiers who had died in the war, who \"went out to defend their mothers, their homeland, and reclaim what is theirs - the homeland - and which was taken from them\".\nIn February 2013 Argentina turned down a UK Foreign Office invitation to meet members of the Falkland Islands government.\nSoon afterwards, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner asked him to intervene as Pope and promote a dialogue with the UK on the islands.\nAn overwhelming majority of Falkland residents voted in March 2013 to remain a British territory. About 2,900 people live on the islands.", "summary": "Pope Francis has been photographed in the Vatican holding a sign calling for Argentine-UK talks about the Falkland Islands, called Malvinas in Argentina." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nVictory for the Lions at Eden Park would seal a first series win over New Zealand in 46 years.\nAnd Gatland says his side are just \"scratching the surface\" in terms of its potential.\n\"We have got another level in us, and it's incredibly exciting,\" he said.\n\"We think this team has got better and better and will get better on Saturday.\n\"I think you should all be excited about what should be one hell of a Test match.\"\nWhile Gatland says the players cannot become \"emotionally too involved\", he says they will be aware of what is stake as the Lions look to match the achievements of the greats of 1971.\n\"They have an opportunity to leave bit of a legacy don't they? 11 tours of New Zealand and the Lions have only won here once,\" Gatland added.\n\"It's a chance to do something special. You have those moments in your life and you don't want those moments to pass you by.\n\"It's a pressure that you relish. It's why you do all those hours of preparation, because you want those big moments in sport.\n\"I have no doubt that tomorrow and Saturday the players will start thinking about that.\"\nGatland has named the same 23 for Saturday's Test, and says he was not tempted to make any changes from the squad that won in Wellington, once all the players were declared available for selection.\nBut while the All Blacks assistant coach Wayne Smith says his side \"do a lot of work\" on the opposition before a game, the Lions have taken a different approach this week.\n\"We haven't even spoken about them,\" Gatland said.\n\"It feels a little bit ironic, a bit strange, almost like a role reversal.\n\"When you play against the All Blacks, you try to stop all their threats and you pick a team to do that, but we have just concentrated on ourselves and our game, and going out and doing what we've been doing and what's been successful for us.\n\"There hasn't been too much chat about individuals in their team. We didn't speak today about the All Blacks team that was selected.\"\nGatland says Saturday's third Test against the All Blacks is not \"career-defining\" for him as a coach, and has hinted he may retire following the Rugby World Cup in 2019.\nHe is contracted to coach Wales until the end of the tournament in Japan, and has been linked with the All Blacks job following that.\n\"I'm pretty happy with what I've achieved in my career,\" he continued.\n\"In 2019, I'll probably finish up after the World Cup and go to the beach and maybe retire. The future will take care of itself.\n\"But it's definitely not career-defining - I can promise you that.\"\nAll Blacks coach Steve Hansen has dismissed claims there is extra pressure on his side going into Saturday's decider at Eden Park, where New Zealand have not lost since 1994.\n\"It's not the first time we've lost, every week there is pressure. We are expected to win every Test match, and when we win we are expected to win well. But we are only playing a rugby game,\" he said.\n\"Real pressure is giving someone CPR and trying to save their life and when that doesn't work telling their children or father or mother. That's real pressure.\n\"We could win, lose or draw, but we will be a better team for it. Is there any more pressure this week than last week? No, because we need to win to win the series.\"\nThe All Blacks have not lost successive matches since 2011, before Hansen took charge. And while a series victory for the Lions would be historic for Gatland's team, Hansen says it is not the defining moment for his All Blacks.\n\"Is the Lions series hugely significant?\" he said. \"Of course it is. Will it define this team? No, because there is a heck of a lot more of this story to be written. But what it will do, win, lose or draw, is it will make this team stronger.\"", "summary": "The British and Irish Lions have a chance to \"leave a legacy\" by winning Saturday's decisive third Test against the All Blacks, says head coach Warren Gatland." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Primary Modern Languages Programme has been scrapped as part of Department of Education's cuts for the new financial year.\nFour hundred and thirteen schools in Northern Ireland have had staff come in to teach Spanish, Irish or Polish.\nEighty-six teachers are employed under the scheme, most working in a handful of schools for a few hours at a time.\nThe Department of Education said the decision was regrettable but necessary, given the budget cuts they are facing and the fact that the scheme cost £900,000 a year.\nThey also suggested that schools fund the classes from their own budgets.\nThe headmaster of Killowen Primary in Rostrevor said that is not possible for his school and was very disappointed the scheme had been stopped.\n\"If we believe in education for all children equally, then we should provide it for them. It has added an extra dimension to their whole learning in school,\" he said.\nFor the teachers, the decisions also has a personal cost.\nSorcha Turnbull is a full-time Spanish teacher in nine different primary schools, and was given three weeks notice that her job was coming to an end.\n\"I'm sure I'm not on my own in having a massive mortgage to pay, and I'm going to have to go around with my CV and hope that some schools will take me on,\" she said.\nShe also said that it had been very difficult to tell the children that the Spanish lessons were ending.\n\"When I told them that there was no more money for Spanish they said 'Miss I'll pay you from my communion money if you come and teach us Spanish,'\" she said.\nThe impact the decision will have on language learning further down the line is hard to quantify, but in England languages have been made compulsory in primary schools, and Scotland have just invested £7.2m in the teaching of a second language in primary schools.", "summary": "Tuesday was the final day of funding for the foreign languages programme for primary schools." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The pair beat Spanish second seeds Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez 6-4 2-6 11-9 in the final of the Grand Prix Hassan II in Marrakech.\nInglot, 31, has now won at least one title each year since 2012.\nPavic, 23, is Inglot's third ATP doubles partner of 2017 after Florian Mergea and Robin Haase.\nThe new pairing also knocked out third seeds Rohan Bopanna and Marcin Matkowski in the second round of the clay-court event.", "summary": "Britain's Dom Inglot won the seventh ATP doubles title of his career as he successfully teamed up with Mate Pavic of Croatia in Morocco." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sale made his first grade debut for the club as a 20-year-old, helped rebuild their then-Hilton Park home and also represented Warrington and Widnes.\nAfter he retired he served as coach, kit-man, administrator and time-keeper.\nPerhaps his most crucial contribution was the signing of player-coach Alex Murphy, who led the club to Challenge Cup success in 1971.\nHis service to the sport and to Leigh was recognised with the MBE in 2011, and a stand at Leigh Sports Village was also named after him.\n\"I am sure I speak for the whole of Leigh in paying tribute to the legendary Tommy Sale MBE. We won't see his like again. A true gentleman,\" Labour MP for Leigh Andy Burnham tweeted.\n\"I will ensure a fitting permanent tribute to a giant of Leigh.\"", "summary": "Leigh Centurions life president and club stalwart of more than 80 years, Tommy Sale MBE, has died aged 97." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The seasonally-adjusted data from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) show that 106,480 homes were sold during the month.\nIt is the third month in a row that sales of more than 100,000 were recorded.\nThe total is still well below monthly sales of nearly 150,000 seen during the housing boom in 2006.\nThe latest official figures showed that UK house prices rose by 5.2% in the year to the end of July. This is well above the level of prices in general, with CPI inflation standing at zero in August.\n\"Despite rising prices, buyers and sellers are able to transact,\" said housing commentator Henry Pryor.\n\"Look out for the increasing impact of cash buyers in the months to come.\n\"Figures from mortgage lenders suggest that around 40% of all homes today are bought without a mortgage leaving the government unable to dampen house prices as they once did - by raising rates.\n\"As we saw last December, the chancellor now reaches for other levers to control the excesses of the market. He had almost snuffed out the top end of the market with huge changes made to Stamp Duty Land Tax, making buying the most expensive homes very unattractive.\"\nPeter Rollings, chief executive of Marsh & Parsons estate agents, suggested that rising demand matched with a lack of supply would result in house prices continuing to increase, particularly in London.", "summary": "More homes were sold in the UK in August than in any month since February last year, figures show." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Shouting sometimes, protesting often, rowing frequently. But not listening.\nAbusive incidents have made headlines but raw anger in Labour's debate has become commonplace.\nOutside a party meeting in Walthamstow, north east London, I listen to a Momentum member challenge an Owen Smith supporter: \"If you want Tory light,\" he asks, \"why don't you join the Tory party?\"\nAt a debate in Gateshead, Owen Smith says politics isn't about what T-shirt you wear and is noisily booed.\nHaving spent a week talking to unions, NEC members, MPs, and rank and file supporters of both sides it's striking this is not so much a dialogue of the deaf as the furious.\nIt's not enough to prove opponents wrong: they have to be shown to be malign and stupid too.\nThe party's left-right battle has been this way for decades of course.\nThe difference now, is the message from the left comes not from a tiny parliamentary sect, but a movement with many thousands of people backing Jeremy Corbyn.\nThe contempt of so many Corbyn critics is founded on the belief he cannot possibly win a general election, could destroy his party in the process, and doesn't care all that much about losing.\nA former cabinet minister told me: \"They don't give a damn about elections. Just controlling the Labour Party is what these people have been trying to do for years.\"\nCorbyn's team insist he can win and is determined to prove it but at the London Labour meeting, a passionate supporter puts a different view: that Owen Smith can't get to Number 10 either.\nThe sort of politicians who oppose Corbyn lost the 2010 election, and the 2015 election, and - spectacularly - the 2015 leadership contest, the argument goes.\nElectability isn't much of a unique selling point if you can't get elected.\nSome Labour members think they're choosing between losing under a leader they don't much like and one they love and who can shake up politics, and they are opting for the latter.\nAs the Walthamstow meeting nears an end, some members shuffle out for fresh air, grumbling about their MP Stella Creasy, much criticised by local activists for backing UK air strikes in Syria.\nOne asks who is giving a speech in the hall, and when told \"just Stella\" announces: \"I'll stay outside then.\"\nThe meeting itself, I'm told, is cordial but there's no shortage of contempt.\nAnd this is the easy bit. Fighting and deriding colleagues is straightforward compared to the challenge of answering the profound questions facing Labour.\nWhat could a centre-left party offer voters when there is little spare money?\nWhat policies would really turn a Corbynite dream of society in which no-one is left behind into a concrete reality?\nHow, after the SNP's extraordinary success in Scotland, could Labour, in any guise, win a majority in Parliament again?\nBefore Labour gets to those questions it will have to ask how it can come together after this leadership election. Many think it won't, and is doomed to split.\nPerhaps. But if it is to continue as a single party with a hope of governing, its tribes will have to try to listen to and maybe even understand each other once again.", "summary": "Labour's most entrenched warriors aren't listening to each other." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Some 594 (23.4%) of the 2,540 schools teaching A-levels had no pupils with the two As and a B in the subjects recommended for top degree courses.\nThe data also shows some 215 schools missed the new government target of 40% of pupils obtaining five A*-C GCSEs.\nThe BBC is publishing its league tables for secondary schools in England.\nThe tables are drawn up from the latest official government data on pupils' academic achievement.\nOverall they cover achievement in more than 4,000 mainstream state and independent schools, based mainly on the results of last summer's exams for 16- and 18-year-olds. In total, 2,540 schools and colleges in England run A-level courses.\nMuch has been made of the inability of leading universities to recruit more bright students from a wider set of backgrounds. But this data shows that many schools are not producing students of a high enough calibre to automatically get places at such universities.\nIt also shows that in only two schools did more than 70% of pupils obtain two As and a B in what is known as the \"facilitating\" subjects favoured by the 24 Russell Group of some of the leading universities. And in only 16 schools did 50% or more pupils achieve these grades.\nThe figures for how many pupils in a school achieve the grades most sought after by the leading universities are stark but not surprising.\nJust two schools managed to get 70% or more of their pupils over this very demanding academic hurdle and 16 schools pushed 50% or more over it.\nThe figures demonstrate the degree to which England's education system remains polarised.\nFee-paying, selective independent schools and grammars dominate the top of the list, and community schools, sponsored academies and sixth-form colleges, some in very deprived areas, sit at the bottom.\nIt is the first time this interesting nugget on school performance has been published by the Department for Education.\nAnd it is just one of the 400 pieces of data it publishes in the statistical blizzard of information on which school league tables are based.\nIt says the motivation for this is to \"shine a light on those schools and colleges whose pupils achieve great results in key subjects that lead to the top universities\".\nBut those working with less able students say the stat is a \"blunt descriptor\" that reflects poorly on schools and colleges.\nA better focus, they argue, would be to recognise and tackle the root of under-achievement that lies earlier in the student's education.\nIn 208 schools (8%) of the total a quarter of pupils or more reached the grades in these subjects.\nThe Russell Group of top universities introduced this list to identify the very best students and inform schools which sorts of subjects they expect pupils to sit if they wish to obtain a place on one of their degree courses. Many courses will require two high grades in such subjects, and some will require three. But admissions tutors they also look at a pupil's background before deciding whether to give them a place.\nIts director general Dr Wendy Piatt said: \"The Russell Group has published a guide called Informed Choices which lists 'facilitating subjects' which are those most commonly required for entry to our leading universities.\n\"However, it's important that students make decisions based on their individual circumstances. We encourage all prospective students to check the entry requirements for their chosen course before applying to a particular university.\"\nJoy Mercer, director of policy at the Association of Colleges, said the achievement of three A-levels was a \"blunt descriptor\" and that would give a poor reflection of colleges and sixth form colleges where students were encouraged to combine vocational qualifications and A-levels within a very demanding programme.\n\"Institutions like this account for one-third of all A-levels taken in this country.\"\nSchools minister Liz Truss said the measure had been introduced to enable parents to be able to identify those schools and colleges where A-level pupils achieve great results in the key academic subjects that most often lead to the top universities.\n\"We are also reforming the post-16 tables so that in future schools and colleges focus on the very best vocational qualifications that are most valued by employers and lead to good jobs.\"\nAt GCSE level nationally, 59.4% of pupils in both maintained and independent schools reached the government's benchmark of five GCSEs (or equivalent qualifications) graded A* to C, including English and maths - up from 58.2% in 2011.\nThe schools with the lowest GCSE results was the selective Pate's Grammar school in Cheltenham, where 0% of pupils reached this benchmark.\nHowever, this result was because pupils sat new English exams which the Department for Education does not recognise for the purpose of performance data.\nExcluding Pate's Grammar, the school with the lowest GCSE results was the Rushden Community College in Northamptonshire, where 6% of pupils got five A*-C GCSEs, including maths and English.\nHead teacher Mark Lester said the college had entered pupils for English language and English exams but not English literature, which he said is the one counted by the DfE.\nIf pupils' English exams had been counted, their pass rate including English and maths would have been 46%, he said.\nAcademy schools\nThe Department for Education hailed the success of its academy schools in the performance data.\nIt said sponsored academies were improving results at a record rate - more than five times as quickly than in all state-funded schools - with an increase of 3.1 percentage points. This compares to a 0.6 percentage point improvement across all state-funded schools.\nBut many of these would have been performing at a higher level, as sponsored academies tend to be struggling schools which are converted to academies because of their difficulties.\nA spokesman said: \"This shows we are right to continue to support the sponsored academy programme. These brilliant sponsors have a track record of arresting decline - and then reversing it.\"\nGeneral Secretary of the Nasuwt teaching union, Chris Keates, said: \"Everyone recognises that there is more to be done to ensure that the best is being achieved for every child, but the government's approach of manufacturing deficiencies to seek to justify its flawed education policies, rather than celebrating success is counter productive and divisive.\"", "summary": "Almost a quarter of England's sixth forms and colleges have failed to produce any pupils with the top A-level grades sought by leading universities." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The first incident, in Dammartin-en-Goele, north-east of Paris, involved the brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who carried out the deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine on Wednesday.\nThe second was at the Hypercasher supermarket, near Porte de Vincennes, in Paris, where gunman Amedy Coulibaly had taken hostages.\n\"When I arrived at the printers office, my client came out accompanied by an armed person who had introduced himself as a policeman.\n\"The person who pretended to be a policeman told me: 'Go away as we do not kill civilians', that struck me profoundly, then I decided to call the police.\n\"I guess it was one of the terrorists. It could have been a policeman if he hadn't told me 'we don't kill civilians'.\n\"They were heavily armed like elite police. I didn't know it was a hostage situation, or robbery. I just knew something wasn't right.\"\n\"I am hidden on the first floor. I think they have killed everyone. Tell the police to intervene.\"\nMichel Catalano, manager of printworks company, held hostage for two hours:\n\"I remained calm throughout with one thing on my mind - saving Lilian.\n\"We are ordinary people who survived something extraordinary. Now we have to rebuild our lives.\"\n\"We are really scared... we have to wait in the high school.\"\n\"In the school there are about 900 persons, and they [told] us to stay in the school. We are really scared.\"\n\"My daughter told me: 'Don't be scared mummy, we're well protected'. She was calm but me, I was scared.\"\n\"My nephew Johan and the others were terrified that they would be discovered by the terrorists and were forced to huddle together like frightened animals to avoid hypothermia.\n\"He was shopping for the kosher cakes and meat delicacies which we Jewish people enjoy on the Holy Day when he heard shots being fired above on the ground floor and immediately took cover with other shoppers in the basement.\n\"Johan was to speak to my brother Haim by phone for only two or three minutes and told him to stay quiet and wait until help arrived. Then we just stood at the barriers for five hours and waited for news.\n\"It was absolutely terrible - the longest five hours of my life.\n\"We know these people are monsters and would not hesitate to kill Jewish people.\n\"They targeted the supermarket because it was run by Jews.\"\n\"My daughter, she's in the supermarket. She's with her Jewish boyfriend. They went shopping. She called me 10 minutes ago. She said mum - there's dead people.\"\n\"I saw a lot of police. I didn't panic, I thought they were there to protect the shop, and I heard something that sounded like an explosion.\n\"Actually it turned out to be gunshots - a burst of gunfire. I couldn't tell you if it was a Kalashnikov or another weapon...\n\"There are about 50 police that I can see but there are probably more. They are in small groups of five and 10. All the roads are blocked - there is no one in the streets any more.\n\"There is a big Jewish community in the area - this area is actually in the middle of three Jewish communities.\n\"Do I feel threatened? Yes. For the Jewish community, once again we are being attacked.\"\nPolice closed many shops, including his own, \"because they are afraid that there may be another terrorist on the street\".", "summary": "Witnesses have been describing the dramatic events in France, where two sieges came to a violent end." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It condemned \"institutional abuse\" at Glan Clwyd Hospital's Tawel Fan ward.\nRelatives said patients were treated like \"animals\" in a zoo before the ward was shut down in December 2013.\nCommissioner Sarah Rochira said the revelations had been \"horrific\" and the treatment \"inhumane\" and \"degrading\".\nSeveral members of staff on the ward are facing disciplinary procedures but North Wales Police decided not to pursue criminal charges after investigating allegations of mistreatment.\nSpeaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme, Ms Rochira said criminal law should be strengthened so those who treat older people in a \"truly appalling way\" can be held to account.\nShe said Tawel Fan was \"one of many many examples where care has been truly unacceptable yet isn't considered criminal\".\nThe commissioner called on health boards to make public declarations about the quality of the care provided by their local health services.\n\"I would suggest right now that boards need to be putting out reassuring statements to the public that they do know how good their care is and people don't need to be worried in relation to their own care,\" Ms Rochira said.\nVale of Clwyd Labour AM Ann Jones said the chief executive of Betsi Cadwaladr health board - Prof Trevor Purt - should be sacked.\nShe said public confidence in the board had hit \"rock bottom\", but she was confident Welsh government ministers \"understand that a change of leadership at the board may be the way forward\".\nProf Purt has already apologised on behalf of the board, saying he was \"extremely sorry that we let our vulnerable patients and their families down so badly\".\nA meeting on Monday involving the Welsh government, Health Inspectorate Wales and the auditor general for Wales will consider if any action against the board is needed.\nSunday Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 11:00 BST on 7 June.", "summary": "The older people's commissioner has renewed calls to make it easier to prosecute those who neglect patients in the wake of a critical report about a Denbighshire mental health unit." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dr Margaret Flynn said Dr Prana Das, whose trial ended when he was injured in a burglary, \"should have and could have been prosecuted\".\nHer inquiry found care providers were \"impervious\" to older people's needs.\nThe CPS said there was insufficient evidence for a conviction.\nDr Flynn who reviewed the treatment of the residents of six homes investigated as part of Operation Jasmine, told BBC 5 Live the CPS' response to her report had been \"insensitive and blinkered\".\n\"I think it's both graceless and insensitive, given that families are grieving and are aggrieved. The outcome is that what we have are a host of unanswered questions,\" she said.\n\"Given the very slow changing gears that kept matters of Operation Jasmine out of the public eye for over sever years, their (CPS) very rapid response is graceless.\"\nLorraine Brannan, of the Justice for Jasmine campaign group, said relatives now wanted to meet the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, to find out why the CPS was not reconsidering the case.\n\"We thought they would at least have considered it,\" she said.\n\"To give an answer almost immediately was disappointing. Everybody's really shocked at the level of neglect but still nobody is accountable.\"\nThe family of Daniel Rowlands, 86, who lived at a former Southern Cross home in Caerphilly county, which was not investigated as part of Operation Jasmine, came forward to highlight issues at the home following an appeal by Dr Flynn.\nHis daughter Julia Matthews secured an out-of-court settlement after suing the firm for clinical negligence over his treatment there.\nShe said her father, who died in 2009, would scream in pain caused by pressure sores on his feet, with the bones visible.\n\"No one will stand up and say, 'Do you know what, I am the one that caused that problem. I am to blame.' My father went through physical and mental torment,\" she said.\nPolice decided Mr Rowlands's case did not meet the criminal threshold for prosecution but Julia Matthews also wants that reviewed.", "summary": "The author of a damning report into alleged abuse at south Wales care homes has criticised the Crown Prosecution Service for refusing to reconsider criminal proceedings." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "David Davis called for a \"brisk but measured\" approach, with a likely exit from the EU around December 2018.\nHe said the \"first order of business\" should be to strike trade deals with non EU countries.\nMeanwhile his predecessor, Oliver Letwin, warned the UK had no trade negotiators to lead its exit talks.\nMr Davis, a longstanding campaigner for Brexit, was appointed as secretary of state for leaving the EU by new prime minister Theresa May.\nMrs May has previously said she will not trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which starts a two-year process of leaving, before the end of 2016.\nIn a Sun article, Mr Davis repeated comments made just before his appointment about how the UK should approach its departure from the EU.\nKey to the negotiations will be access to the European single market, which EU leaders have said is conditional on accepting the free movement of people.\nMr Davis said the \"ideal outcome\" would be \"continued tariff-free access\" to the EU single market, adding: \"Once the European nations realise we will not budge on control of our borders, they will want to talk, in their own interests.\n\"But what if they are irrational, as so many Remain-supporting commentators asserted they would be in the run-up to the referendum?\n\"This is one of the reasons for taking a little time before triggering Article 50. The negotiating strategy has to be properly designed, with serious consultation.\"\nHe said the government should consult beforehand with the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments as well as business, unions and universities.\n\"This whole process should be completed to allow triggering of Article 50 before or by the start of next year,\" he said.\nPrior to Mr Davis's appointment, Oliver Letwin was in charge of a \"Brexit unit\" inside the government.\nMr Letwin, who was fired by Mrs May when she took over, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that because the EU had led trade talks with other countries since 1973, \"we do not have trade negotiators\", adding: \"Trade negotiators who are Brits at the moment are basically working for the EU.\"\nIt would be up to them whether they switched to working for the UK, he said.\nMr Letwin said he had left \"the beginnings of groundwork\" for Mr Davis, describing him as a \"jolly tough cookie\".\nMr Davis would need to hire a group to deal with the EU negotiations who would then train up a \"cadre\" of civil servants, Mr Letwin said.\nAsked how long the negotiations would take, he added: \"We will only know as we go along just how tricky this will be and how long that takes.\"\nAlongside Mr Davis, other Brexit campaigners were given prominent jobs including former Defence Secretary Liam Fox, who is in charge of negotiating international trade deals, and Boris Johnson, who was made foreign secretary.\nDespite his sacking, Mr Letwin said Mrs May was \"manifestly the right person\" to take over as prime minister.\n\"It was clear that Theresa was forming a different kind of cabinet, and I was not to be part of it,\" he said, denying her appointments represented a purge of David Cameron's allies.\n\"When you change the guard, you change the guard,\" he added. \"It's a natural process.\"\nMeanwhile Canada's trade minister said her country had been sharing details of its trade deal with the EU with the UK.\nThe Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta) between has been cited by Mr Davis as a possible blueprint for the UK's future relationship with the EU once it leaves.\nChrystia Freeland, who is due to meet the UK's new International Trade Secretary Liam Fox later, said there had already been some \"technical exchanges\", with some \"real details of exactly how Ceta works\" shared with the UK.\nShe said it was a \"great deal as trade deals go\", but was a \"significantly less close relationship\" than EU membership.\nFor example, she said, it does not include the rights for financial firms to trade unhindered across the EU under rights known as \"passporting\" and has less \"labour mobility\" than full membership.", "summary": "The new minister in charge of Brexit says the UK should be able to formally trigger its departure from the EU \"before or by the start of next year\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Gray suffered fatal and unexplained spinal injuries while in police custody, sparking two weeks of protests that turned violent earlier this week.\nOn Thursday, there were rallies in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cincinnati.\nA national debate over the use of lethal police force has been going on since last summer.\nPolice investigating Gray's death said they found out about the new van stop from a security camera.\n\"We discovered this new stop based on our thorough and comprehensive and on-going review of all CCTV cameras and privately owned cameras,\" Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said.\n\"This new stop was discovered from a privately-owned camera.\"\nThe new video was filmed by a CCTV camera outside a small Korean food shop.\nThe shop's owner, Jung Hyun Hwang told the Associated Press news agency that police officers visited last week to make a copy of the recording - which was later lost when the shop was looted during the riots.\nMr Hwang said he had not viewed the recording and did not know what it showed.\nInvestigators have now handed over their inquiry into Gray's death to the state's attorney's office.\nThe city's top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, will now decide whether to take the case to a grand jury to seek an indictment of any of the six officers involved.\nAfter two nights of violent protests in Baltimore, Thursday was relatively calm. The city is still under a curfew requiring people to be off the streets by 22:00 (02:00 GMT).\nVisiting the city earlier in the day, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said the city was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\"There are a lot of people that have legitimate frustrations that are peacefully protesting and we want to protect those people and their right to express their feelings,\" he said.\n\"But we're also concerned about their safety because there are other people who just want to cause trouble.\"\nGray was injured when arrested in Sandtown on 12 April. He lapsed into a coma and died a week later.\nMobile phone video from a bystander shows two officers dragging Gray into the van by the arms.\nAccording to the police timeline of the arrest, the van took 30 minutes to take him to the police station, where paramedics were called.\nWhile in the van, Gray was requesting medical attention which he was wrongly denied, police have admitted.\nThey also acknowledged that he was not secured in the van by a seatbelt, which contravenes department policy.\nAccording to a local ABC station, quoting unnamed sources, the medical examiner has concluded that Gray received his injuries inside the van, not when he was first arrested.\nPreviously, police had said the van made three stops, including one to put him in leg irons and another to pick up another prisoner. The new stop makes four in total.\nFive of the six officers involved in the arrest gave statements to investigators the day Gray was injured. All six have been suspended.\nA separate investigation by the US department of justice is also under way.\nWhat we know about Gray's death", "summary": "Police in the US city of Baltimore say that a van transporting Freddie Gray made a previously undisclosed stop while en route to the police station." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The embattled electronics firm posted a loss of $8.8bn (£6.7bn) for the last fiscal year.\nAuditor PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata gave a \"qualified opinion\" on the financial statements, meaning it broadly endorsed the results.\nToshiba has struggled to recover from a 2015 accounting scandal.\nThe firm's troubles started in 2015 when it was found to have inflated the previous seven years' profits by $1.2bn.\nThe accounting scandal led to the resignation of several members of the firm's senior management, including the chief executive.\nIn late 2016, billions of dollars in losses at its US nuclear unit Westinghouse were first revealed. Toshiba, looking to diversify away from consumer electronics, had bought the business in 2006.\nIts financial troubles deepened after delays and costs overruns at two US reactors, and as global appetite for nuclear energy waned following the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan.\nWestinghouse was put into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which protects it from creditors while it undergoes restructuring.\nToshiba had delayed the release of its financial results for months, as it struggled to secure sign-off from its auditors.\nPricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata on Thursday delivered a \"qualified opinion\" on the earnings for the year to March, as well as the April-June quarter.\nThat means it broadly vouched for its accounting despite finding minor problems.\nThe auditor's sign-off reduces the immediate threat of Toshiba being delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange.\nThe company was demoted from the first tier of the exchange in June after confirming its liabilities outweighed its assets.\nIf Toshiba reports negative net worth - liabilities exceeding assets - for a second consecutive year it would likely prompt a delisting.\nIt's up to the Tokyo Stock Exchange to decide whether it can remain on the bourse.\nToshiba has narrowly escaped de-listing - for now at least. But the troubled firm's problems are far from over.\nWhile auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata have broadly endorsed the results, there are reports that PwC also issued an \"adverse opinion\" on Toshiba saying the company didn't do enough to alert investors about the losses at its US Westinghouse unit soon enough. Toshiba says that it reported the losses as soon as it could.\nBut the risk hasn't gone away. Another deadline still looms - the company has until March 2018 to resolve its debt issues.\nAnalysts say it's hard to see how the beleaguered electronics giant won't face delisting soon - simply because trust in the firm's ability to resurrect itself is at an all time-low and the company hasn't done much to infuse investors with confidence.\nThe company needs to sell its prized chip business to cover its hefty US losses. But the sale has hit hurdles.\nToshiba is trying to offload the unit to a consortium of US, South Korean and Japanese investors. The sale has been challenged by Toshiba's partner and rival bidder, Western Digital, in court.\nToshiba is the world's second-largest chip manufacturer. Its products are used in data centres and consumer goods worldwide, including iPhones and iPads.", "summary": "Toshiba has met a deadline to report its long-awaited earnings results, reducing the risk that the firm will be delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "George Osborne said 98% of homeowners in England and Wales would pay less after the changes than they do under the current system.\nOnly people who buy homes worth more than £937,000 will pay more in tax.\n\"It's time we changed this badly-designed tax on aspiration,\" Mr Osborne told MPs.\nSo how will these changes work?\nStamp duty, which currently operates throughout the UK, charges successively higher rates on the whole of the purchase price. For this reason it is often criticised as a \"slab tax\". Its structure means there are sudden increases in stamp duty, when the price goes above the next threshold.\nFor example, someone buying a home for £250,000 would currently pay £2,500, or 1%, in stamp duty. But if the price was £1 more, they would pay an extra £5,000, as they then pay 3% on the whole purchase price.\nFrom midnight on 3rd December, the new rates of stamp duty will only apply to the amount of the purchase price that falls within the particular duty band, making it more like income tax.\nIn other words, someone buying a house for £200,000 will pay nothing on the first £125,000, and then 2% of the next £75,000, giving them a bill of £1500. Previously they would have paid 1% on the total purchase price, giving them a bill of £2,000. Thus although the percentage rates appear higher in some cases, the overall charge will mostly be lower.\nThe new rates will be\nSomeone buying an family home for an average price in England and Wales will now pay £4,500 less in stamp duty. The new system will also smooth out the steps - or sudden jumps - in existing stamp duty thresholds.\nFrom 1 April 2015, stamp duty in Scotland is being replaced by Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT). Until that date, the new stamp duty rates will apply in Scotland too. The new system in England and Wales will be similar to LBTT, with buyers only charged the higher rates on the portion of the property price that falls within that band.\nUnder Scotland's LBTT, people buying houses priced below £324,280 will pay less than under the stamp duty system as it existed before 3 December. Those spending more than that will be worse off.\nThe government has created a stamp duty calculator to help buyers, but some examples are listed here:\nThe rates for LBTT in Scotland will be lower than the equivalent stamp duty in England and Wales. Scottish purchasers will start paying tax at £135,000, whereas buyers elsewhere in the UK will pay from £125,000. As in England and Wales, richer buyers will lose out under the new system, and more modest buyers will benefit. From 1 April, the LBTT rates will be", "summary": "Stamp duty on home purchases is to be reformed from midnight on Wednesday, along the lines of the system due to be introduced in Scotland, the chancellor has announced." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe 28-year-old was a target for Tianjin Quanjian but any potential move was scuppered by new rules in the Chinese Super League, according to the club's owner.\nCosta did not play in Chelsea's win at Leicester on Saturday with boss Antonio Conte saying he had a back problem.\nHe trained on his own on Monday but this was to aid his recovery.\nBBC Sport understands Chelsea are determined to keep Costa, who is the joint top scorer in the Premier League with 14 goals.\nCosta's return to training means he could be in contention for the visit of Hull on Saturday as Chelsea look to extend their seven-point lead at the top of the table.", "summary": "Chelsea striker Diego Costa trained with the first team on Tuesday after being linked with a move to China." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Following owner Norman Smurthwaite's decision to stand down as chairman, Synectics Solutions have made an offer of £1.25m, reports BBC Radio Stoke.\nThat is the same figure Smurthwaite and his former business partner Paul Wildes paid when they bought Port Vale out of administration in November 2012.\nSynectics Solutions is owned by Kevin and Carol Shanahan, from Stafford.\nThey moved the business from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Hamil Road, Burslem, close to Vale Park, two years ago.\nThey say they would not have to borrow money to buy the club and have the funds to run it.\nSmurthwaite has previously said that he has put £3.7m worth of loans into Port Vale since he has been the owner.\nVale, who confirmed the appointment of Michael Brown as their manager on Wednesday, were relegated last Sunday after four seasons in League One.\nPort Vale have agreed one-year contracts with three of their young players - midfielder Billy Reeves, 20, goalkeeper Ryan Boot, 22, and striker Dan Turner, 18.\nWelshman Reeves, who has an option to extend the deal when it expires in June 2018, follows the lead set by Danny Pugh on Thursday.\nHe has made 12 appearances, eight of them as substitute, since making his debut at Southend in early March.\nBoot, who made his first Vale appearance in the 2-2 home draw with Bury in January, has previously been out on loan in non-league with Worcester City (twice) and Macclesfield Town.\nTurner, who spent two months out on loan at Worcester, has made 19 appearances, mostly as substitute, but is yet to score his first goal.", "summary": "Relegated Port Vale have received an offer from a Burslem-based IT company to buy the League One club." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "18 July 2016 Last updated at 19:32 BST\nFields of Battle, Lands of Peace displays images by the photo-journalist Michael St Maur Sheil.\nIt looks at how the battlefields of World War One have changed over the past 100 years.", "summary": "The Battle of the Somme is recalled in a new photographic exhibition about World War One located in the grounds of Belfast City Hall." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "For the best part of a decade, the former postman relied on help from carers while confined to his bed.\nEach day around £75-worth of takeaways and chocolate would be delivered to his door.\nHis daily intake of 20,000 calories - nearly 10 times the recommended average - saw him tagged in the media as the \"world's fattest man\".\nEverything had to be within arm's reach at his Ipswich home, including a feast of snacks to satisfy his constant need for a \"quick fix\".\nMr Mason, 50, said he would barely sleep as he went on \"24/7\" binges of fish and chips, Chinese food and kebabs.\n\"You have no sense of time, months all rolled into each other,\" he said.\n\"For several years I didn't sleep properly because I was always eating. All I could think of was getting a quick fix of food.\n\"I made sure I had supplies around my bed - chocolate, crisps and sausage rolls. I got to the stage where I had an addiction.\n\"It was 24/7 eating. You don't feel full and you don't feel hungry.\"\nNearly two years ago Mr Mason had life-saving NHS gastric bypass surgery to control his weight.\nBut first he had to face up to the \"demons\" that he says led to his food addiction.\nHe was bullied at school - not for his weight but for his height, as he quickly shot up to 6ft 4in (1.93m).\nHe also endured heartbreak when a four-year relationship with a woman ended in the mid-1980s.\nSoon after, his father died, aged 52, and he helped care for his mother who suffered from arthritis. She died two years ago aged 76.\nMr Mason, one of three children, said food was always a major part of family life - and something he turned to for comfort.\n\"My dad used to insist when I was young that I cleared my plate,\" he said.\n\"He would say 'I haven't worked all those hours for you not to clear your plate'. We had big meals. There was always a constant battle between us to see who could clear their plate the quickest.\"\nAfter leaving school, he did a mechanic's apprenticeship but would binge on food while skipping college lessons.\nHis weight gradually increased during his teens and by the time he was 30 it had topped 25 stone (158kg).\nBut it was in the early 2000s when his weight really shot out of control as he grew from 40 to 70 stone (250 to 450kg).\nMr Mason said he barely left his home in Ipswich, Suffolk, between 2001 and last year, aside from occasional hospital trips.\nIn early 2010, he underwent the bypass surgery. Since then, he has shed 40 stone as he transformed his diet and, gradually, became more active.\nThat brought with it new stresses, including learning to cope with venturing outside.\n\"I remember travelling to hospital in the ambulance for my operation and the traffic really freaked me out,\" he said.\n\"I had become institutionalised.\"\nHe has also had to deal with being recognised.\n\"I do get jibes - people drive past saying 'fat boy' and things like that,\" he said.\n\"You get people staring at you but it doesn't bother me.\n\"You don't do this because you want to become the world's heaviest man.\n\"Anyone can come up to me and argue about 'why should you get that help and why have you got that?'\n\"We live in a free country. When I talk to them and explain what my problems are they are more understanding. It's an illness.\"\nEven with his dramatic weight loss, his battle for more surgery has continued as he has been left with vast folds of excess skin.\nDoctors have told him his weight, currently around 30 stone (190kg), needed to reduce further and then stabilise at his target weight before he could have surgery to remove the skin.\nBut he said it was hindering his effort to reach his target of about 17 stone (107kg).\n\"I don't want to be a drain on society but I can't get on with my life without this surgery,\" he said.\n\"I feel like I have been left high and dry. My life is on hold because it is stopping me from getting back into society.\"\nA spokesman for NHS Suffolk said a panel, including clinicians, decide on whether such operations should take place.\nHe said: \"A patient must have a stable weight before he or she is considered.\"\nProf David Haslam, from the National Obesity Forum, has backed Mr Mason's fight for further surgery.\nHe said: \"By undergoing the first operation to have gastric bypass surgery, which would normally cost about £9,000, Mr Mason has saved the NHS tens of thousands of pounds.\n\"The least the NHS can do now is give him the operations to remove his excess skin.\n\"It's not a simple case of just snipping the skin off - it's complex plastic surgery but it's almost inevitable in a case such as this.\"\nMr Mason is determined to win his weight battle - and says he is driven on by flashbacks of his previous condition.\n\"I don't want to block out what happened to me because it spurs me on now,\" he said.\n\"It stops me from going back to how I used to be.\"", "summary": "As his weight ballooned to 70 stone, even seemingly simple tasks represented a huge challenge for Paul Mason." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Yusuf Sarwar and Mohammed Nahin Ahmed, both aged 22 and from Birmingham, were sentenced for engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.\nThe judge imposed an extended licence period of five years.\nAhmed's family, who say they helped the police with the investigation, issued a statement saying: \"We feel completely betrayed.\"\nThey objected to the sentence as \"too long\" and said they would appeal against it.\n\"This sends out the wrong message to other families who might have concerns about their sons and daughters, and now might not come forward,\" they said.\nAhmed's family drew attention to the separate case of Mashudur Choudhury, who was jailed for similar offences for four years after pleading not guilty.\nSentencing Ahmed and Sarwar earlier, Judge Michael Topolski described the two men as \"deeply committed to violent extremism\".\nHe said they had \"willingly, enthusiastically and with a great deal of purpose, persistence and determination embarked on a course intended to commit acts of terrorism\".\nThe two men were arrested by West Midlands Police's counter-terrorism unit at Heathrow Airport on their return to the UK in January.\nBoth men pleaded guilty to to terrorism charges at Woolwich Crown Court in London in July.\nWest Midlands Police said they were first alerted to the case when Sarwar's parents reported him missing last year.\nThe two friends travelled to Syria in May 2013, where they are believed to have spent eight months with the al-Nusra Front, which is a jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.\nBefore leaving the UK, Sarwar faked documents to convince his family he was travelling to Turkey as part of a two-week trip organised by Birmingham City University, where he was a student.\nAhmed told his family he was going on holiday with Sarwar.\nBut Sarwar's parents found a six-page letter in which their son admitted he had gone \"to do jihad\" in Syria.\nHe also left instructions to cancel his mobile phone contract and money to settle outstanding debts.\nProsecutor Brian Altman QC told the court at their plea hearing: \"Sarwar was not expecting to return to his family and that is because he hoped to die as a martyr.\"\nPolice said Ahmed, an unemployed former postal worker, had had \"sought advice from a fighter in Syria and from extremists in Denmark and Sweden\".\nA man living in Denmark, calling himself Abu Usama al-Mujahid, had told him: \"You can be a mujahid [fighter] wherever in the world you are. Look at 7/7 from your country.\"\nThe men bought one-way tickets to Turkey then crossed the border to Syria.\nTraces of military-grade explosives were found on their clothing and pictures on their camera showed them brandishing weapons.\nDetectives used satellite imaging to establish from the photographs that the men had been in and around Aleppo - one of the main conflict zones.\nDet Ch Supt Sue Southern, who leads the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, was involved in the case against Sarwar and Ahmed.\nShe said preventing people being recruited to terrorist groups online was a \"significant challenge\" and that her workload in this area \"has increased five fold\".\nPaying tribute to the men's families for their role in the prosecution, she said she hoped the case would \"give people the confidence to come forward, but to come forward sooner\" if they suspect relatives of being radicalised.", "summary": "Two British men who went to Syria to join rebel fighters have been jailed for 12 years and eight months each." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The borough council currently empties black bins every week, which is also the case in neighbouring Bournemouth.\nThe approval of a system for collections every other week aims to save the authority £633,000 a year.\nIt is also hoped it will encourage more recycling. The changes are due to be implemented in autumn 2016.\nThe authority said it needed to make savings of between £18m and £20m over the next four years.", "summary": "Plans to axe weekly household bin collections in Poole have been approved by councillors." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The company said it asked a judge investigating a former Petrobras director, Paulo Roberto Costa, for access to his confidential statements.\nPetrobras said it had also written letters to companies allegedly involved in the scheme asking for help.\nThe scandal comes less than a month before presidential elections.\n\"Any irregular acts that may have been committed by a person or group of people, whether or not they are company employees, do not represent the conduct of the Petrobras institution and its workforce, made up of thousands of employees,\" said Petrobras in a statement.\nOn Saturday, one of Brazil's leading magazines, published the names of more than 40 politicians whom Mr Costa had accused of involvement in the alleged scheme.\nIn the magazine report, Mr Costa, who was head of downstream operations for Petrobras from 2004 to 2012, claimed that politicians received 3% commissions on the values of contracts signed with Petrobras when he was working there.\nHe alleged that the scheme was used to buy support for the government in congressional votes.\nMr Costa - who is in jail and being investigated for involvement in the alleged scheme - named a minister, state governors and congressmen.\nAmong them were members of the governing Workers Party and groups which back President Dilma Rousseff.\nBut the list of names published by Veja magazine also included rivals of Ms Rousseff.\nMr Costa was arrested in 2013. He struck a plea-bargain deal with prosecutors before providing the names.\nMany of the politicians mentioned have denied involvement.\nThe BBC's Wyre Davies in Rio de Janeiro says the latest allegations could hurt President Rousseff.\nDuring her presidency, Petrobras has dramatically underperformed and its costs rose sharply.", "summary": "Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, says it is investigating an alleged bribery scheme reported to be linked to top politicians." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Nicholas Hankin, of Gwenfro Community Primary School, Caia Park, was suspended on 2 December.\nHis solicitor, Tudor Williams, said Mr Hankin had been teaching for 20 years, had an \"umblemished record\" and was being \"scapegoated\".\nA Wrexham council spokeswoman said they were unable to comment. North Wales Police is investigating.\nAuditors have been called in to examine the school's accounts.\nMr Hankin was appointed head teacher earlier this year after serving as head at Brymbo primary school.", "summary": "A head teacher from Wrexham has been suspended after allegations that money was unaccounted for at his school." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Twenty-two people were killed and 64 injured when suspected suicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, attacked concert-goers in Manchester on Monday night.\nPolice said they were investigating a \"network\" over the attack.\nMeanwhile, the husband of a woman from Gwynedd, who was injured in the bombing, believes her phone saved her.\nLisa Bridgett, who manages the Bluewater Marine Boatyard in Pwllheli, had been at the Manchester Arena with her daughter and her daughter's friend when she was hit by shrapnel.\nHer husband Steve said she had lost the middle finger of her left hand after it was hit by a steel nut. It then went through her mobile phone, which she had been using at the time, and it entered her cheek and came to rest within her nose.\nShe is recovering in a Manchester hospital after surgery on Tuesday and is preparing for another operation on Thursday.\n\"The fact that she was on the phone at the time probably saved her life,\" he said.\n\"The nut has hit her phone which has more than likely not only diverted it, but also slowed it down considerably.\"\nA minute's silence will be held at 11:00 BST on Thursday in remembrance of those who lost their lives or were affected by the attack, the UK government has announced.\nThe threat level means a further attack anywhere in the UK \"may be imminent\" and police can call on the military.\nBut Dyfed-Powys, south and north Wales police forces have no plans to do so, although they are stepping up patrols.\nSouth Wales Police said there would be an increase in armed officers at \"key locations\".\nAssistant Chief Constable Richard Lewis added: \"There are a number of key events in south Wales in the coming weeks which will attract large crowds.\n\"We will continue to review our response to these events depending on the intelligence and information which we receive.\"\nNorth Wales Police said it would increase patrols, particularly of armed officers.\nAssistant Chief Constable Richard Debicki said: \"It appears a number of young people and families from the region will have been present and witnessed the events unfold.\n\"We are meeting with our health service partners and others to identify those individuals to ensure they received the appropriate support and counselling.\"\nDyfed-Powys Police said it would \"tailor our policing resources accordingly\".\nGwent Police have urged the public to \"remain alert but not alarmed\".\nEmma Ackland, Assistant Chief Constable of Gwent Police, said \"We have reviewed our local patrol strategies and resourcing levels and these will be enhanced, especially around crowded places and within communities that may feel vulnerable. There are no current plans to deploy military assets into our communities, however this is a fluid situation which we are monitoring continuously.\"\nThe team based at Cardiff Airport has increased visible patrols to reassure passengers.\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones warned people to \"remain vigilant\" and tweeted, saying \"everything is being done to keep the country safe\".\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd said it \"seems likely\" Abedi was not acting alone and his 23-year-old brother was arrested on Tuesday, followed by further people on Wednesday.\nMs Rudd said up to 3,800 troops would be deployed on the streets around the UK.\nThe threat level decided by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre - a group of experts from the police, government departments and agencies - has reached critical twice before.\nACC Lewis also said plans for policing the Champions League final in Cardiff on 3 June had not changed.\nHe said there would be \"no knee-jerk reaction\" and its approach, when 170,000 football fans descend on the city, would be intelligence-led and risk-based.\nAlthough there was \"no specific threat\", he asked people to be \"extra vigilant\".\nPromoter LHG, which is hosting UB40's concert at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground on Friday, said it would re-examine security measures and make adjustments where necessary.\nSecurity consultant Dai Davies, a former head of royal protection, said: \"Everybody thinks that once an event is over we can relax - the truth is you can't relax until the fat lady stops singing, as they say.\"\nHundreds of people have attended vigils across Wales to remember the victims and show solidarity with the people of Manchester.\nFurther services were held in Bridgend, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire and Porthmadog in Gwynedd on Wednesday evening.", "summary": "It is \"unlikely\" soldiers will be deployed in Wales despite the terror threat level being raised to critical, police have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police said the pilot, in his 60s, and his passenger, in his 50s, died when their microlight crashed at Enstone Airfield, near Chipping Norton, shortly after 19:00 BST on Friday.\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is on the scene.\nBoth victims' next of kin have been told, but their identities have not been disclosed.\nMick Clarke, from Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue, said: \"This was a tragic incident that has led to two lives being lost. Our thoughts are with the family of those involved.\"\nThe aerodrome has declined to comment while investigation work is carried out.\nThe small airfield near the village of Enstone was originally built by the RAF during World War Two and is now regularly used by civilian light aircraft.", "summary": "Two men have been killed in a light aircraft crash at an airfield in Oxfordshire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The deal, which follows years of negotiations with the estate of the late Lady Mairi Bury, will increase the size of the attraction ten-fold.\nIt will lead to the opening up of 20 miles of walking trails, as well as the restoration of Georgian buildings.\nIt comes as a £7.5m project to restore the stately home nears completion.\nThe trust hopes the renovation, together with the land purchase, will boost annual visitor numbers from 160,000 to 250,000.\nThe charity has acquired rolling parkland and woodland which make up the historic demesne of the famous house and gardens near the shore of Strangford Lough.\nThe purchase reunites the house with its demesne, decades after the gardens and house were gifted to the National Trust.\nLady Bury, who died in 2009, was the youngest daughter of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry. The family had owned Mount Stewart since 1740.\nJon Kerr, the trust manager at Mount Stewart, said: \"In time, visitors will be able to explore extensive woodland, previously unseen walled gardens, farmland and a range of historic monuments and buildings.\"\nThe trust said if it had not bought the land, there was the prospect of development activity.\n\"At a number of points, we were not sure we were going to be successful,\" said Mr Kerr.\n\"We just could not miss the opportunity to secure it for the people of Northern Ireland.\"", "summary": "The National Trust has bought 900 acres of land surrounding the historic Mount Stewart house and gardens in County Down at a cost of £4m." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The note, featuring a picture of Pudsey Bear raising a Saltire flag, was one of the first polymer notes issued on 17 July 2015.\nThe Pudsey design was created by Kayla Robson, 12, who won a Bank of Scotland competition in partnership with the BBC's Children in Need charity.\nIt had been expected to fetch between £1,000 and £1,200.\nAn anonymous collector bid £15,500 when the note went under the hammer at the Spink's World Banknotes auction in London on Tuesday.\nBut the actual amount paid rose to £18,600 including buyer's premiums.\nMonica Kruber, a specialist in Spink's banknote department, said: \"This Pudsey £5 note was designed by a young lady from Dundee.\n\"We knew it was going to be good but it made a fabulous price. We are delighted, especially as it is for BBC Children in Need.\n\"It is an extraordinary note, and an extraordinary issue - the first polymer from the Bank of Scotland.\n\"It has amazing security features. The note itself is very attractive and the colours are amazing -- they are also largely invincible.\"\nThe note was one of a limited edition of 50 notes. The serial numbers were unique, with the first 40 using the code PUDSEY01 to PUDSEY40 while the remaining 10 would be personalised to buyers.\nSome of the notes were auctioned last year, but the latest sale coincided with the release of the general issue polymer £5 notes, which were made available to the public.\nAnnette Barnes, Bank of Scotland's retail managing director, said: \"This new £5 note is brighter and bolder than most other banknotes in circulation and really brings to life what BBC Children in Need means to so many people.\n\"Kayla did a fantastic job with her design and I am delighted to see how we have been able to incorporate it into our first polymer banknote.\"", "summary": "A limited edition Bank of Scotland £5 note designed by a Dundee schoolgirl has sold for £18,600 at auction." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In December the African Union's Peace and Security Council was unequivocal in its condemnation of the violence in Burundi and pledged to send a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force, regardless of what the government thought.\nBut just over a month later, AU leaders at this weekend's meeting in Addis Ababa abandoned those plans and instead opted to send a delegation to hold talks.\nCommissioner for Peace and Security Council Smail Chergui explained why.\n\"We want dialogue with the government, and the summit decided to dispatch a high-level delegation,\" he said.\nBurundi's President Pierre Nkurinziza, whose third-term bid began the recent bout of trouble, has always been opposed to the troop deployment.\nThe AU could have deployed troops without Burundi's consent as under its charter there is a clause that allows it to intervene in a member state because of grave circumstances, which include war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.\nHowever, it would have been the first time it had taken such a step.\nSenior AU diplomat Ibrahima Fall said such a move would have been \"unimaginable\".\nSo the idea of African solutions to African problems seems to be stalling here.\nStephanie Wolters, from the Pretoria-based Institute of Security Studies, told me that this was a setback for the AU.\nShe said \"this is a sign that African heads of state are not ready to set a precedent to intervene without the consent of the host government\".\n\"The heads of state threw out a decision that was approved by their very own ambassadors,\" she emphasised.\nThe move not to send troops to Burundi suggests that it is going to take a long time before the AU can assert itself and distinguish itself from the lethargic Organisation of African Unity (OAU).\nI was in Durban at the AU's inaugural summit in 2002 when then-South African President Thabo Mbeki, who was also AU chairman, set out his vision for the new organisation which emerged from the OAU.\n\"Together we must work for peace, security and stability for the people of this continent,\" he said.\n\"We must end the senseless conflicts and wars on our continent which have caused so much pain and suffering to our people.\"\nMany here on the continent hope that this this U-turn will not mean another senseless conflict breaks out of the type which President Mbeki spoke so eloquently about.\nThe ordinary Burundian will hope that the AU delegation will indeed avert what some fear could become a new civil war.\nFind out more about Burundi", "summary": "African solutions to African problems is the mantra, but when it came to trying to sort out the situation in Burundi, heads of state have pulled back from taking decisive action." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Planning permission is being sought for the facility near Downpatrick, County Down.\nThere would be no headstones and ordinary coffins would not be allowed, instead thousands of trees and wildflowers will be planted to create a memorial nature reserve.\nPeople wishing to be buried there would use cardboard or wicker coffins and no embalming fluid would be permitted.\nGPS technology will be used to ensure that people who want to be buried with family members can identify grave locations.\nIt is estimated 750 burials could be accommodated in the first phase with more later.\nA group of people have come together to develop the proposal. They are called Down to Earth and include well-known artist Catherine McWilliams.\nHaving drawn on the landscape for inspiration in her work for years, she said: \"I would like the idea of my mortal remains going back to preserve the earth and to feed the plants and flowers that grow out of it.\"\nA buffer zone of trees will be planted to provide a natural filtration unit and protect a lough close to the site.\nThere is already a similar facility in County Wexford and hundreds of them in Britain.\nIf passed by planners the site, near Lough Money close to the village of Ballyalton, could be operation within the year.", "summary": "Northern Ireland could soon have it first woodland burial site." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nHackers Fancy Bears published documents on Wednesday which state Farah returned a sample which needed further testing.\nThe data goes on to show Farah was then cleared when his results were later viewed as \"normal\".\n\"We have never been informed of any of Mo's test results being outside of the legal parameters,\" a spokesperson said.\n\"Nor has Mo ever been contacted by the IAAF about any individual result. It is totally incorrect and defamatory to suggest otherwise, and we will pursue any claims to the contrary through all necessary legal routes,\" they added.\n\"It has been widely reported that previous leaks from this organisation have included false or altered documents, and we have asked the IAAF to urgently look into the validity.\n\"Regardless, any suggestion of misconduct is entirely false and seriously misleading. Mo Farah has been subject to many blood tests during his career and has never failed a single one.\"\nFarah, who won gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, is preparing for the World Championships in London on 5 August.\nFancy Bears - thought to be a Russian hacking group - began releasing athlete data last year and focused largely on naming those who had sought Therapeutic Use Exemptions, which allow athletes to take banned substances for verified medical needs.\nThe IAAF - athletics' world governing body - said in April it was hacked by the group in February.\n\"The IAAF offers its sincerest apologies to the athletes who believed their personal and medical information was secure with us,\" the organisation said on Thursday.\n\"We will continue to work with cyber incident response firm Context Information Security, who identified the Fancy Bears cyber attack which we announced in April. Context believes that the information published yesterday emanates from that attack.\"\n\"There can be no excuse for the leaking of personal and medical data or the releasing of information on informants and ongoing investigations as this puts those individuals involved at risk and harms the fight against doping,\" said IAAF president Lord Coe. \"However, we must acknowledge that we need to look at our processes.\n\"We continue to investigate any suspicion of doping in a robust way in accordance with applicable protocols and under World Anti-Doping Agency supervision. It would be wrong to make assumptions based upon leaked documents without the full evidence and that evidence being put into context.\"\nFarah has always vociferously denied ever taking performance enhancing drugs.\nHis coach since 2011, Alberto Salazar, is currently under investigation by US Anti Doping but issued a 12,000- word open letter in 2015 denying accusations he violated anti-doping rules.", "summary": "Mo Farah stressed he has \"never failed a blood test\" following the release of hacked documents which appear to show his test results once caused suspicion." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He was taken off injured during Friday's 2-1 win over Dundee United and remains in a Glasgow hospital.\nPearson, 33, told Motherwell's website: \"I'm gutted to miss our upcoming games, but there's very little I can do for this other than rest up.\n\"I'll hopefully be back as soon as possible to help the lads.\"\nThe former Scotland international had to be substituted after 34 minutes of a game in which skipper Keith Lasley and Josh Law were also forced off through injury.", "summary": "Motherwell midfielder Stephen Pearson has been ruled out for six weeks after suffering several broken ribs and a punctured lung." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "South Wales Fire and Rescue Service were called to the blaze at Pwll y Pant just before 10:25 GMT on Saturday.\nIt is understood the casualties were suffering from smoke inhalation.\nThree fire engines were sent to scene from Caerphilly and Aberbargoed.", "summary": "Two people have been taken to hospital after being rescued from a house fire in Caerphilly." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is unsupported on your device\n10 September 2015 Last updated at 01:49 BST\nThe updated Apple TV poses a challenge to traditional broadcasters and games console-makers, while the iPad Pro has laptops and desktop PCs in its sights.\nThe video above recaps the highlights from the San Francisco event as well as some of the early reactions.", "summary": "Apple has unveiled a larger iPad tablet, a TV box with its own app store and new iPhones that can detect how firmly their screens are being pressed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is very rarely true.\nIt is only in an extremely close-run race that the personality of the leader and the gulf between that leader's standing and the popularity of his or her principal opponent can make the difference between victory and defeat.\nIt is not even particularly uncommon for the political party of the less popular leader of the two main parties to be the one that wins the election.\nThus, for example, although journalists still write of \"Margaret Thatcher's rout of James Callaghan\", the Labour leader was some 20 points ahead of Mrs Thatcher on the eve of the Conservative victory in the 1979 election.\nIt was not Thatcher who defeated Callaghan but the Conservative Party that defeated Labour.\nA serious study of post-World War Two UK elections found that the only leader who could have made the difference between his party forming a government or being in opposition was Harold Wilson, and on two occasions - in October 1964 and February 1974.\nThat was because those elections were extremely close and Wilson was vastly more popular than the Conservative leader in each case - Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 and Edward Heath in 1974.\nIn between, the Conservatives had won the 1970 election, notwithstanding the fact that then, too, Wilson was more popular than Heath.\nSince all the available evidence suggests that the May 2015 election is likely to be a cliff-hanger, with a distinct possibility that once again no one party will have an overall majority, does this mean that journalists' excessive focus on the top leader might for once be justified? Probably not.\nThe two main political parties would be well advised to give ample interview time to other front-benchers rather than over-expose David Cameron and Ed Miliband in what, thanks to the fixed election date, is going to be a very long campaign by British standards - four whole months.\nNick Clegg might also cut his losses by sharing (with Vince Cable in the first instance) whatever diminished limelight the Liberal Democrats will secure.\nMr Clegg is highly unlikely to emulate his 2010 campaign, when he was deemed the outstanding performer, especially in the televised debates, of the three party leaders.\nEven then, with unprecedented mass media exposure and \"Cleggmania\" rampant, the party's national vote rose by only 1%, and the Lib Dems ended up with five fewer MPs than in 2005.\nNigel Farage will doubtless continue to dominate the UKIP coverage, although the defection, and subsequent election under the UKIP banner, of two Conservative MPs makes him appear less of a one-man band than hitherto.\nThe rise of UKIP, however, is not because it has a leader of exceptional ability - he has the gift of the gab but we don't know, and may never know, if he would make a good minister.\nTheir by-election and opinion poll success is principally because the party is the respectable face of anti-immigration sentiment.\nAt a time when the major parties fought shy of the issue, UKIP articulated widespread popular concern about high levels of immigration.\nTheir challenge to British membership of the European Union is a less salient preoccupation for most voters, except insofar as it is linked to immigration levels.\nThe EU per se, and the issue of sovereignty, does, of course, matter greatly to many Conservative as well as UKIP activists.\nIt would be a surprise if UKIP were to win more than a handful of seats in the general election, but they could still have an influence on the outcome, taking more votes from the Conservatives than from Labour.\nThe big question is just how great the difference between Conservative and Labour defections to them will be - perhaps very great, and to Labour's electoral advantage, if it can convince its core voters that the party has not lost touch with them and its roots.\nThe Green Party may or may not improve on the single House of Commons seat it holds at present, but it has the potential to affect the outcome in a number of constituencies.\nIt may be the mass media's leader-fixation that prevents the Greens getting the attention their level of support, especially among young voters, merits.\nHow many people stopped on the street could name the present leader of the Green party? No, not Caroline Lucas - Natalie Bennett.\nThe Greens' more collective leadership may have hindered them from getting their fair share of media coverage, but it has not prevented their overtaking the Liberal Democrats in popular support - 7% nationally as against the Lib Dems' 6% in the last You Gov poll before Christmas.\nThe Greens are sure to eat into the Lib Dem vote in the May election, and they pose a danger to Labour in some marginal seats.\nOf all the parties other than Conservative and Labour, including the far from inconsequential Northern Ireland parties, it is, however, the Scottish National Party which - uniquely for a UK general election - may hold the key to the result.\nThey are, by any objective measure, a more serious party than UKIP and are likely to win far more seats.\nUnlike UKIP, to which they are sometimes, misleadingly, compared, they have demonstrated that they can govern and can do so effectively.\nHaving held office as a minority government in Scotland from 2007 to 2011, they won an outright majority in 2011, notwithstanding a highly proportional electoral system designed to ensure that no party (especially not the SNP) would ever have a monopoly of government posts.\nUntil now Scots have voted differently for the Westminster Parliament than for that in Edinburgh.\nNot only did Labour win 41 out of 59 Scottish seats in the 2010 general election, it also increased its share of the vote in Scotland by 2.5% while dropping by 6.5% in the UK as a whole.\nLabour's chances of an overall majority in the House of Commons after 7 May must depend on them holding on to most of those seats. At the moment this looks unlikely.\nA December 2014 ICM poll of voting intentions for the general election put the SNP 17 points ahead of Labour, with the other parties trailing far behind.\nUnless Labour can regain its former credibility north of the border, a majority of Scottish members of the House of Commons are going to be nationalists.\nThe rise of the SNP over the past two decades has often been attributed to the exceptional ability of its leader, Alex Salmond.\nThere is no denying his political talent, but yet again this is a case of a particular leader being used to explain too much.\nFollowing the seamless transition to the leadership of Nicola Sturgeon - also, indeed, a formidable politician - support for the party has simply continued to grow.\nThe SNP have said that in no circumstances will they prop up a Conservative government, but - at a price - they might uphold a Labour administration.\nThat has very far-reaching implications.\nIf it led to the predictable English backlash, this would be grist for the mill of the separatist party, but bad news in the longer term for Labour - and for the continuing existence of the British state within its present boundaries.", "summary": "The idea that party leaders are decisively important in the winning or losing of general elections is implicit in much political journalism and it is a belief that some political leaders themselves - Tony Blair, in particular - have been eager to propagate." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Joaquin Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa cartel, escaped on 11 July.\nThe judge said he was looking more deeply into the actions of two prison guards and an officer who had been in the prison's monitoring control centre.\nGuzman escaped through a tunnel from his cell to a building outside.\nThe judge alleged the officer in the monitoring control centre at the time had given conflicting answers to questions.\nHe said he wanted to look more closely at why the two prison guards had not answered the phone at the time of the escape.\nThe judge said there was insufficient evidence to jail four other suspects.\nIt is the second time Guzman has escaped from a top-security prison.\nIn 2001 he broke out of Puente Grande jail, reportedly hidden in a laundry cart after bribing officials.\nHe was on the run for 13 years before being re-arrested in February 2014. The capture was seen as a coup for President Enrique Pena Nieto.\nHis escape is a serious blow to the president, who called it \"an affront to the state\".\nMr Pena Nieto said he was confident that security forces \"have the strength and determination to recapture this criminal\".\nThe authorities are also focusing their investigations on his home state of Sinaloa, from where he ran the cartel of the same name.\nWhile the Sinaloa cartel has lost ground to rival gangs in past years it continues to be one of the most powerful drug trafficking organisations in the world.\nGuzman's personal fortune is estimated at $1bn (£640m).", "summary": "A Mexican judge has ordered three prison officers to be formally taken into custody while an inquiry continues into a jailbreak by the country's most wanted criminal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A court found that Yem Chrin, 56, had reused dirty needles when treating patients in the village of Roka in north-western Battambang province.\nYem Chrin's charge had been reduced from murder to manslaughter. He said he was only trying to help the community.\nUnlicensed doctors provide care in many parts of rural Cambodia.\nMany are self-taught but poor medical facilities and funding mean they are often the only healthcare option for millions of Cambodians.\nThe number of people infected in the case has not been exactly determined. Estimates range from more than 100 to more than 270. The deaths of 10 people, mostly elderly, have been attributed to the infections.\nAuthorities detected the scale of the infections after a 74-year-old man tested positive for HIV in November last year.\nYem Chrin was arrested a month later. He admitted reusing syringes but denied he had intentionally spread the virus.\nProvincial court judge Yich Na Chheavy said in the verdict: \"The court found Yem Chrin guilty of operating health treatment without licence, injecting people with syringes that spread HIV and torturing people to die.\"\nReducing the charge to manslaughter had spared Yem Chrin a life sentence.\nHis lawyer, Em Sovann, told Agence France-Presse news agency: \"My client still insists he is innocent. I will represent him if he wants to appeal this conviction.\"\nYem Chrin had reportedly practised in the area since 1996 and police said he was a well-respected doctor.\nCambodia suffered a high HIV prevalence rate in the 1990s but a safe-sex campaign has been successful in bringing it down from 2% in 1998 to 0.7% last year, UN figures show.", "summary": "An unlicensed Cambodian doctor has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for infecting about 200 people with HIV, some of whom later died." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Substitute Karlan Ahearne-Grant put the visitors in front soon after the break.\nBut City were level just four minutes later when Joe Mason found the net with a close-range finish.\nAfter both sides had further chances to score, Morrison rose to head home Peter Whittingham's cross and leave Cardiff fifth and the Addicks down in 17th.\nThe hosts, who were looking to end a two-game losing run, started brightly with Anthony Pilkington seeing a curling effort palmed away by Nick Pope.\nMorrison then went close when his free header from a Whittingham corner was cleared off the line by Jordan Cousins.\nBut after Morrison was wasteful with another header and Joe Ralls miskicked when clear on goal, Cardiff let the Addicks back into the game.\nTony Watt went close with a header before half-time and Ahearne-Grant opened the scoring after the break when he rolled the ball past Simon Moore.\nThe goal provoked a reaction from the hosts as Mason finished from close range - the strike allowed to stand, despite appeals for handball.\nMason went close again and Moore denied Watt and Cousins at the other end before, having seen another header go over, Morrison finally hit the target to secure Cardiff the only home win of the day in the Championship.\nCardiff manager Russell Slade: \"It was important we bounced back and got a reaction from the disappointment of the last two games where we felt we were unfortunate.\n\"Despite our domination in the first half we were unable to convert our chances which was frustrating.\n\"But the good thing is after going a goal down we showed a lot more intensity and deserved the equaliser and the goal that brought us the three points.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nCharlton manager Guy Luzon: \"When you lead 1-0 away from home you make sure you show the character and organisation to keep the result.\n\"If you do that you will have space to counter-attack as the game goes on. But we couldn't, though our problem started in the first half as from every set-piece Cardiff won the ball and they had quite a lot of chances to score.\n\"That continued in the second half and we were eventually punished for that.\"\nMatch ends, Cardiff City 2, Charlton Athletic 1.\nSecond Half ends, Cardiff City 2, Charlton Athletic 1.\nFoul by Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City).\nConor McAleny (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Morgan Fox with a cross.\nSubstitution, Charlton Athletic. Franck Moussa replaces Ahmed Kashi.\nJoe Ralls (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Charlton Athletic).\nSubstitution, Cardiff City. Aron Gunnarsson replaces Joe Mason.\nAttempt missed. Conor McAleny (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.\nAttempt missed. Joe Mason (Cardiff City) left footed shot from very close range is too high. Assisted by Scott Malone with a cross.\nOffside, Cardiff City. Craig Noone tries a through ball, but Joe Mason is caught offside.\nGoal! Cardiff City 2, Charlton Athletic 1. Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Peter Whittingham with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Chris Solly.\nSubstitution, Cardiff City. Craig Noone replaces Anthony Pilkington.\nAttempt blocked. Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Peter Whittingham.\nCorner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Jordan Cousins.\nAttempt missed. Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Peter Whittingham with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Jordan Cousins.\nAttempt blocked. Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Joe Mason.\nOffside, Cardiff City. Scott Malone tries a through ball, but Joe Mason is caught offside.\nSubstitution, Cardiff City. Sammy Ameobi replaces Kenwyne Jones.\nAttempt missed. Kenwyne Jones (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Peter Whittingham with a cross.\nCorner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Patrick Bauer.\nOffside, Charlton Athletic. Ahmed Kashi tries a through ball, but Jordan Cousins is caught offside.\nAttempt missed. Naby Sarr (Charlton Athletic) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Kenwyne Jones.\nCorner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Simon Moore.\nAttempt saved. Karlan Ahearne-Grant (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nAttempt saved. Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Morgan Fox.\nFoul by Fabio (Cardiff City).\nTony Watt (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nSubstitution, Charlton Athletic. Conor McAleny replaces Mikhail Kennedy.\nAttempt blocked. Joe Mason (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sean Morrison.\nCorner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Morgan Fox.\nGoal! Cardiff City 1, Charlton Athletic 1. Joe Mason (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Scott Malone.\nAttempt saved. Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Tony Watt.\nGoal! Cardiff City 0, Charlton Athletic 1. Karlan Ahearne-Grant (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tony Watt with a cross.\nAttempt missed. Joe Mason (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Peter Whittingham following a set piece situation.\nNaby Sarr (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.", "summary": "Sean Morrison's header secured a win for Cardiff, who came from a goal behind to beat Charlton and move into the play-off places." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Daily Mail reported that tennis star Novak Djokovic dined with a \"female companion\" in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.\nThe paper published several pictures of the duo leaving a popular restaurant. It also commented on Padukone's choice of clothes, but did not name her.\n\"While he [Djokovic] kept it casual, she appeared to have made more of an effort in sartorial terms, favouring a timeless monochrome colour theme,\" the paper wrote.\nIndians were quick to let the paper know that the woman they called \"the leggy brunette\" was Ms Padukone.\nAccording to Indian media reports, Ms Padukone is an old friend of both Mr Djokovic and his wife, and has made appearances at Wimbledon and other tennis tournaments in the past.\nIn July 2014, some Indian Twitter users trolled tennis star Maria Sharapova after she told the media that she did not know who cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar was.\nBut some users tweeted that it was not important that a British paper failed to recognise Padukone.", "summary": "Indians have been ridiculing a British daily on Twitter after it failed to recognise Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone in a report." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Parts of Italy, including the Lazio region around Rome, are suffering from drought.\nThe water company that serves Rome is proposing cutting supplies for eight hours a day to 1.5 million residents.\nWater utility Acea blames a decision by officials to stop it taking supplies from a nearby lake.\nThe authorities that run Lazio say levels in Lake Bracciano have fallen too low because of the drought and they fear an environmental disaster.\nMs Lorenzin said: \"An eventual suspension of the supply of water in Rome could seriously compromise the level of hygiene of all the accommodation structures, restaurants and public offices.\n\"But above all, it could seriously compromise the provision of essential health services.\"\nAcea has criticised the decision to prevent the use of water from Lake Bracciano and said it had no choice but to introduce rationing.\nBut the water company and the regional authorities say they will continue to try to find a solution.\nItaly has suffered its third-driest spring in 60 years, affecting two-thirds of farmland and costing Italian agriculture some €2bn ($2.3bn; £1.8bn).\nThere have been two years of lower-than-average rainfall in Rome.\nSo dire is the situation that the Vatican began shutting off its famous fountains on Tuesday.", "summary": "Italy's Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin has warned of health consequences if water rationing is imposed in Rome." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Former Walt Disney chief executive Eisner presented his terms to a meeting of Pompey Supporters' Trust (PST) shareholders and members on Thursday.\n\"We're not going to change the offer and we're not going to come back if you reject it,\" he said.\nEisner has offered £5.67m to buy 100% of the club and invest £10m in equity.\nThe 75-year-old and his Tornante Investment Group are in an exclusivity period of negotiations until 1 June.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nEisner told the meeting, attended by about 1,500 shareholders, that he was \"sympathetic\" to those that felt strongly about rejecting it.\nHe added: \"I feel we've taken into consideration all of the potential of the club and the hard work that has to be done. But, I understand the difficulty for you (PST shareholders) to give up negative control.\n\"You can go it alone and from what I understand, that would be viable. But, I only want to do this if the majority of people in this city want me to.\"\nPortsmouth, promoted to League One last month and with a chance of winning the League Two title on Saturday, are currently 48%-owned by the PST.\nThe club came out of administration in 2013 with supporters investing £1,000 per share out of their own pockets to keep it going.\nEisner's offer would allow shareholders a full return on their money, but would remove their three representatives from the club's nine-member board.\nA heritage board would also be created to protect the club's name, colours, badge and guard against any possibility of moving to a ground more than 15 miles from Portsmouth city centre.\nShareholders will now vote on Eisner's offer and must return their ballot papers by Friday, 19 May.", "summary": "Prospective Portsmouth owner Michael Eisner says he will not table a second offer if shareholders reject his initial bid for the club." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) is due in December.\nIt is expected to clarify concerns about Russian doping, specifically at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.\nDeas' team-mate Lizzy Yarnold may boycott Sochi following allegations of Russian state-sponsored doping.\n\"It's a really disappointing position to be in as clean athlete,\" Deas said.\n\"Once again preparations are being compromised by people who don't like to abide by the rules and it's frustrating to be in this position as a sport, not just as an individual.\"\nA second Wada report from Canadian law professor and sports lawyer Dr Richard McLaren is due next month.\nHis first report, released in July 2016, stated the doping programme in Russia was \"planned and operated\" from late 2011 and continued through the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics until August 2015.\nDeas, 28, said she would not make any \"long-term decisions\" until the publication of the second report.\n\"There's a lot of World Cup racing to do between now and then so that's what I'm going to focus on,\" she said.\nThe World Championships take place from 16-25 February.", "summary": "Welsh slider Laura Deas will wait until the release of a report on doping before deciding whether to take part in the 2017 Skeleton World Championships in Sochi, Russia." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dawn Butler, from Nottinghamshire, spent three weeks fashioning the gruesome gâteau for the International Craft and Hobby Fair.\nThe head is made from six layers of cake coated in ganache and chocolate paste with individual noodles for hair.\nMs Butler said: \"Be warned - it's a head on a stick.\"\nIt was the first time that internal cake supports have been allowed in the competition category, prompting the West Bridgford baker to put the character, played by actor Sean Bean's head on a spike.\nShe won gold in the carved cake category at the competition in Birmingham for her \"Winter is Coming\" creation.\n\"I wanted the hair to look like it's growing. It's actually vermicelli - a rice noodle which I steamed so it bends the way I want it to. Then I airbrushed it to make it look like hair,\" she said.\n\"The cake is about five or six layers with the features modelled with chocolate and then covered in chocolate paste as well.\"\nDespite the cake being made from entirely edible ingredients, Ms Butler would not recommend tucking in.\n\"I don't think I could bring myself to eat it, not because of the hard work that I've put into it. I do like people to eat my cakes - it's just the vermicelli has now gone hard again and I imagine that it's quite crunchy.\"", "summary": "A larger-than-life cake depicting Game of Thrones character Ned Stark's head on a spike has won an international award for sculpture baking." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A WHO statement released on Monday said the virus was found in samples taken from sewage at Viracopos International Airport in Sao Paulo state in March.\nIt said the local population's high immunity to the disease \"appears to have prevented transmission\".\nBrazil has been polio-free since 1989 and has high vaccination coverage.\nThe virus was found in \"sewage only\" and subsequent analysis of similar samples have either been negative or only positive for \"non-polio enteroviruses\", the organisation said.\nThe WHO said the sample was a close match with a recent strain isolated in a case in Equatorial Guinea.\nThe risk of the polio virus spreading from Equatorial Guinea is described as \"high\" by the UN agency, but it said the risk from Brazil remained \"very low\".\nPolio invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis within hours. There is no cure for the disease but it can be prevented by immunisation.\nBrazil's last national immunisation campaign was conducted a year ago and coverage in Sao Paulo state has been higher than 95%, the WHO said.\nPolio: the facts\n•A highly infectious viral disease that mainly affects children under five\n•Can cause irreversible paralysis\n•There is no cure, but polio vaccine given multiple times can protect a child for life\n•Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan are the only countries left with endemic polio", "summary": "A strain of the polio virus has been found at an international airport in Brazil, but there are no human cases, the World Health Organization has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe German controlled the race from the start, with the new world champion only a couple of seconds behind but unable to get close enough to challenge.\nRosberg's fourth win of the season moved him back into second in the championship ahead of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, who crashed out.\nWilliams' Valtteri Bottas took third.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nWhat was a largely soporific race for more than half the distance was enlivened by a potential intra-team controversy at Mercedes, when Hamilton disagreed with a request for him to make a second pit stop.\nThe team had planned to run the race on a single stop, fitting the 'medium' tyres for a long final stint after running the first third of the grand prix on the 'softs'.\nBut with 25 of the 71 laps to go, Mercedes called Rosberg in for a second stop and then a lap later did the same for Hamilton.\nThe world champion immediately questioned the decision, only to be told it was for \"safety reasons\" because the first set of tyres were \"down to the canvas\".\nHamilton clearly did not believe what he was being told, saying: \"The tyres feel fine.\" He was told he must come in: \"This is an instruction.\"\nBut after returning to the track, he said to his engineer Peter Bonnington: \"You've got to check those tyres, Bono.\" And asked to be told what the result of that was.\nClearly annoyed, Hamilton started setting fastest sector times and began to close on his team-mate - only for the battle to be interrupted when Vettel crashed, bringing out the safety car.\nThat bunched the field up, but Rosberg maintained his lead at the restart with 22 laps to go and was able to hold Hamilton off to the end.\nIt was Rosberg's first victory since the Austrian Grand Prix nine races ago and his fourth of the season, compared to Hamilton's 10, and will be exactly what he needed after the disappointment of seeing Hamilton clinch the title with three races to go in the US a week ago, largely thanks to an error by the German.\nThere were indications Vettel might have been able to give the Mercedes drivers a challenge had he enjoyed a trouble-free race - but his afternoon was anything but.\nThe Ferrari driver received a puncture when he and Daniel Ricciardo collided at the first corner as the Red Bull driver tried to pass him. Each blamed the other and the stewards declared it a racing incident.\nHaving fought his way up to 12th place, Vettel spun at Turn Seven, the start of the Esses on lap 17, damaging his tyres. He also ran wide at Turn 12 later on the same lap after rejoining the track.\nAfter a second stop at about half-distance, he rejoined between the two Mercedes drivers, a lap behind, and was able to stick at their pace but had to be told to let Hamilton by.\nA few laps later, Vettel ended an uncharacteristically poor race when he again lost control at Turn Seven, this time nosing into the barriers.\nHe admitted over the radio to his team that he had driven poorly and apologised.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nTeam-mate Kimi Raikkonen also had a bad race. Starting 19th after a change of engine following qualifying, he was up to sixth when he collided with Bottas at Turn Five.\nBottas went around the outside of Raikkonen at Turn Four and was more than halfway alongside his fellow Finn on the inside as they reached Turn Five, the second part of what is effectively an elongated chicane.\nRaikkonen turned in anyway, and the two touched, the Ferrari's right rear wheel riding over the front left of the Williams and breaking the red car's suspension.\nRed Bull's Daniil Kvyat finished fourth, but had held third place until the safety car's introduction. He was passed by Bottas down the straight on the restart, the Williams' Mercedes power too much for the Renault engine in the Red Bull.\nKvyat was left to fend off Ricciardo to the end, with the second Williams of Felipe Massa taking sixth.\nLocal hero Sergio Perez, ecstatically cheered throughout by the sell-out crowd in the twisty stadium section at the end of the lap, came home eighth behind team-mate Nico Hulkenberg, impressively fending off the much-fresher-tyred Toro Rosso of Max Verstappen after the safety car.\nMexican GP results\nMexican GP coverage details", "summary": "Nico Rosberg took his first victory for more than four months as he beat Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in the Mexican Grand Prix." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Pietersen replaces Lwazi Mvovo and Bryan Habana is back on the left wing.\nCoach Heyneke Meyer has also made four changes to his replacements from the squad that beat the United States 64-0.\nVeteran lock Victor Matfield has failed to regain fitness following a hamstring injury.\nHooker Adriaan Strauss, prop Jannie du Plessis, scrum-half Ruan Pienaar and fly-half Pat Lambie are back on the Springboks' bench.\nMeyer said Pietersen and Habana \"have been in superb form\" with nine tournament tries between them.\nHabana is also on the brink of overtaking New Zealand legend Jonah Lomu as the top try-scorer in World Cup history.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"They are playing some of the best rugby of their lives,\" said Meyer.\n\"They have been scoring some wonderful tries, as has Lwazi Mvovo, so it's really great to know that there is good competition among the wings.\n\"It made sense to reunite Bryan and JP on the wing as it brings a lot of experience to our backline, which has been doing well despite the relative inexperience of Handré Pollard, Damian De Allende and Jesse Kriel.\"\nMeyer also backed the experienced returnees to South Africa's bench.\n\"We've seen first-hand how important it is to have experienced players on the field at the end of a match and to have this kind of experience available on the bench in a knock-out match is great,\" said Meyer.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"Saturday's match will be huge and we are expecting an arm wrestle right until the end.\n\"We're playing against a well-balanced side that always likes to mix things up when it comes to physicality.\n\"They have a good set piece and some strong ball carriers upfront and in the back - it's what you expect to face at this stage of the competition and we're very excited about the challenge.\"\nBacks: Willie le Roux; JP Pietersen, Jesse Kriel, Damien de Allende, Bryan Habana; Handre Pollard, Fourie du Preez (capt).\nForwards: Tendai Mtawarira, Bismarck du Plessis, Frans Malherbe, Lodewyk de Jager, Eben Etzebeth, Schalk Burger, Duane Vermeulen, Francois Louw.\nReplacements: Adriaan Strauss, Trevor Nyakane, Jannie du Plessis, Pieter-Steph du Toit, Willem Alberts, Ruan Pienaar, Pat Lambie, Jan Serfontein", "summary": "South Africa have made one change to their starting line-up as wing JP Pietersen returns to face Wales in Saturday's World Cup quarter-final at Twickenham." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Farmer Alan Collins, who has lost 33 lambs in a week, believes the foxes are being dumped on the moors by animal welfare groups.\nHe says those observed were not scared of lights or vehicles. Eight were shot in one field in one night.\nThe RSPCA said it did not put foxes on the moors and said there was no evidence of others doing it.\nMr Collins, who farms in Withypool, Somerset, has worked on Exmoor since the 1970s and said the attacks were the worst he had seen.\nHe began to lose lambs a week into lambing season. A friend went out at night to shoot the foxes and spotted eight in one field.\n\"It was unbelievable,\" Mr Collins said.\nHe said foxes normally kept away from lights but these foxes \"weren't worried about the vehicle or anything in the field - it didn't bother them at all.\"\nHe usually expected to lose two or three lambs a week, not 33.\nAn RSPCA spokesman said: \"We don't collect foxes from urban areas and deposit them in the countryside.\n\"If we take in an injured fox and release it after a period of recuperation, we always release it as near to where it was found as possible.\"\nIn 2011, the then Agriculture Minister Jim Paice told MPs there was \"a lot of anecdotal evidence that people do trap urban foxes and release them in the countryside\".", "summary": "Urban foxes are being blamed for a string of attacks on newborn lambs in the middle of Exmoor." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The French Football Federation said it will not select Benzema, who has not played for Les Bleus since November.\nHe is being investigated for his part in an alleged plot to blackmail France team-mate Mathieu Valbuena.\n\"All I can say is the player is upset and distraught. He wanted to be there,\" said former France midfielder Zidane.\nThe FFF said its decision to not select Benzema took into account \"the ability of players to work towards unity\" and that \"athletic performance\" was important but not an \"exclusive criterion\".\n\"We all know what a player he is and what he can contribute,\" added 43-year-old Zidane, who was part of the France team that won the 1998 World Cup on home soil.\n\"You need all your strongest players to go as far in the competition as possible.\"", "summary": "Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema is \"distraught\" at not being allowed to play for France at Euro 2016, says his club manager Zinedine Zidane." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Worst affected have been the Appleby, Keswick, Kendal and Glenridding areas, where river levels have risen.\nDefences in Appleby were breached when the River Eden burst its banks, flooding 40 properties and prompting several rescues.\nThe Glenridding Hotel flooded for the third time this month.\nThe Environment Agency has issued 20 flood warnings across England and Wales and six in Cumbria, urging people to take immediate action.\nForecasters are predicting conditions to ease into Wednesday, although the Met Office has already issued yellow warnings for rain throughout the region for Christmas Day and Boxing Day.\nFirefighters used pumping equipment to divert water from an electricity sub station in Appleby.\nThe town's road bridge was closed due to high water levels, as was Keswick's Greta Bridge.\nThe River Eden peaked in Appleby at about 17:00 GMT, the agency said, while it was expected to peak in Carlisle between 22:00 and 23:00.\nA spokesman added: \"The amount of rainfall forecast would not usually lead to disruption, but with saturated ground and river levels already high, there may be further flood impacts to roads and potentially some properties.\"\nSee how we reported the Cumbria floods.\nUp to 40mm (1.57ins) of rain was expected to fall onto already saturated land across the county by the end of Tuesday, although that was feared to rise to 80mm (3.1ins) in upland areas, according to the Met Office.\nBBC Weather said about seven months worth of rain has fallen on Shap in the past seven weeks, 65% of the average annual rainfall for the area.\nPolice urged drivers to be aware of surface water flooding on a number of roads, with many only passable with care.\nThe manager of the Glenridding Hotel, Elizabeth Ali, said she felt \"defeated\" as rising water from a nearby beck caused it to flood for the third time this month.\nShe took to Facebook to post: \"The beck is overflowing once again past the bridge and the what was Ratchers Bar and the kitchen is flooding again. Contractors are in trying to save equipment.\n\"Fire brigade are on their way to help pump out the water we are currently at around 2ft of water ... We just need to smile and carry on. Thanks for all your nice comments.\"\nFirefighters were also called to Keswick Rugby Club to deal with water that was an inch deep on the pitch, Cumbria Fire Brigade said.\nThey also rescued a 70-year-old woman from a home on Howgate Foot in Appleby and pumped water away from a substation.\nOne homeowner in Appleby said she had not expected the town's defences to be breached.\nThe woman called Charlotte said: \"It was pretty torrential in the morning, and then the rain died off and the river rose really slowly, compared to last time the river it was very vicious.\n\"Normally when it floods it doesn't really affect the homes as much because of the flood defences, but it has gone right over the top of them which we did not expect.\"\nCumbria Police set up a multi-agency group to combat the heavy rainfall.\nA force spokesman said there had been reports of motorists ignoring road closure signs which could be \"extremely dangerous\" and put \"lives at risk\".\nMeanwhile, farming minister, George Eustice, has promised that about 600 farmers already badly affected by the recent floods, would have support payments fast-tracked.\nLive flood warnings from the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.\nView the flood map by tapping on the image below\nTap here for up-to-date information.", "summary": "Communities in Cumbria have been flooded again - some for the third time in less than a month - following torrential rain and high winds." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "More than 100 people were arrested after clashes with police, the interior ministry said.\nOrganisers said 1.2 million people took to the streets but official figures put it at about 400,000.\nThe government says the reforms making it easier to lay off workers will boost the economy by encouraging firms to hire more staff.\nBut the proposals, which also include changes to France's 35-hour working week, have been bitterly opposed by students and unions as stripping away vital protections.\nIt is the fourth such protest in the space of a month and the largest yet.\nClashes between protesters and police were reported in the cities of Nantes, Rennes and Toulouse.\nThirteen members of the security forces were injured, according to the interior ministry.\nBut the protests were mostly peaceful. \"We're here to fight for our rights otherwise we will lose everything,\" said one demonstrator in Paris.\n\"For us who are quite old it's ok but the worst is for our children and grandchildren. They will be left with nothing.\"\nA strike disrupted travel, closed schools and shut the Eiffel Tower.\nDozens of fights were also cancelled because of a separate strike from air traffic controllers.\nIn another development, a police officer was detained after being seen allegedly punching a teenager on the sidelines of a protest last week. Footage of the incident went viral.\nThe protests further pile pressure on President Francois Hollande, who has said he will not run again if he cannot bring down France's 10% unemployment level.\nOn Wednesday he was forced to backtrack on a plan to change the constitution to strip militants convicted of terror attacks of French citizenship after the two houses of parliament failed to agree on it.\nParliament is due to vote on the labour reforms late next month or in early May.", "summary": "Hundreds of thousands of people have turned out for nationwide protests in France against labour reforms." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rosa King, 34, died at Hamerton Zoo Park in Cambridgeshire on Monday.\nIt is understood she died after a tiger entered an enclosure, but police and the council are still investigating and an inquest has yet to take place.\nHer parents Peter and Andrea King said an \"abundance of love\" had been shown by all for their daughter Rosa.\nMs King, whose family home is in Chippenham, Wiltshire, was dedicated to her job at the zoo where she had worked for 14 years, her parents said.\n\"She lived and breathed a vocation that meant the world to her\", her parents said in a statement released through Cambridgeshire Police.\nMore news from Cambridgeshire\nReferring to their \"beloved daughter\", Mr and Mrs King said she was a \"dedicated professional when it came to her work\".\n\"Rosa was passionate about animals from the age of two when she first sat on the back of a horse. After that, her life was always going to be about animals,\" they added.\nDetails of how Ms King died have not yet been released, and an inquest is expected to take place next week.\nA joint investigation by police and Huntingdonshire District Council - which is responsible for licensing the zoo - is currently under way.\nMeanwhile the zoo remains closed to the public and staff have not said when it might reopen.\nThe tiger that killed Ms King has not been put down and was unharmed, police said.\nGet news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning", "summary": "The parents of a zookeeper killed by a tiger have said her love of animals was \"a joy and privilege to behold\" and their daughter was \"living her dream\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The company alleges that the paid opinions \"undermine\" its review system which customers believe come from unbiased sources.\nAmazon is seeking damages from the four sites and wants them to stop producing the reviews.\nThe four companies named in the legal complaint have not yet responded to Amazon's allegations.\n\"While small in number, these reviews threaten to undermine the trust that customers, and the vast majority of sellers and manufacturers, place in Amazon, thereby tarnishing Amazon's brand,\" said the retailer in documents filed to the court in Washington.\nAs well as subverting the review process, Amazon accused the sites of trademark infringement, and violations of local consumer protection statutes and cybersquatting laws that govern who can own a domain name.\nIt alleged that the paid reviews were being placed on its site at a slow rate designed to outwit the detection system it ran to spot such content. In its legal papers, Amazon said it verified its allegations by surreptitiously paying one of the services to write reports about products. This resulted in them getting \"glowing\" reviews, it said.\nThe legal papers name four review producers that operate via sites called buyazonreviews.com, buyamazonreviews.com, bayreviews.net and buyreviewsnow.com.\nSince the legal action was filed two of the sites named have gone offline. Those still operating have yet to respond to the BBC's request for comments.\nMark Collins, who runs the Buy Amazon Reviews site, defended his business in an interview with The Seattle Times. He said the site did not provide \"fake\" reviews but provided \"unbiased and honest\" opinions about products.\nThe sites pay between $19-$22 (£13-£15) for each review which typically result in products getting a four or five star rating. Higher star ratings can often translate into higher sales.", "summary": "Amazon has sued four firms that pay people to produce reviews that then appear on the online retailer's site." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The development charity WaterAid commissioned photographers to capture images of families around the world and their common bond with water and sanitation.\nToday, 6.7 billion people across the world now have access to clean water and over 2 billion more people now have a decent toilet than in 1990.\nIn the UK, Nigel Saville, 67, is pictured with his daughter Jasmine and family at their eco-community in rural Wales. Access to water and sanitation has much improved since Nigel's childhood, and on eco-communities like his daughter's, residents are living off the land and working hard to create a sustainable lifestyle.\n\"As a child in Hersham, Surrey, we were on rations still and had to get water from a standpipe. We'd carry it back in buckets and heat it up on the stove. We had no bathroom, just strip washes. When I was five we moved into a house with running water and had a bath once a week.\n\"Sanitation has got better since I was a child and now my daughter and grandchildren use a compost toilet. It makes sense as it's not using water and its compost for the fruit trees, so no pathogens going in the veg, and cleaner too.\"\nIn Malawi, access to water led to improved health for local farmer Rafiq Moyenda and his family. It also means he has had more time to invest in business, opening a barbershop and grocery store in his village, and even buying a motorbike to help him with his business.\nHe said: \"Our way of life greatly improved. Our economic status improved as my wife would bake doughnuts which brought us more money. Our daughter, Fortunate, stopped suffering from diarrhoea and her school studies improved.\"\nIn northwest New Mexico, USA, 68-year-old Pentecostal preacher Sister Sarah Begay has dedicated her life to championing rights to water in the Navajo Nation, with the support of DIGDEEP, another global water organisation that delivers services in the United States.\nSister Sarah only got access to running water and a bathroom at home in 1998 and now her grandchildren don't know anything different.\nShe said: \"Before we had running water at home, life was unpleasant and unhealthy - a heartache. When I was young, I remember melting snow and getting water from dirt ponds. We had to filter the pond water before we could use it for cooking or washing, because we didn't want to drink it and get sick from all the bugs.\n\"My grandchildren grew up in this house with water running through their house. It was really awesome to have that kind of blessing in our home. My kids were very grateful that they were able to take showers, be clean, be healthy.\"\nSarah is pictured holding a plaque from the local school district recognising her 30 years of devoted service to the community and the progress she has made.\nBatuli Nagarkoti, 72, is pictured with three generations of her family in the Lalitpur district of Nepal. When Batuli was younger she used to get up at 3am to collect water, otherwise she would risk missing out.\nShe said: \"Sometimes just to fill a Gagri [a water vessel] of water, I had to wait for hours because the people who came earlier would take all the water from the well and I had to wait until the well was filled again.\"\nThere was no toilet in the community and everybody used to defecate on open ground.\n\"There used to be faeces everywhere\", remembers Batuli, \"People defecating on the roadside was common. Diarrhoea was a very big problem during those days and there were many cases of malnutrition.\"\nFor Batuli's granddaughter, Salina Nagarkoti, 21, life is very different from the one described by her grandmother.\nShe said: \"Hearing my grandmother talk, I feel very lucky. I never had to struggle for water in my life. The tap-stand was at our home and we had water all the time. We also have a toilet at home. When I hear my father talking about people defecating by the roadside, I feel kind of embarrassed and sad as well.\"\nMusingo Ediriso said: \"Our village is now modern. I have two cows. At home we drink milk and we have enough food to eat, and coffee to sell for an income.\"\nMusingo has seen huge progress in Kidula village throughout his lifetime. He was part of a project that brought safe water to the village in the 90s, and the arrival of electricity means that he has been able to use the money he makes from selling coffee to buy a television and sound system.\nMuhammad Akram said: \"This ox is a symbol of progress in my case. We rear them up and sell them and we also use their milk.\"\nMuhammad says access to water and sanitation has enabled him to work more and buy oxen that provide milk which he can then sell on.\nOumar Coulibaly said: \"Open defecation doesn't exist here any more and our environment is clean - there are not as many flies as there were here in the past.\"\nSimon Tilley in the Hockerton Housing Project, an eco-town in Nottinghamshire said: \"We are more conscious about the amount of water we use. Living this way means I have the option to work less and have more free time to paint.\"\nHockerton is the UK's first earth-sheltered, self-sufficient ecological housing development.", "summary": "All photographs courtesy of WaterAid" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 51-year-old woman was arrested in 2015 after people noticed an uncanny resemblance between the girl, Zephany Nurse, and another girl at school.\nDNA tests carried out by police then proved that the two girls were sisters.\nJudge John Hlophe told the defendant she had \"betrayed\" Zephany by her actions.\nThe kidnapped girl's biological parents, Celeste and Morne Nurse, called her Zephany, but the name she grew up with has not been revealed to protect her identity.\nThe convicted woman has also not been named for similar reasons.\nLocal media have previously reported that Zephany does not wish to have a relationship with her biological parents and considers the woman who kidnapped her as her mother.\nShe has decided to continue living with her abductor's husband, whom she grew up believing to be her father.\nOutside the court, Zephany's biological grandmother Marilyn said she was not happy with the length of the sentence, but hoped that the family would now have a chance to bond and form a relationship with Zephany.\nThe judge told the accused she had had \"all the time in the world\" to return the child but had chosen not to.\nAnnual local media coverage of the parents' birthday celebrations for their missing baby daughter meant that there was no way the defendant could not have known they were still looking for her, he said.\nHe also said her decision to plead not guilty and portray herself as a victim in the affair counted against her.\nIt is a story that has gripped South Africa, but now finally has some form of closure.\nThe 52-year old woman convicted of kidnapping Zephany Nurse watched stone-faced as the judge handed down his sentence.\nMembers of the Nurse family and the family of the accused packed the Cape Town courthouse.\nDelivering his ruling, Judge Hlope criticised the woman for lying to the court during the trial.\nHe dismissed as \"a fairytale\" her claim that the baby girl had been handed to her by another woman at a railway station.\nThe soft-spoken seamstress raised Zephany as her own, just a few kilometres from the home of her biological parents.\nThe Nurse family's victory in court is bittersweet.\nThe woman responsible for Zephany's kidnap may be behind bars, but their daughter has decided to continue living with the husband of the woman who kidnapped her.", "summary": "A South African court has jailed a woman for 10 years for kidnapping a baby from her hospital bed 19 years ago and raising her as her own." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The proposal is to build the venue in St Andrew Square, which would also be used for education, conferences and public engagements.\nThe centrepiece would be a 1,000-seat auditorium, as well as a studio for rehearsal, recital and recording space.\nThe new building is planned for behind Dundas House at 36 St Andrew Square.\nThe historic Royal Bank of Scotland branch will continue to operate as a stand-alone branch.\nThe auditorium would meet the need for a purpose-built, mid-sized performance venue in Edinburgh, \"combining excellent acoustics with access\" for all forms of popular music, jazz, folk, chamber and other small classical music groups as well as solo and song recitals and small dance groups.\nThe proposed new building would provide a performance, rehearsal and recording home for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, described by BBC Music Magazine as \"one of the finest ensembles of its kind in the world today\".\nEach August the Edinburgh International Festival would adopt the complex as one of its venues for performances.\n• provide an opportunity to build new audiences across the age groups by programming a wide range of music as well as other forms of entertainment\n• provide community arts companies from across Scotland and further afield with improved performance space\n• provide facilities for organisations to host events and conferences\n• create new restaurant, cafe and bar facilities\nImpact Scotland would manage and operate the complex.\nDunard Fund, a long-term supporter of the Arts in Scotland has committed a substantial amount of money for the project as have others.\nSir Ewan Brown, who has been chairing the Impact Scotland project board, said: \"I see this is a global opportunity for a global city, combining the best of the old and the new to establish a venue that will attract performers, audiences and visitors from around the world.\"\nA spokesperson for Dunard Fund said: \"Edinburgh has long awaited an iconic, acoustically superb mid-sized performance hall and we are proud to participate in this exciting project.\n\"The new venue would not only benefit the city's festivals and the SCO, but would also be a magnet for international touring groups representing all aspects of the performing arts.\"", "summary": "Plans are under way for a new world-class arts centre in the heart of Edinburgh, which would be the home of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) gave YOI Feltham in west London its lowest judgement for safety after finding levels of \"very serious\" violence had risen.\nThe prison on the same site was also found to have had a \"significant increase in violence\".\nHowever, staff were also praised for \"many examples of good work\".\nFeltham A holds boys aged 15 to 18, while Feltham B is a prison for young adults aged 18 to 21.\nChief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke said violence at the young offenders institution was a \"serious problem\" and \"a serious assault on an officer\" had happened while the inspection took place.\nAs well as a rise in violence, inspectors also criticised how long boys were allowed out of their cells as a result of a strict but \"ineffective\" regime used to manage behaviour.\nAbout 40% of boys were locked up during the school day while 30% were allowed out of their cells for only two hours each day.\nThis meant some were prevented from being able to use basic amenities including showers and telephones, inspectors said.\nFeltham B was also found to be an \"unsafe environment\" with inmates \"often afraid for their own safety\".\n\"Prisoners were enduring a regime that was unsuitable for prisoners of any age, let alone young men,\" inspectors said.\nNevertheless, staff at both the YOI and prison were praised, with healthcare - particularly mental health provision - described as \"impressive\".\nWork to resettle offenders back into the community upon their release from both institutions was also considered to be \"generally good\".", "summary": "A young offenders institution was found to be \"not safe for either staff or boys\" after an unannounced inspection." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Saeed now heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) group, widely seen as a front for LeT - which is blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks in India.\nIn a statement, JuD described the US move as \"yet another attack on Islam and Muslims\".\nBoth JuD and Lashkar-e-Taiba are blacklisted by the US.\nThe BBC's Tulip Mazumdar in Islamabad says that despite being on a national \"watch-list\" in Pakistan, Mr Saeed moves around the country relatively freely.\nThe US announcement puts Mr Saeed on a par with the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar when it comes to \"most wanted terrorists\", our correspondent adds.\nMr Saeed was in Islamabad last week protesting outside parliament - calling for Pakistan to cut all ties with both the US and India. On Tuesday he spoke by telephone on a television chat show.\nHe has consistently denied any suggestion that either he or JuD - which he says is a charity - have played any role in militant violence.\nThe Pakistani government has not commented on the US announcement, but it has long argued that it cannot take action against him unless police or the courts formally instigate proceedings.\nPakistan arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba's senior leaders after the Mumbai attacks. But most of them, including Mr Saeed, were later freed on appeal.\nThe US has also offered a $2m bounty for Abdul Rehman Makki, Mr Saeed's brother-in-law and co-founder of Lashkar.\nThe three-day rampage by 10 gunmen in Mumbai in November 2008 left 165 people dead. Nine of the attackers were also killed.\nIndia blamed the Mumbai attacks on LeT, and India-Pakistan ties hit rock bottom.\nThe sole surviving gunman, Pakistani national Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, was captured and sentenced to death by a court. His appeal is pending.\nMr Saeed figures prominently on a list of \"most wanted\" given to Pakistan by India.\nThe US State Department's Rewards for Justice website describes Mr Saeed as \"a Pakistani citizen\" with \"red hair\" and \"brown eyes\".\n\"Hafiz Mohammad Saeed is a former professor of Arabic and engineering, as well as the founding member of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a radical Deobandi Islamist organisation dedicated to installing Islamist rule over parts of India and Pakistan, and its military branch, Lashkar-e-Taiba,\" the website says.\nIndia welcomed the reward, saying it sent a strong signal to LeT members that \"the international community remains united in combating terrorism\" and bringing to justice those behind the Mumbai attacks.\nBut the JuD statement said that it will only serve to add to anti-American sentiments among Muslims.\nJuD spokesman Yahya Mujahid said the Americans had \"done this in panic\" because the JuD is running public campaigns against US drone attacks in Pakistan and against the Pakistani government's plans for reopening Nato supply routes to Afghanistan.\nThe supply routes were closed down in November when 24 Pakistani soldiers on the border with Afghanistan were accidentally killed in a US air strike.\nMr Mujahid said that JuD was also being targeted because of its opposition to Pakistani plans to grant trade concessions to India.\n\"The Americans are being influenced by Indian propaganda,\" Mr Mujahid said.\nInterpol has issued an arrest notice against Mr Saeed for his role in the Mumbai attacks and the US has designated LeT and JuD as \"Foreign Terrorist Organisations\".\nCables released by Wikileaks in December 2010, attributed to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said Hafiz Saeed and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, head of Lashkar-e-Taiba, \"continue to run\" LeT \"despite being detained for their role\" in the Mumbai attacks.\nThe message alleged that Mr Lakhvi and Mr Saeed \"planned, directed and executed\" the group's attacks in South Asia.", "summary": "The US has offered a $10m (£6.2m) bounty for Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba [LeT]." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police discovered the pensioner with multiple stab wounds to his chest and arms at a property in MacKenzie Way, Gravesend, on Monday evening.\nThe man, who has not yet been identified, died at the scene.\nTony Wotton, of Mackenzie Way, is due to appear next at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday.", "summary": "A 47-year-old man has been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged with the murder of a 71-year-old man in Kent." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "As the phone lines closed on Saturday morning, the UK total stood at a record £37.1m.\nOn Friday night, Barra Best and Jo Scott presented BBC Northern Ireland's contribution to the UK-wide TV extravaganza, broadcast on BBC One.\nThe appeal currently funds 197 projects in every county across Northern Ireland, to the value of over £8m.\nHighlights of Friday night's Northern Ireland fundraiser included performances from Shane Filan and Irish boyband HomeTown.\nFormer Westlife singer-turned-solo-artist Filan was in Belfast to perform his new single Right Here.\nHe said he was \"delighted\" to support BBC Children in Need.\n\"Over the years I've seen some of the great work they do locally for children's and young people's projects, both big and small,\" he added.\nAnother highlight was a nationwide live performance of Miley Cyrus song The Climb, with 175 children from Northern Ireland joining more than 2,000 others from across the UK to form a choir for the rendition.\nBBC Radio Ulster presenters and staff were busy all week collecting donations.\nAn on-air charity auction held by the Hugo Duncan Show raised £31,500.\nIn London, Sir Terry Wogan missed Friday's fundraiser for health reasons, the first time he has not hosted it since its 1980 launch.\nLast year, the Northern Ireland total on the night was £732,333, contributing to an overall UK total of £32.6m.\nThe final UK total was £49.1m.\nBBC Children in Need spends the money raised by the appeal to make a positive change to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK.\nMore information can be found at the BBC Children In Need website.", "summary": "People in Northern Ireland have donated more than £900,000 to this year's BBC Children in Need fundraiser." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Jairo Medina, 62, was found with \"devastating injuries\" near Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park on 12 August.\nA post-mortem examination did not find a cause of death, but showed he had been assaulted.\nProsecutors say Hani Khalaf kicked, punched and stamped on Mr Medina while robbing him and left him for dead. The 22-year-old denies murder.\nOliver Glasgow QC said Mr Medina's \"nose, his eye sockets, the bones in his voice box and two of his ribs had all been fractured\".\n\"The injuries to his head and face were devastating... in short, he had been beaten to death,\" he said.\nJurors heard the victim's belongings were strewn around the park, his rucksack searched and his wallet emptied.\nOfficers found his blood on Khalaf's watch, belt and shoes, the court heard.\nMr Glasgow told jurors that Khalaf, of no fixed address, came to Britain in August 2014 by hiding in the back of a lorry.\nThe prosecutor said he was in the country illegally and \"liable for deportation\".\nThe day before carrying out the alleged attack, Khalaf was arrested for shoplifting at the Superdry clothes shop in Regent Street.\nHe appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court and was bailed hours before the killing.\nThe trial continues.", "summary": "An illegal immigrant beat a carer to death while out on bail, a court has heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Oscar-winning actor was out for a jog in Central Park, New York, on Saturday when he bumped into Elisabeth and Ryan who, resplendent in white gown and tuxedo, were having their wedding photos taken.\nHanks posted his photo of the moment on Twitter, sharing it with more than 12 million followers and offering \"congrats and blessings\" to the couple.\nThe image has 11,000 likes so far on the social media platform, plus more than 67,000 likes on Hanks's Instagram account, and more than 33,000 people are talking on Facebook about Meg Miller, the New York-based photographer responsible for the official wedding images.\nMs Miller added on Instagram that the accidental meeting was the \"icing on the cake\" to a beautiful wedding.\n\"We were photographing the bride and groom in Central Park and a guy on a jog started to slow down near the couple, he leaned in close as he took off his hat and sunglasses and said, 'Hi, I am Tom Hanks' while reaching out to shake the groom's hand,\" she told the BBC.\n\"He asked their names and wished them congratulations, and before he left he asked to take a selfie with them. He posted it within minutes to his Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.\"\nRyan told the BBC, whilst honeymooning on the beach in Hawaii:\n\"A man tapped us on the shoulder and introduced himself as Tom Hanks. It was pretty surreal. I didn't register for a split second. I was shell shocked.\n\"He was so nice and kind. He could have just kept running but he posed for photos with us and my family. We invited him to the reception but he couldn't make it.\n\"He actually offered to perform our ceremony as he's ordained, but we'd only just taken our vows. Maybe he can help us renew them one day. We didn't realise how much was circulating about us until we landed here.\"", "summary": "For one pair of newly-weds, the professional photographs of their big day will have to compete with a selfie with one happy passer-by - Tom Hanks." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a rare public speech the intelligence agency chief said there were \"many parallels between the way we work now and the way we worked then\".\nBased at Bletchley Park, the mathematician was part of the team that cracked the Nazi Enigma code - a vital part of the allied war effort.\nHe is now widely recognised as a computing pioneer.\nHowever, at the time of the death - which an inquest recorded as suicide - he was virtually unknown to the public. His work at Bletchley was kept secret until 1974.\nMr Lobban said at an event in Leeds that Turing had a played a key part in the \"irrevocable change\" that eventually led to the development of the \"highly technological intelligence organisation that GCHQ is today\".\nDescribing Turing as one of the \"great minds of the twentieth century\" he said that staff at the organisation had demanded that he make \"a big public deal\" of Turing's legacy as part of celebrations marking the centenary of the codebreaker's birth.\nHowever, Mr Lobban said he didn't want anyone to think GCHQ was \"trying to claim that Turing is ours and nobody else's\".\nThe codebreaking work at Bletchley marked a shift - Mr Lobban argued - to a mindset that \"started to see technology as something that could be pitted against technology\".\nHe said the consensus among his staff was that today Turing would be employed in \"Cyber\".\n\"Then, the challenge was to secure allied codes and ciphers\" he said. \"Today, securing cyberspace... requires the collaboration of experts as diverse both personally and intellectually as any we saw at Bletchley Park.\"\nMr Lobban also praised the technological achievements of Turing's colleagues - including Tommy Flowers, a post office engineer who designed and constructed the Colossus codebreaking digital computer.\nMr Lobban said technology \"lies at the very heart of our mission\".\n\"Engineers and technologists are an essential part of our success.\"\nBut, he added, that meant there was a need to develop key skills.\n\"We must inspire school children to study maths and science - we must find tomorrow's Turings,\" he said.\nMr Lobban addressed another well known aspect of Turing's life - his homosexuality.\n\"The fact that Turing was unashamedly gay was widely known to his immediate colleagues at Bletchley Park: it wasn't an issue,\" he said.\n\"I don't want to pretend that GCHQ was an organisation with twenty-first century values in the twentieth century, but it was at the most tolerant end of the cultural spectrum.\"\nLater in his life Turing was convicted of gross indecency after an affair with another man. He was subsequently obliged to take injections of female hormones in an effort to dull his sex drive.\nAfter his arrest he was no longer given an opportunity to carry out work for GCHQ.\nMr Lobban said \"we should remember that the cost of intolerance towards Alan Turing was his loss to the nation\".\nHe added that today it remained vital that the agency recruited the best people and did \"not allow preconceptions and stereotypes to stifle innovation and agility\".\n\"I want to apply and exploit their talent: in return, I think it's fair that I don't need to tell them how to live their lives,\" he said.", "summary": "GCHQ director Iain Lobban has said there were \"enduring lessons\" to be drawn from the work of Alan Turing." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Bloom, 36, who also starred in Pirates Of The Caribbean, was born and raised in Canterbury, the cathedral city which forms part of the East Kent bid.\n\"It was here that I first discovered my love for acting,\" he said.\n\"One of my earliest memories is of being spellbound by performers I would pass on the High Street. Like myself, many have found inspiration here.\"\nBloom first performed before an audience on the stage of the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury at the age of four.\n\"East Kent has always had a strong reputation for cultural excellence, be it in the field of theatre or literature, the visual arts or dance and developments over the last few years have only served to cement that relationship,\" he said.\n\"Growing up in East Kent awakened my passion. I hope this bid can do the same for generations to come.\"\nEast Kent, which covers Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone and Thanet, is among 11 contenders bidding to become the next UK City of Culture.\nThe others are Aberdeen, Chester, Dundee, Hastings and Bexhill on Sea, Hull, Leicester, Plymouth, Southend on Sea, Swansea Bay and a joint application from Portsmouth and Southampton.\nThe winner will succeed Londonderry, the UK City of Culture for 2013 and the first to hold the title.\nDesigner Wayne Hemingway, architect David Chipperfield, musician Jules Holland and TV presenter Paul O'Grady have also backed East Kent's bid.\n\"They may be from East Kent, they may now live in East Kent or East Kent may have had a real impact on their careers,\" said Canterbury City Council spokeswoman Janice McGuinness.\n\"Orlando Bloom had his first acting experience on the Marlowe Theatre stage and look where he is now.\n\"That can happen for anybody.\"", "summary": "Lord of the Rings actor Orlando Bloom has backed a bid from his home county to become UK City of Culture in 2017." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Steven Mathieson stabbed escort Luciana Maurer a total of 44 times on 4 December while his partner was on a night out, and while his four-year-old son slept next door.\nThe 38-year-old then abducted and raped two other escorts near the body.\nMathieson pleaded guilty to rape and murder charges at the High Court and will be sentenced at a later date.\nHe was caught after the two women he had abducted, aged 26 and 22, escaped from the Springfield Drive house naked and sought help from neighbours, who called police.\nMathieson himself then called the emergency services, telling the 999 operator: \"I've been high on drugs and I've killed a prostitute.\"\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard that the car salesman had spent a normal day out Christmas shopping with his family and going for a meal with his children, while his partner of 10 years went on a works night out.\nHowever, having dropped one of his children off at his gran's and putting his younger son to bed, Mathieson got his phone and arranged for an escort to come to the house.\nRomanian-born Ms Maurer, who had moved to Scotland from London a few days earlier, arrived at the house at about 23:00.\nMathieson, who was high on cocaine, stabbed her 44 times, before sending a text to his partner simply reading \"sorry\".\nTwo more escorts Mathieson had phoned for then arrived at the house, and found him sitting calmly on the sofa. He led the pair upstairs to the bedroom, where they saw Ms Maurer's body lying on the bed.\nMathieson grabbed two knives from a drawer and blocked the door, demanding the women surrender their mobile phones and strip naked.\nHe raped both of them in the bedroom, before repeating the act downstairs in the living room, telling them: \"I've done this to show my wife something.\"\nWhen he went to the window, thinking his partner had returned, the women ran for the door.\nMathieson gave chase, striking one of them on the leg with the knife. Still naked, his victims made it to a nearby flat where they called for help.\nMathieson himself dialled 999 and told the operator: \"I've been high on drugs and I've killed a prostitute.\n\"Tell the officers I am not aggressive. I'm sitting on the couch. I had two other girls, but I've let them go.\"\nOfficers attended and found Mathieson in the living room. He got down on his knees and held out his hands to be arrested.\nHis partner arrived home at 02:00, and was described as being \"hysterical\" when she discovered the police presence.\nDet Insp Dave Pinkney, from Police Scotland's major investigation team, said: \"The incidents that took place within the property in Springfield Drive led to the death of one woman and left two other females traumatised and extremely distressed having been the victims of serious sexual assaults.\n\"I would like to thank the victims and the family of Luciana Maurer for their courage and assistance during the course of this investigation.\n\"While nothing can undo the pain Steven Mathieson's actions have caused, they can take some solace in his conviction as we await his sentence.\"\nLocal area commander Ch Insp Mandy Paterson added: \"The murder and subsequent police activity impacted greatly on the community at the time.\n\"This early guilty plea will be welcome news for those who have been affected locally and beyond.\"\nMathieson will be sentenced on 7 May at the High Court in Livingston.", "summary": "A man has admitted murdering a 23-year-old woman in his Falkirk home before raping two others." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The message will be beamed on to screens at the world famous event just before midnight.\nEdinburgh's Hogmanay is working with the Edinburgh International Science Festival, the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency,\nRevellers from more than 80 countries will be at the street party.\nPete Irvine, director of Edinburgh's Hogmanay, said: \"Edinburgh's Hogmanay is a truly global event with revellers joining us from over 80 countries around the world.\n\"This year we've gone one better and will be visited from space.\"\nHe added: \"In a special message to Edinburgh's Hogmanay, Tim Peake, who is travelling high above us on the International Space Station, is expected to help us welcome in 2016.\n\"Revellers throughout the city centre should keep an eye on the event and stage screens just before the midnight moment.\"\nDr Simon Gage, director of the Edinburgh International Science Festival, said: \"In the few hours that revellers enjoy the Edinburgh's Hogmanay street party the International Space Station, travelling at five miles per second, will orbit the Earth three times.\n\"If we are lucky we may even spot it going over. With UK astronaut Tim Peake aboard, 2016 will be a remarkable year for UK space science with much for us all to follow and be inspired by.\n\"We're delighted to have been able to extend the invitation to Tim and with the UK Space Agency and ESA to bring a little bit of science to this great party.\"\nEdinburgh's Hogmanay is produced by Unique Events on behalf of Edinburgh City Council.", "summary": "British astronaut Tim Peake is to send a New Year message to Edinburgh's Hogmanay street party from on board the International Space Station." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 31-year-old scored 573 runs, including three centuries, in five games earlier in the summer.\nCook's first match back for the competition leaders starts on Tuesday against nearest rivals Leicestershire.\n\"Hopefully he can help us achieve our aims,\" head coach Chris Silverwood told the Essex website.\n\"It is always a bonus to have a man of Cook's calibre coming back to play for the club.\"\nWith four matches remaining, Essex are top of Division Two on 171 points from 12 matches - 23 clear of Leicestershire.\nThe second and final match that he is available for will be at home against Worcestershire, starting on 31 August.\nSince his last appearance for Essex, against Kent in July, Cook skippered England in the drawn Test series against Pakistan.", "summary": "England captain Alastair Cook will return to help Essex in their bid for promotion after being made available for the next two Division Two matches." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Roddy Graham, 27, of Denholm, denies committing the offence on the A698 road near the village in February last year.\nBefore a trial could start at Selkirk Sheriff Court the defence sought more time for expert report preparation - a move which the Crown did not oppose.\nKirsty Parker, 34, also of Denholm, died at the scene of the incident.\nNew dates for the trial have been fixed for the jury sitting starting on 8 August with an intermediate hearing on 3 July.", "summary": "The trial of a man accused of causing the death of a woman in the Borders by careless driving has been delayed for three months." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (FBPFT) has been rated as \"requires improvement\".\nConcerns raised during a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection included inadequate risk assessments but other services were rated \"good\".\nThe trust has \"action plans\" in place.\nFBPFT provides a range of mental health and disability services across Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan.\nIt was rated as \"requires improvement\" overall and \"good\" for providing services that were \"caring, effective and responsive\".\nDr Paul Lelliott, the CQC's deputy chief inspector of hospitals, said: \"We found that the quality of the services provided by Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was mixed.\n\"Some of the shortcomings in the way the trust managed medicines was attributable to the lack of basic training.\n\"In other areas inspectors found that risk assessments were inadequate.\n\"The trust was doing some things very well. Inspectors... found that there were enough staff and that there were effective safeguarding strategies in place.\"\nDr Lelliott was \"pleased that the trust was working hard to reduce the stigma of mental health within the community\".\nBernard Pilkington, FBPFT chairman, said: \"The trust has already resolved all the actions the CQC has advised we must do and we have clear action plans in place to address those they have suggested we should do.\n\"I am confident we have the correct arrangements in place and deliver safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led services to our patients and service users, putting us in a strong position to achieve a 'good' rating on the next visit.\"", "summary": "An NHS trust that provides mental health and disability services across parts of Merseyside, Cheshire and Greater Manchester has been ordered to make improvements." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "McFadzean, 29, has been linked with a move to boyhood club Sheffield United after making 44 appearances last term.\n\"If Kyle wants to go, £500,000 is the asking price for the best centre-half in the league,\" said Robinson.\n\"I don't care about what he thinks. His agent's been excellent, but we've not spoken to Kyle.\"\nMcFadzean was a trainee with the Blades, before joining MK in 2014 after spells at Alfreton and Crawley.\nHe helped the Dons win promotion to the Championship in his first season at Stadium:MK, but they were relegated back to League One last term.\nMeanwhile, striker Nicky Maynard has signed a new one-year deal with the club - but Robinson has been frustrated so far in his attempt to add a winger to his squad.\n\"[Nicky] was the one I wanted. I didn't hide my desire to sign him,\" Robinson told BBC Three Counties Radio.\n\"One wide player wanted to sign here, but something else came up that we were disappointed by.\n\"We met a Premier League club last week about one of their players and I'm meeting one on Tuesday to speak about some of their loan players on how we can aid the development of their players, which equally aids and supports the development of the football club.\"", "summary": "MK Dons manager Karl Robinson insists he has not spoken to Kyle McFadzean, following reports the defender has handed in a transfer request." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "David Gallacher, 37, was due to appear at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court to face charges over the alleged assault of Samsam Haji-Ali, 34.\nA warrant for his arrest was issued when he did not turn up to the hearing.\nMs Haji-Ali was said to have been attacked outside a Co-op in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire in August 2016.\nMr Gallacher, of no fixed address, was arrested on September 14, and was later charged with assault causing actual bodily harm, assault by beating and two counts of racially or religiously aggravated assault.\nHe allegedly assaulted both the woman and her husband, Abdullah Sulaiman, 40, in the attack.\nA warrant not backed for bail was issued for Mr Gallacher by chair of the bench David Tyler.", "summary": "A man accused of attacking a pregnant Muslim woman who went on to lose her unborn twins was ordered to be arrested after failing to turn up to court." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Integration of Iran into the world economy may bring some social and political changes too, but for reformers the ride will not be an easy one.\nBefore there was a deal, Iran's opponents were talking of Tehran's ambitions to build an atomic bomb and the need to stop it.\nAfter the deal, they moved the goalpost to the Islamic republic's behaviour, namely its poor human rights record and its regional \"expansionist\" aspirations, saying a deal that lifts international sanctions will empower Iran to fund the latter.\nBoth Iran and the US have now embarked on a mission to reassure the Arab countries of the Gulf that this will not be the case.\nUS Secretary of State John Kerry is touring the region trying to sell the 14 July deal - reached between Iran and the US, Russia, China, the UK, France and Germany- that limits Tehran's nuclear programme in return for the lifting of international sanctions.\n\"Every country engaged in this endeavour and the Gulf states hopes that (Iran's) behaviour will change,\" Mr Kerry told reporters in Doha, Qatar.\n\"But we have to prepare for the eventuality that it won't,\" said Mr Kerry, quoting a long list of military and material support for Arabs to counter Iran's growing regional power.\nAs America's chief diplomat was courting the Arab countries in their capitals, his Iranian counterpart chose to do the same on a different platform.\nOn Monday, Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote a piece published in four Arab newspapers in Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar and Egypt.\n\"We must all accept the fact that the era of zero-sum games is over, we all win or lose together,\" wrote Zarif.\nWhen grilled by US congressmen over the deal, Mr Kerry repeatedly said he hoped an Iran that rejoins the international community will not only be less of a threat to its neighbours, but will also open up to the world outside and change from within.\nThis is exactly what frightens hardliners within the Islamic republic.\nThey fear that an end to the nuclear conflict and improving ties with the US could lead to an end to a revolution that for 36 years has revolved around fighting \"the Great Satan\" and strictly imposing religious values on people's everyday lives.\nThe popularity of President Hassan Rouhani and his government is likely to rise following the nuclear deal and Iranian hardliners will try to counter this on the domestic front by actively blocking any attempts to implement social and political reform.\nAnd they have the means to do so.\nKey institutions such as the Judiciary, state radio and television, the police and the military are not controlled by the Rouhani administration, rather by conservatives appointed by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.\nThis strategy has been seen before. Under reformist former president Mohammad Khatami, (who led the government from 1997 to 2005) the more foreign and trade ties opened up, the more pressure was exerted on journalists and civil activists.\nA crackdown on media, human rights and political activists would send a clear message to Iranians that striking a nuclear deal does not mean an end to revolutionary values.\nPresident Rouhani's possible failure in delivering change in those areas could also fuel disappointment with his government.\nThe next big battleground will be the elections next February for both parliament and for the Assembly of Experts, the body tasked with appointing and supervising the Supreme Leader.\nAyatollah Khamenei has shown in the past that he prefers to balance the power of a moderate executive branch with a conservative parliament, rather than handing over both to reform-oriented forces that could weaken his own base.\nWith the prospect of sanctions being lifted, battalions of foreign businessmen have been flocking to Tehran in the past few weeks trying to secure \"first mover advantage\" before contracts are signed.\nScores of French, German, Italian and Austrian firms have started talks with their Iranian counterparts in anticipation of the day sanctions officially end in the next few months.\nIranian officials have now revised their estimate of the country's GDP growth from the current 2% to 3-4% this year owing to increased oil revenues and access to frozen accounts.\nPresident Rouhani's government hopes this growth will create jobs and improve living conditions for millions of Iranians.\nAcross the country many people share their president's hope that things will get better.\n\"If the government turns around the economy, other aspects such as human rights will get better by themselves,\" Mohammad, who preferred not to use his family name told BBC Persian over the phone from Tehran.\nBut for many others that optimism is tinged with a note of caution.\n\"Look at China,\" said Maryam another Iranian caller.\n\"Economic growth does not necessarily mean better human rights.\"", "summary": "Some advocates of the nuclear deal say it will transform Iran's behaviour over time and make the Islamic republic domestically more liberal, regionally more responsible and internationally more pro-West." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The animated series about a cat named Gumball Watterson won best writer and best animation.\nIt brought the Cartoon Network series to an all-time total to eight Baftas - having won four times in both categories.\nCBBC's Horrible Histories won best comedy for its special Shakespeare episode at Sunday night's ceremony.\nIt too has now won a total of eight Baftas.\nChannel of the year was won by CBeebies, while Zootropolis won film of the year.\nPeter Western, an animator and storyboard artist who worked on Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was presented with a special award for his contribution to children's media.\nOther winners included actor Nick James, who won his first Bafta for his portrayal of Hank Zipzer in the CBBC show of the same name.\nComedian Iain Stirling took home his first Children's Bafta for his presenting role in The Dog Ate My Homework, also broadcast on CBBC.\nRapper Doc Brown hosted the ceremony, which took place at The Roundhouse in Camden, north London.\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "The Amazing World of Gumball was the big winner at the Children's Baftas where the TV show took home two awards." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Lincolnshire rider was quickest during Wednesday's opening sessions and continued his dominance on Thursday.\nHe topped the Superbikes with the best qualifying lap ever around the Dundrod circuit at 133.56mph on his Smith's BMW\nHe was the leading Superstock with 132.33mph and was also best in the Supersports with 127.33mph.\nPole position for the two Superbike races will be decided by a Superpole session on Saturday morning, contested by the fastest 10 riders in practice.\nManxman Dan Kneen was second in the 'big bike' leaderboard on his Tyco BMW, a ride he only secured last week, with an average lap speed of 133.186.\nTwelve-times winner Bruce Anstey was third on 132.98, with his Padgett's Honda team-mate Conor Cummins next at 132.651.\nWilliam Dunlop was fifth on 132.606 and enjoyed the distinction of becoming the first rider to register 200mph through the 'speed trap' on the 'Flying Kilo' section of the course soon after the start and finish.\nHowever, the Ballymoney rider will not race in today's Dundrod 150 Superbike race because of a wrist injury he suffered during an accident at home.\nHe is also set to sit out the 1000cc Superbike and Superstock races on Saturday but may still compete in the two smaller capacity Supersport races.\nIn the Superstocks, Hickman was followed by Silicone Engineering Kawasaki pilot Dean Harrison, who was marginally slower than his compatriot with 132.237.\nKneen again excelled with the third fastest speed on 130.732 to clinch a front row spot for Saturday's first race of the day.\nHickman was 0.124 seconds ahead of Harrison in the Supersports, the Yorkshireman lapping at 127.258, with Anstey next with 126.399.\nIvan Lintin secured pole position for the Supertwins event courtesy of his lap of 117.435 on Wednesday.\nMichael Dunlop had a disappointing practice period by his high standards, ending up sixth in the Superbike standings, eighth in the Superstocks and sixth in Supersports.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nRoads closed - Wednesday and Thursday 9 and 10 August - 10:00 BST to 21:30 BST; Saturday 12 August - 09:30 BST to 20:30 BST\nThursday racing - Dundrod 150 - Race 1 - Dundrod 150 National Race (5 laps); Race 2 - Ultralightweight/Lightweight (5 laps); Race 3 - Dundrod 150 Challenge (5 laps); Race 4 - Dundrod 150 Superbike (6 laps); Race 5 - Dundrod 150 Supertwins (5 laps)\nSaturday racing - Ulster Grand Prix - Race 1 - Superstock (6 laps); Race 2 - Supersport (6 laps); Race 3 - Ultralightweight/Lightweight; Race (5 laps) Race 4 - UGP Superbike (7 laps); Race 5 - Supertwins (5 laps); Race 6 - Supersport (6 laps); Race 7 - Superbike Race (6 laps).", "summary": "Peter Hickman has set the fastest qualifying times in the Superbike, Superstock and Supersport classes at the Ulster Grand Prix." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Portugese midfielder headed the decisive goal with a minute remaining, two minutes after Willian Jose had equalised for the hosts.\nCaptain Sergio Ramos had given Real Madrid the lead in the first half, but was later sent off.\nVictory leaves third-placed Real four points behind Atletico Madrid in second and 12 behind leaders Barcelona.\nReal were frustrated for much of the first half by determined Las Palmas defending, but the hosts could not stop Ramos opening the scoring in the 24th minute.\nThe defender met Isco's corner and glanced a header past goalkeeper Javi Varas.\nWillian Jose levelled for the hosts with three minutes remaining after Real squandered possession from a free-kick, but the visitors responded immediately as Casemiro headed home a corner.\nRamos was sent off in stoppage time after picking up a second yellow card.", "summary": "Real Madrid survived a scare to beat Las Palmas through Casemiro's late winner." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The ban on travel to the United States by people from a list of mainly Muslim countries has caused widespread political protest.\nWhile it is being discussed at top government level, it is also impacting individuals.\nMilad Korkis has lived in Northern Ireland for three years.\nHe is married to Holly, an American, and both work with a Christian charity.\nThey were due to visit Holly's family in Pennsylvania in April.\n\"My travel document says that I am from Syria,\" Mr Korkis said.\n\"I called the US Consulate here and our friends in the States and they explained the executive order and it says I can't travel to the States and if I get there I'll be deported.\"\nMr Korkis' wife Holly said she hoped the ban was only temporary.\n\"I know that there's processes of safety and there's so much going on,\" she said.\n\"But my hope for the future is that it will get better and that we'll be able to have a system that works well and that we will be able to see family, because that's a very important part of our life.\"\nThe couple said the tickets they bought months ago may not be refundable.\n\"As a Christian myself, I'm banned from going to the States,\" Mr Korkis said.\n\"It does affect, not just Muslims, but also Christians in the Middle East.\"", "summary": "A Syrian refugee in Belfast has had to cancel travel plans to visit his wife's family because of fears he would be barred from the US and deported." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski said images appeared to show a train equipped with gun turrets.\nLocal legend says a Nazi train filled with gold, gems and guns went missing near the city in 1945.\nMr Zuchowski called the latest evidence an \"exceptional\" discovery.\nHe did not reveal the location of the find but said he personally hoped that it would bring to light looted art and Nazi archives.\nHowever, he also reiterated warnings to treasure hunters that it may be booby-trapped.\nMr Zuchowski said information about the train had apparently come in a deathbed confession from a person involved in concealing it.\nEarlier this month, a Pole and a German told authorities in Walbrzych that they knew the location of the armoured train.\nThrough lawyers, they said that they wanted 10% of the value of anything that was found.\nThe BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw says no documents have ever been discovered confirming the existence of the train but, between 1943 and 1945, Germany forced prisoners of war to dig more than 9km (five miles) of underground tunnels near Walbrzych that were apparently to be used as factories.\nSome are now tourist attractions.\nWalbrzych's deputy mayor told reporters on Wednesday that the train's location was being kept under wraps, along with the identity of the two men who claimed to have found it.\n\"The find is within our administrative boundaries,\" said Zygmunt Nowaczyk.\n\"I cannot of course reveal the exact place.\"\nThe train was rumoured to have been carrying gold from what is now the Polish city of Wroclaw as the Soviet army closed in at the end of World War Two.\nLocal folklore said it went missing near Ksiaz castle, 3km (two miles) from Walbrzych.\nIn a statement earlier this week, Mr Zuchowski warned the public to stop searching for the train until official procedures to secure the find were completed.\nHe said there could be \"hazardous substances\" and there was a \"huge probability that the train is booby-trapped\".", "summary": "A Polish official says ground-penetrating radar images have left him \"99% convinced\" that a World War Two German military train is buried near the south-western city of Walbrzych." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 26-year-old former Crewe trainee joined the Clarets for an undisclosed fee on a three-and-a-half-year deal.\nThe midfielder spent four-and-a-half years at Villa, who were relegated from the top flight last season.\n\"It was quiet in January and I was ready to travel to Brentford with Villa,\" he told BBC Radio Lancashire.\n\"[Aston Villa boss] Steve Bruce pulled me in and said they'd accepted a bid from Burnley and I was more than happy.\n\"It was a big shock. Obviously there were rumours in the summer but it didn't quite happen, but thankfully it has come and I'm absolutely delighted to be here.\n\"I wanted to give it one more go at Villa because I felt I deserved to try and get them back up, but it wasn't meant to be,\"\n\"Thankfully the gaffer here has come in for me and as they say rescued me and I'm back in the top flight now.\"", "summary": "Burnley signing Ashley Westwood says he felt \"rescued\" after agreeing a return to the Premier League from Aston Villa on transfer deadline day." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nIf the Royal and Ancient and United States Golf Association plans are adopted, golfers will see significant shifts in how the sport is played.\nThe two governing bodies want to make golf quicker and played under more simple, consistent and fair rules.\nTheir ideas have been made public for a period of consultation and are scheduled to be implemented from 2019.\nThe new rulebook will be drawn up in \"a modern, plain style\" that will be written from a \"player's perspective\".\nAmong the changes under consideration are plans to:\nThe proposals follow four years of detailed examination of the current set-up by officials from the R&A and USGA, as well as professional tours.\nThe game is governed by a rulebook that contains hundreds of regulations and sub-rules. There is also a 500-page 'Decisions book' filled with precedents and \"hidden rules\" dealing with the myriad eventualities that can be occur during a game of golf.\n\"This is the biggest set of changes in a generation,\" David Rickman, R&A executive director of governance, told BBC Sport.\n\"In recent history we had big changes in 1952 and then again in 1984 so we have done this sort of thing before.\n\"It seems in that in the 30-odd-year range we need to step back and think on a broader perspective and bring the rules up to date.\"\nRickman says the rulebook is difficult to understand and accepts that players need to be something of a \"golfing lawyer\" to understand them.\n\"I think that is a justifiable criticism,\" he said. \"I think the rulebook is very cleverly constructed - perhaps I would say that - I've been doing this a while.\n\"But if it is not readily understandable to golfers then we've failed.\n\"We've ended up with a technical and complicated code, and that's not what we want, particularly as golf is largely self-regulating.\n\"So we needed to reduce that complexity and one of the ways we can do that is by putting a greater emphasis on player integrity.\n\"Golfers are expected to abide by the rules and by following through on all respects of that we can set the rules more simply and give greater guidance and make the game better to play.\"\nThe working party examined every regulation in the book before drawing up its proposals. \"We've not been afraid to consider fundamental change,\" Rickman added.\nProposals on repairing spike marks and allowing the choice of leaving the flag in the hole for putts on the green would appear to fall into that category.\n\"Actually that one harks back to a rule that existed in the 1960s,\" Rickman said. \"So as part of this extensive effort we have looked at the history of the rules.\"\nPerhaps the most contentious proposal surrounds how penalty or free drops will be executed. The plan to abolish releasing the ball from shoulder height will cause many an eyebrow to be raised.\n\"I suspect this will be an area of the rules that we will talk about for sometime,\" Rickman said. \"We really want to get the ball back into play more quickly and we wanted to move away from a procedural situation.\"\nHence allowing a drop from just an inch off the ground.\nThe entire package is aimed at speeding up the game and banning caddies from lining up players ahead of shots would surely help, especially on women's tours where this is common practice.\nNow the proposals have been published there will be a six-month period when all golfers can provide their feedback.\nThereafter the new rulebook will be drawn up ready for implementation at the start of 2019.", "summary": "Proposals have been unveiled for the biggest shake-up of the rules of golf \"in a generation\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is unsupported on your device\n13 November 2014 Last updated at 17:13 GMT\nKenya Airways reports a loss of $116m (£73m) for the six months up to September, citing the Ebola outbreak in three West African countries and rising insecurity in Kenya.\nLiberia's President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, lifts the state of emergency due to recent progress made against the virus.\nHere is the latest Ebola news for Thursday 13 November - in 15 seconds.", "summary": "The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it is to host clinical trials of new Ebola treatments in West Africa, one of them using the blood of recovered patients." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The William Haggas-trained youngster (11-4) led from the front and stayed on to win by a length and a half.\nYucatan (11-8) gave trainer Aidan O'Brien his fourth successive runner-up in the Doncaster race finishing a head in front of Salouen (16-1) in third.\nRivet was immediately quoted at odds of 16-1 for next year's 2000 Guineas.\n\"I just let him stride on and enjoy it - it would have taken a good one to get by him,\" Atzeni said.\n\"He's very genuine and he stays well. He's a lovely, big horse.\n\"He'll definitely go on (next season).\"\nAtzeni is now one behind Lester Piggott's record five victories in the race. Piggott is part owner of Rivet.", "summary": "Jockey Andrea Atzeni won his fourth Racing Post Trophy in a row as Rivet held off favourite Yucatan in the final Group One race of the season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The pop star wrote on Instagram her gig on Friday at the city's Allianz Stadium \"would not be going ahead as planned... due to the tragic events\".\nThe Nice Jazz Festival, due to start on Saturday, has also been cancelled.\nMany figures from the entertainment world have expressed shock at the news, with Simon Cowell among those sending \"thoughts and prayers to all affected\".\nRihanna, currently in Europe with her Anti tour, was in Nice at the time of the attack but was said to be \"safe\" by her representative.\nThe makers of the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey - which had been filming on location in the south of France - also said everyone working on the film had been accounted for and was \"safe and sound\".\nProducer Dana Brunetti circulated the statement on Facebook, saying it was \"another sad day for France and the world\".\nBoy George tweeted his \"heart breaks for France\", while Cyndi Lauper said she was \"so sad for the people of Nice\".\nComedian Amy Schumer, actress Mia Farrow and TV personality Kim Kardashian West are among others to express their sympathies.\nAt least 84 people were killed when a lorry ploughed through a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice on Thursday evening.\nThe driver drove 2km down the city's Promenade des Anglais at about 23:00 local time, before being shot dead by police.\nYoussou N'Dour, Melody Gardot and Britain's Laura Mvula were among those who had been scheduled to appear at Nice's Jazz Festival.\nThe event was to have run from Saturday to Wednesday but has now been cancelled, as have some of the city's other Bastille celebrations this weekend.\nFestival organisers told the BBC all tickets would be refunded and thanked ticket holders \"for their understanding\".\nUS singer George Clinton, who had been due to perform at the festival on Sunday, sent his \"sincere condolences and prayers to the families of the victims\".\nLondon-based rapper Tiggs Da Author, who was also scheduled to appear on Sunday, is another performer to have sent \"thoughts and prayers\" via Twitter.\nThursday's events have cast doubt on whether Bastille Day, an action thriller starring Britain's Idris Elba, will continue to be shown in French cinemas.\nA spokesperson for distributor StudioCanal told the BBC it would let cinemas decide whether to show the film and would support them if they chose to withdraw it.\nThe UK release of the film - which features a bomb blast in central Paris - was put back two months to 22 April following the terror attacks that took place in the city in November last year.\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Singer Rihanna has cancelled a concert in Nice in the wake of the Bastille Day attack that left at least 84 dead." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Swansea's Johns made history early in the evening at the SSE Arena in Belfast by becoming the first Welshman to win a UFC bout.\nThe 24-year-old beat South Korean Kwan Ho Kwak on an impressive unanimous decision.\nAbertillery's Marshman beat Sweden's Magnus Cedenblad by technical knockout in a middleweight fight.\nMarshman looked to be suffering as his opponent pinned him to the ground for most of the first round.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nBut a stunning series of punches left Cedenblad unable to continue and 26-year-old Marshman won by technical knockout.\n\"You can't get much of a better feeling than I've got right now. I'm ecstatic,\" Marshman said.\n\"I'm sure the UFC must be thinking 'Look at the Welsh guys coming in and getting two wins.\"\nJohns, 24, only received the call-up to the UFC earlier in November. had earlier put in put in an assured performance.\n\"All of my fights get tough but I just dug deep and got another win,\" said Johns, fighting at bantamweight,\" Johns said.\n\"I've got a good team, good family behind me who support me all the way and I'm very thankful.\"", "summary": "Welsh fighters Jack Marshman and Brett Johns both won their debut fights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Fishermen found the decomposing body inside the radio room of the yacht, which was floating 62 miles (100 km) off the coast near Barabo town in Surigeo del Sur province, police said.\nDocuments in the vessel indentified the man as Manfred Fritz Bajorat.\nIt is unclear what killed him or how long he has been dead.\nInvestigators found no obvious signs of violence. They are trying to retrace the man's final journeys and speak to the last people to have had contact with him.\nGraphic photographs posted on Facebook by local authorities appeared to show the body preserved in the radio room by hot, salty ocean conditions.\nThe man was found slumped over his right arm on a desk, with one hand near a telephone. Personal possessions were found scattered elsewhere in the yacht, according to reports.\nThe grim discovery was made on Thursday by local fishermen, led by 23-year-old Christopher Rivas, who reported it to police.\nForensic examiners believe the man died more than four days before the yacht, marked \"Sajo\", was found, Inspector Mark Navales, deputy police chief of Barabo town, told AFP.\n\"It is still a mystery to us,\" he said.\nThe yacht was later towed to Barabo on Mindanao island.\nThe German embassy in Manila has not commented on the reports.", "summary": "Police are investigating the death of a German sailor whose body was found slumped in a yacht drifting off the southern Philippines." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Other claims rejected by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) included a wasp causing an accident and a child scribbling on the forms.\nSelf-assessment returns are generally required from the self-employed and those with multiple sources of income.\nThe next deadline is for online returns, which falls on 31 January.\nAbout 10 million people are in the self-assessment system, and returns up to three months late incur a fine of at least £100.\nThe deadline for paper returns was on 31 October. Among the excuses for failing to file was: \"A wasp in my car caused me to have an accident and my tax return, which was inside, was destroyed.\"\nAnother claimed: \"My wife helps me with my tax return, but she had a headache for 10 days.\"\nBlaming a husband or wife also featured in excuses such as: \"I could not complete my tax return, because my husband left me and took our accountant with him. I am currently trying to find a new accountant.\"\nOthers used the oldest excuses in the book. \"My dog ate my tax return... and all of the reminders,\" one claimed.\n\"It is easy to see that some excuses for not completing a tax return on time can be more questionable than others. Luckily, it is only a small minority who chance their arm,\" said Ruth Owen, HMRC director general of customer services.\n\"There will always be help and support available for those who have a genuine excuse for not submitting their return on time.\"", "summary": "Excuses from individuals who failed to submit their tax return this year included a claim that the paperwork was engulfed in a yacht fire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "First off - the Intelligence and Security Committee. The ISC is emphatically not a select committee of Parliament; it is a committee of parliamentarians appointed by the prime minister to oversee the security services.\nThe point here is that it has to be composed of people the spooks can trust - or the necessary level of candour will simply not be there, and ISC investigations will hit a brick wall.\nI'm told the ISC Chair from the last parliament, the former Attorney General Dominic Grieve wanted to be re-appointed and wanted the committee up and running, and able to commission a new set of investigations before the summer recess. Given all that has happened in the last few months, that does not seem unreasonable….. but there is no sign of the committee members being appointed.\nInquiring minds want to know why.\nAll the Conservatives on the previous committee want to be re-appointed, although that is in the PM's gift.\nBut there are two vacancies on the Labour side after Fiona Mactaggart and Gisela Stuart stood down as MPs; and one on the SNP side, after Angus Robertson lost his seat in June.\nThe new SNP-er is expected to be his successor as Westminster Leader, Ian Blackford, but who will the new Labour members be. Will Jeremy Corbyn be content to nominate some heavyweight ex-ministers, or will he want someone more in tune with his politics?\nA less glamorous cog in the system is the Committee of Selection, the assemblage of whips which names MPs to Public Bill Committees, which do the detailed scrutiny work on ordinary legislation.\nThe non-appearance of this body is the reason that the committee stage of quite humdrum bills like the Ait Travel Organisers Licensing Bill is being taken on the floor of the Commons, because there is no mechanism for delegating bills to smaller committees of MPs until it is set up.\nHere the blockage is that the government wants to have a majority on the committee, so that it can then guarantee itself a majority on those Public Bill Committees, thus seeing off ambushes during the detailed scrutiny stage of legislation.\nWill they get it?\nI hear that Labour are more ambivalent than you might imagine, because were the May government to be replaced by an even more minority Corbyn administration, a guaranteed majority for that government on bill committees would come in pretty handy.\nAlternatively, if one of the non-Conservative seats on the Committee of Selection were taken by their semi-allies in the DUP, the Tories would then have a majority, even if the DUP member simply didn't turn up….\nAfter the rows about the delays in setting up select committees, and the lack of Opposition Day debates, here's another issue where, I suspect, we're guaranteed a furious procedural row.", "summary": "As the new set of select committee chairs don their purple striped togas, there are still a few vacant niches in key parts of the committee system." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "11 January 2016 Last updated at 08:10 GMT\nRicky's been at CES 2016, the biggest gadget show in the world, for Newsround.\nHe takes a look at the latest robot creations revealed at the event.", "summary": "A massive tech show has been taking place in Las Vegas, USA, where companies have been showing off their latest gadgets." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Authorities received five reports of rape and 12 of sexual assault during Bravalla, Sweden's biggest festival.\n\"We're appalled to hear what happened,\" wrote Mumford and Sons on Facebook.\n\"Festivals are a celebration of music and people, a place to let go and feel safe doing so. We're gutted by these hideous reports.\"\nThey added: \"We won't play at this festival again until we've had assurances from the police and organisers that they're doing something to combat what appears to be a disgustingly high rate of reported sexual violence.\"\nSwedish pop star Zara Larsson also wrote a series of furious tweets after hearing a woman had been raped while she played the festival.\n\"You deserve to burn in hell,\" she wrote. \"[Damn] you for making girls feel insecure when they go to a festival. I hate guys. Hate hate hate.\n\"How am I supposed to take it seriously when you say 'not all men', 'I'm a nice guy, I don't rape'? Where do all the 'nice guys' go when girls are raped? Are you too busy telling women how nice you are?\"\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the attacks on female audience-members as \"totally unacceptable\" and said laws on sexual assault would be tightened.\n\"In addition, it is also important that we continue to make sure the police, prosecutors and other authorities get better at investigating these crimes so that we make sure we actually convict the perpetrators.\"\nNumerous accounts of sexual violence were also reported at Sweden's Putte I Parken festival, which took place between 30 June and 2 July.\nAccording to the Associated Press, 32 reports of \"attacks by boys or young men\" against female attendees were registered at the event, with the youngest victim just 12 years old. Police have identified seven men whom they hope to question about the attacks.\nThe problem is not isolated to Sweden. Three cases of sexual assault were reported at the 2015 Glastonbury festival, while a man was arrested for raping a 21-year-old woman at last year's V Festival in Essex.\nLast week in Denmark, where the annual week-long Roskilde rock festival took place, police said they had reports of five cases of alleged rape or sexual assault.\nPolice officer Carsten Andersen described the figure as \"nothing out of the ordinary at such a big event, although every single case is too much\".\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Mumford and Sons say they will boycott a Swedish music festival after reports emerged that 17 women were sexually assaulted at the event last weekend." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The UK government gave approval after imposing \"significant new safeguards\" to protect national security.\nWelsh Economy Secretary Ken Skates called it \"excellent news\", saying the plant should use steel from Port Talbot and other producers in Wales.\nWelsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said the plant would play a part in \"turbo-charging\" the steel industry.\nEarlier in September, Neath-based Express Reinforcements was named as the preferred bidder for a 200,000-tonne order of steel for Hinkley Point worth about £100m.\nIn July, incoming Prime Minister Theresa May announced a delay in approval for the £18bn project pending a review.\nIt focused on concerns about the high cost of energy from the proposed plant and the security implications of Chinese involvement alongside the French energy firm EDF.\nWhen approval was announced on Thursday, Mr Skates welcomed the decision as \"excellent news for the nuclear sector across the UK\" providing a \"much needed boost to the supply chain\".\n\"The decision could also play an important part in supporting our steel industry in the UK, a major part of which is located here in Wales,\" he said.\n\"I am calling on the UK government to make sure it is supplied by steel from Port Talbot and our other steel producers here in Wales, and that opportunities for the wider UK supply chain are maximised.\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones said a range of businesses could benefit from the announcement.\n\"We are looking at businesses in Wales to act as suppliers and contractors potentially for Hinkley and that's something we want to explore.\"\nMr Davies hailed the decision as a \"huge plus for the UK and for Wales\".\n\"Given the proximity of the Somerset site to Wales, there are clear opportunities here for employment and businesses, with up to 26,000 jobs and apprenticeships being created,\" he said.\n\"We're already aware of big orders for steel emanating from this project, and we are hopeful that Hinkley will play its part in turbocharging Wales' steel economy.\n\"Now is the time for our highly skilled workforce to seize on the opportunity to be part of one of the biggest construction projects in 70 years.\"\nUK Labour leadership contender and Pontypridd MP Owen Smith welcomed the go-ahead but criticised the UK government's delay in giving approval.\n\"The Tories' dithering over this decision has created jobs uncertainty and been deeply damaging to Britain's reputation as a country in which to invest.\n\"A better handled process may well have delivered a fairer price for the taxpayer.\n\"Britain needs a robust and credible industrial strategy that creates jobs, growth and the green economy of the future.\"\nAnalysis by Sarah Dickins, BBC Wales economics correspondent\nThe challenge for Wales is to grab the opportunities that lie with this huge 10-year investment.\nBut if Wales can win business building the UK's first nuclear power plant in 20 years it could help the Welsh economy for the long term.\nEDF Energy has a reputation for its commitment to local firms. Next to those companies from the south west of England, south Wales is next in line to benefit - and it has the skills.\nAlready some work is in the pipeline, with Celsa in Cardiff. It makes recycled steel from scrap, which helps the carbon footprint of the project.\nSteel from here will go to Express Reinforcements in Neath, which is already involved in the CrossRail project in London, and will be supplying Hinkley C.\nBut Helen Kane, chairwoman of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Wales, says the Welsh Government must make sure Wales has enough of the right skills to embrace the \"massive opportunities\" of Hinkley.\n\"It will take up a huge resource but also give us new skills and I've heard of some very specialist skills, professionally and in the trades - and we'll learn lots from that,\" she said.\n\"We've been gearing up but we also have a skills gap of mammoth proportions.\n\"We lost 400,000 in construction in the last recession and they haven't come back and we need to move our skills up a few gears and we need help from the Welsh Government.\"\nOn the ground there is a real fear that the best workers will be tempted away to work on Hinkley C and that will damage smaller firms.\nWhat is undeniable is that the Hinkley C project will have a clear impact on the economy of south Wales in a number of ways.\nBut with a new nuclear plant planned for Wyfla on Anglesey, the expertise learnt working on Hinkley could help all of Wales in the long term.\nHorizon, the firm planning to build a new nuclear power station at Wylfa, Anglesey, said approval for Hinkley was \"good news for the country's security of supply and clean energy needs\".\nChief executive Duncan Hawthorne said: \"The emphasis must now be on delivering the government's vision of a wider nuclear programme in the UK and we remain focused on continuing to make strong progress with our lead Wylfa Newydd project.\n\"This includes clearing our tried and tested reactor technology for deployment in the UK, consulting across north Wales on our plans and the huge economic opportunities they will deliver, and working with government on a deal that delivers at a fair and acceptable price for all.\"", "summary": "Welsh politicians say a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset will be good for the economy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The badge, \"Think Resilient\", follows research showing nearly half of young women aged 17 to 21 in the UK have needed help with a mental health issue.\nGuides themselves helped design the programme which will be delivered by young women.\n\"I'm really proud of this of new Girlguiding resource and my part in developing it,\" said Zoe Dowler, 24.\nZoe is one of Girlguiding's Peer Educators who are aged 14 to 26 and already run badges on healthy relationships, body confidence, alcohol, smoking, drugs and sex.\nFollowing training early in April, 100 Peer Educators will start running \"Think Resilient\" sessions for girls aged seven to 25 in guiding groups across the UK, including for Brownies, the youngest group.\n\"I know low mental well-being is a major issue affecting the daily lives and ambitions of lots of young women my age,\" said Ms Dowler.\nShe said she hoped the badge would give girls positive and practical solutions and \"a safe space to share what's on their mind\".\nThe new badge is launched amid increasing concern about the mental health of children and young people.\nLast August a Children's Society report found children in England were among the unhappiest in the world.\nWhile Girlguiding's 2015 Girls' Attitudes Survey of 1,500 UK girls and young women found:\nThe new badge, developed in conjunction with the Young Minds mental health charity, aims to give girls \"a vital space to talk about their mental well-being and resilience\".\nIt was created following requests from guides themselves who said they wanted to break down stigma surrounding mental health \"and promote open and supportive conversations\", says Girlguiding UK.\nThe girls will learn self-calming techniques in sessions tailored to different age groups.\nThe kit includes imaginary \"agony-aunt\" letters to which the guides are encouraged to respond, encouraging the ability to break problems down into small, solvable steps.\n\"Girlguiding listens to girls and we've created this inspiring new resource as a direct response to what girls told us they need,\" said Chief Guide Gill Slocombe.\nYoung Minds chief executive Sally Brennan said family breakdown, stress at school, 24/7 online culture, body image issues and early sexualisation were just some of the pressures young people faced.\n\"Peer to peer is a really powerful way to educate... and help girls and young women build their emotional strength and resilience\", said Ms Brennan.", "summary": "Girl Guides across the UK will be able to take a new badge in mental well-being and resilience from early April." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The scheme will appoint a named person, usually a teacher or health visitor, who will be responsible for ensuring the welfare of every child.\nIt had been due to come into force last August, but the Supreme Court ruled that sections covering information sharing did not comply with the law.\nThe changes published on Tuesday aim to overcome those concerns.\nThey will ensure that public bodies can only share information about children if is likely to \"promote, support or safeguard the wellbeing\" of the child.\nPublic bodies will also be required to consider whether sharing the information would be compatible with data protection, human rights and confidentiality laws.\nOnly then will they be given the power to share the information.\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said the changes would bring \"consistency, clarity and coherence to the practice of sharing information about children and young people's wellbeing across Scotland\".\nHe added: \"The Supreme Court ruled definitively that the intention of providing a named person for every child to promote and safeguard their wellbeing was 'unquestionably legitimate and benign'.\n\"But young people and families must have confidence that information will be shared only where their rights can be respected.\n\"We must ensure that we get it right for every child, but in a way that respects the rights of families fully.\"\nSupreme Court judges ruled in July last year that specific proposals in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act about information-sharing were incompatible with the rights to privacy and a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.\nThey said the legislation made it \"perfectly possible\" that confidential information about a young person could be disclosed to a \"wide range of public authorities without either the child or young person or her parents being aware\".\nJudges at the Court of Session had previously ruled that named persons would have \"no effect whatsoever on the legal, moral or social relationships within the family\".\nThey added: \"The assertion to the contrary, without any supporting basis, has the appearance of hyperbole.\"\nThe appeal was brought to the Supreme Court by the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) coalition, which includes the Christian Institute, Care (Christian Action Research and Education), Tyme Trust and the Family Education Trust.\nThey had claimed named person would undermine parents by appointing a state guardian for their children, and would stretch resources for protecting vulnerable children by creating a scheme that applied to all children regardless of need.\nThe Scottish government said after the Supreme Court ruling that it remained absolutely committed to introducing named person, and would bring forward fresh legislation that would comply with the law.\nIt had originally hoped to do so in time for the scheme to be implemented by August this year - but that has been delayed until 2018.\nThe Scottish Conservatives, who have been vocal critics of the scheme, said the changes to named person marked a \"major U-turn\" by the government.\nThe party said the changes meant that \"parents who do not accept the advice of named persons will not be subsequently viewed with suspicion by authorities\".\nBut while welcoming the clarification on data sharing, the Tories said they continued to have \"serious concerns\" about the legislation.\nSimon Calvert of NO2NP said the new rules on information sharing were a \"100% climb-down on their original plan of a statutory duty to share information about people's private lives almost without restriction\".\nMr Calvert added: \"If they'd only listened at the start, they could have saved huge amounts of time and money. They now have to retrain those who have already been trained to implement an unlawful scheme.\"\nScottish Labour said the implementation of named person had been a \"complete mess from the start\" and called on the Scottish government to produce a \"clear plan to rebuild trust in the scheme\".\nThe Liberal Democrats warned there was a \"very real risk that the limited changes now being proposed won't be enough to regain the confidence of families across Scotland.\"\nBut the Scottish Greens welcomed the Scottish government changes, which it said meant that \"We are now back on track to ensuring children in Scotland are as safe and well supported as possible\".", "summary": "The Scottish government has published changes to its controversial named person scheme." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mokhtar Belmokhtar was killed in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, a statement from Libya's government said.\nThe US says Belmokhtar was targeted and the strike was successful, but it is analysing the operation's results and would give details \"as appropriate\".\nBelmokhtar's death has been reported many times in the past.\nUS defence officials stopped short of confirming Belmokhtar's death.\n\"The actual impact of that raid is still being assessed,\" US Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said.\nPentagon spokesman Col Steve Warren said the Department of Defense was carrying out its own assessment after the raid.\nMohammed Hegazi, a Libyan military spokesman, told AP that tests would be conducted to confirm whether Belmokhtar was among the victims.\nBorn in Algeria, Belmokhtar was a former senior figure in al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), but left to form his own militia.\nHe gained notoriety with the attack on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in 2013.\nAbout 800 people were taken hostage and 40 killed, most of them foreigners, including six Britons and three Americans.\nThe US has filed terror charges against him and officials said they believed he remained a threat to Western interests.\n\"Belmokhtar has a long history of leading terrorist activities as a member of AQIM, is the operational leader of the al-Qaeda-associated al-Murabitoun organisation in north-west Africa, and maintains his personal allegiance to al-Qaeda,\" said Col Warren.\nDead, or maybe still alive, either way the fact that the US is still hunting Mokhtar Belmokhtar illustrates the breadth and tenacity of the US counter-terrorism effort.\nWhile the focus is now very much on combating Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the US struggle against al-Qaeda franchises continues both in the Middle East (Libya in this case) and to a growing extent in sub-Saharan Africa too.\nBelmokhtar masterminded the attack on the Amenas gas plant in Algeria in 2013 in which 40 people were killed, including three Americans.\nHe was targeted not in a drone strike but in an attack launched by two F-15 aircraft.\nLibya looks set to be an area of renewed concern for the Americans, the instability prompted by the removal of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 providing a rich vein of ungoverned space in which various Islamist militants, including Islamic State, are establishing a significant presence.\nHow do you verify a militant's death?\nLibyan's internationally recognised Tobruk-based government said the strike came after consultation with the US. Their statement said it resulted in the death of the \"terrorist Belmokhtar\".\nLibya has been in chaos since the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, with its parliament forced to operate in the eastern port.\nA rival parliament, the Islamist-dominated General National Congress, is nearly 1,000km (620 miles) to the west in Tripoli.\nRival militias have been battling to fill the power vacuum, with IS militants fighting other Islamists in the east.", "summary": "The US is seeking to clarify whether an air strike in Libya killed the Islamist militant who ordered a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant in 2013." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They are demanding a pension, for which Northern Irish victims of the Troubles could be eligible.\nOne person injured in the 1996 blast, has called on the UK government to \"support its victims\".\nThe British government said it would \"consider the position in relation to victims elsewhere in the UK\".\nThere were no deaths, but about 200 people were injured when a 3,300lb device exploded near the Arndale Centre on 15 June 1996, devastating the busy shopping area.\nGreater Manchester Police have launched a fresh review of the evidence in the hope of finally finding those responsible.\nThe Manchester survivors have had their views echoed by the group representing victims of the London Docklands bombing in the same year, who said the government's conduct was \"appalling\".\nPlans for a special pension for severely injured victims in Northern Ireland were included in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.\nHowever talks on the payment, which would be funded by money devolved to Stormont, have stalled at the Northern Ireland Assembly. Sinn Féin insists injured IRA bombers should also be entitled to the pension but unionist politicians strongly object.\nA spokesman for the British government's Northern Ireland Office said: \"Victims' issues in Northern Ireland are the responsibility of the devolved administration.\n\"We can see a case for awarding a pension to victims who were severely physically injured as a result of the Troubles and would like to see this happen.\"\nHe added that victims of violent crime, including terrorism, in England, Scotland and Wales could be eligible for compensation through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.\nA victim who wanted to remain anonymous said: \"I don't understand why the UK government hasn't supported its victims. It doesn't make any sense to me.\"\nThe calls, supported by victims of other IRA bombings in England. come ahead of the 20th anniversary of the IRA attack in Manchester on 15 June 1996.\nJudith Thompson, commissioner for victims and survivors of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, said: \"Geography shouldn't be a barrier.\n\"People are almost worse off outside Northern Ireland... because the context of what they've suffered isn't understood in the same way.\"\nVictims of IRA blasts also say they are entitled to money from the frozen bank accounts of the late Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi as the Semtex used in IRA attacks from the mid-1980s onwards was supplied by the country.\nThe UK Foreign Office said: \"We are determined to see a just solution for UK victims of Gadaffi-sponsored IRA terrorism.\n\"The new Libyan government is aware of our position, but the significant security, political and economic challenges they are facing means progress may take time.\"\nTowards the end of Gadaffi's rule, relatives of the victims in the 1988 Pan AM flight bombing over Lockerbie received compensation from Libya as the attack was blamed on Tripoli.", "summary": "Survivors of an IRA bomb blast in Manchester have said their compensation claims are being ignored because they do not live in Northern Ireland." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nGB needed just one point from their final game but a goal with under four minutes remaining handed favourites Ukraine a 2-1 victory.\nHead coach Pete Russell said: \"We were fantastic all week but we just couldn't get over the line.\"\nGreat Britain have not earned a promotion since 1993.\nRussell's team must now wait for the result of the game on Saturday evening between Lithuania and hosts Croatia to see if they will collect a silver or bronze medal.\nIf Lithuania win then they could pip Ukraine for promotion and knock GB into bronze.\nGB had thrashed Romania 6-1 on Friday to make it four wins in a row and set up the promotion decider.\nCaptain Jonathan Phillips put them ahead against Ukraine after they had failed to take advantage of a series of chances.\nUkraine cranked up the pressure in the third period and turned it around with goals from Dmytro Chernyshenko and Aleksander Pobyednostsev.\nRussell added: \"I am devastated for the players, I believe we were the best team in the tournament and it is heartbreaking they didn't get what they deserved.\n\"We were behind for just three minutes and 56 seconds in the whole tournament, so it is a cruel blow to miss out on the gold medal.\n\"It is like last year in Eindhoven all over again.\"\nIce hockey commentator Seth Bennett\n\"It was a case of so close, yet so far for Great Britain's men, but this team made some huge strides on and off the ice over the last week.\n\"The development of 21-year old Ross Venus has been one of the highlights of the tournament in Croatia. The Coventry Blaze youngster has played with real maturity and responsibility. The emergence of Venus is an encouraging sign that the next generation of players are now not too far away from helping the senior side.\n\"This is been the most complete team performance I can remember from a GB team at a World Championships and the coaching staff team deserve credit for that.\n\"GB are ranked 24th in the world, but on this evidence they are considerably better than that.\"", "summary": "Great Britain's men have missed out on winning gold and promotion to the world's second tier at the World Championships (Division 1B) in Zagreb." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Tom DeLay was convicted in 2010 of illegally funnelling corporate money to Texas Republican political candidates.\nBy 2-1, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the jury verdict, ruling prosecutors failed to prove the funds were \"tainted\".\nMr DeLay, first elected to Congress in 1984, rose to majority leader in 2003.\nKnown as \"the hammer\", Mr DeLay was renowned for his ability to keep the Republican caucus firmly on the party line in close votes.\nThe Texas congressman and former pest control magnate resigned in June 2006 following his indictment on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.\nFederal prosecutors said that during the 2002 mid-term election campaign, Mr DeLay's aides took $190,000 (£121,935) donated by corporate lobbyists to a campaign committee he controlled and gave it to an arm of the Republican National Committee.\nThat group then distributed the funds to seven state legislative candidates.\nSix of those candidates won, giving the Republican Party control of the Texas House of Representatives, which later pushed through a redistricting plan that sent more Republicans to Washington in 2004, solidifying Mr DeLay's hold on power.\nMr DeLay contended the swap was legal and that no corporate money was given to state-level candidates. He denounced the prosecution as a political vendetta.\nA Texas jury convicted him in November 2010. The following January he was sentenced to three years in prison but was allowed to remain free pending appeal.\nOn Thursday, the appeals court ruled that the prosecution had \"failed in its burden to prove that the funds that were delivered to the seven candidates were ever tainted\".\nMr DeLay's attorney, Brian Wice, told the Associated Press Mr DeLay felt vindicated.\n\"He's ecstatic. He's gratified. He's just a little bit numb,\" he said. \"I'm hoping with today's victory, he will be able to resume his life as he once knew it.\"", "summary": "A US appeals court has overturned the money laundering conviction of a once-powerful former Republican congressman, citing insufficient evidence." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Many black Americans are warned from a very young age about how to interact with police when behind the wheel.\nSome of the high-profile incidents that have ignited a national debate about policing came about from a traffic stop. Philando Castile was shot four times in his car in Minnesota, while last year Sandra Bland died in police custody after being pulled over.\nMany black drivers feel they are targeted but supporters of police say that situations tend to escalate when drivers do not obey police commands.\nDepartment of Justice statistics in 2011 show that more black drivers (12.8%) are pulled over than white (9.8%) or Hispanic (10.4%).\nTwo black men give their experience, and a police officer responds.\nDominique Purdy was born and raised in Los Angeles, a city that is no stranger to police violence. Being treated poorly by police officers is something he says he deals with nearly every day.\nHe took that daily struggle and put it on camera with the movie Driving While Black, a dark comedy, which he debuted last year.\nRecent media attention on police brutality against black Americans did not push Purdy to make a movie. It had been in his head for years.\n\"The way the police treat black people isn't going to change overnight so in the meantime we've got to figure out ways to deal with cops when we are pulled over that doesn't get us shot,\" he told the BBC.\nHe will be driving around Los Angeles, playing music, like everyone else around him - but if a cop comes around, he immediately turns his music down.\n\"I don't even like to look at police,\" he said. \"I gotta turn my music down and act like I'm not having a good time. I'm so used to it, it's not really that crazy to me. I gotta get up and brush my teeth, that's what it is, as normal as that.\"\nJamie Campbell is an assistant dean with the business school at Penn State University, located in State College, Pennsylvania. The school is a sprawling, 40,000 student university that is largely white. According to statistics for enrolment university-wide in 2015-16, the campus is nearly 70% white and only six percent black.\nThe unique fear of driving while black has been on Mr Campbell's mind since he was a young man driving around the country recruiting for a Southern college.\n\"My dad told me when I was driving to be extra careful. It goes back to how officers will look at you as an African American driving,\" he said.\nHe still thinks about it daily-the nervousness, the concern, what he calls the \"very real\" fear.\nBlack Americans like himself always have to make sure they are not doing anything to attract attention, he said.\nWhen he watches news coverage of cases of black Americans dying after being pulled over by police, he said he thinks it could have been him, his wife, his daughter or one of his cousins.\nMr Campbell thinks one solution is to get more officers of colour on police forces. He cited statistics in Pennsylvania- of all the state troopers, only three percent are black.\nHis parents grew up with the idea that the police could \"get them\" and nothing would happen as a result. When he was growing up, he knew police aggression was a possibility, but did not expect it.\nHe worries things will feel for his children like they did for his own parents.\n\"If things don't change, it's going to be that way.\"\nSergeant Sean Whitcomb, public affairs director for the Seattle Police Department, said the notion that black people need to be afraid while driving has been in the public consciousness for a long time.\n\"We are fully aware of the disproportionality within the criminal justice system. We understand there is an incredible ripple effect when someone is incarcerated… These are things we fully acknowledge and accept as a challenge in our country,\" he told the BBC.\nIn Seattle, policing tactics are undergoing a big change. After an officer-involved shooting in 2010 of a Native American man, the Department of Justice recommended a consent decree for the department after finding it \"engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force\" violating constitutional law.\nIn 2012, Seattle officers were no longer allowed to stop a pedestrian or driver unless they have documented facts that they suspect a crime is about to happen. Other new policies include a use of force policy and a \"bias-free\" policing policy.\n\"We just want to get to the truth of the matter. You look at those shootings, other incidents, and from the police side when there's no supporting evidence it creates serious issues of trust in regards to our profession, that will erode legitimacy.\"\nThe department is in the process of implementing a permanent body camera programme, and Mr Whitcomb said he feels they have a \"moral obligation\" to use them.\n\"The challenge is to work harder and build trust and build towards increasing our legitimacy in the African American community, or any community that has a concern.\"", "summary": "\"Driving While Black\" is a term used on Twitter to share incidents of alleged racial profiling by police officers while driving." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nHe beat Hamilton by a substantial 0.377 seconds after a qualifying session that see-sawed between the two.\nRosberg was quicker on the first runs in the top 10 shoot-out, Hamilton beat his time by 0.124secs with his final lap, only for Rosberg to top it.\nFerrari's Kimi Raikkonen beat Force India's Sergio Perez to third place.\nRaikkonen's team-mate, Sebastian Vettel, will start 16th after Ferrari miscalculated the lap time he needed to progress beyond the first knock-out session.\nHamilton had been determined on arriving in Abu Dhabi to try to end Rosberg's impressive run of poles, which stems back to the Japanese Grand Prix in late September.\nBut in the end his team-mate was too strong, producing a stunning final lap to continue his resurgence following the disappointment of Hamilton winning the title in the US Grand Prix last month with three races still to go.\nDespite the championship being over, the two have been playing mind games with each other as they seek a psychological edge going into the winter and preparations for the 2016 season.\nHamilton has talked of a change to the Mercedes car altering its feel, and reducing his confidence in it, following the team's struggles at the Singapore Grand Prix.\nRosberg has spoken this weekend about his higher-mileage engine giving him a disadvantage.\nThe team have played down the significance of both.\nRosberg said: \"Before it was close in the other direction and now it's close in this direction. I am quicker at the moment and I am pleased about that and happy to be on pole again.\"\nHamilton said: \"I have been struggling with the car a bit all weekend. We had to take something off the car but Nico was quicker today.\"\nHamilton added that he had been trying to work out why he had been less comfortable with the car's balance since the Singapore race in September.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nHe said that for this weekend he had taken off a part of the car's suspension which was worth 0.1-0.15secs a lap in improvement but that it had not made the difference he hoped.\n\"It was something I didn't feel was working for me,\" he said. \"I took it off and tried to work around it. I thought I'd try something different and it didn't work.\"\nBehind the dominant Mercedes, Raikkonen had to dig deep to secure third spot on the grid following the Ferrari team's mistake with Vettel.\nAn inspired Perez, who was half a second quicker than team-mate Nico Hulkenberg in seventh, was third until the final seconds of the session, only for Raikkonen to beat him by 0.033secs.\nRed Bull team boss Christian Horner said: \"I don't know what Perez has had for breakfast - that's a good lap.\"\nRed Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was fifth, ahead of Williams's Valtteri Bottas.\nJenson Button will start his McLaren-Honda 12th with team-mate Fernando Alonso, surrounded by further speculation about his future, in 17th after suffering a puncture on his final lap.\nMcLaren chairman Ron Dennis said in a news conference before qualifying that a sabbatical year for Alonso was a \"consideration\" if the team cannot improve their competitiveness by the start of next season.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nAsked whether he would be on the grid in 2016, Alonso said: \"I will be.\n\"When Ron says something, you have the perfect opportunity to ask him to clarify his quote. I don't know what his intention is behind it or what he means.\n\"We all want to improve and see how competitive we are and we are optimistic.\"\nFull qualifying results\nAbu Dhabi GP coverage details", "summary": "Nico Rosberg out-qualified Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton for the sixth race in a row to seal pole for the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But that's exactly where Pimco, a giant West Coast investment firm that has nearly $2 trillion (£1.5 trillion) under management, has ended up.\nIt has appointed Manny (Emmanuel) Roman, 52, as its new chief executive after a period of turbulence that saw the company lose about one-quarter of its assets as investors took to their heels.\nThey were frightened off by a power struggle. Bill Gross, a legendary investor that founded Pimco, fell out with his colleagues, and is now suing the company.\nThe row over his exit eventually led to another big name Mohamed El-Erian standing down as chief executive, to be replaced by Doug Hodge. Roman will succeed Hodge on 1 November.\nWhile at first Roman looks an odd choice - he worked at Goldman Sachs before coming one of the first wave of bankers to defect to the ranks of hedge funds, becoming a star name at GLG in London and eventually chief executive of its eventual owner, Man Group - he has two things on his CV that would have drawn in the Pimco board.\nFirst, he has been a trader, and is adept at managing the egos that big investment firms have to nurture - and fire - when they have outlived their usefulness.\nSecond, he has proven he can revive struggling investment companies.\nWhen he took over at Man, it was suffering much the same investor flight malaise that now ails Pimco. That was to do with the flagging performance of a key Man \"black box\" fund. Roman saw the company through the crisis and restored it to health.\nPimco's board will hope he can do the same on the other side of the Atlantic. As well restoring investor confidence, Roman faces one big trading call.\nPimco's staple diet is government bonds, the IOUs issued to fund state spending programmes. The prices of these instruments are now hitting record highs as investors all over the world look for safe havens.\nRoman's big call will be whether to continue to devote Pimco's energy to a market that is showing extraordinary, never-before-seen negative yields, or bring some of his hedge-fund magic to bear and find a new outlet for Pimco's reserves.", "summary": "When one of the pillars of the American money markets goes looking for a chief executive to rescue it from a tight spot, you might think a French-born and educated fixture of the racy Mayfair hedge fund scene would be last on its list." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Blues, competing in Europe for the first time this season, beat Scottish champions Glasgow City 4-0 on aggregate in the last round.\nGerman side Wolfsburg won back-to-back titles in 2012-13 and 2013-14 but were beaten in last season's semi-final.\nChelsea, the only British team left, host the first leg on 11/12 November with the second leg a week later.", "summary": "Chelsea Ladies will face two-time winners Wolfsburg in the last 16 of the Women's Champions League." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police said the woman had been injured in the incident on Maryhill Road, near the Tesco store, at about 13:20.\nParamedics attended and she was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. There is no information available on her condition.\nPolice closed off a section of Maryhill Road to investigate the crash but it has since re-opened.", "summary": "A woman is being treated in hospital after being struck by a lorry on a busy Glasgow street." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Janet Jordon, 48, her daughter Derrin Jordon, six, and partner Phillip Howard, 44, were found at their home in Vicarage Road, Didcot, on 23 May.\nThe body of Ms Jordon's son, Jed Allen, was discovered in woodland in Oxford on 25 May following a 30-hour manhunt.\nOxfordshire Coroner's Court heard it was likely he died days earlier.\nThe identities of the four were officially confirmed during the opening of the inquests at County Hall in Oxford.\nCoroner Darren Salter described the deaths as \"a sad and shocking case\".\nDet Sgt Ali Driver, of Thames Valley Police, told the hearing the bodies were discovered at Vicarage Road after a friend of Mr Allen called police at 20:22 BST on the Saturday night.\n\"He had received a concerning text message from Jed and had gone to Jed's house to try and find him,\" he said.\n\"Instead of finding Jed, he found the body of Phillip Howard and called the police.\n\"Phillip Howard was found downstairs. He had suffered multiple stab wounds.\n\"Janet Jordon and Derrin Jordon were both found upstairs and had also suffered multiple stab wounds.\"\nTwo dog walkers found the hanged body of Mr Allen, 21, in woodland close to Marston Ferry Road, Oxford at 16:40 on 25 May.\n\"It is still under some investigation,\" Det Sgt Driver added.\n\"However, it would seem quite likely that it occurred on 23 May as well.\"\nPolice are now studying the movements of all the victims before they died and the reasons for their deaths.\nThe investigation is likely to take another two months.\nThe inquests were adjourned and are expected to resume in the autumn, at a date yet to be fixed.", "summary": "A young girl and her parents were found dead after the man suspected of their murders sent a friend a \"concerning\" text message, an inquest has heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cardinal Pell has emphatically denied the charges.\nAt the Vatican, it's being seen as a punishing body-blow to the reputation and credibility of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church.\nCardinal Pell, 76, is a former Archbishop of Sydney who now resides inside the Vatican. He was summoned to Rome by Pope Francis in 2014 to try to sort out scandal at the Vatican Bank, and to reform a particularly messy situation in Vatican finances.\nThree years ago, the cardinal pleaded health reasons for refusing to return home to face questioning at a public hearing by a Royal Commission set up to investigate allegations of child sex abuse inside Australian institutions such as churches, schools and sporting groups.\nHowever, he agreed to answer questions by video link from Rome, vigorously denying any wrongdoing, although arousing some public criticism over a surprising analogy that he offered.\nHe likened the Catholic Church's responsibility for child abuse to that of a trucking company for the behaviour of its employees.\n\"If a driver picks up some lady and then molests her,\" the Cardinal said, \"I don't think it is appropriate, because it is contrary to the policy [of the company] for the ownership, the leadership of that company, to be held responsible.\"\nThe Australian Trucking Association, representing 170,000 local truckers, said it was \"deeply insulted\" by his remarks.\nThe cardinal has been granted a leave of absence by Pope Francis to return to Australia to defend himself in court in Melbourne on 18 July.\nA Vatican statement said that Pope Francis \"...has appreciated Cardinal Pell's honesty during his three years of work in the Roman Curia, is grateful for his collaboration, and in particular, for his energetic dedication to the reforms in the economic and administrative sector\".\nIt went on: \"The Holy See expresses its respect for the Australian justice system that will have to decide the merits of the questions raised.\n\"At the same time, it is important to recall that Card Pell has openly and repeatedly condemned as immoral and intolerable the acts of abuse committed against minors; has cooperated in the past with Australian authorities (for example, in his depositions before the Royal Commission); has supported the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors; and finally, as a diocesan bishop in Australia, has introduced systems and procedures both for the protection of minors and to provide assistance to victims of abuse.\"\nAt a news conference Cardinal Pell told reporters: \"There has been relentless character assassination for months ... I am looking forward finally to having my day in court, I am innocent of these charges, they are false. The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me.\"\nThe decision by Australian prosecutors to take Cardinal Pell to court comes at a particularly significant moment in Pope Francis' four-year reign - his handing over this week of red hats to five new \"princes of the church\".\nPope Francis is selecting new church leaders - and perhaps his own successor - from clerics of a very different mould to that of his predecessors. In fact, he emphatically told his new cardinal appointees not to consider themselves \"princes\" but \"servants of God and the people\".\nInstead of promoting to top positions in the church former administrators of great metropolitan Catholic dioceses around the world, like Cardinal Pell (who has already submitted his resignation having reached the compulsory retirement age of 75), Francis is increasingly choosing new cardinals from among bishops in countries \"on the periphery\" as he puts it.\nFour of the five cardinals he appointed this week come from countries - Laos, Mali, El Salvador, and, surprisingly, predominant Lutheran Sweden - that have never had a representative among the Sacred College of Cardinals, the elite churchmen who alone have the power to elect future popes.\nA church dominated for centuries by Italians in particular, and Europeans in general, is reconfiguring itself to reflect the real and diverse world of the 21st century.", "summary": "Australian Cardinal George Pell, one of Pope Francis' most senior advisers, is facing criminal charges for alleged sex offences dating back several decades." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hosein has scored 713 runs in 18 first-class games at an average of 32.4.\nThe 20-year-old set a club record for most dismissals in a match by a keeper when he took 11 catches in his first-class debut against Surrey in 2014.\n\"He made some impressive contributions last year when given the opportunity,\" director of cricket Kim Barnett said.", "summary": "Derbyshire wicketkeeper Harvey Hosein has signed a new contract to stay with the County Championship Division Two side until the end of the 2019 season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe Swans were bottom of the table before beating fellow strugglers Sunderland 3-0 on Saturday.\nBradley had been under pressure having won only one of his first seven games in charge - but insisted he was not worried about his own future.\n\"It's not about me, it's about the work,\" Bradley said.\n\"I don't spend all week worrying about myself. I only know one way to work, and that's to think about the team, engage the staff, engage the players.\n\"Criticism is part of the job for a manager in the Premier League. I don't think I was the only one to be criticised in the last week.\"\nThe win against Sunderland was a fine response from Bradley and his players after they were humiliated 5-0 at Tottenham a week earlier.\nVictory over the Black Cats means Swansea are now above the Premier League's bottom three by virtue of goal difference.\n\"We did get a good response. The players deserve full credit. That's the part of the job, a result gets a little bit out of hand, you can cry about it but you have to look at it in a strong way,\" said Bradley.\n\"This is a step but we have to build upon it, there's still plenty of work to do. It's a nice bonus to be out of the bottom three, but the work is still there and we can't get ahead of ourselves.\n\"The word many players used when we talked this week was 'pride' and the only thing I did was I tried to get back at them and say: 'What does pride look like actually on the pitch?'\n\"Pride has to turn into intensity, pride has to turn into clean sheets. Don't just talk about pride - put it into something more. At the end of that, for a few seconds you can look at the table and say you're not there yet, but it looks better than last week and we can continue move forward.\"", "summary": "Swansea City manager Bob Bradley has warned his side they still have \"plenty of work to do\" despite climbing out of the Premier League relegation zone." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The idea would use bone conduction technology, a technique that transmits sound to the inner ear by passing vibrations through the skull.\nThe concept has been developed by ad agency BBDO Germany on behalf of broadcaster Sky Deutschland.\nIt is already proving controversial.\nComments posted under a video showing off the concept include \"This is a violation to a person's right to rest\" and \"I think I'd take a sledgehammer to the window.\"\nThe Talking Window campaign idea was shown off at the International Festival of Creativity in Cannes last month.\nThe video shows passengers on a German train being surprised to hear ads urging them to download the Sky Go app on to their smartphones to watch streamed video.\nThe audio is created by a special Sky-branded transmitter made by Audiva attached to the windows.\n\"Tired commuters often rest their heads against windows,\" says the ad.\n\"Suddenly a voice inside their head is talking to them. No-one else can hear this message.\"\nDetails posted online note that bone conduction technology has previously been used in hearing aids, headphones for swimmers and runners, and devices used by magicians to make someone think they have had a message planted in their head.\nGoogle also plans to use the tech in its forthcoming Glass headset.\nBBDO Germany said it had had a positive response to tests using prototype transmitters placed in public transport in Munich and Aachen.\n\"If our customer Sky Deutschland agrees, we will start with the new medium as quickly as possible,\" spokesman Ulf Brychcy told the BBC.\n\"At present, this is limited to the German market. If we look into the future: everything is possible.\n\"Some people don´t like advertising in general. But this is really a new technology. [It might] not only be used for advertising, but also for music, entertainment, mass transport information, weather reports and so on.\"\nA spokeswoman for Sky Deutschland said it had yet to make a decision on whether to run the campaign.\nAlthough the firm shares the same logo as the UK's BSkyB's satellite TV service, the two are separate companies, albeit both part-owned by News Corp.\nBSkyB said it had not been aware of the campaign before the BBC brought it to its attention, and was not planning to launch anything similar.", "summary": "A German firm is proposing to transmit adverts via train windows so that the sound appears to \"come from inside the user's head\" when passengers lean against them." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A team in Kenya and the US are working on the project, Ushahidi's innovation manager has told the BBC.\nThe platform is being used to collect and verify information which can be shared to affiliated groups for action.\nRepublican candidate Donald Trump has said he believes the election will be rigged.\nSome fear his call for his supporters to monitor the voting process could lead to intimidation.\nHis opponent, Hillary Clinton, has dismissed the voter fraud allegations.\nMillions of Americans are voting to elect a president and leaders in federal and state levels. Other states are also running ballot measures to get the public to vote on local issues.\n\"The team is currently combing through social media and dealing with messages sent directly to its platform, verifying the content before escalating to the right people,\" Ushahidi's innovation manager Chris Mukuria told the BBC.\nA statement on Ushahidi's website says that it has partnered with several institutions including the Election Protection Committee, \"who run one of the largest non-partisan election monitoring organizations in the USA\".\n\"Our honest hope is that all of this is for naught, and that end of the day Tuesday we look at all the reports and that 99.9% of reports say: 'Everything went great!'\" Ushahidi's chief operating officer Nathaniel Manning said in a statement.\nUshahidi was launched in 2008 by a group of activists and developers to monitor and map the violence in Kenya after a disputed election.\nThe platform has been used in several countries and in different projects, from monitoring sexual harassment in Egypt and to respond to the needs during the earthquake Haiti in 2012.\nThe application that has been deployed to monitor the US elections has also been used in Mexico and Nigeria, Mr Mukuria said.\n\"The team plans to continue monitoring the elections until polls close,\" he added.\nMrs Clinton is the Democratic candidate for the presidential race and is aiming to become the first woman president of the United States.\nMr Trump, a real-estate billionaire and a reality-TV star, beat seasoned politicians in the primaries to emerge as the Republican candidate for the presidential race.", "summary": "An election mapping platform built by Kenyan developers is being used to track possible voter intimidation and violence in the US election." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A Japanese steamship, the Komagata Maru, arrived in Canada on 23 May 1914 from Hong Kong, carrying 376 migrants.\nMost passengers were turned away and the ship sat in the harbour for two months before returning to India.\nTwenty passengers were killed and many were jailed after a riot broke out upon the ship's return.\nThey were denied entry into Canada because of the laws of that time.\n\"Today - while knowing that no words can fully erase the pain and suffering experienced by the passengers - I offer a sincere apology on behalf of the government for the laws in force at the time that allowed Canada to be indifferent to the plight of the passengers of the Komagata Maru,\" Mr Trudeau said in the House of Commons on Wednesday.\n\"We have learned, and will continue to learn, from the mistakes of our past. We must make sure to never repeat them.\"\nOpposition leader Rona Ambrose echoed Mr Trudeau's statements and highlighted some of the efforts of Canada's South Asian community in helping out victims of the Fort McMurray wildfire.\nNew Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair said the incident occurred purely because of \"racism\".\n\"It was racism, pure and simple, that put our fellow humans at risk,\" he said.\nThe ship was chartered by a Sikh businessman who believed India, then a British colony, should be able to visit other countries in the Commonwealth. At the time, Canada's immigration rules were becoming strict, the CBC notes.\nIt is not the first time a Canadian leader has apologised for a past wrongdoing.\nStephen Harper apologised to former students of Catholic residential schools for their abuse in 2008 and Brian Mulroney apologised to Japanese Canadians for internment during the Second World War in 1988.", "summary": "Calling it a \"stain on Canada's past\", Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologised for turning away of a ship of Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims in 1914." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A Futurelearn online course will provide credits towards a University of Leeds undergraduate degree.\nIt will mean reducing the time and cost of tuition fees for a full degree.\nFuturelearn chairman Peter Horrocks says this will provide the flexibility needed by many students.\nThe online learning platform, which offers courses from more than 50 universities, was set up in 2013 by the Open University, as a UK provider for so-called Moocs (massive, open, online courses).\nThere are 3.7 million students registered for Futurelearn's online courses, but Mr Horrocks says that this latest development represents a \"really significant step\".\nIt will allow students to take a University of Leeds online course in Environmental Challenges and, if they pass an exam, to gain credits towards a geography degree at Leeds.\nStudents wanting to take an exam and gain credits this way will have to pay £545, but it will lead to a discount of £750 on tuition fees for a full degree.\nThe course will be taught from September and will represent 10 credits, with a full year being 120 credits.\nMr Horrocks, who is the Open University's vice chancellor, says this is an important move towards a more flexible degree system, making university courses more \"cost effective and time effective\".\nHe says it provides an answer to the government's recent White Paper on higher education, which called for more flexible and competitive ways of delivering degree courses.\nThe partnership with Leeds is expected to be followed by a number of other universities.\nMr Horrocks says that it creates an alternative path with \"real quality and credibility\" which could help more part-time students to improve their qualifications.\nThe traditional three-year, residential university system would not disappear, he said, but for many people that remained \"too conventional, too inflexible, too locked down\".\nBut he said that cost remained a barrier to part-time learning. In England, he said, there is \"still a fall out from the tuition fees increase\".\nUniversities should see online learning as a way to extend the reach of their research and scholarship.\n\"A digital platform is the purest form of an ideas marketplace. If you've got the greatest ideas, why wouldn't you want to be on an open platform where your learning can create great social, cultural and economic benefits?\"\nSimon Nelson, Futurelearn's chief executive, says the technology and quality of online learning has been rapidly improving and that the impact of digital technology on education was accelerating.\n\"Universities are looking at a world that is going more digital, more quickly than they are comfortable with - and they are having to think about their digital strategy,\" said Mr Nelson.\nNeil Morris, director of digital learning at the University of Leeds, said this was a step towards a more \"pick and mix\" style of higher education, in which students could have a much more customised approach to learning.\nProf Morris said that it could lead to students putting together their own degree courses, studying different units from different universities and mixing online learning with residential courses.", "summary": "A UK online university network is claiming a \"breakthrough moment\" with a project which will allow students to cut the cost of a Russell Group degree by studying part of it online." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rooney, 29, was used in midfield for much of last year.\n\"I have listened to you,\" Van Gaal told journalists. \"You have more knowledge than I. Now Rooney is there.\"\nOn the possibility of a surprise signing, the Dutchman added: \"He is in the process. It is not a striker that the media has written but you have to wait and see.\"\nVan Gaal was speaking before the second game of United's United States tour against MLS side San Jose Earthquakes (04:00 BST, Wednesday).\nRooney last operated as a main striker in the 2011-12 campaign, when he scored 34 goals, his equal-highest personal haul.\n\"I hope to score 20 or more goals again,\" said Rooney.\n\"If I'm playing as a striker, then I will be disappointed if I can't do that again.\n\"I've played different roles over the years for United but you only have to look when I play for England as a striker I score goals.\"\nVan Gaal said goalkeeper David De Gea and full-back Antonio Valencia were unlikely to be fit to face San Jose after having hospital checks on Monday morning on the minor injuries that kept them out of Friday's win over Club America.\nHowever, De Gea is expected to be available to play against Barcelona on Saturday.\nOn whether he is worried Rooney is risking injury playing for Everton against Villarreal in Duncan Ferguson's testimonial on 2 August:\n\"He can also fall off the stairs.\"\nOn Rooney's first season as captain in 2014-15:\n\"I could not expect more. He is a great captain. Better than I had expected. He is fully accepted by the players. That is also very important. I can choose but the players decide. The players have to accept the captain.\"\nOn being more comfortable approaching his second season in charge:\n\"Yes. I could not say that last year. You always have to be positive about your selection as a manager but the difference now is that we already have four new players and we are training with them on the tour. That is a big difference.\n\"But the biggest difference is the balance in the team. Last year on the USA tour I have to line up players in different positions than they are used to playing. That is not good. Now I have two players for every position.\"\nOn a huge turnover of players:\n\"We have sold a lot of players. More than 17 in my period. I never talked about that but it is true. It is normal in the football world. You have to improve the selection every year and also keep them fresh. Also a new player can give a great stimulus.\"\nOn the latest transfer rumours:\n\"It is a process. Maybe Mr Ramos [Real Madrid centre-back Sergio Ramos] is in the process. You never know.\"\nAnd a possible apology for Chris Smalling:\n\"The first captain is Wayne Rooney. The second captain is Michael Carrick. Last year the third captain was Mr Mike Smalling. I mean Chris...\"", "summary": "Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says he plans to use Wayne Rooney as a central striker next season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Robert Stilwell, 33, from Dartford, and Mark Stribling, 35, from Farningham, appeared at Medway Magistrates Court accused of people smuggling.\nThose rescued included 18 Albanian migrants, two of them children.\nAn ex-chief immigration inspector said earlier people would die unless more were done to stop crossing attempts.\nMr Stilwell and Mr Stribling were charged with conspiring to facilitate the entry of non-EU nationals, and remanded in custody to appear before Maidstone Crown Court on 27 June.\nThe UK coastguard said it was called just before midnight on Saturday to an incident off the coastal village of Dymchurch.\nResidents: 'It's a bit of a worry'\nHow is the UK-France border policed?\nThose on board the boat reportedly alerted their families in Calais after their inflatable boat started taking in water.\nRescuers said a helicopter from nearby Lydd and two lifeboats from Dungeness and Folkestone were sent to the incident off Dymchurch.\nAt about 02:00 BST on Sunday, a rigid-hulled inflatable boat, known as a \"rhib\", with 20 people on board was found.\nTrevor Bunney, who was part of the RNLI lifeboat rescue team, said the people they rescued were \"a bit dishevelled, [had] obviously been at sea a long time and not in the best of conditions\".\n\"One lady had the first signs of hypothermia,\" he said.\nAfter being rescued, the group were handed over to the UK Border Force and taken to Dover.\nA second vessel - which officials say could be linked to the incident - was discovered on the beach at Dymchurch.\nSince the rescue on Sunday, concerns have been raised that sea tragedies, similar to those seen on the voyage to Turkey, Greece or Italy, could occur in the English Channel.\nThere is an \"equal chance\" of migrants drowning in the Channel as in the Mediterranean, former chief inspector of borders and immigration John Vine said.\nMr Vine, who was chief inspector until 2014, said: \"We have seen the tragedies that have occurred in the Mediterranean.\nHe added that the hazards of Channel sea traffic, weather and sea conditions \"are going to mean there is an equal chance of people losing their lives unless this is stopped.\"\n\"Clearly if this is now the start of something new, then really that needs to be reassessed and resources need to be put in,\" he added.\nBy Simon Jones, BBC correspondent\nMany people living along the Kent coast are shocked, but not surprised at what's happened.\nThe Channel is a huge stretch of water to patrol - and the authorities are often relying on tip-offs to try to catch those responsible.\nSome residents are asking how many migrants are managing to get through without being detected.\nThe fear is that with the recent security clampdown at the Port of Calais and Eurotunnel, more and more migrants will attempt to cross the Channel on small boats, putting their lives at risk.\nAt the Port of Dover, the boat from which the migrants were rescued has been painstakingly examined.\nIt would have been a tight fit to get 20 people on board, crammed into the small craft in the busiest shipping lane in the world.\nDamian Collins, MP for Folkestone and Hythe, however, said it was \"too early to say whether this is a new trend\".\nHe told BBC Radio 5 live it was wrong to say the UK's coastline was \"undefended\", saying the Channel was \"probably the most monitored stretch of water in the world\".\nUKIP Leader Nigel Farage said it was \"essential that a clear message is sent that no migrant arriving on our shores by boat is allowed leave to remain\".\n\"We have all seen the horrors of the Mediterranean, with thousands crossing and hundreds dying, we cannot allow that to happen off the shores of Kent and Sussex.\"\nLucy Moreton, general secretary of the Immigration Services Union, which represents border agency and immigration staff, said large stretches of Britain's coastline were being left unpoliced, and officials simply did not know how many migrants have entered the country undetected.\nHer \"gut feeling\" and anecdotal evidence suggested Britain's coasts are facing the biggest ever onslaught of people smugglers, she said.\nSunday's incident comes after 17 men, thought to be Albanian migrants, were detained when a catamaran arrived at Chichester Marina in West Sussex on Tuesday, along with a 55-year-old British man wanted on suspicion of murder in Spain.\nThe Briton, who was the subject of a European Arrest Warrant, was detained on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration and the 17 men were held on suspicion of entering the UK illegally.\nAlso last month, two Iranian men were found floating in a dinghy in the Channel.\nMeanwhile, Greek coastguards rescued 29 migrants adrift off the island of Lefkada, in the Ionian Sea, as they attempted to reach Italy 150 miles (241km) away.\nThey are the first migrants known to have attempted the sea crossing from Greece to Italy since the northern land route via Macedonia was closed in March.", "summary": "Two British men have appeared in court charged with immigration offences after a boat carrying 20 people was rescued off the Kent coast on Sunday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The UN Security Council called for the \"immediate restoration of constitutional rule and the democratically elected government\".\nThe World Bank and African Development Bank said they were suspending all aid until the crisis is resolved.\nThe coup leaders went on state TV to say they had closed the borders. They added that the president was safe.\nA government official told the BBC that President Amadou Toumani Toure was not in the custody of mutineers.\nMeanwhile, soldiers looted the presidential palace in the capital Bamako, following the coup.\nIn a separate development, Kenya's Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula and his delegation are stranded in the country, as Bamako's airport is closed.\nThey were attending an African Union meeting on peace and security.\nBy David Zounmenou Institute for Security Studies\nThe mutiny comes as no surprise. Last Friday, Ecowas made an announcement that it is going to support, militarily, the national army to defeat the Tuareg. Discussions are still under way but they need to go beyond discussions and act promptly.\nThe region is still failing to anticipate early warning signs, such as the downfall of Libya's [former leader] Muammar Gaddafi and the anticipated impact this would have on security in the Sahel.\nAfrican leaders need to choose when it is proper for dialogue and when it is proper to protect the territorial integrity of the country using the means that are at their disposal.\nPresident Amadou Toumani Toure failed to anticipate this and I think most African leaders failed to advise him wisely on this issue.\nThe West African regional body Ecowas said the mutinous soldiers' behaviour was \"reprehensible\".\nThe African Union described the coup as a \"significant setback for Mali\".\nFrance, the former colonial power, also suspended its aid in protest.\nThe soldiers, calling themselves the Committee for the Re-establishment of Democracy and the Restoration of the State (CNRDR), have promised to hand over power to an elected government.\nThey said they had led Wednesday's mutiny because the government had not giving them enough arms to tackle a rebellion by ethnic Tuareg in the north of Mali.\nThey attacked the presidential palace, traded gunfire with soldiers loyal to the government and took over the state radio and TV broadcaster in Bamako and took it off air.\nThe leader of the mutiny is Capt Amadou Sanogo. In a brief TV appearance on Thursday, he announce the imposition of a national curfew and said the constitution had been suspended.\nThe BBC's Martin Vogl in Bamako says it is possible that the coup may falter, pointing out that the mutinous troops are poorly equipped, led by a mid-ranking soldier and they do not have the backing of all Malian forces.\nThe well-trained and organised Red Berets unit is loyal to the president and he is believed to be under their protection, our reporter says.\nA source told the BBC that the foreign minister and a number of other ministers had been arrested by the renegade soldiers.\nMali has had democratic rule for the last 20 years, during which it has come to be considered as a model which other emerging democracies can look to.\nThe unrest began on Wednesday as the country's defence minister started a tour of military barracks north of the capital.\nSoldiers upset with the government's handling of the Tuareg rebellion fired in the air during the inspection, prompting an immediate strengthening of security around the presidential palace.\nThe Tuaregs have forced the army out of several northern towns in recent months.\nA presidential election was due to take place in the country in just under a month.\nThe government had so far refused to postpone the poll, despite the unrest involving Tuareg-led rebels.\nBoth the US and France have urged the soldiers and government to resolve their dispute through peaceful means.", "summary": "There has been widespread condemnation of Mali's troops, after they ousted President Amadou Toumani Toure." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Traditionally a light switch-on day and a Diwali day event, with a firework display, is held in the Belgrave area.\nThis year, the planned two-week celebration will have new activities in the city centre, in libraries and museums and at the football stadium.\nLeicester City Council said it would be \"bigger and brighter than ever\".\nThe annual Diwali events, which attract more than 35,000 people along Leicester's Golden Mile, are believed to be among the biggest celebrations outside of India.\nHowever, Anand Bhatt, a dance school owner, had said: \"Diwali has become stale, in that the same thing keeps happening.\"\nThe revamped festival will begin with the Diwali light switch-on on Sunday 1 November.\nThe switch on will be followed by city-wide events including a 100ft (30m) ferris wheel on the Belgrave Road, a Diwali Mela on Humberstone Gate West, live Rangoli at the Clock Tower, cookery demonstrations at Leicester Market, exhibitions at the Peepul Centre and dance at Leicester City's King Power Stadium.\nMr Bhatt said the new programme was good progress, but it still felt like a local event.\n\"We need people to be tweeting at that moment that this was the most incredible experience, or uploading their You Tube videos,\" he said.\n\"We need moments that make people go, 'wow'.\"\nCouncillor Piara Singh-Clair, assistant city mayor, said: \"We need to improve, make it more vibrant and appealing to people who come from outside Leicester.\"\nHe said that the change had been a result of community feedback and support from other local organisations.", "summary": "Leicester's Diwali festival, which had been described as \"stale bread\", will be revamped to introduce a fortnight of events, the city council has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The bank's capital position (the strength of its balance sheet) is improving and operational costs are down 13%.\nAlthough losses are still significant, they are lower than expected as the bank off-loads underperforming mortgages to investors who are desperately searching for yield in an ultra-low interest rate world.\nThose investors are snapping up riskier self-certified and interest only mortgage packages in the belief they will enjoy higher returns in the long run as the economy improves and incomes rise.\nThe Co-op's £1.5bn Optimum package of residential mortgages repackaged and sold off in May was the latest example of shovelling high-risk assets out of the door.\nAnd the fewer high-risk assets a bank has, the better the capital position.\nFor borrowers and savers, one figure in the small print worth keeping an eye on is the net interest margin (NIM).\nFor the Co-op Bank. it is up 0.12% overall and 0.24% in the core bank, figures that will be welcomed by investors as they are comparable to an increase in a company's gross profit margin.\nAt its most basic - and this is true across banking - the net interest margin is the difference between the interest rate paid on deposits and the interest rate charged to borrowers, in the main mortgage holders. The wider it is the more money a bank makes.\nCo-op's is still a relatively modest 1.32%. That compares with Lloyds, which is expected to hit 2.6% by the end of the year.\nGenerally, mortgages are a more profitable line of business for banks compared with savings products.\nAnd the mortgage market is brutally competitive at the moment, as the major banks battle for home buyers' custom.\nSo interest rates charged to borrowers are under intense pressure to remain as low as possible.\nWhich could be bad news for savers, if a bank wants to keep that margin improvement.\nOf course, this is all a balancing act. Depositors are important for a bank's capital position - so irritate them at your peril.\nCertainly, Mr Booker will be pleased that the Co-op has arrested the fall in current account holders.\nIn the same period last year, Co-op lost over 60,000 customers. That figure has now dropped to 2,250 as the terrible publicity surrounding the bank has abated.\nOne stark figure to end on. Co-op has revealed that the number of branch transactions fell by 28% in the first half of the year.\nIt is already in the process of closing a large number of its high street branches, the number falling from 227 to 165. It is likely there will be more closures to come.", "summary": "The chief executive of the Co-op Bank, Niall Booker, will see some glimmers of hope in today's results." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Player sales rose from nearly £7m to £12.6m, thanks to Virgil van Dijk's move to Southampton.\nRevenue rose 2% to £52m, while operating expenses were up 7% to £57m.\nChief executive Pater Lawwell stressed the \"paramount importance\" of reaching the Champions League group stage after missing out in the last two years.\nCeltic won a fifth consecutive league title last season but did not reach the final of either domestic cup and exited the Europa League without winning a group match.\nApart from the sale of players, the loss on operations rose from £2.2m to £5.1m. Much of this was explained by the cost of football and stadium operations going up from £44m to £47m, while income in that category fell from £28m to £25.1m.\nThe surplus from merchandising, such as replica shirts, changed little at £4.7m, though on higher revenue of £12.5m.\nThe surplus from multimedia and other commercial activities was £3m higher than in the 2014-15 accounts, at £12.1m.\nChairman Ian Bankier, commented: \"Following two seasons in which the club did not qualify for the Group Stages of the UEFA Champions League, the increased contribution from player trading enabled the company to maintain investment in football operations and to continue to build for the future.\n\"The board continues to believe that the company's self sustaining financial model provides the necessary stability to preserve the long term future of the Club and player trading remains an important element of that model\".\nPeter Lawwell, the chief executive, said: \"For a club like Celtic, operating in a market where television values have fallen significantly behind our neighbours across Europe, qualification for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League is of paramount importance.\n\"The financial rewards allow for investment in the playing squad and physical assets, but moreover, the prestige of participating in the premier club competition in the world reinforces the reach and importance of the club to so many people around the world.\nHe added: \"Fundamentally, Celtic is a Champions League club; our infrastructure and continued investment reflect that. At a time when the direction of travel in European football is towards elite level clubs, we must remain at the forefront of developments in the game domestically and across Europe.\n\"Celtic should be at the top of the game in Europe and the board and I have that objective as a priority. We continue to work tirelessly on seeking to improve the football environment in which the club operates.\"\nThat is understood to refer to developing ideas for a league structure that would allow Celtic to get more experience of competing with similar clubs outside Scotland, which play in other national leagues with less resource than the major European clubs.", "summary": "Celtic have announced a profit of £500,000 for the financial year ending on 30 June, compared with a loss of nearly £4m in the previous 12 months." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Speaking on state TV, Mr Jammeh cited \"abnormalities\" in the vote and called for fresh elections.\nMr Jammeh, who came to power in a coup in 1994, suffered a surprise defeat to Adama Barrow, who won more than 45% of the vote.\nMr Jammeh said that he now rejected the results \"in totality\".\nMr Barrow, a property developer, is due to take office in late January. Neither he nor his party have so far commented on Mr Jammeh's statement.\nThe Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, with a population of fewer than two million.\n\"After a thorough investigation, I have decided to reject the outcome of the recent election,\" Mr Jammeh said.\n\"I lament serious and unacceptable abnormalities which have reportedly transpired during the electoral process.\n\"I recommend fresh and transparent elections which will be officiated by a God-fearing and independent electoral commission.\"\nAccording to the electoral commission, in the election on 1 December:\nIn his 22 years in power, Mr Jammeh acquired a reputation as a ruthless leader.\nAhead of the election, Human Rights Watch accused him of using violence to silence critics. The group said two activists had died in custody and dozens of people had been jailed and denied medical or legal help.", "summary": "Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has rejected the result of the presidential election earlier this month, a week after admitting defeat." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "IS \"have all left Derna - they have no presence here anymore\", Hafeth al-Dabaa, a spokesman for Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC), told the BBC.\nThe al-Qaeda linked DMSC is an umbrella group for local militias.\nDerna has seen a three-way conflict between IS, DMSC and forces loyal to Libya's eastern government.\nSince 2014, Libya has had two competing governments - one in the capital Tripoli, and another in the eastern city of Tobruk.\nA new UN-brokered unity government is trying to restore peace in the country, which has been ravaged by conflict since the fall of Col Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.\nThe DMSC's claim has not been independently verified.\nMr Dabaa said that five DMSC fighters and six civilians had been killed in fighting in Derna's Fatayiah area in the past 24 hours.\nPictures on social media websites have been circulating since Wednesday, showing Derna residents celebrating in the port city.\n\"Things are calm today (Thursday), and life feels normal, the only real problem is there is no cash in banks,\" one Derna resident told the BBC.\n\"It was intense yesterday in Fatayiah with the DMSC battling IS, and there was also some bombardment by the air force in the city - today the DMSC can be seen manning checkpoints throughout the city.\"\nThe resident was referring to overnight air strikes carried out by the forces loyal to the eastern government.\nMr Dabaa said the city prison that held suspected IS militants had been bombed. The spokesman added that some of the inmates had managed to escape but most of them were later recaptured.\nArmy spokesman Abdulkarim Sabra said the air strikes had targeted the DMSC in Derna's Sayeda Khadija neighbourhood and at Bishr prison, Reuters reports.\nIS established a base in Derna in October 2015 and fully controlled the city until June that year.\nDerna was a jihadist stronghold in the 1980s and 1990s during the insurgency against Col Gaddafi.\nThe developments since Wednesday mark the fall of what is believed to have been the last IS foothold on the outskirts of Derna. If this holds, it is a significant development and will be seen as evidence of the group's faltering presence in Libya.\nDespite the alarm bells ringing over IS expansion in the country in recent months, many observers believe the extremist group remains a minor player in Libya's bigger picture of armed groups.\nToday, IS fighters only have full control of the central city of Sirte and a stretch of territory on its outskirts.\nHowever, its members and affiliates pose a violent threat in other parts of the country.\nLibya's rival armed groups largely agree on the need to fight IS, but each side is fighting on, and for, its own turf - they have not been able to unite in the battlefield.\nIn a separate development, the UN mission to Libya (UNSMIL) called on all warring parties in Libya's second largest city of Benghazi \"to ensure that civilians are protected\" as fighting continued.\nUNSMIL head Martin Kobler urged rival groups \"to allow and facilitate the safe and immediate exit of all civilians who are trapped in areas affected by fighting and wish to leave\".\nMuch of Benghazi fell to the army and loyal militias in late February, but IS fighters and other Islamist groups still hold some areas.", "summary": "Militants from so-called Islamic State (IS) have been pushed out of the key eastern city of Derna, a rival Islamist group has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Welshman's third mandatory title defence will be on a bill topped by Carl Frampton's WBA world featherweight title rematch with Leo Santa Cruz.\nSelby wants to emulate UK fighters Lennox Lewis, Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe and Amir Khan in Las Vegas.\n\"I always knew that's where I wanted to fight,\" said the 29-year-old.\n\"My mandatory challenger is experienced, dangerous and I will not take him lightly.\n\"I've had a strong training camp and I am 100 % focused on putting on a show for the American fans and the travelling fans.\"\nSelby, from Barry in south Wales, is being lined-up to fight the winner of Frampton v Santa Cruz in 2017.\nNorthern Irishman Frampton claimed a points win over Santa Cruz of Mexico in July.\nMontenegrin Dejan Zlaticanin defends his WBC lightweight title against Mikey Garcia of the United States in the third world title fight scheduled for the bill in January.\nSelby had previously told the BBC he expected his next title defence to be in the USA.\nFind out how to get into boxing with our special guide.", "summary": "Lee Selby's defence of his world IBF featherweight title against Jonathan Barros has been confirmed for 28 January Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The obstinate bird caused a bottleneck on the M27 in Hampshire when it swanned onto the eastbound carriageway, blocking two lanes.\nAfter a failed attempt to fly away, the swan was rescued and \"safely taken away\", Highways England said.\nSwan Lifeline said the birds can often mistake roads for rivers in wet weather.\nHighways England tweeted a picture of the bird holding up traffic at junction 11, near Fareham, at about 08:00 GMT.\nThe agency tweeted: \"Two lanes are closed on the #M27 eastbound within J11 due to a stubborn swan on the carriageway!\"\nSwan Lifeline is working with the RSPCA and Hampshire Police, which sent officers to the scene.\nIt has advised the force to take the swan to a rescue centre near Portsmouth.\nManager Richard Stokes said: \"Swans think the motorway is a river when it has been raining and the tarmac is wet, which is why it was running up and down the carriageway.\"\nRecently, the rescue of a swan from a motorway in Gloucestershire by two police officers was likened to something out of spoof film Hot Fuzz, after they posted a selfie with the bird in their vehicle.\nOther animals have also caused chaos by wandering into unexpected places, including last month when a cow blocked a rail line between Southampton and Brockenhurst.", "summary": "This is the moment a traffic officer chased a \"stubborn\" swan down a motorway." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Deakon Wilkins, 24, from Weston-super-Mare, vanished after leaving Motion nightclub in Bristol in the early hours of 14 January.\nHis father Andrew Wilkins said family members were \"trying to keep busy\" but \"didn't know what to do\".\nAvon and Somerset Police said it was \"increasingly concerned\" and using \"significant\" resources in its search.\nMr Wilkins said his son was last seen on CCTV leaving the nightclub at 04:30 GMT.\n\"Just as he was leaving, he [left a voice mail] and he sounds coherent and he doesn't sound drunk at all,\" he said.\n\"We're at our wits' end we don't know what to do now.\"\nHis mother Marcella Wilkins said someone has \"got to see him soon\".\n\"Every day is a long day - if you hear the phone go or a knock on the door you just hope,\" she said.\nMr Wilkins is described as 5ft 10in (1.78m) tall, medium build with ginger hair and a tattoo between his neck and chest that says 'Rush'.\nWhen last seen he was wearing a red fitted jumper, black smart blazer, dark jeans and red trainers.\nHis parents will be distributing leaflets about him in Bristol city centre later.", "summary": "The family of a man who went missing after a night out 10 days ago have said they are \"at their wits' end\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Unmanned spacecraft have transformed understanding of our cosmic neighbourhood. But this avalanche of data has also thrown up many new questions.\nAs the 2012 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference gets under way in The Woodlands, Texas, here are just a few of the open questions about the fascinating family of objects that share our celestial postcode.\nFrom the tubeworms that cluster around hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, to the bacterial communities eking out an existence in the dry valleys of Antarctica, life on Earth is found in some extreme environments. But what does that say about the prospects for life elsewhere in our Solar System?\nProf Andrew Coates of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory says there is a check-list of requirements that indicate whether a moon or planet could support life. Liquid water is of crucial importance, as is a source of heat, time (for life to evolve) and the right chemical ingredients.\nThe elements most vital for life are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulphur, which go by the mnemonic CHNOPS. Assuming this shopping list holds true elsewhere in the cosmos, a handful of planets and moons emerge as prime targets in the search for non-terrestrial life in the Solar System.\nWhile Mars may have glistened with seas and lakes early on in its history, today its surface is a frozen desert battered by cosmic radiation. A recent study of data from Nasa's Phoenix spacecraft - which investigated the Martian \"arctic\" in 2008 - suggests the Red Planet's soilis indeed too dry to support microbial life. But if pockets of liquid water persists beneath a layer of sub-surface ice on Mars, so might communities of micro-organisms. This idea was given a boost a few years ago when scientists detected methane in the Martian atmosphere (more on this below).\nThe prospects for extra-terrestrial life might be as good or even better on icy satellites like Jupiter's moon Europa or the saturnian satellite Enceladus. In the 1980s, the Galileo spacecraft detected signs of a liquid water ocean beneath Europa's ice shell. In addition, this ocean seemed to be in contact with the moon's rocky mantle, providing a ready supply of chemical building blocks.\nA future mission to Europa might be able to study samples from the ocean without having to drill through tens or hundreds of km of ice. Convection is thought to dredge up ocean water to the surface, and a recent paper in Nature suggests the presence of shallow lakes just 3km below the ice crust. A much smaller ocean might be the source of the water spewed out in geysers from Enceladus' south pole. Water is kept liquid on Europa and Enceladus by \"tidal heating\", caused by the pull of a planet's gravity.\nMethane has been detected in the Martian atmosphere by Europe's Mars Express probe and by telescopes on Earth. But this poses a problem: the Sun's rays rapidly break this gas down into other molecules, so it cannot have been there for very long. This suggests there must be some source on Mars that continuously \"tops up\" the atmospheric methane as it is being destroyed.\nSo where is it coming from? There are several possibilities. Although Mars was once considered geologically \"dead\", active volcanoes could provide one explanation. A chemical process known as serpentinisation, which can occur deep in the crust, offers another way to make the organic molecule. Another, even more intriguing, option is that microbes generate the gas. A Nasa mission known as Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) will launch to the Red Planet in 2013 to investigate the source of this methane gas.\nA similar problem exists over the methane on Saturn's moon Titan. The moon is shrouded in a dense orange-hued atmosphere, a small but significant proportion of which is methane. As on Mars, UV rays rapidly break it down, and scientists estimate that all the methane could be destroyed in tens of millions of years - a long timescale by our standards, but short compared with the age of the Solar System.\nThere isn't enough liquid methane on the surface to replenish the atmosphere, which suggests the presence of underground reservoirs. The Huygens probe, which landed on Titan in 2005, showed that the carbon in this methane lacks a tell-tale signature which might point to a biological origin. Instead, it might be stored beneath the surface in a form of methane-rich ice known as clathrate.\nHow it gets to the surface remains unclear, says Ralph Lorenz, from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory: \"Is that methane being continuously replenished from the interior through vents, or a seep - the way radon seeps up through the ground on Earth? Does it come spewing up through geysers, or is a lot released by a volcanic eruption once every million years? We just don't know,\" he explains.\nThe striking contrast between the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars has posed a conundrum ever since it became apparent in images sent back in the 1970s by the Mariner 9 and Viking missions. Geologically young, low-lying plains dominate the northern half of the planet, while the southern half is characterised by old, highland terrain that is pock-marked with craters.\nIn the 1990s, Nasa's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft showed that the crust was thicker in the south than it was in the north. Magnetic anomalies are also seen in the southern half of the planet but not the north. But what was the cause?\nSome scientists have proposed that an internal process - perhaps convection in the mantle or plate tectonics - could be responsible for Mars' two-faced character. Under the plate tectonics model, the present day boundary between north and south hemispheres marks the ancient plate margin.\nHowever, other groups have long argued that the \"Martian dichotomy\" resulted from a gargantuan space impact, or even several. Such large collisions would have been quite common in the early Solar System. Indeed, a massive smash-up at around the same time is widely thought to have created Earth's moon.\nIn 2008, two groups published studies in the journal Nature that support the single impact theory using computer simulations. In one paper, Dr Francis Nimmo and colleagues suggested the northern crustoriginates from deep mantle rockmelted by an impact some 100 million years after Mars formed. The collision was powerful enough to send shock waves travelling to the other end of the planet, causing the magnetic anomalies seen there.\nInthe other paper, a team led by Margarita Marinova estimated that an object one-half to two-thirds the size of the Moon, striking at an angle of 30 to 60 degrees could fit the bill.\nSaturn is defined by its vast ring system - a majestic halo that extends 270,000km from one side to the other. The material in the ring is 90% water ice, and ranges in size from tiny grains to boulders a few metres wide. Yet exactly how this colossal structure was created remains an open question.\nAstronomers had long thought that the ring system was as ancient as the Solar System - about 4.6 billion years old. But if the rings had been around for a long time, they should have become relatively dirty, due to constant bombardment by meteorites. However, observations showed the icy ring material to be surprisingly bright, and therefore largely untainted by the dust from space rocks. This has led some scientists to the conclusion that the rings are actually much younger.\nBut this view is complicated by observations that the icy material is simultaneously being broken apart and clumping together, recycling the dust throughout the ring system and making it seem brighter than it might otherwise look. Dr Linda Spilker from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that, in addition to young versus old there is a third possibility - a hybrid theory. She says the most massive rings, such as the B ring, could be relatively old, while more tenuous rings formed later.\nAs to what the rings formed from, scientists think they could be the result of a comet breaking up near Saturn's or a moon several hundred km in diameter that was destroyed after being dragged inwards by the planet's gravity. Planetary scientist Robin Canup proposes another explanation: that a large moon was stripped of its icy mantle as it collided with Saturn, and that this ice provided the material for the ring.\nUp until the end of its mission in 2017, the Cassini space probe will take more accurate measurements of the rings' mass; combining these with estimates of how often meteorites hit the rings could yield fresh insights into their age. Dr Spilker says Cassini will also shed light on two other Saturn conundrums - the uncertain length of a saturnian day, and the mechanics of a hexagon-shaped storm at the planet's north pole.\nPaul.Rincon-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk", "summary": "For decades, scientists have been sending robotic probes deep into the Solar System, revealing a diverse and dynamic array of worlds orbiting the Sun." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It was a devastating blow to a country still struggling to recover from another attack on tourists in the heart of its capital just three months earlier.\nAnd it was claimed by Islamic State (IS), whose actions have spread fear throughout the region and beyond.\n\"We note that Tunisia faces an international movement,\" Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said shortly after Friday's attack. \"It cannot respond alone to this.\"\nWhile much remains unclear about the extent and nature of the threat within Tunisia that the events in Sousse may expose, observers have pointed once more to two specific risks.\nFirst, the threat posed by neighbouring Libya, a fractured country with porous borders that has been awash with weapons since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, and where Islamic State now has an established presence.\nAnd second, the apparently large number of Tunisians who have left to fight in Syria and Iraq, hundreds of whom are estimated to have returned home.\nOther countries in the region also face cross-border threats, and it is hard to get a truly accurate idea of how many Tunisians have been radicalised fighting abroad.\nBut Tunisia appears to be more exposed than its neighbours to high-impact attacks against foreign civilians.\nNeither Libya nor Algeria have mass tourism, and though Morocco does, it also has a pervasive security network and has been politically stable.\nTunisia, by contrast, has a \"big, soft underbelly\", said Geoff Porter, the head of North Africa Risk Consulting.\n\"I don't think Tunisia does have a disproportionately greater jihadi problem than Algeria or Morocco,\" he said. \"What Tunisia has is a security problem.\n\"It's simply that there are a greater number of targets in Tunisia and the security forces are less effective.\"\nFull coverage of the Sousse attack\nBefore the uprising of 2011, the focus for those security forces was enforcing control under former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali - a job at which they were long efficient, developing a vast web of informers.\nBut security reform has been slow, and the challenge may now be for the police to repurpose towards counter-terrorism work, Mr Porter said.\nThat will be a complex task, partly because of the demands of training and equipping police officers and soldiers, but also because of the democratic political process and the fine line between ensuring security and reverting to repression.\nIn a cruel twist, some contend that Tunisia has been targeted partly because it has achieved a democratic transition and is often held up as the single success story of the Arab Spring.\nIts progress as a modern democratic state on friendly terms with the West, if halting, is unwelcome to the militants of Islamic State and other extremist groups.\nOver the last four years, Tunisian governments are seen to have vacillated between granting radical Islamists political space and cracking down on them - only taking the latter course more decisively after the assassination of Chokri Belaid in February 2013.\nA new Tunisian anti-terrorism law that would broaden police powers and provide for harsher penalties has been stuck in committees since the start of 2014.\nThe attack in March on the Bardo Museum - next to the parliament building - focused attention on the bill, but shortly after it was redrafted, 13 non-governmental organisations called for it to be dropped or amended, saying it would violate international human rights standards and guarantees under the Tunisian constitution.\nThe president of the Tunisian parliament now says it will be approved within the next month.\nThen there are the broader internal challenges.\nThe Tunisian economy has become more fragile since 2011, and like other states in the region, the country has a large pool of unemployed or underemployed young men who may be susceptible to radicalisation.\nAs Sayida Ounissi, a Tunisian member of parliament from the Islamist Ennahda party, told the BBC: \"What we are seeing today is terrorism is actually nourishing itself from social exclusion, from economic injustice, from the lack of education.\"\nIn the short term, the number of potential recruits is only likely to grow as the tourist sector - which accounted for about 15% of GDP last year - takes another big hit.", "summary": "The attack that killed 38 people in the resort city of Sousse has left Tunisia looking particularly vulnerable." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She told the BBC that people \"want me to be a martyr\" but \"I want to be like a bird and fly wherever\".\nShe ended her fast in the north-eastern state of Manipur on Tuesday.\nHer campaign against a controversial law had led to her being detained and force-fed through a tube in her nose.\nMs Sharmila had been protesting against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which gives soldiers sweeping powers to arrest without warrants and even shoot to kill in certain situations.\nWhat's next for world's longest hunger striker?\nAFSPA is in effect in several Indian states, including in Manipur and Indian-administered Kashmir.\n\"I am identified as an embodiment of saints. Since the beginning of my fast, there is no change in the mindset of the people. They remain content in making me a symbol of resistance. They wanted me to be a martyr,\" she said.\n\"I think I need to change my strategy.\"\nReferring to India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, she said he achieved what he did by connecting with the people.\nShe said she was entering politics because she wanted to change things and realised she needed power to achieve this.\n\"Without power in my hands, who will hear my voice,\" she asked?\n\"If people believe and respect the sacred ballot box, dirtiness in politics will be eradicated. I want to change this atmosphere.\"\nShe said she wanted to \"be like a bird and fly wherever and perch on any tree I like\".\n\"I am a social being. Why should they want to see me just like a demigod?\"\nThe court in Manipur has granted her bail and asked her to reappear on 23 June.", "summary": "Indian activist Irom Sharmila has said she \"felt isolated during years of confinement\" and now wants to \"connect with people\" after ending her 16-year-long hunger strike." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The five men \"should not roam scot-free as they are dangerous to society\", she told the BBC.\nPolice have arrested three of the five accused.\nThe 21-year-old student had been pursuing a case in court against the men, when she was attacked and left for dead in Haryana state last week.\nShe said she was forced inside a car and the men tried to strangle her. A passerby later took her to hospital.\nThe woman, who is from a poor low-caste Dalit (formerly known as untouchables) family, was first assaulted in 2013 in Bhiwani town.\nHer family has alleged that they had moved to Rohtak after they were threatened by the accused who have been out on bail.\nSpeaking to the BBC from her hospital bed, where she is recovering from her injuries, the woman said the five were the same men who had gang raped her in 2013.\n\"These people gang-raped me in 2013. This time too, they're the accused,\" she said.\n\"I know them very well. I only want justice. They should be hanged. It's not just only about me or anybody else's daughter. These people are dangerous,\" she said.\nThough she could not speak much due to health complications, her cousin said the victim's family \"do not have faith\" in the local police.\n\"It took police seven days to arrest three of the five men identified by my sister. The accused were all roaming about here. We pleaded before the police. But their bias was obvious. We are being victimised because we are from a lower caste,\" he told the BBC.\nHe said his family embraced Buddhism last year after being fed up of \"caste discrimination\".\nThe victim's family has also alleged that the accused offered them money to withdraw the 2013 gang rape case. \"When we refused the money, we were threatened,\" he said.\nThe arrested men have been remanded to custody by a local court.\nThe state government has also announced setting up of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the incident. The team is led by two senior police officials and includes forensic experts.\nPolice official Mohammed Akil said the accused have handed over some CCTV footage claiming that they were at different places when the incident took place.\n\"The matter is complicated and there are many aspects that have to be taken into consideration during the investigation. The SIT will do its job,\" Mr Akil told the BBC.\nThe DNA samples of the accused were being sent for examination, he said.\nFamily members of the arrested men, however, alleged that they were being \"falsely implicated\" in the case.\nThey accused the victim's family of \"demanding money\" to withdraw the case.\nGarima, wife of one of the accused, said her husband Sandeep was in a different city on the day the incident was said to have taken place.\nHarbans, brother of accused Jagmohan, told the BBC that they had handed over evidence to the police to prove that his brother was \"several kilometres away from the place of the incident\".\nPolice officials say that the matter has become complicated and only a thorough investigation will establish what actually happened.\nNearly four years ago, a 23-year-old woman was brutally raped by multiple men and murdered on a bus in Delhi, causing global outrage.\nTougher laws on sexual violence were introduced the year after, including a new death sentence if a person was convicted of rape a second time.\nBut correspondents in India say questions are being asked about how five men who were accused of a serious sexual crime could have been free to conduct another attack.", "summary": "A woman in India who was allegedly gang raped for the second time in three years by the same men says she wants \"stringent action\" against the accused." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Thousands were expected at the two-day Geronimo Festival, held at Harewood House near Leeds, over the Bank Holiday weekend.\nBut many families took to social media to complain about poor organisation at Sunday's event.\nGeronimo's organisers apologised and said queues had been reduced on Monday.\nThe festival, started by father-of-seven Simon Goldman, was first held at Tatton Park, Cheshire, last May.\nIts website advertises a circus, theatre groups, bands, jousting, a funfair, motorcycle displays and sheep-shearing, with tickets priced between £18.50 and £25.\nParent Jo Murricane, who had press tickets to review the festival on her blog, said the event had not lived up to expectations, and there had been an hour-long queue for the car park.\nShe said some families had left before they even entered, despite having paid for tickets.\n\"I have never been to such a large scale event that has been so poorly organised,\" she said.\n\"There were random tents all over the place, a central arena (with nothing happening in it), and it all looked a little bit lack-lustre and small-scale,\" Mrs Murricane said.\n\"It was a family festival, and no one was having any fun.\"\n\"It's as if the masses of people were a surprise to the organisers.\"\nOthers complained of \"abysmal and expensive\" food stalls with huge queues.\nOne person on Facebook said: \"We ended up leaving at 15:30 [on Sunday] with two very hungry unhappy children who had more fun at Burger King on the way home.\"\nAnother parent wrote on Twitter: \"Absolute shambles! So poorly project-managed and executed.\"\nIn a statement, the festival's organisers said they had extended opening hours on Monday after some guests \"did not have a good experience on Sunday\".\nQueue times had been \"significantly reduced\" by Monday and festival-goers were \"excited\", they said.\nGeronimo said it was working closely with Cheshire Council for \"the smooth-running\" of the Tatton Park leg of the festival at the end of May.", "summary": "An event billed as \"Glastonbury for kids\" has been labelled a farce by parents amid complaints of huge queues and poor planning." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Apple had been resisting a court order issued last month requiring the firm to write new software to allow officials to access Syed Rizwan Farook's phone.\nBut officials on Monday said that it had been accessed independently and asked for the order to be withdrawn.\nFarook and his wife killed 14 in San Bernardino, California, in December.\nThey were later shot dead by police.\nThe FBI said it needed access to the phone's data to determine if the attackers worked with others, were targeting others and were supported by others.\nUS officials said Farook's wife, Tashfeen Malik, had pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State on social media on the day of the shooting.\nCracked iPhone: Should you be worried?\nIsraeli firm linked to hacked iPhone\nUN human rights chief backs Apple\nApple boss hits back at FBI conduct\nLast week, prosecutors said \"an outside party\" had demonstrated a possible way of unlocking the iPhone without the need to seek Apple's help.\nA court hearing with Apple was postponed at the request of the justice department, while it investigated new ways of accessing the phone.\nAt the time, Apple said it did not know how to gain access, and said it hoped that the government would share with them any vulnerabilities of the iPhone that might come to light.\nOn Monday a statement by Eileen Decker, the top federal prosecutor in California, said investigators had received the help of \"a third party\", but did not specify who that was.\nInvestigators had \"a solemn commitment to the victims of the San Bernardino shooting\", she said.\n\"It remains a priority for the government to ensure that law enforcement can obtain crucial digital information to protect national security and public safety, either with co-operation from relevant parties, or through the court system when co-operation fails,\" the statement added.\nResponding to the move, Apple said: \"From the beginning, we objected to the FBI's demand that Apple build a backdoor into the iPhone because we believed it was wrong and would set a dangerous precedent. As a result of the government's dismissal, neither of these occurred. This case should never have been brought.\"\nThe company said it would \"continue to increase the security of our products as the threats and attacks on our data become more frequent and more sophisticated\".\nThe court case that had the US technology industry united against the FBI has for the time being gone away.\nNow this debate moves into more uncertain territory. The US government has knowledge of a security vulnerability that in theory weakens Apple devices around the world.\nTo protect its reputation, Apple will rush to find and fix that flaw. Assuming it can do that, this row is back to square one.\nTherefore Apple has called for the matter to remain part of the \"national conversation\", while the US department of justice says it will still try to use the courts to compel Apple and other phone makers to help with future investigations.\nRow just beginning\nAn Israeli newspaper last week reported that data forensics experts at cybersecurity firm Cellebrite, which has its headquarters in Israel, are involved in the case.\nCellebrite told the BBC that it works with the FBI but would not say more.\nIts website, however, states that one of its tools can extract and decode data from the iPhone 5C, the model in question, among other locked handsets.\nThe court order had led to a vigorous debate over privacy, with Apple receiving support from other tech giants including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.\nFBI director James Comey said it was the \"hardest question\" he had tackled in his job.\nHowever, he said, law enforcement saved lives, rescued children and prevented terror attacks using search warrants that gave it access to information on mobile phones.", "summary": "The FBI has managed to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino gunman without Apple's help, ending a court case, the US justice department says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A murder investigation was launched after one man, now known as Dennis Kelly, 59, of Slough was found with fatal stab wounds in Lower Cippenham Lane on Friday.\nA second man, who was taken to hospital with life-threatening stab wounds, died on Sunday evening.\nThe second man is yet to be formally identified. Police said they do not believe anyone else was involved.\nA post mortem into the second death is due to take place on Thursday.\nDet Ch Insp Ailsa Kent: \"At this stage of the investigation no arrests have been made.\n\"I understand that this incident will have caused concern but I can reassure the community that although no arrests have been made, I believe the only two people involved were the two men who have sadly died.\"", "summary": "A man has died in hospital following a stabbing in Slough." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The west sea wall in Sheringham was built in about 1895 but had become exposed to damage because the beach had eroded and sea levels have risen.\nThe surge caused 70m of wall to fail, North Norfolk District Council said.\nA report for the council said the sea defence repair work will \"hold the front line\" for the foreseeable future.\nThe scheme has been recommended for cabinet approval with the proviso that the Environment Agency funding goes ahead.\nThe North Norfolk coast experienced widespread flooding as the tidal surge came over sea walls.\nThe Cromer Pier and its Pavilion Theatre were also damaged with the district council picking up the bills for repairs.", "summary": "A council in North Norfolk is set to spend £804,000 to repair coastal defences damaged in a North Sea tidal surge in December last year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Cumbrians confirmed an extension of his deal until June 2018, which currently expires next summer.\nCurle took over at Brunton Park in September 2014, helping Carlisle avoid relegation from League Two last season.\n\"We know what our understanding was, we need to make sure we get it down on paper,\" Curle told BBC Radio Cumbria.\n\"I'm not worried about it, I have a good understanding and working relationship with the stakeholders at the football club.\n\"I'm no different from anybody else, I entered into negotiations because I wanted to stay.\"\nDespite the flooding of the city which has seen the club's home ground unusable and the staging of games at Preston, Blackburn and Blackpool, Curle's side are on a run of six games unbeaten, with four wins.", "summary": "Manager Keith Curle wants to stay at Carlisle United despite not yet signing the contract that was \"agreed\" by the two parties in November." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The attacks escalated during school holidays.\nEvery day about eight post men and woman are attacked by a dog in the UK, the company said.\nRoyal Mail has launched its annual Dog Awareness Week running from Monday 29 June, in an effort to curb such attacks.\nThe company said dog attacks were \"a significant hazard\" for post men and women.\nIn Northern Ireland, the number of attacks between April 2014 and 2015 was the same as in the previous year.", "summary": "About 64 postmen and women were attacked by dogs across Northern Ireland in the past year, Royal Mail has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Parliamentary spokesman Moloto Mothapo said the decision followed a security assessment that confirmed \"a security threat existed\" against Makhosi Khoza.\nMs Khoza has been a prominent critic of President Jacob Zuma and corruption within the governing ANC.\nLast week she received a death threat saying she had 21 days left to live.\nAfrica Live: More updates on this and other African stories\nOn Tuesday, at a ceremony to mark Nelson Mandela's birthday, Ms Khoza, 47, called President Zuma a disgrace.\nHe has faced numerous allegations of corruption, all of which he denies.\nShe was addressing civil society groups, unions and business leaders pressing for Mr Zuma's removal during a no-confidence vote to be held next month, Reuters reports.\nThere is no suggestion that he is connected to the death threats.\nThe ANC branch in Ms Khoza's home province of KwaZulu-Natal has called for her to face disciplinary action, South African media report.\nMr Zuma is due to stand down as ANC president in December and there are numerous factions competing to succeed him.\nWhoever takes over would lead the party into the 2019 elections.\nMilton Nkosi, BBC News, Johannesburg\nThe death threats received by Makhosi Khoza have sent a chill down many a spine here in South Africa.\nThe nation is in shock that an MP's life can be in danger simply because she has been critical of President Jacob Zuma's style of leadership.\nThe threats she has been receiving via text messages seem to be taking the country back to the dark days of the political violence which claimed thousands of lives in the lead-up to the country's first democratic elections, in 1994.\nThis reinforces what anti-apartheid struggle hero Winnie Madikizela-Mandela told me when she said \"something is seriously wrong in our country\".", "summary": "South African parliament and police are to provide security for an African National Congress (ANC) MP after a number of death threats against her." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Villagers were moved out of Mardale which disappeared when the valley was filled with water in 1939.\nStone walls of former field boundaries can be seen with the falling water level.\nThe current reservoir level is 57.7% compared with 75.2% in a normal year, United Utilities said.\nMet Office spokesman Dan Williams said the reading from the Shap weather station, which is about eight miles away, showed there had been 7.6mm of rain so far in September with the average for September for that weather station standing at 128.3mm.\nThe reservoir was created to provide for the water needs of Manchester and involved the construction of a dam, which was started in 1929.\nOnce completed the reservoir took almost a year to fill.\nMany of the buildings in the village were dismantled and bodies buried in the churchyard were exhumed and moved elsewhere.", "summary": "A village flooded in the 1930s to create Haweswater reservoir in Cumbria has started to reappear as water levels recede because of low rainfall." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Officers are appealing for witnesses to the incident on Lavernock Road, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, on Tuesday at 17:10 GMT.\nA silver Peugeot car struck the pedestrian who was taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.\nThe accident happened between the junctions of Augusta Road and Forrest Road.", "summary": "A 90-year-old woman has been critically injured after being hit by a car, say South Wales Police." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The German beat the Briton by five points after a long battle over 21 races climaxed in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.\nRosberg said: \"I owe some words to Lewis. He's one of the best in the world, one of the best ever surely, so it's incredibly intense to race him.\n\"I've got great respect for him because he does an incredible job.\"\nThe title battle ended in controversy at the Yas Marina circuit, when Hamilton drove deliberately slowly in an attempt to get rivals to overtake Rosberg.\nThree-time champion Hamilton needed to win and for Rosberg to finish lower than third to make up the 12-point deficit he faced going into the race.\nBut Rosberg told BBC Sport on Tuesday that discussing the incident was \"pointless\" and has now added: \"I've got great respect for him because he does an incredible job, he's done so well over the years and he fought to the very last metre on Sunday. That made it extremely tough on Sunday but all the more beautiful afterwards.\"\nThe two have been rivals since they started go-karting together as children, although the friendship they formed in their teenage years has cooled since they became Mercedes team-mates.\nRosberg said: \"It feels like we've been doing it forever and he's always edged me out ever so slightly, so to finally get one back was awesome.\"\nMercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff was not pleased with Hamilton's tactics after the race - the Briton ignored team orders to speed up, which were predicated on their claim that he was putting the victory at risk because of a threat from Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari.\nHamilton rejected these claims and said he was comfortable in the lead.\nWolff has said he will consider whether to take any action against Hamilton in the coming days, and said after the race that \"everything is possible\".\nOn Wednesday he added: \"When we first brought Lewis and Nico together as our driver pairing back in 2013, we made it clear that there would be no number one status for either of them - and they didn't want that either.\n\"We knew we had two world-class talents on our hands and that giving them equal opportunity to fulfil their potential would bring the best out of them.\n\"At the same time, we knew that this approach would sometimes give us some tough moments to deal with.\n\"It's something we took into account and accepted as a challenge worth tackling.\n\"When you see the results we've had together, it's clear that this is the right approach. One of the keys to our success has been that they constantly push each other - and that in turn kept raising the bar even higher.\n\"They are both born fighters and the intense competition has been good for them, for the team and for the sport.\"", "summary": "World champion Nico Rosberg has paid tribute to Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton, calling him \"one of the best ever\" Formula 1 drivers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Carwyn Edwards, 39, has been in hospital in Tucson, Arizona, since the start of the year after an illness led to the partial amputation of both legs.\nHis family fear they could face substantial medical costs.\nMedical insurer Cigna said it was addressing Mr Edwards' concerns.\nA campaign to raise funds for Mr Edwards, who has lived in the US for 13 years, has raised £38,000, however the latest news that the benefit payments will stop in a fortnight has created more uncertainty about his future treatment.\nMr Edwards' brother, Aled Edwards, will be flying to Arizona shortly to try to resolve the issue.\nHe also hopes to find out what arrangements can be made to transport his brother to the UK continue his recovery.\nCigna said it could not discuss the case at length because of confidentiality laws.\nA spokesman said: \"We can say that our case workers have been in communication with this individual and will continue to address his concerns directly with him.\"", "summary": "The family of an Anglesey man who is seriously ill in the United States have said they are concerned about his future treatment after insurers said his medical benefits would be stopped." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Andrew RT Davies accused Labour and Plaid Cymru of \"arrogantly\" refusing to accept \"their world view isn't shared\" by the majority which backed Brexit.\nHe called for a reassessment of how to spend a remaining £1bn of EU structural funding by 2020, claiming Labour had failed to make a success of past aid.\nMr Davies also called for a more \"tailored\" system of farming support.\nWriting for the BrexitCentral.com website, the Welsh Conservative leader claimed Labour was in \"a mess of its own making\" with conflicting views on single market access, and whether the public should be asked to vote again on the terms of Brexit.\n\"The vast majority of the public just want us to get on with making a success of our new relationship with the EU,\" Mr Davies wrote.\n\"Unfortunately, whilst my party has moved on pragmatically into the post-referendum era, not everyone is ready.\"\nOn the subject of regional aid, Mr Davies said: \"Support for Brexit was at its strongest in areas which have received the most in EU funds.\n\"That's not ironic, it's a judgement of Welsh Labour's failure to make a success of three successive rounds of structural funding.\"\nOn farming support, he said: \"Whilst (the) CAP [Common Agricultural Policy] might have fit when it was created, would we want to repeat its mistakes in the future - or are we better off starting afresh with a new system of support designed and tailored to meet the needs of British farmers and rural businesses?\"\nMr Davies also repeated his call to First Minister Carwyn Jones to include his party in \"constructive discussions\" with the Welsh Government on the nation's response to Brexit.\n\"If the First Minister truly wants to speak for Wales as a whole then he must offer a voice for the majority in this country who took a collective decision to leave the EU,\" he said.\nOn the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme, Mr Jones said it was \"right that all four parliaments should ratify, agree to any deal the UK government comes to\" on Brexit but denied that he had ever called for a Welsh \"veto\" on the terms.", "summary": "Wales is missing an opportunity to shape the EU debate, the Welsh Conservative leader has claimed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The National Association of Head Teachers says increased employer costs for national insurance and teachers' pensions will put schools under strain.\nThe NAHT says heads are having to cut back on areas such as equipment, maintenance and teaching assistants.\nThe Department for Education said it was protecting the schools budget.\nThe NAHT's questionnaire of 1,069 school leaders (the majority of whom, 82%, were primary heads) found that:\nThe NAHT survey also found almost half of school leaders (45%) thought their budget would be untenable, on current projections, within two years.\nTwo-thirds (67%) said they would not be able to balance the books in four years' time, and 7% of those surveyed were already running a deficit.\nFour in five (82%) said budget cuts would have a negative impact on standards.\nNAHT general secretary Russell Hobby said: \"Flat cash education spending at a time of rising costs is pushing many schools closer to breaking point.\n\"Employer costs for national insurance and teachers' pensions will increase by over 5% from this school year, adding to already over-stretched budgets.\n\"School leaders are being forced to cut spending in all areas, including essential maintenance and - most worryingly - on teachers and teaching assistants.\n\"Education is an investment in the future, leading eventually to higher productivity, better social outcomes and reduced spending on other public services - cuts to this budget are a false economy.\"\nA spokesman for the Department for Education said: \"We are protecting the schools budget, which will rise as pupil numbers increase.\n\"This government is committed to making sure schools are funded fairly so all pupils have access to a good education - a key part of our core mission to raise standards across the country and make sure every child reaches their full potential.\n\"We have made significant progress towards fairer funding for schools, through an additional £390m allocated to 69 of the least fairly funded areas in the country - the biggest step toward fairer schools funding in 10 years.\"\n\"It is down to councils to determine exactly how funding is allocated to individual schools.\"\nKey cost increases faced by schools include:\nLast month, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said spending per pupil in England's was likely to fall by 8% in real terms over the next five years.\nThe IFS says this will be the first time since the mid-1990s that school spending has fallen in real terms.\nAt the same time, more than 90 Conservative MPs wrote a letter demanding ministers urgently rewrote the rules for funding schools in England.\nIn an unusual move, Commons Speaker John Bercow put his name to the letter intended to put pressure on Chancellor George Osborne ahead of the Spending Review.", "summary": "Nearly two-thirds of school leaders (64%) in England are making significant cuts or dipping in to reserves to fill deficits, a head teachers' union warns." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Lonsdale, an Anglican priest, had been leader of the Pacific archipelago since September 2014.\nThe Vanuatu Daily Post said he died suddenly in the capital Port Vila shortly after midnight on Saturday.\nAustralia's Governor-General Peter Cosgrove said Mr Lonsdale \"served the people of Vanuatu with dignity and humility, and was much loved\".\nWhile president, Mr Lonsdale oversaw the vast rebuilding of parts of Vanuatu after Cyclone Pam left an estimated 75,000 people homeless in March 2015.\nIn October the same year, he vowed to clean up corruption in Vanuatu after a scandal involving his deputy.\nSpeaker Marcellino Pipite was one of 14 MPs - half of the country's parliament - convicted of giving and receiving corrupt payments over a vote of no confidence in a previous government.\nHe went on to pardon himself and the other 13 MPs while Mr Lonsdale was out of the country, a pardon the president then rescinded on his return.", "summary": "The president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, has died after a heart attack at the age of 67." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The international trade secretary told the BBC he had no ideological objection to interim arrangements to minimise disruption after the UK's exit in 2019.\nBut he said he did not want them to \"drag on\" beyond the date of the next general election, scheduled for 2022.\nThe cabinet is said to be united behind a transition although reports it could last four years have been downplayed.\nChancellor Philip Hammond is reported to support a lengthy transitional period to bring certainty to business, which is concerned about the impact on trade and employment of a \"cliff-edge\" departure.\nNewspaper reports on Friday suggested ministers had accepted it could last anywhere between two and four years.\nMr Fox, who is in Washington for discussions on future trade relations with the US, told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that it was \"perfectly reasonable\" for there to be a transition period to ensure the process was as \"smooth as possible\" for British business and foreign investors.\nBut he suggested that voters would want any \"voluntary\" arrangement to end by the time of the next general election, due to take place in May 2022.\nAnd he said he would want the UK to be able to negotiate its own trade deals during that period so it could take \"full advantage\" of its new status.\n\"Having waited over 40 years to leave the EU, 24 months would be a rounding error.\n\"Whether that is 23 or 25 is not a huge deal and neither is it an ideological one.\n\"It is about the practical issues we would face, such as getting any new immigration system into place, getting any new customs system into place.\"\nHowever, he made clear there would have to be clarity not only on the duration of any transitional phase but what limitations it would place on the UK.\nSeveral Conservative MPs have suggested that any deal which required the UK to accept continued free movement for a limited period of time or the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in return for continued temporary membership of the single market would be unacceptable.\nMr Fox added: \"I think we would want to get it out of the way before the election.\n\"I don't think people would want to have it dragging on. I think we would have to be very clear it was time-limited and limited in its scope.\"\n\"It is imperative that we leave the EU first and that any implementation period is done \"voluntarily\" alongside the EU to minimise any disruption.\"\nThe head of the powerful trade body representing German car manufacturers has told the BBC there will be a threat to jobs and investment in Britain if the UK leaves both the single market and the customs union.\nMatthias Wissman, whose members include Volkswagen, BMW and Porsche, said his preferred option was for the UK to adopt a Norwegian-style membership of the European Economic Area but, failing that, a lengthy transitional period was a bare minimum.\n\"You need a transition period,\" he told Radio 4's The World This Weekend. \"We hope that on the British side that gets deeper and deeper into the intellectual capabilities of those who decide.\"\nUrging British politicians to put pragmatism ahead of ideology, he said a tariff-free trade deal with the EU was possible but only if \"the UK understands what the preconditions are\".\n\"Any kind of unwise, dramatic changes would have an effect on investment and jobs in the automotive industry. Hard Brexit would mean barriers, control of goods.\"\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he accepted the UK would be leaving the single market, as it was in his words \"inextricably linked\" with EU membership, but suggested he had not reached a final view on whether it would be better to remain within the customs union.\nHe also suggested future trade deals should be linked to commitments on environmental protection and human rights.\n\"What is interesting is that the EU has said quite clearly, and rightly in my view, that they would only do new trade agreements with countries that sign up to the Paris climate change accord,\" he said.\n\"The US has said it wants to leave... so it calls into question the whole of the UK government's strategy on a one-off trade deal with the US.\"", "summary": "Any transitional arrangement with the EU after Brexit must end by the time of the next election, Liam Fox has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Naidoo, of Indian and African heritage, has sold millions of albums in Germany, but songs such as 2012's Wo Sind (Where Are) have been widely criticised.\nAnti-racism groups complained after his selection, on Thursday, for the Stockholm contest.\nPublic broadcaster ARD denied the \"brilliant\" singer was racist.\nExecutive Thomas Schreiber added: \"It was clear that his nomination would polarise opinions, but we were surprised about the negative response.\n\"The Eurovision Song Contest is a fun event, in which music and the understanding between European people should be the focus.\n\"This characteristic must be kept at all costs. The ongoing discussion about Naidoo could harm the image of the Eurovision Song Contest.\n\"This is why Naidoo will not represent Germany. We will quickly decide now, how the German entry for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest will be found\".\nIn 2014, when Germany marked the 25th anniversary of reunification, Naidoo was criticised for appearing at a rally of the controversial Reichsbuerger group, which wants the re-establishment of Germany as a two-border state.\nOn Friday, Germany's most popular newspaper, Bild, questioned his selection, on its front page.\nAnti-racism group the Amadeu Antonio Foundation also described the choice as \"problematic\".\nIn response, Naidoo, 44, said on Facebook, in his native language, that it was \"OK for me\" and that ARD had urged him to compete in the first place.\nHe also said he represented a Germany that was \"open to the world\" and tolerant of different religions and lifestyles.\nThis year's contest was won by Swedish singer Mans Zelmerlow with his upbeat pop track Heroes, which was accompanied by innovative animated visuals.\nGermany, which came last in this year's competition, with zero points, would name a new contender as soon as possible, Mr Schreiber said.", "summary": "Germany has withdrawn its act for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, following criticism singer Xavier Naidoo's lyrics are anti-Semitic and homophobic." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Neville, 41, was sacked by the La Liga club in March after less than four months in charge.\nHe left his post as England assistant manager after their Euro 2016 exit.\n\"It could be that I'm no longer ever a coach in football. That's not a loss,\" he told Sky Sports News.\nNeville stepped down from his position with England on 27 June, within minutes of the shock 2-1 defeat by Iceland, along with manager Roy Hodgson and fellow coach Ray Lewington.\n\"The FA invested in me for four years. I'm the most experienced I've ever been yet you get chucked overboard,\" Neville added.\n\"I'm only 41 years of age and you're regarded as a failure and the reality of it is the investment has to come through defeat and victory.\n\"I've been to eight tournaments as a player, three as a coach, I'm probably the only English coach that's managed in La Liga at a top four club in the last 15 to 20 years, even if it's only for four months.\"\nValencia won three of their 16 league games under Neville, and 10 of 28 matches overall.\nNeville co-owns National League North side Salford City with fellow ex-United stars Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and brother Phil.\nHe was also involved in the development of Hotel Football, near his former club's Old Trafford stadium, and said these commitments meant he did not want to return to coaching \"in the next five years\".", "summary": "Former England and Manchester United defender Gary Neville says he has been \"chucked overboard\" after leaving coaching roles with England and Valencia this year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Firefighters were called to the semi-detached house in Llandow village at about 15:45 GMT on Friday.\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the roof was \"well alight\" when four crews and a water bowser arrived.\nThe fire, which caused extensive damage to the roof and first floor, has since been put out. There are no reports of any injuries.\nMeanwhile, three crews were called to a house in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, after the roof was seen on fire at about 15:35.", "summary": "A house caught fire in the Vale of Glamorgan after being hit by lightning." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Schroders fund manager Nick Kirrage told the BBC's Today programme that Tesco was paying a \"premium\" and he had \"major concerns\" about the deal.\nTesco chief Dave Lewis has confirmed that the company is \"completely committed\" to the Booker deal.\nIt brings together the UK's largest supermarket and the biggest cash-and carry business.\nSchroders, which owns a 4.5% stake in Tesco, has warned that Booker is an expensive option.\n\"Booker is a business that has been doing extremely well, its profits have been growing very quickly and profit margins have been expanding rapidly,\" Mr Kirrage said.\n\"Tesco have had to pay a premium and have made an assumption that profits are going to continue to grow in the future.\n\"History suggests that the vast bulk of acquisitions destroy value for the acquiring shareholders in instances where you buy a high multiple.\n\"Even fewer deals create value and so we objectively think, looking back at history, that this is a deal that is going to struggle to create value. We have major concerns about it,\" he said.\nSince becoming chief executive in 2014, Mr Lewis has worked on turning around the crisis-hit supermarket which reported a £6.4bn loss in 2015 - the worst in its history.\nIt comes as Tesco agrees to pay a fine of £129m to avoid prosecution for overstating its profits in 2014.\nThe supermarket said in a statement that it believed the deal would improve its recovery plans.\n\"We have been working on the transaction for over 12 months and believe the strategic and financial rationale is compelling,\" a spokesperson said.\nThe deal would drive growth for the two firms and help Tesco to source, distribute and sell food in the UK market, they said.\n\"Since announcing the transaction the majority of our top 10 shareholders have chosen to increase their shareholding in Tesco and we hope to convince all our shareholders of the merits of the transaction.\"\nAnother major Tesco shareholder, Artisan Partners, which also owns a 4.5% stake, has questioned the deal as well, according to reports.\nTesco surprised investors in January when it announced the £3.7bn takeover of Booker. As well as its wholesale business, Booker also owns the Premier, Budgens and Londis convenience-store brands.\nThe acquisition has already cost Tesco its senior independent director, Richard Cousins, who left because he disagreed with the takeover.\nMr Kirrage added: \"We've had a constructive period of engagement with Tesco in private, but we've now come to a point where we are unable to go any further.\n\"Tesco have made it clear in private to us that they are compelled to do the deal and that they feel committed to it and therefore we feel that it's in the best interests of our clients to move into the public arena and try to raise some awareness and see if there are other shareholders who have concerns like ourselves.\"\nArtisan Partners was unavailable for comment.", "summary": "One of Tesco's biggest shareholders has warned the supermarket's £3.7bn bid for wholesaler Booker is too generous." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A concussion review panel concluded he should not have played on after a head knock against Leicester on 3 December.\nNorth told the Daily Mail, prior to Wednesday's report, he aims to be like Wales team-mate Gethin Jenkins, 36.\n\"If I could have that professionalism towards the end of my career and still want to get out of bed and go again, that would be amazing,\" said North, 24.\n\"When I think of who I am, rugby is a big part of that. I wouldn't have the friends I do without rugby. It's like anything. When it's good it's good, when it's bad, it's bad. But it's a sport, a job. It's not going to change anyone's life.\"\nThe club told BBC Wales Sport it would not comment on the interview, which was carried out earlier in December.\nNorth's injury against Leicester, which came in Northampton's 19-11 defeat on 3 December, was the fifth blow to the head he has sustained in his career.\nFormer World Rugby medical advisor Dr Barry O'Driscoll told BBC Radio Wales that North would be told not to play rugby again if he were an amateur, because of the amount of concussions he has had.\nThe Wales international has been left out of Northampton Saints' squad for their Premiership game against Sale Sharks on Friday, despite boss Jim Mallinder saying he was set to feature in the match.", "summary": "Northampton wing George North says he wants to continue playing for years to come despite his latest head injury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Officers carried out the search in Sunningdale, Berkshire, on Thursday.\nThe force says the BBC broke its own editorial rules. The BBC says \"normal journalistic practice\" was followed.\nSir Cliff, 73, said the allegation of an historical sex offence against a boy under 16 was \"completely false\".\nBBC cameras and a reporter were outside the gates to Sir Cliff's property when eight police officers arrived.\nIn a statement, South Yorkshire Police said it was contacted some weeks ago by a BBC reporter \"who made it clear he knew of the existence of an investigation.\"\nThe statement continued: \"It was clear he was in a position to publish it.\n\"The force was reluctant to co-operate but felt that to do otherwise would risk losing any potential evidence, so in the interests of the investigation it was agreed that the reporter would be notified of the date of the house search in return for delaying publication of any of the facts.\"\nPolice later said \"a number of people\" had \"provided information\" after the search although it did not say what this related to.\nIn its statement, South Yorkshire Police added that \"contrary to media reports\", the decision to involve the BBC \"was not taken in order to maximise publicity, it was taken to preserve any potential evidence\".\nJonathan Munro, the BBC's head of newsgathering, wrote on Twitter on Friday that South Yorkshire Police had not been the source of the story.\nBut South Yorkshire Police said it was \"disappointing that the BBC was slow to acknowledge that the force was not the source of the leak\".\nIt said a letter of complaint had been sent to the director general of the BBC making it clear that the broadcaster appeared to have contravened its own editorial guidelines.\n\"South Yorkshire Police would welcome an investigation into the original leak,\" it added.\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"A BBC journalist approached South Yorkshire Police with information about the investigation.\n\"The BBC agreed to follow normal journalistic practice and not to publish a story that might jeopardise a police inquiry.\"\nFormer Attorney General Dominic Grieve has accused the police of having a \"collusive relationship\" with the BBC.\nSpeaking to the Telegraph, he said: \"I can see that police might not want to warn somebody about a search because they fear a suspect will destroy the evidence.\n\"But it was much odder to tip off the BBC that they were carrying out the raid. That seems quite extraordinary.\"\nHuman rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC described the way the police search was conducted as \"unacceptable\".\nWriting in the Independent, he said: \"The police had a duty to investigate, seek any corroborating evidence, and then - and only if they had reasonable grounds to suspect him of committing an offence - to give him the opportunity to refute those suspicions before a decision to charge is made.\n\"But here, police subverted due process by waiting until Richard had left for vacation, and then orchestrating massive publicity for the raid on his house, before making any request for interview and before any question could arise of arresting or charging him.\"\nThe BBC understands the allegation against Sir Cliff relates to an alleged assault at an event featuring US preacher Billy Graham at Bramall Lane in Sheffield in 1985.\nSir Cliff responded to the police search in a statement, which said: \"For many months I have been aware of allegations against me of historic impropriety which have been circulating online.\n\"The allegations are completely false. Up until now I have chosen not to dignify the false allegations with a response, as it would just give them more oxygen.\"\nHe said he would \"co-operate fully\" if the police wanted to speak to him.", "summary": "South Yorkshire Police has complained to the BBC after the broadcaster gained details of a search the force was planning to conduct at pop star Sir Cliff Richard's home." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Customers had been using social media on Monday morning to complain about problems accessing both the bank's web and app services.\nNatWest said the issues around the lack of services had been resolved after one hour, and apologised \"for any inconvenience caused\".\nThe problem came three days after NatWest and HSBC experienced issues with their payments system.\nNatWest said at the time that Friday's problems \"did not originate\" with itself.\nLast month, NatWest said it was the target of a series of deliberate cyber attacks that meant customers could not access the bank's online systems.", "summary": "NatWest Bank says it has fixed problems with its online banking system." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "While the numbers cannot be obtained simply by entering a name, data watchdogs are concerned about the way the information has been gathered.\nThese databases have been compiled by phone apps that promise to block spam calls and let people \"reverse-look up\" calls from numbers they do not recognise. But it appears many of the names and numbers have been gathered without their owners' knowledge.\nThe apps, which include Truecaller, Sync.me and CM Security, ask users to upload their phone's contact lists when they install them. That means they end up with huge databases - one app claims to have two billion numbers while another claims more than a billion.\nThese can then be searched to connect any number with a name, although you cannot put in a name and get a number. Searches can be conducted on the app provider's website without even installing the software.\nThe issue has been highlighted by Factwire, an investigative journalism organisation that found the numbers of leading Hong Kong lawmakers had been stored in the systems.\nThe BBC has found that many British numbers are also listed - including that of Mr Cameron, Mr Corbyn, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, the Olympic diver Tom Daley and the music producer Pete Waterman.\nWe had those numbers already, as did Hong Kong-based Factwire when it conducted its searches.\nMany numbers appear to be stored in the databases without the knowledge or consent of their owners.\nFor example, we found the number of the security researcher Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro in the database of Truecaller, which is based in Sweden. He told us he had not installed the app and had not consented to having his number stored.\nHe described the app as \"highly deceptive\" and questioned whether it broke data protection regulations.\n\"Data can only be collected for specific, explicitly stated and legitimate purposes, may not be kept for a longer period than is necessary and crucially only with the explicit and informed consent of the data subject,\" he said.\nThere is also concern about the security of the data. In 2013 Truecaller suffered a data breach, admitting that it had fallen victim to a cyber-attack but insisting that no sensitive information had been exposed.\nTruecaller told the BBC that it ensured strict protection of user data, which was safely stored in Sweden. The company said it did not share any information with external organisations and in a statement said: \"Truecaller is not in violation of the data protection laws in Sweden, nor across the EU as a whole.\"\nWe asked the Information Commissioner, Britain's data protection regulator, about Truecaller. The ICO told us: \"UK data protection law says businesses are required to process data fairly and lawfully. We're asking questions on behalf of UK citizens and are following up with the Swedish authorities.\"\nThe security blogger Graham Cluley, whose mobile number is stored by one of the apps, says everyone needs to be more careful about what they share: \"If you upload your address book, you're not just putting your own privacy at risk - but the privacy of everybody else in that address book.\"\nMost of the apps mention in their terms and conditions that users should have permission from their contacts before sharing their data.\nOne of the apps, CM Security, has now halted its reverse-look up function. All of them say users can opt out if they do not want to have their numbers stored.\nAdditional reporting by Helier Cheung", "summary": "The mobile phone numbers of former Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, celebrities and millions of other people are being stored in databases that can be searched by the public." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Find out how you can join in and submit your images and videos below.\nIf you are looking for inspiration, view some top tips from three of England's Big Picture photographers.\nIf you have a picture you'd like to share, email us at england@bbc.co.uk, post it on Facebook or tweet it to @BBCEngland. You can also find us on Instagram - use #englandsbigpicture to share an image there. You can also see a recent archive of pictures on our England's Big Picture board on Pinterest.\nWhen emailing pictures, please make sure you include the following information:\nPlease note that whilst we welcome all your pictures, we are more likely to use those which have been taken in the past week.\nIf you submit a picture, you do so in accordance with the BBC's Terms and Conditions.\nIn contributing to England's Big Picture you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media worldwide.\nIt's important to note, however, that you still own the copyright to everything you contribute to England's Big Picture, and that if your image is accepted, we will publish your name alongside.\nThe BBC cannot guarantee that all pictures will be used and we reserve the right to edit your comments.\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws while collecting any kind of media.", "summary": "Each day we feature a photograph sent in from across England." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Transocean Winner came ashore at Dalmore during a storm while it was being towed from Norway to Malta.\nThe leader of the salvage team confirmed that an attempt to refloat the rig would be made on the high tide at about 22:00 on Monday.\nDiesel oil has been successfully transferred onto a supply vessel and taken to Stornoway.\nSince the grounding on the 8 August, a team from Smit Salvage, representatives from Transocean and a range of other experts have moved workers, engineering and shipping resources to Lewis to help with the refloat.\nSylvia Tervoort, salvage master with Smit Salvage, said: \"We are checking and pressurising the tanks that we'll need for the refloating. Everything is installed ready for use and we're testing each compartment for the attempt at tomorrow's high tide.\"\nMs Tervoort said there was still a possibility that part of the rock on which the rig had grounded could be sticking up inside the pontoon structure below the waterline.\nShe said: \"We could have used just one tug, but we have chosen to use two. We are not completely sure about the seabed and the pinnacles sticking in the rig. There are always things in salvage for which you can't account.\"\nHugh Shaw, the Secretary of State's Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention, said that salvage teams were still going over calculations and possibilities to ensure the refloat was successful.\nHe said the risk of any pollution from materials on board the rig had been reduced even further since the operation on Saturday.\n\"Transocean have successfully transferred approximately 200 tonnes of diesel onto one of the supply vessels, the Olympic Orion and she's back in Stornoway with that this morning,\" he said.\nThe towing lines are in place, ready to be picked up by two tugs once the final preparations start on Monday afternoon.\nMr Shaw has now given formal permission for the refloat. He said that even if there was a problem with snagging rocks, any further damage to the rig should not pose a problem.\n\"There is only a small amount of diesel left in the tanks because of the way the rig is listing,\" he said. \"But even if there are further breaches of the tanks, it's unlikely we'll see any significant amounts being released into the environment.\"\nOnce this series of high tides pass, the tide will not reach similar heights for another two weeks at the beginning of September.\nHowever, Ms Tervoort said that if unforeseen problems meant that the refloat attempt on Monday was not successful, they were still not out of time with this series of tides.\n\"We still have to go on for the next two high tides,\" she said. \"If we can't refloat this time, there might be different reasons for that and we have to go back and rewrite the plans and try again on the next high tide.\n\"But we are confident that at the next high tide with all the tanks pressurised we can float the rig from the rocks.\"\nMr Shaw said that once the rig was freed it would have to be examined thoroughly to see if repairs were necessary before a decision was taken where to scrap it.\nIt will be towed to Broad Bay on the east coast of Lewis.\nOn Saturday, the salvage team successfully transferred diesel oil on a 17,000-tonne grounded rig from pontoon tanks to a safer position above sea level.\nThe oil was then moved onto the Olympic Orion.\nCoastguards said no pollution from the oil transfer had been detected.\nA temporary exclusion zone of 300m (984ft) remains in place around the rig.\nMore than 12,000 gallons (56,000 litres) of diesel oil were lost from two tanks on the Transocean Winner after it came ashore. The fuel is said to have evaporated and not caused a pollution incident.", "summary": "A salvage team will attempt to refloat a 17,000 tonne drilling rig that became grounded on Lewis almost two weeks ago." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sir Peter said the civil service was in \"good heart\" following a \"challenging\" time which saw his impartiality questioned by the SNP's opponents.\nHe will step down as permanent secretary to the Scottish government at the end of June, after five years.\nThe search for his replacement will begin shortly.\nSir Peter, who hopes to continue in public service, said: \"It has been a joy and a privilege to serve these five years.\n\"However, a person cannot do these jobs forever and I want to enable my successor to come into post in good time for the run-up to the Scottish Parliament elections in May 2016.\"\n'Challenging period'\nHe added: \"I am confident that my successor will find the civil service in Scotland in good heart.\n\"This has been a vibrant and challenging period. We have come through with our values intact, with strong capability and in a spirit of partnership across Scotland, and with the UK government and its agencies.\"\nSir Peter was cleared of a breach of the civil service code over an internal briefing advising that the Scottish independence referendum debate had left \"the status quo . . . lost in the mists of time\".\nIn 2011, Scotland's opposition parties complained to the head of the UK civil service about Sir Peter, with Liberal Democrat Tavish Scott at the time accusing him of \"rapidly becoming the chief cheerleader\" for independence.\nBut the then head of the UK Civil Service, Sir Gus O'Donnell, said it was \"right and proper\" that civil servants should act to support their elected ministers, in this case the devolved Scottish government.\nConstitutional debate\nSir Peter himself has maintained he expressed no view on Scottish independence.\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, said: \"Sir Peter Housden has been an outstanding permanent secretary, leading the Scottish government's civil service team with distinction over the last five years.\"\nSir Jeremy Heywood, head of the UK civil service, added: \"I would like to thank Peter for his tremendous work as the permanent secretary for the Scottish government, in particular in leading the Scottish civil service through a challenging programme of constitutional debate and change.\"", "summary": "Scotland's top civil servant, Sir Peter Housden, is leaving to make way for a successor ahead of the 2016 Scottish Parliament election." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "All workers are entitled to annual leave and the National Minimum Wage. Employees get additional rights, such as the right not to be unfairly dismissed, maternity rights and redundancy rights.\nWhich category you fall into depends on the type of contract you have and the obligations between the employer and the employee to provide work and accept work.\nThe defining feature of a zero-hours contract is that the employer doesn't guarantee work and the worker doesn't guarantee acceptance of work. So in most cases those on zero-hours contracts count as workers.\nAs the House of Commons Library notes \"the distinction between these concepts is complex and the subject of much debate\".\nIt's not just about the wording of your contract, what happens in practice counts too. If there is a regular pattern of work, which is regularly accepted, then an Employment Tribunal can - and indeed they have - deem the contract to be one of employment.\nWhat's the truth behind the politicians' claims on the campaign trail? Our experts investigate the facts, and wider stories, behind the soundbites.\nRead latest updates or follow us on Twitter @BBCRealityCheck", "summary": "The employment rights you get depend on whether you are classed as an employee or a worker." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Michael Gibbons, 27, of Yateley, Hampshire abused seven children, some aged as young as four, a court heard.\nHe pleaded guilty in April to nine sexual assaults, including two at Farnborough Leisure Centre where he was employed as a play worker.\nThe offences happened in Hampshire and Berkshire between 2009 and 2016.\nGibbons also admitted one count of rape and six other sexual offences.\nThey included four counts of inciting children to engage in sexual activity and two attempted sexual assaults.\nGibbons, of Dickens Way, was arrested in December after he confessed his crimes to the mental health charity Mind.\nIn police interviews he admitted sexually touching two children at the play centre holiday club, even though the crimes were never reported to the police.\nOne young victim told the police how her \"body felt sad\" after Gibbons assaulted her, while other children reported having nightmares, the prosecution said.\nSentencing him at Winchester Crown Court judge Jane Miller QC said Gibbons had shown \"some remorse\" for the lasting harm he had caused his victims and their families.\nA spokesman for the NSPCC children's charity said: \"With a clear and dangerous interest in children, Gibbons used his young victims for his own sexual gratification.\n\"His actions will have had a devastating impact on his victims and it's thanks to their bravery that Gibbons has been brought to justice.\"", "summary": "A former employee who sexually abused young children at a summer holiday playscheme and in other locations has been jailed for 11 years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A police spokesperson said a patrol car had been parked in front of his house.\nMr Erdogan has filed a criminal complaint against the satirist in a case that has prompted a debate in Germany over freedom of speech.\nGerman prosecutors are investigating whether he broke a law against insulting foreign leaders.\nPublic broadcaster ZDF announced earlier on Tuesday that his weekly satire programme would not go ahead this week because of the \"vast amount of media reporting and the resulting focus on the programme and its presenter\".\nIt was not immediately clear if a concrete threat had been made against Boehmermann but Cologne police told German media: \"When you can't rule something out then you have to do something.\"\nBild website reported that the satirist and his family were apparently facing a threat from supporters of the Turkish president. No request for protection measures had come from the comic but were a result of risk analysis, reports said.\nTo some the poem was puerile, vulgar and irresponsible at a time when Europe needs Turkish help in the refugee crisis.\nTo others it was an ingenious work of subversive art, which highlighted the importance of freedom of speech: a sketch in which even President Erdogan is now playing his part.\nEither way, Jan Boehmermann always goes a step further than polite society generally allows. Clever, funny and complicated, he has singlehandedly revolutionised German state broadcasting.\nDuring the height of tensions between Athens and Berlin over the Greek debt crisis Boehmermann portrayed Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis as a vengeful motorbike-riding sex bomb. But it was his fellow Germans, and the rest of the media establishment, that the comedian was mocking.\nA jaunty 1930's-style Springtime for Hitler remake wittily highlighted the similarities between the views of the anti-migrant party AfD and Nazi-era politics.\nEven refugee helpers have been fair game, as Boehmermann mercilessly portrayed modern, multi-cultural Germans as a self-righteous unstoppable horde of muesli-eating, Birkenstock-wearing sexual perverts.\nBut for Boehmermann's many fans the fear is now that taking on Turkey's president has been a step too far.\nBoehmermann, considered Germany's most incisive satirist, had read the obscene poem on his Neo Magazin Royale programme on 31 March, making clear that it included material that broke German laws on free speech. Section 103 of the criminal code bans insulting representatives or organs belonging to foreign states.\nIn particular, the poem made references to sex with goats and sheep, as well as repression of Turkish minorities.\nDays earlier, another German TV programme that poked fun at President Erdogan had prompted the Turkish government to summon the German ambassador in protest.\nOn that occasion, both Germany and the EU insisted that press freedom was inviolable.\nHowever, Chancellor Angela Merkel became involved in the latest row, when she told Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu that Boehmermann's poem had been \"deliberately offensive\". The poem itself has been removed from ZDF's website.\nAlthough a number of viewers complained about the broadcast, Chancellor Merkel has herself been criticised by political opponents for jeopardising freedom of speech in order to shore up the EU-Turkey deal on returning migrants from the Greek islands.\nHannelore Kraft, state premier of North-Rhine Westphalia where the satirist lives, tweeted that freedom of satire was part of German democracy: \"This should not be put in doubt. Certainly not through external political pressure.\"\nMrs Merkel emphasised on Tuesday that the deal with Turkey bore no relation to the legal action facing Jan Boehmermann. \"Freedom of the press, opinion and science apply and are completely separate from that,\" she insisted.\nThe German chancellor had been expected to visit Turkey in the coming days, to open facilities built for refugees with EU funding. However, her spokesman made clear on Monday that there were no immediate plans for a trip.", "summary": "A German TV comic, Jan Boehmermann, has been placed under police protection after he read an obscene poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Charlotte Foster, 23, from Newport, Shropshire, died from a blood clot in January last year, after seeing GP Sunil Simon.\nThe General Medical Council (GMC) said he failed to consider a link between her \"symptoms and the contraceptive medication\".\nBut no restriction on his registration was required, it said.\nRead more news for Shropshire\nFollowing an inquest last summer Dr Simon was referred to the GMC by the coroner.\nMiss Foster went into cardiac arrest at work and died three days later at Telford's Princess Royal Hospital on 25 January, after she went to the doctor with breathing difficulties and leg pain.\nIn July last year, coroner John Ellery concluded it was more likely than not she would have survived had her pill - Dianette - been stopped and treatment started when she saw a GP.\nMiss Foster was presenting symptoms of a pulmonary embolism during her final GP appointment on 4 January but was instead being treated for lower back pain, the inquest found.\nShe died after a thrombosis caused a \"massive\" embolism in her lungs.\nThe warning said on 4 January and in a telephone consultation on 24 December 2015 Dr Simon failed to obtain an adequate history and \"consider deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolus as differential diagnoses\".\nIt said he also did not \"arrange investigations to eliminate/confirm deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolus\" and formulate an adequate treatment plan including her stopping taking the contraceptive medication.\nThe warning will be published on the List of Registered Medical Practitioners for five years and disclosed to anyone \"enquiring about his fitness to practise history\".\nIt will be disclosed to employers on request after five years.", "summary": "A GP has been given a formal warning over his treatment of a woman who died after taking a contraceptive pill." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "If you have a picture you would like to share, please see below the images for details on how to submit yours.\nIf you have a picture you'd like to share, email us at england@bbc.co.uk, post it on Facebook or tweet it to @BBCEngland. You can also find us on Instagram - use #englandsbigpicture to share an image there.\nWhen emailing pictures, please make sure you include the following information:\nPlease note that whilst we welcome all your pictures, we are more likely to use those which have been taken in the past week.\nIf you submit a picture, you do so in accordance with the BBC's Terms and Conditions.\nIn contributing to England's Big Picture you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media worldwide.\nIt's important to note, however, that you still own the copyright to everything you contribute to England's Big Picture, and that if your image is accepted, we will publish your name alongside.\nThe BBC cannot guarantee that all pictures will be used and we reserve the right to edit your comments.\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws collecting any kind of media.", "summary": "Each day we feature a photograph sent in from across England - the gallery will grow during the week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Some images showing suspects allegedly stealing bikes and vandalising cars were recorded in Clifton, Nottingham, on residents' own CCTV cameras.\nThey claim they resorted to social media because police \"aren't bothered\".\nNottinghamshire Police warned if events escalated away from social media, people ran the risk of arrest.\nUpdates on this story and more from Nottinghamshire\nThere have been about a dozen posts from residents, detailing alleged shed break-ins, bag and bike thefts, as well as criminal damage.\nLucci Del-Gaudio is one of a number of people who has posted on the closed Clifton Community Group.\nMr Del-Gaudio uploaded CCTV images of people he believed stole two of his children's scooters, estimated to be worth £400.\n\"I had a full CCTV image of the guy's face and I took it to the police in Clifton that same evening but there was no officer to see me, \" Mr Del-Gaudio said.\nHe said he posted the images on Facebook and within hours he had messages and the post was viewed 5,000 times.\n\"Every single day, for the last 14 to 15 days, something's been stolen in Clifton,\" he said.\n\"That's why the residents are doing this, because the police aren't getting their finger out.\"\nMr Del-Gaudio, who insists no posts have named would-be thieves, also said there was a lack of police patrols in the area.\nA police spokesman said the force had \"excellent community relations\" in Clifton.\n\"If a crime is not reported, then we cannot respond,\" he said.\n\"If members of the public decide to take the law into their own hands then they risk the possibility of being arrested themselves.\"", "summary": "Residents posting pictures of suspected thieves on Facebook have been told by police they face arrest themselves if they take the law into their own hands." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) decided not to lift the suspension, imposed after accusations of state-sponsored doping.\nIndividual athletes may compete as neutrals if they prove they are clean.\nMr Putin called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to intervene.\nDoping, violence: What's gone wrong with Russian sport?\nThe IOC executive board said it would hold a telephone conference on Saturday to discuss the issue ahead of a full IOC summit in Lausanne on Tuesday.\n\"There are universally recognised principles of law and one of them is that the responsibility should be always personified,\" said President Putin.\n\"The people who have nothing to do with violations, why should they suffer for those who committed the violations?\"\nThe country was suspended by the IAAF in November 2015, after an independent World Anti-Doping Association (Wada) report depicted a culture of widespread doping, with even the secret services involved.\nAfter that, Russia introduced reforms including an overhaul of the rules, the introduction of independent testing, and anti-doping lessons in schools.\nA task force has been studying those reforms but a fresh Wada report, issued on Wednesday, made more damaging claims.\nAlthough significant progress has been made to meet the IAAF's criteria, it said, work still remains. In particular:\nWada said officials in Russia were being stopped from testing athletes and threatened by security services.\nRune Andersen of the IAAF said Russian athletics had been \"tainted by doping from the top level down.\"\n\"The systematic doping that has been ongoing in Russia - it's difficult to pick the clean athletes,\" he said.\nIOC vice-president John Coates said Russia's athletes should remain banned and not be allowed to take part in the Rio Games this summer.\nHe also said Russia's anti-doping agency and athletics body were \"rotten to the core\".\nMeanwhile, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva said she would challenge the IAAF's decision in court, saying she was \"disappointed and angry\".\n\"We are blamed for something we have not done,\" she said. \"I will not remain silent, I will take measures. I will appeal to the human rights court.\"\nIn a statement, Russia's Ministry of Sport said it was \"extremely disappointed\" by the IAAF decision.\nIAAF president Lord Coe said \"no politics\" were involved in the decision over Russia's ban. He emphasised the unanimous nature of the verdict and the international range of council members.\nOn Saturday, Russia said it was investigating its former top anti-doping official, who raised the alert before fleeing to the US.\nA criminal investigation has been opened into whether Grigory Rodchenkov abused his authority.\nMr Rodchenkov alleged that the Sochi winter Olympics were the apex of a decade-long effort to perfect Russia's doping strategy.", "summary": "Russia President Vladimir Putin has said it is unfair the Russian athletics team remains banned from international contests, including the Rio Olympics." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A total of 44,826 units were sold, an increase of just over 2.5% on the same period last year.\nThe UK as a whole saw the number of cars sold rise by 6% to 492,774, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.\nMarch is typically a strong month for car registrations, as it is when new number plates are released.\nScottish Motor Trade Association chief executive Douglas Robertson said: \"We are very pleased to see another record month for Scottish new car registrations.\n\"Though the increase is small, it is close to what we expected.\n\"Whilst fleet and business sales have increased over the last 12 months, the Scottish market remains consumer-driven and we have little doubt that the availability of PCPs and other finance options continues to drive the market.\"\nTop Scottish sellers in March\n1. Vauxhall Corsa 3,095\n2 Ford Fiesta 2,471\n3. Ford Focus 1,294\n5. Renault Clio 1,240\n5. Vauxhall Mokka 1,179\nSource: SMMT\nThe biggest-selling car last month was the Vauxhall Corsa, followed by the Ford Fiesta and Ford Focus.\nCommenting on the figures, Euan Murray of Barclays Corporate Banking said: \"The UK and Scottish motor trade's winning streak continued last month in record style, with new car sales lifted by March's all-important plate change and strong demand for fleet vehicles.\n\"The question on everyone's mind is how long this phenomenal run can continue and whether April will be able to drive home another record month.\"", "summary": "Scotland's motor trade has reported another record month for new car registrations." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 33-year-old woman was walking along Ferry Road Avenue at about 16:30 on Friday when she was approached and attacked by two men.\nPolice described the assault, during which a four-figure sum was taken, as \"cowardly\"\nThe woman was treated for minor facial injuries by an ambulance at the scene. Her children were unharmed.\nPolice said the attack, which caused the woman to fall to the ground, happened as the woman stopped to tend to her children.\nHer handbag, which had been resting on the handle of her buggy, was taken and the pair ran off.\nPolice described the woman's bag as a black Primark Atmosphere faux leather bag with a sloping top with suede on both sides and a gold bar.\nIt contained a number of items, including a four-figure sum of cash and baby feeding equipment.\nThe first suspect was described as being a white male, in his late teens to early 20s, about 5ft tall, of athletic build.\nHe was wearing a dark hooded top with dark jogging bottoms and two-tone Nike Air Max trainers. He was also wearing a dark face covering.\nThe second suspect was also a white male in his late teens to early 20s, about 5ft 4in to 5ft 8in tall, of slim build.\nHe was also wearing a dark hooded top.\nDet Con Gavin Howat urged anyone with information to come forward.\nHe said: \"This was a cowardly attack on a woman with her two young children.\n\"Thankfully she only sustained a minor injury and her children were unharmed, nevertheless she has been left extremely distressed by this incident.\n\"We believe that two young men in their late teen to early 20s are responsible for this attack and we are eager to trace them.\"", "summary": "A mother has been assaulted and robbed as she tended her two young children in a double buggy in Edinburgh." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The move required the agreement of all 28 of the EU's member states.\nIt makes it illegal for Hezbollah sympathisers in Europe to send the group money, and enables the freezing of the group's assets there.\nIn a statement, Hezbollah said the EU decision \"was written by American hands with Israeli ink\".\nThe group said the move \"has no justification and is not based on any proof\".\nSome EU member states had been wary of the measure, saying it could further destabilise the situation in Lebanon.\nThe BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels says some states had also argued it would be difficult to distinguish fully between the group's military and political wings.\nBy Jim MuirBBC News, Beirut\nGiven the magnitude of on-the-ground developments in which it is involved, the EU's move to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist group will likely be shrugged off by the militant movement as part of the Israeli-backed conspiracy against \"resistance\" that it sees behind much of what is happening in the region.\nIn practical terms, it would be more of a political slap on the wrist than a stunning body-blow. Hezbollah is not known to have substantial identifiable assets in EU countries which could be frozen, and it does not depend on donations from supporters there.\nHezbollah is the most powerful military force in Lebanon but also the dominant behind-the-scenes political mover. Diplomats may find it hard to differentiate between its military and political wings.\nIt's ironic that Hezbollah's open involvement alongside regime forces in the Syrian conflict may have helped harden EU opinion against it. One of its main stated reasons for doing so is the need to combat extremist Sunni Salafi rebels such as the Nusra Front, which has also been designated a terrorist group by the US and others.\nThe US, which has blacklisted Hezbollah for many years, welcomed the EU move.\n\"A growing number of governments are recognising Hezbollah as the dangerous and destabilising terrorist organisation that it is,\" said US Secretary of State John Kerry.\nHezbollah has a powerful political organisation and, along with its allies, dominated the last Lebanese cabinet, which resigned in March.\nEU officials had reportedly been proposing a compromise to satisfy more sceptical members - a statement that the bloc \"should continue dialogue with all political parties in Lebanon\".\nThe Lebanese government had on Friday urged Brussels not to move against Hezbollah, describing the militant group as an \"essential component of Lebanese society\".\nBut the group's involvement in the war across the border in Syria, in support of President Bashar al-Assad, has hardened European opinion, our correspondent says.\nCountries that support the EU move say there is compelling evidence that Hezbollah was responsible for a bomb attack against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year in which six people died. The group denies any involvement.\nIn February, Bulgaria handed the EU's police agency the names of two people it suspected of involvement in the attack. Bulgarian officials said they believed the two men were Hezbollah members.\nEU diplomats also point to a court case in Cyprus, where a Hezbollah operative was found guilty of planning attacks against Israeli citizens.\nHossam Taleb Yaccoub, 24, said he had been asked to record information about Israeli flights arriving on the island and registration plates of buses carrying tourists from Israel. He said he did not know what the information was intended for.\nHezbollah has already been blacklisted by the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK and the Netherlands.", "summary": "European Union foreign ministers have agreed to list the military wing of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Royal Ulster Constabulary detective constables Michael Malone, 35, and Ernest Carson, 50, were killed in an IRA gun attack on 26 August 1987.\nAnother officer and a civilian were wounded in the shooting in the Liverpool Bar on Donegall Quay.\nThe man who was arrested, 54, was questioned in Belfast on Wednesday.\nDet Insp Stuart Griffin said: \"Although these murders happened a long time ago, police would continue to appeal to anyone with information about the shooting and those involved to come forward.\"", "summary": "A man arrested as part of an inquiry into the murders of two police officers almost 30 years ago has been released pending a report to prosecutors." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Spaniard Agut, 28, had lost all five previous meetings with the Serb, 29.\nBut the world number 19 took the first set in 42 minutes with his first break point and broke three times in the next to triumph in an hour and 47 minutes.\nBritain's Andy Murray plays world number 32 Gilles Simon of France in the second semi-final on Saturday.\nDjokovic, a three-time winner of the event, was aiming to reach his 10th final of the season but could make little headway against Bautista Agut's intrepid, athletic baseline tactics.\nThe Serb failed to take the two break-point chances he was able to create in the opening set and it was his opponent who seized the opportunity, prompting Djokovic to smash his racquet beyond repair.\nDjokovic had committed 37 unforced errors before beating world number 110 Mischa Zverev in the previous round, and was soon a point away from a 5-2 deficit in the second set against Bautista Agut.\nHe held off three match points as the Spaniard's serve showed signs of tension, but made further mistakes when serving to level at 5-5 - with 29 unforced errors in total during the contest - as his opponent secured a place in a Masters final for the first time.\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.", "summary": "World number one Novak Djokovic suffered a surprise 6-4 6-4 defeat against 15th seed Roberto Bautista Agut in the Shanghai Masters semi-final." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Williams, 34, has been troubled by the problem with her right shoulder since winning Wimbledon, her 22nd Grand Slam singles title, in July.\nShe says her focus is now on being fit enough to play in the season-ending WTA Finals in Singapore from 23 October.\nHer recent defeat by Karolina Pliskova at the US Open ended Williams' 186-week run as world number one.\nShe had equalled Steffi Graf's record for the longest reign at the top of the women's rankings. The defeat against Pliskova in the semi-final at Flushing Meadows, though, saw Williams' place taken by eventual champion Angelique Kerber.\nThe Wuhan Open starts on Sunday and runs to next Saturday, with the China Open starting the following Monday.\nThe American's withdrawal from the tournaments in Wuhan and Beijing have reduced her chances of reclaiming the number one spot from Kerber before the end of 2016.", "summary": "Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week's Wuhan Open, as well as the China Open, with a shoulder injury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Keele University student Hannah Stubbs, 22, took her own life at her home in Stafford in August last year.\nElgan Varney, 32, from Wye Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme, denied three charges, including two of rape, at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court.\nA trial is expected to take place in October.\nMore on this and other stories from Stoke and Staffordshire", "summary": "A man has denied raping a university student who killed herself during a police investigation into the allegations." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Chris Cohen headed in Ben Osborn's cross to put Forest ahead early on but Nicky Maynard levelled with a close-range finish from Josh Murphy's cross.\nReds defender Danny Fox was shown a straight red card shortly before half-time for fouling Jordan Spence.\nBut Osborn's skill set up Assombalonga to net his first goal for 15 months since returning from long-term injury.\nMaynard missed a golden chance to put the hosts ahead after the break, firing over from four yards, while Ryan Mendes grazed the crossbar for the visitors.\nForest, whose 17-month transfer embargo is set to end, finished the season 16th after their second win for caretaker manager Paul Williams in what was expected to be his final game in charge.\nThe Dons ended their first season in the Championship in 23rd place after picking up just four points in a miserable 11-match winless run.\nMK Dons manager Karl Robinson: \"We performed OK and we've probably scored the goal of our season.\n\"In the second half it did look like two teams who had nothing to play for, it was hard at times sitting here with the lack of intensity through both sides.\n\"Now the season is over it's about us rebuilding, the line is drawn now and we just need to forget about the disappointments of this season.\"\nNottingham Forest interim manager Paul Williams: \"It was kind of mind-blowing how many of our fans were here. We had nothing to play for and it just shows you the size of Nottingham Forest.\n\"Chris Cohen has not scored for a long time and he pops up and scores and then it's really written in the stars that Britt has come on and scored the winner.\n\"You could see what it meant to the staff, the players and the fans with the way he celebrated.\"", "summary": "Substitute Britt Assombalonga's winner gave 10-man Nottingham Forest the points at already-relegated MK Dons." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 24-year-old told the BBC he was \"humbled\" to receive the honour, which is open only to new artists who will release their first album next year.\nThe 2015 winner was James Bay, who scored the biggest-selling debut of the year with Chaos and the Calm.\nGarratt beat competition from soul diva Izzy Bizu and piano-based songwriter Frances to take the prize.\n\"It's not something I was expecting to happen,\" he told Radio 1's Newsbeat. \"It's a definite surprise. [I'm] humbled to have been nominated, let alone won it.\"\nHailing from Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, Garratt rose to fame through the BBC's Introducing scheme, which allows aspiring artists to upload their songs for consideration by local and national radio stations.\nAfter submitting his first track in 2009, he was championed by Zane Lowe, who made his debut single, Worry, his \"next hype\" track. He has since played the BBC Introducing stage at Reading and Leeds and headlined Radio 1's Future Festival.\nGarratt's music almost defies categorisation, cherry-picking sounds from rock, pop, dubstep and experimental electronica, with his soaring vocals the sole connective tissue.\nEllie Goulding recently covered his single Weathered, while Mumford and Sons hand-picked him as the support act on their UK tour.\nThe Critics' Choice Award comes 10 years after the musician entered the junior version of the Eurovision Song Contest - crashing out in the heats, when his song, The Girl, finished in last place.\n\"It was the first song I'd ever written, I had a massive afro. It was the most horrifying experience of my entire life,\" he told the Evening Standard earlier this year.\nHis debut album is due to be released in the spring and he will perform at the Brits nomination party in January, alongside Jess Glynne and pop band Years and Years.\nPrevious Critics' Choice winners include Emeli Sande, Sam Smith, Jessie J and Adele, who won the first award in 2008.\nBut Garratt said he didn't feel any pressure.\n\"If anything I feel totally safe and in fantastic company,\" he said. \"I may not live up to those kinds of expectations but I will work and work as hard as I can to keep the prestige of the award alive, 100 per cent.\"\nThe recipient is chosen by a team of experts - including music journalists and music programmers at major TV and radio stations - and more than 100 artists were considered for this year's shortlist.\nThe 2016 Brit Awards take place on 24 February at London's O2 Arena, hosted by Ant and Dec.", "summary": "Multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt has been awarded the Brits Critics' Choice prize for 2016." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "While most commentators appear to agree that Mr Tsakalotos, 55, will be less bombastic than Mr Varoufakis in his dealings with international creditors, some argue that his negotiating stance could even be more hardline.\nMr Tsakalotos is a Dutch-born, Oxford University-educated economics professor who served as minister for international economic affairs before taking over from Mr Varoufakis as Greece's lead negotiator in its debt talks in April.\nA long-serving member of the governing Syriza party - in contrast to Mr Varoufakis - he was the obvious choice to become the new finance minister. His less confrontational style is certain to be welcomed by creditors - although few expect him to be a pushover.\nIn a rare interview with the French newspaper Liberation last month, Mr Varoufakis argued that Greece's creditors \"did not appear prepared to compromise\" and seemed determined to impose \"unrealistic\" demands.\n\"Our interlocutors each time insist on pension cuts. It's unrealistic [to ask for that] in a country where pensions have been considerably reduced over the past five years, and where two in three pensioners live under the poverty line,\" he said.\nShowing the same fondness as Mr Tsakalotos for rhetorical flourishes, he argued in March that Greece was \"not asking for special treatment, but for equal treatment in a Europe of equals\".\nMr Tsakalotos insisted that the Syriza government was \"fundamentally pro-Europe\" and that it wanted \"a viable economic programme inside the euro\".\nA mild-mannered married father-of-three, the new finance minister has spent much of his professional life working as an academic outside Greece, a fact that sometimes comes across in an English tilt to his accent. He returned to his country to work at Athens University in the early 1990s.\nIt was during his time at Oxford University that he joined the student wing of Greece's eurocommunist party, motivated by what he saw as the unjust treatment of the Greek left - who spearheaded the resistance against Nazi occupation - in the civil war that followed World War Two.\nMr Tsakalotos will face a stern challenge in his new role at the finance ministry.\nCorrespondents say that his immediate priority will be to get the the European Central Bank to provide an emergency injection of euros before Greece's banks run out of cash - something that it is feared could happen imminently despite more than a week of capital controls.\nHe will then have to persuade eurozone leaders to give Greece another chance at negotiating a bailout in addition to convincing creditors to discuss a restructuring of his country's massive debt.\nIf that fails, Mr Tsakalotos will face the agony of negotiating a divorce that he has always maintained that he does not want to happen - a Greek exit from the euro.\nEuclid Tsakalotos", "summary": "New Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos may be less flamboyant than his predecessor Yanis Varoufakis, but his views on his country's debt crisis are no less stridently held." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Extra patrols have been launched to deal with an increase in anti-social behaviour fuelled by the drug, said to leave users in a \"zombie-like\" state.\nOfficers were called to 58 incidents related to Spice in the city centre between Friday and Sunday.\n\"We cannot afford\" for the problem to get worse, Ch Supt Wasim Chaudhry said.\nEffects of the synthetic drug can be extreme, causing hallucinations, psychosis, muscle weakness and paranoia.\nCh Supt Chaudhry said officers were doing all they could to tackle the issue but \"a multi-agency approach is the only way we can fight this battle\".\n\"The truth is, tackling the issues caused by Spice is putting pressure on public services and is taking up a lot of our resources, particularly in Manchester city centre,\" he said.\n\"Those who take Spice are often left incapacitated or seriously ill and need the help of our partners in the NHS and ambulance service.\n\"They can also become aggressive and become a danger to themselves and others.\"\nHe said it was \"a problem that we cannot afford to get any worse\".\nThe Greater Manchester force has increased the number of specially-trained officers dealing with the issue.\nIt has also been working with Manchester City Council's adults and children's services, rough sleeper and outreach teams, local charities, as well as North West Ambulance Service and the NHS, he said.\nCouncillor Pat Karney said he wanted to discuss the problem with Home Secretary Amber Rudd because \"the experience in Manchester is going to spread up and down this country\".\n\"What is happening in Manchester will happen nationally so the next steps we're taking is to see the chief constable and review the situation, and then we're going to be seeking a meeting with the home secretary,\" he said.\nDaniel Gerrard, Founder of Addiction Helper and Family Interventionist, believes that the term 'Legal High' is where the problem really started, as it stigmatised the drugs in such a way that it made them more widespread and acceptable to use.\n\"Illegal Highs like Spice should be classed as Category A Drugs. This will allow us to educate those using and those thinking of trying it for the first time that extremely serious consequences are attached with this drug.\n\"My experience with those addicted to Spice is that they can be very volatile and present with mental health issues, often without mental health being an issue prior to using Spice.\n\"The fact of the matter is that more and more addicts are dying and the addiction problem continues to rise. Addiction treatment should not be reduced because of austerity, as the recent crisis with this drug should make quite clear.\"", "summary": "A rise in the use of former legal high Spice in Manchester is putting pressure on public services, police say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 32-year-old admitted to having \"questions\" over his position during the 4-0 series defeat in India.\nCook and Strauss regularly meet to review each series that England play.\nWith England not due to play a Test until July, Cook will be given time, with no decision likely before the end of the limited-overs series in India.\nThe white-ball teams, led by Eoin Morgan, play three one-day internationals and three Twenty20s, the last of which is on 1 February.\nWith the majority of England's management, including coach Trevor Bayliss, currently in India, some staff met via video-link on Monday.\nCook, who was appointed in 2012 and has captained in an England record 59 Tests, is thought to have already spoken informally to Strauss and indicated that he would like more time to come to a decision.\nThe opening batsman was sacked as one-day captain in 2015, but is unlikely to face a similar situation if he wishes to remain as Test skipper.\nSpeculation over how long he might remain as leader first arose before the tour of India, when Cook said he was looking forward to a time when he was no longer captain.\nThough England gained a creditable draw in the first Test, their performances deteriorated.\nIn the fourth Test they became only the third side to lose by an innings after making 400 or more batting first, a result that sealed a series defeat and after which Cook said he thought vice-captain Joe Root was \"ready\" to lead.\nThe fifth Test saw the tourists again beaten by an innings after hitting 477 batting first, this time with India piling on 759-7, their highest Test total and the largest made by any side against England.\nIn the aftermath, former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott called on Cook to step aside, while ex-captain Michael Vaughan said he expected the opener to stand down.\nHowever, he has been publically backed by Bayliss and many members of his squad, most recently opening batsman Haseeb Hameed.\nIf Cook resigns then Root, 26, is expected to take over.", "summary": "England captain Alastair Cook will meet director of cricket Andrew Strauss on Friday, but no decision on his role as skipper is expected to be made." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They will join fans from the Republic of Ireland in receiving the Medal of the City of Paris.\nThe city's mayor, Anne Hidalgo, said she wanted to mark the fans' \"exemplary sportsmanship\".\nShe said both sets of supporters had displayed \"enthusiasm, jolliness and fair play\".\nThe 'Grand Vermeil' is regarded as Paris's most prestigious honour and has been awarded to Nobel Prize in literature winner, Toni Morrison, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and jazz pianist Herbie Hancock.\nMs Hidalgo said the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland fans had participated in and contributed to the \"festive atmosphere\" that prevailed in Paris over the weeks.\nShe said they were \"a model for all the supporters of the world\".\nNo date has yet been set for the awarding of the medal.", "summary": "Northern Ireland fans are to be awarded a prestigious Parisian honour for their sportsmanship during the Euro 2016 games in France." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The UK prime minister said claims that the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been hacked, with some messages deleted, were \"disgusting\".\nBut he said an inquiry must wait until police investigations were over - Labour says it should be set up sooner.\nMeanwhile News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch said the allegations were \"deplorable and unacceptable\".\nBut he stood by News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of the News of the World at the time, and has faced calls for her resignation.\nMr Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, the newspaper's parent company, said in a statement: \"I have made clear that our company must fully and proactively cooperate with the police in all investigations and that is exactly what News International has been doing and will continue to do under Rebekah Brooks' leadership.\"\nHe added that he was \"committed to addressing these issues fully\".\nIt is claimed that 13-year-old Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by an investigator working for the News of the World after she disappeared near her home in Surrey in 2002 .\nThis follows allegations that dozens of politicians and celebrities, including actor Hugh Grant and former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott, were also targeted.\nBy Iain WatsonPolitical correspondent, BBC News\nEd Miliband went to the Commons to demand an inquiry that he felt the prime minister would be reluctant to concede.\nBut David Cameron took the wind from his sails by raising the possibility not only of one inquiry but two: one into into media standards, another on how the police handled the initial hacking revelations.\nIt is not clear when the PM decided to back an inquiry but those close to him say he saw the current allegations - in particular the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone - as being \"particularly serious\".\nBut Mr Cameron still faces two difficulties raised by Mr Miliband.\nFirst, he has been reluctant to change the timescale for the potential takeover of BSkyB by the Murdoch empire because \"this is a quasi-judicial process\". Expect pressure to be applied to get the whole deal referred back to the Competition Commission.\nSecond, Andy Coulson - David Cameron's former communications chief - has returned to prominence over allegations of police payments.\nDespite today's announcement, on the explosive issue of hacking the touchpaper remains alight.\nIt emerged on Wednesday night that Chancellor George Osborne has been informed by police that his name and home phone number had been found in notes kept by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and the former News of the World reporter Clive Goodman. A spokesman for the chancellor said there was no suggestion his phone had been hacked.\nAmid noisy scenes at Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, Mr Cameron said: \"We do need to have an inquiry, possibly inquiries, into what has happened.\n\"We are no longer talking here about politicians and celebrities. We are talking about murder victims, potentially terrorist victims, having their phones hacked into.\n\"It is absolutely disgusting, what has taken place, and I think everyone in this House and indeed this country will be revolted by what they have heard and what they have seen on their television screens.\"\nBut he added that an inquiry could not happen yet, as there was a \"major police investigation under way\".\nMr Miliband told MPs it was \"possible for the prime minister to start the process now\".\nThe Labour leader also questioned Mr Cameron's decision to hire another former News of the World editor, Andy Coulson, as his director of communications after he resigned from the paper in 2007 over the phone hacking scandal, calling it a \"catastrophic error of judgement\".\nMr Coulson resigned in January saying claims about phone hacking were making it impossible to do his job.\nMr Miliband urged Mr Cameron to back his call for Mrs Brooks to resign from her current job as chief executive of News International - the UK arm of News Corporation.\nBut the prime minister said it was important to \"let the police do their work\" before making claims about the conduct of individuals.\nThe prime minister's spokeswoman told the BBC there could even be two inquiries into phone hacking - one into the police handling of the original investigation in the middle of the last decade, and one into the actions of the media.\nOr, alternatively, there could be one all-encompassing inquiry, led by a judge.\nMPs have also been holding an emergency debate on phone hacking.\nLabour's Chris Bryant questioned the role of the Metropolitan Police during the earlier investigation into hacking, and the information officers had given ministers and others.\nHe said: \"I think a lot of lies have been told to a lot of people. When police officers tell lies or, at best, half-truths to ministers of the Crown... that's a major constitutional issue for us to face.\"\nFellow Labour MP Tom Watson called for News International chairman James Murdoch to resign, adding that he and Mrs Brooks had to \"accept their culpability and they will have to face the full force of the law\".\nAttorney General Dominic Grieve said the government would do all it could to \"progress matters further\" regarding an inquiry.\nBut some MPs - including some Conservatives - also urged a \"pause\" in any decision on whether News Corporation should be able to take full ownership of BSkyB.\nAs revelations involving the News of the World continue to emerge, families of victims of the 7 July bombings in 2005 have complained that they may have had their phones hacked and police investigating the claims have contacted the parents of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.\nOn Tuesday News International passed e-mails to the police which appear to show that payments to police officers had been authorised by Mr Coulson when he was News of the World editor.\nMrs Brooks has said the claims of hacking Milly's phone are \"almost too horrific to believe\" and that it is \"inconceivable\" that she knew about them during her time in charge of the paper.", "summary": "David Cameron has promised to set up a public inquiry into phone hacking at the News of the World." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nBarcelona forward Sanchez finished from close range in the 12th minute and then set up Jorge Valdivia to drive in from outside the area two minutes later.\nFormer Everton midfielder Tim Cahill pulled one back with a header from Ivan Franjic's cross before half-time.\nFormer Everton midfielder Tim Cahill has now scored competitive goals on all six footballing continents. (source: official Everton statistician Gavin Buckland)\nThe New York Red Bulls player, 34, has scored four of Australia's nine goals in World Cups and has found the net in three different tournaments.\nAfter an anxious second half, Wigan's Jean Beausejour's long-range effort added Chile's third in added time.\nTipped by many as having a strong chance of progressing from Group B, Chile will have been buoyed by the Netherlands' 5-1 win over Spain, who they face on Wednesday.\nThey looked likely to have the luxury of focusing on building a big cushion of goal difference ahead of their meeting with Vicente Del Bosque's world champions when they moved two ahead inside 14 minutes.\nBut, up against Chile defenders Gary Medel, used in midfield by Cardiff, and Gonzalo Jara, who has just been released by Nottingham Forest, Cahill's threat in the air helped stubborn Australia back into the contest.\nChile's attack only justified its strong reputation in flashes and they looked far from secure at the back but they have a chance to take a big step towards the second round when they face Spain.\nThey took the lead when Charles Aranguiz managed to get in behind the Socceroos defence for the first time after 11 minutes, and when Eduardo Vargas headed down from the midfielder's cross, Sanchez guided in at the near post.\nThe advantage was doubled when Barcelona forward Sanchez picked out Valdivia and the Palmeiras midfielder hit a dipping shot in off the underside of the bar from 25 yards.\nStarting just five weeks after knee surgery, midfielder Arturo Vidal drove wide after another incisive move.\n\"Even though Spain have been beaten 5-1 by Netherlands tonight, I still think we've seen two sides that will go out from this group in Chile and Australia. Chile cannot play the way they have and not concede at least two or three against Spain. The Chile manager says they do not compromise in the way they play, but let's see if they don't against the bigger sides. Unless they play a lot better than they have tonight, then Spain and Netherlands will go through in this group - I have no doubts about that.\"\nBut a slackness crept into their play and Cahill, renowned for his aerial ability in his time at Everton, rose above Medel to thump in from a Franjic cross.\nThe 34-year-old New York Red Bulls player was then denied by a low save from Bravo after he was found by Mathew Leckie on the edge of the area.\nAfter the break, Cahill had an effort ruled out for offside before Tommy Oar's cross was met with a firm half-volley from Bresciano only for Bravo to push around the post.\nChile came close to a third when Sanchez threaded through for Vargas and the Valencia forward's poked effort was hacked off the line by Alex Wilkinson.\nCahill headed over from another Jason Davidson cross as Australia continued to threaten.\nBut after Mauricio Panilla's shot was saved by Matthew Ryan, fellow substitute Beausejour found the corner with the rebound.\nChile coach Jorge Sampaoli:\n\"We had a good understanding in attack, especially with Alexis Sanchez as the focal point, and we created several chances. After Australia scored we lost a little bit of momentum and we got frustrated.\n\"We didn't play as well as we can - and with the calibre of our next two opponents, we will have to give a more complete performance. The prospect of playing Spain at the Maracana is electrifying.\"\nAustralia midfielder Tim Cahill:\n\"They got in twice and punished us but after that you could see their legs were going and we knew we could get something from this game.\n\"We really stood up strong. Not a lot went our way and it showed.\n\"It's all about defining moments. This is the stage to do it and when you're called upon you have to show up. We showed a bit of fear but we got in their faces. We showed some aggression, we'll learn from this and go into the next game positive.\"", "summary": "Alexis Sanchez scored one and made another as Chile started their World Cup campaign with a win over Australia." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dozens more were injured when tents at Hammad, a remote desert area, were struck around noon (09:00 GMT).\nMost of the casualties were reportedly families of members of a rebel group known as the Eastern Lions, which is fighting so-called Islamic State (IS).\nThere was no immediate comment from Russia, which backs Syria's government.\nHowever, a senior Western diplomat told the Reuters news agency that initial information suggested Russian aircraft carried out the raid.\nLast month, Russian jets twice attacked another Syrian rebel group's base in the border town of Tanf, to the north-east.\nSaid Seif, a local activist, told the Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC) network that cluster munitions were used in Tuesday's air raid on the makeshift camp at Hammad. At least 15 people were killed and 40 others wounded, he said.\nAnother activist, Ahmed al-Maslameh, put the death toll at eight, the Associated Press reported.\nA Jordanian source told the Reuters news agency that Jordanian army troops based on the border helped rush the injured to hospitals inside the kingdom.\nMr Seif said almost 350 refugee families from eastern Syria, most of them relatives of rebel fighters, had been living at the camp, located inside the \"no-man's-land\" between the Syrian and Jordanian sides of the border.\nIt is also close to the far larger refugee camp at Hadalat, where tens of thousands of Syrians have been stranded for months because the Jordanian authorities have been restricting the number permitted to enter on security grounds.\nThe refugees at Hadalat and at the other major camp, to the north-east at Rukban, have been running out of food since Jordan declared the border a closed military zone following an IS suicide truck bomb attack on 21 June which killed six security personnel.\nOn Tuesday, the United Nations said the Jordanian government had agreed to a one-off aid delivery for the 100,000 people thought to be at the two camps.\n\"We have negotiated with the government for an intervention... to create packages that will include food as well as non-food items,\" the executive director of the UN's World Food Programme, Ertharin Cousin, told the AFP news agency.\n\"But the Jordanian government has been very clear with us it is a one-time intervention,\" she added.\nJordanian officials have asserted that the camps have become \"enclaves\" for IS militants and that \"national security must take precedence\".", "summary": "At least eight people were killed when jets believed to be Russian bombed a Syrian refugee camp on the border with Jordan on Tuesday, activists say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "So-called \"vulture fund\" investors were demanding a full pay-out of $1.3bn (£766m) on bonds they hold.\nArgentina has said it cannot afford to do so, and has accused them of using its debt problems to make a big profit.\nA US judge had set a deadline of 04:00 GMT on Thursday for a deal. The crisis stems from Argentina's 2001 default.\nLate on Wednesday evening, Argentina's Economy Minister Axel Kicillof said the investors had rejected the government's latest offer.\n\"Unfortunately, no agreement was reached and the Republic of Argentina will imminently be in default,\" Daniel Pollack, the court-appointed mediator in the case, said in a statement on Wednesday evening.\nBy Katy WatsonBBC South America Business reporter\nWhen Argentina's Economy Minister flew to New York on Tuesday for the talks, people took that as a positive sign that the two sides were now talking.\nBut Axel Kicillof's lengthy address on Wednesday evening dashed those hopes - Argentina was not going to agree to anything that would compromise the country.\nAt the heart of this is a feeling that Argentina has been treated badly by the international financial system. Mr Kicillof made the point that the vultures always win and the people lose.\nJust before the announcement was made there was a small rally in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo, people handing out leaflets saying that the country wouldn't negotiate.\nNo doubt those people will be happy with the stand that Argentina has taken, but a default will make life harder. The country is already in recession and inflation is high.\nMost people think the issue is too complicated - what they do know is that they want to just get on with their lives, whether the vultures are circling or not.\nThe latest default is expected to exacerbate problems in Argentina's recession-hit economy, analysts say.\nHowever, the effect will not compare with the consequences of the country's economic meltdown in 2001-02, when savers' accounts were frozen to stop a run on the banks and violent street protests led to dozens of deaths.\n\"The full consequences of default are not predictable, but they certainly are not positive,\" Mr Pollack said.\nSpeaking at a news conference in New York, Mr Kicillof said Argentina would not do anything illegal.\nThe investors, also known as \"hold-outs\", are US hedge funds that bought debt cheaply after Argentina's economic crisis.\nThey never agreed to the restructuring accepted by the majority of bond-holders.\nPresident Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has described as vultures the minority bond-holders - including Aurelius Capital Management and NML Capital.\nShe accuses them of taking advantage of Argentina's debt problems to make large profits.\nRatings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) downgraded the country to \"default\" earlier on Wednesday, although the price of the bonds did not react.\nS&P noted that it could revise the rating if Argentina were to find some way to make the payments.\nThe hedge funds are demanding Argentina make interest payments on debt which it defaulted on in 2001, even though it was bought at less than face value.\nThe US courts have blocked payments to other bondholders who agreed a separate deal with Argentina, until agreement with the \"hold-outs\" is reached.\nMr Kicillof said he planned to return to Argentina after the news conference, saying the country would do what is needed to deal with what he called an unfair situation.\nHe reiterated that Argentina could not pay the hedge funds without triggering a clause that would force it to renegotiate with bondholders who accepted new debt agreements.", "summary": "Argentina has defaulted on its debt - for the second time in 13 years - after last-minute talks in New York with a group of bond-holders ended in failure." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Kenny Miller slid in to convert James Tavernier's cross and put the home side ahead early on.\nMoussa Dembele's powerful shot from a Scott Sinclair corner flashed high into the net to bring Celtic level, and Dembele later fired against the bar.\nThe visitors dominated the second half, and Sinclair touched home Stuart Armstrong's low cross for the winner.\nMark Warburton's hosts showed from the outset their intention was to press their opponents in wide areas, and it paid dividends when Josh Windass released Tavernier to set up Miller's close-range finish.\nCeltic continued to concede too much space in the full-back areas, and further deliveries troubled goalkeeper Craig Gordon and his defence.\nHowever, Dembele's leveller put Celtic into the ascendancy and Rangers then struggled to get Barrie McKay and Tavernier on the ball, though McKay did draw a save from Gordon after the break.\nHaving struggled to get a telling delivery at set-pieces, Rangers may have gone ahead just before Celtic's second as Danny Wilson met Tavernier's corner, Gordon making the save.\nSummer signings Dembele and Sinclair had run the Rangers defence ragged in September's 5-1 win at Celtic Park, and the duo's link-up play was again the catalyst as the visitors recovered from their early setback.\nSinclair's set-piece was controlled and rattled into the top-right corner by Celtic's top scorer Dembele - a fifth goal against Rangers for the Frenchman this season.\nAnd he should have taken that tally to six after Mikael Lustig squared the ball to the striker early in the second period, a miskick allowing Wes Foderingham to save.\nFoderingham came to Rangers' rescue when James Forrest was played in on goal by Stuart Armstrong but Sinclair would ensure a happy end to 2016 for his team, applying the finish to Armstrong's piercing ball across the face of goal.\nArmstrong, Sinclair and substitute Nir Bitton forced further saves from Foderingham as Rangers continued to struggle in defence.\nIn a match of so many chances, it was a surprise there were only three goals.\nSinclair fired against the right-hand post as Celtic trailed, and Dembele's downward volley bounced up on to the crossbar at 1-1, with Sinclair firing the rebound wide.\nAnd, after Sinclair had netted, Rangers were also left frustrated by the goal frame as Miller's shot came back off the same post Sinclair had hit in the opening half.\nThe Scottish Premiership enters its winter break for the early part of January and Celtic can extend their advantage at the top to 22 points if they win their game in hand against St Johnstone near the end of next month.\nThe league leaders, who have won 15 Premiership matches in a row and have only dropped two points all season, are targeting a sixth straight top-flight title win and a first under manager Brendan Rodgers.\nFor Rangers, they suffer their first competitive home defeat since September 2015 and face a battle to hold on to second place with Aberdeen, who have a game in hand, two points behind them.\nMatch ends, Rangers 1, Celtic 2.\nSecond Half ends, Rangers 1, Celtic 2.\nCorner, Rangers. Conceded by Mikael Lustig.\nAndy Halliday (Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Stuart Armstrong (Celtic).\nAttempt saved. Andy Halliday (Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\nCorner, Celtic. Conceded by Barrie McKay.\nDanny Wilson (Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Danny Wilson (Rangers).\nMoussa Dembele (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nCorner, Celtic. Conceded by Danny Wilson.\nCorner, Celtic. Conceded by Danny Wilson.\nJames Tavernier (Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by James Tavernier (Rangers).\nMoussa Dembele (Celtic) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nCorner, Celtic. Conceded by Rob Kiernan.\nFoul by Martyn Waghorn (Rangers).\nStuart Armstrong (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt saved. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nSubstitution, Celtic. Nir Bitton replaces Callum McGregor.\nAttempt missed. Rob Kiernan (Rangers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.\nCorner, Rangers. Conceded by Scott Brown.\nAttempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner.\nAttempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nSubstitution, Rangers. Harry Forrester replaces Jason Holt.\nCorner, Celtic. Conceded by Wes Foderingham.\nAttempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\nKenny Miller (Rangers) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.\nCorner, Celtic. Conceded by Barrie McKay.\nAttempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nBarrie McKay (Rangers) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Patrick Roberts (Celtic).\nFoul by Martyn Waghorn (Rangers).\nScott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Rob Kiernan (Rangers).\nScott Sinclair (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nBarrie McKay (Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Emilio Izaguirre (Celtic).\nGoal! Rangers 1, Celtic 2. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong.\nAttempt saved. Danny Wilson (Rangers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.", "summary": "Celtic came from behind to beat Old Firm rivals Rangers and move 19 points clear at the top of the Premiership." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Philip Nell, a fund director at Hermes, said there had been \"a massive over-reaction to what's been going on over the last two weeks\".\nMr Nell used to run the Aviva property fund that closed its doors along with five other funds this week.\nHenderson, Canada Life and Threadneedle became the latest on Wednesday.\nOther experts said it was \"too early to call Armageddon\" in the housing market.\n\"Fundamentally I think there's a fear factor and a liquidity concern: How quickly can I liquidate assets if I need to?\" said Mr Nell.\nOn Wednesday, the Bank of England acted to calm the markets by giving banks more freedom to lend money, including to mortgage customers.\nBut that has not been sufficient to assuage concerns about property prices.\nMr Nell said he believed commercial property prices would fall, but was not able to say by how much.\n\"I think there is a reason for them to fall. I think the pressure on rent will probably drop. I think tenant demand will fall off, broadly, for office space in London.\"\nAs far as the residential market is concerned, the Bank of England has voiced particular concern about buy-to-let investors, who represent 17% of borrowers.\nBut Simon Rubinsohn, chief economist at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), played down such worries for the moment.\nSpeaking at a Rics conference, he said, \"The concern at the Bank of England is that investors might all rush for the door at the same time. We might think differently in this room.\"\nThe latest Rics survey- taken before the EU referendum vote - suggested that prices were expected to fall anyway over the next three months, with house price inflation dropping to the low single digits by the end of the year.\n\"A period of slow house price inflation is no bad thing,\" said Mr Rubinsohn. \"But my bigger concern is that we are seeing a slow-down in activity.\"\nHe also said he was concerned about the attitude of High Street banks, which have become increasingly reliant on mortgage lending.\n\"Will mortgage lenders want to lend, given they have so much lending already on their books?\"\nHe is also worried about whether developers will slow down building projects, as a result of falls in their share prices. Shares in Persimmon, for example, have fallen 38% since the referendum.\nMost experts agree that the uncertainty about the UK economy will have a negative impact on house prices in the months ahead.\nBut Lucian Cook, head of UK residential research at Savills, believes cheap borrowing costs will support prices.\n\"It's far too early to be calling Armageddon,\" he said. \"The fundamental is that we remain in a low interest rate environment.\"\nSome economists are expecting the Bank of England to cut rates in both July and August. However, mortgage rates - with the exception of tracker mortgages - may not necessarily get any cheaper.\nIn the short term, Mr Cook expects prices to ebb and flow along with the news about the UK's negotiations with the EU.\n\"Buyer sentiment will be fragile,\" he said. \"The question is, how long will that sentiment last?\"\nMeanwhile, Philip Nell is adamant that falls in commercial property prices will not affect house prices.\n\"I don't expect there to be a significant sell-off of housing. I think house price growth will tail off, but I don't expect it to go negative.\"", "summary": "The fear factor is causing investors to withdraw money from commercial property funds, according to one of the City's senior fund managers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The baking contest is moving to Channel 4 and Mary has said she won't be following, although Paul Hollywood will be.\nWe're sure many of you are going to miss Mary, so here are seven things you (probably) didn't know about the queen of baking...\n\"School was not something I enjoyed a lot,\" Mary said on BBC show My Life on a Plate.\n\"I was a bit of a tomboy really and I didn't work very hard and at the age of 12 you either did Latin and maths, or you did domestic science [home economics].\"\nMary decided to do domestic science and that \"changed her life completely\".\nShe made a treacle sponge pudding, with the help of her teacher Miss Date, and her dad told her it was as good as her mum's!\nMary was a big animal fan growing up. She had a pet pony called Kerry Lass.\nWhen she was 13, she became very sick with an illness called polio and she had to go to hospital. Her dad even brought Kerry Lass to help cheer her up!\nElectric ovens were new technology at the time, so when people bought the ovens they could have someone come out to their home and show them how to use it. This was Mary's job - she would show them how to use it by baking a Victoria sponge cake.\nMary moved to France to study at the world famous cookery school, Le Cordon Bleu, in Paris.\nShe had to learn French because all the classes were taught in that language!\nMary has written over 70 cookbooks in her 46-year career, and her books have often been used in school lessons.\nShe's also worked for food magazines writing recipes.\nShe has her own range of salad sauces, which she launched with her daughter, Annabel, in the 1990s.\nWhile you might know her best for being in the Bake Off tent, Mary's actually been on TV screens since the 1970s!\nHer first TV series was called Afternoon Plus.\nFrom then on, she appeared on many of her own shows, and as guests on others, before being asked to join The Great British Bake Off in 2010.", "summary": "So Mary Berry is bidding farewell to soggy bottoms - the Great British Bake Off judge is leaving the show." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He told colleagues at the start of a closed meeting on Thursday that he was not the right person for the job.\nJust hours before votes were due to be cast, the news has left the race to succeed John Boehner in disarray. The election has now been postponed.\nMr McCarthy was considered the favourite to take over from Mr Boehner, who quit amid party tensions.\nThe speaker is the third in line to the presidency and is in charge of the lower chamber of Congress.\n\"If we are going to unite and be strong, we need a new face to do that,\" said Mr McCarthy on Thursday following his announcement.\n\"I feel good about the decision.\"\nHe said he wants the Republican Party to be \"100%\" united in backing a new speaker of the House.\nThe hard-right wing of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives - the \"Freedom Caucus\", as its members calls themselves - has flexed its muscle once again.\nFirst it put House Speaker John Boehner in a position where he opted to resign rather than face a challenge to his leadership. Now it has apparently blocked Mr Boehner's second-in-command, California Congressman Kevin McCarthy, from ascending to the top job.\nIt seems clear that Mr McCarthy just didn't have the votes to become speaker - either within the Republican House caucus or when the House, as a whole, was to weigh in later this month.\nIn the end, perhaps, Mr McCarthy was just too closely tied to the current, unpopular Republican establishment in the run-up to Thursday's scheduled leadership election. His comments about the House's Benghazi hearings and its goal of thwarting Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations - only served to further undermine his speaker bid.\nAt this point the process of picking a replacement for Mr Boehner has been thrown into total chaos. The speaker of the House is third in line for the US presidency, but it's a post that's proving difficult for the Republican Party to fill.\nMr McCarthy is not dropping out of Congress and will stay on as House majority leader, he said.\n\"We fought hard to win this majority and turn this country around,\" he said. \"I don't want to make voting for speaker a tough one.\"\nMr Boehner, who planned to leave at the end of October, has said he would stay on \"until the House votes to elect a new speaker\".\nSome members of Congress have called upon House Ways and Means Committee chairman Paul Ryan to run, but he confirmed in a statement he does not plan to.\nMr McCarthy was criticised by Democrats and Republicans for suggesting that investigations into the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya which left four Americans dead were hurting Hillary Clinton's chances at the presidency.\nHe later said Benghazi investigations \"are not political\".\nThe House Freedom Caucus has backed Florida representative Daniel Webster for the speaker of the House slot.\nUtah Representative Jason Chaffetz is the only other Republican who has said he is running.", "summary": "Republican Kevin McCarthy has dropped out of the race to be speaker of the US House of Representatives." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In the area of farmland, Russia is trying to build its own version of Silicon Valley - the Skolkovo Innovation Centre.\nIt is part of the government initiative to divert the country away from its economic dependence on oil and gas and towards a new kind of industry.\nIt has been a key policy for Dmitry Medvedev, the man who was Russia's president until he was replaced by Vladimir Putin at the beginning of May 2012.\nThe Skolkovo project is widely criticised in Russia and construction work has still not started in earnest more than two years after the proposals was announced.\nAnother aim of this proposed technology drive is to keep clever Russians in the country, along with their money-making ideas, rather than them leaving because they are fed up with corruption and the weight of bureaucracy.\nMany of these technology companies are able to start up because of funds acquired from venture capitalists.\nBut how do these venture capitalists decide who to back?\n\"We look for proven business models that work abroad and we basically copy them and bring them to Russia,\" says Richard Creitzman at Fast Lane Ventures.\n\"We find the ideas, we find the people, we find the funding,\" he says.\n\"We give a management team the opportunity to start up a company, assisted with infrastructure, and let them try to build that company.\"\nThe Russian government is promoting technology and internet-based companies, and Mr Creitzman says the development at Skolkovo is a good example of using state money along with private funding.\nThe success of such ventures depends on Russians adapting to new ideas.\n\"The use of the internet and e-commerce sites, buying things online, which is a normal thing to do in the West, is just starting here,\" Mr Creitzman says.\n\"People tend not to pay by credit cards, they tend to pay the courier that delivers the item.\n\"There is less trust of credit cards, less trust of the goods, so the market isn't as developed here yet as it is in the West.\"\nLooking ahead, with the new Vladimir Putin presidency, thoughts turn to what the business climate is going to be in the next few years.\n\"We are not planning for any major changes,\" says Mr Creitzman.\n\"Every couple of weeks there is an investment committee that sits down and goes through a range of ideas that are developed by the management, the shareholders and the business analysts,\" he says.\nHe maintains that the state has money, especially as the oil price is probably going to remain good in the medium-term - maybe three to five years.\n\"Skolkovo was created under President Medvedev's presidency. I don't think that is going to change. I think that will continue to have support because it's for the good of the state to develop new businesses,\" he says.\nLokata is a small company taking advantage of the pro-technology climate, which received funding from Fast Lane Ventures.\nZhanna Shalimova, the chief executive, says her company allows people to search for goods and services online in the brochures and catalogues of retailers and service providers.\nShe has taken the idea from a German company doing the same thing and implemented it in Russia.\n\"We are very lucky because we have such really strong shareholders,\" she says.\n\"We have Fast Lane Ventures, who are specialists in internet start-ups as they know this industry very well,\" she says.\nShe concedes Lokata may not be a typical start-up because they have a product that was already developed and tested in Europe.\n\"But still I think that there are many bureaucratic things in Russia, which makes life not so easy,\" she says.\nHowever, that does not deter her and she sees her business growing outside the main cities.\n\"Internet connectivity in Russian regions may exceed 85% by 2015. This makes the regions highly attractive for advertisers,\" she says.\n\"We created Lokata as a national service that will cover the whole country.\"", "summary": "Twenty miles west of Moscow, a new technology race, rather like the space race of the 1960s, is opening up." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The missile, launched at a steep angle, reached an altitude of 2,000km (1,242 miles) and travelled about 700km, landing in the sea west of Japan.\nNorth Korea said on Monday it was a test of the abilities of a \"newly developed ballistic rocket\".\nSouth Korea's military said it could not yet verify the North's claims.\nBut it said the North's missiles did appear to be able to leave and re-enter the atmosphere, which is crucial to developing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), the Yonhap news agency reported.\nRepeated missile tests by the North this year - not all of them successful but all a breach of UN sanctions - have sparked international alarm and raised tensions with the US.\nThe US and Japan have called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday.\nNorth Korea's KCNA state news agency said on Monday that the test of a \"newly developed mid/long-range strategic ballistic rocket, Hwasong-12\" had gone to plan.\n\"The test-fire aimed at verifying the tactical and technological specifications of the newly developed ballistic rocket capable of carrying a large-size heavy nuclear warhead,\" it said.\nNorth Korea is known to be developing both nuclear weapons - it has conducted five nuclear tests - and the missiles capable of delivering those weapons to their target. Both are in defiance of UN sanctions.\nBut it remains unclear whether it has the ability to make the weapons small enough to be mounted on a rocket, and it has never tested a long-range ICBM which could reach, for example, the US.\nICBM's are considered to have a range of about 6,000km, but analysts believe the missile tested on Sunday would have travelled about 4,000km if it had been fired at a standard trajectory rather than upwards.\nThe KCNA report said that, as ever, the test had been overseen by the North's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.\nIt said he had told the scientists and technicians involved \"not to be complacent\" but to build further \"nuclear weapons and methods of delivery\" until the US made \"the right choice\".\nThe White House has mooted talks with North Korea under the right conditions, which would include a halt in missile tests.\nBut in a statement on Sunday, it said Pyongyang had been \"a flagrant menace for far too long\" and that this \"latest provocation\" should \"serve as a call for all nations to implement far stronger sanctions\".\nThe US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said on Sunday that until Mr Kim meets the US conditions, \"we're not sitting down with him\".\nSouth Korea's newly elected President Moon Jae-in, who is seeking deeper engagement with the North, said it was a \"reckless provocation\" while China, North Korea's only real ally, is urging restraint.", "summary": "North Korea has claimed that the missile it tested on Sunday was a new type of rocket capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 22-year-old recovered from a break down in the fifth before converting his fourth match point in the tie-break to win 6-1 2-6 6-4 3-6 7-6 (8-6).\n\"It took everything. I could not dream better than that,\" the world number 25 said after his four-hour victory.\nPouille will play compatriot Gael Monfils, who beat Marcos Baghdatis.\nThe defeat means that 2016 is the first year since 2004 in which Nadal, 30, has failed to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final.\n\"I am close to being 100% again and I believe I can have a couple more good years,\" said Nadal whose most recent Grand Slam title came with his ninth French Open in 2014.\nHis best runs since have been two quarter-final spots at the 2015 Australian and French Opens.\n\"I fought to the end today but I needed something that was not there. I will keep working to try and find it.\"\nElsewhere Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, also of France, ended American interest in the men's singles by beating Jack Sock.\nHis win gave France three men's quarter-finalists at the American Grand Slam tournament for the first time in 89 years.\nThe ninth seed will play world number one Novak Djokovic, who beat British number four Kyle Edmund in straight sets.\nFourteen-time Grand Slam champion Nadal had dropped only three games in an emphatic win in the pair's only previous meeting, but Pouille has been on a steady rise through the rankings since that 2015 defeat in Monte Carlo.\nOn his first appearance on the centrepiece Arthur Ashe court, he showed why with an assured touch at the net and a relentless determination to attack his groundstrokes.\nHaving led two sets to one, it seemed that Pouille might have to be content with valiant defeat when Nadal moved 4-2 up in the decider.\nBut the Wimbledon quarter-finalist prised his way back into the match and it was Nadal who faltered in the tie-break, netting a short forehand at 6-6 to hand his opponent a fourth and fatal chance to close out the match.\n\"With three match points I thought, 'you are going to win this one'. At 6-6, I was not the same. Honestly I am the most happy in this tournament,\" added Pouille, whose last three matches have gone to five sets.\nGreat Britain Davis Cup captain Leon Smith on 5 live sports extra:\nLucas Pouille has everything, he has a big serve, is not scared about coming forward to the net and has a strong forehand and backhand. There is no hole in his game and someone is going to have to play really well to beat him.\nNadal does not have the speed that he used to have and makes a few more unforced errors. He is not as clinical as he was in his prime. He is still playing very well, but is not playing as well as he used to.", "summary": "France's Lucas Pouille claimed the biggest win of his career as he beat two-time champion Rafael Nadal in a sensational US Open last-16 match." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The money will be offered to councils in the most deprived parts of Wales to help provide play schemes and meals over the long break.\nKirsty Williams said there would be elements of education in the clubs and Welsh universities would be involved.\n\"These clubs will offer a positive environment for all our children during the summer holidays,\" she said.\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrat AM added: \"The reality is for some of our young people the school summer holidays can be a difficult time.\n\"Children who benefit from free school breakfasts and lunches often miss meals and go hungry once their school closes for the holidays, while the lack of free play schemes and sports activities can have an impact on those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.\"\nFive local authorities in Wales already run similar schemes and the Welsh Government said councils would be able to access funding for new ventures in the 2017-18 financial year.\nThe cash will be distributed in conjunction with the Welsh Local Government Association, with further details announced later in the year.\nKatie Palmer, Sustainable Food Cities co-ordinator for Food Cardiff, described it as \"an important step in tackling health inequalities\".\n\"We are thrilled with this news. Last summer, Food Cardiff worked with the Welsh Local Government Association to develop the Food and Fun model across Wales, in partnership with local councils and health boards,\" she said.\n\"The model, based on our pilot in Cardiff during summer 2015, delivered free school meals, food education and fun physical activities to children during the school break.\"\nFiona Kinghorn, interim director of Public Health for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, one of Food Cardiff's partners, also welcomed the announcement.\n\"Some children experience inadequate nutrition during the school holidays and there is also the potential for loss of learning and social isolation,\" she said.\n\"We have long recognised that addressing these issues requires a collaborative, coordinated response at local level, underpinned by national policy.\n\"Therefore we welcome this news from Welsh Government, which sees a commitment to deliver support where it is most needed.\"", "summary": "Funding of £500,000 will go to summer holiday school lunch and fun clubs, the Welsh education secretary has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A freedom of information request by the Liberal Democrats showed 254 primary teacher vacancies and 287 for secondary schools as of 9 August.\nThe Scottish government said the figures represented just over 1% of the total workforce.\nThe area with the highest vacancy rate was Aberdeen with 86 vacancies.\nThis was followed by the Borders at 47.\nLiberal Democrat education spokesman Tavish Scott said teachers would be \"dangerously overstretched\" unless action was taken to address the shortages.\nHis party has called for a penny increase in income tax in order to raise money for education spending.\nHe said: \"Thousands of pupils faced the prospect of going back to school without a dedicated class teacher in place.\n\"This can only increase pressure on other teachers and make life more difficult for those pupils who need the most support.\"\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said ministers wanted the \"right number of teachers with the right skills\" .\nShe added: \"Where there is an issue, this tends to be in specific areas where local factors, such as house prices, can be an important part of the problem.\n\"We are spending £88m this year to make sure every school has access to the right number of teachers.\"\nThe spokeswoman said that teacher vacancies arose across Scottish local authorities \"continuously throughout the year\".\nShe said in the time since the figures were compiled many of the vacancies would have been filled.", "summary": "There were more than 500 teacher vacancies in Scotland's schools as pupils returned after their summer break, figures have shown." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Attorney Bill Quigley says he hopes they will be released within days.\nLast week, sabotage convictions against Sister Megan Rice, 85, Michael Walli, 66, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 59, for breaking into a Tennessee nuclear facility in 2012 were overturned.\nBut it upheld guilty verdicts for damaging government property.\nSister Megan was jailed for nearly three years for entering the Oak Ridge facility, which stores uranium.\nThe other two protesters were each sentenced to more than five years in prison.\nThe July 2012 incident prompted security changes at the Y-12 site.\nOn Friday, Mr Quigley said he was trying to get the three activists out of prison as soon as possible.\nThey have spent two years behind the bars, and the appeals court said they likely already had served more time than they would received for the lesser charge.\nThe campaigners are members of the group Transform Now Plowshares.\nDuring their trial last year, Walli and Boertje-Obed received tougher sentences because they had longer criminal histories.\nThe trio were also found guilty of causing more than $1,000-worth (£650) of damage to government property.\nAfter cutting a fence to enter the site, they walked around, spray-painted graffiti, strung out crime-scene tape and chipped a wall with hammers.\nThey spent two hours inside the site.\nThe trio also sprayed the exterior of the complex with baby bottles containing human blood.\nWhen a guard approached, they offered him food and started singing.\nAt the trial, Sister Megan said her only regret was waiting so long to stage her protest. \"It is manufacturing that which can only cause death,\" she said.\nUS lawmakers and the Department of Energy later launched an inquiry and uncovered \"troubling displays of ineptitude\" at the facility.\nTop officials were reassigned, including at the National Nuclear Security Administration.\nWSI, the company providing security at the site, was dismissed and other officers were sacked, demoted or suspended.", "summary": "A US federal appeals court has ordered the immediate release of three anti-nuclear activists, including an elderly Catholic nun, the group's lawyer says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Father Gary Donegan said he other community workers were contacted by police, who told them of the threats.\nThe priest from the Holy Cross church in Ardoyne said the threats were from a \"dissident republican background\".\nBut he added that he would not be deterred from continuing his work, saying: \"I've never cowered away from my work in any shape or form.\"\nHe added: \"I won't be told who I can work with, who I can't work with.\"\nFr Donegan said he was told by police that threats had been posted on social media.\n\"It's not the first time - I've received threats in the past,\" he said.\n\"But this is a different kettle of fish this time round.\"\nHe said those behind the threats could have issued them \"maybe because I challenge their modus operandi, their ideology\".\n\"I've done stuff for peace and reconciliation that they'll never do,\" he said.\n\"What threat do I bring to them?\"\nSinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said the threats were \"despicable and cowardly\", and called for them to be \"lifted immediately\".\n\"This attempt to intimidate those working to improve the quality of life for all the people of north Belfast will end in failure,\" he added.\nA spokesman for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said it did not discuss the security of individuals.\nBut he added: \"We never ignore anything which may put an individual at risk.\"\nLast month, Fr Donegan said he was aware of 25 who had been threatened with paramilitary violence.", "summary": "A prominent Catholic priest in north Belfast has said he has been threatened by a criminal gang." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Commissioner Adam Simmonds appointed three new assistant commissioners on Tuesday.\nLib Dem county councillor Brendan Glynane said one of the those appointed was the commissioner's election agent.\nMr Simmonds said the selection process was \"open and rigorous\".\nThe three new assistant commissioners are Iain Britain (for justice), Kathryn Buckle, Mr Simmonds' former election agent (for governance) and Peter Heaton, Mr Simmonds' press officer (for public involvement).\nMr Glynane, who is also a member of the Northamptonshire police and crime panel, said: \"It really is unbelievable. The Conservative police commissioner has given his campaign staff permanent tax-payer funded jobs at £65,000 a year. This is pure cronyism.\n\"What makes matters worse is that in his budget he reduced the funds available for frontline policing. We could have had 45 more police officers on the street [for the cost of the commissioner and his assistants].\n\"Instead we have Conservative party political activists, with no record of involvement with the police. The Conservatives have made the wrong choice yet again, choosing cronyism and jobs for the boys and girls over making our streets safer.\"\nMr Simmonds said: \"After short-listing and an open and rigorous selection process we appointed the best people to understand what we are dealing with now and in the future. None of them is a member of any political party.\n\"They were advertised at the beginning of February, nine people were short-listed and then faced an independent assessment from someone outside the county, then a written assessment and then a panel interview.\n\"The turnout at the next PCC elections is likely to be higher than last year. People will be more aware of the impact PCCs are making to deliver on public priorities in tackling crime. Right now, we have a hard job to get on with.\"", "summary": "A Lib Dem group leader has accused the Tory police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire of appointing \"party political activists\" with no police experience as his deputies." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The party gained its target seats Weaver Vale, Warrington South and Crewe and Nantwich from the Conservatives.\nLabour also increased its majority from 93 to 9,176 in marginal constituency Chester.\nLabour's Mike Amesbury received 26,066 votes in Weaver Vale, a swing of 4.7% from the Conservatives while in Warrington South, Faisal Rashid won 29,994 votes - a swing of 4.4%.\nMeanwhile, Esther McVey held the Tatton seat for the Conservatives.\nLabour's Laura Smith said she \"can't wait\" to become \"Crewe and Nantwich's voice in Westminster\" after she won the seat with a majority of 48 votes from Conservative MP Edward Timpson.\n\"It's really emotional,\" she said. \"I'm an ordinary mum from Crewe, I'm a teacher and I'm fighting for the schools, for the health service\".\nThe turnout in Weaver Vale was 73.3%.\nConservative candidate Graham Evans came second there with 22,138 votes. Paul Roberts came third with 1,623 votes.\nMr Amesbury won with a majority of 3,928 and said he was \"humbled\" by the result.\nHe said Labour's manifesto offered \"hope... inspiration and opportunity\" in contrast to \"austerity and fear\" from the Conservatives.\nIn Warrington South, Mr Rashid has a majority of 2,549. Conservative candidate David Mowat came second, polling 27,445.\nLiberal Democrat candidate Bob Barr came in third, receiving 3,339 votes.\nThere was a turnout of 72.4%.\nMr Rashid, who was the mayor for Warrington, said he was \"over the moon\".\n\"We used to have this seat for 18 years and we have won it back,\" he said.\nHe said his priorities as MP will be education, housing and hospitals.\nLabour also held Warrington North as Helen Jones increased her majority by almost 9%, gaining 56.4% of the vote.\nLabour's Chris Matheson increased his majority in Chester by more than 9,000, gaining 32,023 votes. He was defending a majority of 93.\nConsidered a marginal seat, Chester was the number one target for the Conservatives in the UK.\nHe said he was \"delighted with the size of the majority\" and that his party leader has proved many people - including him - wrong.\n\"There's no doubt Jeremy has energised people and brought people into the political system that felt disaffected and disconnected\", he said.\nTory candidate Will Gallagher came second, polling 22,847. There was a turnout of 77.4%.\nFormer employment minister Esther McVey, who lost her Wirral West constituency in the 2015 General Election, secured 59% of the vote.\nThe seat was previously held by former Chancellor George Osborne, who resigned to become editor of the Evening Standard in London.\nElsewhere, Labour held Ellesmere Port and Neston and Halton and the Conservatives retained Macclesfield.\nIn total, five seats changed hands across the North West of England.\nSorry, your browser cannot display this content.\nEnter a postcode or seat name", "summary": "It has been a successful night for Labour in Cheshire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It would be the first such meeting of the two sides since July when Kabul-Taliban talks were held - also in Pakistan - but soon fell apart. Since then the Quadrilateral Group (Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the US) has met several times - while in Afghanistan the Taliban have stepped up their offensive even through the harsh winter months.\nAs the Afghans and other nations have made clear, a successful outcome for these talks to lead to an eventual ceasefire and a detailed political roadmap will heavily depend on how far Pakistan is prepared to go to put pressure on the Taliban leadership to compromise. Most Taliban leaders and their families have been ensconced in Peshawar and Quetta since 2001 when they fled there after the US-led alliance drove them from power.\nThe risks of not pressurising the Taliban leaders are obvious and hold much danger for Pakistan too. Afghanistan is facing a multi-dimensional civil war with the Taliban now being aided by a plethora of groups such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Chechens and the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba.\nOn 28 January, Lt Gen John Nicholson Jr, President Barack Obama's choice to become the new commander of US forces in Afghanistan, agreed with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee who described the security situation in Afghanistan as \"deteriorating\". More US special forces, drones and aircraft have been deployed to southern Afghanistan, which faces the greatest Taliban threat.\nHowever Afghan, American and Nato officials all agree that the bulk of Taliban supplies (arms, ammunition, food, clothing) is still coming from inside Pakistan, as are large numbers of recruits from the 2.5 million Afghan refugees still living in Pakistan - even though it is clear that such supplies are not being given by Islamabad. Instead, the Taliban are buying such goods locally or importing from the Gulf states and trucking them into Afghanistan via Pakistan. Pakistan has done little to curtail this traffic or block the border passes used by Taliban transport.\nPakistan's army chief, Gen Raheel Sharif, has pledged to fight terrorism on all fronts, not to be selective towards groups the army once favoured and to foster peace in Afghanistan. He has already been successful in undermining some militant groups in the south and north of Pakistan.\nClearly the Pakistani authorities are strategically committed to ending all sources of terrorism on their soil but tactically there is still a long delay in dealing with the Afghan Taliban and the multiple extremist groups in Punjab province who are mainly targeting India.\nSo far the army has dealt lethal blows to the Pakistani Taliban on the border with Afghanistan and addressed the issue of militancy and criminality in Karachi. On 24 February Gen Sharif gave orders for the final push into North Waziristan to eliminate all Pakistani Taliban from what is the most difficult terrain along the common border. The army has been fighting the Pakistani Taliban in this region for nearly two years.\nHowever, there is no such pressure on the Afghan Taliban living in Pakistan. They should now be told to either seek peace with Kabul or leave Pakistan.\nAt the same time many Pakistani Taliban have escaped across the border and are now living under the protection of the Afghan Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. These groups periodically cross back into Pakistan and launch vicious attacks. By letting Pakistani Taliban shelter within the ranks and territory of the Afghan Taliban, Pakistan's authorities are allowing a direct assault on the country's interests. But it is this realisation which is still missing from the military's calculus.\nUnless Pakistan moves more swiftly to pressure the Afghan Taliban to hold a serious and productive peace dialogue with Kabul, the worsening military situation in Afghanistan is likely to have an impact on Pakistan as well.\nThe Taliban are on the verge of capturing the southern province and heroin-growing centre of Helmand. They successfully cut all electricity to Kabul for a month by blowing up pylons in Baghlan province that brought power from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Morale is desperately low among local Afghan officials and troops.\nIn at least three eastern provinces bordering Pakistan, the Afghan Taliban are also fighting the so-called Islamic State group, which is trying to recruit among dissatisfied Taliban members. Not until the end of January were US special forces in Afghanistan given authorisation to go after IS fighters in the country - one reflection of how lackadaisically the Pentagon is responding to the crisis there.\nFrom afar, it may seem good that the extremists are fighting among themselves but such fighting is claiming the lives of many civilians and also could easily spill over into Pakistan, where IS is also trying to establish its presence.\nMost Pakistanis want to believe Gen Sharif that the army is serious about eliminating all forms of terrorism, while the Afghan government is equally keen to see signs that Pakistan is putting pressure on the Afghan Taliban on its soil.\nThe outcome of the talks in March will be critical because if they fail then we can expect a massive Taliban summer of violence in Afghanistan which will also spill over into Pakistan.", "summary": "Countries involved in the Afghan peace process say direct talks between the Kabul government and the Taliban are expected to take place in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, in the first week of March." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The device was described as a \"surface-to-surface medium-to-long-range ballistic missile\", the Korean state news agency KCNA reported.\nSouth Korea's defence ministry called it an armed provocation to test the response of US President Donald Trump.\nNorth Korea's latest ballistic missile test has been widely condemned.\nThe US, Japan and South Korea have requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the incident.\nKCNA reported that the test of the Pukguksong-2 missile, a new type of strategic weapon said to be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, was overseen by leader Kim Jong-un.\nIt added that the missile was fired at a high angle in consideration of neighbouring countries.\nThe rocket used a solid-fuel engine, the report said, which gives ballistic rockets greater power and range.\nThe report also said that Kim Jong-un \"expressed great satisfaction\" over the test launch, which it said \"adds to the tremendous might of the country\".\nSouth Korea and US officials said the missile flew east towards the Sea of Japan for about 500km (300 miles).\nThe missile reached an altitude of about 550km (350 miles), the South Korean military said.\nExperts suggest the tests are programmed for shorter distances to avoid a missile landing on Japan.\nThis was the latest in a series of tests in the past year, including North Korea's fifth of a nuclear device.\nThe launch took place at 07:55 local time (22:55 GMT Saturday) from the Panghyon air base in North Pyongan province on the west side of the Korean peninsula.\nUnited Nations resolutions forbid North Korea from carrying out ballistic missile tests - part of wider efforts to prevent it becoming a fully nuclear-armed power.\nSouth Korea's foreign ministry said that \"North Korea's repeated provocations show the Kim Jong-un regime's nature of irrationality, maniacally obsessed in its nuclear and missile development\".\nNato also condemned the missile test, with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urging North Korea \"not to raise tensions further and to re-engage in a credible and meaningful dialogue with the international community\".\nThe European Union joined the criticism, declaring in a statement that North Korea's \"repeated disregard of its international obligations is provocative and unacceptable\".\nJapan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, standing next to Mr Trump on a visit to the United States, said the test was \"absolutely intolerable\".\nAs for the US, Mr Trump said on Saturday: \"America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100%.\"\nChina, North Korea's closest ally, has yet to comment. Beijing has joined in international efforts to press Kim Jong-un to rein in his nuclear ambitions.\nIn January, Kim Jong-un warned that his military was close to testing long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads to the United States mainland, but experts doubt the technology has progressed that far.\nAt the time, Mr Trump derided the claim in a tweet, saying: \"It won't happen.\"\nOn a visit to South Korea last week, US Defence Secretary James Mattis said that any use of nuclear weapons by North Korea would be met with an \"effective and overwhelming\" response.\nHe also reconfirmed plans to deploy a US missile defence system in South Korea later this year.", "summary": "North Korea has confirmed that it \"successfully\" fired a ballistic missile on Sunday in a test supervised by leader Kim Jong-un." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said gambling \"shouldn't be a con\" and is launching an inquiry into whether customers are treated fairly.\nOnline gambling has grown dramatically, and 5.5 million Britons now regularly log on to betting sites.\nThe industry said it would co-operate fully with the CMA's investigation.\nThe competition watchdog said many people found it hard to win the money they are expecting.\n\"Gambling inevitably involves taking a risk, but it shouldn't be a con,\" said Nisha Arora, the CMA's senior director for consumer enforcement.\n\"We've heard worrying complaints suggesting people may be lured into signing up for promotions with little chance of winning because of unfair and complex conditions.\"\nSarah Harrison, the chief executive of the Gambling Commission, which will work alongside the CMA on the inquiry, said: \"Gambling, by its very nature, is always going to involve risk, but customers must have faith that if they win, they will not end up feeling that the deck is stacked against them because of an obscure condition that they did not properly understand.\"\nThe investigation could result in enforcement action against individual gaming sites, or prosecution in the courts.\nOnline gambling firms typically advertise welcome bonuses of up to several thousand pounds, or supposedly free bets.\nBut the small print may disqualify certain games, or require customers to spend large amounts of money before they qualify.\nThe CMA is also concerned that:\nHowever, the Remote Gambling Association - which represents the industry - said there was no reason to believe there were widespread failings amongst its members.\nIt said it would be wrong to pre-judge the outcome of the CMA's inquiry.\nChris Sattin from Gloucester was playing roulette on a website called Maria Casino and won £35,000, but he wasn't allowed to withdraw his winnings.\nHe told Radio 4's You and Yours: \"I was shaking, my adrenaline was pumping. I pressed on the iPhone to withdraw, but nothing was happening. Because I'd never won these sums of money before, I thought maybe it's only happening because it's a large sum of money and I need to contact customer services.\"\nMaria Casino told Chris he had an account with its sister company Unibet, and he had used a self-exclusion feature on the site - something introduced by the Gambling Commission to help problem gamblers.\nChris told the company he had self-excluded only to close his account. But Maria Casino said this breached the company's terms and conditions.\nYou and Yours contacted Maria Casino about Chris's case and they decided to pay him the £35,000 winnings.", "summary": "Online gambling firms may be breaking the law by making it very difficult for players to collect their winnings, the competition regulator has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Pacemen Ben Cotton (4-28) and Tony Palladino (4-30) shared most of the wickets as the visitors were bowled out for 164, before making 24-1 second time around for the loss of Daryl Mitchell.\nResuming on 319-3, Derbyshire finally declared on 467-5 after home skipper Billy Godleman's maiden double century.\nHis 204 was backed by New Zealand batsman Neil Broom, who made 93.\nIt was the second time in a month that Broom has been out in the nineties on this ground but, despite the loss of the entire first day, he and skipper Godleman have helped put Derbyshire in a potentially winning position.\nThe Derby wicket suddenly looked a different proposition when the visitors batted after lunch under the floodlights as they slumped to 18-5, Cotton taking 3-0 in six balls, before a stand of 66 between Ben Cox (40) and Tom Kohler-Cadmore (29).\nNinth-wicket pair Matt Henry (31) and Ed Barnard (28) held up Worcestershire's expected follow-on with a stand of 55.\nWhen they did bat again, Cotton quickly struck to remove out-of-form captain Mitchell for the second time in successive sessions, caught in the gully, as his side ended the day needing 279 runs to avoid a final-day innings defeat.\nDerbyshire fast bowler Ben Cotton:\n\"It was great to see Billy get 200. We knew we had a good platform and it was our job to make early inroads.\n\"The early wickets set us up and we just kept going from there. We were relentless with the ball. There was just a fraction of movement off the wicket.\n\"When the lights are on the ball seems to go through a little bit more and that's why we got a little bit more bounce but we don't scientifically know why.\n\"That wicket before the close sets us up for tomorrow. We only have to take nine wickets to win the game.\"\nWorcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester:\n\"We had one of those days where we didn't apply ourselves. If that happens, you lose your wickets.\n\"But I don't want to be too critical because they've played really well this year and scored plenty of runs and everyone is entitled to a bad day.\n\"When you have fielded for that length of time while you are probably not physically feeling tired you are mentally not as sharp as you could be. I call that batting tired.\n\"But take nothing away from the Derby bowlers. They bowled really well. They were nice and fresh and had a new ball in their hand and a big score under their belts so you tend to run in with a real zest.\"", "summary": "Derbyshire are in line for their first Championship home win since 2014 after forcing Worcestershire to follow on." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Set to music specially commissioned to mark the anniversary, singers, dancers and acrobats took to the stage at the Deportivo Madryn centre.\nWearing traditional dress, they re-enacted the arrival of the Welsh settlers in 1865, with performances of Welsh hymns and songs including Calon Lan and Ar Lan y Mor.\nThere were indoor fireworks and streams of white, red and green paper fell from the ceiling on to a cheering crowd of several hundred spectators.\nWales' First Minister Carwyn Jones, who was a guest of honour at the event, said the performance was \"spectacular\".\n\"It goes to show how much they value their Welsh roots in this part of the world,\" he said.\nArgentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had been due to attend the concert but she was ill with laryngitis.\nThe concert was held on the eve of the arrival of the first wave of settlers to the Argentine region on 28 July 1865, following a two-month journey.\nThey sailed on the converted tea clipper Mimosa from Liverpool to Puerto Madryn with the aim of creating a new colony where they could preserve their culture, language, and Protestant nonconformist religion, free from English influence.", "summary": "Events to mark the 150th anniversary of the creation of a Welsh settlement in Patagonia got off to an explosive start with a \"grand spectacle\" concert in the city of Puerto Madryn." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Saints have confirmed that an agreement is in place for the transfer.\nSchneiderlin now looks set to join Bayern Munich midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger on United's pre-season tour of the United States.\nUnited have already signed PSV forward Memphis Depay and Torino defender Matteo Darmian this summer.\nSouthampton confirmed they had rejected a bid from United for the 25-year-old France international last week.\nBut, providing there are no unforeseen issues, Schneiderlin will now join Louis van Gaal, Schweinsteiger and their new team-mates on their flight to Seattle for the start of their US tour on Monday afternoon.\nLast summer, Schneiderlin was a target for Tottenham and he missed the start of pre-season after telling the club he was \"not mentally or physically ready\" to play after a bid was rejected.\nBut he went on to make 30 appearances for the Saints last season as they finished in seventh place.\nSchneiderlin join the Saints from Strasbourg in 2008 for £1.2m and has played for them in League One, the Championship and the Premier League.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "summary": "Southampton midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin is having a medical ahead of a proposed move to Manchester United in a deal worth in excess of £25m." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ken and Rita Williams, from Maesteg, Bridgend, were in the resort of Sousse on Friday when 38 people were murdered.\nThe pair ran when Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire on holidaymakers and one of his bullets passed through Mrs Williams's hat.\n\"We're unbelievably lucky, another quarter of an inch and she'd be dead,\" said Mr Williams.\n\"All of a sudden I went down, I said to my husband 'I think I've been hit',\" added Mrs Williams.\n\"It [the bullet] knocked me off my feet. I put my hand on my head because I thought I might have been bleeding, but it was a scratch mark so it couldn't have been any closer.\"\nDavid Hughes, from Deeside, Flintshire, said he and wife Christine saw Rezgui, who is linked to Islamic State extremists, firing as he ran towards people.\nMr Hughes said the gunman was still shooting at people 40 minutes later.\nCardiff couple Ben Milton and Shelley Hay, who were also on the beach, got engaged just hours after the attack.\nMr and Mrs Hughes were staying in the Belle Vue Park Hotel and were sunbathing when they Rezgui start to shoot.\n\"People had started to run, me and my wife started to run back towards our hotel,\" he said.\n\"I could see the sand being flicked up by the bullets.\"\nThe couple flew home on Saturday, three days into their trip.\nMeanwhile, Mr Milton, 24, explained how he had planned to propose to his partner on the day of the murders and decided to go ahead in spite of the killings.\n\"I decided to do it anyway and not let them stop my plans,\" he said.\nMs Hay, who also celebrated her 25th birthday on Friday, said: \"I heard what I thought was fireworks, I looked to the left of me and the whole beach was running and it was like a stampede.\n\"I've never seen anything like it in my life. There were shots, I could see sand flying in the air and I believe it was bullets hitting the floor.\"\nLeiha Shaw, from Ravenhill in Swansea, was also on the beach when the killer opened fire.\nShe told the Jason Mohammad show: \"We can't believe what's happened, it's just so heart breaking.\"\nMs Shaw, who was on holiday with her husband, brother and parents, said the reality of what was happening did not hit them until they heard a lifeguard shout \"run for your life\" and saw people running and screaming along the beach.\n\"It was the most terrifying moment of my life.\"\nThe family ran nearly a mile back to their hotel, not knowing if they were heading into an ambush or more gunfire.\n\"I thought 'if I don't run, I'm going to die'. I can't thank the Tunisian people enough - they saved myself and my family.\"\nTrudy Jones, 51, from Blackwood, Caerphilly county, was one of those killed by the gunman.\nA family statement read: \"She was the rock of our family and kept us all going. None of us have a clue how we're going to cope without her.\"\nHome Secretary Theresa May laid flowers on the beach near Sousse on Monday and called the massacre \"a despicable act of cruelty\".\nPrime Minister David Cameron said the government is working \"as fast as we can\" to give families information.\nTunisian interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said authorities were \"sure\" that Rezgui had accomplices.", "summary": "A woman on holiday in Tunisia was almost killed when one of the gunman's bullets grazed her head." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Substitute Aristide Bance scored with a low drive from a free-kick only five minutes after coming off the bench.\nPrejuce Nakoulma made sure of the victory on the counter-attack, after Tunisia had thrown everyone forward, rounding the goalkeeper 40 yards out before slotting into an empty net.\nThe Stallions will face either Morocco or Egypt in the last four on Wednesday.\nIt is now three wins from their three quarter-finals appearances for Burkina Faso, who last reached this stage in 2013 when they finished as losing finalists.\nFor the first time they secured a quarter-final win in normal time although until Bance's intervention, which finally broke Tunisia's resistance, it appeared as though extra time was to be required again.\nThe Burkinabe had the clearest chances of the first half, Nakoulma firing over from 12 yards over and Bertrand Traore unlucky with a chip that hit the top of the bar.\nTunisia's best opportunity came from a corner headed on by Taha Yassine Khenissi which Aymen Abdennour could only nod on, Mohamed Ali Yacoubi narrowly missing at the far post.\nBoth sides looked increasingly nervous after the interval and the match became scrappy with few chances - a couple of goalmouth scrambles in the Tunisia box typified a lack of decisiveness from both sets of players.\nBance came on and changed that when a free-kick was rolled into his path and he struck a precise effort into the corner.\nIt sparked panic in the Tunisia team ranks despite there being 10 minutes left, they abandoned all defensive discipline as they desperately sought an equaliser.\nTheir recklessness was punished by Nakoulma who sped away on a break and ran past Aymen Mathlouthi, who had rushed far from his goal, before coolly stroking the ball home.\nTunisia's defeat means they have lost their past five Nations Cup quarter-finals, while Burkina Faso remain in the hunt for a first title.\nMatch ends, Burkina Faso 2, Tunisia 0.\nSecond Half ends, Burkina Faso 2, Tunisia 0.\nFoul by Aristide Bancé (Burkina Faso).\nAymen Abdennour (Tunisia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Prejuce Nakoulma (Burkina Faso).\nHamza Lahmar (Tunisia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nSubstitution, Burkina Faso. Alain Traoré replaces Bertrand Traoré.\nDelay in match Kouakou Herve Koffi (Burkina Faso) because of an injury.\nAttempt saved. Hamza Lahmar (Tunisia) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\nFoul by Issoufou Dayo (Burkina Faso).\nSaber Khalifa (Tunisia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nCorner, Tunisia. Conceded by Steeve Yago.\nAttempt blocked. Saber Khalifa (Tunisia) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Naim Sliti.\nSubstitution, Burkina Faso. Bakary Bouba Saré replaces Blati.\nCorner, Tunisia. Conceded by Yacouba Coulibaly.\nPrejuce Nakoulma (Burkina Faso) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.\nSubstitution, Tunisia. Saber Khalifa replaces Taha Yassine Khenissi.\nSubstitution, Tunisia. Ahmed Akaichi replaces Ferjani Sassi.\nGoal! Burkina Faso 2, Tunisia 0. Prejuce Nakoulma (Burkina Faso) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Blati following a fast break.\nCorner, Tunisia. Conceded by Yacouba Coulibaly.\nBlati (Burkina Faso) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Blati (Burkina Faso).\nFerjani Sassi (Tunisia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Prejuce Nakoulma (Burkina Faso) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.\nAristide Bancé (Burkina Faso) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bertrand Traoré.\nGoal! Burkina Faso 1, Tunisia 0. Aristide Bancé (Burkina Faso) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\nHand ball by Syam Ben Youssef (Tunisia).\nYacouba Coulibaly (Burkina Faso) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Mohamed Amine Ben Amor (Tunisia).\nAbdou Traoré (Burkina Faso) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Youssef Msakni (Tunisia).\nSubstitution, Burkina Faso. Aristide Bancé replaces Cyrille Bayala.\nFoul by Abdou Traoré (Burkina Faso).\nHamza Lahmar (Tunisia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt missed. Cyrille Bayala (Burkina Faso) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Bakary Koné.\nOffside, Burkina Faso. Cyrille Bayala tries a through ball, but Prejuce Nakoulma is caught offside.\nFoul by Charles Kaboré (Burkina Faso).\nTaha Yassine Khenissi (Tunisia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nCorner, Tunisia. Conceded by Steeve Yago.", "summary": "Burkina Faso scored two late goals to beat Tunisia 2-0 and reach the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Of the 62 centuries he has compiled so far in first-class and one-day cricket, it would probably mean most to the Warwickshire captain if just one of them had been in a Test at Edgbaston.\nBut, in 55 matches, he is still to make one in Twenty20 cricket too.\n\"To get a T20 ton is one of my ambitions, absolutely,\" said Bell, ahead of Friday's Birmingham Bears T20 Blast home game against Durham.\nIn eight attempts for England, prior to his retirement from all international limited-over cricket last summer, his best knock was an unbeaten 60 against New Zealand at Old Trafford in 2008.\nBut, of his six T20 half-centuries for the Bears, the most recent was on Friday in the home defeat by Worcestershire - and the two best have both been against Durham.\nWarwickshire lost their most recent meeting with Durham - the north-east side's four-wicket win against the Bears at Edgbaston last week. But Bell enjoys T20 meetings with them.\nIn his only two T20 meetings with Durham, he made 85 in 47 balls in a Warwickshire home defeat at Edgbaston in 2010, bettering that with a match-winning 90 from 65 balls in last summer's Bears' win at Chester-le-Street.\nIt was an innings that stood for all of 27 days as the best by a Bears batsman until Brendon McCullum smashed 158 not out off 64 balls against Derbyshire at Edgbaston last July, the highest-ever domestic T20 score.\n\"I enjoyed that 90 up at the Riverside,\" said Bell. \"It was nice to have the top T20 score for the Bears, at least for a little while before Brendon came in and showed why he is the world's best T20 player.\n\"That's still the only T20 hundred for us and it would be great for one of the homegrown guys, who have come through the system here at Edgbaston, to get a ton. I'm sure it's only a matter of time.\"\nAfter being outshone by 92 from fellow opener Sam Hain in the Bears' opening six-wicket T20 Blast win over Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, Bell hit an attractive 66 against Worcestershire at Edgbaston last Friday.\nBut, despite hitting five four and two sixes in his 57-ball knock, Bell's Bears were beaten in the final over by their local rivals.\nAnd, with Chris Woakes back from England Test duty, they will now look to make amends against a Durham side who rallied from their opening night Tom Kohler-Cadmore-inspired battering at Worcester to beat T20 champions Lancashire a week later.\n\"Of course it was disappointing to lose,\" said 34-year-old Bell, who remains hopeful of a Test recall before the end of the summer.\n\"But one game doesn't change a lot. There were some good points and the experience the young guys picked up will be invaluable.\n\"Worcestershire are a good side. They bat very deep and are one of the strongest sides in the group. Fair play to them for the way we played against us but we will come back hard against Durham.\"", "summary": "Ian Bell has very few things missing from his cricketing CV." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that missiles had hit a public square in the rebel-held village of al-Janudiya.\nMany people had gathered there to go shopping, the group added.\nAl-Janudiya is situated in the west of Idlib province, which is now almost completely controlled by rebel forces.\nAn alliance including al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, the al-Nusra Front, seized control of the provincial capital at the end of March, and the major town of Jisr al-Shughour, near al-Janudiya, a month later.\nThe rebels are now advancing on the Mediterranean coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad and his Alawite sect.\nThe Syrian Observatory and the Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), an opposition activist network, both said government aircraft had attacked al-Janudiya on Monday.\nThe LCC put the death toll at 60 and warned that it was likely to rise because some of the dozens of wounded people were in a critical condition.\nSyrian government officials have so far not commented on the reports.\nThe LCC also reported that several people had been killed on Monday in a government air strike in the town of Taftanaz, in eastern Idlib, and that four others had died when government helicopters dropped barrel bombs in the town of Tal Rifaat, in neighbouring Aleppo province.\nThe UN says more than 220,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Mr Assad began four years ago. Almost 12 million others have been displaced.", "summary": "At least 49 civilians, including six children, have been killed in air strikes by government forces in north-western Syria, activists say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Pietersen, who was sacked in February, claims there was a \"bullying culture\", where players were forced to apologise if they made mistakes in the field.\nVaughan said the \"bowlers' cabal\" has been a \"problem for several years\".\n\"The likes of Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad have been disrespectful to fielders,\" he wrote in the Telegraph.\nVaughan, 39, who captained Pietersen in England's 2005 Ashes-winning team, added: \"No one drops a catch on purpose. How would they feel if every time they bowled a bad ball everyone turned to them and said: 'What the hell are you doing?'\"\nVaughan said he had encountered a similar situation in his early years at Yorkshire, where he would \"hate\" fielding because he was \"scared\" of making a mistake.\n\"The irony is that James Anderson has spoken about how difficult it was for him when he first played for England,\" Vaughan added.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"So I hope these bowlers know what they are doing to the guys around them, especially the inexperienced ones.\"\nNottinghamshire fast bowler Ajmal Shahzad, who played one Test and 11 one-day internationals for England, agreed with Pietersen's assessment of cliques in the dressing room.\n\"I wish I could have socialised with my peers a bit more and been accepted a little bit more,\" Shahzad, told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\"Off the pitch you would go off and socialise with your friends in the team, and there were maybe two or three cliques who would stick together. I guess these cliques are not a healthy thing to develop.\"\nPietersen, whose new book is published on Thursday, also accused wicketkeeper Matt Prior of being a disruptive influence on the team.\nFormer England spinner Swann described Pietersen's claims as \"codswallop\". He added that the book was \"the biggest work of fiction since Jules Verne\".\nPietersen had his England central contract terminated in the wake of the 5-0 Ashes defeat in Australia, as the England and Wales Cricket Board set out to create a new \"team ethic\".\nSpeaking to the Telegraph on Monday, he claimed he had been \"marginalised and demonised\" by England and that ex-coach Andy Flower \"ruled by fear\".\nFormer England batsman Geoffrey Boycott said Flower had failed to man-manage Pietersen.\nBoycott told BBC Radio 5 live: \"I have played in a lot of teams. The best captains I played with could be forthright when they wanted to be but understood the different needs of the members of the team.\n\"The real leaders can handle different types of people. It has been quite obvious for some time that the England set-up has not been able to handle KP. KP maybe has part of the blame but if you are someone like Andy Flower, you're not out there scoring runs, so your job is to pull all the players together.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nFormer England captain Mike Gatting said: \"Think of bullying KP, I'm not sure that's quite right. He's a larger than life character, he is his own person at times and he gets on and does things,\" he told 5 live.\n\"Maybe he didn't like what was being done, but he was captain remember, for a short time. Sadly that didn't last long. So he had a chance to actually mould something in that team and he didn't take it.\"\nFormer England batsman Allan Lamb told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's quite sad to hear but I think it's something that's gone on. In every dressing room you are always going to have someone who is upset.\"\nAsked if there was any chance Pietersen could make an international return, Lamb said: \"I can't see that happening. I can't see the ECB taking him back after this.\"\nWatch Kevin Pietersen's full interview with BBC Breakfast.", "summary": "Ex-captain Michael Vaughan has backed Kevin Pietersen's claims that England's bowlers were an intimidating clique, adding they could be \"disrespectful\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty assesses England's display as they brought the curtain down on 2016.\nJoe Hart (goalkeeper) 6\nVery well protected in his 45 minutes. He had little to do.\nNathaniel Clyne (right-back) 7\nMaybe not enough to oust Kyle Walker as England's first-choice right-back but very capable.\nGary Cahill (central defence) 6\nRelatively untroubled first half before being substituted.\nJohn Stones (central defence) 6\nStill takes too many risks - one first-half pass put England and Eric Dier in trouble. Needs to tighten up against the top teams.\nDanny Rose (left-back) 7\nGrowing as an international defender. Good display.\nEric Dier (defensive midfield) 6\nDecent defensive shield. Played his part in helping England control most of this game.\nJordan Henderson (central midfield) 7\nLed by example as captain and delivered a superb cross to set up Vardy's goal.\nJesse Lingard (right winger) 7\nShowed promise with some good running. A work in progress but good signs.\nRaheem Sterling (left winger) 7\nExcellent 65 minutes. Lively, pacy and linked well with Lingard.\nAdam Lallana (forward) 7\nExcellent for 25 minutes until he picked up an injury.\nJamie Vardy (striker) 8\nGot away with a shocking early tackle on Cesar Azpilicueta but after that showed last season's Leicester City form and scored an excellent diving header.\nSubstitutes\nTheo Walcott (for Lallana 25 minutes) 5\nOdd moments but very little impact and should have scored to make it 3-0.\nTom Heaton (for Hart 45 minutes) 6\nLooked very good until Spain's late rally. Could do nothing about Iago Aspas's goal but Isco's equaliser sneaked through his legs at the near post.\nPhil Jagielka (for Cahill 45 minutes) 6\nSolid - but why not give Burnley's Michael Keane 45 minutes?\nAndros Townsend (for Sterling 65 minutes) 5\nCouple of decent crosses.\nMarcus Rashford (for Vardy 67 minutes) 5\nVery quiet performance.\nAaron Cresswell (for Rose 79 minutes) 5\nTough introduction as Spain came to life.\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "summary": "England conceded two late goals as Gareth Southgate's final match as interim manager ended in a 2-2 friendly draw against Spain in a Wembley friendly." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The rise is due to increased use of computer malware and con-artists tricking consumers out of personal details, Financial Fraud Action said.\nIn addition, fraudsters are targeting firms in order to steal bigger amounts.\nHowever, the £60m loss is considered to be \"relatively modest\" with more than half of UK adults using online banking.\nOverall losses on UK cards from fraud totalled £479m in 2014, up 6% on 2013, according to Financial Fraud Action.\nAnyone who is the victim of fraud on their cards is refunded unless it is proved they have been negligent.\nCampaigners say the figures prove banks should continue offering choice to customers who might want to go to a branch.\n\"Many banks and service providers want to encourage people to manage their accounts online and will stress convenience and speed as selling points,\" said Judith Donovan, who chairs the Keep Me Posted campaign.\n\"However, the fact remains that online fraud is increasing year-on-year with many criminals having a demonstrably greater grasp on technology than many of the institutions they are targeting.\n\"This is particularly concerning for older or vulnerable people who might not be as capable when using technology - how can these people be sure that they are not being targeted by criminals?\"\nThe total amount of fraud is down 21% from the peak of £609.9m in 2008.\nThe action group said that banks and card providers had tightened up their security features. Fraudsters have now shifted their attention to tricking people out of their personal details with scams and tall stories on the phone.\nIt is calling for a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of deception crimes. It has also encouraged people banking online to ensure they have the latest anti-virus software installed - which may be available free of charge from their bank.\nThe figures also showed that losses caused by criminals using UK cards fraudulently abroad, where they can circumvent some security features, were up sharply. Losses increased to £150.3m in 2014, up 23% from the previous year.\nThe figures come in the same week as fraud prevention service Cifas said that 46-year-old men were the most likely victims of identity theft.\nThey also come on the day that NatWest admitted some of its customers were not seeing money transferred, owing to \"system issues\".", "summary": "Losses from online banking fraud rose by 48% in 2014 compared with 2013 as consumers increasingly conducted their financial affairs on the internet." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Scotland were hoping to inflict defeat on the Auld Enemy and build on confidence gained from the pivotal Euro 2016 qualifying win against the Republic of Ireland on Friday.\nRooney, however, had other ideas with two second-half goals to add to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's opener as England secured a fully deserved win on their first visit to Glasgow since 1999.\nThe England captain now has 46 international goals, his second coming late on to snuff out brief hopes of an unlikely Scotland revival after Andrew Robertson had pulled one back.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nIt was a highly satisfactory night for England manager Roy Hodgson, who has now seen his side win six successive games as they rebuild after the disappointment of their early World Cup exit in Brazil.\nFor Scotland, who looked jaded following their exertions against the Republic, consolation can come with the knowledge that their main business in this international period was winning that qualifier, which they achieved successfully.\nEngland's own qualifiers have proved routine, but this was billed as a more serious test of their resolve and credentials in the stirring surroundings of Parkhead - and Hodgson will feel this was a test they passed emphatically.\nScotland had only two Premier League players in their starting line-up, Hull City's Robertson and Everton's Steven Naismith and at times that gulf in experience, competitive edge and class was all too obvious.\nHodgson played the straightest of bats in the build-up, declining to portray this as any different to a routine friendly as England came north of the border for the first time since the Euro 2000 qualifying play-off in 1999 - although the naked hostility displayed by both sets of supporters to the respective national anthems may have just altered his opinion.\nIt was Hodgson's side who made the more assured start and Danny Welbeck, so reliable in front of goal for England recently, should have done better than shoot straight at Scotland keeper David Marshall when played in by Rooney.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nScotland were getting some encouragement from the pace of Watford's Ikechi Anya, but looked somewhat leg-weary and lacking in inspiration and when England went ahead after 32 minutes, it was an advantage they deserved.\nJack Wilshere created the opportunity with a long, driven pass which found Oxlade-Chamberlain, who applied a thin but decisive touch with his head to beat Marshall.\nStrachan introduced Darren Fletcher and James Morrison for Chris Martin and Scott Brown, as well as Craig Gordon for Marshall in goal, in an attempt to give his team fresh impetus at the start of the second half, but it was England who struck again two minutes after the restart.\nScotland failed to clear a free-kick and when Robertson could only divert Wilshere's shot into the path of Rooney, he reacted swiftly to divert a smart header past Gordon.\nAs the clock ran down and substitutes arrived on a regular basis, Robertson gave Scotland hope with a close-range finish with seven minutes left.\nRooney responded almost instantly by crowning another good passing move with a powerful finish and a somersault of celebration in front of England's elated supporters.\nMatch ends, Scotland 1, England 3.\nSecond Half ends, Scotland 1, England 3.\nFoul by Stevie May (Scotland).\nPhil Jagielka (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nJohnny Russell (Scotland) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Nathaniel Clyne (England).\nFoul by Darren Fletcher (Scotland).\nRoss Barkley (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nSubstitution, England. Ross Barkley replaces Jack Wilshere.\nAttempt missed. Johnny Russell (Scotland) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left.\nGoal! Scotland 1, England 3. Wayne Rooney (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adam Lallana.\nGoal! Scotland 1, England 2. Andrew Robertson (Scotland) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Johnny Russell.\nDarren Fletcher (Scotland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Raheem Sterling (England).\nSubstitution, Scotland. Johnny Russell replaces Shaun Maloney.\nSubstitution, England. Rickie Lambert replaces Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\nCorner, England. Conceded by Charlie Mulgrew.\nAttempt missed. Jack Wilshere (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\nFoul by James Morrison (Scotland).\nAlex Oxlade-Chamberlain (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nAttempt missed. Steven Naismith (Scotland) header from very close range is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Shaun Maloney with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, Scotland. Conceded by James Milner.\nShaun Maloney (Scotland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Jack Wilshere (England).\nSubstitution, Scotland. Stevie May replaces Grant Hanley.\nSubstitution, England. Raheem Sterling replaces Danny Welbeck.\nSubstitution, England. Kieran Gibbs replaces Luke Shaw.\nJames Morrison (Scotland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by James Milner (England).\nAttempt saved. Wayne Rooney (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adam Lallana.\nDarren Fletcher (Scotland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Wayne Rooney (England).\nSubstitution, Scotland. Barry Bannan replaces Ikechi Anya.\nFoul by Shaun Maloney (Scotland).\nLuke Shaw (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nShaun Maloney (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Chris Smalling (England).\nAttempt missed. Chris Smalling (England) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Adam Lallana with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, England. Conceded by Russell Martin.\nCharlie Mulgrew (Scotland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.", "summary": "Wayne Rooney closed in on Sir Bobby Charlton's all-time England record of 49 goals as his side gained a comfortable victory against Scotland at a passionate Celtic Park." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "More than 50 people have signed up to the scheme after being given road safety training by the British Horse Society.\nThe riders are being given high visibility jackets with a logo identifying them as police volunteers.\nNorthamptonshire Police said they will be \"an extra set of eyes and ears\" and will not confront lawbreakers.\nIt is hoped the initiative will have an impact on speeding motorists, who might be encouraged to slow down if they see uniformed riders.\nThe volunteers provide their own horses and will be given out-of-pocket expenses by the force.\nThey will not be given patrol routes. Instead police said they will be asked \"to keep an eye out\" for problems as they ride along the county's lanes and bridleways.\nNorthamptonshire Police has also introduced its first mounted Police Community Support Officer (PCSO).\nTash Fountain will patrol on her own horse, Cody.\nOther police forces in England have introduced similar schemes.\nNorfolk Police reintroduced mounted patrols in 2012.\nSpecial constable Richard Tallent, who manages Norfolk's specials on horseback unit, said: \"Every year, we're carrying out around two patrols a week, which translates as 100 hours of work.\n\"We've already seen some good results with fly-tipping, drink driving, drug and anti-social behaviour convictions thanks to the work of the unit.\"", "summary": "Volunteers on horseback will help police tackle rural crime by patrolling the countryside in Northamptonshire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rebecca Fox was in labour and being taken to hospital by her mother Sandra on Thursday when she realised her baby was coming sooner than expected.\nThey pulled into Chiswick police station's car park where they were joined by a police staff member and a PC, and Bobby was born in the car.\nThe Met Police said both mother and child are doing well.\nStaff member Jacky Brosnan said she \"heard a lady outside in the car park shouting\" so she looked out of the window \"and there was another younger woman in the car with her feet on the dashboard\".\nShe then rushed downstairs, grabbing PC Holly Foran along the way, and they went out to help.\n\"Within two minutes a baby boy was born,\" she said.\nA doctor who happened to be passing checked over Ms Fox and her baby before they were taken to hospital by ambulance.", "summary": "A baby who was unexpectedly born outside a west London police station has been named Bobby by his mother." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "There was a heavy police presence at the demonstration by the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (Garc), which opposes an agreement aimed at resolving a long-running dispute in the area.\nOver 200 people took part.\nThe group does not accept the deal that will see an Orange Parade pass the Ardoyne shops on Saturday morning.\nThe agreement was brokered between another residents group - the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association (Cara) - and the Orange Order last weekend.\nIt has been backed by local politicians, as well as the British and Irish governments.\nIt involves a voluntary moratorium on future return parades, but Garc says it will protest as long as there are any Orange parades in the area.\nA short distance away, on Twaddell Avenue, a loyalist protest parade also took place on Friday evening.\nIt has happened almost nightly since the dispute over the Ligoniel lodges' return parade began.\nThat parade also passed off peacefully and a large PSNI security operation was scaled back shortly after 20:00 BST.\nOver 400 officers were on the ground during the protest and parade and around 600 officers will return for Saturday morning's parade that will begin at 08:30 BST.\nAnother Garc protest will take place during that parade. It has been limited to 60 participants by the Parades Commission.\nHowever, Garc spokesperson Damien 'Dee' Fennell said residents of the area \"have the right to attend the front of the road...and roads outside their houses and observe the parade for any breaches and I hope as many of them do as possible\".\nHe added: \"Tomorrow morning, we're going to see a sectarian parade through this area. It's a return parade. It's something that the people of this area thought was dead, gone and not coming back.\n\"It's been resurrected by Sinn Féin and the UVF and the people in this area came out tonight overwhelmingly to oppose that deal.\"\nEarlier on Friday, churches appealed to Garc to call its plans.\nA community advert placed in the Irish News said the protest would not help ease tensions.\nAmong the signatories are politicians, academics and sporting organisations as well as the Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor, Noel Treanor, and the Church of Ireland Bishop of Connor, Alan Abernethy.\nIt stated: \"We believe this is the best opportunity we have had in 15 years to resolve an issue, which has divided our community for many years.\n\"It is our view the introduction of another evening parade, no matter what part of the community it comes from, would inevitably and regrettably, whether intentional or otherwise raise tensions, damage community relations, and has the potential to end in confrontation and undermine a long sought after resolution.\"\nThe agreement to which Garc is opposed was announced last week between the Orange Order and the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association (Cara).\nThe group is billing its protest as a \"march and rally to oppose ongoing sectarian parades and SF/UVF deal (Sinn Féin/Ulster Volunteer Force)\".", "summary": "A protest against an Orange Order parade in north Belfast passed off peacefully on Friday evening." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 25-year-old was injured during his side's 2-0 home defeat by St Johnstone in the Scottish Premiership.\nManager Jim McIntyre told BBC Scotland: \"We will know more about Liam's injury later on.\n\"But we think it is a medial ligament injury and we are hoping he's not out too long.\"\nBoyce, who has won seven caps for his country, is County's top scorer this season with six goals this season - all in his last six games.\nAnd he was named in Michael O'Neill's squad on Thursday for the Group C double header on 8 and 11 October.\nBut he had to be helped off the field five minutes before the end of County's match on Saturday.\nBoyce collided with Zander Clark as the goalkeeper parried a shot from Chris Burke, the former Scotland winger making his debut for County.\nNorthern Ireland are already without Will Grigg, with the Wigan Athletic striker having been left out for family reasons.", "summary": "Ross County striker Liam Boyce is an almost certain withdrawal from the Northern Ireland squad for World Cup qualifiers with San Marino and Germany." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "His escape route from Altiplano jail was more than 1.5km (1 mile) long and had ventilation and stairs, the national security commissioner said.\nEighteen guards are being questioned.\nGuzman was last seen in the showers of the jail on Saturday. It was the second time he had escaped from a top security prison.\nIn 2001 he broke out by hiding in a laundry basket after bribing prison officials.\nHe had been serving a sentence of more than 20 years after being arrested in Guatemala in 1993.\nHis recapture in 2014 was hailed as a victory for Mexico's government.\nGuzman's escape is a huge embarrassment to the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto.\nEarlier this year, his administration dismissed concerns that Guzman could escape for a second time, but the government's worst nightmare has unfolded.\nSince Mr Nieto took office in 2012, authorities have detained or killed numerous top drug lords. However, this escape is seen as a mockery of the Mexican prison system and shows the difficulty in keeping one of the country's most powerful criminals behind bars.\nIt seems unlikely that the prison break took place without some form of inside help.\nA manhunt has been launched. But even if he's recaptured many here wonder what's the point of putting him back in a Mexican jail.\nOfficials say that Guzman's escape was discovered when officers checked his cell in the jail, which is near the capital, Mexico City.\nThey found a hole around 10m (32ft) deep with a ladder, which led to the tunnel. It came to an end at a construction site outside the prison walls, security commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said at a news conference.\nA motorcycle was also discovered, which police believe was used to transport tools and remove earth from the space.\nA manhunt has been launched and flights suspended at a nearby Toluca airport.\nGuzman's wealth is estimated at $1bn (£630m).\nHis rise to head of the Sinaloa cartel made him the world's most wanted drug trafficker. It smuggles huge amounts of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine into the United States.\nBefore his recapture in 2014, the US state department had offered a reward of up to $5m (£3.2m) for information leading to his arrest.", "summary": "Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, known as El Chapo or \"Shorty\", used an elaborate tunnel to break out of a maximum security prison, officials say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "American Diaz, 30, forced the Irishman to submit in the second round - his first defeat since 2010.\nMcGregor, 27, said: \"I'll face it like a man, like a champion. I'll come back and do it again.\"\nIn another surprise, women's bantamweight champion Holly Holm lost in the fifth round to Miesha Tate.\nHolm, 34, stunned the mixed martial arts world by knocking out the previously undefeated Ronda Rousey to take the title in November.\nBut the former boxer, who had won all 10 of her previous UFC fights, was choked unconscious by fellow American Tate, 29.\n\"She went out like a champion,\" said Tate, who has won her past five bouts. \"I have so much respect for this woman.\"\nMcGregor, meanwhile, had been denied the chance to become the first UFC fighter to hold two world titles at the same time when Brazilian Rafael dos Anjos pulled out of a fight because of injury last month.\nThe Irishman landed heavy shots in round one, opening up a cut over Diaz's right eye.\nHe tried to finish the contest, only for Diaz to catch him with a punch in the second round after which he never regained the initiative.\nDiaz eventually got behind McGregor to apply a choke hold that forced him to submit.\nMcGregor said: \"I'm humble in victory or defeat. I took a chance to move up a weight and it didn't work.\n\"I have a lot of respect for Nate. He came in at short notice. He was efficient. I was not.\"", "summary": "UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor suffered a shock defeat as Nate Diaz won their welterweight fight in Las Vegas." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Owner Mavji Ahir says his new chai (tea) stall is helping him make daily profits of 2,000 rupees ($32; £19).\nMr Modi often talks about his \"humble beginnings\" as a tea vendor.\nAt the weekend, he is due to meet people at a tea shop in Gandhinagar city to connect with the voters. India is to hold elections in a few months.\nGandhinagar is the capital of the western state of Gujarat and Mr Modi is the charismatic, thought controversial, chief minister of the state.\nTaking a cue from the BJP leader's \"chai-wallah\" story, Mr Ahir, 25, opened a small tea stall in Gujarat's Kutch district.\n\"I was almost unemployed and not able to earn even 5,000 rupees ($80; £48) a month. But now I am able to sell more than 300 cups of tea every day, which helps to generate a net profit of over 2,000 rupees a day,\" The Pioneer newspaper quotes Mr Ahir as saying.\nWithin a week of the \"Modi Tea Stall\" starting on the Anjar-Bhuj Motorway, Mr Ahir's business has become a hit, the paper says and adds that many people passing through the highway have made it a point to stop by for a cup of tea at his stall, mostly out of curiosity.\nMr Ahir now wants to rise like Mr Modi - but he says he has no political ambition and wishes to open a luxury hotel in the future.\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "summary": "A tea stall named after India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party's PM candidate Narendra Modi is doing brisk business, media reports say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "\"In the past we worked with a couple of bus and courier companies in East Africa, and we saw that most of them had issues with last-mile logistics,\" remembers Meshack Alloys, chief executive of Sendy, a Kenya-based logistics website and mobile phone app.\n\"I actually grew up in a village here in Kenya… I have seen the road network being a problem - as I grew up, I saw how products would basically reach the end person at a cost that was high,\" says 29-year-old Mr Alloys in his office in Kenya's capital Nairobi, notorious for its severe traffic jams.\nIn response, Mr Alloys and two friends, who had worked together for a bus company, developed a 24/7 on-demand platform that connects individuals or companies looking to dispatch packages, with motorbike riders offering delivery services.\n\"There are traditional courier companies that might do overnight or same-day delivery, but they don't do immediate, and they might not go residential,\" explains Malaika Judd, the 30-year-old US chief operating officer of Sendy, who left a Nairobi-based investment fund to join the start-up.\nSendy initially worked with motorbike riders - known popularly in Kenya as boda bodas - but has expanded to include pick-up trucks, large vans and cyclists.\n\"These are all crowd-sourced riders,\" adds Ms Judd. \"We don't physically own any of the vehicles or the bicycles, and all the riders, cyclists and drivers work for themselves on the platform.\"\nThe platform operates in a way that would be familiar to any user of Uber - a user enters the required delivery route, and is given a price quote. Once the pick-up is requested, users can track the rider, and then follow a package to its point of delivery.\nPayment is made through a pre-registered credit card, or using the popular M-Pesa mobile money transfer platform.\nSendy started by using very simple technology that worked with basic phones, using SMS and USSD technology and GPS trackers on bikes. But as the price of smartphones has come down, the company is rolling out a hybrid app that also works on riders' smartphones.\n\"We wanted to solve this problem using existing assets and people… we didn't want them to buy fancy gadgets, expensive gadgets to do that,\" says Mr Alloys.\n\"We looked at how do we make these people utilise their assets to the maximum and bring down the cost.\"\nSince it launched its first product in April 2014, Sendy has completed more than 20,000 deliveries - averaging between 150 and 200 per day - and has around 60 active riders on the platform, all of whom are vetted.\nFor Sendy rider Geoffrey Oloo, reliability of work is a key attraction of the platform. Riders take away 80% of each delivery fee, which starts at a base amount of KES240 ($2.40; £1.60) for the first 7km.\n\"You are sure in a day that you will get work because there are so many customers in the Sendy system,\" he says. \"When I am with Sendy I am sure at the end of the day that I will having something in my pocket, something I can take home.\"\nSome 75% of daily deliveries are done for corporate business accounts and the rest for individuals.\nSendy works with businesses including e-commerce firms dispatching purchased goods around the bustling Kenyan capital, food companies offering home delivery, and pharmacies moving medicine to patients.\nThe company is hoping to launch an investment round within the next six months, having successfully attracted funding from corporate and tech investment funds, as well as local angels, in an earlier investment last year.\nThe team is eager to expand to new cities - both within Kenya and beyond - using hoped-for funding in the next investment round.\nHaving watched Sendy's emergence, tech blogger Moses Kemibaro sees scalability as the company's next hurdle.\n\"I think their big challenge is really scaling it to get as many people as possible onto the service before some big international player checks into the market, which potentially could compromise the opportunity to grow,\" says Mr Kemibaro.\n\"Already in Kenya, we have seen other on-demand service providers like EasyTaxi and Uber doing well,\" he adds.\n\"Increasingly, you will see such providers moving into markets like Mombasa and Nakuru. I think Sendy do have the same potential, but the question at the end of the day is really whether they have the resources to expand.\"\nThe Sendy team also hope that the service will help to offer solutions to some basic infrastructural problems that are common in the East African region.\n\"Traffic is a huge issue, infrastructure of roads is an issue, quality of data on a map is an issue, addressing is an issue, actually having a house number is an issue, street names is an issue,\" explains Ms Judd.\n\"While we are providing these on demand services, we are also improving a lot of the base infrastructure… for example we can collect data on all these addresses, we can save these addresses and I can understand now residential locations.\n\"We can capitalise on the fact that we can beat the traffic by using individuals on two wheels, cyclists or riders. So all of these challenges are also really cool opportunities for Sendy to beat the alternative solutions out there.\"", "summary": "Meshack Alloys knows the challenges of delivering goods in Kenya only too well." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Welsh Government hopes to provide better internet to 96% of Welsh premises by the end of the year.\nBut BT said there were issues getting access to land or permission to dig in some areas.\nThe scheme is expected to cost more than £400m.\nSuperfast Cymru, which pooled Welsh and UK government money and EU funds, was set up because the commercial roll-out of superfast broadband only achieved 49% coverage.\nIt contracted BT to roll out the service but there are frustrations over \"missed deadlines\" and \"broken promises\".\nGlyn Jones, of Pembrokeshire spring water company Princes Gate, said his firm had already been waiting 18 months and was running out of patience.\n\"It's something that we've been longing for for some time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme.\n\"We've had meetings with BT… they seem to be full of promises as to when we'll have broadband.\n\"As a company we've given up waiting and we've leased our own superfast line. That will cost the businesses £1,000 a month between them.\n\"We can't have broadband hold us back as businesses.\"\nBT Wales director Alwen Williams said the scale of the engineering challenges was \"absolutely immense\".\n\"Way-leaves have been - and continue to be - one of our most significant challenges - getting permissions to access the land that we need to access in order to lay the fibre cables.\n\"At the moment we have around 40,000 homes and businesses that are held up because we have a complex discussion or negotiation going on with various parties about how to gain access to land or permissions to dig, road closures.\"\nBut Julie James, minister for skills and science, said the Welsh Government was \"frustrated\" with information given out by BT.\n\"I meet BT quarterly to discuss the progress of SFC and we have long and involved conversations there about exactly what information could be on the website,\" she said.\n\"In fact the government took over the website last summer, as a result of that, and we've improved the website dramatically so now it's a lot more accurate in terms of whether you're going to get it and when you're going to get it.\n\"Nobody wants to be at the end of the programme. But we have assured people that we will get to them.\"", "summary": "Work to deliver access to superfast broadband to 40,000 homes and businesses is being delayed by the challenges of putting in fibre optic cables, BT has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The club announced on Friday that they had accepted manager Mark Warburton's resignation, but he denies resigning.\nManaging director Stewart Robertson says the club have not spoken to anyone about the manager's job and that they \"want to be a modern football club\".\nUnder-20s coach Graeme Murty is in interim charge of the first team.\n\"We see that sometimes when managers leave a lot of the structure leaves with them,\" Robertson told Rangers' website.\n\"That is no use, you put a lot of time a lot of investment and a lot of resource into developing that side of the business and you can't have that changing every time a manager changes.\n\"The director of football gives you that continuity. They oversee the overall football department, all aspects of it, including the academy, performance and preparation, analysis and everything as well as the first team.\"\nAberdeen manager Derek McInnes and St Johnstone counterpart Tommy Wright have distanced themselves from speculation linking them with the Rangers vacancy, while former Rangers manager Alex McLeish has indicated his willingness to return to Ibrox.\nAnother potential candidate, Frank de Boer, is unlikely to take on a new job until the summer.\nRangers, 27 points behind leaders Celtic, are third in the Scottish Premiership and have reached the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup.\n\"We haven't at this stage spoken to anyone about the manager or director of football roles,\" added Robertson.\n\"We are just gathering the facts and we will take our time as they are two key roles.\n\"We have a very capable interim manager in Graeme Murty, who has risen to the challenge fantastically well so far and we will run with that for the foreseeable future.\n\"I know there has been some chat within the media about whether we will get an interim manager and then a permanent manager. Ideally you would get your permanent manager in place from day one.\n\"It may be that due to circumstances that's not possible until the summer, in which case we need to look at filling the role in an interim basis.\n\"However, it is our objective to try to get someone permanent in place from day one.\n\"The target is to finish as high as we can in the league, which realistically is second place.\n\"Obviously we would love to win the Scottish Cup this year as well and that's a very clear goal that we will set the team.\"", "summary": "Rangers are looking to appoint a director of football following the departure of the club's management team and head of recruitment." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The findings, for the BBC's Panorama programme, are based on FOI results from half of mental health trusts.\nUnexpected deaths include death by suicide, neglect and misadventure.\nThe Department of Health said the increase was \"expected\" because of changes to the way deaths were recorded and investigated.\nNHS England said the suicide rate among people in mental health services had fallen, by more than 30% since 2004.\nThirty-three mental health trusts - which provide most mental health care - out of a total of 57 in England responded to the Panorama Freedom of Information request.\nIn 2012-13, the trusts reported a total of 2,067 unexpected deaths.\nBy 2015-16 that had risen to 3,160.\nThe increase comes at a time of decreased funding for mental health trusts, which provide the bulk of mental health care in England.\nExclusive new analysis for Panorama from the think tank, the Health Foundation, indicates that mental health trusts in England have had their funding cut by £150m over the past four years, compared with a rise in national spending on health of £8bn.\nMental health and stigma: 'You're not alone'\nMood self-assessment: Could I be depressed?\nThe death of Leo Jacobs was one of those classed as an \"unexpected death\".\nLeo, who had schizophrenia, was 39 when he died of a suspected accidental overdose at his flat.\nLeo's mother, Sheila Preston, said \"I begged the trust to help him but they thought he was living well - he was managing but I knew that he wasn't.\n\"I knew that he was going to get iller and iller and iller. And he died and when they came to tell me I was not surprised. I was expecting it.\n\"The idea that people would be better living in the community is a very good idea - but the support is not there to help them maintain their health.\"\nLeo was a patient at Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust where Sheila is a lay governor.\n\"I know, I know, that my son and I know that people in the trust, good people in the trust, know that my son could've been saved.\"\nNorfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has recently been removed from special measures despite concerns over high numbers of patient deaths.\nIt redesigned its services in 2013 after substantial cuts to its funding.\nIts chief executive Michael Scott said: \"Five years ago before I joined the trust, the trust was under financial pressure, there's no doubt about that, and it had to respond to that financial pressure by changing the way it ran its services.\n\"And my personal view is I think mistakes were made in that period.\"\nHe said of the trust \"we're on a journey of improvement\".\n\"What the facts actually show is that one of the reasons that those numbers [unexpected deaths] are changing is that we are providing more services than we ever did before.\n\"We've acknowledged that people are dying, what's important is that we understand the causes.\"\nAnita Charlesworth, economist at the Health Foundation, said mental health trusts were receiving a falling share of funding.\n\"The NHS has not set out to cut mental health services but as they've got rising patient demand elsewhere, they've had to look for cuts to make up that budget shortfall and often it is mental health services that have borne the brunt of those.\"\nAlmost every mental health trust in the country is currently in the process of redesigning its services and restructuring is under way across England as part of 44 STPs or Sustainability and Transformation Plans.\nBut there is concern about what those redesigns will mean for care.\nThe President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Sir Simon Wessely, has concerns that services may be about to get worse.\n\"I've been in meetings with chief executives and chairs of trusts who are openly talking about that they'll have to decommission services next year,\" he said.\n\"What is I think tragic is that it's the time when we have been promised increased funding and there is no doubt that this is not yet getting to where it is intended.\"\nMarjorie Wallace, from the mental health charity Sane, said she was shocked by the rise in unexpected deaths.\nShe said: \"We are particularly concerned because these are the most vulnerable people that we have entrusted into the care of mental health services and they are so often being failed - both them and their families.\"\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"This increase in the number of deaths is to be expected because the NHS is very deliberately improving the way such events are recorded and investigated following past failings.\n\"From April all NHS trusts will be required to publish both numbers of avoidable deaths and how they are improving care.\n\"We also dispute the funding figures used in this programme - just this year, mental health spending by Clinical Commissioning Groups has gone up by £342m, which is on top of an extra £1.4bn allocated in this Parliament.\"\nAn NHS spokesperson, said: \"The statistics on suicide are clear: for the last decade the suicide rate amongst people in mental health services has been falling, by more than 30% since 2004, most clearly in inpatient services and more recently in community services.\n\"We do not believe that the figures obtained by the BBC reflects the national data most recently published, which suggests that their figures are incomplete and misleading.\"", "summary": "The number of unexpected patient deaths reported by England's mental health trusts has risen by almost 50% in three years, figures suggest." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A motion has been tabled to Scottish Borders Council seeking the move.\nA joint fatal accident inquiry into the deaths and one at the Snowman Rally in Inverness is to be held in July.\nCouncillor Frances Renton has asked the authority to work for a swift return of the event as long as the inquiry's findings do not inhibit it.\nThe inquiry, which will be held in Edinburgh, is due to begin on 17 July.\nIt will consider the deaths of Joy Robson at the Snowman Rally in 2013 and Iain Provan, Elizabeth Allan and Len Stern at the Jim Clark Rally near Coldstream in 2014.\nA motion tabled by Ms Renton to be discussed by Scottish Borders Council this week asks the authority's chief executive Tracey Logan to take action after \"carefully considering the findings\" of the inquiry.\nShe has been asked to \"work positively with all relevant parties\" to restore the rally as quickly as possible.\nThe event has not been held on its traditional route since the deaths in 2014 and there are concerns over its long-term future.", "summary": "A call has been made for the Jim Clark Rally to return \"as quickly as possible\" after an inquiry into three deaths at the event in 2014." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "15 February 2016 Last updated at 20:40 GMT\nIn the video, the retired 7ft 1in (2.16m) NBA player praises the club, which is five points clear at the top of League Two, and a leading contender for promotion.\nO'Neal, known as Shaq, co-owns an internet radio station in the USA with Cobblers' chairman Kelvin Thomas.\n\"I just wanted to wish Kelvin and all the Cobblers best of luck. First place is where I like to be and it's great to see you guys at the top,\" he said.\nMr O'Neal added that he hoped to visit the home of the Cobblers Sixfields stadium.\nA spokesman for Northampton Town Football Club said: \"We are delighted to have the support of Shaq, and his support has created a lot of excitement.\n\"We have invited him to come to a Northampton Town game when he is next in England and we can't wait to see him at Sixfields wearing a claret shirt, cheering the Cobblers on.\"", "summary": "US basketball star Shaquille O'Neal has given his backing to League Two football club Northampton Town in a YouTube clip." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The child has not been seen for two days, since his parents abandoned him in northern Hokkaido, a region home to wild bears.\nThe couple first told police he got lost as they foraged for vegetables.\nBut they later confessed they had left him alone for five minutes to punish him but when they returned he had gone.\nHundreds of emergency service workers are combing the area in search of the boy.\nThe father told a TV Asahi reporter he did not dare admit the truth while requesting a search.\nThe couple had walked some 500m (a third of a mile) from the child before returning, the TV channel reported.", "summary": "The parents of a seven-year-old boy missing in the mountains of northern Japan have admitted that they left him alone in the woods as a punishment." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "After England were bowled out for 297, Pakistan replied with 400 but the hosts won by 141 runs to take a 2-1 lead into Thursday's final Test at The Oval.\n\"It does a huge amount for the team, knowing you can be 100 runs behind and come back,\" Anderson said.\n\"It shows what sort of character we've got in the team as well.\"\nAnderson returned to the top of the Test bowling rankings after a match haul of 4-85 in Birmingham and he believes his individual confidence is shared across the team.\n\"Going into this game we know now we can win from pretty much any position,\" added the Lancashire bowler.\n\"Hopefully we won't be 100 runs behind on first innings this time, but the confidence in the group is high at the moment.\"\nEngland are thought to be considering a place for Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid, who is a regular in the one-day team but who played the last of his three Tests in November last year.\nRashid, who took 5-64 in his debut against Pakistan in October, is expected to be included in the squad for the winter tours to the spin-friendly conditions of Bangladesh and India.\n\"You've got to pick your team according to the conditions,\" Anderson said. \"If the pitch is suitable for two spinners then we'll play two spinners.\n\"If it's a pitch that has got green grass on it, I don't think there's any point playing him for the sake of playing him.\n\"It's nice to have someone like Adil waiting to play. He's a quality spinner and we're very fortunate we've got him and he'll hopefully be a big part of our winter if he doesn't play this game.\"\nPakistan coach Mickey Arthur insists his team can recover to draw the series despite losing successive matches by heavy margins at Old Trafford and Edgbaston.\n\"There were a lot of good things for us out of that Test match. I certainly did not feel we ever rolled over there, we were in the contest for most of that game.\n\"We probably won five sessions and England won three. The sessions England won, they won convincingly.\n\"We hate losing but we lost with a lot of credibility at Edgbaston and it puts us in a really good space to come back here.\"", "summary": "England bowler James Anderson says the impressive third Test victory over Pakistan at Edgbaston shows the team can win from \"any position\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Evans's breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 dropped by 414,000 listeners compared with the previous quarter to 9.06 million.\nBut the programme remained the most popular radio show in the UK.\nGrimshaw attracted 5.25 million weekly listeners between July and September, dropping 184,000 on the last quarter.\nThe drops are likely to be down to fewer people listening to breakfast shows during the summer months.\nBut digital station BBC Radio 6 Music attracted a new record audience of 2.34 million listeners.\nIt is the fifth consecutive quarter that the digital station has scored record ratings.\nHelen Boaden, Director of BBC Radio, said she was \"delighted that more and more people are discovering the station's irresistible combination of outstanding alternative music and witty presenters\".\nWhile Grimshaw's figures were down, Radio 1 as a whole went up, from 9.46 million last quarter to 9.87 million weekly listeners between July and September.\nThe figure rose further to 10.9 million when listeners aged 10 to 14 were included in the data. The station is currently trying to attract a younger audience.\nBen Cooper, controller of Radio 1, said the figures \"should be seen alongside the increase to 1.5 million views a day on our YouTube channel and our 8.5 million users on social media\".\nBBC Radio 4 posted a weekly reach of 11.2 million, its second highest audience to date.\nThe network's flagship Today programme dropped 250,000 listeners to 7.1 million but its sister programme The World At One reached an all-time high of 3.75 million.\nIn commercial radio, LBC, Heart and Capital all increased their number of weekly listeners compared with the previous quarter - while Absolute Radio added more than half a million.\nThe breakfast shows on Classic FM and talkSPORT increased their reach nationally, but several commercial breakfast programmes dropped listeners.\nKiss's Rickie, Melvin and Charlie dropped from 2.13 million national listeners in the last quarter to to 1.83 million between July and September.\nThe Chris Moyles breakfast show on Radio X lost 36,000 listeners in London but increased the overall number listeners across the UK - reaching 703,000.\nBut Capital's breakfast show, hosted by Dave Berry, George Shelley and Lilah Parsons, dropped slightly, but remained the most popular commercial breakfast show in the UK.\nOverall, Rajar - the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK - said 89% of British people - or 48.2 million adults - listened to the radio at least once a week over the quarter, an increase of 320,000 on last year.\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Chris Evans and Nick Grimshaw both lost listeners over the last three months, according to the latest industry figures from Rajar." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "During the summer, a High Court judge ruled Mr Hunt acted outside his powers when he decided the emergency and maternity units should be cut back.\nThe government turned to the Court of Appeal on Monday in an attempt to get the decision overruled.\nMr Hunt had previously claimed the move would improve patient care.\nFollowing the ruling, Mr Hunt said: \"I completely understand why the residents of Lewisham did not want any change in their A&E services, but my job as health secretary is to protect patients across south London - and doctors said these proposals would save lives.\n\"We are now looking at the law to make sure that at a time of great challenge the NHS is able to change and innovate when local doctors believe it is in the interests of patients.\"\nAt the High Court in July, Mr Justice Silber said Mr Hunt's decision was unlawful as he lacked power and breached the National Health Services Act 2006.\nIt was said the cuts would also mean local people having \"to travel a long, long way further to get access to vital services\".\nUnder government policy Mr Hunt had appointed a trust special administrator (TSA) to the South London Healthcare Trust, which went into administration after losing more than £1m a week.\nTo help ease the problem, the TSA recommended cuts at the Hospital.\nAt the Court of Appeal on Monday Rory Phillips QC, for the Health Secretary and the TSA, argued they had not acted outside their powers.\nThey challenged Mr Justice Silber's findings that the TSA was not entitled to recommend the changes and that Mr Hunt was not entitled to implement them.\nReferring to the 2006 Act, Mr Phillips said its \"wording, statutory context and purpose\" should have led Mr Justice Silber \"to conclude that they were entitled so to act, consistently with Parliament's evident intention\".\nThe challenge against the government was brought by Save Lewisham Hospital and the London Borough of Lewisham.\nRosa Curling, who represented the campaign group, said: \"We are absolutely delighted with the Court of Appeal's decision.\n\"This expensive waste of time for the government should serve as a wake up call that they cannot ride roughshod over the needs of the people.\n\"The decision to dismiss the appeal also reaffirms the need for judicial review, a legal process by which the unlawful decisions of public bodies, including the government, can be challenged by the public.\"\nAndy Burnham, Labour's shadow health secretary, described the decision as a \"humiliation\" for Mr Hunt that \"raises major questions about his judgment\".\nHe said: \"Instead of graciously accepting the first court ruling, he has squandered thousands of [pounds of] taxpayers' money trying to protect his own pride and defend the indefensible.\n\"Today, the secretary of state must accept this decision, apologise unreservedly to the people of Lewisham and give an unequivocal commitment that their A&E will not now be downgraded.\"\nMayor of Lewisham Sir Steve Bullock said: \"This is a great result. I was confident of our case but I am still very relieved.\n\"This is another victory for each and every individual who signed a petition, who wrote to the secretary of state and who marched through the streets of Lewisham.\"\nThe decision was made by Lord Dyson, Lord Justice Sullivan and Lord Justice Underhill.", "summary": "The Court of Appeal has ruled Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt did not have power to implement cuts at Lewisham Hospital in south-east London." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "We asked you to pick your best XI from Euro 2016 and over 100,000 of you responded.\nAn old-fashioned 4-4-2 was the preferred formation - 55% of you went that way - and the team was dominated by players from France and semi-finalists Wales.\nWho made the cut and who missed out?\nFrance captain Hugo Lloris was picked by 32% of readers - 32,720 - to start in goal for this team.\nLloris, 29, conceded just five goals in his seven appearances at Euro 2016; keeping three clean sheets in the process.\nItaly legend Gianluigi Buffon was the second-most picked goalkeeper, with Germany keeper Manuel Neuer selected by just 480 fewer people.\nNorthern Ireland's Michael McGovern - outstanding against Germany - was picked by just under 10,000 people.\nOver 80,000 of you - or 79% - wanted a back four in one guise or another, but the problem came with picking a right-back.\nEuro 2016 was clearly not a tournament of outstanding full-backs and so Germany defender Jerome Boateng - who played throughout the competition as a centre-back - was actually chosen to play on the right by more people than anybody else.\nBoateng was also heavily picked to start in the centre - he was the most selected defender overall.\nItalian centre-back Leonardo Bonucci was the second most popular pick to play at right-back, while the most popular specialist full-back was Wales' Chris Gunter.\nHowever, Gunter was only chosen by just over 10,000 users - he was the 10th most popular defender overall.\nItaly defender Giorgio Chiellini is the unlucky man to miss out on a place in the team. Chiellini was the fourth-most popular pick in defence - and the ninth-most picked player in any position - but he is reserve centre-back behind Bonucci and Ashley Williams, with Germany left-back Jonas Hector easily the most selected player on the left.\nHector made more open play crosses than any other player at Euro 2016 (33).\nWilliams played every minute of Euro 2016 for Wales (540) and made the most blocks (seven) and clearances (43) for them.\nIt turns out that the midfield at Euro 2016 picks itself.\nWest Ham winger Dimitri Payet was the most popular pick in midfield, with over 70% of you placing him in your first XI. His most popular position was on the left of midfield.\nPayet scored three times and created a tournament-high 24 goalscoring chances.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nNot far behind comes Wales and Real Madrid star Gareth Bale. Bale was actually selected by more users than Payet - Bale is in 84% of all teams chosen - but 35,000 people selected him in attack.\nHowever, with 50,000 choosing to play him in midfield, that's where he starts. His most popular position was on the right. You like an inverted winger.\nIn central midfield Paul Pogba and Aaron Ramsey complete the Franco-Welsh domination. Pogba saw off competition from Germany's Toni Kroos, picking up 1,616 more selections.\nThe only England player available to select - Tottenham's Eric Dier - was picked by 5,600 people - just ahead of Iceland's Birkir Bjarnason.\nWe'd be interested to hear the thoughts of the 144 people who chose Italy wing-back Mattia de Sciglio as a central midfielder...\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nIt comes as no surprise that France forward Antoine Griezmann - winner of the Golden Boot - was the most picked player in any position.\nThe Atletico Madrid man was selected in 87% of all teams and starts up front alongside Real Madrid and Portugal legend Cristiano Ronaldo.\nGriezmann scored six goals, more than any other player; and only Michel Platini (nine in 1984) has bettered that tally in a single Euros finals.\nBy scoring against Hungary in the group stage, Ronaldo became the first player to score in four different European Championship finals tournaments (2016, 2012, 2008 and 2004).\nBale was the third most popular forward, while France forward Olivier Giroud came next.\nWales striker Hal Robson-Kanu may have scored the goal of the tournament but just 11,000 of you opted to start him.\nSometime Republic of Ireland playmaker Wes Hoolahan was selected as a striker by 656 people. A niche option.\nUefa's team of the tournament contains five players also selected in your XI - Ronaldo, Griezmann, Payet, Ramsey and Boateng.\nSet up in a 4-2-3-1 formation, the Uefa side had Portugal's Rui Patricio as goalkeeper, with team-mates Pepe and Raphael Guerreiro in defence along with Germany's Joshua Kimmich and Boateng.\nGerman Toni Kroos and Wales' Joe Allen form the defensive midfield duo behind Griezmann, Ramsey and Payet with Ronaldo the lone striker.\nThe team was selected by 13 former players and coaches, including former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, England Under-21 boss Gareth Southgate, ex-Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Packie Bonner, former Finland forward and manager Mixu Paatelainen and ex-Aston Villa and Serbia striker Savo Milosevic.\nWe asked some of our TV and radio colleagues to nominate their chosen teams of the tournament.\nFormer Everton and Republic of Ireland winger Kevin Kilbane:\nHugo Lloris; Joshua Kimmich, Jerome Boateng, Leonardo Bonucci, Raphael Guerreiro; Aaron Ramsey, Grzegorz Krychowiak; Gareth Bale, Antoine Griezmann, Dimitri Payet; Cristiano Ronaldo\nBBC Radio 5 live senior football reporter Ian Dennis:\nManuel Neuer; Joshua Kimmich, Jose Fonte, Leonardo Bonucci, Jonas Hector; Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, Paul Pogba; Dimitri Payet, Antoine Griezmann, Mesut Ozil\nBBC Match of the Day commentator Steve Wilson:\nHugo Lloris; Joshua Kimmich, Jerome Boateng, Leonardo Bonucci, Jordi Alba; Joe Allen, Andres Iniesta; Ivan Perisic, Antoine Griezmann, Gareth Bale; Cristiano Ronaldo\nBBC Radio 5 live commentator Conor McNamara:\nMichael McGovern; Lukasz Piszczek, Jerome Boateng, Andrea Barzagli, Raphael Guerreiro; Luka Modric, Aaron Ramsey, Aron Gunnarsson; Ivan Perisic, Antoine Griezmann, Gareth Bale\nBBC presenter Dan Walker:\nHugo Lloris; Jerome Boateng, Gareth McAuley, Pepe, Leonardo Bonucci; Mesut Ozil, Paul Pogba, Aaron Ramsey, Dimitri Payet; Antoine Griezmann, Will Grigg", "summary": "Euro 2016 may have ended in unlikely fashion - a goal from a Swansea flop giving Portugal the trophy against favourites France - but when it came to your team of the tournament there were few surprises." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Defending champions Manchester City will travel to Swansea, with beaten finalists Liverpool heading to Derby.\nPremier League winners Leicester City host Chelsea, while Southampton welcome Crystal Palace and Hull City visit Stoke in the all-Premier League ties.\nRound three ties are due to be played the week commencing 19 September 2016.\nDraw in full:\nNottingham Forest v Arsenal\nLeeds United v Blackburn Rovers\nQPR v Sunderland\nWest Ham v Accrington Stanley\nSouthampton v Crystal Palace\nSwansea City v Manchester City\nFulham v Bristol City\nBournemouth v Preston North End\nTottenham v Gillingham\nEverton v Norwich City\nDerby County v Liverpool\nNorthampton v Manchester United\nBrighton v Reading\nNewcastle United v Wolves\nStoke City v Hull City\nLeicester City v Chelsea", "summary": "League One Northampton Town will host Manchester United in the EFL Cup third round, while League Two Accrington Stanley will visit West Ham." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Argyle went ahead after just 15 minutes as Carl McHugh headed in Craig Tanner's cross from the right.\nLuton almost levelled when Jack Marriott's cross-shot was turned away by Luke McCormick, who then saved Cameron McGeehan's strike but could not keep out Josh McQuoid's header.\nHowever, Brunt's late close-range finish handed Argyle all three points.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nLuton Town boss John Still told BBC Three Counties Radio:\n\"Everything went against us today, the three substitutions, player sent off. We came from a goal down, we've tried to win, I didn't want to try and draw!\n\"I have no complaints about the late goal, the players have done fantastic. In the other games I would have complaints because they were different situations, we had a proper, up and at them, let's try and win this game attitude.\"\n\"It's a penalty, we've seen it, with the greatest of respect the assessor said it was a penalty, no doubt about it, but there's nothing we can do about that. \"", "summary": "Ryan Brunt's injury time strike ensured Plymouth remained top of League Two after a hard-fought victory over Luton." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Camila Batmanghelidjh told BBC Radio 4's The Report \"rumour-mongering civil servants\", ministers and the media had \"put the nail\" in the charity.\nThe charity, which immediately ended its work with 40 schools in London and Bristol, had been given a £3m government grant a week ago.\nThe government said it was \"disappointed\" at the outcome.\nIn a statement, the Cabinet Office said Kids Company had been \"unable to move to a sustainable financial position\".\nIt said it was working with local authorities to ensure young people \"have access to the services they require\".\nMinisters are facing questions over the public funding given to the charity.\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said warnings had been sounded as far back as the Labour government.\n\"All those reasons, it seems, were put to one side - and the reason, bluntly, is because it appears Kids Company was a charity which enjoyed the protection of Downing Street, under Gordon Brown and David Cameron.\"\nOne source said Mr Cameron was \"mesmerised\" by Ms Batmanghelidjh and over-ruled concerns raised during funding talks, he added.\nMeanwhile, former children's minister Tim Loughton told the BBC he too had raised concerns about the charity when he was in office.\nCamila Batmanghelidjh profile\nKids Company, which supports deprived young people and their families in London, Bristol and Liverpool, is facing accusations of financial mismanagement.\nMeasures are being put in place to protect people using its services.\nOne Kids Company worker, Claire Cole, told the BBC she was concerned for both the children and employees that the charity worked with, adding: \" Who's supporting us, who's supporting them?\n\"If any young people need us, please give us a call. As long as our phones are still working every single one of us will answer it. And we're here for you.\"\nMs Batmanghelidjh said she had \"vigorously\" pursued the government for funding, because \"we'd run out of every company and every charitable trust that we could potentially get money from\".\nThe fact that major banks had backed the charity showed it was not \"badly run\", she said, adding: \"As far as I know I acted responsibly - I asked for help early enough and I feel that government failed to honour its responsibility to these most vulnerable children.\"\nThe charity's closure comes after the £3m Cabinet Office grant was made on the condition that Ms Batmanghelidjh, its high-profile chief executive, agreed to step down as part of a reorganisation, as revealed by a joint investigation from BBC Newsnight and BuzzFeed News last month.\nIt was finally paid when Ms Batmanghelidjh agreed to step down to take up a new advocacy and clinical role.\nNewsnight policy editor Chris Cook understands attempts are being made to recover the money because the Cabinet Office believes that the conditions attached to its use were not met.\nIt has also been revealed the Cabinet Office's lead official raised concerns that the grant, intended for a \"transformation and downsizing plan\", would be poor value for money, but was told by ministers to press ahead.", "summary": "The founder of Kids Company has said it will have to \"abandon a lot of children\" as she confirmed its closure." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A survey of 6,500 children aged between 11 and 15 showed the numbers taking drugs, smoking and drinking alcohol had all fallen over the past decade.\nThe NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre figures\n found 17% had tried drugs at least once in 2011, compared with 29% in 2001.\nThe team said youngsters appeared to be living increasingly healthy lifestyles.\nThe survey, which questions a selection of children at English secondary schools, is carried out every year to monitor reported use of drugs, alcohol and cigarettes.\nThe latest poll, carried out between September and December last year, found the number of children at each age who said they had taken drugs in the preceding 12 months was down.\nAmong 15-year-olds, the number fell from 39% in 2001 to 23% in 2011.\nOnly 3% of 11-year-olds had taken drugs.\nCannabis was the most commonly used drug, although its was also down.\nThe survey also found the proportion of 11-to-15-year-olds smoking was the lowest since the polling began in 1982, and the number of \"regular\" smokers had halved in the past decade.\nBBC Health: What are the symptoms of drug abuse?\nFive per cent said they smoked at least one cigarette a week compared with 10% in 2001.\nJust 25% said they had tried cigarettes at least once.\nThe proportion drinking alcohol at least once has dropped to under half - 45%, compared with 61% per cent in 2001.\nOnly 7% reported drinking regularly, down from 20% 10 years ago.\nTim Straughan, chief executive of the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, said: \"The report shows that pupils appear to be leading an increasingly clean-living lifestyle and are less likely to take drugs as well as cigarettes and alcohol.\n\"All this material will be of immense interest to those who work with young people and aim to steer them towards a healthier way of life.\"\nSiobhan McCann, of the charity Drinkaware, said: \"While the decline in the number of children trying alcohol is good news, the report still shows there are 360,000 young people who reported drinking alcohol in the last week alone.\"", "summary": "Teenagers in England are shunning drink and drugs for a cleaner lifestyle, say health officials." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "No tram services are running through St Peter's Square, while a bigger tram stop is built.\nMajor track renewal on the Eccles line also means no trams on the line to MediaCityUK until early August and to Eccles until the end of that month.\nReplacement bus services are running on the affected routes.\nThe work in St Peters Square involves building two new platforms for the two new sets of track running through it.\nTransport for Greater Manchester said the Eccles line, which opened in 2000, is showing signs of \"wear\".", "summary": "Services on Greater Manchester's Metrolink tram system are facing disruption this summer after major construction work began on Sunday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "This may sound great for Labour and Ed Miliband. But it is in fact pretty much his worst nightmare.\nHow so?\nWell, Labour last week put at the heart of its manifesto that if elected it would get the government's deficit and debt down in the course of the next parliament, and to that end there would be cuts in non-protected public services (or everything but schools, health and overseas aid).\nIt did that partly because all its polling showed that in England it would need to demonstrate what it thinks of as \"fiscal credibility\" to get a hearing from undecided voters.\nSo it is quite definitely not an act of amity and solidarity with its putative Labour brothers for the SNP, led by Nicola Sturgeon, to tell voters that she'll get the Tories out, get Labour in and make sure Labour won't stick to its fiscal promises.\nThe great fear for Labour is that its recent progress in England will be derailed, while its collapsing vote in Scotland remains shattered.\nWhich if you are a Tory, you may think is great. And in fact the Tories are currently shouting from the rooftops about Labour being bossed by the SNP.\nBut the Conservatives could yet live to regret the consequence of campaigning on the supposed poisonous embrace offered by Sturgeon to Miliband - because it brings the risk for the UK of constitutional and economic crisis.\nHow so?\nWell, the Tories may hope that by alleging a Labour government would be backseat-driven from Edinburgh they'll persuade enough floating voters to switch to them, and secure an overall majority.\nHowever all the opinions currently demonstrate that's profoundly unlikely - it would require a shift of votes late in a campaign on a scale for which I can find no modern precedent.\nA far more plausible outcome is that the Tories end up with a few more seats than Labour, on the back of a slightly bigger share of the vote - and would therefore have first dibs on trying to form a government, under our constitutional convention.\nBut if the SNP end up getting the number of seats that currently looks likely - not a million miles from 50 - and the Liberal Democrats slump to less than 30 (which also looks likely, right now), it may be impossible for the Tories to form either a workable coalition or an effective minority government on the so-called confidence-and-supply basis (whereby it would secure the backing of smaller parties for measures crucial to its ability to govern).\nAt that point, Labour would presumably have its chance to form a government. But it has ruled out a formal coalition with the SNP. And it is very difficult to see how it could form any kind of more loose partnership with the SNP which would not look profoundly undemocratic to many English citizens, insulting to its residual loyalists in Scotland and therefore lethal to its long-term reputation.\nCould Labour form a credible government if it had fewer seats and fewer votes than the Tories, and having spent its campaign repudiating the advances of the SNP? That seems implausible.\nOut of this mess, perhaps a very odd and paradoxical alliance could be forged, as Robert Harris mused in yesterday's Sunday Times, between a Tory party recognising that union with Scotland no longer serves its own existential interests and an SNP whose priority is to secure constitutional independence from the rest of the UK coupled with a continued monetary union.\nAs Harris pointed out, alliances as strange have been forged in our parliamentary history - and the logic of securing power can trump ideological and emotional differences.\nMore likely however is that the UK would need another general election in short order.\nWhich all sounds a bit inconvenient, but from an economic perspective could be a bit worse than that. Business leaders tell me they would expect an investment hiatus by companies during the unstable interregnum, bankers tell me overseas investors would shun the UK and city traders anticipate a sharp and destabilising fall in the pound; .\nIt would be the equivalent of a big chill hitting Britain, that temporarily undermines economic activity.\nSo because of the way that Scotland's resources are determined by the UK's budget, via the block-grant arrangements, it may be completely reasonable for the SNP to campaign in this election to end austerity for the whole of the UK.\nBut the consequences of its decision to exercise that logic are unpredictable.", "summary": "John Swinney, the SNP's deputy First Minister of Scotland, told the Today programme this morning that the heart of its manifesto - due out later today - would be to end austerity in the UK as a whole, and would support Labour to bring that about." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Ardglass man carded a 66 in the third round to finish seven under and in a tie for ninth at Galgorm.\nThe top 24 progressed to the Shootout format, a series of six-hole stroke play games to determine the winner.\nAustria's Mattias Schwab topped the leaderboard on 11 under while tournament ambassador Michael Hoey was tied 45th on two under after a 70.\nThere was a five-man play-off for the final two spots with Max Orrin and Manuel Trappel going through.\n\"I'm very pleased - I had two good chances on my last two holes that got me into the play-off and then luckily I managed to get a birdie and get through,\" said Austrian player Trappel.\n\"I was obviously very nervous. Playing in a play-off is always nerve-racking but I managed to keep calm and did my best, and it worked out pretty well.\n\"Sunday will be interesting for sure. I had a bit of experience from the matchplay event in Spain earlier in the season.\n\"The crowds and the set-up of this tournament are amazing, such a good course, so it should be a special day.\"\nThe top eight get a bye into the second round of matches on Sunday with Sharvin competing in the first round.\nSharvin will play Portugal's Ricardo Santos in his first-round match.", "summary": "Cormac Sharvin will be the sole Irish player in the Sunday Shootout at the Northern Ireland Open." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Turnbull has confirmed that Australian warplanes were involved in Sunday's mistaken attack.\nRussia called an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the strike.\nThe US has also expressed \"regret\" for the \"unintentional loss of life\".\nIt has said the attack was \"halted immediately when coalition officials were informed by Russian officials that it was possible the personnel and vehicles targeted were part of the Syrian military\".\nRussia says the attack killed at least 62 Syrian troops fighting Islamic State and wounded 100 more.\nThe attack caused a bitter row between the US and Russia at the United Nations Security Council.\nSpeaking in New York, Mr Turnbull expressed \"regret\" for the deaths, confirming that \"Australian aircraft were involved in the sortie that's been the subject of the recent news reporting\".\n\"I can say that as soon as the coalition commanders were advised by the Russian command in the region that Syrian forces had been affected, that sortie was discontinued.\"\nBut he said there was \"obviously a lot of politics\" behind Russia's complaint at the UN, citing \"contradictions\" with its own actions in Syria, including the reported bombing of hospitals.\nUS envoy Samantha Power has accused Russia of \"pulling a stunt\" by calling an emergency meeting of the Security Council.\nHer Russian counterpart Vitaliy Churkin said he had never seen \"such an extraordinary display of American heavy-handedness\".\nA ceasefire deal agreed by the US and Russia went into effect in Syria last Monday, but important terms of the deal, such as the safe passage of aid, have still not been fulfilled.\nThe cessation of hostilities does not include attacks by the US on IS or other jihadist groups.\nRussian has said the ceasefire is now in danger of collapse, and that the US would be to blame.", "summary": "Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has expressed regret for the loss of life in a US-led airstrike which killed dozens of Syrian soldiers fighting the so-called Islamic State." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nHeaded goals from Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana and Gary Cahill sealed a 3-0 win for England at Wembley, leaving the visitors fifth in Group F.\n\"I've got to go away and have a wee look at it now and we have a debrief,\" said Strachan.\n\"It's hard to take in anything, it's not the time to think about it.\"\nThe 59-year-old added: \"If you think I'm thinking about myself, then you don't know me. If you think I'm worried about myself, you're completely wrong.\"\nStrachan added that he was \"proud\" of his side's effort and emphasised that he felt the outcome was \"cruel\" on his players given the level of their performance.\nWhile he accepted there is a gap in quality between Scotland and England, he maintained - as he has done throughout a faltering campaign - that the players have been wholly committed to him and his tactics.\n\"I feel really proud about the way they played, they had no fear to their game,\" Strachan said. \"At the same time I feel really hurt they had to go through that last 15 minutes having put so much in and believed in what we were trying to do.\n\"I came here with a team that got beaten 3-0, 3-1 and barely had a shot on goal, and it was nothing like that [tonight]. That was a braver, a more organised performance, so their families watching them and supporters can be proud of what they did.\n\"I don't think I can ask any more from what's in their locker. You just need a break every now and then or a wee bit of magic. I feel really down for the lads, but proud of what they tried to do.\"\nScotland missed two chances to level at 1-0 down and although England eventually ran out comfortable winners, to lose by three goals was harsh on the visitors.\n\"We're supporters, we watch from the sides and to put that much work in, to stick to a game plan, be brave and try to meet them up the pitch and we give up one chance on target and they score from it,\" added the Scotland boss.\n\"Half-time, you could see in their eyes they still believe that by sticking to what we're trying to do we can get there, and we go out in second half and have two chances, don't capitalise, then they get their second shot on target. After that it's going to be a long night. We stuck at it and when it gets to 3-0, it's over. You can forget the last 15 minutes.\"\nStrachan made eight changes to the side that lost 3-0 in Slovakia last month. Leigh Griffiths started up front, while Ikechi Anya, Christophe Berra and Lee Wallace were drafted into defence.\nThe manager praised their efforts, but bemoaned the lack of reward for that industry.\n\"A lot of them have got to be pleased with themselves. Lee Wallace was phenomenal for somebody who's been out of the team for a couple of years. He never said a thing, just got on with it, came in and was brilliant,\" Strachan said.\n\"There are points where top teams seem to punish us. I've got to say, I don't know if we can work any harder than we do, in terms of playing and training and doing the coaching.\n\"Stewart Regan said he couldn't believe it was 3-0 to Slovakia and 3-0 to England. We might not be the best in the world, but you get the best out of them. I'm thinking only about them at this moment in time.\"", "summary": "Scotland manager Gordon Strachan says he needs time to reflect on the World Cup qualifying defeat by England and refused to be drawn on his own future." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The London blue-chip index fell 7% in early trading to just over 5,800 points but ended the day 3.15% lower at 6,138.\nNew York and European markets all suffered even bigger falls, with the Dow Jones posting its biggest one-day slide in almost five years.\nSterling also plunged, falling more than 8% against the dollar and 6% against the euro.\nCredit rating agency Moody's cut the UK's outlook from stable to negative on Friday night, saying the Brexit vote could result in weaker economic growth.\nWall Street fell sharply in late trading, with the Dow plunging more than 600 points, or 3.4%, to close at 17,400 points.\nThe S&P 500 fell 3.6% - the biggest daily slide in 10 months - while the Nasdaq slumped 4.1% to give the technology-focused index its worst day since 2011.\nJack Ablin, chief investment officer of BMO Private Bank, said: \"This was really an event that caught most global investors flat-footed. We're going to see more days like today as the collective wisdom may prove wrong in others cases, too.\"\nIn London the FTSE 250, which mostly comprises companies that trade in the UK, shed 7.2% to close at 16,088 points.\nFinancial services group Aldermore was the biggest faller on the 250, down 32%, with house builder Crest Nicholson closing 26% lower.\nHouse builders were also the three biggest fallers on the FTSE 100, with Taylor Wimpey suffering a 29% slide.\nLiberum analyst Charlie Campbell said: \"The outcome is bad for housebuilders' shares as the combination of slowing GDP, rising longer-term rates and political uncertainty is like Kryptonite for that group of shares.\"\nHowever, the FTSE 100 index still ended the week higher than it started at 6,021 points.\nGold miner Randgold jumped 14%, while consumer-facing companies including GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever and Diageo all rose more than 3%.\nThe London market regained some poise after the Bank of England pledged to intervene to help shore up the markets.\nGovernor Mark Carney said the Bank was prepared to provide £250bn to support the markets, but added that \"some market and economic volatility can be expected as this process unfolds\".\nThe European Central Bank also said it was closely monitoring financial markets and was in close contact with other central banks.\nLaith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said investors on the hunt for bargains helped the blue-chip index later in the day.\n\"A significant number of FTSE 100 stocks ended the day in positive territory, predominantly those companies with lots of overseas earnings, which stand to benefit from a weaker pound,\" he said. \"Looking forward, we expect further choppiness in the days and weeks to come.\"\nBrexit reaction: Business live\nBrexit: Five areas to watch on the economy\nJack: The great business referendum snub\nCity shock at referendum result\nUK interest rate 'likely to hit zero'\nHow will Brexit affect your finances?\nProperty market lull may follow EU vote\nDrivers 'face rising petrol prices'\nBusiness calls for stability and direction\nSterling fell more than 10% early on Friday to levels not seen since 1985, sinking as low as $1.3236 against the dollar, before regaining some ground to $1.3578.\nJohn Higgins of Capital Economics said: \"While this is still a lot lower than the $1.50 reached late on Thursday (UK time), it is not much different from the level that it reached a week earlier when the opinion polls first began to suggest that a Brexit was likely. It therefore seems disingenuous to suggest that sterling has collapsed in the wake of this outcome.\"\nUK government bond yields hit a new record low, with 10-year yields down more than 30 basis points to 1.018%, according to Reuters data.\nTwo-year yields fell more than 20 basis points to their lowest levels since mid-2013, at 0.233%.\nOil prices have also fallen sharply in the wake of the referendum outcome, with Brent crude down 4.9% to $48.41 a barrel - the biggest fall since February. US crude also fell 4.7% to $47.77 a barrel.\nGold jumped 5% to its highest level in more than three years at $1,322 an ounce.\nThe impact of the vote was also felt across the continent. The Dax in Frankfurt fell 6.8% - its worst day since 2008 - while Paris ended 8% lower, with falls of about 12% in both Milan and Madrid.\nCapital Markets analyst Oliver Roth said the slide in the Dax \"wasn't quite as bad as we had feared. At the opening it was down almost 10% but the markets stabilised somewhat ... However, there is great concern after this political disaster.\"\nIAG, which owns British Airways and Iberia, said the result of the vote would hit its profits, sending shares down 22.5% in London.\n\"Following the outcome of the referendum, and given current market volatility, while IAG continues to expect a significant increase in operating profit this year, it no longer expects to generate an absolute operating profit increase similar to 2015,\" it said.\nUK banks were also hit hard, with Lloyds closing 21% lower, Royal Bank of Scotland fell 18.8% and Barclays shed 17.7%.\nAlong with housebuilders, the banking sector is regarded to be most at risk from a weaker UK economy.\nIn France, Societe Generale plunged 20% and BNP Paribas fell 17.4%, while in Germany Deutsche Bank slumped 14.1% and Commerzbank slid 13%.\nMeanwhile, shares in Santander - the eurozone's largest bank - fell almost 20% in Madrid.\nDavid Tinsley at UBS said there would be \"a significant rise in economic uncertainty\" and that the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was expected to take action, including interest rate cuts and an extension of its quantitative easing programme.\n\"We expect the MPC will cut policy rates to zero and make further asset purchases, in the first instance of £50-75bn, not later than February 2017,\" he said.", "summary": "Wall Street and the FTSE 100 both fell sharply in a wild day of trading after the UK voted for Brexit." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "8 December 2016 Last updated at 17:01 GMT\nVideo streaming site Vevo says its users watched more than 200 billion videos this year - and the UK's top 10 most-watched artists include Adele, Zayn and Justin Bieber.\nBut who was number one? Music reporter Mark Savage has the countdown.", "summary": "Music videos account for nine of the 10 most-watched videos online, and their popularity shows no sign of slowing down." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The measures include minimum eight-year sentences for fatal one-punch assaults influenced by drugs or alcohol.\nLiquor shops will close earlier and premises in parts of Sydney will have to stop serving drinks by 03:00.\nThe move comes after the death of an 18-year-old who was attacked in Sydney.\nCampaigners called for measures tackling alcohol-fuelled violence after Daniel Christie died after being punched in Sydney's King's Cross area on New Year's Eve.\nAnother 18-year-old, Thomas Kelly, died after being punched in 2012.\nSingle-punch attacks have been described colloquially as \"king hits\". However, campaigners and families of victims have called for them to be referred to as \"coward punches\" instead.\nIn a statement, NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell said: \"I have been horrified by the continued drug and alcohol-fuelled attacks on city streets and the increase in violence used in these attacks.\"\n\"The idea that it's OK to go out, get intoxicated, start a fight or throw a coward's punch is completely unacceptable.\"\n\"I expect opposition to some or all of the measures,\" he said. \"These new measures are tough and for that I make no apologies.\"\nThe measures also include lockouts in parts of Sydney's central business district, where people will be prevented from entering venues after 01:30, and the introduction of a state-wide 10pm closing time for liquor stores.\nSimilar lockout laws are in place in NSW's Newcastle area, and South Australia.\nSupporters say the laws have been successful in reducing alcohol-related violence, but some venue owners say the measures have hurt businesses and that other measures, such as increased policing, are more effective.\nThomas Kelly's parents said they welcomed the measures, which had gone \"way above what we were asking for\".\n\"It's bittersweet to know that the reform will come in shortly but it's also still terrible for us as a family,\" they said.\nThomas Kelly's attacker, Kieran Loveridge, was given a minimum four year sentence in November. Campaigners described the sentence as too lenient.", "summary": "New laws are to be introduced in Australia's New South Wales (NSW), toughening sentences against drunken violence including one-punch assaults." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "An engaged couple, Jung Hyun-seon and Kim Ki-Woong, and Park Ji-young, 22, were named \"martyrs\" on Monday.\nMore than 300 people died when the Sewol ferry went down on 16 April. Many were high school students.\nThe captain and other crew members have been criticised for abandoning ship while passengers were still on board.\nThe ferry, carrying 476 people, was sailing from Incheon to Jeju Island when it went down. Only 172 people were rescued, with many others trapped inside the ship as it sank.\nPark Ji-young, reportedly the youngest crew member, gave her life jacket to a passenger. She died while struggling to make sure passengers on the upper floors of the ferry wore life jackets and found their way out.\n\"Park pushed shocked passengers toward the exit even when the water was up to her chest,\" a survivor told local media after being rescued.\nJung Hyun-seon and Kim Ki-Woong were due to marry later this year, according to local media reports.\n\"They were together for four years,\" Mr Kim's mother told Yonhap news agency earlier. \"I only hope the two of them will be happy in a nice place... my heart is about to burst.\"\nTheir designation as martyrs means they will be eligible to be buried in a national cemetery, and their families can receive financial compensation and medical assistance.\nAlso on Monday, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries revoked the license of ferry owner Chonghaejin Marine Co, saying it had contributed to the disaster.\nThe ferry is believed to have been carrying more than three times the authorised amount of cargo.\nThe captain and 14 other surviving crew members have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and breaking maritime law.\nThe episode has been marked by allegations of cowardice, corruption and incompetence, BBC Asia analyst Michael Bristow reports.\nBut the South Korean government has now recognised that there were also at least three heroes on board the ship, he adds.", "summary": "Three crew members who died saving passengers as a South Korean ferry sank last month have been honoured by the government." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Anne Marie Cropper, 47, was found dead with head and chest injuries in the property on Royal Terrace, Southport, in September.\nIan Gordon, 52, also of Royal Terrace, changed his plea to guilty at Liverpool Crown Court, four days into his trial for her murder.\nGordon, was remanded in custody for sentencing on Tuesday.", "summary": "A man who denied murdering his girlfriend in her flat has changed his plea to guilty." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 28-year-old led Ireland to a first Olympic Games in 108 years in 2016 and said it is an \"incredible honour\" to win the FIH Hockey Stars award again.\n\"Even to be nominated for a second time was more than I could have hoped for, especially given the world class goalkeepers involved,\" Harte said.\nHe plays for club side Dabang Mumbai in the Hockey India League.\nJuan Vivaldi (Argentina), Jaap Stockmann (Netherlands), Vincent Vanasch (Belgium) and Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh (India) were also nominated for the International Hockey Federation (FIH) award, with Vivaldi and Vanasch winning gold and silver respectively at the Rio Games.\n\"Although it is an individual award, it partly belongs to my teams at both club and country level as I would not have made it here without them,\" Harte added.", "summary": "Ireland hockey captain David Harte has been named as Goalkeeper of the Year for the second year in a row." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Anis Amri, 24, had been monitored earlier this year on suspicion of planning a robbery in order to pay for guns but surveillance was lifted for lack of evidence.\nBefore entering Germany, he had served four years for arson in Italy.\nMonday evening's attack also left 49 people injured.\nA European arrest warrant was issued after Amri's residence permit was found in the cab of the lorry that left a trail of carnage at the market near west Berlin's most famous shopping street, the Kurfuerstendamm.\nThe German authorities warn he could be armed and dangerous and are offering a reward of up to €100,000 (£84,000; $104,000) for information leading to his arrest.\nIt is thought Amri may have been injured in a struggle with the Polish driver of the lorry, found murdered in the cab.\nOn Thursday morning there were reports of police raids in the western city of Dortmund. Two apartments were searched and four people arrested, local media reported.\nAmri was reported by the Ruhrnachrichten news website to have lived in Dortmund from time to time. Residents at one block of flats recognised him from photos and said he had spent time with a German of Serbian origin who was detained last month on suspicion of supporting the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, Ruhrnachrichten said.\nIn a small detached building surrounded by fields, 16 male migrants live on two floors in basic, student-style accommodation. I knocked on each of their doors, The young Iraqi and Albanian refugees who answered claimed they knew little about Anis Amri, who stayed here for a short time.\n\"I don't recognise his face,\" Andi from Albania told me as I showed him a picture of the Berlin suspect. \"But we've been talking about this attack with other refugees,\" he added, \"and about how this man had jihadist contacts around here. Maybe he did. It's horrible around here. We hate it but no one here knew much about him.\"\nThere is a swastika graffiti sign on the corridor wall, evidence of anti-migrant sentiment, which migrants say was done by locals two months ago.\nThe site's night manager, who did not want to be identified, told me he had recognised Amri \"straightaway\" because \"we're a small place. I know everyone who stays here.\" Staff said Amri had \"disappeared\" after \"a brief stay\".\nWe are told that police officers attempted to search the premises earlier today but left because of mistakes on their paperwork. They have not returned. This place offers a glimpse into the life and activity of Europe's most wanted terror suspect but it appears to be a trail that goes cold quickly.\nChancellor Angela Merkel has met her security cabinet to discuss the investigation into the attack.\nIn another development, the German cabinet approved plans agreed last month to allow more video surveillance of public places.\nGerman judicial sources say the suspect, who reportedly entered Germany last year, was monitored in Berlin between March and September on suspicion of planning a robbery to pay for automatic weapons for use in an attack.\nSurveillance was reportedly called off after it turned up nothing more than drug-dealing in a Berlin park and a bar brawl before the suspect disappeared from his regular haunts in Berlin.\nRalf Jaeger, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, confirmed that Amri had, more recently, attracted the attention of counter-terrorism police.\n\"Security agencies exchanged their findings and information about this person with the Joint Counter-Terrorism Centre in November 2016,\" the minister said.\nThe Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reports that the suspect moved within the circle of an Islamist preacher, Ahmad Abdelazziz A, known as Abu Walaa, who was arrested in November.\nA police notice lists six different aliases used by Amri, born on 22 December 1992, who at times tried to pass himself off as an Egyptian or Lebanese.\nThe suspect was facing deportation as of June but there was a delay in receiving paperwork from Tunisia.\nA brother of the suspect in Tunisia, Abdelkader Amri, told AFP news agency he could not believe his eyes when he saw his relative's face in the media.\n\"I'm in shock and can't believe it's him who committed this crime,\" he said, before adding: \"If he's guilty, he deserves every condemnation.\"\nThe suspect has a history of crime:\nAn earlier suspect, a Pakistani asylum seeker, was freed from German custody on Tuesday, after officials admitted they had the wrong man.\nSome 49 people were also injured when the lorry was driven into crowds at the Breitscheidplatz Christmas market. So-called Islamic State (IS) said one of its militants carried out the attack but offered no evidence.\nDriver Lukasz Urban, a Polish citizen, was found dead on the passenger seat with gunshot and stab wounds.\nInvestigators believe the lorry was hijacked on Monday afternoon as it stood in an industrial zone in north-western Berlin, Germany's Bild tabloid reports.\nMr Urban had stopped there after the delivery of Italian steel beams he was carrying was postponed until Tuesday.\nGPS data from the vehicle reportedly shows it made small movements \"as if someone was learning how to drive it\" before leaving for the city at 19:40 (18:40 GMT), heading for the Christmas market near the Kurfuerstendamm, Berlin's main shopping street.\nDetails of the casualties have begun to emerge:\nMore on the victims\nThere appears to be evidence that, despite being stabbed, Mr Urban wrestled his hijacker for the steering wheel.\nThe post-mortem examination suggests that Mr Urban survived up until the attack and was shot dead when the truck came to a halt. No gun has been recovered.\nPolice say they are acting on hundreds of tips from the public and are examining DNA traces from the cab of the truck.\nThe IS group claimed the attack through its self-styled news agency, saying it was \"in response to calls to target nationals of the coalition countries\".\nProsecutor Peter Frank told reporters that the style of attack and the choice of target suggested Islamic extremism.", "summary": "A Europe-wide manhunt is under way for the Tunisian man wanted for the lorry attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in which 12 people were killed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The visitors scored six tries, including a brace each for wing Akari Kato and fellow back Iroha Nagata.\nWing Jess Kavanagh-Williams' try was Wales' only score in a first half that saw coach Rowland Phillips' side trail 23-5 at the break.\nKelsey Jones did add a late consolation for the home side, touching down from the back of a driving line-out.\nPhillips had brought into his squad eight players who have progressed through the Under-18 system.\n\"We certainly don't plan to lose games of rugby but we know where we are with this group at this point,\" Phillips said.\n\"The score didn't really have any bearing on what we wanted to get out of the day.\n\"You look at [prop] Lleucu George today, that's her first game, she's only 17 and she was outstanding.\n\"That's a massive tick in the box for us building for the future.\"\nWales are preparing for the Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland in two months' time, where they will start against New Zealand in Dublin on 9 August, followed by games against Canada and Hong Kong.\nBefore that Wales have two more preparation matches against Spain and England in July.\nWales: Jodie Evans; Angharad de Smet, Elen Evans, Rebecca Defilipo, Jessica Kavanagh-Williams; Kayleigh Powell, Sian Moore; Siwan Lilicrap, Nia Elen Davies, Lleucu George, Gwen Crabb, Rebecca Rowe, Megan York, Morfudd Ifans, Gwenllian Pyrs.\nReplacements: Kelsey Jones, Catrin Edwards, Brea Leung, Amy Thomas, Mel Clay, Alisha Butchers, Bethan Lewis, Ffion Lewis, India Berbillion, Carly Jones.", "summary": "An inexperienced Wales Women's side were outclassed by Japan at Ystrad Mynach on Sunday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A green Peugeot 206 hit a wall on Dewhirst Road in Syke, Rochdale at about 21:30 on 14 November last year, Greater Manchester Police said.\nPassenger Talaina Hussain was taken to hospital but died two days later.\nJack Charles Thomas, 19, of Mountside Close, Rochdale is due to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on 11 July.", "summary": "A man has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after an 18-year-old died following a crash." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Swans have gone five games without a win to leave them two points adrift of safety.\nClement described his side's performance in the 1-0 defeat at West Ham as \"very poor\" and hopes for a response at Watford on Saturday.\n\"It was only West Ham where anxiety was there for everyone to see,\" he said.\n\"I can't say that was the case against Tottenham or Middlesbrough. You have to hope it's a one off and you move on from it quickly.\"\nSwansea were held to a home goalless draw by fellow strugglers Middlesbrough before they were beaten by three late Tottenham goals.\nForward Fernando Llorente missed those two games but returned as a second half substitute in the West Ham defeat after recovering from an ankle injury.\nThe Spain international, Swansea's top-scorer with 11 goals, is set to start against Watford on Saturday.\n\"It's good for the team because he's been such a focal point when we've needed to play into him and when the ball goes wide,\" Clement added.\n\"He's such a threat on the crosses. You look back on our goals, a lot have come from the wide positions.\n\"We're not a team that has electric pace in the front line. We have to play to our strengths and he is one of them.\"", "summary": "Manager Paul Clement has denied Swansea City's players are getting anxious in their battle to stay in the Premier League." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Daequan George was last seen in Stamford Close, Tottenham at 20:00 BST on Thursday after playing football with his friends.\nScotland Yard conducted house-to-house enquiries when he failed to return home overnight.\nDaequan was found \"safe and well\" at about 11:30 on Friday in the local area.", "summary": "A nine-year-old boy who went missing from a playground in north London on Thursday has been found by police." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ronan O'Neill scored two goals and Peter Harte netted another just before half-time to give Mickey Harte's men a commanding 3-8 to 0-6 interval lead.\nDerry did manage four unanswered points after the break but finished the game with just 13 men.\nCiaran McFaul was dismissed for yellow and black cards while Chrissy McKaigue got a straight red for elbowing.\nNear the end of the game, McKaigue tussled with Tyrone midfielder Colm Cavanagh and was sent off by Meath referee David Coldrick.\nUnderdogs Derry seemed to have made a decent start, but were rocked by two goals by Tyrone forward O'Neill.\nIn the eighth minute O'Neill turned to wrong-foot keeper Thomas Mallon and shoot into an empty net.\nO'Neill pounced to fire in his second on 20 minutes after Sean Cavanagh's effort had been blocked by Mallon.\nTyrone then rattled off a string of points and reeling Derry were hit again when Peter Harte exchanged passes with Cavanagh to score from close-range.\nThe Red Hands had impressive performers all over the pitch with Colm Cavanagh and Mattie Donnelly both excelling and the only downside for them was a first-half hip injury sustained by the lively Mark Bradley.\nTyrone manager Mickey Harte: \"Goals are very important in Championship football and we got them in the first half. Getting the third just before half-time probably won the game for us.\n\"Maybe we were not ruthless enough in the second half but it is difficult for players to have the same enthusiasm when you are so far ahead.\n\"We will keep our feet on the ground - we are only in the semi-final.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nDerry manager Damian Barton: \"In terms of the whole package I have to accept responsibility. Emotionally were we right, physically were we right?\n\"We are better than an 11-point deficit. We started the year in a blaze of glory when you look at the McKenna and early league performances.\n\"We were pacy and creative, but that has left us. I thought our leaders on the pitch did not stand up.\"\nTyrone's next match will be the first semi-final on Sunday, 19 June. Their opponents will be the winners of next week's game between Cavan and Armagh. Damian Barton must regroup his Derry team for the All-Ireland qualifiers.\nDerry: T Mallon; O Duffy, B Rogers, K McKaigue; K Johnston, C McKaigue, G McKinless; N Holly, D Heavron; S Heavron, J Kielt, C McFaul; N Toner, E McGuckin, M Lynch.\nTyrone: M O'Neill, A McCrory, R McNamee, C McCarron, T McCann, N Sludden, P Harte, C Cavanagh, M Donnelly, C McShane, M Bradley, R Donnelly, C McAliskey, S Cavanagh, R O'Neill.\nSUNDAY'S OTHER GAA RESULTS\nConnacht SFC\nLeitrim 0-11 1-21 Roscommon\nMunster SHC\nTipperary 0-22 0-13 Cork\nLeinster SHC\nOffaly 3-19 0-20 Kerry\nCarlow 2-15 0-22 Westmeath", "summary": "Tyrone stormed into the semi-finals of the Ulster Championship with a clinical demolition of Derry at Celtic Park." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The jury found Irek Hamidullin guilty on 15 counts, including supporting terrorists and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.\nThe 55-year-old is the first military prisoner from Afghanistan to be tried in a US federal court.\nSome of the charges carry a mandatory life sentence.\nAbout 30 insurgents died in the attack, with Hamidullin the only survivor, while no American or Afghan soldiers were killed.\nHamidullin, who did not testify during the trial, is expected to be sentenced on 6 November.\nLawyers say it is unusual for someone captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan to be transferred to the United States for trial in a federal court.\nHamidullin's defence lawyers had tried unsuccessfully to have the charges dismissed, saying their client was a prisoner of war and ineligible for trial in civilian court.\nProsecutors argued federal law protected US soldiers no matter where they were.\nThe jury in Richmond. Virginia, reached its verdict after five days of testimony and eight hours of deliberations.\nHamidullin, a former Soviet army tank commander who stayed in Afghanistan in the 1980s and later joined the Taliban, was seized in 2009 after the attack on Afghan border police and US forces.\nHe was held for five years at Bagram air base before being sent to the US.\nDuring the trial, prosecutors said he had commanded three groups of insurgents that attacked Camp Leyza, Khost province.\nThey said he had directed insurgents armed with anti-aircraft machine guns to fire at US military helicopters responding to the initial attack. The defendant had also reportedly used a machine gun to shoot at US troops.", "summary": "A former Soviet army officer has been convicted by a US jury of planning and leading a Taliban attack on American forces in Afghanistan in 2009." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Two blocks of flats in Edinburgh have become the 50th and 51st buildings whose construction was completed after World War Two to be given Category A listed status.\nHistoric Environment Scotland puts important buildings into three categories.\nThose in Category A are considered to be buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic.\nPost-war structures to be given Category A status include the Forth Road Bridge, the Burrell Collection, numerous churches, hydroelectric power stations and two swimming pools.\nCables Wynd House and neighbouring Linksview House in Edinburgh are the 50th and 51st post-war building to be given Category A status.", "summary": "." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Jones, 21, missed out on a medal at the 2013 Worlds, but won silver at the Manchester Grand Prix in December and recently returned to world number one.\n\"I had a bit of a lull after Olympics and last year didn't go to plan,\" she said. \"Now I'm feeling strong again.\"\nThe -57kg fighter from Wales is part of a 14-strong British team in Baku.\nJones came third at both the 2010 and 2012 Euros and is desperate to finally finish on top of the podium when she competes on Saturday.\nMen: Darren Chapman, Mahama Cho, Dominic Brookes, Lutalo Muhammad, Michael Harvey, Daron Samsun, Ruebyn Richards, Andrew Deer\nWomen: Asia Bailey, Rachelle Booth, Georgia Barnes, Bianca Walkden, Jade Jones, Nicole Huntington\n\"I've learnt a lot of lessons over the last couple of years and feel I've improved a lot mentally and physically,\" she told BBC Sport.\nLutalo Muhammad, the -80kg Olympic bronze medallist, secured his selection for London 2012 with a surprise -87kg victory at the event two years ago.\n\"There's definitely a bit more pressure on me this time going into the Euros, but I'm very confident I can defend my (-87kg) title,\" the 22-year-old told BBC Sport.\nThe World Taekwondo Federation [WTF] have yet to clarify whether ranking points attained in one division can be carried over to another.\nIf they are not, Aaron Cook, who is representing the Isle of Man in Baku, could gain an advantage in the race to secure Britain's sole berth in the -80kg division at the 2016 Rio Olympics.\nCook, 23, beat Muhammad earlier this year and is seeking a third consecutive European title,\nMichael Harvey, 24, will look to retain his European crown in the non-Olympic -63kg division, while expectations are also high for Mahama Cho - currently third in the heavyweight world standings.\nThe 24-year-old defected to France after missing out on selection for the London Olympics, but returned to the GB set-up last year and won gold at the inaugural World Taekwondo Grand Prix in December.\n\"I feel like I'm playing catch-up after missing the Olympics and then the Worlds last year, so I'm really excited about taking on the best that Europe has to offer,\" said the +87kg Ivory Coast-born fighter.\nGB schedule at Euro Taekwondo:\nMay 1:\nMen:\n-54kg: Darren Chapman\n+87kg: Mahama Cho\nWomen:\n-46kg: Asia Bailey\n-62kg: Rachelle Booth\nMay 2:\nMen:\n-58kg: Dominic Brookes\n-87kg: Lutalo Muhammad\nWomen:\n-49kg: Georgia Barnes\n+73kg: Bianca Walkden\nMay 3:\nMen:\n-63kg: Michael Harvey\n-80kg: Aaron Cook and Damon Sansum\nWomen:\n-57kg: Jade Jones\nMay 4:\nMen:\n-68kg: Ruebyn Richards\n-74kg: Andrew Deer\nWomen:\n-53kg: Nicole Huntington", "summary": "Olympic champion Jade Jones aims to prove she is back to her best at the European Championships in Azerbaijan, which get under way on Thursday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Rozonda \"Chilli\" Thomas and Tionne \"T-Boz\" Watkins will also go on tour and are making a TV biopic of their lives.\nSpeaking at the Mobo Awards in Liverpool, T-Boz said the duo are due to start work on new material soon.\n\"We're going to still sound like TLC, evolving to whatever level we need to be at this time,\" she said.\nThe group were one of the biggest-selling and most influential acts of the 90s in the US, with hits including Waterfalls, Creep and No Scrubs.\nAfter Lopes died in a car crash in Honduras in 2002, the remaining pair completed the group's fourth album 3D but have since only released occasional new songs.\nAsked how they would fit into the modern pop scene, T-Boz said: \"We've always grown throughout the years and have always had our own sound. That's what works for us and we don't have to worry about anybody else.\n\"When that stops working, maybe we'll hang up the towel, but that still works. We have to get into the studio and start feeling how we feel. You have to find yourself first and then you find the path and then you have an album before you know it.\"\nThere has been speculation that Lopes could be incorporated into the accompanying tour in the form of a hologram.\nT-Boz and Chilli are also executive producers of the VH1 biopic and are about to cast actresses to play themselves.", "summary": "The surviving members of US R&B group TLC have confirmed plans for a new album, a decade after the death of bandmate Lisa \"Left Eye\" Lopes." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 14-year-old girl was grabbed by three men and pulled into the town's Grade-II listed Valley Gardens at about 04:00 GMT on 16 February, police said.\nThe man, aged 25, from Harrogate, was arrested on Friday, said officers.\nAlong with a man arrested on 17 February, he will remain on police bail while the investigation into the attack near Harlow Moor Drive continues.", "summary": "A second man has been arrested and bailed following a group sex attack on a teenager in a Harrogate park." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former Ireland international succeeds Matt O'Connor, who left the job after the Irish province's disappointing campaign last season.\nCullen was forwards coach during the last year of O'Connor's reign and was installed as interim coach after the Australian's exit in May.\nThe 37-year-old, who won 32 Ireland caps, captained the province to their three Heineken Cup triumphs.\nLeinster chief executive Mick Dawson said that Cullen's status as a player was \"beyond question\" after his 220 appearances for the province.\n\"He is second only to Gordon D'Arcy in terms of senior appearances and he was an outstanding captain and leader on the pitch,\" added Dawson.\n\"Over the last 12 months or so in his capacity with the forwards and indeed over the pre-season as interim head coach, Leo has continued to impress everyone at Leinster with his tactical and strategic direction.\"\nKurt McQuilkin's short-term arrangement as defence coach has now been extended to the next two years with John Fogarty remaining scrum coach.\nGirvan Dempsey will serve as backs coach until the end of the World Cup when skills and kicking coach Richie Murphy will return from his duties with Ireland.\nCullen's first game in charge will be the pre-season friendly with Ulster at Kingspan Stadium on Friday.\nHis first competitive game will be away to Edinburgh in the Pro12 on 4 September.", "summary": "Leo Cullen has been appointed as the new Leinster coach on a two-year deal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "For the Rail Minister is asking passengers in East Anglia for comments about the service they receive and how it could be made better, which in our neck of the woods is surely asking for trouble.\nLet's face it, rail travellers are a forthright breed, who will not pass up on an opportunity to express an opinion about their regular commute.\n\"The view of passengers are critical to improving services,\" says Mrs Perry. \"We really do want to hear from people about their views and we really hope we get a good response.\"\nWords she might come to regret.\n\"It is a comprehensive consultation document that includes some challenging questions. These things can be very unwieldy but I've tried to cut it down to make it very pertinent.\"\nThe consultation comes as the government starts to draw up the tender for the new Greater Anglia franchise, which will start in October 2016.\nThe government knows what MPs and the local business community think; they have fought a very successful lobbying campaign which culminated in the Transport Secretary promising to upgrade the main London to Norwich line at some stage in the future.\nBut up until now passengers haven't really had a say.\nThe consultation will last until March 16th and asks passengers for their views on a range of subjects.\nIt acknowledges that \"the current rail service in East Anglia has remained unchanged for many years\" and promises that the new franchise will \"ensure that the service meets the needs of passengers and businesses in an important region of the UK which contributes significantly to the UK economy\".\nRegular travellers may let out a hollow laugh when they read the claim that \" the Government is forging ahead with plans to reduce journey times between Norwich and London to 90 minutes\". While a few improvements will be made next year, most of the serious spending isn't likely to happen until after 2019.\nBut if they can get through that, they will find 19 questions to answer.\nSome are fairly predictable: What should be the key priorities of the new franchise, how many trains an hour should there be, do passengers value cross country services like the one between Norwich and Liverpool?\nBut there are also some fairly contentious ones: Should first class seating be removed to allow more space for standard class passengers and should there be more staff on duty at stations and on the trains?\nAnd there are a couple of questions which are guaranteed to get respondents going.\n\"Are there any examples of outstanding customer service experiences which you believe the East Anglia rail franchise should aspire to?\"\nOr how about this one: \"How can the franchise operator help you better during planned and unplanned disruption?\"\nPassengers could have a field day with that after a year that's seen a catalogue of problems on the main line through Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.\nGovernment consultations are normally responded to by local politicians and a handful of pressure groups but already social media has been buzzing with suggestions and comments about this one.\nMrs Perry is likely to have a lot of reading to do.", "summary": "We hope Claire Perry knows what she's letting herself in for." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It was his first public comment on the violence, which began last week.\nAt least 40 people have been killed as a result of discord between Buddhists and Muslims since 20 March.\nCurfews have been imposed in a number of areas, as crowds of Buddhists attacked Muslim buildings.\nThe police were reported on Wednesday to have opened fire in one town on a crowd of about 500 people.\nLast Friday a state of emergency was enforced in the central town of Meiktila in Mandalay region - where the communal violence began after a reported argument at a gold shop.\n\"I would like to warn all political opportunists and religious extremists who try to exploit the noble teachings of these religions and have tried to plant hatred among people of different faiths for their own self-interest. Their efforts will not be tolerated,\" the president said in a national televised address.\n\"In general, I do not endorse the use of force to solve problems. However, I will not hesitate to use force as a last resort to protect the lives and safeguard the property of the general public,\" he said.\n\"All perpetrators of violence will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.\"\nThe president said that \"conflicts and difficulties\" would inevitably arise during Burma's transition to a democracy.\nHe called on police to \"perform their duties decisively, bravely and within the constraints of the constitution and by-laws\".\nCorrespondents say that police in Meiktila have been criticised for failing to act quickly enough to stop the rioting, in which houses, shops and mosques were burned down.\nAt least 12,000 Muslims are thought to have fled their homes because of the unrest.\nIn similar violence in Rakhine state last year, nearly 200 people were killed and tens of thousands forced from their homes.\nThe conflict that erupted in Rakhine involved Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, who are not recognised as Burmese citizens and have complained of frequent persecution.\nThose affected by the latest violence insist that in contrast to the allegations made against the Rohingyas they are legitimate Burmese citizens.\nCorrespondents say that isolated violence involving Burma's majority Buddhist population and its minority Muslim community has occurred for decades, even under military governments that ruled the country from 1962 to 2011.", "summary": "The Burmese government will use force if necessary to stop \"political opportunists and religious extremists\" from fomenting hatred between faiths, President Thein Sein has warned." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The BBC Trust rejected the Traveller Movement's original complaint in March, but the group have brought it to Ofcom.\nIt was sparked by a placard featuring the words \"Pikey's Peak\" which host Jeremy Clarkson put up after a race between 1980s hatchbacks.\nClarkson has since been axed from the show, after a \"fracas\" with a producer.\nDuring the episode, broadcast on 2 February 2014, Clarkson had been ridiculing co-presenter Richard Hammond's choice of a Vauxhall Nova when the term was used.\n\"Ofcom is investigating a complaint from the Travellers' Movement that it was offensive to include a placard with Pikey's Peak written on it in this BBC show,\" said a spokesperson from the broadcasting regulator.\nTop Gear was cleared by the Editorial Standards Committee of the BBC Trust over the comment earlier this year.\nIt acknowledged the word \"pikey\" derived from the word \"turnpike\" and was therefore related to travellers, but said there was no \"intended racist reference\".\nThe committee said the word had \"evolved into common parlance among a number of people to mean 'chavvy' or 'cheap'\".\nThis, it said, meant many Top Gear viewers \"would not necessarily associate it with the Gypsy and Traveller communities\".\nIt also noted that the placard was a deliberate pun on the US race course Pike's Peak, which had been referenced earlier in the show's script.\nOfcom said its investigation, launched on 22 April, was looking into whether the potential for offence caused by the use of the word \"pikey\" was justified by the context.\nA statement from the Traveller Movement welcomed the decision and said it hoped Ofcom's investigation was \"thorough\".\n\"When the BBC Trust ruled that the Top Gear use of the word 'pikey' had nothing to do with gypsies and travellers and meant cheap and dodgy instead, it was clearly the trust that was being a bit cheap and dodgy,\" it said.\n\"We believe in freedom of speech, but with that freedom there must be responsibility.\n\"The BBC Trust abdicated that responsibility when they legitimised the use of a racist word on one of their most popular and money-spinning programmes.\"\nIt said the topic was one that needed attention, adding: \"We can bang on about semantics and meanings, but at the end of the day too many gypsies and travellers hear that word in the form of racist abuse.\n\"How can you work for understanding and integration when racist abuse is seen as funny by a national public broadcaster paid for by the public?\"\nTop Gear producers are currently looking for a new look presenting team for the show.\nLast month Clarkson's co-presenters James May and Hammond ruled themselves out of returning for the next series without him.", "summary": "BBC Two's Top Gear is being investigated by watchdog Ofcom over the use of the word \"pikey\" in an episode broadcast in February last year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "NuGen has the contract to build a new nuclear power plant in Cumbria.\nThe French utility company Engie said it was exercising its \"contractual rights\" to sell its shares because NuGen was \"facing some significant challenges\".\nLast week, Toshiba's Westinghouse in the US, which was to build the plant's reactors, sought bankruptcy protection.\nThe troubled Japanese giant said that only Westinghouse's US operations would be affected by the bankruptcy.\nHowever, at the time media reports suggested bankruptcy could delay the project at Moorside in West Cumbria or even put its future in limbo.\nIt is estimated that the Moorside plant would eventually provide as much as 7% of the UK's energy needs.\nIn Tuesday's statement Toshiba said the bankruptcy filing was \"an action that meets the definition of an 'event of default' under the terms of the agreement\" with Engie.\n\"Engie has accordingly exercised its rights to require Toshiba to buy its holding.\"\nToshiba is paying about 15.3bn yen ($138.5m; £111.2m) for the stake.\nThe added that it would \"continue to look for investors interested in investing in NuGen, and seek to sell off its holding in the company\".\nThe problems at Westinghouse have dragged on Toshiba.\nIn December it emerged that it faced a heavy one-off loss linked to a deal done by Westinghouse, which had bought a nuclear construction and services business from Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I) in 2015.\nBut assets that it took on are likely to be worth less than initially thought, and there is also a dispute about payments that are due.\nIn February it emerged that the loss would be about $6.3bn (£5.05bn).\nToshiba's chairman resigned, the firm delayed releasing its full financial figures - initially for a month - and then even longer.\nTo plug the gap, Toshiba is set to sell a majority stake in its NAND flash-memory business to get it through its continuing financial turbulence.\nAll this came on top of Toshiba's struggles to turn the corner after a profit-inflating scandal.\nIn a statement, the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"The NuGen consortium has always planned to bring in other partners to deliver the project and we engage regularly with a range of developers and investors.\n\"The Secretary of State is currently in South Korea for talks on future collaboration between our two countries, including on potential civil nuclear projects.\"", "summary": "Toshiba has been forced to buy the 40% of the UK nuclear energy company NuGen that it does not already own." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The relic, which had been too fragile to unwrap, was deciphered by Israeli and US experts using an X-ray scan.\nIt contains passages from the Book of Leviticus dating back to at least the 3rd or 4th Century AD.\nThe charred scroll was found in 1970 amid the remains of an ancient synagogue.\nArchaeologists found it buried in the ark of the synagogue near the Dead Sea, where it would have been used for prayers.\nResearchers in Kentucky and Jerusalem were able read it using three dimensional digital analysis of an X-ray scan, the Science Advances Journal announced.\n\"Not only were you seeing writing, but it was readable. At that point we were absolutely jubilant,\" said William Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky's computer science department.\nScholars say the text in Ein Gedi - in standard Hebrew - offer the first physical evidence of a long-held belief that the version of the Hebrew Bible used today goes back 2,000 years.\nThe text is \"100 percent identical\" to the version of the Book of Leviticus that has been in use for centuries, said Dead Sea Scroll scholar Emmanuel Tov from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who participated in the study.\nThis was the first time researchers had been able to read ancient documents without physically opening them.\n\"We were amazed at the quality of the images,\" said Michael Segal, head of the School of Philosophy and Religions at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.\n\"Much of the text is as readable, or close to as readable as actual unharmed Dead Sea Scrolls or high resolution photographs of them.\"\nResearchers hope the new technology will enable them to read other antique parchments like some Dead Sea scrolls and papyrus scrolls that are too brittle to unwrap.\n\"You can't imagine the joy in the lab,\" said Pnina Shor, head of the Dead Sea Scrolls preservation lab at the Israel Antiquities Authority.\nPrior to this discovery, the oldest known fragments of standardised biblical text dated back to the 8th Century AD.\nResearchers said the discovery held great significance for understanding the development of the Hebrew Bible.", "summary": "The oldest hand-written passages from the Hebrew Bible identical to versions in use today have been identified by researchers using digital technology to read an ancient scroll." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Philippine boxer Bornea had never been stopped previously, but Selby wore him down with his superior speed and footwork.\nSelby, the younger brother of IBF featherweight champion Lee, has been tipped as a future world champion.\nHe has won all seven of his fights since turning professional.\nFind out how to get into boxing with our special guide.", "summary": "Welsh boxer Andrew Selby won the vacant IBF Inter-Continental Flyweight Title via TKO in the seventh round against Jake Bornea at Wembley Arena." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Tigers boss Steve Bruce said McGregor, 34, had not recovered from the back injury that forced him out of the Championship play-offs.\nThe manager's son Alex, 31, has injured his Achilles and will also miss the start of the Premier League season.\nBruce said the two players are \"distraught at the moment.\"\n\"They're severe injuries and you don't want that at this particular time,\" said Bruce Sr.\n\"Surgery was always going to be the last resort with Allan because it's a horrible, complex operation.\"", "summary": "Hull City defender Alex Bruce and goalkeeper Allan McGregor have been ruled out for between four and six months with \"severe injuries\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is estimated just over 10 million people visited Wales between October 2015 and September 2016 - a 1.5% drop.\nThe Great Britain Tourism Survey showed a similar 1.1% fall for visitor numbers in Great Britain as a whole.\nThe Economy Secretary Ken Skates has said Wales is still in a \"strong position\".\nOverall, the trend for the last three years still remains up - for both Wales and the rest of the UK.\n\"Campaign work now continues to convert early interest and opportunities arising from the weak pound into bookings for the summer,\" said Mr Skates.\n\"In what is an extremely competitive market place, tourism in Wales is in a strong position.\n\"We've had two record breaking years and our aim is to sustain growth - being aware that global events and competition will mean that not every year will be a record breaking one.\"\nPeter Cole, Wales representative of the Tourism Society Board, added: \"It is clear that tourism in Wales, like the rest of the UK, has fought back strongly after the financial crash, but it would be naïve to think that year on year increases in any one part of the market are inevitable for any part of the UK with so many variables and factors at play.\n\"Following the Year of Adventure in 2016 and investments such as Zip World and Surf Snowdonia, north Wales is now being talked of by key influencers as a challenger for the Lake District as the UK destination of choice for adventure activities.\"", "summary": "Fewer British holidaymaker chose Wales as their destination last year, suggest the latest official survey figures." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sexton and Farrell have played only 74 minutes together as a 10-12 axis in the eight previous matches on the tour.\nDespite being selected in the squad as a fly-half, Farrell replaces Ben Te'o at inside centre, resuming the midfield role he plays for England.\n\"It is a worry that they have not played together more. I'm surprised,\" Davies told BBC Sport.\nGatland said the pairing of Ireland playmaker Sexton and Farrell would make the Lions more creative and clinical.\n\"Both have played well and it gives us that attacking option in the 10-12 channel,\" Gatland said.\n\"We created opportunities in the first Test and there were a few that we didn't finish.\"\nGatland made a big call in 2013 when he dropped Brian O'Driscoll for the decisive Test match in the series win over Australia.\nFormer England fly-half Paul Grayson backed Gatland's selection of Sexton and Farrell but said he would have \"given them two or three games together\".\nElsewhere, captain Sam Warburton replaces Peter O'Mahony on the blind-side flank, with Maro Itoje preferred to George Kruis in the second row.\nWales lock Alun Wyn Jones keeps his place in the starting XV despite a difficult outing in the first Test and strong midweek performances from Courtney Lawes and Iain Henderson having given Gatland \"food for thought\".\nLawes, CJ Stander and Jack Nowell are among the replacements after playing in the 31-31 draw with Hurricanes on Tuesday.\nKen Owens, Jack McGrath, Kyle Sinckler, Rhys Webb and Te'o also make the bench.\nMeanwhile, Robbie Henshaw and George North have been ruled out of the rest of the tour.\nIreland centre Henshaw (pectoral) and Wales wing North (hamstring) were injured against Hurricanes and will return home after Saturday's match.\nBritish and Irish Lions: L Williams, A Watson, J Davies, O Farrell, E Daly, J Sexton, C Murray; M Vunipola, J George, T Furlong, M Itoje, AW Jones, S Warburton (c), S O'Brien, T Faletau.\nReplacements: K Owens, J McGrath, K Sinckler, C Lawes, CJ Stander, R Webb, B Te'o, J Nowell.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nFormer Wales fly-half and ex-rugby league international Jonathan Davies:\n\"You have to be a bit creative to beat the All Blacks because they will always score points. The first Test selection was a bit odd for me, picking a very attacking back three and not the most creative midfield.\n\"It is the 10-12 combination that I would have liked right from the start, but they have not really had the chance to play together in the warm-up matches.\n\"It is a worry that they have not played together more. I'm surprised. If this had been Gatland's ploy from the start of the tour I would have played them a bit more before the Tests.\n\"He made a big call in the third Test against Australia four years ago - dropping Brian O'Driscoll. That had a positive outcome, but if he loses on Saturday, he will get stick.\"\nFormer England fly-half Paul Grayson:\n\"I didn't expect it from Gatland because of the make-up of his teams historically.\n\"He has always preferred the physical presence of Jamie Roberts ahead of the more creative Scott Williams for Wales.\n\"I would have gone with Sexton and Farrell as my 10-12 combination before the tour.\n\"It gives you better ability to move the ball, more decision-makers on the pitch, the ability to paint different pictures in attack and more of a kicking game to keep the pressure on the All Blacks.\n\"But I would have given them two or three games together to build their flow.\n\"Having not had them together in the warm-up games, you are going to do your finding out in the Test match, which is a massive, massive ask.\"\nFormer England and Lions scrum-half Matt Dawson:\n\"There are three players [Kruis, Lawes, Henderson] who are on tip-top form and he's gone with the experience. Ok, that's a fair enough shout.\n\"Sometimes in games you do tweak the form argument a little bit because of experience, but this is a Lions Test match. It's not an international, it's not a club game, does experience now stand for too much?\n\"They're 1-0 down, they're lacking physicality, they're lacking players who can really throw it to the All Blacks for a sustained period of time and win break-down ball, as well as the collision and there are players that are doing that better than Alun Wyn Jones.\"\nFormer All Blacks fly-half Andrew Mehrtens:\n\"Nothing they [All Blacks] do is rocket science. It's stuff that is very basic, but it's been honed and honed and honed to the point where they do it more consistently and at a higher level than any other team.\n\"You look at the try that the Lions scored [the opener in the first Test], it was absolutely fantastic, O'Brien's try, some fantastic skills.\n\"So it's not like the Lions players are incapable of doing things that the All Blacks can do. It's just that the All Blacks, through practise and repetition, do it at a much more consistent level a lot more often than other teams. That's their point of difference.\n\"It's not something that's beyond any other player in the world in any other country, it's just that they are more consistent at doing it and that's really their strength at the moment.\"\nThe Lions lost the series opener 30-15 in Auckland, with Gatland citing a lack of physicality in the forwards. He has sought to address that with the inclusion of Saracens lock Itoje and Cardiff Blues flanker Warburton.\n\"You have to make the tough calls,\" Gatland said.\n\"We saw Maro's impact in the first Test and he will bring an edge and a physicality, as will Sam Warburton in terms of pressure on the ball.\"\nWhile those changes were expected, Gatland has been reluctant to field Sexton and Farrell in the same midfield in the tour matches - although they have trained together since before the tour left for New Zealand.\n\"Both have played well and it gives us that attacking option in the 10-12 channel,\" Gatland said.\n\"We created opportunities in the first Test and there were a few that we didn't finish.\"\nNew Zealand have made two changes - Waisake Naholo comes in on the wing and Anton Lienert-Brown at outside centre.\nThey replace the injured Ben Smith (concussion) and Ryan Crotty (hamstring).\nExperienced Welshman Jones retains his place in the second row and will partner England's Itoje.\n\"It's a big game for him,\" Gatland said of Jones. \"He was a bit disappointed with last week and how it went.\n\"He's pretty focused and pretty motivated. Normally in the past when he's had those sort of challenges he has really fronted the next game.\n\"He's trained well this week and I think he's looking forward to Saturday.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device", "summary": "British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland has made his \"last roll of the dice\" in picking both Johnny Sexton and Owen Farrell for Saturday's second Test against New Zealand, says former Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It happened at Dudley Street, off University Street, early on Friday.\nA detective said: \"It is though that a sum of cash was stolen from a man by two other men. Immediately after the robbery, he was sexually assaulted.\"\nThe officer added: \"The man is clearly distressed and we would ask for public support in our efforts to identify the two involved.\"", "summary": "A man has been sexually assaulted and robbed in south Belfast." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Microsoft-owned chat app said that the move reflected the public preference for using mobile devices to make video calls from the living room, despite the size advantage TVs offered.\nIt will continue to maintain the service until June.\nAfterwards, it will be up to individual manufacturers to decide whether to remove the app or continue offering an unsupported service.\nSkype's intention to focus its efforts on phones and tablets comes at a time when it faces heightened competition.\nAlthough Google's rival Hangouts service has had limited appeal on mobiles, Facebook's Messenger and Apple's Facetime apps are making more headway.\nIn addition, Xiaomi recently launched its own Mi Video Call service, and Slack has announced plans to add support for video chats to its popular business-focused chat tool.\nSkype for TV was first unveiled at the CES tech show in January 2010 and was marketed as a way to let families \"share the limelight [from their sofa] so there's no more huddling around the computer or missing an out-of-shot moment\".\nIt required TVs to be fitted with either a built-in camera or a plug-in peripheral.\nTV-makers that adopted the service included Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba and Philips.\n\"Over the years, users have changed the way they use Skype, with the majority accessing it from a mobile device - including when in the living room,\" reads a message posted to the app's support page.\n\"We want to make sure we prioritise delivering the best possible experience to the platforms our users are asking for, which is why we've decided to focus our efforts in other areas while supporting key functionality on Skype for TV for as long as possible.\"\nSamsung has already announced that its TVs will stop offering the app from 2 June.\nMany science-fiction movies and comics had envisioned that people would want to chat to each other via large screens in their homes.\nBut one expert said that technology had gone down a \"very different route\".\n\"On paper the idea of using a TV for things like Skype made a lot of sense - it's a non-threatening device that people were already comfortable with, so it seemed a good way to get the tech into the living room,\" said Chris Green, a technology analyst at the consultancy Lewis.\n\"But the ubiquity of mobile devices made video conferencing on TVs redundant.\n\"No-one ever got used to using a big screen for Skype because they never needed to - people are far more used to picking up a tablet and doing it that way - and I don't think there's a way back now.\"", "summary": "Skype has announced that it is ending support for its smart TV software." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The agent, codenamed Stakeknife, has been named by the media as Freddie Scappaticci.\nMr Scappaticci has been accused of involvement in up to 50 murders during Northern Ireland's Troubles.\nPolice revealed details about the litigation against Mr Scappaticci in a bid to have lawsuits against him put on hold for two years.\nPolice said allowing the civil claims to continue could prejudice a criminal investigation.\nBut, a lawyer for one of those suing 69-year-old argued that it would be \"catastrophic\" to stay her action until December 2018.\nMr Scappaticci left Northern Ireland in 2003 after being identified by the media as Stakeknife.\nBefore quitting his home, he denied being the agent while in charge of the IRA's internal security team.\nThe judge confirmed that a total of 20 actions against Mr Scappaticci have either been lodged or are being prepared.\nThat figure could rise in future, he was told.\nThe judge adjourned the application.", "summary": "A west Belfast man who denies being Britain's former top Army agent in the IRA is facing at least 20 lawsuits." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Richard Guest, 74, along with another person, went into the sea in Tywyn on 4 July but had to be recovered by coastguards.\nCoroner Peter Brunton concluded he died as a result of misadventure.\nSpeaking after the inquest, Mr Guest's widow Margaret said: \"He was a big man, a strong swimmer who just wanted to help.\"\nOriginally from Bethel near Caernarfon, the couple were on holiday from their home in Walsall, West Midlands, when he died.\nThe inquest heard Mr Guest's heart was \"profoundly enlarged\" and almost twice the weight of a healthy heart but that he was unaware of his condition.\nThe pathologist said a \"cardiac event\" could have been caused by Mr Guest's exertion in the water but the cause of death was given as drowning.\nMrs Guest added: \"Even if he had known he had a heart condition I think he would have still gone into the sea. That's the kind of man he was - he was always looking out for other people.\"", "summary": "A grandfather drowned while trying to rescue two teenage girls from the sea in Gwynedd, an inquest has heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The free event, which is the biggest festival of its kind ever held in the capital, runs from 18:30 GMT to 22:30 GMT until 17 January.\nThirty locations will be illuminated around Piccadilly, Mayfair, King's Cross, Trafalgar Square and Westminster.\nOn Regent Street, a life-size animated elephant will appear from a dust cloud.\nVisitors to Oxford Circus will see the multicoloured cloud of artist Janet Echelman's 1.8 London floating above them.\nPatrice Warrener's The Light of the Spirit projects coloured light onto statues at Westminster Abbey.\nAnd ethereal figures seem to fall through the air in St James's Square, where Cedric Le Borgne is showing Les Voyageurs (The Travellers).\nTransport for London (TfL) have warned that roads will be closed and Tube stations will be busier than usual in the areas where the festival is being held.\nA number of buses will be diverted or terminate early.\nIt has been created by producers Artichoke, who held a similar event in Durham.\nAs well as a \"huge\" production crew, the company has recruited volunteers from Team London, which supported the London Olympics, to help guide people around the installations.\n\"The arts should be free and available to everyone,\" Artichoke's director Helen Marriage told BBC London.", "summary": "Some of London's most famous locations will be transformed by light installations for the Lumiere festival." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dr Michio Hirano will discuss Charlie's condition with doctors treating him and independent specialists.\nGreat Ormond Street has given Dr Hirano an honorary contract giving him the same status as its own physicians.\nIt means he can examine Charlie and has full access to his medical records.\nCharlie Gard case explained\nThe visit has been arranged as part of the latest stage of a court fight, brought by Charlie's parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard, from Bedfont, south west London, over whether he should be given experimental treatment in America.\nJudges have heard that Charlie, who was born on 4 August 2016, has a form of mitochondrial disease, a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage.\nDr Hirano, a professor of neurology at the Columbia University Medical Centre in New York, has offered an experimental therapy called nucleoside.\nLast week, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) released a copy of its latest submission to the High Court.\nIn a statement published on its website, the hospital said: \"At the heart of Charlie's parlous and terrible condition is the question, how can it be in his best interests for his life-sustaining treatment to be withdrawn?\n\"Charlie has been treated on GOSH's neonatal intensive care unit for many months now and very sadly, the question that arises for him arises for other patients and families at the hospital too.\"\nThe hospital added it had treated more than 1,000 patients with mitochondrial disease and offered pioneering treatment, including nucleoside treatment, where appropriate.\n\"Despite all the advances in medical science made by GOSH and the other hospitals around the world, there remain some conditions that we cannot cure and we cannot ameliorate.\"\nThe hospital said it remained the unanimous view of its doctors that withdrawal of ventilation and palliative care were all the hospital could offer Charlie.\nIt said his treatment team and all those from who the hospital obtained second opinions were of the view Charlie had \"no quality of life and no real prospect of any quality of life\".", "summary": "The US doctor who has offered to treat terminally ill Charlie Gard has attended a meeting at Great Ormond Street Hospital to decide whether he should travel to America for therapy." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Hong Kong topped the rankings followed by London and Beijing.\nJLL said it costs $262 per square foot per year for top-quality office space in the Chinese territory because of strong tenant demand and short supply.\nShanghai, Tokyo and Delhi also made the list, with the city state of Singapore missing the top ten by just one spot.\n\"A large part of the global growth is now driven out of Asia and international businesses will continue to be keen to set up their presence in the region,\" Chris Archibold, head of markets at JLL Singapore said.\n\"We are in a new era of city competition, where cities are fighting to secure the world's most dynamic corporations, attract the best talent and pull in capital, both of which are highly mobile,\" added Megan Walters, JLL's head of capital markets research in Asia Pacific.\n\"Nowhere is this intense competition between cities better epitomised than in the demand for premium office buildings in the world's most prestigious commercial office districts.\"\nThe report examined 24 global cities and occupancy costs including rent, service charges and property tax.", "summary": "Asian cities command half of the world's top ten most expensive office space, according to a new survey by property firm JLL." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The extra day off - Japan now has 16 public holidays a year - became law in 2014 but is just taking effect.\nThe campaign to have a Mountain Day was a longstanding cause for hiking and mountain-related groups, who wanted to celebrate Japan's terrain and its connection to the nation's geography and culture.\nJapan also likes to have something specific to celebrate on each public holiday, such as Greenery Day in May, Marine Day in July and Respect for the Aged Day in September, though most people treat them as just another day off.\nBecause the kanji (Chinese characters used in written Japanese) for \"eight\", å…«, looks a bit like the sides of a mountain.\nAlso \"11\" looks a bit like two trees, say some. Many municipalities had also already designated the date as one to celebrate mountains and, unusually, there were no other public holidays in August.\nJapan's dramatic landscapes is scattered with volcanoes, earthquakes and hot springs, caused by the smashing of tectonic plates.\nThe country's many peaks are more than just geographical features. They also explain Japan's densely packed cities - squeezed into the flat land near the sea, and, observers say, the culture that has arisen there.\nDespite this extreme urbanisation, many Japanese people see themselves as more in touch with nature than people in many other developed nations.\nNot exactly. While hill-walking is popular, especially with senior citizens, an admittedly small survey by the Japan Weather Association found that nearly a third of those they asked had not even heard of the new holiday.\nNearly 10% were thinking about a trip to the mountains though - not such a bad idea in the notorious heat of the cities in August. Those that do have been advised to go properly equipped and keep an eye on weather forecasts.\nJapan now has more official days off than any other member of the Group of Eight (G8) world powers. It also has a problem with people working excessive hours and not claiming all the leave they are owed, which has been blamed for weak consumer demand - and even for Japan's low birth rate.\nIt is hoped public holidays encourage people to take longer vacations - you only need to take a few days off to join them with weekends to get a proper break - and spend money in the process.\nThe Japan Times suggests the new holiday will be responsible for a possible extra 820bn yen ($8bn; £6bn) in spending, including a jump in sales of camping gear.\nAny effect on the birth rate is less clear, though families are probably grateful for more time together.", "summary": "Japan is marking Mountain Day on Thursday, the latest addition to its extensive public holiday calendar." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Royal College of Physicians said the triple effect of rising demand, increasingly complex cases and falling bed numbers was causing problems.\nThe college's report claimed urgent care was already being compromised and warned the situation would get worse unless something was done.\nBut the government rejected the suggestion, saying the NHS was ready for the challenges it was facing.\nThe college said in some ways the NHS had been a victim of its own success.\nAdvances in medicine had led to people living longer, but this meant they were increasingly developing complex long-term conditions such as dementia as a result.\nIt said this had been happening during a period of falling bed numbers - they have been reduced by a third in the past 25 years - and rising numbers of emergency admissions.\nThe RCP said standards were slipping in hospitals throughout England.\nIt cited the way older patients were repeatedly moved around wards, the lack of continuity of care while in hospital and tests being done during the night as some of the examples of how care was suffering.\nThe college also highlighted the results of feedback from its members, which showed concern about discharge arrangements and workload.\nAnd it warned the problems could lead to another scandal like that surrounding the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, which became the subject of a public inquiry after regulators said poor standards had led to needless deaths.\nProf Tim Evans, of the RCP, said: \"This evidence is very distressing. All hospital patients deserve to receive safe, high-quality sustainable care centred around their needs.\n\"Yet it is increasingly clear that our hospitals are struggling to cope with the challenge of an ageing population who increasingly present to our hospitals with multiple, complex diseases.\n\"We must act now to make the drastic changes required to provide the care they deserve.\"\nThe report said the solution lay in concentrating hospital services in fewer, larger sites that were able to provide excellent care round-the-clock, seven days a week.\nBut it also said this would require improvements in community services as there were many patients who ended up in hospital because of a lack of help close to home.\nJeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society, said: \"These latest findings are alarming but, unfortunately, not surprising.\n\"It is painfully evident that the healthcare system stands on the brink of crisis.\n\"People with dementia are going into hospital unnecessarily, staying in too long and coming out worse.\"\nHealth minister Dr Dan Poulter said: \"It is completely wrong to suggest that the NHS cannot cope - the NHS only uses approximately 85% of the beds it has available, and more and more patients are being treated out of hospital, in the community or at home.\n\"But it is true that the NHS needs fundamental reform to cope with the challenges of the future.\n\"To truly provide dignity in care for older people, we need to see even more care out of hospitals. That's why we are modernising the NHS and putting the people who best understand patient's needs, doctors and nurses, in charge.\"", "summary": "Hospitals in England could be on the brink of collapse, leading doctors say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It said more than 42,000 people are currently being treated for the disease in Wales.\nThe Dementia Risk Reduction Campaign will be launched on Friday, with a 10-day road show visiting large shopping centres and employers.\nIts aim is to encourage people to live healthier lifestyles.\nThe campaign follows research by Prof Peter Elwood at Cardiff University, who found a healthier life can reduce a person's risk of getting early onset dementia.\nHis study - over 35 years looking at people in Caerphilly - found a \"huge benefit\".\nLast month, the Alzheimer's Society said experts fear numbers of sufferers could rise by 40% in the next 10 years.\nDementia is now the leading cause of death in England and Wales, with the charity saying it costs Welsh society £1.4bn a year.\nOne man who has started living a healthier lifestyle is Norman Parselle, 47, from Newport, who lost both his parents to dementia.\nHe joined a walking football club 18 months ago to improve his physical and mental health and said: \"Who knows what's around the corner for any of us?\n\"But I do know that lack of physical activity, isolation and depression can contribute to the decline of people with dementia, so keeping fit and active, and socialising with friends may reduce the risk of getting dementia.\"\nIn Dr Elwood's Caerphilly Cohort Study, he looked at the lifestyle habits of middle-aged men from 1979 to 2014.\nHe monitored factors that contribute to diseases like cancer and dementia, like smoking, diet and exercise.\nOne participant was Leighton Jones, 82, who believes a healthy lifestyle is why he has so far avoided serious health problems, including dementia.\nHe credited his wife's home cooked meals and the couples' lifelong love of physical activity.\n\"Longevity of life is useless unless you have quality,\" he said.", "summary": "A campaign aimed at reducing people's risk of developing dementia by 60% is to be launched by the Welsh Government." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police said they were called to a house in the hamlet of Vogue, near Redruth in Cornwall, just after midnight where a man was discovered with serious but not life-threatening injuries.\nA 35-year-old man was later arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, officers said.\nHe was in police custody, awaiting questioning, they added.", "summary": "A man is in hospital with serious injuries after an incident at a house party." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Gwynedd council claimed the pilot project in Bangor was the first of its kind in Wales.\nLollipop man Arwel Owen said he has already ended up on the bonnet of a car outside Ysgol Garnedd primary school.\n\"It's getting worse - there are a lot more cars and they are getting faster,\" he said.\nGwynedd council said the move was a joint project with police and would help provide evidence if motorists near the school in the busy Penrhosgarnedd area of the city were driving poorly.\n\"The vast majority of motorists respect the important work the school crossing patrol do helping pupils to walk to school and home at the end of the day,\" said cabinet member Dafydd Meurig.\n\"But in some circumstances, there may be the occasional motorist who isn't thinking and ignoring the school crossing patrol when they stepped out into the road to assist children.\"\nThe road outside the school is one of the busiest routes into the city and close to the main hospital.\nHead teacher Llion Williams said there had been concerns about drivers \"for some time\".\n\"We welcome the new camera being able to record any case of drivers ignoring the highway code,\" he said.\nLollipop man Mr Owen said the body camera had already helped slow vehicles down.\n\"It's very dangerous here,\" he told BBC Wales' Newyddion 9.\n\"I've been really close to cars and I've had to hold on to children to stop them going, because the car isn't stopping.\n\"I've been on the bonnet of a car once... others have hit my coat.\"\nInsp Dave Cust from North Wales Police's road traffic unit added: \"Those who are willing to risk their lives and those of others are not welcome on our roads.\n\"If people know that there is a much higher chance of being prosecuted and risk losing their license, then they might think twice about these offences.\"", "summary": "A crossing patrol officer in Gwynedd has been issued with a body camera in a bid to cut down bad driving outside a school." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But Wiikman, who helped the current Panthers squad to the top of the Elite League table last weekend, had some other Nottingham heroes to look up to nearly 20 years ago.\nThe 31-year-old, who has played in some of the top leagues in Europe and also the highly-rated American Hockey League, has already won the hearts of the club's supporters and his name often rings out around the National Ice Centre.\nAnd he seems to have quickly fallen in love with the club and the city, although his first Nottingham love was for football club Forest.\n\"When I was a kid, my dad was a Newcastle fan and he tried to get me to root for Newcastle,\" Wiikman told BBC Radio Nottingham.\n\"My uncle stepped in and told me to root for Forest and I said 'all right, let's go for Forest'. I have been rooting for the team ever since.\n\"The players I remember most are Steve Stone, Stuart Pearce and Pierre van Hooijdonk.\"\nWiikman had big skates to fill when he arrived in Nottingham to replace Craig Kowalski, probably the Panthers' most popular netminder ever.\nThe pair were on opposite sides last month when Kowalski returned to play in coach Corey Neilson's testimonial game.\nSo did the lure of Nottingham Forest have anything to do with Wiikman signing for the Panthers in the summer?\n\"It was just a coincidence,\" said Wiikman. \"But when I heard about interest from Nottingham, I thought 'wow, that would be great' and then it happened.\"\nAs well as enjoying his time on the ice, Wiikman is already settled away from his chosen sport and managed to see his heroes win their biggest game of the season so far, as Forest beat Derby County 1-0 at the City Ground on 6 November.\n\"I went down to see the Derby game, which was a great game obviously as they won,\" he said.\n\"It was a great atmosphere and it was just great to go and see them live for the first time. I have seen them on TV before but never live, so it was a great experience for me and my family.\"\nOn the ice, Wiikman collected his first shutout of the season at the weekend as Panthers beat Coventry Blaze 4-0 at the NIC and Nottingham went top of the table with Sunday's 4-1 win at Sheffield Steelers.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nHe is currently leading the league's netminder statistics, conceding only 1.95 goals per game on average and with a save percentage of 93.1%.\nPanthers have lost once in regulation time in the league this season and are on a run of five successive victories, but Wiikman is warning against complacency.\n\"There are a lot of good teams in the league this year - Cardiff, Sheffield, Braehead,\" he added. \"Edinburgh are doing good too and then there's Belfast.\n\"It is going to be a really tight race this year, so every game is so big and so important.\"", "summary": "Finnish netminder Miika Wiikman was only 14 when Paul Adey, Jamie Leach and Ashley Tait were the heroes at the old Nottingham Ice Stadium in the late 1990s." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "At a rally in Dallas, the 65-year-old promised he would \"end an era of failed leadership\".\nHis 14-year tenure at the helm of the country's second largest state earned the socially conservative Christian a reputation for cutting spending.\nThis is his second bid for the White House.\nHis first was derailed by a very public moment of forgetfulness when in November 2011, he stumbled over the name of a government department he wanted to abolish, during a Republican debate.\nUnable to remember the agency, he instead uttered the word, \"oops\".\nHe dropped out of the race two months later, during a period that his wife Anita described this week as a \"dark time\".\nBut his supporters point to the economic successes of Texas under his leadership as evidence of his talents.\nMr Perry made his announcement in a Dallas airplane hangar surrounded on stage by military supporters.\nHundreds of supporters gathered in an un-airconditioned airplane hanger on a hot June Texas morning to listen to Rick Perry launch his presidential bid.\n\"Perry stands out because he's done the most,\" says Nancy Oliver, who came to the event with several handmade campaign signs.\nDuring his speech, Mr Perry boasted of leading the world's 12th-largest economy and overseeing robust job growth. It's part of what he hopes to be his two main selling points - the economic health of the state under his leadership and his foreign policy expertise as a former Air Force pilot who has the support of military veterans.\n\"The economy, the jobs, and we didn't suffer too much here in Texas during this last downturn,\" said another in the crowd, Mark Easton, when asked why he backs Mr Perry. \"What's not to like about that?\"\nThat's Mr Perry's pitch. We'll see if voters outside Texas agree.\nThe speech began with his humble beginning on a farm in west Texas, and then moved on to his two terms as state governor.\n\"Leadership is not a speech on the Senate floor\" Perry told supporters in attempt to distinguish his candidacy from other Republican contenders.\n\"It's not what you say. It's what you do.\"\nIn 2014, he was indicted by a grand jury on charges of abusing his power, which he denies.\nEarlier on Thursday Mr Perry announced his candidacy by launching a new fundraising website.\nHe becomes the 10th Republican to join the race, with several big names still to jump in.\nFormer Florida Governor Jeb Bush said on Thursday he will announce on 15 June.", "summary": "Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas, has launched his campaign to earn the Republican nomination for US president." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Relegation-threatened Stenhousemuir picked up three points with a 3-1 victory over Peterhead.\nLeague leaders Livingston dropped points as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Queen's Park at Hampden Park.\nThe fixture between Brechin City and Alloa Athletic was postponed because of a waterlogged pitch.\nEast Fife bounced back from last week's defeat to Alloa Athletic by beating Albion Rovers at the Bayview Stadium. Two second-half goals from Chris Duggan was the difference between the sides.\nStranraer picked up three points away to Airdrieonians thanks to second-half goals from Craig Malcolm and Ryan Thomson. The Blues were reduced to 10 men as Morgyn Neil was shown a red card but Iain Russell missed the resulting penalty. Andy Ryan scored a late consolation for Airdrieonians.\nBottom club Stenhousemuir took a step towards safety with a defeat of 10-man Peterhead at Ochilview Park. Rory McAllister saw red for abusing referee David Munro after first-half goals from Alan Cook and Mason Robertson had put the strugglers in front. Jordan Brown pulled one back for Peterhead after the restart, but Colin McMenamin restored the Warriors' two-goal cushion shortly after the hour mark.\nLivingston extended their lead at the top of the table to seven points with a draw at Queen's Park. Scott Pittman put the leaders ahead early on before Dario Zanatta equalised for the hosts.", "summary": "East Fife moved up to third in Scottish League One with a 2-0 win over Albion Rovers while Airdireonians lost 2-1 at home to Stranraer." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The work, scheduled to be completed by August, will see 1,000 seats moved, and affect some season ticket holders.\nMore than 250 wheelchair positions will be available with visiting disabled fans given places in the away end.\nA 2014 BBC investigation found the club offered 45% of the recommended number of wheelchair spaces.\nCurrent guidelines on how football clubs in the United Kingdom should cater for disabled spectators have been in place since 2004 in the form of the Accessible Stadia Guide.\nIn 2015, the Premier League promised to improve stadium facilities for disabled fans, stating that clubs would comply with official guidance by August 2017.\nLiverpool were one of the clubs who were likely to miss the deadline, until Tuesday's announcement.\nThey say the redevelopment will allow the club to meet the recommended requirements of the Accessible Stadia guide.\nIt follows a similar announcement by Manchester United last week.\nThe work at Liverpool includes new disabled bays in the Centenary Stand for home supporters, 150 extra amenity and easy access seats around the stadium and improved viewing positions for visiting disabled supporters.\nResponding to the moving of 1,000 general admission seats, Liverpool say they are \"committed to mitigating the seat loss\" and will work with affected season ticket holders to find an alternative seat.\nAndrew Parkinson, operations director at Liverpool.\n\"As a football club, we have a long-standing commitment to supporting our disabled fans and making changes to the stadium to improve their matchday experience.\n\"Over the past five years, we have made an incredible amount of progress by working with our disabled fans to listen and understand the areas that need improvements that are important to them.\n\"Making these further developments this summer will see Anfield Stadium achieving the required number of wheelchair positions as stated in the Accessible Stadia Guide.\"\nJoint statement from Keith Graham, Liverpool Disabled Supporters Association chair and Katie Price, disabled supporters representative on the Supporters Committee.\n\"The proposed work is the culmination of many years of dialogue. We have always advocated the need for increased accessibility at Anfield, for all disabled supporters, in order to meet the recommended requirements of the Accessible Stadia Guide.\n\"We welcome LFC's commitment to making this a reality by August 2017 and look forward to greater numbers of disabled supporters having the opportunity to attend matches at Anfield.\"\nTony Taylor, chair of disability charity Level playing field told BBC Sport:\n\"We are delighted we have got a Premier League club who will meet the Premier League's self-imposed pledge. It is good news for Liverpool, good news for Liverpool's disabled fans and good news for disabled fans visiting the ground.\n\"This is not just spaces for home fans but for away fans, it is a common issue that disabled fans are often stuck in the middle of home fans, which does not make for a comfortable experience, so this is a really good news story.\n\"One of the obstacles which often gets in the way of wheelchair accessibility and viewing spaces in older grounds is construction issues, but Liverpool have shown it can be achieved in these sorts of grounds, and you do not have to wait for a brand new stadium to be built.\"", "summary": "Liverpool are to \"significantly redevelop\" their Anfield stadium in the summer, to make it more accessible to disabled fans." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Jamie Thomson, 26, was seriously injured in the collision which happened at a roundabout on Braidcraft Road in Pollok on Saturday 19 March.\nHe was taken to the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where died on Friday evening.\nThe 51-year-old driver of the bin lorry and his two male passengers were not injured.", "summary": "A motorcyclist who was involved in a crash with a bin lorry in Glasgow nine days ago has died in hospital." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "25 February 2016 Last updated at 15:45 GMT\nThe barrier, built in the 1980s, is on the city's Crumlin Road and encloses part of the Ardoyne area.\nIt is owned by Northern Ireland's housing authority, which is replacing it with railings and decorative panels after \"talks within and between communities\" in the area.\nThis footage from the Northern Ireland Housing Executive shows the wall being knocked down.", "summary": "A \"peace wall\" that was built to protect residents at a north Belfast interface during the Troubles has been dismantled." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The pair, who won the synchronised 3m springboard title in Rio, were injured for the British Championships but have won three World Series medals in 2017.\nTom Daley and Dan Goodfellow, synchro 10m platform bronze medallists in Rio, will again team up with Daley also competing in the individual event.\nGrace Reid is entered in three events.\nShe competes in the 3m Springboard, the 3m Synchro with Katherine Torrance and the Mixed 3m Synchro with Daley.\nThe squad features six World Championship debutants and the event takes place from 14-30 July.\nGreat Britain team: Jack Laugher (City of Leeds), Chris Mears (City of Leeds), Ross Haslam (City of Sheffield), Grace Reid (Edinburgh Diving), Katherine Torrance (City of Leeds), Tom Daley (Dive London), Daniel Goodfellow (City of Leeds), Tonia Couch (Plymouth Diving), Lois Toulson (City of Leeds), Robyn Birch (Dive London), Matty Lee (City of Leeds), James Heatly (Edinburgh Diving)", "summary": "Olympic gold medallists Jack Laugher and Chris Mears are in a 12-strong British team for the World Championships in Budapest next month." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They were found \"laying on and within pallets of broccoli lined with a thin sheet of ice\", US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement.\nThe temperature inside the truck was 49F (9.5C), and it was padlocked shut with \"no means of escape\".\nNobody was hurt and the driver was arrested on human smuggling charges.\nThe CBP reports that the 60 people discovered on Saturday come from Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras.\nThey were transported to the Falfurrias Border Patrol Station for deportation processing after being discovered by a sniffer dog.\nSeveral of the migrants wore hooded jackets and trousers as they lay on the ice.\nRio Grande Valley Sector Chief Manuel Padilla Jr warned of \"serious consequences for truck drivers who engage in smuggling\".\nLast month, 10 migrants died after they were locked inside a truck in Texas.\nThat truck, which was discovered abandoned in a sweltering San Antonio Walmart car park, may have contained nearly 100 people, officials estimate.\nSeveral migrants fled the scene after officials prised open the truck door.", "summary": "Sixty undocumented migrants from Central America were discovered locked inside a food truck by US officials as they tried to cross the border." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Lords EU Committee said determining the rights of two million UK nationals living in the EU would be a \"complex and daunting\" part of exit talks.\nWhile they do not recommend a vote either way, peers say trade deals between the EU and non-EU states take between four and nine years on average.\nLeave campaigners argue a UK-EU Treaty should be wrapped up in two years.\nA separate report from Oxford University's Migration Observatory, also published on Wednesday, suggests curbs on in-work benefits for EU citizens negotiated by David Cameron are unlikely to result in a large reduction in migration to the UK.\nIt said a \"large majority\" of recent EU migrants were not claiming benefits of any kind.\nIf the UK voted to leave in the referendum on 23 June, it would not mean an immediate exit from the EU.\nThis issue covers travel for leisure or work, and living in other EU countries.\nThe prime minister could trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which provides for a two-year process for negotiating the terms of withdrawal and a departing state's future relations with the EU.\nBut there is some debate as to whether this is the best method for leaving the EU and whether it should happen immediately after the vote.\nThe cross-party committee warned that negotiations for withdrawal and to establish a new relationship with the EU would take longer than the two years allowed under Article 50.\nThe committee, which took evidence from two EU law experts, said one of the most complex parts of the talks would be establishing the rights of UK citizens resident in other member states to access health care, schooling and employment.\nThe negotiations, it added, would also have to deal with the reciprocal rights of EU nationals living in the UK.\n\"We don't take a view on whether the UK should leave the EU or not,\" said Lord Boswell, the former Conservative minister who chairs the committee.\n\"But it is clear that if that's what people decide, withdrawal would mean difficult and lengthy negotiations.\"\n\"It's not possible to predict exactly how long it would take, but comparable international trade deals have taken on average between four and nine years.\"\nPeers also say the process of reviewing and disentangling the UK from EU law would take years to complete - with the government having to assess which laws it wished to keep.\nVote Leave, the official group campaigning for an EU exit, said the UK faced a choice between \"handing more money and power to Brussels or to take back control\".\n\"It [the report] also torpedoes the claims that the EU wouldn't do a trade deal with us after we vote leave - it's in everyone's interest on all sides to strike a deal after the UK takes back the power over trade.\"\nUKIP said the committee was made up of Europhiles and its findings were \"partial nonsense\".\nRemain campaigners argue there is no guarantee that expats living in the EU would be able to stay in the event of Brexit.", "summary": "Leaving the EU would mean \"difficult and lengthy negotiations\" that could take years to complete, peers say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Trust found a significant drop in boys' reading enjoyment between the ages of eight and 16 - from 72% at ages eight-to-11 to 36% at ages 14-16.\nGirls' pleasure in picking up a book also dropped off in the teenage years, though not quite as markedly.\nAt ages eight-to-11, 83% of girls said they enjoyed reading, but this dropped back to 53% at ages 14-16.\nDirector of the NLT Jonathan Douglas said: \"Young people's love of reading steadily declines from the day they leave primary school to the day they leave secondary school - particularly when it comes to boys.\n\"This is a trend we must reverse.\"\nMr Douglas said an increasing number of academic, social and leisure priorities, as well as a curriculum that puts more emphasis on homework and study, all played their part.\nHe said there were lots of ways that parents and teachers could encourage teenagers to read for fun.\n\"For starters, you can motivate boys to read by tapping in to their interests, such as football, comedy and gaming, and letting them choose what they want to read.\n\"Remember that everything counts, whether they want to read a fictional story, newspaper, magazine or comic.\"\nOverall though, pleasure in reading appears to be rising steadily among UK children.\nThe NLT survey of 41,334 children aged eight to 16, carried out at the end of 2016, found nearly six children in 10 (57%) said they enjoyed reading either very much or quite a lot.\n\"While enjoyment levels had been rather stable between 2005 and 2012, they have been rising steadily since 2013, and in 2016 we recorded the highest percentage of reading enjoyment levels,\" the report said.\nGirls enjoyed getting stuck into a book more than boys, with 65% enjoying reading either very much or a lot compared with 52% of boys.\nA child's background was not linked to reading pleasure, as the Trust did not find any difference between children who received free school meals and those who did not.\n\"It is the first time in 11 years [of conducting this research] that we have not recorded a difference in reading enjoyment by socio-economic background,\" the report said.\nHowever, there were differences along the lines of ethnicity, with fewer pupils from white backgrounds enjoying reading compared with pupils from mixed or black ethnic backgrounds.\nPupils from Asian backgrounds were most likely to say they enjoyed reading.", "summary": "Only one-third of teenage boys in the UK say they enjoy reading, a study by the National Literacy Trust suggests." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 29-year-old scored 18 Ligue 1 goals last season, but failed to make France's final Euro 2016 squad.\nBen Arfa joined Nice after having his contract terminated by Newcastle, whom he joined in 2010, and following a loan spell at Hull City that was cut short.\nHe has signed a two-year deal with the French champions, who are planning for life without Zlatan Ibrahimovic.\nPSG will go into next season without leading scorer Ibrahimovic, who is expected to sign for Manchester United, and with a new manager after Unai Emery replaced Laurent Blanc.\nBen Arfa scored 13 goals in 76 games for Newcastle after joining from Marseille, initially on loan before making it permanent in 2011.\nHe failed to score in nine appearances on loan at Hull in 2014/15.", "summary": "Paris St-Germain have signed Hatem Ben Arfa on a free transfer after his contract ran out at Nice." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police said his arrest was connected to an investigation into allegations that the Rio state government embezzled more than $64m (£51m) of federal funds aimed for construction projects.\nFederal officers searched his home on Thursday. The probe is part of Brazil's wider \"Car Wash\" corruption inquiry.\nBystander shouted \"Thief!\" as Mr Cabral was taken away for questioning.\nHe is the most high-profile politician to be arrested in recent months over corruption allegations.\nMr Cabral, from the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), served two terms as governor of Rio state from 2007 to 2014.\nInvestigators said the directors of two construction companies had incriminated him.\nThey allege that Mr Cabral received kickbacks in return for awarding them lucrative contracts, such as the refurbishment of Rio's Maracana stadium.\nMr Cabral has not yet commented.\nPolice said his arrest was part of a major operation involving 230 police officers carrying out dozens of search and arrest warrants.\nMr Cabral is the latest in a long line of Brazilian politicians and top business people who have come under scrutiny as part of \"Operation Car Wash\".\nOne of the best-known politicians to have been named in connection with the investigation is former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. He has denied any wrongdoing.\nDozens of powerful figures have been found guilty and jailed, including the CEO of construction giant Odebrecht, Marcelo Odebrecht, and the treasurer of the Workers' Party, Joao Vaccari.\nThe scandal has rocked Brazil and led to mass street protests against corruption.", "summary": "Police in Brazil have arrested a former governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Sergio Cabral." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Andrea Leadsom said the government would ensure the food and farming sectors have the labour they need but the details were not settled yet.\nMrs Leadsom also said that leaving the EU will allow the government to slash \"ridiculous\" farming red tape.\nCritics are worried that these plans will damage key wildlife protections.\nAround 60,000 seasonal workers come to the UK each summer, mainly from eastern Europe.\nMany crop growers depend on these labourers to plant, pick and pack a variety of fruit and vegetables. Mrs Leadsom acknowledged that this was a key issue and was worrying farmers across the UK.\n\"I've heard this loud and clear around the country, whether in Herefordshire, Sussex, or Northamptonshire, and I want to pay tribute to the many workers from Europe who contribute so much to our farming industry and rural communities,\" she told the Oxford Farming Conference.\n\"Access to labour is very much an important part of our current discussions - and we're committed to working with you to make sure you have the right people with the right skills.\"\nMrs Leadsom said she has spoken \"very directly\" to the Home Office about the issue and there would be \"announcements in due course\".\nPressed on the issue, she said \"you are asking me to go into the specific policy details which we don't have as yet but rest assured this is being looked at very closely\".\nMrs Leadsom also said that dealing with red tape and farm inspections was costing British farmers around 300,000 hours and £5m a year.\nLeaving the EU would give Britain the chance to define its own rules and get rid of some of the bureaucracy that farmers find frustrating.\nAmong the targets would be the so-called three crop rule. This requires around 40,000 UK farmers to grow three different crops on their land each year to qualify for their subsidies.\nSupporters say that the imposition boosts conservation and helps fight climate change. Many farmers believe it is unfair as it limits their ability to grow more of the most profitable crop in any given year.\nMrs Leadsom also took aim at other elements of the current regulations that many farmers find irksome.\n\"No more six foot EU billboards littering the landscape,\" she said. \"No more existential debates to determine what counts as a bush, a hedge, or a tree. And no more, ridiculous, bureaucratic three-crop rule.\"\nThe Environment Secretary also indicated that the number of direct inspections of farms would be cut with greater reliance on aerial photography.\nFarmers hit by floods would have to fill in far fewer forms she said. UK land managers would \"grow more, sell more and export more great British food whilst upholding our high standards for plant and animal health and welfare,\" Mrs Leadsom said.\nWhile Mrs Leadsom's speech was welcomed by many farmers, critics were worried that the proposed rollback of regulations would damage the environment.\n\"Our worst fears about a post-Brexit farming landscape are being realised,\" said Molly Scott Cato, a Green party MEP.\n\"Rather than using the opportunities offered by Brexit to encourage a move towards a diverse and ecologically sustainable farming system, this government seem determined to dive headlong into encouraging damaging monocultures.\"\nThe UK receives around £3bn a year in direct support to farmers and the government have indicated they will guarantee similar support until 2020. There was strong criticism that Mrs Leadsom didn't address the question of what will happen after 2020 in her speech.\n\"Andrea Leadsom has said nothing about the two most important questions facing UK farmers - whether they will still have access to the single market and what subsidies they can expect to receive post-2020,\" said Kate Parminter, the Liberal Democrat environment spokeswoman.\n\"Warm words about wanting to increase British food exports will be meaningless if farmers are faced with a 50% tariff on beef and a 30% tariff on lamb to sell into their biggest export market.\"\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook", "summary": "The environment secretary says she is \"absolutely committed\" to ensuring that British farmers have access to migrant workers after Brexit." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Edinburgh University researchers have shown how two receptors in older brains react to the stress hormone cortisol linked to forgetfulness as people age.\nThe study on older mice found one receptor was activated by low levels of cortisol, which helped memory.\nBut once levels of the hormone were too high they spilled over on to a second receptor, activating brain processes which contribute to memory loss.\nWhen the receptor linked to poor memory was blocked, the memory recall problem was reversed.\nScientists say the discovery could lead to treatment for conditions such as early Alzheimer's.\nDr Joyce Yau, who led the study at Edinburgh University's centre for cardiovascular science, said: \"While we know that stress hormones affect memory, this research explains how the receptors they engage with can switch good memory to poorly functioning memory in old age.\n\"We now know that lowering the levels of these stress hormones will prevent them from activating a receptor in the brain that is bad for memory.\n\"Understanding the mechanisms in the brain which affect memory as we age will help us to find ways to combat conditions linked to memory loss.\"\nThe scientists said the research helps explain why too much stress over a prolonged period interferes with the normal processes in storing everyday memories, despite the fact that a little bit of stress can help people better remember emotional memories.\nScientists found that high levels of cortisol in aged mice made them less able to remember how to navigate a maze.\nThe study was published in the Journal of Neuroscience and was funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC).\nProfessor Chris Kennard, chairman of the MRC's neuroscience and mental health board, said: \"This research highlights some interesting, original concepts relating to why memory loss occurs in old age.\n\"With people living ever longer, the MRC is really focusing on research which allows elderly people not just to survive but also to stay healthy.\"\nThe researchers are looking at a new chemical compound which blocks an enzyme, known as 11beta-HSD1, which helps produce stress hormones within cells.\nThe study is supported by a Seeding Drug Discovery award from the Wellcome Trust charity.\nIt is hoped this could be used to develop a drug treatment to slow the normal decline in memory associated with ageing, or even improve memory in people who are very old.", "summary": "Experts claim to have found how stress can lead to memory loss in old age." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Chaplin took his goal tally to seven for the season and is now Pompey's leading goalscorer along with Gary Roberts.\nPompey were awarded a penalty in the 21st minute after Enda Stevens was fouled by defender Sammy Moore just inside the box.\nChaplin stepped up to take the spot-kick but Orient's goalkeeper Alex Cisak guessed the right way and parried the ball out for a corner.\nThe striker made amends for his miss two minutes later when he stabbed the ball home at the far post from a Carl Baker cross.\nOrient were level in the 38th minute when Massey was picked out by former Pompey player Nigel Atangana and curled his shot exquisitely into the top corner from just inside the area.\nPortsmouth regained their lead two minutes after half-time when Chaplin headed home from close range after Baker's cross from the right-hand side.\nReport supplied by the Press Association.\nMatch ends, Portsmouth 2, Leyton Orient 1.\nSecond Half ends, Portsmouth 2, Leyton Orient 1.\nAttempt blocked. Michael Collins (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nSubstitution, Leyton Orient. Ollie Palmer replaces Sandro Semedo.\nCorner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Christian Burgess.\nSubstitution, Portsmouth. Kyle Bennett replaces Conor Chaplin.\nAttempt missed. Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.\nFoul by Michael Smith (Portsmouth).\nTeddy Mezague (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nMichael Doyle (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient).\nDanny Rose (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Michael Collins (Leyton Orient).\nSubstitution, Portsmouth. Amine Linganzi replaces Kal Naismith.\nChristian Burgess (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient).\nMichael Doyle (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Michael Doyle (Portsmouth).\nPaul McCallum (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nAttempt blocked. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nCorner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Alex Cisak.\nDanny Rose (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Myles Judd (Leyton Orient).\nSubstitution, Leyton Orient. Jordan Bowery replaces Sammy Moore.\nFoul by Kal Naismith (Portsmouth).\nMichael Collins (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt blocked. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\nCorner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Christian Burgess.\nJamal Lowe (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nFoul by Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient).\nAttempt missed. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.\nCorner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Carl Baker.\nAttempt missed. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.\nConor Chaplin (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Sammy Moore (Leyton Orient).\nConor Chaplin (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Teddy Mezague (Leyton Orient).\nCorner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Tom Parkes.\nGoal! Portsmouth 2, Leyton Orient 1. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Carl Baker.\nSecond Half begins Portsmouth 1, Leyton Orient 1.", "summary": "Conor Chaplin missed a penalty and scored a brace as Portsmouth beat Leyton Orient 2-1 at Fratton Park." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) passed the findings of its inquiry into Northamptonshire PCC Adam Simmonds to prosecutors.\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it was awaiting Mr Simmonds's response before making its decision public.\nEx Labour MP Tony Clarke said the outcome should be revealed.\nA spokesman for the Conservative PCC, who is not standing for re-election on 5 May, refused to comment.\nThe IPCC investigated claims Mr Simmonds breached the Data Protection Act by disclosing \"sensitive\" information relating to a criminal investigation to third parties in 2013 and committed an offence of misconduct in public office.\nThe matter was referred to the IPCC by the Northamptonshire Police and Crime Panel.\nNorthamptonshire Green Party spokesman Mr Clarke, the Northampton South MP from 1997 to 2005, said: \"Taxpayers have a right to know the outcome of this complaint and if he has nothing to hide he would have no problem informing us.\n\"I would ask him to come clean. Everyone is aware a complaint was lodged. It is not acceptable for Adam Simmonds not to comment.\"\nA Crown Prosecution Service spokesman revealed to the BBC it had written to Mr Simmonds and was awaiting his response.\nAn IPCC spokesman said: \"The investigation is complete and a file was provided to the Crown Prosecution Service. The CPS has now given its decision which has been communicated to Mr Simmonds.\"\nA full list of candidates for the PCC election in Northamptonshire can be found here.", "summary": "A police and crime commissioner should \"come clean\" over the outcome of an investigation into allegations of misconduct, a former MP has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The EFL was criticised heavily after teams from the Premier League and Championship with Category One academies were invited to compete.\nWith League One and Two clubs fined for picking weakened teams, Bradford changed their goalkeeper after three minutes to comply with the rules.\nBut Harvey told BBC Sport the \"pilot\" was \"certainly worth doing\".\nHarvey was speaking in the build-up to Sunday's all-League One final between Coventry City and Oxford United.\nHe added: \"Ultimately the comparison was a competition previously where clubs were as interested in getting knocked out in the first round as they were in getting to the final. That can't bode well for the longevity of the competition.\n\"What we have created gives us a real opportunity of using this competition for the benefit of our clubs, the benefit of young players in this country and, as we will see on Sunday, the benefit of in excess of 70,000 fans hoping to cheer their side to victory.\"\nIn July 2016, the EFL invited 16 clubs with Category One academies to compete in the EFL Trophy, traditionally a knockout competition for League One and Two clubs that ends in a Wembley final.\nFifteen came from the Premier League, with Newcastle from the Championship. Six - Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle and Tottenham - decided not to take part.\nEight of the 16 invited teams, including Chelsea, failed to qualify from their four-team group, while Swansea went furthest - losing in the quarter-finals.\nHarvey said: \"There is no doubt this competition would benefit from the more senior, higher-profile clubs playing in it next year. They will make their own choice.\n\"The support we have had from the Category One clubs that did compete will make it a lot easier for those clubs to join next season when they can see, very clearly, the benefits that come from competing.\"\nThe future of the competition will be decided by League One and Two clubs at a meeting on 11 April.\nHarvey on attendances: \"Some were exceptionally disappointing. Some of that was due to the speed it was put into format. Some of it was uncertainty about whether it was the thin end of the wedge in terms of trying to get B teams into the established league programme. There was never a suggestion, from anybody at the EFL, Premier League or the Football Association, that this was a precursor to that.\n\"Even with the Champions League there is often reference in the media to meaningless games in the group stages. We created group football in a competition that has not got the same profile as the Champions League. Yet we seem to have been set upon for creating this competition that nobody wanted. The reality is the competition was in decline. We have tried to do something to reinvigorate it. We believe we have.\"\nHarvey on fines: \"If we hadn't had some form of restriction around the strength of teams our clubs could play, it would have been like another version of the Youth Cup or of a reserve team league.\n\"There is an age-old debate about whether you should be fined for playing a weakened side if you win. In the review of this competition, we have accepted we have to look at the definition of 'full-strength sides'. We didn't actually fine clubs for playing younger players. We fined them for not playing enough senior ones.\"\nHarvey on the problem of developing young players: \"It is a concern there is great talent in this country that is not getting an opportunity to experience senior football as early as a lot of clubs would want.\n\"Let's be under no illusions. The EFL Trophy, on its own, is not the answer. But I certainly think it is a big part. What goes alongside it is a manager like Claude Puel at Southampton, who rather than play players out of position, has chosen to give young players a chance, having seen them come through, not just in the academy but also in a real game situation, where winning does matter.\"", "summary": "The Checkatrade Trophy \"does have a future\" in its revamped format, says EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Commonwealth Games silver medallist Stephanie Inglis remains in a coma following the accident last week.\nAccording to friends ,the 27-year-old from Inverness is still in a critical condition.\nDoctors have warned that any possible recovery will involve significant rehabilitation and time.\nFriends said she had responded to some eye tests but the next 48 hours remained crucial.\nStephanie won a judo silver medal at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.\nThe accident in Vietnam is reported to have happened when her skirt caught in the wheel of the motorbike.\nShe was being taxied by motorbike to a school in Ha Long, where she had been teaching English for the past four months.\nFamily friend and judo athlete Khalid Gehlan started a funding appeal after it emerged that Ms Inglis's travel insurance had expired due to the length of her stay in Vietnam.\nIt has raised more than £180,000.", "summary": "The Scottish judo star who suffered head injuries in a motorbike accident in Vietnam has shown \"small signs\" of improvement, friends have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The FCA investigation centres on public statements that Quindell made about its accounts in 2013 and 2014.\nTrading in the company's shares was temporarily suspended on the Alternative Investment Market.\nQuindell has admitted that some of its accounting polices were \"aggressive\".\nThe group has been conducting its own review, advised by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).\nThe review concluded that accounting policies relating to revenue and acquisition costs in some of its businesses - since disposed of - were \"at the aggressive end of acceptable practice\".\nPwC also found that some other policies were \"not appropriate\", the company said.\nInvestors saw more than 80% wiped off the value of their shares in a disastrous 2014, as rumours of the accounting irregularities emerged.\nA more conservative way of accounting for revenues and case acquisition costs would \"materially impact previously reported results for the year ended 31 December 2013 and the six months ended 30 June 2014\", the company said in a statement.\nQuindell, which has a market capitalisation of £555m and revenues approaching £400m, has been restructuring following the recent sale of its professional services division to compensation claims firm Slater & Gordon for more than £600m.\nResponding to the news, a Slater & Gordon spokeswoman told the BBC: \"We have always been of the view that the accounting policies of Quindell plc were aggressive.\n\"Our assessment of the professional services division [PSD] was not based on their historical financial statements, but on a detailed bottom-up assessment of the key drivers of the business applying our own accounting policies.\n\"Quindell's historic accounting policies were irrelevant to our valuation of the PSD. We made this clear when we announced the acquisition and in all subsequent statements.\"\nQuindell has a new management team in place, but is still searching for a new chief executive. It is refocusing its business on insurance technology services, which include the in-car telematics equipment that measures people's driving habits.", "summary": "Quindell, the insurance technology and claims management group, is under investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for alleged accounting irregularities." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Southgate, who took temporary charge of the team on Tuesday following Sam Allardyce's departure, spoke to the Manchester United captain on Thursday.\nRooney, 30, is understood to be seen as a leader by the coaching staff, with Southgate keen to maintain continuity.\nOn Sunday, Southgate will name his squad for England's World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Slovenia.\nAllardyce said in August that it was an \"easy decision\" to keep Rooney as captain, despite England's performances at Euro 2016.\nRooney went on to lead England in their 1-0 victory over Slovakia on 4 September but there was debate over what position he should play in.\nSpeaking after the game, his sole match in charge, Allardyce said Rooney could play \"wherever he wanted to\".\nAllardyce and the Football Association mutually agreed to terminate his contract after just 67 days following a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to \"get around\" rules on player transfers.\nUnder-21 manager Southgate was then appointed to lead England for four matches, starting with their game against Malta on 8 October.\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "summary": "Wayne Rooney will continue as England captain, interim manager Gareth Southgate has confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 55-year-old replaced Pat Fenlon in November following a successful period at Inverness Caledonian Thistle.\nIt may have taken longer than we all would have liked, but I felt it was appropriate that we met properly and had a full discussion before any decision was made\nBut a run of only one win in their last 18 league games resulted in relegation after defeat on penalties by Hamilton in the play-off final.\n\"I am genuinely saddened that we have had to take this tough decision,\" said chief executive Leeann Dempster.\nDempster and chairman Rod Petrie met Butcher on Monday. The club's board convened on Tuesday morning and agreed unanimously to end the manager's tenure.\nIn a statement on the club website, Dempster added: \"For a variety of reasons, perhaps including unfortunate timing, it hasn't worked out for Terry here.\"\nButcher, who signed a deal until the summer of 2016, inherited a side sitting seventh in the top flight.\nInitially, results were positive, with four wins from his first seven games.\nHowever, there would be just one more victory in the regular season - a 2-1 home win over Ross County in February - before a last-day home defeat to Kilmarnock consigned them to the play-offs.\nDespite taking a 2-0 first-leg lead at New Douglas Park, Hibs lost the return at home by the same score and were then beaten in the resulting penalty shoot-out.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nDempster continued: \"It may have taken longer than we all would have liked, but I felt it was appropriate that we met properly and had a full discussion before any decision was made.\n\"Now we need to move forward and act to bring in a new manager with the aim of getting us promoted back to where Hibernian belongs, in the top league of Scottish football, from a uniquely competitive Championship.\n\"Our first aim must be to try to win the league and gain promotion automatically.\"\nFollowing relegation, Butcher had expressed his desire to continue, but Hibs will now enter their first season in the second tier since 1999 with their third manager in less than a year.\n\"The search now begins to find and appoint the next manager, and while we will try to keep supporters updated regarding the process as much as we can, I know they will understand that we need to be professional in all that we do,\" said Dempster.\n\"Unfortunately, assistant manager Maurice Malpas is abroad on holiday at present and I want to meet him on his return to explain the situation.\"", "summary": "Hibernian have sacked manager Terry Butcher following their relegation from the Scottish Premiership." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Gary Weir, 24, was fatally injured near Shettleston Juniors ground in Shettleston Road in the early hours of Sunday 7 August.\nPolice said five men, three aged 20, one aged 21 and a 19-year-old, had been arrested.\nThey are expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Wednesday.\nThree other young men were injured in the same incident which happened as a 21st birthday celebration was taking place at a nearby social club.\nThe other injured men were treated in hospital but later released.", "summary": "Five men have been arrested in connection with the death of a man who was found stabbed outside a football ground in Glasgow." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But more clarification was needed over the current rules, which allow such breaks in England under \"exceptional circumstances\", the NAHT added.\nThe union has published its detailed guidance on term-time holiday requests.\nThe Department for Education said there were \"no plans at all to change the policy\".\nSince September 2013, local authorities have been obliged to fine families who take children out of school for unauthorised absences.\nMany parents complain the rules are confusing and inflexible, and encourage travel firms to raise prices during school holidays.\nOn Friday the Local Government Association urged the new rules to be scrapped, saying these did not recognise the complexities of family life.\nThe NAHT said most of its members would welcome more detailed guidance.\n\"There is some debate about what 'exceptional circumstances' mean when deciding whether to grant absence for students during term time,\" the union's guidance said.\n\"We believe it is valuable to have some guiding principles to back schools in their decisions and provide consistency.\"\nThe NAHT stressed the guidance had no statutory authority and was not imposed on schools. However, it is in line with government policy in emphasising that term-time is for education.\n\"Children and families have 175 days off school to spend time together, including weekends and school holidays,\" the union said.\n\"The default school policy should be that absences will not be granted during term-time and will only be authorised in exceptional circumstances.\"\nThe guidance said bereavements, recovering from family crises and important religious observances should usually be considered - but breaks should be only for the ceremony and travel, \"not extended leave\".\n\"This is intended for one-off situations, not for regular or recurring events,\" it added.\nThe NAHT's general secretary, Russell Hobby, said: \"Head teachers already have discretion over the granting of absence during term time.\n\"They rightly prioritise learning over holidays. Head teachers are able to - and do - authorise absence in exceptional circumstances.\n\"The fundamental principles for defining 'exceptional' are where requests are rare, significant, unavoidable and short.\"\nThe guidance was designed to \"help with making individual decisions about granting authorised absence in term-time\", he added.\nA Department for Education spokesman said the guidance clearly supported the current policy, and term-time holidays \"should only be granted in exceptional circumstances\".\n\"There are no plans at all to change the policy and no U-turn.\n\"Head teachers have always been able to decide what exceptional circumstances are, but if they find that the NAHT's guidance assists them in making this judgement then we welcome that.\"", "summary": "Holidays for pupils in term-time should only be granted in circumstances that are \"rare, unavoidable, significant and short\", says a head teachers' union." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The five performers starred in David Edgar's Pentecost in an 80-seat east London church in 2012.\nThey originally won their case at a tribunal the following year.\nBut the play's producer and director Gavin McAlinden appealed, and the East London Employment Tribunal has now found in his favour.\nThe actors were part of a 26-strong cast who were told they would share the play's profits. But they were also told it was a low-budget production and it ended up making no profit.\nDespite making no money, the play, which was performed at St Leonard's Church in Shoreditch, was nominated for two Off West-End Awards in 2012.\nThe tribunal centred on whether the actors could be classed as \"workers\" under law - and therefore entitled to the minimum wage. But the judge decided they should be regarded as self-employed professionals.\nThe performers were backed by acting union Equity. Assistant general secretary Martin Brown said: \"We're very disappointed. We believed that these members were workers, and that's what was determined in the initial employment tribunal.\n\"This does not mean that our campaign to persuade all operators on the fringe to operate professionally and pay decent wages comes to an end.\n\"Young aspiring performers have to go through fairly expensive training. And then they have to survive for several years scraping around on very low wages, and sometimes no wages at all. If that continues, then fantastic talent is going to be lost.\"\nThe ruling would not have implications beyond profit-share productions, Mr Brown said.\nMr McAlinden said he did not make any money from the show, but that it was \"a really worthwhile project\".\n\"I am very pleased with the judgement, which vindicates the position that I have held all along,\" he said. \"Acting is a very tough industry and I believe actors should have the right to say 'yes' or 'no' to profit share productions.\n\"Most profit share producers are completely devoted to the artistic process, work very hard and invest - and often lose - their own money.\"\nLawyer Paul Jennings, who represented Mr McAlinden, said profit-sharing, \"in its true sense, does not involve exploitation\".\nHe said: \"Requiring a director to pay the minimum wage in circumstances where there is no independent funding and the participants have agreed in advance to a profit share arrangement runs the risk of stifling fringe theatre and other collaborative artistic projects.\"", "summary": "A group of actors have lost an employment tribunal case after claiming they should be paid the minimum wage for appearing in a fringe theatre play." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nJordan Spieth and Patrick Reed set the tone by beating Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson 3&2 in the top match.\nSergio Garcia and Martin Kaymer lost 4&2 to Zach Johnson, while Lee Westwood and Thomas Pieters were thrashed 5&4 by Dustin Johnson and Matt Kuchar.\nPhil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler beat Rory McIlroy and Andy Sullivan one up to seal the first US sweep since 1981.\nEurope have not been ahead after a first session since 2006, in which time they have won three of the four Ryder Cups.\nBut the scale of the US domination on the opening morning means Darren Clarke's team already have to pull off an incredible turnaround, even with 24 points still on offer, to defend the trophy and seal fourth successive triumph.\nIndeed, Davis Love's home team made 19 birdies to Europe's eight in front of a baying, partisan crowd.\nSpieth and Reed will renew their battle with Rose and Stenson in the first of the afternoon fourballs, while Garcia will partner fellow Spaniard Rafael Cabrera-Bello against JB Holmes and Ryan Moore.\nBrandt Snedeker and Brooks Koepka will play Kaymer and Danny Willett, with Dustin Johnson and Kuchar again teaming to meet McIlroy and Pieters.\nAll 12 of the US team will have played on the opening day, but Europe's two English rookies, Matt Fitzpatrick and Chris Wood, must wait.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThe match of Spieth and Reed against Rose and Stenson - two teams that were unbeaten two years ago - was not only top of the card, but the most eagerly anticipated on a chilly, misty morning in Minnesota.\nAs players from both sides in all four matches struggled in a session of varying quality, Spieth holed two birdie putts in the first three holes to give his pair a lead they would not relinquish.\nThough he would later admonish himself for his work off tee, Europe's putting - particularly that of Rose - meant chances to get back in the match went begging, with the US sealing their first point on the 16th.\nSoon after, Johnson and Kuchar completed a one-sided win over an out-of-sorts Westwood and nervous-looking rookie Pieters.\nThe Belgian pulled his approach to the first, Westwood missed from three feet on the second and found water on the seventh to leave Europe three down.\nAt one point, the American pair were five up despite making only two birdies, and Europe never recovered.\nWhile Europe were never ahead in the first and fourth matches, they led with seven holes to play in the second and third.\nFour-time major winner McIlroy, partnering English rookie Sullivan, was involved in a back-and-forth contest with Mickelson and Fowler, recovering from a shaky front nine to hole the putts that had Europe two up with four to play.\nBut after a European bogey on 15, McIlroy lipped out with a par putt on 16 and Sullivan found water off the tee on 17, with Europe unable to salvage a half on the 18th.\nMeanwhile, a tight contest pitting Zach Johnson and Walker against Garcia and Kaymer swung in favour of the hosts courtesy of an astonishing run of five successive hole wins.\nGarcia had played his part in Europe holding a one-hole lead until the 12th, but the Spaniard gradually left Kaymer with more and more to do.\nBBC Sport golf correspondent Iain Carter:\n\"Darren Clarke has gone with experience this afternoon - he has to.\n\"It has been an awful start. There is so much momentum and feeling on the golf course for the USA right now. It is going to take a monumental effort this afternoon.\n\"Europe have to win this next session. Being 5-3 down would be something of a triumph.\"\nEurope captain Darren Clarke on Sky Sports: \"They didn't fire on all cylinders. They have been playing nicely in practice. It's one of those things - foursomes is difficult. We thought we were looking strong, but they played better than we did - 4-0 is probably a fair result.\nEurope's Sergio Garcia: \"It is a massive crowd. They are very excited and they should be, but it is our job to quieten them down a little bit and hopefully we can do that this afternoon.\"\nEurope's Lee Westwood: \"I will take responsibility. I played poorly and Thomas played well. He made some putts when we needed to. You try to put a bit of pressure on, you don't want to be giving holes away. I hit a couple of wild drives early on and you cant afford to do that. It's a tough game to play and you want to get momentum.\"\nUSA's Jordan Spieth: \"We are very pleased we got off to such a hot start. We held it together. Patrick saved me with some putts coming in and that was a lot of fun to be part of that match.\"\nUSA's Patrick Reed on holing his winning putt: \"I live for those kind of moments. Knowing I had the whole crowd behind me and that they'd go nuts if I made it. I knew there was no way I was going to miss it. It was just an awesome feeling.\"\nWe've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.", "summary": "The United States whitewashed Europe in the opening foursomes to take a 4-0 lead on the first day of the Ryder Cup." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 20-year-old centre-back spent the second half of last season at the Riverside and played 14 games.\nBBC Sport has learned he turned down offers from outside England to rejoin the North East outfit.\nOmeruo started every game for Nigeria at the World Cup in Brazil.\nI like the atmosphere at Middlesbrough, the players and fans too are very supportive\n\"I am not in a hurry [to break into the Chelsea team] because everything in life is step by step,\" Omeruo told BBC Sport.\n\"I decided to return to Boro because I really enjoyed my last loan there and working with the manager Aitor Karanka.\n\"I like the atmosphere at Middlesbrough, the players and fans too are very supportive.\n\"It's such an easy choice to make and a key factor in going there is the chance to play first-team football.\"\nA member of the Nigerian side that reached the round of 16 at the World Cup in Brazil, Omeruo has largely been loaned out by Chelsea since he joined in January 2012.\nAfter signing for the Blues from Standard Liege, Omeruo was immediately sent to ADO Den Haag where he played 36 games on loan at the Dutch top-flight side.\nHe is yet to make his Chelsea debut, but remains positive about his chances at the London club where he recently signed a new deal that keeps him at the club until 2018.\n\"I was rewarded with a new contract because the club [Chelsea] knows what I am capable of,\" he added.\n\"I just need to focus on my career, give my best all the time and let my football speak for me.\n\"At the right time, I'll get my chance. For now, I believe in the Middlesbrough project and want to help the club compete for promotion.\"\nOmeruo was key for Nigeria's defence that won the Africa Cup of Nations in 2013 and also played in last summer's Confederations Cup in Brazil.", "summary": "Nigeria international defender Kenneth Omeruo has agreed to return for a second loan spell at English Championship side Middlesbrough from Chelsea." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The \"Do Not Track\" initiative stops firms tracking people as they visit several different websites.\nThe monitoring is done to help advertisers craft ads to a user's preferences and lifestyle.\nBlocking the tracking depends on websites honouring requests from users to browse anonymously.\nDo Not Track (DNT) has been brokered by the US Federal Trade Commission which wants people to be able to tell websites to stop gathering and sharing data when they visit.\nSites that decide to ignore users' requests to stop tracking them could be subject to FTC action.\nA DNT option is available in the recent versions of the Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari browsers. Turning on Do Not Track in Google's Chrome involves installing an add-on.\nFor DNT to work, websites have to agree to discard any data they would otherwise collect and share about what people do when they visit a site.\nIn a help document, Twitter said\n it would now respect the Do Not Track option in all the browsers that supported it.\nHowever, it said that those that turn on DNT would notice a change in the information Twitter presented to them.\n\"We stop collecting the information that allows us to tailor Twitter based on your recent visits to websites that have integrated our buttons or widgets,\" it said in its help document.\nA survey carried out by Mozilla, which makes the Firefox web browser, found that 8.6% of the users of its desktop browser and 19% of mobile browser users were opted in to Do Not Track.", "summary": "Micro-blogging service Twitter has declared its support for an initiative that lets people browse the web without being monitored." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The boar sparked the hunt when it was spotted in Hong Kong Park in Central district, where it was shot with a tranquiliser gun.\nOn Wednesday, a boar spotted in front of the nearby Conrad International Hotel dodged police for two hours.\nIn a similar incident in May, a boar was caught after getting trapped in a children's clothes shop in Hong Kong.\nWild boars are fairly common in Hong Kong's rural areas, and can become aggressive when confronted.\nIt has not been confirmed that the boar caught on Friday was the same animal that eluded police on Wednesday - but it is likely, given that boars rarely stray into populated areas.\nThe animal was a pre-adult male and about one metre long, South China Morning Post reports.\nThe boar's adventure gripped Hong Kong - with many social media users live-tweeting it.\nAndrew Leyden, who filmed the chase, said police were relaxed and took photos of the animal.\n\"They would get the boar into one area and it would escape. They had a 'here we go again' attitude.\"\nLocal media say that boar is in good health and has been released into a rural area. It was tranquilised by a government animal control worker while being fed apples.", "summary": "Police in Hong Kong have caught a wild boar after a three-hour chase in a city park." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 34-year-old suffered a serious head injury in the shooting on Athena Avenue, Crookhorn, on 13 February.\nTwo Surrey men, aged 30 and 21, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, but have since been released without charge.\nPolice said they would face no further action \"at this stage\".\nPolice said the shooting \"may be related to the drugs trade\" and finding the weapon \"remains a priority for the investigation\".\nThree people previously held over the shooting have been bailed.\nA man and woman, aged 37 and 38, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, while a 31-year-old woman was questioned on suspicion of conspiring to murder.\nThe victim remains in hospital.", "summary": "Two more people have been arrested after a man was shot and critically injured in Hampshire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Speaking over a welcome pint of Guinness in the bar at Heathrow airport, he was clearly angry, saying Chinese prison authorities had denied him treatment for a prostate problem which has now become a tumour.\n\"I was constantly harassed in prison over signing a thing they call an admission of guilt and a statement of remorse,\" he said.\n\"I never signed those documents because I did not admit to having committed that offence as charged.\n\"Therefore, that's why they tried to extort this confession by withholding medical attention for my prostate condition.\"\nPeter Humphrey and his wife were detained during a Chinese police investigation into corruption at pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline.\nGSK made a public apology and was fined £300m after being found guilty of bribing Chinese doctors to buy its medicines.\nAlthough Mr Humphrey and his wife were not implicated in the bribery case, they had been hired by GSK to investigate a sex tape sent to the company's headquarters in London, and were convicted in a separate trial of selling the personal data of Chinese citizens to corporate clients.\nMr Humphrey was released early on health grounds on 9 June. Yu Yingzeng, a Chinese-born US citizen, was freed two days later.\nShe had a month of her two-year sentence to serve. He had seven more months of his two-and-a-half year term remaining.\nThe irony of all of this is that Peter Humphrey's business was built on fighting corruption.\nHis company ChinaWhys was usually hired by multinationals struggling to investigate internal fraud problems.\nHis misfortune was to get swept up in the perfect storm which engulfed GSK's China operation in 2013.\nA falling-out in the company's top management team led to the departure of a key Chinese member of staff and soon anonymous whistleblower emails were arriving at GSK headquarters in London, followed by the sex tape involving GSK's China boss in April.\nI am very interested to hear what Peter Humphrey has to say about what happened next, the period between being hired by GSK to investigate the sex tape and his arrest in July.\nBut on his first day back in the UK, he told me he was not yet ready to discuss GSK.\nMeanwhile the pharmaceuticals giant is trying to learn lessons after facing one of the largest fines in Chinese corporate history and two years of turmoil in one of its fastest-growing markets.\nThe case highlights the risks for foreign companies of doing business in a country where politics can often trump economics and where the red lines on what is acceptable business practice often shift.\nIt is a market where government relations are vital and where foreign companies need to map the political relationships of key employees and local partners.\nIn 2013, when this perfect storm was breaking around GSK, there was the added uncertainty surrounding a new leadership.\nPresident Xi Jinping had just launched his anti-corruption campaign, and competing regulatory authorities were falling over each other to show their determination to crack down.\nWhen GSK's internal problems spilled so sensationally into the world of politics and police, it was a moment when the red lines on acceptable business practice had suddenly shifted.\nThe company presented the perfect target for the wake-up call to the international business community which Beijing was keen to send anyway.\nFor two years, Peter Humphrey and his wife were collateral damage and now he needs urgent medical treatment for a prostate problem that has become a tumour.\nHe was also angry about the judicial process, telling me the couple were tried on state TV in China before they were tried in court.\n\"We were paraded in front of Chinese television in prison uniforms in handcuffs and placed in an iron cage,\" he said.\nOf course, China says it is determined to become a \"rule of law\" country. But it is not there yet.\nPeter Humphrey said he was extremely happy to be back home in the week when Britain is celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.\n\"A milestone in Britain's political development and that is our democracy, our freedom and our respect for human rights which is a tremendous achievement here in the UK, in marked contrast with the situation in many countries.\"\nMr Humphrey's reference to Magna Carta over a pint of Guinness on a sunny afternoon at Heathrow reminded me of my own reflections on visiting the dedicated exhibition in the British Library a few weeks ago.\nAs someone with Chinese family and friends, I felt deeply sad that 800 years ago, British citizens had demanded and won rights that Chinese citizens still don't have today.", "summary": "Free at last and back on British soil after being deported from China, Peter Humphrey told me his two years in a Shanghai jail cell had been a shattering experience." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The victims were named as Exequiel Borbaran, 18, and Diego Guzman, 24. Both men were killed in the port city of Valparaiso, said Interior Minister Jorge Burgos.\nLocal media report that they had been spraying graffiti on a wall and were shot by the son of the owner of the property.\nStudents held protests across Chile on Thursday to demand education reform.\nChilean police said they had arrested a 22-year-old suspect over the killings.\n\"The government does not tolerate and will not tolerate these acts of violence,\" said Mr Burgos.\nReports say that an argument ensued after the two men were seen spraying graffiti on the wall of a residential building.\nA man came out to try and stop them, threatening to kill them if they did not leave.\nHe went back inside to get his gun and shot them both.\nBoth victims were rushed to hospital but died of their injuries shortly afterwards.\nStudents said they would hold a candlelit vigil for the the victims later on Thursday.\nThe protest in Valparaiso, 130 km (80 miles) northwest of the capital Santiago, was one of several across the country.\nStudents have staged dozens of marches since 2011 in a bid to change Chile's education system.\nThe BBC's Gideon Long in Santiago says that many of these marches end in violence, with masked youths fighting with police who respond with tear gas and water cannon.\nBut until Thursday, only one person had been killed. A 14-year-old boy was hit by a police bullet during in 2011.", "summary": "Two young men have been shot dead during a student protest in Chile." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Both players will stay with the League One side strugglers until the end of the season.\nWilliams, 19, made his Liverpool debut as a substitute in the League Cup game with Middlesbrough earlier this season.\nBurke, 21, made three appearances on loan with Shrewsbury last season, but has yet to break into Villa's senior side.", "summary": "Notts County have signed Aston Villa forward Graham Burke and Liverpool midfielder Jordan Williams on loan." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Carla Whitlock, 37, was attacked in Southampton's Guildhall Square on 18 September.\nGeoffrey Midmore, 26, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent. His brother, Billy Midmore, 22, denied the same charge.\nThe men, both from London but of no fixed address, were remanded in custody after the hearing at Southampton Crown Court.\nBilly Midmore is due to appear before the same court for a plea and case management hearing on 15 January.\nGeoffrey Midmore will be sentenced at a date to be decided.\nMs Whitlock suffered serious burns to her face, neck and arms in the attack outside the Turtle Bay restaurant. She also lost her sight in one eye.", "summary": "A man has admitted attacking a woman who had acid thrown in her face." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nVictory in the fifth-to-eighth place at the World League tournament game would have secured Ireland's World Cup spot.\nA win in Saturday's seventh and eighth place game against India could still prove enough for the Irish to qualify.\nBut they will be depending on results to go their way at the upcoming Continental Championships.\nVictory at the European Championships later this year would also secure Ireland's World Cup qualification but that looks a remote prospect judging by their performance on Thursday.\nLisa Deetlefs put the hosts ahead late in the first half before the Irish missed a chance a great chance to level as Roisin Upton hit the post from a penalty stroke with the South African keeper beaten.\nAnna O'Flanagan went close to levelling in the third quarter as the Irish bossed possession.\nHowever, South Africa doubled their lead early in the final quarter as Bernadette Coston hammered to the net after Anna Matthews had lost possession near her own goals.\nOpting to go for broke, Ireland withdrew their keeper Ayeisha McFerran as they introduced Shirley McKay as a kicking back but another defensive mix up saw Lilian du Plessis netting the South Africans' third goal.", "summary": "Ireland women's World Cup qualification hopes now look to be out of their own hands following Thursday's 3-0 defeat by South Africa in Johannesburg." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 34-year-old carded a final round of 72 to finish as the top Scot on level par for the tournament.\nBut he says the mental side of his game is letting him down on the big stage.\n\"If you don't have a sharp short game and if you are not strong mentally, that is the difference,\" Ramsay told BBC Scotland.\n\"I just play a little bit too conservative at times. The difference is you have to walk with a little bit more of a strut.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"I have got to surround myself with as many positive people as possible. It's a negativity that falls in there. It's an old Scottish thing. There are a few other things that maybe hold us back as a nation and hold us back in general.\"\nRamsay was two-under after three days but was unable to make any inroads on his final round, which included an eagle at the 17th, but also four bogeys, one double bogey and just two birdies.\nHe finished in a tie for 22nd place, with USA player Jordan Spieth winning the event on 12 under.\n\"I just played poorly today,\" Ramsay added. \"I didn't execute any of my shots. The week was summed up by the last hole. It was a very tough pin to get to and I decided to go for the middle of the green and it just run off the back edge.\n\"I rolled it up to six feet and didn't hit the hole with the putt. It was good but just not good enough. Probably when I go away and reflect on it I will be a bit happier with it.\"\nDavid Drysdale was the only other Scot to make the cut and he carded a level-par final round to finish a shot behind Ramsay in a tie for 27th.\nThe 42-year-old, however, later revealed he had been close to pulling out before his round got started.\n\"I did something to my neck on the range this morning after hitting a couple of three woods,\" he said.\n\"I actually thought for a couple of minutes I wouldn't be going out. I couldn't really turn through the ball but I hobbled round. I had a little bit of physio on the putting green before I teed off.\"\nDrysdale, who finished in a tie for 60th in his only other Open appearance to date, at Turnberry in 2009, is now hoping to make himself a regular at the majors.\n\"It was a good experience overall,\" he said. \"Finish top 30 or somewhere like that, I'm delighted. I would have taken that at the start of the week.\n\"I felt really comfortable out there this week. I have really enjoyed the crowds. I should be playing in a few more of these types of events. I hope I can in the future.\"", "summary": "Richie Ramsay wants to improve his mental toughness after being left disappointed with his display at The Open at Royal Birkdale." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Co-ordinated by the FBI, the raids were carried out in the US, UK and six other countries.\nThe money was made by selling software that claimed to find security risks on PCs and then asked for cash to fix the non-existent problems.\nThe raids seized 40 computers used to do fake scans and host webpages that tricked people into using the software.\nAbout one million people are thought to have installed the fake security software, also known as scareware, and handed over up to $129 for their copy. Anyone who did not pay but had downloaded the code was bombarded with pop-ups warning them about the supposed security issues.\nRaids conducted in Latvia as part of the attack on the gang allowed police to gain control of five bank accounts used to funnel cash to the group's ringleaders.\nAlthough no arrests are believed to have been made during the raids, the FBI said the computers seized would be analysed and its investigation would continue.\nThe raids on the gang were part of an international effort dubbed Operation Trident Tribunal. In total, raids in 12 nations were carried out to thwart two separate gangs peddling scareware.\nThe second gang used booby-trapped adverts to trick victims. Raids by Latvian police on this gang led to the arrest of Peteris Sahurovs and Marina Maslobojeva who are alleged to be its operators.\nAccording to the FBI, the pair worked their scam by pretending to be an advertising agency that wanted to put ads on the website of the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper.\nOnce the ads started running, the pair are alleged to have changed them to install fake security software on victims' machines that mimicked infection by a virus. On payment of a fee the so-called infection was cured. Those that did not pay found their machine was unusable until they handed over cash.\nThis ruse is believed to have generated a return of about $2m.\n\"Scareware is just another tactic that cyber criminals are using to take money from citizens and businesses around the world,\" said assistant director Gordon Snow of the FBI's Cyber Division in a statement.", "summary": "A gang that made more than $72m (£45m) peddling fake security software has been shut down in a series of raids." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Supt Simon Clarke of South Wales Police said criminals were affecting the most vulnerable people.\nOn Thursday, part of the roof at Tonypandy Primary School in Rhondda was stolen, causing about £20,000 damage.\n\"I am so frustrated and angry,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\"We are working so closely with members of the community, with councils, with members of the health service, utility companies and Church in Wales to try and secure premises.\n\"But clearly our message isn't getting across.\n\"What I would say is the people committing these crimes have no ethics or morals because they are affecting the most vulnerable members of our community.\"\nSupt Clarke said preventative measures were taking place including increasing CCTV coverage and marking products.\nBut he added: \"I think the key actually lies with the communities because some people know who are doing these offences and we just need them to come forward.\n\"People should be outraged that yet again schools have been targeted.\n\"I saw and spoke to members of the community who were visibly upset that their schools have been damaged by the thoughtlessness and callousness of just a small minority.\n\"The financial return against a stolen piece of lead is minimal. The value of the lead or the tiles is very, very small. We know that through intelligence.\n\"Clearly, the physical damage is immense but it's far more than that. It's actually at the fabric of our community.\n\"Sometimes when a village or community centre gets damaged, sometimes there's not the money to re-open places and that begins to fragment the community.\n\"These people who are committing it, they really need to think about - they are making pounds or pence but the damage is immense.\"\nLast year, figures obtained by BBC Wales suggested such thefts have cost Welsh local authorities almost £680,000, more than double the previous year.\nSupt Clarke said the police were working with members of the community, councils, health services, utility companies and churches to try to secure premises.\nBut he added that scrap metal merchants needed to play their part.\n\"They cannot just say 'I didn't know'. They should be checking when they think something's a bit dodgy,\" he said.\n\"They need to think, because if they weren't prepared to buy the products off the thieves, there would be no market.\"", "summary": "The public should be outraged that schools and community buildings are targeted by metal thieves, says the South Wales Police officer in charge of tackling the crime." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Zohore, 23, has scored 13 goals this season having joined from Belgian club KV Kortrijk in the summer of 2016.\n\"I've spoken to him a few times in the last few weeks,\" said Bluebirds manager Neil Warnock.\nCardiff are also discussing a new contract for winger Kadeem Harris, whose current deal expires at the end of the campaign.\n\"I think it's in his [Harris'] best interests to stay and play for someone who will give him an opportunity,\" said Warnock.\n\"We've had discussions, quite healthy ones. \"I think he's improved under me, and become more of a regular.\n\"The opportunity is there for him to try and establish himself.\n\"He's had a few years of him not being able to command a position. The opportunity is there for him to decide.\"\nHarris joined Cardiff from Wycombe as an 18-year-old in 2012 and initially found it difficult to establish himself in the first team.\nNow 23, he has enjoyed a breakthrough season, making 37 appearances in all competitions - the most he has made in any single campaign throughout his career.\nWarnock is also hopeful that fellow winger Junior Hoilett will extend his stay having signed on a free transfer in October.\nThe Canadian's contract expires at the end of the season too, but Warnock says he has \"no worries\" about the former Queens Park Rangers player staying at Cardiff City Stadium.\nWarnock was less certain when asked about the future of midfielder Peter Whittingham, another player whose contract expires at the end of the season.\nAs one of the club's top earners, Whittingham has previously been asked to take a pay cut if he is to extend his record as the Bluebirds' current longest-serving player.\n\"Nothing's changed. I've not spoken to Peter or his advisors for three or four weeks,\" said Warnock.\n\"We decided to get games out of the way and have a little bit more time, when we won't be training for a few weeks other than just ticking over.\n\"Not just Peter, I'll speak to a quite a number of players the week after the season ends.\"\nThe situation also remains unchanged with centre-back Bruno Ecuele Manga, who Warnock has previously said is doubtful of staying at Cardiff and has even said he has a replacement lined-up for.\nThe Gabon international is another of the highest earners at the club and his contract is also up at the end of this season.\n\"Nothing has changed. I'm actually seeing his agent this afternoon (Thursday)... so I'll know more about him later on,\" said Warnock.\n\"I only want to talk to him to know if there's an opportunity [of him staying]. I know Bruno is happy here, it depends if there are offers from abroad.\"", "summary": "Cardiff City have held talks with top scorer Kenneth Zohore about extending the striker's contract." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The UN said it would name a successor \"in due course\" and \"spare no efforts to relaunch the peace process\".\nThe Moroccan diplomat is believed to have come under pressure to resign from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.\nA Saudi-led coalition is conducting air strikes against Houthi rebels who forced the president to flee abroad.\nThe UN says more than 70 people have been killed in escalating violence since 26 March, but officials believe the actual death toll may be far higher.\nThe instability has been exploited by jihadist militants from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), who on Thursday seized Riyan airport, near the south-eastern port city of Mukalla, officials said.\nThey briefly took over Mukalla, the provincial capital of Hadramawt province, earlier this month only to be driven back by local tribesmen.\nIn 2011, Mr Benomar brokered a Gulf Co-operation Council-backed political transition plan after a popular uprising forced long-time President Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand over power.\nHowever, the transition gradually unravelled, and a dispute between Mr Saleh's successor, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, and the Houthis turned into a war.\nAfter the Houthis swept into the capital Sanaa last September, toppling the widely unpopular transitional government, Mr Benomar negotiated a peace accord between the rebels and President Hadi that analysts say neither honoured.\nIn January, arguments over a draft constitution led to the Houthis taking full control of Sanaa and placing Mr Hadi and the prime minister under house arrest.\nThe president subsequently took refuge in Aden, but the rebels and allied army units loyal to Mr Saleh reached the southern port city at the end of March, prompting him to flee the country.\nWestern diplomats said Mr Benomar had faced mounting criticism from Saudi Arabia and other members of the GCC for his failure to persuade the warring parties to attend peace talks.\nBoth the Houthis and President Hadi had also grown impatient with him, Yemeni political sources told the Reuters news agency.\nOn Wednesday evening, a UN spokesman revealed that Mr Benomar had told Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that he was interested in \"moving to another assignment\".\n\"A successor shall be named in due course. Until that time and beyond, the United Nations will continue to spare no efforts to relaunch the peace process in order to get the political transition back on track,\" Stephane Dujarric said.", "summary": "The UN's special envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, has stepped down from his post amid criticism of his failure to broker an end to the conflict in the country." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Susanne Hinte from Worcester believed she had the winning numbers but Camelot confirmed somebody else as the winner.\nThis led to a \"life of misery\" as Ms Hinte says she was accused of trying to fraudulently claim the money.\nIn an exclusive interview with BBC Hereford and Worcester, she said media interest led to her going into hiding.\nNicknamed \"Lotto Gran\" by the tabloids, Ms Hinte said the media was camping outside her home and \"twisting things... the more things got twisted, the worse things became\".\nHer story spread across the globe and led her to appointing an agent, Barry Tomes.\nHe said her daughter took her phone off her so she could not view things on the internet, and a family member took her out of Worcester for a couple of weeks \"hoping things would calm down\".\nMr Tomes then moved her to a hotel and said he stopped her communicating with anyone for a few days to \"control the media output\".\n\"My phone was taken away from me. I wasn't allowed to contact anyone, I wasn't allowed to have contact with my children,\" recalls Ms Hinte.\n\"I wanted to be dead. I couldn't understand why all of a sudden I was hated by so many people. I didn't do anything wrong.\"\nShe said the lottery ticket was in her jeans pocket when she washed them. Although she was almost certain it was for a previous draw, doubt began to creep in and she sent the ticket to Camelot.\nBut when the real winner was announced, Ms Hinte was branded a liar.\nThe winning numbers for the 9 January draw were 26, 27, 46, 47, 52 and 58 and Camelot said later the same month it received a \"valid claim\" for the jackpot prize based on a ticket bought at a different shop in Worcester.\n\"It's only Camelot who know where the winning ticket has been bought. So unless I was psychic, I would've had to know where that shop is.\"\nDespite the \"pain and heartache\", she told BBC News she continues to play the lottery.\n\"I still want to be in with a chance to win,\" she said.\nTimeline", "summary": "A woman who became famous by claiming a possible £33m winning lottery ticket was ruined in the wash said the fallout led to her wanting to end her life." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A pitch invasion took place after Hibs beat Rangers 3-2 on 21 May.\nThe clubs are alleged to have breached disciplinary rule 311, which states \"damage was sustained to Hampden... as a consequence of misbehaviour by supporters\".\nThey have until 6 September to respond to the notices of complaint.\nPrincipal hearing dates have been set for Hibs on 4 October and Rangers on 5 October.\nThe compliance officer looked at the cup final incidents after the publication of Sheriff Principal Edward Bowen's independent report into the day's events.\nThe SFA requested that report following the pitch invasion which occurred after the match. The report, published earlier this month, concluded that the Scottish government should consider making it a criminal offence to run on to a football pitch.\nFans entered the pitch at Hampden after Hibernian won their first Scottish Cup in 114 years.\nThousands of Hibs fans jumped the barriers at the final whistle and a number of Rangers fans also came on to the pitch.\nThe pitch invasion delayed the presentation of the trophy and there was no lap of honour by Hibs players.\nRangers players were not able to pick up their cup final medals.", "summary": "Hibernian and Rangers have been issued with notices of complaint by the Scottish FA's compliance officer in relation to the Scottish Cup final." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The liquidators of oldco Rangers were granted leave to appeal to the court over a ruling that the use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) broke tax rules.\nRangers used the scheme from 2001 until 2010 to give millions of pounds of tax-free loans to players and other staff.\nHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) lost two tribunals before judges agreed these were salary payments subject to tax.\nThe decision was in relation to Murray Group companies, including the liquidated company RFC 2012 - formerly The Rangers Football Club PLC.\nIt has no impact on the current owners at Ibrox.\nHowever, liquidators BDO were allowed to appeal as the ruling has implications for future cases.\nThe Supreme Court judges will deliver their binding verdict, which will be screened live on its website, at 09:45 on 5 July.", "summary": "A final verdict on the Rangers \"big tax case\" will be delivered next Wednesday, the Supreme Court has announced." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe Potteries side, in the first round proper for the first time, were a goal down inside 11 minutes when Alex Rodman fired in the opener from close range.\nStriker Ramshaw then struck twice in four minutes just before the break, completing his treble late on.\nNorton's cup run has still brought in almost £50,000 in FA Cup prize money.\nThe Evo-Stik League Division One side were playing their eighth game since their cup run began in the preliminary round in August.\nAlong with Warrington Town, conquerors of Exeter City on Friday night, they were one of two teams left in from the eighth tier of English football.", "summary": "Gateshead's Rob Ramshaw hit a hat-trick as Norton United's FA Cup journey was brought to an abrupt end, exiting at home to the Conference side." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Craig Lindley, 35, from Barnsley, did not have travel insurance when he was paralysed by Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare illness of the nervous system.\nHis friends raised £32,000 for his treatment via an online appeal.\nMr Lindley was staying on a Thai island to celebrate a friend's wedding.\nHis brother, Karl, said he collapsed on New Year's Day morning.\n\"He woke up, went on to his balcony and collapsed, he couldn't feel his legs,\" said Karl.\nGuillain-Barré syndrome affects the peripheral nervous system and affects about 1,200 people in the UK every year.\nMr Lindley was paralysed from head to toe, excluding his left arm.\nHis brother said the ambulance and speedboat from the island to Koh Samui Hospital in Bangkok cost £17,000, plus hospital bills of £3,000 a day.\nMr Lindley is originally from Hoyle Mill but had been travelling for five years.\nHe had a five-day course of treatment for the condition, at a cost of £20,000, before being flown home to the UK.\nCraig said doctors were amazed by his recovery, and that his friends and medical staff had been \"incredible\".\nThey raised £31,733 via the online appeal after discovering Mr Lindley had no valid travel insurance in his documents.\n\"My friends never bothered me about the financial side - they just let me get better,\" he said.\n\"On the second day of treatment I started to feel a positive change. I was paralysed from the top of my head to my toes but I was confident and strong that I would get through this and I would be home soon.\"", "summary": "A man whose medical bills rocketed above £20,000 when he fell seriously ill in Thailand on New Year's Day has returned home to South Yorkshire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Analysts said the lack of further rhetoric over the weekend had helped to calm the markets.\nThe gains in trade came in nearly every sector, led by technology and real estate stocks.\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average, which measures 30 major US companies, rose 0.62% to 21,993.71.\nThe wider S&P 500 index was up 1% at 2,465.84, while the Nasdaq climbed 1.3% to 6,340.23.\nOn the Dow, major movers included Visa, which climbed 1.8% and Apple, which increased 1.5%.\nShares in Walt Disney sank 0.6% after Shonda Rhimes, the creator of shows such as Grey's Anatomy and Scandal, said she had signed a deal to create shows with Netflix. Ms Rhimes had previously worked with Disney's ABC.", "summary": "US stocks rebounded on Monday, reversing some of the losses that were triggered last week by rising tensions between the US and North Korea." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Residents have had to boil drinking water for three weeks after a parasite discovery at a treatment works.\nSome 300,000 homes were initially affected, half of which can now use water as normal.\nParts of Chorley, Preston and South Ribble are the latest to be given the all clear from water firm United Utilities.\nIt has assessed hundreds of test results after discussions with Public Health England.\nAction was taken after the microbial parasite cryptosporidium was found near Preston on 6 August.\nWater has been treated with ultra violet (UV) light to kill the parasite, which can cause diarrhoea and cramps.\nA petition calling for a parliamentary inquiry into how the bug entered the water supply has been signed by about 12,000 people.\nThe water firm said it hoped to lift restrictions for people in the Fylde coast area on Wednesday.\nCustomers can check which areas have had restrictions lifted by visiting the United Utilities website or calling 0800 912 7241.", "summary": "Advice to boil tap water before drinking it has been lifted in 86,000 more homes in Lancashire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The athlete, 77, from Accrington, Lancashire, has held world records and European titles and was the first Briton to win the Boston Marathon.\nThe campaign has the backing of fellow long-distance runner Brendan Foster, according to spokesman Graham Richards.\nMr Richards said support was coming in from various backers and the campaign was \"gathering momentum\".\nHe said it was being led by fan Andrew O'Sullivan, who was himself appointed MBE for services to athletics and charity fundraising in 2013. Hill received the same honour in 1971.\nMr Richards said: \"We're sort of rolling it along, gaining a lot of nice letters and a lot of recommendations - a lot of people do know Ron and what he has achieved.\"\nFormer police officer Mr O'Sullivan said: \"Dr Ron Hill is the greatest British distance runner of all time. He has achieved so much, not only as a world-class athlete, but as a very caring human being.\"\nHill won the Boston Marathon in 1970 and in the same year claimed a world best marathon time of 2:09:28 in Edinburgh in the Commonwealth Games.\nOff the track he established Ron Hill Sports, pioneering use of synthetic fabrics in sportswear, and he has run every day since December 1964, clocking up more than 160,000 miles.\nIn 2012 Hill was given the Freedom of Accrington and two years later a street was name after him.\nA friend of the runner told the BBC that Hill was delighted at the campaign but added he was \"not over-confident that it will bring the 'sir' tag\".", "summary": "A campaign has begun to secure a knighthood for the legendary long-distance runner Ron Hill." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The leaflet listed people Benjamin Wilson and Jamie Wood had been ordered not to contact, including some they had targeted in Druids Heath, Birmingham.\nBut victims whose names appeared on the leaflet said they were not consulted by West Midlands Police beforehand.\nThe force said the notice had been distributed \"proportionately\".\nWilson and Wood each admitted four charges at Birmingham Crown Court on 12 March, including damaging property, having a bladed instrument, and putting a person in fear of violence by harassment.\nBoth were given a 13-month sentence suspended for 18 months, told to complete 100 hours unpaid work and also subjected to a criminal behaviour order.\nUnder the terms, they have to stay out of certain areas and are forbidden from contacting several people.\nThe poster advising people of the order was posted through doors in Druids Heath, but some of those named said they were not consulted about being included.\nOne, who claimed the two men have previously terrorised and threatened people, said they had only found out they appeared on the notice after a friend sent them a text.\n\"I am very disturbed. I thought we were protected. These leaflets have been put through doors,\" they said.\n\"No wonder people don't come forward when they see crimes.\n\"I have been named and shamed and I have done nothing wrong.\"\nA friend of one person named on the notice said: \"These two...are dangerous individuals and they target a family in the area.\"\nSupt Peter Henrick, from Birmingham South Police, said 30 leaflets were distributed \"to help enforce the conditions of the order\".\nSince it was imposed, he said, Wilson and Wood have complied with all the terms.\n\"We have spoken to almost all of the individuals who the pair must not contact to inform them of the order and what to do should the pair try and contact them.\"", "summary": "Victims of two criminals are \"living in fear\" after their names were published on a police notice posted through people's doors." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Just over 4.18 million vehicles were sold in the first half of the year.\nThat was an 8% increase on second-hand sales in the first half of 2015, and the first time that any half-year sales have risen above the four million mark.\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said the increase mirrored the rising number of new cars sold in the past few years.\nMike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT, said: \"The UK's used car market is at its strongest ever.\"\n\"The growth in the used car market has reflected the record demand for new cars in recent years, but future growth in high-cost purchases will depend on stable consumer and business confidence,\" he added.\nCar sales are widely seen as a key indicator of economic activity and consumers' willingness to spend money.\nThe half-year rise in second-hand sales was far in excess of the growth of the wider economy, or of people's incomes.\nIt was also higher than the 3% rise in first-half sales of new cars.\nThe trade body's figures show that in the first five years following the 2008 financial crisis, and the subsequent economic recession, second-hand car sales fell sharply, and then stood still.\nAt one point the government had to bring in a scrappage scheme to encourage people to continue buying new cars, and to stop the industry from potential collapse.\nSince then new car sales have revived strongly, hitting a new record high in 2015, and for the past three years second-hand sales have been picking up too.\nThe SMMT said that the most popular second-hand cars were those between one and three-years old, super-minis, and small family cars.", "summary": "The number of second-hand cars sold in the UK has reached its highest level yet." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill states that no religious organisation can be compelled to marry gay couples.\nBut crossbencher Lord Singh said they could fall foul of equality laws and be bullied by public authorities which provide them with services.\nBut minister Lord Wallace said anybody doing so would be \"acting unlawfully\".\nThe controversial bill has been backed by the Commons and is now being debated in detail by peers.\nThe bill, if passed, will allow same-sex couples, who can currently hold civil ceremonies, to marry.\nReligious organisations would have to \"opt in\" to offering weddings, with the Church of England and Church in Wales being banned in law from doing so.\nBut independent peer Lord Singh of Wimbledon told peers stronger safeguards were needed. He argued that those organisations who did not sign up to same sex marriage could find themselves disadvantaged by equality laws.\n\"We all know those in authority can and often do misuse their authority to intimidate or bully others in employment or those who approach them for goods and services,\" said Lord Singh.\n\"There is a real danger that if this legislation comes into force some will use it to try and convert those who believe in traditional marriage to their way of thinking.\"\nAnother crossbencher, Baroness O'Loan, who argued there was a risk that religious bodies which did not opt in to same-sex marriage could be treated \"less favourably\" by public authorities for issues like funding.\nAnd former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton asked for further assurances that ministers refusing to carry out religious blessings for same-sex couples would not get into trouble with the law.\nBut former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Deben said the bill was not about blessings and church leaders should not try to load the legislation with all sorts of unnecessary \"bits and pieces\".\nLabour's leader in the Lords, Baroness Royall, said the existing bill was \"absolutely clear\" and amendments aimed at strengthening religious protections would be confusing.\nFor the government, Advocate General for Scotland Lord Wallace of Tankerness said it was \"absolutely right\" that organisations and people should be free to decide whether or not to conduct same sex marriages \"without fear or repercussion or penalty of any kind\", protected by the Bill.\n\"As the law stands a public authority would in fact be acting unlawfully if it attempted to rely on the public sector equality duty to treat a religious organisation adversely simply because that organisation did not wish to conduct same sex marriages as explicitly allowed under this Bill.\"\nPeers also discussed Labour peer Lord Harrison's call for humanist weddings, which are legally invalid in England and Wales but legal in Scotland, to be recognised in law for same-sex and heterosexual couples,", "summary": "Some peers have suggested plans to legalise same-sex marriages could allow town halls to \"bully\" organisations who refuse to conduct services." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "After resuming on 51-6, the hosts at least avoided the indignity of an innings defeat, bowled out for 81.\nAustralia international James Pattinson (5-29) took three of the Leicestershire wickets to fall in 40 minutes.\nSet four to win, Notts' openers took 10 balls to complete the job on 9-0.\nGreg Smith rounded it off with a six off Paul Horton to seal his side's 22-point victory in their first game back in Division Two after relegation last season.\nLuke Fletcher took the other wicket to finish with 4-35, while 26-year-old Pattinson finished with match figures of 8-84, on top of his 89 not out with the bat.\nLeicestershire pick up just five points, to put them on minus 11, following their eve-of-season 16-point deduction for repeated disciplinary offences. But they are not bottom, as Durham were made to start the season on minus 48 points.\nNotts now travel to Chester-le-Street to meet fellow relegated side Durham, in a game starting on Good Friday (14 April), when Leicestershire play Gloucestershire at Bristol.\nLeicestershire head coach Pierre de Bruyn told BBC Radio Leicester:\n\"We know we weren't good enough. Facing the likes of James Pattinson and Stuart Broad, world-class bowlers, sets a benchmark. But it's the first game and I need to back these players.\n\"We prepared accordingly and, on the first day, managed to get ourselves out of trouble, then put them under pressure with the ball on day two. But we are better than this and I'll continue to back these guys to bounce back.\n\"It's been a very tough few days with the 16-point deduction on the eve of the match and then this result. But this dressing room has character. Our noses are out of joint, but we're not going to panic over selection.\"\nNottinghamshire fast bowler Luke Fletcher told BBC Radio Nottingham:\n\"It's always a great feeling getting a result in the Championship. The partnership between Stuart Broad and James Pattinson got us ahead of the game, and then to come out and bowl the way we did on Saturday night was brilliant.\n\"Then this morning Jimmy Pattinson came down that hill from the Bennett End and bowled rockets, and I was in quite a good rhythm from the Pavilion End.\n\"The dressing room is a good place to be. A a lot of work goes into these games, and sometimes you can get frustrated. But hopefully we'll take this momentum up to Durham and have a good crack there.\"", "summary": "Nottinghamshire took less than an hour on day three to get their County Championship Division Two campaign off to a winning start against Leicestershire at Grace Road." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The US has long suggested that China has manipulated the value of the yuan to boost its exports.\nUndervaluation has been a problem in the past, says the IMF in a statement, but this is no longer the case.\nSubstantial \"appreciation over the past year has brought the exchange rate to a level that is no longer undervalued\", it says.\nThe IMF says China should focus on creating full exchange rate flexibility so that the value of the yuan adjusts as the country grows.\n\"We urge the authorities to make rapid progress toward greater exchange rate flexibility, a key requirement for a large economy like China's that strives for market-based pricing and is integrating rapidly in global financial markets.\"\nThe IMF believes that China should aim to achieve a floating exchange rate within the next two or three years.\n\"Greater flexibility, with intervention limited to avoiding disorderly market conditions or excessive volatility, will also be key to prevent the exchange rate from moving away from equilibrium in the future.\"\nBeijing has said that it wants the yuan to become an alternative reserve currency to the US dollar.\nThe IMF's comments came after a two-week visit by one of its delegations to Beijing, Shanghai and Taiyuan.\nThe delegation also commented on China's slowing economic growth, which it said was \"a by-product of moving the economy away from the unsustainable growth pattern of the past decade\".\nIt expects China's economy to grow by 6.8% in 2015, almost matching the government's target of 7%, with growth then expected to slow to 6.25% in 2016.\n\"China is transitioning to a new normal, aimed at safer and higher-quality - even if a bit slower - growth,\" said the IMF, adding that the change was \"both challenging and necessary\".\n\"The labour market has remained resilient despite slower growth, which, in turn, has supported household consumption.\"", "summary": "China's currency \"is no longer undervalued\", according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Forty-five \"much loved\" fish died at Castle Park in Colchester, Essex, on Wednesday while their pond was cleaned and they were in a container.\nPark staff rushed to save a number of fish, managing to successfully resuscitate some of the larger ones.\nAn 18-year-old man has been charged with theft and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.\nFollow more on this story and other Essex news\nColchester Borough Council said most of the water in the tank was lost, resulting in the death of \"45 fish - including all of the oldest, rarest and most valuable koi carp that had lived in the pond for many years\".\nA spokesman said the three largest koi carp to perish were all about 30 years old and may have been worth up to £200 each.\n\"It's very upsetting for the staff - those carp were like children to them, they'd been with them for so long\".\nAnne Feltham, the council's portfolio holder for business and leisure, said staff had worked extremely hard to try to rescue the fish.\n\"One of the staff actually gave mouth to mouth resuscitation on some of the larger fish which was an absolute eye-opener to me - I wouldn't have even known that was possible.\"\nThe charged man will appear at Colchester Magistrates' Court on 22 November.\nA 16-year-old boy who was also arrested was released without charge.\nFish breathe by gulping water into their mouths and passing it through their gills, where oxygen is absorbed from the water and dissolved into the fish's blood.\nDr Rod Wilson, Associate Professor of Integrative Animal Physiology at the University of Exeter, said carp were \"famously good at surviving in water with little oxygen, or even out of water for a fairly long time\".\n\"I'm doubtful mouth-to-mouth resuscitation would be that useful in this case, but it would be unlikely to have a negative impact on the fish,\" he said.\n\"The fish might have survived anyway, especially in cold weather conditions like we have at the moment - it slows their metabolism right down and so they need less oxygen and will survive longer in air.\"", "summary": "Park rangers have given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a number of fish after the tank they were in was slashed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Papers were lodged with the High Court in Belfast on Friday seeking leave to apply for a judicial review.\nFormer justice minister David Ford is among a group of politicians and human-rights activists whose lawyers had written to the Prime Minister.\nThey urged Theresa May to consider the country's peace process before triggering Article 50. - the formal process for the UK to leave the EU.\nThe legal representatives said: \"The various assurances sought by our clients have not been forthcoming and, indeed, the response heightened their concerns about the approach the Government was likely to take.\n\"In light of this, papers were lodged in the High Court in Belfast on Friday seeking leave to apply for judicial review.\"\nThe law firm Jones Cassidy Brett Solicitors said it received an inadequate response from the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, David Davis, and Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire.\nAmong the MLAs backing the move are Green Party leader Steven Agnew, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood and Sinn Féin's John O'Dowd.\nFormer head of the PUP Dawn Purvis and disability rights activist Monica Wilson are also behind the action, as are the Committee on the Administration of Justice human-rights group.\nThey say they want to ensure the Brexit process \"protects progress made towards a more peaceful society\" and accords \"adequate weight to the democratic will of those in Northern Ireland who voted in the European referendum and in the 1998 poll on the Good Friday Agreement\".\nTheir lawyers have said parliamentary legislation should authorise the triggering of the Article 50 leave clause, and that law should require the consent of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\nLast week, the father of a man murdered by loyalist paramilitaries launched a legal challenge to Brexit.\nRaymond McCord is seeking a judicial review and lodged the papers at the High Court in Belfast last Thursday.", "summary": "Lawyers in Northern Ireland have begun a legal challenge to the Brexit vote." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Up to 25 hot air balloons were tethered at Ashton Court on Thursday to take part in the nightglow on the opening day of the festival.\nThe event, now in its 38th year, is Europe's largest balloon festival.\nMore than 150 balloons are at the festival, but flights planned for Thursday night and Friday morning were cancelled due to high winds and cloud.\nThe event is due to run through Sunday with another nightglow and fireworks display planned for Saturday night.", "summary": "The night sky was lit up as part of Bristol's annual four-day International Balloon Fiesta." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Kieran McGrath, 26, was shot after leaving the Sheldon Arms pub in Ashton-under-Lyne on 4 October 2014. He drove to a nearby police station but died a short time later.\nThe jury at Liverpool Crown Court found Anthony Henry, 32, of Kenwyn Street, Miles Platting, guilty of murder.\nJurors are still deliberating on charges against five other people.\nA further four men are accused of murder. A fifth defendant faces charges of assisting an offender.\nThey deny all the charges.\nThe trial continues.", "summary": "A man who orchestrated the shooting of a man outside a Greater Manchester pub has been convicted of his murder." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Alberto Nisman said Iran was attempting to set up intelligence-gathering stations in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and other countries in the region.\nMr Nisman is investigating a bomb attack that killed 85 people in a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires in 1994.\nIran has always denied involvement in the attack.\nBut in an indictment handed to a federal judge in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, Mr Nisman repeated the often-made claim that Iran sponsored the bombing.\nAnd he accused Iran of a nefarious project in the wider region.\n\"I legally accuse Iran of infiltrating several South American countries to install intelligence stations - in other words espionage bases - destined to commit, encourage and sponsor terror attacks like the one that took place against Amia,\" Mr Nisman was quoted as saying, referring to the Jewish centre bombed nearly 20 years ago.\nHe said the countries targeted included Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Surinam.\nAnd he claimed that Mohsen Rabbani - the Iranian former cultural attache in Buenos Aires who Argentina blames for the Amia attack - was co-ordinating the alleged infiltration operation.\nIn February Argentine legislators approved an agreement with Iran to set up an international truth commission to investigate the Amia attack.\nThe Argentine government proposed this commission as a way to reactivate investigations into the bombing, but the opposition and some Jewish groups in Argentina have criticised it.\nArgentina has issued arrest warrants for several Iranian nationals and a Lebanese national in connection with the bombing.", "summary": "An Argentine prosecutor has accused Iran of trying to infiltrate countries in Latin America to sponsor and carry out \"terrorist activities\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The incident happened on Thursday, and the man died as a result of his injuries in hospital on Saturday.\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSENI) is investigating.\n\"Our sympathies are with the family at this most difficult time, a spokesperson said.", "summary": "A man in his 40s has died following a farm accident in the Derrylin area of County Fermanagh." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Separately, the Financial Reporting Council said it would investigate the firm's accounts.\nThe firm is already under investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for alleged accounting irregularities.\nQuindell said it would \"continue to co-operate\" with the authorities.\nThe company has belatedly released its 2014 annual report. Trading in its shares was halted on 29 June, awaiting the results. It has asked for them to be traded again from Thursday.\nIt reported a £238m loss for 2014 and restated many of its earlier results.\nThe company's recalculations turned the 2013 profit after tax of £83m into a loss of £68m, and reduced reported net assets from £668m to £446m, as of the end of 2013.\nQuindell also said it planned to hire a new chief executive and begin a review of the business.\nQuindell has previously admitted that some of its accounting polices were \"aggressive\".\nThe group has been conducting its own review, advised by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).\nThat review concluded that accounting policies relating to revenue and acquisition costs in some of its businesses - since disposed of - were \"at the aggressive end of acceptable practice\".\nPwC also found that some other policies were \"not appropriate\", the company said.\nInvestors saw more than 80% wiped off the value of their shares in a disastrous 2014, as rumours of the accounting irregularities emerged.", "summary": "The Serious Fraud Office said it has opened a criminal investigation into insurance technology and claims management group Quindell." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The South Western Ambulance Service pilot began in February.\nIt gives staff three minutes, rather than the current government target of one minute, to assess calls that are not immediately life threatening.\nThe trial was launched in response to the \"unprecedented increase in demand for ambulance services\".\nIt was announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt in January and covers Cornwall, Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Somerset and South Gloucestershire.\nHe said the aim was to establish if allowing a longer assessment could help ambulance services maintain or even improve the clinical outcomes for patients.\nIn situations where a patient is not breathing or unconscious, an ambulance is still dispatched within the 60 seconds.\nNeil Le Chevalier, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust's director of operations, said since the pilot began it had doubled its \"hear and treat\" rate because it had the time to assess and advise over the phone.\n\"It's been very successful and there have been no safety issues,\" he told BBC News.\nHe said the main benefit was being able to determine the most appropriate response.\n\"When somebody dials 999, they're in a panic, so it can take up to 45 seconds just trying to find out where the patient is and we're frequently sending an ambulance out under blue lights on an address incident only, not knowing what we're dealing with,\" he said.\n\"This new pilot gives us two extra minutes to ascertain exactly what's wrong.\"\nIn the first 26 weeks, he said more than 400,000 emergency calls had gone through the system with \"70,000 ambulances not dispatched\".\nMr Le Chevalier said call handlers ask a series of questions using a triage system of assessment approved by the Royal College of Surgeons and they also have a directory of services available to them.\n\"Instead of dispatching an ambulance, we can send a mental health team, a falls team or indeed refer to a GP if that's more appropriate,\" he added.", "summary": "About 70,000 unnecessary ambulance call-outs have been avoided in a pilot project that gives call handlers more time to assess 999 calls." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The idea is one of several being discussed by European governing body Uefa as it looks to maximise interest in its flagship club competition.\nChange to the Champions League schedule would not happen for at least five years because of broadcasting cycles.\n\"We are in constant dialogue with all stakeholders and any decisions will be taken in agreement with them,\" said a Uefa spokesman.\n\"It is far too early to speculate about changes to the formats of our club competitions.\"\nThe Champions League, previously known as the European Cup, has been played as a midweek competition since 1968.\nIts final was played in midweek until 2010 but now takes place on a Saturday.\nWeekend games could be staged at times more suited to the television audience in the Far East but would require changes to domestic schedules.\nWe've got a new BBC Sport newsletter coming soon - to receive it from the start, sign up here.", "summary": "Champions League matches could be played at weekends from 2021." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The US company claims the fake accounts were used to make over 400,000 false bookings that ended up cancelled.\nIt filed a lawsuit in the High Court of Delhi this month requesting an injunction against Ola and $7.4m (£5.2m) in damages.\nOlaCabs has denied the accusations, calling them \"frivolous and false\".\n\"It is not beyond our imagination that this is an effort to divert attention from the current realities of the market where Uber has faced major setbacks,\" the company said in a statement.\nUber, considered the world's most valuable start-up, refused to comment beyond their legal petition.\nThe battle for India's transport market has heated up in recent months, with Uber investing $1bn over the past nine months.\nOla, which is backed by Japan's SoftBank Group and hedge fund Tiger Global Management, is part of an alliance aimed at trying to reduce Uber's market dominance.\nThe other members include San Francisco's Lyft, Southeast Asian rival Grab and China's Didi Kuaidi.\nA hearing on Uber's Indian petition has been set for 14 September.", "summary": "Uber is suing Indian rival Ola, alleging it created more than 90,000 fake accounts to interfere with its business and frustrate its drivers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Any deal must include a strong relationship with the EU and the exact same benefits the UK has from the single market, Sir Keir Starmer said.\nThe UK should \"honour our obligations\" regarding any \"divorce bill\", he added.\nThe government will trigger Article 50 on Wednesday, kick-starting talks aimed at agreeing a Brexit deal with the EU.\nThe government will then publish its Great Repeal Bill on Thursday.\nIt will propose giving ministers the powers to change some aspects of European laws when they have been incorporated into UK legislation, without needing the approval of Parliament.\nTriggering Article 50 begins a two-year negotiation process to attempt to reach a deal before Britain officially leaves the EU in March 2019.\nIf no deal is agreed, it would mean World Trade Organization rules would be imposed - less favourable terms than trading within the single market.\nWhat is Article 50?\nBrexit: What would 'no deal' look like?\nSir Keir, who will outline Labour's demands in a speech on Monday, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"If our tests are not met then we do not intend to support the deal the government comes back with.\"\nAmong the tests is one calling for the \"exact same benefits\" the UK has from the single market and customs union - words he said were used by Brexit Secretary David Davis in Parliament.\n\"The government can't turn around and say this is unachievable because it was David Davis... who said that,\" he said.\nAnother is a demand for \"fair management of migration in the interests of the economy and communities\". Sir Keir accepted that the EU principle of freedom of movement \"has to go\".\nHis party leader Jeremy Corbyn said in January that while Labour was \"not wedded to freedom of movement... nor do we rule it out\".\nA future immigration policy must be one of managed migration which works for businesses and communities, Sir Keir said.\nOne of the tests calls for \"a strong collaborative future relationship with the EU\".\nHe said it was important to state that because \"some of the pure Brexiteers actually want us to crash out [without a deal], either at the Article 50 stage in two years or before that\".\nAsked whether a reported £50bn bill was worth paying for better access to the EU's single market, Sir Keir said it was \"very important early on that the principles of liability are established, what is the money for... and then I think the prime minister should say loud and clear we are a country that complies with our international obligations\".\n\"How much and over what period is to be negotiated,\" he said, and if there were transitional arrangements in place after March 2019 there would be longer to pay it back.\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd was also asked about the reported £50bn bill for better access to the single market and customs union, mentioned by Jean Claude Juncker this week.\n\"I certainly do think that we should try to have the widest possible access to the single market, that is what businesses want us to have and that is what is good for the economy... we don't know what that cost would be... that is going to be part of the negotiations. We have a lot to offer in this negotiation as well, we mustn't ever forget that this is going to be two-way.\nShe also dismissed a \"no deal\" scenario outlined by EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier - with truck queues at Dover, disruption to air traffic and a suspension in the movement of nuclear materials to the UK - as \"apocalyptic\".\n\"I think it's fair to say I don't recognise that description... he would say that wouldn't he?\" she said.\nMs Rudd said the UK economy and world economy were doing well, and she thought \"there was a lot of positioning right now\".\n\"Over the next two years I hope people will calm down and we will see a really good deal that will work for us, and the European Union.\"\nOn Thursday, the government will publish its Great Repeal Bill, which will ensure EU law no longer applies in the UK after Brexit.\nIt includes proposals for the government to be given a \"new time-limited correcting power\" which would allow changes to be made through so-called Henry VIII clauses - without needing the approval of Parliament.\nThe government says it needs the power to make \"technical\" changes quickly as a lot of EU law will not work properly without changes being made.\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told ITV's Peston on Sunday: \"We are not going to sit there and hand over power to this government to override Parliament, override democracy and just send down a series of diktats about what's going to happen in the future.\"\nGet news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning", "summary": "Labour will not support any Brexit deal negotiated by the government unless it meets the party's \"six tests\", the shadow Brexit secretary has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Previous animal research has implicated common viruses in weight gain, but the evidence has been disputed.\nThe latest study, in Pediatrics, found that obese children with antibodies specific to a certain virus weighed 35lbs (15.8kg) more than those without.\nNothing has yet been proven on this theory, say UK experts.\nPrevious research has shown that chicken or mice injected with similar types of viruses showed a statistically significant weight gain.\nA link between the AD36 virus (adenovirus 36) and obesity in human adults has also been written about previously.\nBut how AD36 infects people and why it affects people differently is still not known.\nIn the University of California study of 124 children aged eight to 18, half of the children were considered obese based on their Body Mass Index.\nThe researchers found the AD36 antibodies in 19 of the children, 15 of whom were in the obese group.\nWithin the group of obese children studied, those with evidence of AD36 infection weighed an average of 35lbs more than obese children who were AD36-negative, says the study.\nJeffrey Schwimmer, lead researcher and professor of clinical paediatrics at the University of California school of medicine, said he hoped his research would change attitudes to obese people.\n\"Many people believe that obesity is one's own fault or the fault of one's parents or family. This work helps point out that body weight is more complicated than it's made out to be.\n\"And it is time that we move away from assigning blame in favour of developing a level of understanding that will better support efforts at both prevention and treatment.\n\"These data add credence to the concept that an infection can be a cause or contributor to obesity,\" he said.\nJulian Hamilton-Shield, professor in diabetes and metabolic endocrinology at the School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, says the jury is still out on this idea.\n\"It's an interesting if small and non-definitive study. This does not show causation, just an association.\n\"For instance, it may be that obese people are at more risk of catching AD36.\n\"However, it does add a little evidence to suggestions that AD36 may be implicated in some way with childhood obesity,\" he said.", "summary": "A virus which causes respiratory infections has been linked to childhood obesity, in a study that is likely to reignite a controversial debate." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The six family photographs were taken after the royals arrived in the Alps for a short holiday on Wednesday night.\nThey were taken the next day - when Prince George and Princess Charlotte played in the snow for the first time.\nKensington Palace said it had been a \"very special and fun\" family holiday.\nThe photographs include one of Prince William holding Princess Charlotte, while the duke and duchess are shown having a snowball fight in separate photographs.\nA palace spokesman said: \"This was their first holiday as a family of four and the first time either of the children had played in the snow. It was very special and fun short holiday for the family.\n\"The Duke and Duchess hope people enjoy the photos,\" the spokesman added.\nPrincess Charlotte was born in May last year, while Prince George is two.\nBy Peter Hunt, BBC royal correspondent\nThe timing of this royal winter break could be viewed as rather unfortunate.\nIt comes after Prince William has been accused by some newspapers of shirking royal engagements, with the Sun demanding: \"Where's Willy?\"\nThe answer, for a few days last week, was the French Alps with his children and his wife.\nThe pictures will delight those who support the royals and who are avid consumers of images of Prince George and Princess Charlotte. Such people will argue that everyone is entitled to downtime.\nWilliam's critics will continue to question whether he's reluctant to fully embrace his destiny. They insist he could do more in support of his soon-to-be 90-year-old grandmother, the Queen.\nDefenders of the future king stress that he combines his work as a royal with his job as an air ambulance pilot and his role as a father.\nRead more from Peter", "summary": "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have released a series of photographs of their trip to the French Alps - their first family holiday since the birth of Princess Charlotte." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The council and police want to curb anti-social behaviour in Pillgwenlly, where youths recently targeted police with fireworks during a \"riot\".\nAnyone caught breaching the order could face a fine or prosecution.\nBut some residents and traders have said they are sceptical about whether it will work.\nPolice in Pillgwenlly said the area has long been plagued by issues associated with the use and supply of drugs and street drinking at the former Kwik Save car park.\nInsp Richie Blakemore said many residents felt intimidated by groups of youths who gather there and officers had been working with the council for the past year to draw up the Public Protection Spaces Order (PSPO) to try to reduce the problems.\n\"What we're hoping to achieve is to change people's cultural behaviour, changing opinions of the group,\" he said.\n\"They actually live here so they need to understand that it isn't an acceptable way to behave... and they will be subject to the powers within the order if we are successful in introducing them,\" he added.\nResidents and shopkeepers said they would be in favour of a ban but are concerned about how it will be enforced.\nJohn Price, 63, said it would be good to stop gangs loitering in the area because many people found them intimidating.\nBut florist Ann Barton said she did not believe officers would be able to effectively police the order.\nThe council said a PSPO banning drinking alcohol in Newport city centre brought in last year had resulted in a \"huge\" decrease in the amount of seizures by police.\nA report found there were still problems, but the main issue was people \"preloading\" alcohol before going into nightclubs at night, rather than day-time drinking.\nIt concluded: \"Whilst clearly more work needs to be done around compliance with the alcohol restriction, the introduction of the PSPO in the city centre has produced positive changes, with many of the issues that lead to its introduction, largely dwindling.\"\nCouncils have been able to use PSPOs since 2014 to ban activities they believe are having a \"detrimental impact\" on quality of life.\nSome authorities in Wales have brought in several orders but the majority have not introduced any.\nExamples of those already in place include:\nA spokesman for the Welsh Local Government Authority (WLGA) said the orders were not in widespread use.\n\"We have confidence that local authorities have due regard to all of the circumstances, when making decisions about using orders,\" he said.\n\"There is a balance and proportionality of resolution to be found, where the actions of a few may have a significant impact on the wellbeing of the wider community.\"", "summary": "Drinking alcohol in the street and people congregating in groups could be banned in a part of Newport recently blighted by large-scale disorder." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Andrew Main admitted setting fires that caused major damage at South Oxfordshire District Council's office, an undertakers and a thatched cottage.\nThe 47-year-old, of Rokemarsh, pleaded not guilty to a further charge of arson with intent to endanger life.\nThe prosecution decided not to proceed to trial with the charge at Oxford Crown Court, and it will lie on file.\nThe estimated cost to the council of repairing damage from the fires on 15 January was about £20m, the court heard.\nSentencing, Judge Ian Pringle said: \"We will never know why you picked on the targets you did, but we will always know that the consequences were utterly, utterly devastating.\"\nAt their peak, 27 crews tackled fires in Rokemarsh and Crowmarsh Gifford, which were started within 10 minutes of each other shortly after 03:00 GMT. No-one was hurt.\nIn the first blaze, Jean Gladstone, 80, escaped from her thatched cottage on Quakers Corner in Rokemarsh.\nMinutes later, a second fire was reported at Howard Chadwick Funeral Service in the village of Crowmarsh Gifford.\nThe third blaze engulfed the council offices.\nIt was revealed in court Main had mental health issues, most likely a severe bi-polar disorder.\nThe court was told he intended to kill himself after setting the fires.\nHe told a psychiatrist he wanted to use a chainsaw to cut his neck.\nProsecutors said CCTV footage from the night showed Main had a chainsaw with him.\nHe set the fires using gas cylinders, which were found at all three fire sites as well as Main's home.\nThe burnt-out wreckage of a car that ploughed into the council building moments before it caught fire was found in the foyer.\nMain was told he would be detained in the mental health unit for an unlimited period of time.\nDet Insp Louise Tompkins, senior investigating officer in the case, said the hospital order reflected \"how unwell Mr Main was at the time he committed the offences\".\n\"The fires had a significant impact on the local communities in and around Crowmarsh Gifford and Rokemarsh,\" she added.\nAdrian Foster, chief crown prosecutor for Thames and Chiltern Crown Prosecution Service said the motives behind Main's \"reckless actions\" remained \"unclear\".\nHe added: \"Main was assessed by two psychiatric doctors, who both agreed that it would not be possible to make a jury sure that he was capable of forming the requisite intent.\n\"Therefore, the pleas were accepted by the prosecution team.\n\"Main was clearly seriously ill... it is incredibly fortunate that nobody was hurt.\"\nAbout 400 staff worked at the offices.\nThe fire completely destroyed the planning department and badly affected the environmental health department and housing department.\nPlanning applications and comments submitted in the days before the fire were destroyed and had to be resubmitted.\nThe complex also housed about two-thirds of the Vale of the White Horse District Council's staff.\nThe funeral parlour reopened last month following £100,000 of repair work.", "summary": "A man will be detained in a mental health unit after setting a series of fires across Oxfordshire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It was set up to stop people being drawn into terrorist activities, but has been labelled \"toxic\" by critics.\n\"They don't understand properly how Prevent works,\" Commander Dean Haydon told the BBC's Asian Network.\nHe added that some criticism came from parts of the community that \"don't want Prevent to work in the first place\".\nThe programme was set up by Labour in 2003 and its remit was widened by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition in 2011.\nDesigned to support people at risk of joining extremist groups and carrying out terrorist activities, it is focused on schools, faith organisations, prisons and other communities where people can be at risk of radicalisation.\nBut the Muslim Council of Britain has said young Muslims were being targeted, and a former senior Muslim policeman, Dal Babu, said Prevent had become a \"toxic brand\" because it was not trusted by communities.\nDean Haydon, however, told the Asian Network that the counter-terrorism programme was not about spying on people but about keeping them safe, claiming it had achieved \"fantastic\" results.\n\"Some of the criticisms come from sections of the community that, for a variety of different reasons, political or otherwise, just don't want Prevent to work in the first place.\"\nThe government programme came under further scrutiny in the wake of the recent terror attacks in Manchester, Westminster and London Bridge - and was a talking point during the recent general election.\nIn May, the Green Party's Caroline Lucas told Andrew Marr: \"Many in the Muslim community believe it's been an attack on their group in particular.\"\nThe strategy is backed by senior police figures, with some calling it \"fundamental\" in the fight against terrorism.\nBut in March this year, Home Secretary Amber Rudd admitted there needed to be more of an effort \"to sell it to communities... to show that this is a safeguarding iniative.\"\nGovernment figures say 150 people were stopped from entering conflict zones in Iraq and Syria in 2015 because of the programme.\nIn the interview with Asian Network, Commander Haydon spoke of his concerns about people returning to the UK from Syria and Iraq.\nHe said the \"default\" position was \"arrest and prosecution\".\nListen to the full interview on Tuesday 8 August at 10:00 BST on the BBC's Asian Network.", "summary": "One of Scotland Yard's most senior police officers says criticism of the government's Prevent programme is based on \"ignorance\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former financial ombudsman, Walter Merricks, had claimed that 46 million consumers had been overcharged by Mastercard over a 16-year period.\nBut the court ruled that the case could not proceed through a collective - or class - action.\nThe ruling was welcomed by Mastercard, which said the claims were completely unsuitable.\nThe tribunal found that even if a loss had been suffered, and could be estimated across the whole class, there was no way any individual could receive compensation equal to the loss that he or she had actually suffered.\nThe case was filed in September 2016, and followed a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling against the level of so-called interchange fees - the amounts that retailers have to pay on debit and credit cards.\nIt related to the fees charged by Mastercard between 1992 and 2008.\n\"We welcome the Competition Appeal Tribunal's judgment refusing certification for the proposed collective action,\" said a spokesperson for Mastercard.\n\"As set out in Mastercard's arguments to date, we believe that the claims were completely unsuitable to be brought under the collective actions regime.\"\nInterchange fees have since been capped by the European Union.", "summary": "A £14bn class action lawsuit against Mastercard has been thrown out by the Competition Appeals Tribunal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Diane James has not appeared at any hustings, saying she can answer more of activists' questions at her own events.\nBut her rival Philip Broughton said her stance was \"bang out of order\".\nThe winner of the leadership contest, triggered by the resignation of Nigel Farage, will be announced on 15 September.\nMEP Bill Etheridge, councillor Lisa Duffy and activist Elizabeth Jones complete the line-up.\nMr Broughton, a former Conservative councillor and UKIP parliamentary candidate, said: \"I'm not happy with the tactics of no debate; no communications, no openness - which is what a leadership debate should be all about.\n\"This is supposed to be about the future direction of the party and one candidate is stopping that from happening.\"\nHe added: \"It's unopen, undemocratic and bang out of order\".\nMs James, UKIP's deputy chairwoman and justice and home affairs spokeswoman, defended her absence from hustings in a recent BBC interview.\nShe said there was \"no need\" for her to debate with her rivals, saying her own programme of events around the country allowed her to take more questions from party activists.\n\"I am more interested in what will convince individual members and activists that I have got an answer to their direct questions.\"\nMr Broughton said he was not making a \"personal attack\" on Ms James, but added that \"members need to know what's going on\".\nMr Etheridge joined the criticism on Thursday, accusing Ms James of conducting a \"coronation tour\" rather than a campaign and telling her: \"Get down off your thrown and have a debate.\"\nAs well as the UKIP-organised debates, Mr Broughton and Mr Etheridge both claimed they had been asked to be involved in two BBC hustings which were now not going ahead as planned after Ms James declined to be involved.\nThese were on the Victoria Derbyshire programme and on BBC Essex, Mr Broughton said.\nThe BBC said the Victoria Derbyshire programme hosted a UKIP leadership debate on 2 August 2016 and would continue to report developments in the contest as they happen.\nIt is understood that the programme had not confirmed or scheduled a follow-up hustings and any discussions about them were speculative.\nBBC Essex is understood to have changed the format of its coverage after Ms James and another candidate declined to take part.\nMs James said she had not been notified that the hustings had been cancelled and declined to comment further.", "summary": "The favourite in UKIP's leadership race has been accused by another candidate of \"undemocratic\" campaign tactics by refusing to take part in debates." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The scent, it transpires, is white tea and thyme. And it is coming from a new branch of Lloyds Bank.\n\"It gives that inviting feel, that welcoming feel,\" says the building's designer, Sarah Harrison.\n\"You can smell it on the High Street when the wind's blowing in the right direction.\"\nLloyds is not the first bank to spot the possibilities of sensory attraction.\nAcross the Atlantic, one bank offers its customers freshly brewed coffee, using the nutty aromas of Arabica to entice new followers. In fact rather than banks, it calls them cafes.\nIn the UK, High Street banks are set to close hundreds more branches in 2017.\nNevertheless, with ideas for alluring new formats, the industry believes that the concept of branch banking at long last has the whiff of something positive about it.\nHence they are investing millions of pounds in makeovers. In fact, in 2017 at least three British banks will open more branches than they will close.\nWhen the US firm Capital One launched a digital-only bank, it thought it would never have to go to the expense of building any branches.\nBut seeing that customers wanted a more physical relationship with their bank, it changed its mind. Now it has 13 banking \"cafes\" across the US, where a cup of coffee is half price for those who pay with their card.\nAccount holders can also enjoy a freshly baked muffin, or tuck in to as many bytes of data as they wish from the free wi-fi, as they do some online, or face-to-face, banking.\n\"We had a digital bank, and we needed to connect with the communities that we serve,\" says Shaun Rowley, Capital One's director for national expansion.\n\"These cafes give customers a chance to come in, and experience our brand: see, touch and taste Capital One.\"\nHe describes the branches as \"more cafe than bank\", but promises that customers can do any financial transactions they would normally expect.\n\"There are a lot of banks experimenting with different formats. There's all sorts of transformations going on,\" he tells the BBC.\nAmong those impressed by the Capital One cafes is Jakob Pfaudler, the chief operating officer of Lloyds Bank's retail division.\n\"There's a bunch of beautiful stores over there, where you really have the human touch, combined with quite heavy digital content. I think that is our mental model,\" he says.\nIn 2017, Lloyds is planning to close another 200 UK branches, following a similar number in 2016. But it will also build some new, large ones.\n\"Yes there will be some branch closures, but what we are doing is reformatting the entire branch network over the next four or five years, and building more of the branches like the one in Clapham.\"\nOne other feature of the Clapham blueprint is a giant video wall, on which customers can view house prices in nearby streets, or get property-buying tips.\nThe aroma device is now a key part of Mr Pfaudler's thinking too.\n\"It moves further away from the traditional, rather stiff branch environment. So, while it wasn't necessarily a design feature, I think we're going to roll this out into many more of our branches - maybe not that specific scent, although I like it.\"\nIn 2017 at least three smaller brands expect to grow their network.\nMetro Bank - which opens its latest branch in Basingstoke on 31 December - is planning a dozen new \"stores\" as it calls them.\nBoth TSB and Handelsbanken will also expand their branch numbers next year.\nAnd Santander will upgrade as many as 60 branches.\nAt a pilot branch in central London, customers can already pay in cheques and cash at the same machine they use to withdraw money. And they can receive an email confirming the transaction.\nThe old-style counter, complete with tellers, is hidden away at the back.\nUniformed customer service assistants show members of the public how to switch to the new-style cash machines.\n\"For the customer to understand all the functionality on an ATM, to pay in a cheque for the first time, for example, they'll often need a colleague to walk them through it,\" says Martin Bischoff, managing director of retail distribution at Santander.\nIf banks get this wrong, there could be trouble.\nThe story is told by one banking executive of how a Polish online bank opened its first branch, only to find an army of customers queuing up outside - as they had just been presented with their first opportunity to complain.\nIn case customers really lose it, another executive told me, they now plan so-called \"defusing\" rooms in their branches, where account holders can be taken to cool down.\nIt's not just the branches themselves that are changing. It's their attitudes to customers.\nIn an attempt to be more welcoming, some in the industry want their branches to feel like hotels or restaurants.\n\"From a physical perspective, hospitality offers a very good role model,\" says Ray Erscheid, senior vice president for store design at Bank of America.\n\"If you think about a hotel experience, it can be relatively scripted: you enter, there's a welcoming experience, you're either directed to where you want to go - which might be the restaurant - or there's a check-in experience.\"\nHe even refers to the front-of-house staff member as the \"concierge\".\n\"Again, I would go back to the hotel experience. The doorman might be able to get you a taxi, they might be able to tell you where the nearest restaurant is, but they're going to turn you over to the concierge if you say you want a particular kind of dining experience. So we want to have that same idea.\"\nBut one expert warns about being too free-thinking with branch design.\nMarcus Pequeno, a Spanish banking consultant, remembers the case of a South American bank wthat decided to offer free coffee, wi-fi and soft drinks in a refurbished branch.\nThe morning of the opening did not go according to plan.\n\"Basically there were 100 students in front of, and inside the branch, hanging out and taking selfies,\" he told a conference called Branch Transformation earlier this month.\n\"They were doing anything but banking.\"\nSo don't expect your branch to turn into a coffee bar in 2017.\nBut don't be surprised if a visit there feels better, and quicker, than it used to. With perhaps a few nice smells to enjoy at the same time.", "summary": "Walk through Clapham Junction in South London, and you might catch a whiff of something heady, but rather fragrant." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Carwyn Jones has written to BBC director-general Lord Hall about a \"growing gulf\" in funding between Wales and the rest of the UK.\nHe said Welsh audiences \"risk being dealt the worst deal\" of any UK nation.\nThe BBC said it believed it offered \"value for money\" to viewers in Wales.\nThe letter, released on Monday, comes as the BBC as a whole faces the prospect of programme budget cuts as a result of taking on extra responsibilities following the licence fee settlement in July.\nThe first minister and other Welsh politicians have claimed that Wales is not getting its fair share of the BBC budget compared to other parts of the UK.\nNon-news TV production was a particular area of concern, Mr Jones said, with the BBC's Audience Council for Wales review saying cuts had brought such programmes \"closer to the cliff-edge\".\n\"BBC Wales is no longer able to provide quality comedy or drama specifically for Welsh audiences, due to a lack of resources - these should be the kind of programmes that reflect our lives and our unique culture,\" he said.\nHe added that funding for English-language programmes about Wales should not be at the expense of Welsh language services on S4C and BBC Radio Cymru.\nIn 2014/15 BBC Wales spent £20.8m on English-language TV programmes specifically for Wales, and £19.7m on Welsh-language TV programmes for broadcast on S4C.\nA BBC spokesperson said the corporation had \"a good track-record\" in Wales, but said the need to make savings of £700m a year meant there was \"a challenge to reflect all aspects of life in all parts of the UK back to itself on our TV services\".\n\"Despite this, we continue to deliver high-quality programmes in Wales such as the popular drama series Hinterland, the consumer-affairs programme, X-Ray the recent seasons of programmes about north Wales and the Valleys as well as news, current affairs and politics tailored for Wales,\" the spokesperson added.\n\"Blended with popular English-language shows that are enjoyed across the UK, we believe we offer value for money to Welsh audiences.\"", "summary": "BBC Wales should be given an extra £30m of funding to make TV programmes to properly reflect the people of Wales, the first minister has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The front door of Number 10 featured in a teaser trailing the new Doctor's unveiling, leading many to speculate the next Time Lord would be female, just like its current incumbent.\nOthers to welcome Whittaker's casting include Star Wars' John Boyega, who predicted she would be \"awesome\".\nActress Karen Gillan also signalled her approval with an enthusiastic tweet.\n\"Jodie Jodie Jodie Jodie Jodie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\" the former Doctor Who companion wrote on Twitter.\n\"Congratulations Jodie Whittaker!\" tweeted Sylvester McCoy, who played the Doctor from 1987 to 1989. \"One small step for women, one giant leap for womenkind.\"\nGillian Anderson, David Harewood and former Bake Off co-host Sue Perkins also applauded her imminent arrival on social media.\nAn estimated 4.6 million viewers were watching BBC One when the identity of the new Doctor was revealed on Sunday afternoon.\nWhittaker, 35, was seen approaching the Tardis in a clip broadcast at the end of the Wimbledon men's singles final.\nThe news was covered extensively in Monday's newspapers, several of which put Whittaker's face on their front pages.\nAmid the euphoria, though, came an element of confusion over where the actress fits into the Doctor Who chronology.\nWhittaker, best known for her role in ITV drama Broadchurch, has been billed by the BBC as \"the 13th Doctor\".\nYet the late Sir John Hurt played an iteration of the Doctor in the show's 50th anniversary special, leading some fans to question whether Whittaker's Time Lord will indeed be the character's 13th incarnation.\nAccording to the BBC's Lizo Mzimba, however, Sir John does not have the same numerical status as the other actors to play the role, which in recent years have included Matt Smith, David Tennant and Peter Capaldi.\n\"In 2013, John Hurt played an incarnation of the Time Lord who was retroactively revealed to have come in the Doctor Who timeline between the eighth Doctor, Paul McGann, and the ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston,\" he explains.\n\"But Hurt's 'War Doctor' rejected referring to himself as 'The Doctor', meaning the long-established numerical order was maintained.\"\nPeter Cushing - who played the Doctor in 1965 film Dr Who and the Daleks and 1966's Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. - similarly stands apart from the official lineage that began with William Hartnell in 1963.\n\"Cushing's two appearances are not considered part of the main Doctor Who TV timeline,\" continues Mzimba.\n\"In the films he played a human scientist who invented a time machine, rather than a Time Lord from Gallifrey.\"\nBefore Broadchurch, Whittaker was seen opposite Peter O'Toole in the 2006 film Venus, alongside Boyega in 2011's Attack the Block, and as a firefighter's girlfriend in Sky 1's The Smoke.\nBefore making her debut as the Doctor in the Christmas episode of Doctor Who, the Huddersfield native will be seen as a nurse who pretends to be a doctor in BBC One drama Trust Me.\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "The new Doctor has a friend in Downing Street, with Theresa May saying she is \"pleased\" by Jodie Whittaker's casting." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Nasa's Dawn spacecraft, which arrived at the mini-world on 6 March, is now settling into its first science orbit some 13,500km above the surface.\nThe probe's approach took it around the back of the dwarf and on to the night side, hiding the spots from the camera system and remote sensing instruments.\nBut with each passing day, Dawn is seeing more sun-lit terrain - including now its most enigmatic features.\nThe newly released sequence of images were acquired a week ago when the probe was still some 22,000km from the surface.\nNonetheless, they clearly show the brightest spot and its companion standing out against the darker landscape.\nThe science team on the US space agency mission do not yet have a name for the location, referring to it simply still as Region, or spot, 5.\nQuite why the spots should reflect sunlight so efficiently in comparison to their surroundings is uncertain. It hints at the presence of ice - but ice would not be stable on an airless body. Another suggestion is salts, perhaps left behind after exposed ices had vaporised.\nWhat is intriguing is that not all bright spots on Ceres are the same in nature. Another spot location, known as region 1, is very much cooler than the terrain that surrounds it. Region 5 displays no such behaviour.\nChris Russell, the principal investigator on Dawn, told BBC News last week: \"It may be a surface composition situation in that the different material at that particular spot conducts heat differently than in the other area. So, the first thing you go to when you see different temperatures is the different thermal conductivity of the surface material.\"\nDawn will conduct an intense observational campaign starting this week, with the data being downlinked in early May. Scientists should then have something more definitive to say about Ceres and its enthralling spots.\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "summary": "The mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are back in view." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Both players will continue to play for Hoffenheim, who are fifth in the table, before moving to Bayern in the summer.\nDefender Sule, 21, has signed a five-year deal for an undisclosed fee.\nFree agent Rudy, 26, who captains Hoffenheim from midfield, will join Carlo Ancelotti's side on a three-year contract.\n\"Signing two Germany internationals is an investment in the club's future,\" said Bayern Munich's executive board chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.\n\"Sebastian Rudy comes on a free, while we have come to a serious and fair agreement with Hoffenheim for Niklas Sule.\"\nSule described Bayern as \"one of the best teams in the world\", while Rudy said \"moving to Munich is an absolute dream and I want to win trophies there\".\nBayern resume their campaign after the winter break on Friday when they play away at Freiburg.\nAncelotti's side are three points clear at the top of the Bundesliga.", "summary": "Bayern Munich have signed Germany internationals Sebastian Rudy and Niklas Sule from Bundesliga rivals Hoffenheim." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Athletics' governing body the IAAF said the silver medallist had been found guilty of an in-competition doping offence during the event in Japan.\nPavey, 43, was beaten to bronze by American Kara Goucher, who will now be upgraded to silver.\n\"It is frustrating,\" said Pavey.\n\"I am thrilled with the news but it is kind of bittersweet because when I think back to those championships I was running as hard as I could, I had got myself in the best shape and it was a hot and humid day. I was in a medal position right until the line but couldn't hold on.\n\"Instead of being a moment where I was thrilled at getting my first medal, I was lying on the track feeling totally despondent and frustrated, I felt that I had let everyone down.\"\nIt is Pavey's first World medal, having been on the podium at the Commonwealth Games and European Championships.\nThe saga surrounding Abeylegesse dates back to 2015 when the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced 28 athletes who competed at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships had returned \"adverse findings\" from retested samples.\nThe Turkish Athletics Federation subsequently revealed that Abeylegesse was one of those under investigation. The Ethiopian-born runner was withdrawn from the 2015 Worlds as a consequence.\nHer results from 25 August 2007 to 25 August 2009 have been removed and the 34-year-old is retrospectively banned from 29 September 2015 to 28 September 2017.\nPavey says she feels angry at Abeylegesse for denying her of her podium moment, and has questioned whether she has potentially missed out on more medals.\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Pavey added: \"I had a few years in the prime of my career where I kept just missing out on medals and I almost had to go back to the drawing board and think how I could find that extra. How I could not keep getting it just a bit wrong on the day.\n\"Now I look back and I think about the other medals I might have had and actually I was doing a lot of things right but with the cheats out there it does make it so much more difficult and so frustrating.\"\nPavey, a five-time Olympian, is set to compete in this year's London Marathon with the aim of qualifying for the 2017 World Championships in London.\nEthiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba, who won gold in the 10,000m at the 2007 Worlds, will also line up against Pavey during April's marathon.", "summary": "Britain's Jo Pavey says it is a bittersweet feeling to receive her 2007 World Championships 10,000m bronze medal after Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse had her result chalked off." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nDaley, eliminated in the semi-finals of the same event at the Rio Olympics last year, dominated the final throughout.\nThe 23-year-old won with a score of 590.95, ahead of Olympic champion Chen Aisen of China (585.25). Fellow Briton Matty Lee finished 12th.\nEarlier, Daley won silver alongside Grace Reid in the mixed 3m springboard.\nThe pair totalled 308.04 for their five routines with China (323.70) winning gold and Canada (297.72) taking the bronze medal.\nDaley, who won his maiden world title at Rome 2009 when he was just 15 years old, led the standings in the 10m event from the first round. He then delivered five further stunning routines to secure gold.\n\"It's been such a tough year getting over that competition in Rio,\" said Daley.\n\"Today the Olympic champion was never going to let me have it easy but I wanted to fight until the very end and I really wanted to prove a point.\n\"I'm just so happy with the way it turned out. My score was a personal best and I think it would have got the gold last year at the Olympics.\n\"I saw Chen do his dive and all the Chinese divers cheer, so I thought 'Watch this one. You do that, I'm going to do it better'.\n\"I went into this weird competitive mode that I've never even been in before.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nEarlier, second place in the mixed 3m springboard saw Daley and 21-year-old Reid add to the European gold they won together in London last year.\n\"I'm overwhelmed,\" Reid, who was fourth in the 3m springboard final on Friday evening, told BBC Sport.\n\"I only had a few hours' sleep as I was still on a high from last night.\n\"Tom and I haven't been able to train together at all this week - we were just winging it out there.\"\nBob Ballard, BBC Sport commentator:\nEight years, virtually to the day, since 15-year-old Tom Daley won the World Championship final in Rome, he is back on the top of the podium with an improved score from the 539.85 that brought him gold on that occasion. He needed a big last dive and pulled it off with a second three-figure score.\nThe dive list of the 23-year-old - the only survivor from the final of that outdoor event in Italy in 2009 - is very different to eight years ago, but the start was not. Four scores of over 90 in the first four rounds, including nailing the armstand that had caused him problems in the semi-final - and then the 100-plus score on the forward four and a half somersaults, signalled his desire to banish the memory of missing the Olympic final in Rio which followed record-breaking preliminaries.\nMatty Lee wasn't quite able to match the standards he reached in the semi-final - but many more experienced divers were not able to reach the final 12 at all and he will be one to watch at the European Championships in Scotland in just over a year from now.", "summary": "Britain's Tom Daley claimed his first individual World Championship gold for eight years with a stunning victory in the 10m platform final in Budapest." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A motorcyclist suffered broken ribs when the bridge fell on to the London-bound carriageway of the M20 in Kent on 27 August last year.\nAlan Austen, 63, of Darlington, Durham, pleaded not guilty to two charges of dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\nMaidstone Crown Court set a trial date for 19 February 2018.\nThe bridge collapsed between junctions four and three, near the junction with the M26, which links the M25 London orbital with the M20.\nThe road, which is the main route to the Channel Tunnel and Port of Dover, had to be shut while two large cranes worked to clear the debris.", "summary": "A lorry driver has denied dangerous driving charges over the collapse of a pedestrian bridge on to a motorway." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Jack Salter, 18, posted an image of the \"bomb\" on Facebook.\nArmy ordnance experts were called and found that Salter's creation was not a viable explosive, but looked realistic to the untrained eye.\nSalter was order to be detained for 16 months but appeal judges said they were was an alternative to custody.\nHe has now been placed under supervision on a three-year community payback order and told to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.\nIn June, Salter, of Fort William, was ordered to be detained when he appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court.\nLawyers acting for him challenged the imposition of the detention and judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh have overturned it.\nJudge Lord Drummond Young, who heard the appeal with Lady Clark of Calton, said they were satisfied that there was an alternative to custody in his case.\nLord Drummond Young said it was clearly a serious incident, saying the experience \"must have been very alarming for those in the neighbourhood\".\nBut the appeal judges said they considered that there were special circumstances in the case where Salter had suffered \"an acute grief reaction\" to the death of his father.\nHis father had died in \"very distressing circumstances\" from a drugs overdose in the presence of Salter shortly before the incident.\nLord Drummond Young said it seemed that Salter's reaction to his father's death had caused a difficult period for him when he committed a number of offences.\nFred Mackintosh, counsel for Salter, told the court that the incident had been extremely disruptive and frightening but appeared to be largely out of character.\nHe said that following his liberation ahead of the appeal hearing he had been offered work and secured a college place.", "summary": "A teenager who caused the evacuation of 32 properties at a block of flats in Fort William after building a hoax bomb has had his sentence quashed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Silkmen led 2-0 in little more than a quarter of an hour, Neil Byrne heading the opener from Danny Whitaker's cross before Andy Halls set up a near-identical second for Anthony Dudley.\nRyan Higgins halved the deficit three minutes before half-time, cutting in from the right and firing home from 30 yards.\nByrne saw a long-range effort pushed wide by Chris Cheetham and Mitch Hancox headed against the bar from close range as the visitors sought to kill the game off, but two goals proved to be enough.\nMatch report supplied by the Press Association.\nMatch ends, Southport 1, Macclesfield Town 2.\nSecond Half ends, Southport 1, Macclesfield Town 2.\nSubstitution, Southport. Richard Brodie replaces Declan Weeks.\nSubstitution, Southport. Andrai Jones replaces Jamie Allen.\nSubstitution, Southport. Jim Stevenson replaces Liam Hynes.\nSecond Half begins Southport 1, Macclesfield Town 2.\nFirst Half ends, Southport 1, Macclesfield Town 2.\nGoal! Southport 1, Macclesfield Town 2. Ryan Higgins (Southport).\nSpencer Myers (Southport) is shown the yellow card.\nGoal! Southport 0, Macclesfield Town 2. Anthony Dudley (Macclesfield Town).\nGoal! Southport 0, Macclesfield Town 1. Neill Byrne (Macclesfield Town).\nFirst Half begins.\nLineups are announced and players are warming up.", "summary": "Macclesfield kept their National League play-off hopes alive with a 2-1 win at bottom club Southport." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Built to serve the slate quarry of Bryn Eglwys, near Abergynolwyn, Gwynedd, in 1950 it seemed doomed when owner Henry Haydn Jones died and the quarry closed.\nBut a group of West Midlands tourists vowed to safeguard it.\nAnd so, Talyllyn became the UK's first preservation railway.\nMore than 60 years on, it continues to hold a place in Midlanders' hearts, including its current general manager, proud Brummie, Chris Price.\n\"In 1950, nothing like this had ever been done,\" he said.\n\"The railways had just been nationalised - although Talyllyn was left out - and the world was all about moving on and modernising after the war.\n\"People thought they were crackers, wanting to save this dilapidated old railway, but Talyllyn held so many special memories and had achieved so many railway firsts that they were determined they were going to make it work.\n\"Today we have 350 dedicated volunteers, and we're running the original 1860s engines on 7m (12km) of track, with some absolutely fantastic new stations and, of course, the narrow gauge museum.\"\nThe Talyllyn Railway has always done things the hard way.\nAfter construction had already begun on its bridges, a Board of Trade inspector spotted they were too narrow for the 2ft 3in (0.68m) gauge.\nThis meant the carriages would not have the required clearance on either side.\nTo alleviate this problem, the doors on one side of each carriage were permanently barred and the track slewed off-centre beneath the bridges to allow passengers enough room to get out if the train stopped underneath.\nWhile the alterations were taking place the inspector withheld a safety certificate, meaning the first passengers were warned they were travelling at their own risk.\nNevertheless, tourists flocked to the Talyllyn Railway in such numbers that, in order to keep up with demand, slate wagons had to be fitted with planks as seats.\nBut the boom failed to last and by 1947 services ran on only two days a week, with stations and rolling stock alike in a state of gradual decay.\nTom Rolt, founding chairman of the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, once said the herculean task of breathing new life into the line had required \"a boy's own comic spirit of adventure, enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility\".\nMr Price believes most - but not all - of these qualities can still be found in abundance in today's group of volunteers.\n\"Today the railway is run incredibly professionally, without the daredevil risks, but that same enthusiasm is still everywhere you look,\" he said.\n\"People only have to come here once and they're bitten. And not just people who can remember the age of steam, we also have a flourishing young members' group.\"\n\"The smells, the sounds, the beautiful scenery, you never get tired of it. I can confidently say the Talyllyn Railway will be here in another 150 years' time.\"\nOne of those who was similarly inspired by the railway was the Reverend W Awdry.\nIt was after a visit to Talyllyn in the early days of preservation that he was moved to write his Railway Series of Thomas the Tank Engine stories.\nHe based his Skarloey Railway on Talyllyn and drew on many real-life experiences of the preservations for his tales.\nToday, the Talyllyn Railway carries around 100,000 passengers a year, and its success has spawned hundreds of preservation railways throughout the UK.", "summary": "It was the world's first passenger-carrying narrow gauge railway, provided the inspiration for Thomas the Tank Engine and, this weekend, the Talyllyn Railway celebrates its 150th birthday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Northern Ireland's five main parties met through the night in a final effort to settle differences over parades, flags and the legacy of the Troubles.\nFormer US diplomat Dr Richard Haass, who chaired the talks, said a final agreement was \"not there\" but there had been \"significant progress\".\nHe called it a \"basis\" for change.\nThe BBC's Andy Martin in Belfast said that although a positive spin had been emphasised by all those involved in the talks, the current proposals would need significant modification to be collectively adopted by all five main parties. \"This process is not dead, but it is far from finished,\" he said.\nThe proposed deal won broad support from Sinn Féin, the largest nationalist party, but others including the unionist DUP, said unresolved issues over parades and flags meant more work was needed before consensus could be reached.\nDr Haass said: \"All the parties support significant parts of the agreement. At the same time, all have some concerns.\"\nBy Mark DevenportPolitical editor, Northern Ireland\nAlthough he is flying home without a deal, Richard Haass believes his efforts haven't all been in vain.\nThe former US diplomat reckons he has made significant progress, especially on potential new institutions to deal with Northern Ireland's troubled past.\nDr Haass hopes the Stormont parties can move these matters forward in the months ahead.\nThat said, the Stormont politicians don't have a great track record in resolving tough issues without outside assistance.\nSo there's good reason for scepticism about their ability to deliver progress now Dr Haass and his talks co-chair Professor Meghan O'Sullivan have declared their involvement in these negotiations over.\n\"We very much hope that the parties reflect on this, discuss it with their leadership and then come back with a strong endorsement. Over the next week we will know a lot more.\"\nHe said progress had been made in all three of the negotiating areas, especially the past, while flags and symbols had proven to be the \"toughest area of negotiations\".\nDr Haass, who was brought to Northern Ireland with co-chair Prof Meghan O'Sullivan in July by the first and deputy first ministers, said all five parties had \"given it their best\" and were \"prepared to continue\" with the process.\n\"It would have been nice to have come out here tonight and say we have got all five parties completely signed on to the text,\" he said.\n\"We are not there but I believe there is a real prospect that we will get several of the parties to sign on the text in full.\n\"Several of the other parties will endorse significant parts of it, and together this will provide a basis for a serious ongoing political process.\"\nThe overnight negotiations, which began at 10:00 GMT on Sunday and carried on until 05:00 GMT, were on a seventh set of draft proposals put forward during the talks.\nThe three key issues have been:\nAfter the talks, Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams said his negotiating team believed there was a \"basis for a deal in the proposals put forward\".\nHe said the team would recommend it to the party's executive, though he said the proposed deal was \"not perfect\".\n\"I'm sure there will be a lot of disappointment out there as people come to terms with the fact that there doesn't appear at this point to be an agreement,\" he said.\nThe DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson said that while the \"broad architecture\" of the agreement was acceptable, \"some of the language and detail is not what we would have chosen and in some cases we strongly disapprove of the language\".\n\"We entered into this process to get the right deal for the people of Northern Ireland, but not any deal,\" he added.\n\"We do not have an agreement this evening but we are committed to continuing this work beyond now in dialogue with others to try and resolve the outstanding issues that need to be addressed,\" he said.\n\"We owe that to the people of Northern Ireland, especially to the innocent victims of terrorism who have suffered so much over the decades.\"\nAlliance Party deputy leader Naomi Long said the talks had moved negotiations forward but there were still major challenges over the issues of parades and flags.\n\"We have seen a huge sea change in the level of political agreement which has exceeded public expectation, particularly in delivering for the victims and the reconciliation process,\" Mrs Long added.\nSDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell said despite some concerns he anticipated his party would accept the agreement.\nHe said: \"We would anticipate a general endorsement from the SDLP in due course, that's not to say we're entirely happy... but we do welcome it as far as it goes.\"\nMike Nesbitt, leader of the UUP, said he had an opinion on the document but was unwilling to disclose it until his party had examined the proposals.\nHaass talks: political reaction\n\"We will have an honest debate and hopefully form a final opinion at the end of that debate,\" he said.\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers expressed disappointment but said the failure to reach agreement did not spell an end to negotiations.\n\"I welcome the suggestion by Dr Haass that the parties should now lose no time in getting together to see how they can most constructively take things forward,\" she said.\n\"For our part, the UK government will look at how we can best facilitate this.\"\nAnd Labour's Ivan Lewis, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, said: \"The failure to reach a final agreement is deeply disappointing. However, significant common ground has been identified which should be the basis for future progress.\"", "summary": "Months of talks to resolve some of the most divisive issues that have hampered the Northern Ireland peace process have broken up without agreement." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is unsupported on your device\n19 February 2015 Last updated at 08:50 GMT\nThe 200 million year old fossil was hidden away in the museum store room.\nIt's thought to be the remains of an ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile.\nThe man who found it says scientists now know it lived in the waters around Britain, and that its last meal was a squid.\nIt is not uncommon to find ichthyosaur fossils in England. The sharp-toothed marine reptiles swam in large numbers in the seas around Britain when the dinosaurs roamed.", "summary": "A fossil stored in a Doncaster museum for 30 years has turned out to be a new species of ancient reptile." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "By the beginning of next year, 70% of its work in England and Wales will be run by private companies and charities.\nThe UK government said it will make the system more robust and will cut reoffending rates.\nBut Plaid Cymru MP Elfyn Llwyd, who is a member of the justice committee, told BBC's The Wales Report he fears for public safety.\nThe 35 probation trusts in England and Wales have been replaced by 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs).\nThey will supervise 200,000 low and medium-risk offenders each year, while a new public sector organisation called the National Probation Service (NPS), will supervised and rehabilitate 31,000 high-risk offenders.\nCompanies involved will be paid based on their results and the UK government says the changes will create a more efficient system.\nBut Mr Llwyd, who represents Dwyfor Meirionnydd, has attacked its motives for the changes.\n\"What we've got is the dismantling of a very professional highly regarded service, for what I believe to be purely dogmatic reasons,\" said Mr Llwyd.\n\"In other words - private good, public bad.\"\n\"I fear for the public services and I fear for public safety, because this experiment is a dangerous, and may I say, needless one as well,\" he added.\nNapo, the probation officer's trade union, opposes the changes and warned the service in rural parts of north Wales, Powys and Aberystwyth might suffer.\nIt said the new system will restrict the availability of staff to provide cover during absences, meaning more time travelling and less time managing cases.\nTracey Worth co-chair of NAPO Cymru, said: \"You go to somewhere like Brecon and members say that they only have two probation officers to begin with.\n\"Then you split that office in half, how do you manage leave? How do you manage sickness? What will happen when a case comes in?\"\nBut Andrew Selous MP, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation, said the government was trying to tackle the \"stubbornly high\" reoffending rates of the past decade.\n\"A responsible government responds to that, and doesn't go on doing what it has always done before,\" said Mr Selous.\n\"It looks to drive down reoffending rates, to invest in the system, to bring in new ways of working, to keep the best of what the public sector has to offer.\"\nThe Wales Report is on BBC1 Wales at 22:35 GMT on Wednesday, 26 November.", "summary": "Planned changes to the probation service are \"dangerous\" and \"needless\", an MP has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The European Union terminates all its nuclear-related economic sanctions including an embargo on buying Iranian crude oil, but more importantly, ends restrictions on Iranian trade, shipping and insurance.\n\"This is a day we were awaiting for years. There will be big changes,\" says Michael Tockuss, managing director of the German-Iranian chamber of commerce.\n\"We will also get some 300 Iranian individuals and companies off the (EU) sanctions list. Up to now, we couldn't do a single business transaction with them, not even selling bread or biscuits.\"\nBesides removing sanctions on entire sectors such as banking or insurance, Iranian entities or individuals who were blacklisted because of their alleged nuclear-related activities can now do business with the EU.\nHowever, those on the terrorism sanctions list, will still be excluded.\nThe United States will no longer apply its crippling sanctions on Iran's economy, especially on the banking sector.\nA full annulment of those restrictions would in some cases require approval by the Republican-dominated US Congress - which is why President Obama opted for issuing \"waiver orders\" for these sanctions.\nThe US, too, keeps sanctions on entities accused of sponsoring terrorism such as Iran's Revolutionary Guards or those allegedly linked to it.\nPrevious UN Security Council resolutions that imposed sanctions on Iran's nuclear programme will be annulled.\nThough the economic impact of these has been small in scope, compared with US or EU sanctions, those of the UN lent legitimacy to restrictive actions by others.\nWith the lifting of sanctions Iran will be able to export as much crude oil to the world as it can, or as much as it can find demand for.\nBefore imposing an oil embargo on Iran in 2012, one in every five barrels of Iranian crude went to European refineries.\nIran has been selling just over one million barrels a day for the past few years, mostly to China, India, Japan and South Korea.\nTehran says it will hike sales by 500,000 barrels the day after sanctions are lifted and increase total exports to around 2.5 million barrels within the next year.\nThis will push the price in only one direction: downwards. The market is already flooded by cheap oil and there will be many more barrels in the market than there are buyers.\nIn order to win back its customers, Iran plans to offer discounts on prices that are already the lowest in 11 years.\nIran's full return to the market could trigger a price war with its arch-rival Saudi Arabia, which is trying to keep its own market share by selling under the market price.\nBut the biggest bottleneck in future business with Iran could be banks. Although Iran will again be connected to the global financial system it is unclear how many banks will re-engage in Iranian business.\n\"When I speak to our big German banks, they say wait until 'implementation day' then another 12 months, then you might be able to speak to us again about doing business with Iran,\" says Mr Tockuss.\nUS financial and judicial authorities have slapped hefty penalties on two dozen European banks for bypassing US sanctions on Iran, Sudan and Cuba.\nOver the last 10 years, banks have paid $14bn in fines or out-of-court settlements - French bank BNP Paribas's bill alone amounted to $9bn.\n\"A number of UK banks have given commitments to US regulators not to increase their Iran exposure,\" says Justine Walker, director of financial crime at the British Bankers' Association.\nBoth German and British business leaders say they have asked the US Treasury to give a \"green light\" to banks, so that financial institutions are confident in handling Iran-related requests by their European clients.\n\"If we can't convince any big banks to provide us with big amounts, we have to look for a large number of smaller banks,\" says Mr Tockuss, whose chamber members managed to keep doing business with Iran, thanks to small German banks with no exposure to the US market.\nBut such \"micro-financing\" could prove inadequate for large-scale projects like the overhaul of Iran's railway system by engineering firm Siemens, or the purchase of large passenger aircraft from Airbus.\nIf practical complexities were not enough, there are also legal ones too.\nThe US is lifting its so-called \"secondary sanctions\" - the ones that apply to non-US individuals or companies, but US \"primary sanctions\" will still ban US nationals and companies from engaging in business with Iran.\n\"There are big grey areas: what about non-US subsidiaries of US companies?\" says sanctions expert Maya Lester, a barrister at London's Brick Court Chambers.\nThe text of the nuclear deal says business with Iran will be permissible for subsidiaries of US companies but that contradicts with US primary sanctions.\nMany companies and their lawyers are waiting for detailed guidelines by the US Treasury's financial and asset control office (OFAC) before doing business with Iran.\nBut the legal complications are not solely on the western side. It may seem straightforward to export cosmetics to Iran's hungry market but navigating the country's legal and regulatory regime is like walking in a minefield.\nCorruption is an epidemic, says Ahmad Tavakoli, a prominent Iranian conservative member of parliament.\nSometimes obtaining import permits could be a headache without \"extra payments\", while some businesses, such as those in the UK must observe Britain's Bribery Act.\n\"There might be joy for now, but there will also be surprises and disappointments,\" says one managing director of a Tehran-based engineering procurement firm.\n\"Many will understand that sanctions were only part of the problem.\"", "summary": "The untangling of the world's most complex regime of sanctions starts now." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Richard Clark, 45, of Portland Road, Leicester, tried to get a child to engage in sexual activity and made indecent images of a child.\nRecorder Stuart Sprawson sentenced him to a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years at Leicester Crown Court.\nClark resigned as the chief executive of The Mighty Creatives after the offences came to light in January 2016.\nMore on this and other stories from across the East Midlands\nIn October of that year, he admitted three counts of making indecent photographs of a child between March 2006 and October 2014.\nLast month, Clark changed his plea to guilty to attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity between 18 April and 11 May 2012.\nClark, from the Clarendon Park area, served as the charity's boss for more than seven years.\nIn addition to the sexual harm prevention order, he was also given a community order for three years, told to attend a sex offenders programme and added to the sex offenders register.\nIn a statement, the Leicester-based charity said: \"As soon as police alerted the organisation to the allegations against Mr Clark, immediate and appropriate action was taken, which led to his subsequent resignation.\n\"The police did not pursue any lines of enquiry in relation to the work of the charity.\"\nFounded in 2009, the charity said it develops opportunities for young people to \"fulfil their creative potential\".", "summary": "A former boss of a children's charity who admitted four child sex offences has avoided a jail term." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "David Hulme, 56, of Glan Seiont, Caernarfon, was jailed for six years last March for fraud and false accounting.\nHe had claimed £495,857 for the company between July 2011 and December 2012.\nCaernarfon Crown Court heard during a proceeds of crime hearing he had benefited from the fraud by £87,683.\nJudge Huw Rees ordered an eight-month jail sentence if the money was not repaid to Gwynedd council within three months.\nFellow firm owner Darren Price had pleaded guilty to false accounting and was sentenced to two years and three months at the same time as Hulme.\nPadarn Buses went into liquidation after the offences were discovered, with the loss of 84 jobs and debts of £2.38m", "summary": "A former bus firm managing director who made false claims about concessionary fare passenger numbers has been ordered to repay £42,894 to Gwynedd council." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 19-year-old was at London Irish last season where he progressed through their academy, but he failed to make a first team appearance for the club.\nHe had agreed to join National League One side Darlington Mowden Park this summer but has now agreed a long-term deal with the Sharks.\n\"I definitely see this as a chance to play first-team rugby,\" he said.\n\"There aren't too many hookers here so I hope there will be opportunities to play for the first team and then I hope to kick on.\"", "summary": "Sale Sharks have signed England Under-20 hooker Curtis Langdon for the upcoming Premiership season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Shelley Klindt, who farms near Hannington, Wiltshire, said the 60m (200ft) circle appeared overnight on 2 August.\nDespite \"trying to keep it quiet\", Ms Klindt said online drone footage had attracted hundreds of people.\nA cherry picker is in place so visitors can view it without damaging crops.\nMs Klindt said the giant formation in a field of mature wheat near Highworth is the first she has had on her land.\nShe said she had had visitors from all over the world since its appearance.\n\"We've had helicopters, low-flying aircraft and so many drones,\" she said.\n\"On Saturday we had about 130 people and eight or nine people were there camping out in the middle of the circle to watch the Perseid meteor shower.\n\"And this morning I got a call at 4:30am to say there was a van with 'love' on it and a man with a magical cape dancing around with incense sticks.\"\nCreating crop circles is a criminal offence and farmers in the county have been urged by the police to report any on their land.\nBut Ms Klindt said although it is \"annoying\", she has been allowing people into the field to see it.\n\"It's about 60m wide which means we've lost about eight tonnes of grain,\" she said.\n\"So we're asking for a £2 donation to cover the loss of the crop and we're also charging for people to go up in the cherry picker.\n\"But on Friday it will be gone when we harvest and the headache will be over.\"", "summary": "A farmer says she has been inundated by 400 visitors, helicopters and drones since a crop circle appeared in her field." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In the period of government \"purdah\" during the campaign, the policy implementation machine had ground to a halt.\nIt was assumed by those mandarins who had expected a remain vote that normal service would quickly resume - in trays would be emptied in a blizzard of announcements before the summer recess. Now all bets are off.\nThe biggest impending health policy initiative is the childhood obesity strategy. Originally postponed last autumn and then again when the referendum campaign got underway, public health experts were pinning their hopes on a July launch.\nMeasures to reduce sugar content of food and drink products, curb price promotions in supermarkets and extend TV and online fast food advertising restrictions were seen as urgently needed in the battle to reduce obesity and the Type 2 diabetes risk.\nIt's understood that a little more work on the strategy is needed but the essentials are in place.\nIn the light of the referendum result there can be no certainty about when the obesity strategy will be published.\nDavid Cameron had been keen to lead the launch of a policy which was seen by Downing Street as a high profile \"domestic legacy\" initiative similar to the dementia plan under the coalition.\nBut with the Prime Minister now only in office for a few more months, everything is up in the air.\nHe may decide he needs to complete his policy agenda and keep the business of government moving by getting the obesity strategy out. Alternatively, ministers and advisers may feel there is no mandate for such a high- profile announcement before a new PM is in place.\nLooking further ahead, the question of funding for the NHS is already being raised. There was a much criticised claim that Brexit would save the UK £350m a week in payments to the EU and allow more funding for the NHS.\nThis did not take account of about £200m of rebates to the UK. Nigel Farage has already said that claim was a mistake.\nLeave campaigners talked of an extra £100m a week being freed up for the NHS but that would depend on the government of the day choosing to spend any money saved on health, rather than other areas of the public sector.\nSimon Stevens, the head of NHS England, has made clear that the financial stability of the service depends on the state of the economy.\nGrowth will generate the higher tax revenues which can fund higher public spending.\nBut plotting the path of the economy in the run-up to the exit in 2018 is anyone's guess. The prospect of a recession has been raised by the Bank of England. That was dismissed as scaremongering by Leave campaigners.\nNobody is contesting that the NHS needs staff from outside the UK, but how that will be affected by Britain's new status will not be clear for a while.\nThe prospect of a new immigration policy may or may not at the margin deter foreign doctors, nurses and care workers from working in the UK.\nThe actions of pharmaceutical companies will also be studied closely.\nThere have been warnings that Brexit could lead to drug trials in the UK being reduced with investment shifted to other European countries.\nHealth organisations have expressed concern about the uncertainty which will inevitably persist after the UK electorate's momentous decision.\nThat uncertainty won't ease any time soon.\nStephen Dalton, chief executive of the NHS Confederation summed up the mood: \"The NHS has broadly benefitted from being in the EU and leaving it will undoubtedly have implications which are yet to be clearly understood.\"\nGet the results in full.", "summary": "With Whitehall and Downing Street trying to get to grips with the referendum result, its impossible to get any sense of how the domestic agenda will develop." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He was the first person to walk all the Munros, mountains of more than 3,000ft (914.4m), in a single trip.\nDr Brown's 112-day journey in 1974 involved 289 peaks and 1,639 miles, which he covered by walking, cycling and travelling on two ferries.\nThe 82-year-old, of Burntisland, Fife, will receive the award next month.\nIt will be presented during the Fort William Mountain Festival.\nMile Pescod, one of the festival's organisers, said: \"Hamish embodies the passion and the excitement that exploring the wild Scottish landscape entails, and the great desire to share this sense of adventurous wonder with others.\n\"Not only has Hamish explored Scotland and many other mountain areas right across the globe but he has helped countless others do the same and find the same sense of satisfaction.\n\"Hamish is a true exponent of mountain culture.\"", "summary": "Mountaineer and writer Dr Hamish Brown has been announced as the 10th recipient of The Scottish Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The victory of Mr Rutte, 50, has brought relief for fellow centrist politicians in the EU, who feared that Brexit and Donald Trump could set an unstoppable anti-establishment trend.\nMr Rutte appears to have boosted his electorate by talking tough on Dutch values and on Turkey's angry rhetoric.\nHe sticks to a fairly modest lifestyle.\nFor an hour every week he teaches at a school in a poor district of The Hague.\nHe drives a second-hand car and uses an old mobile phone. He still lives in the apartment he bought after getting a history degree from prestigious Leiden University in 1992, AFP news agency reports.\nAlmost every week he dines at a favourite Indonesian restaurant in the Dutch capital with his mother, now in her 90s.\nA bachelor, he was a talented pianist in his youth and contemplated a career in music.\nHe joined the youth wing of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) at the age of 16.\nAfter university he joined the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever, and worked as a personnel manager in two of its subsidiaries.\nMeanwhile he rose up the VVD ranks, and got senior government appointments from 2002 to 2006 in charge of social affairs and education.\nHe became VVD leader in 2006. When he became prime minister in October 2010 he was the first liberal to lead a ruling coalition in the Netherlands in more than 90 years.\nThis time, the VVD will have 33 of parliament's 150 seats. Four parties are expected to be in the new government.\nWe rejected populism - Dutch leader\nDutch election result: A new reality\nAn ardent advocate of free trade, Mr Rutte sees the UK vote to leave the EU as a big blow. He is known to admire Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher - iconic leaders in British Conservative history.\nMr Rutte is seen as having handled the election run-up adroitly, especially a toxic diplomatic clash with Turkey.\nJust days before the vote, Mr Rutte banned two Turkish ministers from addressing campaign rallies in the Netherlands.\nThe Turkish government is wooing ethnic Turks in Europe ahead of a key constitutional referendum.\nThe ban enraged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He called the Dutch people \"Nazi remnants\" and blamed the Dutch over the notorious 1995 Srebrenica massacre, when Bosnian Serbs shot about 8,000 Muslim men and boys.\nMr Rutte demanded an apology, calling Mr Erdogan's language \"unacceptable\".\nTurkey row: Why has Erdogan riled Nato allies?\nThe row overshadowed the election, and Mr Rutte took full advantage of it.\nIn a TV debate, Mr Wilders told him that he ought to expel the Turkish ambassador.\nMr Rutte drew applause when he replied: \"Here we see the difference between sitting on the sofa tweeting and leading the country.\n\"If you lead the country then you need to take sensible measures and this is not responsible!\"\nIn January, Mr Rutte also stole some of Mr Wilders's nationalist thunder by campaigning forcefully for Dutch values.\nIn a full-page ad in Dutch newspapers Mr Rutte said: \"If you live in a country where you get so annoyed with how we deal with each other, you have a choice: Get out! You don't have to be here!\"\nHe cited a dispute about an immigrant turned down for a job as a bus driver because he had objected to shaking women's hands.\nMr Rutte has ruled out bringing Mr Wilders into the next coalition government, even though Mr Wilders's Freedom Party (PVV) came second, winning 20 seats.\nMr Rutte was stung when in 2012 Mr Wilders withdrew support for his government, over planned budget cuts of €16bn (£14bn).\nMr Rutte's late father was a Dutch East Indies businessman and was 58 when Mark was born. Mark is the youngest of seven children - the other six were born to his father's first wife.", "summary": "Dutch liberal leader Mark Rutte is poised for a third term as prime minister after neutralising the threat from anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Striker Jonathan Walters put Stoke ahead with an exquisite finish, guiding home a volley from Mame Biram Diouf's teasing cross.\nSpanish defender Muniesa made it 2-0 before half-time thanks to a crisp low volley following clever play on the left flank by Marko Arnautovic.\nBurnley went close late on when Andre Gray's angled shot was parried by goalkeeper Lee Grant.\nStoke withdrew Arnautovic in the second half after he was on the receiving end of a strong tackle from on-loan Liverpool full-back Jon Flanagan.\nPotters defender Bruno Martins Indi was also floored by an elbow from Ashley Barnes, although he recovered to complete the game.\nStoke's fifth win in seven games lifted them to ninth in the table, while Burnley slipped to 14th spot courtesy of a third successive defeat.\nEyebrows were raised when Stoke manager Mark Hughes decided not to recall Joe Allen to his starting line-up following suspension.\nThe former Liverpool midfielder has been one of Stoke's most influential performers this season and has scored four league goals.\nHughes, though, stuck with the same team which saw won 1-0 at Watford last weekend, and was rewarded with another determined and disciplined display.\nThe starting line-up might have lacked some of their star players - Wilfried Bony, Peter Crouch, and Bojan KrKic were also left on the bench - but Stoke proved the whole is greater than the sum of its parts to clinch a second win in a row.\nBurnley's away record this season does not make pretty reading: one point, five defeats, one goal scored and 16 conceded.\nPremier League survival will largely be determined by how many games they win in the familiar surroundings of Turf Moor.\nHowever, it is essential the Clarets pick up points on the road sooner rather than later, especially against their fellow relegation contenders.\nTwo goals from Danny Ings gave Burnley a 2-1 win over Stoke in their previous meeting at the Potteries in November 2014.\nVictory was Burnley's first away from home in the 2014-15 season, but there was no danger of a repeat on this occasion.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nStoke manager Mark Hughes: \"We performed superbly well in the first half and then the second half was more about game management and making sure we defended well as a group, which we did.\n\"I get a lot of pleasure from us doing that because it shows all the elements and characteristics of a really strong-minded group of players, which is what I have here.\n\"We see ourselves as a top-10 club so we have to maintain these levels now and try to build on the fact that we have suffered just one defeat in nine.\"\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche: \"I know we have to change our away form. That's an important part of the Premier League and, even though that's difficult, there were clear signs today that was a team that went to win a game.\n\"We haven't shown that much away from home, but we did today and I thought the mentality was clear and some of the football was good.\n\"We just have to keep believing we will get our rewards if we keep performing like that.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nStoke City travel to Arsenal, who have not lost at home since the opening day of the season, on Saturday 10 December, when Burnley host Bournemouth at Turf Moor. Both matches kick off at 15:00 GMT.\nMatch ends, Stoke City 2, Burnley 0.\nSecond Half ends, Stoke City 2, Burnley 0.\nAttempt blocked. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andre Gray.\nCorner, Burnley. Conceded by Jonathan Walters.\nSubstitution, Burnley. Michael Kightly replaces Scott Arfield.\nCorner, Burnley. Conceded by Joe Allen.\nAshley Barnes (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nJoe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Ashley Barnes (Burnley).\nSubstitution, Stoke City. Glenn Whelan replaces Charlie Adam.\nMame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).\nStephen Ward (Burnley) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nOffside, Burnley. Dean Marney tries a through ball, but James Tarkowski is caught offside.\nCorner, Burnley. Conceded by Lee Grant.\nAttempt saved. Andre Gray (Burnley) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jeff Hendrick.\nAttempt saved. Joe Allen (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Peter Crouch with a headed pass.\nCharlie Adam (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Ben Mee (Burnley).\nSubstitution, Burnley. James Tarkowski replaces Jon Flanagan.\nAttempt blocked. Glen Johnson (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nCorner, Stoke City. Conceded by Ben Mee.\nAttempt blocked. Peter Crouch (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nSubstitution, Burnley. Sam Vokes replaces George Boyd.\nFoul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).\nAshley Barnes (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nHand ball by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).\nFoul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).\nStephen Ward (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nJonathan Walters (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Jon Flanagan (Burnley).\nSubstitution, Stoke City. Peter Crouch replaces Marko Arnautovic because of an injury.\nGiannelli Imbula (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nAttempt saved. Joe Allen (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.\nAttempt missed. Ben Mee (Burnley) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Scott Arfield with a cross following a corner.\nCorner, Burnley. Conceded by Glen Johnson.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Bruno Martins Indi (Stoke City) because of an injury.\nSubstitution, Stoke City. Joe Allen replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.\nJonathan Walters (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.", "summary": "Marc Muniesa scored his first Premier League goal to seal a deserved home win for Stoke over Burnley." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Newspaper reports claim the duo will box in Manchester on 27 February 2016.\nNegotiations are ongoing but Frampton's manager Barry McGuigan confirmed his team have not yet finalised details with the WBA title holder.\n\"At this stage nothing has been signed but we are all working very hard to get this across the line,\" he told BBC NI.\nFrampton secured a points win over Alejandro Gonzalez in his last title defence in July, while Bury boxer Quigg defeated Kiko Martinez in the same month.\nThere was speculation that Frampton would be in pre-Christmas action but confirmation of a spring meeting with Quigg appears most likely, once finances and a venue have been agreed.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThe IBF has confirmed that no paperwork has yet been received for the bout.\n\"It's the fight which whets my appetite the most,\" Frampton said in September.\n\"I would be happy to fight him anywhere but is it fair for the champion to travel to Manchester to fight the challenger? I don't think it is.\n\"I'm happy to go somewhere neutral, maybe London or Birmingham.\n\"I don't think we are going to push for Belfast because I don't think he would come here.\"", "summary": "IBF super-bantamweight champion Carl Frampton has not yet agreed a deal to fight Scott Quigg, despite mounting speculation about a February bout." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Stephen Inglis, 46, from Bangor, and Frank McCormick, 44, from Newtownards, have been working together on a bin lorry for four years.\n\"We're still in total disbelief,\" said Stephen.\nHe explained the pair used to do a radio quiz every morning with the loser paying for sausage rolls.\nThey gave up on the pastries after Frank went on a diet.\n\"All I can say is thank God that Frank needed to lose a bit of weight,\" said Stephen.\nHis friend has lost two stone by \"cutting out the stodge\".\n\"I can certainly recommend this diet,\" said Frank. \"On one hand I've lost 28 pounds but on the other I've gained £35,000.\"\nStephen explained that Frank always did the card scratching.\n\"After a pause, he said: 'We've won 70, we've won 70'. I said '70 quid?' And he said: 'No, 70,000!'\"\nStephen will take his time to decide what to spend his share on, but Frank wants a new car and to take his family to Disneyland Paris.", "summary": "Two County Down council workers have won £70,000 on the National Lottery after deciding to spend their sausage roll money on scratchcards." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire clinical commissioning groups decided not to go to public consultation until more work was carried out.\nThe plans are part of the NHS Future Fit programme launched in 2014.\nAn independent expert will look at them before likely public consultation in 2017.\nUnder the current proposals, women and children's services would also move to Shrewsbury, despite a £28m centre opening in Telford in 2014.\nMore updates on this and other stories in Shropshire\nA spokesman for the Future Fit programme said there was acceptance by both groups that \"no change\" was not an option.\nDr Julian Povey, from Shropshire clinical commissioning group (CCG), said: \"As a CCG we continue to support the process of Future Fit and are happy to support an independent review of the process which will allow us to move forward.\"\nDr Jo Leahy, chair of Telford and Wrekin CCG, said she wanted to emphasise the decision was \"not an end to the process and we need to find a way to move forward together\".\nThe Future Fit programme was established as it was deemed having hospital services across multiple sites in Shropshire meant services were struggling and incurring additional costs due to duplication.", "summary": "Health bosses have refused to back plans to downgrade A&E services in Telford in favour of one emergency and trauma department based in Shrewsbury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Government-appointed commissioners took over some services in December 2014 after a report revealed a \"culture of cronyism\" at the council.\nCouncillors will again be able to award grants to not-for-profit organisations and regain procurement oversight, following \"significant improvements\".\nTower Hamlets Mayor, John Biggs, called the move \"a real vote of confidence\".\nA 2014 review by PricewaterhouseCoopers found a \"breakdown in democratic accountability\" and significant risk of misuse of public funds under former mayor Lutfur Rahman.\nMr Rahman was found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices and removed from office in April 2015 and was replaced by Labour's Mr Biggs.\nA new report by the lead commissioner at the council, Sir Ken Knight, highlighted progress at the council but warned there was still \"much more to do\".\nThree commissioners will remain in charge of specific areas of council work.\nCommunities Secretary Sajid Javid called the move \"a positive step\", but warned he would \"halt the process if there are any concerns\".\nMr Biggs said: \"This is a real vote of confidence in the progress we have made turning the council around.\n\"Grant making was one of the most contentious areas under the previous mayor, it's a real achievement to now have grants back under local control.\"", "summary": "Administrative powers have returned to Tower Hamlets Council for the first time in two years." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The former Soviet republic was occupied by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944, when it lost 2.2 million people, including almost all of its large Jewish population.\nBelarus has been ruled with an iron fist since 1994 by President Alexander Lukashenko. Opposition figures are subjected to harsh penalties for organising protests. In 2005, Belarus was listed by the US as Europe's only remaining \"outpost of tyranny\".\nIn the Soviet post-war years, Belarus became one of the most prosperous parts of the USSR, but with independence came economic decline. President Lukashenko has steadfastly opposed the privatisation of state enterprises, and the country is heavily dependent on Russia for its energy supplies.\nPopulation 9.5 million\nArea 207,595 sq km (80,153 sq miles)\nMajor languages Russian, Belarussian (both official)\nMajor religion Christianity\nLife expectancy 65 years (men), 76 years (women)\nCurrency Belarussian rouble\nPresident: Alexander Lukashenko\nAlexander Lukashenko, often referred to as Europe's last dictator, won a fifth term as president in October 2015, with no significant opposition candidate allowed to stand.\nObservers from the OSCE European security body said the election fell far short of the country's democratic commitments.\nMr Lukashenko's win in December 2010 was followed by violent confrontations in the capital Minsk between the security forces and thousands of opposition demonstrators protesting about alleged vote-rigging.\nA former state farm director, Mr Lukashenko was first elected president in 1994, following his energetic performance as chairman of the parliamentary anti-corruption committee.\nBelarus has been heavily criticised by rights bodies for suppressing free speech, muzzling the press and denying the opposition access to state media.\nReporters Without Borders (RSF) ranked Belarus 157th out of 180 countries in its 2015 World Press Freedom Index.\nFreedom House says the \"state-dominated mainstream media consistently glorify [President] Lukashenko and vilify the political opposition\".\nTV is the main news source. The eight national channels are state-controlled. Their main competitors are Russian networks. Most Russian bulletins are not rebroadcast live, allowing censors to remove content.\nNewspapers owned by the state vastly outnumber those in private hands. Private titles include embattled pro-opposition paper Narodnaya Volya.\nSome key dates in the history of Belarus:\n1918 - Towards the end of the First World War, Belarus proclaims its independence as the Belarusian National Republic. But, with the end of the war, these aspirations are short-lived. The Red Army invades.\n1919 - The Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic is proclaimed.\n1921 - The Treaty of Riga divides Belarus between Poland and Soviet Russia.\n1922 - The Belarusian SSR becomes founding member of the USSR.\n1941-45 - Nazi Germany invades during the course of the Second World War. More than one million people are killed during the occupation, including many Jews. In 1944 the Soviet Red Army drives the Germans out, and at the end of the war, much of western Belarus - previously part of Poland - is amalgamated into the Soviet Republic.\n1986 - Belarus is heavily affected by the fall-out from the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl in neighbouring Ukraine.\n1991 - Belarus declares its independence as the Soviet Union breaks up. Minsk becomes the headquarters of the successor to the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States.\n1994 - Alexander Lukashenko becomes president. He introduces policies designed to strengthen ties with Russia.\n2001 - President Lukashenko re-elected to serve second term. Opposition and Western observers say elections were unfair and undemocratic.\n2006 - EU imposes visa ban on President Lukashenko and numerous ministers and officials.\n2010 - Presidential elections. President Lukashenko declared winner. Opposition and western observers allege vote rigging. Mass protests in Minsk are broken up by force, with 600 arrests.\n2011 - President Lukashenko is inaugurated for a fourth term in office. The EU reinstates a travel ban on him and freezes his assets, while the US imposes stricter financial controls and widens its travel bans on senior officials.\n2015 - President Lukashenko wins fifth presidential term. No significant opposition candidate was allowed to stand.", "summary": "The present borders of Belarus were established during the turmoil of the Second World War." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The action is over plans for drivers, rather than conductors, to operate carriage doors at certain times.\nIt is due to last until Friday morning, with a further three blocks of strikes planned before Christmas.\nThe RMT has said the rail company's plans put passenger safety at risk. Southern has urged the union to \"move forward\".\nSouthern said it plans to run 61% of its normal timetable, which equates to 1,373 trains.\nBut the rail company said fans should make alternative plans where possible for getting to and from the Brighton and Hove Albion v Wolverhampton Wanderers match at Falmer, which kicks off at 19:45 BST.\nOn Monday, Southern told union members a lump sum of £2,000 was back on the table if they end the dispute over conductors.\nThe £2,000 lump sum was originally offered if conductors accepted new contracts by 6 October.\nHowever, the RMT said the renewed offer was a bribe and did not move the dispute on \"a single inch\".", "summary": "A fresh three-day strike by staff on Southern rail is under way, with hundreds of trains cancelled." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The holders go into Sunday's fifth round draw after routing the junior side 8-1 at Tynecastle.\n\"We were in a no-win situation, so we have made a good start to our defence of the cup,\" said Lennon, who took over in the summer.\n\"The tie was always fraught with danger but I think the fans enjoyed it.\"\nJames Keatings and Jason Cummings both hit doubles as Hibs thrashed the East Super League outfit. Andrew Shinnie, Chris Humphrey, Lewis Stevenson and Jordon Forster were also on target.\nRose, who had beaten Dumbarton in a third-round replay, went into the interval 3-1 down after Dean Hoskins converted a penalty.\n\"We went strong and gave Bonnyrigg the respect they deserved,\" added Lennon. \"They beat Dumbarton in the last round and that's not an easy achievement but I'm very, very pleased with the way we approached the game.\n\"We got a little bit sloppy just before half-time so I had a few words with them at half-time and we had a really good second half.\"\nLast season's beaten finalists Rangers also progressed to the last 16, coming from behind to beat Motherwell 2-1 at Ibrox.\nKenny Miller grabbed both goals after Louis Moult's 74th-minute header for the visitors and manager Mark Warburton was full of admiration for the veteran striker.\n\"We see it week in, week out,\" he said. \"It was two quality finishes, a great ball in from Waggy [Martyn Waghorn] and then the composure and the poise from Kenny.\n\"The second is a great ball in from Emerson [Hyndman] and he finishes it with aplomb so it is no coincidence. It is the way he works on the training field, the way he eats. It is all credit to him and the other senior players.\n\"I'm delighted we're through. I thought we deserved to win the game but you find yourself 1-0 down with 15 minutes to go so that is the harsh reality of it.\n\"The positives were we passed the ball well. But we never penetrated, we never tested their keeper and we didn't have enough bravery in the final third.\n\"All credit to Motherwell - they were very hard working, very well organised and well marshalled. Our goals came late because that is when their players tire. Again two late goals is credit to our team, to their fitness and their desire.\"\nAberdeen 4-0 Stranraer\nAlloa Athletic 2-3 Dunfermline Athletic\nAyr United 0-0 Queen's Park\nBonnyrigg Rose 1-8 Hibernian\nDundee 0-2 St Mirren\nElgin City 1-2 Inverness CT\nGreenock Morton 2-0 Falkirk\nKilmarnock 0-1 Hamilton Academical\nLivingston 0-1 East Fife\nPartick Thistle 4-0 Formartine United\nRangers 2-1 Motherwell\nRoss County 6-2 Dundee United\nSt Johnstone 2-0 Stenhousemuir\nStirling Albion 2-2 Clyde\nRaith Rovers v Hearts (13:05)\nAlbion Rovers v Celtic (15:00)", "summary": "Hibernian boss Neil Lennon praised his players' professional approach after opening their Scottish Cup defence with a thumping win over Bonnyrigg Rose." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A driver took the fawn's injured mother to Fenland Animal Rescue after finding her at the roadside in Cambridgeshire.\nA scan found the doe was heavily pregnant, and she gave birth at the centre last Sunday, staff said.\nThe fawn died on Friday from a brain injury most likely caused by the accident, a vet told rescuers.\nRead more animal stories from the BBC on Pinterest\nFenland Animal Rescue's founder Joshua Flanagan said the baby's death was \"a sad day for everyone\".\n\"But this is, unfortunately, the harsh reality of wildlife rehabilitation for ourselves,\" he added.\nMr Flanagan had previously said deer were difficult to treat and often had to be put down as human contact causes them too much stress.\nBut the mother was \"still doing fine\", he said.\nHe added: \"She went a little funny after [the fawn] passed, but due to her being so young she never really understood what was happening anyway.\n\"She is now back to her full self and eating fine.\"\nThe centre is set to release the doe back into the wild on Christmas Eve - earlier than initially planned.", "summary": "A fawn born after its mother was hit by a car has died from a brain injury, animal rescuers have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Netrebko said her gift to the Donetsk opera and ballet theatre was \"a step to support art where it is needed now\".\nRussian Channel 5 TV showed her giving the cheque to Oleg Tsarev, a leader of the armed separatists in Donetsk.\nRussian government support for the rebels has been denounced by the West.\nThe famous soprano made her donation in St Petersburg, where she is a star of the Mariinsky Theatre. She said performers in Donetsk were struggling on with their art despite the freezing cold.\nOther top names in Russian culture have also voiced support for President Vladimir Putin's stance on Ukraine, notably the government's annexation of Crimea and support for the pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk.\nThe Russian celebrities backing the Kremlin over Ukraine include variety singer Iosif Kobzon, film director Nikita Mikhalkov, conductor Valery Gergiev and viola virtuoso Yuri Bashmet.", "summary": "Internationally renowned Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko has donated 1m roubles (£12,000; $19,000) to a theatre in rebel-held eastern Ukraine and posed with a rebel flag." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The EU was heading towards closer integration - a path the UK \"will not and should not follow\", the leader of the Commons wrote in the Telegraph.\nIt is being seen as the first sign of a minister preparing to campaign to leave the EU in the UK's referendum.\nA government source said Downing Street was \"very relaxed\" about the article.\nDavid Cameron is to allow ministers to campaign for either side of the debate.\nHowever, cabinet ministers will only be able to start campaigning once a new deal has been reached by the prime minister with other EU leaders on the UK's terms of membership.\nBBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Grayling's article \"will test the truce Number 10 had hoped would last until the negotiations with the rest of the EU were complete\".\n\"It's clear several other cabinet ministers, perhaps as many as seven, share Mr Grayling's view. Whether they are ready to follow him and go (almost) public is another matter,\" she added.\nMr Grayling, the leader of the House of Commons and former justice secretary, stopped short of saying Britain should leave the EU in his Telegraph article - but it suggested he was ready to campaign for an exit if he is not satisfied with Mr Cameron's renegotiation deal.\nMr Grayling's Labour shadow Chris Bryant said Mr Grayling was now \"leader of the out campaign\" but did not have the courage to call for Britain's exit because \"he is desperate to keep his place in the cabinet\".\nHe told MPs Mr Grayling's Telegraph article was the \"most mealy-mouthed, myth-peddling, facing-both-ways piece of pedestrian journalism that has ever come from his pen\".\nThe Labour MP said the EU referendum was not a \"game\" about the future of the leadership of the Conservative Party but about jobs and the UK's standing as a nation.\n\"He says it is disastrous for us to stay in. I think it will be disastrous for us to leave,\" he told MPs.\nPete Wishart, the SNP's Commons leader, also mocked Mr Grayling as the \"leader of the Eurosceptics and putative leader of the Britain out campaign\".\nMr Cameron's four key negotiating objectives cover economic governance, competitiveness, immigration and sovereignty.\nA referendum must be held before the end of 2017 but Mr Cameron is expected to hold it this year, if he can secure a deal on his reform demands.\nJonathan Faull, who is leading the European Commission's negotiations with the UK, said there was a \"good prospect\" Mr Cameron would get a deal at the next European Council meeting in February.\nHe told European Parliament members negotiations had been \"difficult\" and the Commission would not accept anything that threatened the \"four freedoms\" - including freedom of movement - the EU was founded on.\nOn a visit to the Turkish capital Ankara, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the UK and EU leaders were \"getting closer\" to reaching a deal on the sticking point of curbs to European migrants' benefits, but added \"we are not there yet\".\nHe said the UK was trying to \"come up with a satisfactory proposal\" on welfare, adding that there was \"broad agreement\" on the other three areas identified by the PM for reform.\nTimeline: What will happen when?\nGuide: All you need to know the referendum\nExplained: What does Britain want from Europe?\nAnalysis: Cameron tries to avert slanging match\nMore: BBC News EU referendum special\nIn his article, Mr Grayling said the UK was at \"a crucial crossroads\" and \"cannot be left in a position where we have no ability to defend our national interest\" within the EU.\n\"I am someone who believes that simply staying in the EU with our current terms of membership unchanged would be disastrous for Britain,\" he added.\n\"That's why I have always believed that it is imperative that (Mr Cameron's) renegotiation takes place and delivers as much potential change as possible.\n\"It is in the interests of all Eurosceptics and of our country,\" he added.\nAnalysis, by BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins\nWestminster is not reeling at the shock revelation Chris Grayling is a Eurosceptic. It was hardly a secret. But his declaration in print still matters.\nIt proves cabinet ministers can start a good row, even when they're supposed to be agreeing. Just listen to the former minister Damian Green accuse him of \"peddling myths\". It all but confirms that there will be at least one cabinet member campaigning to leave the EU.\nBut it's hardly a disaster for Number 10. Some senior Eurosceptics felt only pro-EU cabinet voices were being heard, and blamed bias in Downing Street. For them, this piece will help correct the balance.\nWhat really matters though is what happens next. When are better-known political beasts - Theresa May and Boris Johnson - forced to show their hand? And will a bitter row between Tory tribes begin rather sooner than the PM expected?\nMr Cameron hopes to secure a new deal for the UK in Brussels next month.\nA number of cabinet ministers are thought to favour an out vote in a referendum, with Mr Cameron expected to campaign for the UK to remain in the EU.\nAnother minister who is seen as a Eurosceptic, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers, told the BBC she \"really supports\" the PM's renegotiation efforts.\nMr Cameron has said he rules nothing out if he does not get what he wants from the talks.\nHowever, former Foreign Secretary Lord Hague said he believed it was unlikely Mr Cameron would recommend a vote to sever ties with Brussels.", "summary": "Remaining within the European Union under the UK's current membership terms would be \"disastrous\", Conservative minister Chris Grayling has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Leading 3-0 from the first leg of the quarter-final tie, Devils sealed their place in the semi-finals with a 7-6 home win.\nGuillaume Doucet hit four goals with Gleason Fournier, Joey Haddad and Jake Morissette also scoring.\nMeanwhile, Nottingham Panthers beat Braehead Clan 10-7 on aggregate.\nFollowing Wednesday's 5-3 win, Panthers will face Sheffield Steelers.\nBelfast Giants beat Manchester Storm to reach the two legged semi-finals.\nGiants who beat Storm 11-4 on aggregate in their quarter-final.\nElite League leaders Cardiff, who have won the competition twice in 2006 and last year, are going for the double.", "summary": "Defending champions Cardiff Devils will face Belfast Giants in the Challenge Cup semi-finals after 10-6 aggregate win over Dundee Stars." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Diana McCrea said there had been a \"continuing, unacceptable number of slurry pollution incidents\".\nShe made her comments in a detailed letter to Environment Secretary Lesley Griffiths, saying she was \"increasingly concerned and more needed to be done\".\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with the industry to find a solution.\nSoil, fertiliser and slurry from farms as well as waste from industry can find its way into rivers, killing fish and their food sources.\nMs McCrea outlined efforts being undertaken by NRW, the environmental regulator, including the establishment of a working group involving farming unions and Welsh Water.\nIt comes after river and fishing groups criticised the regulator's record earlier this year, claiming agricultural pollution was \"out of control\".\nMs McCrea said there had been 679 slurry pollution cases reported since 1 January 2010, mostly from dairy farms, ranging from about 70 to 118 a year.\nCautions, prosecutions and serving notices were used in 15% of cases, which were the most serious.\nShe said there were good examples of the NRW and Welsh Government working well together but she was becoming \"increasingly concerned that we may have lost sight of the necessary overview\".\nMs McCrea, who will raise the issue at the Royal Welsh show on Monday, wants Ms Griffiths to prioritise the work of officials to help take improvements forward.\nShe has set out her thoughts on improving good practice on farms, inspecting slurry and silage stores while they are being built and regulating anaerobic digestion plants on farms.\nMs Griffiths is also being asked to look at allowing the use of civil sanctions to help tackle agricultural pollution, to bring Wales in line with England, but it needs the Welsh Government to pass the legislation.\nA Welsh Government spokesman said Ms Griffiths would respond to the letter in due course.\nHe added: \"Tackling agricultural pollution is crucial if we are to improve water quality in Wales.\n\"We look forward to working with natural resources, the farming industry and other respective parties to find a solution that works for all parties.\"", "summary": "Efforts to tackle agricultural pollution are not being prioritised by the Welsh Government, the chairwoman of Natural Resources Wales has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "William Wright of Wrightbus said immigration had convinced him the UK was better off going it alone.\nIn a reference to the decision of JTI Gallager to close its cigarette plant, he claimed EU regulations had cost Ballymena close to 1,000 jobs.\nMr Wright also claimed the area had had a recent influx of people from Eastern Europe.\nEarlier this month, the boss of Bombardier in Belfast told its staff it would be better for the company if the UK remains within the EU\nThe Northern Ireland Stronger In Europe campaign will wait until after 5 May's assembly election before holding its launch.\nThe EU referendum will take place across the UK on Thursday, 23 June.", "summary": "The owner of one of Northern Ireland's biggest companies is to help front the local campaign to leave the EU." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Matthew Cox was one of too many children who did not get adequate help soon enough, Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe has said.\nShe wants the education system and agencies working closer on adverse childhood experiences (ACE).\nMr Cox, now 22, works in a call centre and dreams of starting his own landscape gardening company.\nIt is an amazing turnaround for a man who said bullying throughout his childhood affected his behaviour and ended with him sleeping rough while still in school.\n\"While living on the streets in Pontypridd park I was trying to get a bit of cash myself, trying to find a job,\" he said.\n\"With me having dirty clothes, going back and fore to work and school, I tried to go to the launderettes and tried to get my clothes washed or even washing them in the river just to try and look clean.\"\nIt was a teacher who realised what was happening and found him a place in a bed and breakfast until homelessness charity Llamau stepped in.\nAccording to Public Health Wales (PHW) almost half of adults in Wales have suffered at least one ACE - anything from parental separation to abuse.\nAnd 14% of adults is have suffered four or more ACEs, increasing risks to their health.\nThe study showed the more ACEs people experience, the greater their risk of a wide range of health-harming behaviours and diseases as an adult.\nA child could have witnessed a domestic abuse incident taking place in their home last night, mum or dad being beaten up\nIn January, the Welsh Government announced £400,000 to set up a hub to tackle the negative impact of ACEs and £50,000 to support more research by PHW.\nMs Howe wants more early intervention and said much good practice in schools could be key in tackling the issue if there was a more joined-up approach.\n\"A child could have witnessed a domestic abuse incident taking place in their home last night, mum or dad being beaten up, the police being called, a hugely traumatic time and yet the school teacher when they go into school this morning would not necessarily be aware that that's what happened last night.\n\"We know that there is much more we could do in having this integrated approach between all of our public services, which is after all what the Well Being of Future Generations Act requires.\"\nGlan Usk Primary School in Newport has designed its whole approach to learning around well-being.\nInclusion leader Annette James said tackling difficult issues in children's lives had to come first if they were to achieve.\n\"We target self-esteem, building self confidence so that they have those positive experiences, so that those children who might be reluctant to come to school who might not have those positive experiences in the class have the opportunity to achieve and reach their full potential.\"\nRhian Tilley, a family and pupil support worker, believes this generation has it tougher than their parents and identifying ACEs is vital for a child's life chances.\n\"They may not have had breakfast, there may have been an argument at home, they may have very difficult home lives or family circumstances and then they are coming into school and are expected to learn and do the best they can, but while they are sat there they are thinking 'I'm hungry'.\"\nHead teacher Jeff Beecher said schools were ready to share information but this was not always forthcoming from other agencies.\n\"At the end of the day it's about funding, unfortunately, and resources.\n\"In Newport we have had what is called 'team around the cluster' where we've tried to marry all those agencies together in discussing pupils needs.\n\"But at times it's sporadic, sometimes there hasn't been enough funding to support that strategy and for those people to get together so its been difficult, but it is the way forward and I think we need a full commitment financially to support these needs.\"", "summary": "As a teenager he was sleeping in a park and trying to wash his clothes in a river so he would be clean for school." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Fire crews said the man fell about 20ft from the roof of the building in Broxburn's Greendykes Road and got stuck at about 03:30.\nThey were eventually able to reach him through a shop on the ground floor and brought him out on a stretcher.\nThe man has been taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with a suspected back injury.", "summary": "A man who fell from a roof in West Lothian and became trapped is being treated for spinal injuries." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Reports said the Islamic State mantra \"e4e\", standing for \"an eye for an eye\", was carved into the man's head.\nAn inquiry will examine how the high-risk attacker, 18, came to be housed with his 40-year-old cellmate.\nNew South Wales Corrections Minister David Elliot said placing the pair in the same cell was \"a stuff-up\".\nThe attack took place at the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre in Kempsey, 4.5 hours north of Sydney.\nThe injured man was a minimum-security prisoner and the teenager, named by multiple sources as Bourhan Hraichie, was a maximum-security prisoner.\nA Corrections Department spokesperson said the 18-year-old had been jailed for stealing, not terrorism-related offences.\nInitial reports said the injured man had served in the Australian army in East Timor, but Mr Elliott said he did not believe this was accurate.\n\"It is important to note that the man's background does not change the seriousness of this incident,\" Mr Elliott said in a statement to the BBC.\nThe general manager of the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre has been suspended while an investigation takes place.\nHead of the Prison Officer's branch of the Public Services Union Steve McMahon told the media prison officers were distressed by the allegedly unprovoked attack, which took place on Thursday.\n\"It's quite a horrendous piece of work, not unlike torture,\" Mr McMahon reportedly said.\nHe said the pair should never have been placed in the same cell and described the incident as a \"complete failure by the people in positions of responsibility\".\nThe 40-year-old man was admitted to Port Macquarie Base Hospital in a critical condition, but was now stable, a hospital spokesperson told the BBC.\nPolice have charged Hraichie with causing grievous bodily harm with intent and intentionally choking a person.\nHe has been ordered to face court on May 23.", "summary": "An Australian prisoner who supports the so-called Islamic State has allegedly used a knife to carve a slogan on to his cellmate's head." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Oldham, who had last won in the league back on 14 November, went close early on when Matty Palmer fired over.\nBut, on 23 minutes, Winchester then fired low past Jayson Leutwiler from 20 yards for his first goal of the season.\nShrewsbury's chances were at a premium, James Wallace being denied by Joel Coleman before Ian Black drilled wide.\nOldham had Anthony Gerrard playing at the back after re-signing for the club as a free agent earlier in the day.\nThe former Walsall, Cardiff City, Huddersfield Town and Shrewsbury centre-half, who had a loan spell with the Latics at the end of last season, has re-signed on a deal until the end of the current campaign.\nIt meant an instant return to the Meadow for Gerrard, six days after ending his non-contract arrangement with Shrewsbury, where he had been playing for free in an attempt to kick-start his career.\nOldham's first win since the return of manager John Sheridan lifts them a place to 22nd, within seven points of 20th-placed Shrewsbury.\nMicky Mellon's men, who won on Saturday at leaders Burton Albion, have not won at home in the league now in three months, having picked up just two points out of a possible 18 at the Greenhous Meadow.\nShrewsbury Town boss Micky Mellon told BBC Radio Shropshire:\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"I cannot argue with the stats but it shouldn't be a negative playing at home. It is just about working hard and working smartly. We were not smart tonight and that cost us.\n\"Maybe a few of the lads are fatigued, I don't know, but I am as baffled as anyone else. It is difficult to explain why we played as we did.\n\"Oldham outran us all over the pitch. We didn't keep the ball well enough. It is hard to know why after Saturday this happens. I cannot explain it.\"", "summary": "Oldham Athletic defender Carl Winchester's first-half goal helped his side to a vital three points at fellow League One strugglers Shrewsbury Town." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Attorney General Jeff Sessions pointed to this FBI probe to justify the new executive order banning travel from six mainly Muslim countries.\nThe order, which puts a 90-day travel ban on Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, begins on 16 March.\nBut Mr Sessions did not say how many of the 300 came from the banned countries.\nNor did he say what the alleged offences are or how many may face charges.\nA spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union told the BBC it was an assertion that \"leaves many of us scratching our heads\".\n\"The Trump administration has offered up no proof behind this assertion, making it impossible to evaluate this claim without more information.\"\nThe president signed the new order on Monday, building upon a previous executive order on immigration that was blocked in federal court.\nThe fact sheet attached to the order says: \"The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reported that approximately 300 persons who entered the United States as refugees are currently the subjects of counterterrorism investigations.\"\nThe new directive includes a 120-day ban on all refugees but it also lifts a previous temporary ban on all Syrian refugees.\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer spoke briefly on Monday about federal investigations into refugees in the US as part of a counterterrorism programme.\nThe number of individuals - 300 - is high. But it's not uncommon for the FBI to conduct investigations into people suspected of terrorism. It's part of a broader counterterrorism programme that's designed to prevent more attacks in this country.\nAt any given time, the FBI has hundreds of open investigations, according to Rand Corporation's Kim Cragin, who worked on a 2015 report about the FBI.\nMost of these investigations turn up nothing, and the cases are closed. At this point it's not clear how much of a danger these particular individuals pose - or what the investigations will show.\n\"The majority of the people convicted in our courts for terrorism-related offences since 9/11 came here from abroad,\" Mr Sessions said at a news conference on Monday.\n\"In fact today - more than 300 people, according to the FBI - who came here as refugees, are under an FBI investigation today for potential terrorism related activities.\"\nThe homeland security boss John Kelly was asked by CNN how many of the 300 came from the six countries but said he did not know, and he said he could not comment on the nature of the alleged and potential offences.\nThe FBI has yet to comment on the reported ongoing investigation and it is unclear what is considered to be terror-related activities.\nIn 2011, Barack Obama tightened security measures for Iraqis after two men were arrested on terror charges.\nIraqi natives Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi were arrested on charges of attempting to send weapons and money to Iraq to support al-Qaeda there.\nThey also admitted to using homemade bombs against US troops while living in Iraq.\nThe pair lived in Bowling Green, Kentucky, but were never accused of planning or attempting to carry out an attack.\nWhite House senior aide Kellyanne Conway attempted to reference the two men's arrests in defending Mr Trump's initial travel ban, but came under fire after she blamed them for a massacre that never happened.", "summary": "More than 300 people admitted to the US as refugees are being investigated by the FBI for potential terror-related activities, says the top law official." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority say they want to \"discourage irresponsible risk-taking and short-termism\".\nUnder the new rules, senior managers could have their bonuses clawed back for up to 10 years in misconduct cases.\nFCA boss Martin Wheatley said the rules were part of a wider campaign to \"embed an accountable culture in the City\".\nThey were \"a crucial step to rebuild public trust in financial services\", he added.\nThe new rules - which follow a near-year long consultation - apply to banks, building societies and some investment firms.\nThe main rule changes mean:\nBut the Bank of England said buyouts of unpaid bonuses by new employers would not be banned, although managers would not be able to receive the money any sooner than if they had stayed at their former company.\nAndrew Bailey, the Bank's deputy governor for prudential regulation and head of the PRA, said: \"Effective financial regulation involves creating appropriate incentives to encourage individuals to take greater responsibility for their actions.\n\"Our intention is that people in positions of responsibility are rewarded for behaviour which fosters a culture of effective risk management and thus promotes the safety and soundness of individual institutions.\"", "summary": "Financial regulators have announced new rules governing bankers' bonuses." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "And the former Rangers and Scotland captain, whose side lost to Queen's Park in the play-off final, is already making plans for another attempt.\n\"I've signed up five players from different clubs for next season, so there will be a few changes,\" he said.\n\"There needs to be a few changes and I need a bit more quality.\"\nFerguson, capped 45 times for Scotland, took over at Broadwood in June 2014 after a six-month spell as caretaker manager of Blackpool during which his side avoided relegation from England's Championship.\n\"This club's been in the doldrums for the last 10 years,\" he said of the Cumbernauld outfit who have slumped since being relegated from the second tier in 2009.\n\"Last year, it wasn't my squad - I think there's only two remaining of the 19 - and obviously I brought my own squad this season.\n\"I thought they would have been good enough, but a couple of injuries have hampered us, although I am not going to use that as an excuse.\n\"Overall, we should have had enough quality to win the league, but we weren't consistent enough and I am first to admit that.\"\nFerguson stressed that he would not be abandoning his \"attack-minded\" style of play.\n\"I have had a bit of criticism about that in the past,\" he admitted.\n\"I've got my own philosophy. Since I started my coaching badges, I've got a way of playing and sometimes the chairman says I need to calm down a wee bit.\n\"But that's the way I want to go. I want to play attacking football and take the game to teams.\"\nClyde finished third in the League Two table, beat runners-up Elgin City in the play-off semi-final but lost to the fourth-top Spiders on aggregate despite winning the second leg 1-0 at Hampden Park.\n\"In the first 10 minutes, we didn't start well, but then we took control of the game after that and started to pass the ball about like I wanted,\" added Ferguson.\n\"We got the penalty and then the second half petered out a bit and it wasn't what I expected.\n\"I told them they had to go for them and we didn't do that - and we didn't do enough on the day.\"", "summary": "Barry Ferguson insists that missing out on promotion with Clyde for a second season running has not dampened his enthusiasm for management." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Leicester Riders faced the Surrey Scorchers at the Leicester Community Sports Arena in the BBL Trophy quarter-final on Saturday evening.\nAll 2,400 seats in the Riders' new £4.8m home sold out inside six days.\nThe Riders won the game 77-60 to advance to the semi-finals of the BBL Trophy, led by a 14-point game from forward Drew Sullivan.\nManaging director Russell Levenston called the club's new arena \"a game changer\".\n\"We always knew there would be a good response, but we sold 2,400 tickets in six days and we probably could have sold another 1,000 tickets,\" he said.\n\"One of the things that British basketball hasn't had for many years is access to facilities - and clubs having their own home.\n\"Now we have somewhere we can call home and that is going to be the game changer for us.\"\nThe arena will also be home to the Leicester Cobras Wheelchair Basketball Team and will be used by Leicester College as part of its teaching and learning sports programme.\nLeicester Riders, founded in 1967, is the oldest professional club in British basketball.\nIt is estimated the 2,400-seat venue will allow the Riders to treble their income.\nThe team spent 16 years looking to find a new home after Granby Halls in Leicester was demolished.", "summary": "A new basketball arena built on a former Leicester gas works has opened to a sold-out crowd." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Brownlee, 28, has been selected along with younger brother Jonathan, 26, and fellow Leeds triathlete Gordon Benson.\nAlistair beat Spain's Javier Gomez and Jonathan to win gold at London 2012.\n\"I don't think we've all performed to the best of our abilities and if that happens in Rio the podium will be the same,\" he said.\nVicky Holland will look to build on her first World Series titles in Cape Town and Edmonton last year as she takes part in her second Olympics.\nLeeds-based Holland, 30, is joined in the GB women's team by former world champions Non Stanford and Helen Jenkins.\n\"My move to Leeds has been the catalyst for things in my career and in Rio I've got far loftier ambitions than 26th place this time round,\" said Holland.\nThere is live BBC Two and online coverage of the latest World Series Triathlon event Leeds on Sunday, 12 June from 12:45 BST (16:00-18:00 in Northern Ireland).\nMedia playback is not supported on this device", "summary": "Alistair Brownlee is confident of successfully defending his Olympic triathlon title after being named in Great Britain's team for the Rio Games." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nAnne fought tirelessly for a new inquest into her son Kevin's death in the 1989 football tragedy.\nIf anyone triumphed over adversity, it's my mum\nThe Helen Rollason Award was accepted on her behalf by her daughter Sara, son Michael, and brother Danny.\n\"My mum embodied the very reason this award was created - strength, determination and passion,\" said Sara.\nAnne, who had been suffering from cancer, died aged 60 just days after the annual Hillsborough memorial service at Liverpool's Anfield stadium.\nShe battled for more than 20 years to overturn an inquest verdict of accidental death on her 15-year-old son.\nHe was one of 96 Liverpool fans who died in April 1989 at the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough ground.\nThe BBC award - named after TV presenter Helen Rollason, who died aged 43 in 1999 after fighting cancer - is given for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity.\n\"Her tireless campaigning was driven by the love she had for her son Kevin and her dedication to seeking a new inquest,\" added Sara. \"If anyone triumphed over adversity, it's my mum.\"\nAnne's perseverance, along with fellow campaigners, prompted the creation of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which led to the original verdicts being quashed by the High Court in December 2012, with new inquests ordered for all who died. The new hearings are due to begin next spring.\nAt an inquest in 1991, jurors heard that Kevin and 94 others were dead by 15:15 BST, a verdict which his mother never believed and, as a result, she refused to accept his death certificate from the coroner.\nAnne, who lived in Chester, tracked down witnesses, one of whom suggested Kevin uttered the word \"mum\" at about 16:00 BST.\nHer calls for a fresh inquest were rejected by attorney generals and the European Court of Human Rights.\nBut following publication of the panel's report in September 2012, a further appeal by the families of the victims to quash the verdicts was upheld.\nAnne, who said she \"was never going to give up\", travelled to the High Court a year ago to hear the ruling, despite being terminally ill.\nPrevious Helen Rollason Award winners\n2012: Martine Wright - Paralympic sitting volleyball player\n2011: Bob Champion - Grand National-winning jockey\n2010: Sir Frank Williams - Formula One team boss\n2009: Major Phil Packer - Marathon fundraiser\n2008: Alastair Hignell - Broadcaster\n2007: Oscar Pistorius - Paralympic athlete\n2006: Paul Hunter - Snooker player\n2005: Geoff Thomas - Footballer\n2004: Kirsty Howard - Charity fundraiser\n2003: Michael Watson - Boxer\n2002: Jane Tomlinson - Amateur marathon and triathlon runner\n2001: Ellen MacArthur - Sailor\n2000: Tanni Grey-Thompson - Paralympic athlete\n1999: Jenny Pitman - Racehorse trainer", "summary": "Hillsborough justice campaigner Anne Williams, who died in April, has been honoured at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The mission can provide unbreakable secret communications channels, in principle, using the laws of quantum science.\nCalled Micius, the satellite is the first of its kind and was launched from the Gobi desert last August.\nIt is all part of a push towards a new kind of internet that would be far more secure than the one we use now.\nThe experimental Micius, with its delicate optical equipment, continues to circle the Earth, transmitting to two mountain-top Earth bases separated by 1,200km.\nThe optics onboard are paramount. They're needed to distribute to the ground stations the particles, or photons, of light that can encode the \"keys\" to secret messages.\n\"I think we have started a worldwide quantum space race,\" says lead researcher Jian-Wei Pan, who is based in Hefei in China's Anhui Province.\nQuantum privacy in many ways should be like the encryption that already keeps our financial data private online.\nBefore sensitive information is shared between shopper and online shop, the two exchange a complicated number that is then used to scramble the subsequent characters. It also hides the key that will allow the shop to unscramble the text securely.\nThe weakness is that the number itself can be intercepted, and with enough computing power, cracked.\nQuantum cryptography, as it is called, goes one step further, by using the power of quantum science to hide the key.\nAs one of the founders of quantum mechanics Werner Heisenberg realised over 90 years ago, any measurement or detection of a quantum system, such as an atom or photon of light, uncontrollably and unpredictably changes the system.\nThis quantum uncertainty is the property that allows those engaged in secret communications to know if they are being spied on: the eavesdropper's efforts would mess up the connection.\nThe idea has been developed since it was first understood in the 1980s.\nTypically, pairs of photons created or born simultaneously like quantum twins will share their quantum properties no matter how long they are separated or how far they have travelled. Reading the photons later, by shopper and shop, leads to the numerical key that can then be used to encrypt a message. Unless the measurements show interference from an eavesdropper.\nA network established in Vienna in 2008 successfully used telecommunications fibre optics criss-crossing the city to carry these \"entangled photons\", as they are called. But even the clearest of optical fibres looks foggy to light, if it's long enough. And an ambitious 2,000km link from Beijing to Shanghai launched last year needs repeater hubs every 100km or so - weak points for quantum hackers of the future to target.\nAnd that, explains Anton Zeilinger, one of the pioneers of the field and creator of the Vienna network, is the reason to communicate via satellite instead.\n\"On the ground, through the air, through glass fibres - you cannot go much further than 200km. So a satellite in outer space is the choice if you want to go a really large distance,\" he said.\nThe point being that in the vacuum of space, there are no atoms, or at least hardly any, to mess up the quantum signal.\nThat is what makes the tests with Micius, named after an ancient Chinese philosopher, so significant. They have proved a spaced-based network is possible, as revealed in the latest edition of the journal Science.\nNot that it is easy. The satellite passes 500km over China for just less than five minutes each day - or rather each night, as bright sunlight would easily swamp the quantum signal. Micius' intricate optics create the all-important photon pairs and fires them down towards telescopes on some of China's high mountains.\n\"When I had the idea of doing this in 2003, many people thought it was a crazy idea,\" Jian-Wei Pan told the BBC World Service from his office in the University of Science and Technology of China. \"Because it was very challenging already doing the sophisticated quantum optics experiments in a lab - so how can you do a similar experiment at a thousand-kilometre distance and with optical elements moving at a speed of 8km/s?\"\nAdditional lasers steered the satellite's optics as it flew over China, keeping them pointed at the base stations. Nevertheless, owing to clouds, dust and atmospheric turbulence, most of the photons created on the satellite failed to reach their target: only one pair of the 10 million photon pairs generated each second actually completed the trip successfully.\nBut that was enough to complete the test successfully. It showed that the photons that did arrive preserved the quantum properties needed for quantum crypto-circuits.\n\"The Chinese experiment is a quite remarkable technological achievement,\" enthused mathematician Artur Ekert in an e-mail to the BBC. It was as a student in quantum information at Oxford University in the 1990s that Ekert proposed the paired-photon approach to cryptography. Relishing the pun, he added wryly \"when I proposed the scheme, I did not expect it to be elevated to such heights.\"\nAlex Ling from the National University of Singapore is a rival physicist. His first quantum minisatellite blew up shortly after launch in 2014, but he is generous in his praise of the Micius mission: \"The experiment is definitely a technical tour de force.\n\"We are pretty excited about this development, and hope it heralds a new era in quantum communications capability.\"\nThe next step will be a collaboration between Jian-Wei Pan and his former PhD supervisor, Anton Zeilinger in the University of Vienna - to prove what can be done across a single nation can also be achieved between whole continents, still using Micius.\n\"The idea is the satellite flies over China, establishes a secret key with a ground station; then it flies over Austria, it establishes another secret key with that ground station. Then the keys are combined to establish a key between say Vienna and Beijing,\" he told the BBC's Science in Action programme.\nPan says his team will soon arrive in Vienna to start those tests.\nMeanwhile, Zeilinger is working on Qapital, a quantum network connecting many of the capitals of Europe, Vienna and Bratislava. Existing optic fibres laid alongside data networks but not currently used could make the backbone of this network, Zeilinger believes.\n\"A future quantum internet,\" he says, \"will consist of fibre optic networks on the ground that will be connected to other fibre networks by satellites overhead. I think it will happen.\"\nPan is already planning the details of the satellite constellation that will make this possible.\nThe need? Secrecy is the stuff of spy agencies, who have large budgets. But financial institutions which trade billions of dollars internationally day by day also have valuable resources to protect.\nAlthough some observers are sceptical they would want to pay for a quantum internet, Pan, Zeilinger and the other technologists think the case will be irresistible once one exists.", "summary": "The term \"spy satellite\" has taken on a new meaning with the successful test of a novel Chinese spacecraft." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The remains of the Lockheed P-38F Lightning, buried in sand at Harlech beach, is currently vulnerable to storm damage and trophy hunting.\nA special survey of the site will assess whether it can be designated as a \"scheduled ancient monument\".\nIt is part of £121,404 Welsh government funding to protect ancient relics.\nOther projects awarded grants included Brymbo Iron Works in Wrexham, the medieval pottery kiln at Newport Memorial Hall, Pembrokeshire, Penrice Castle in Swansea and Caerau Camp in Cardiff where works will be carried out to make repairs and improve public access.\nAnnouncing the funding, deputy culture minister Ken Skates said: \"All over Wales our landscape is scattered with ancient monuments.\n\"They shape our communities, tell the story of our past and bring economic benefits through tourism.\"", "summary": "The site of an American World War II aircraft which crashed in Gwynedd could be protected following a grant of more than £7,500." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Alan Millar expected the usual single yolks as part of his ham, egg and chips meal when he ordered his lunch at The Gloucester Old Spot pub.\nBut pub owner Amy Devenish said her customer was \"so excited\" at what was placed before him.\nMr Millar shared his delight by buying all the staff a drink to celebrate.\nMs Devenish added: \"The boys in the kitchen started frantically ringing the bell, so we went in to find out what was up.\n\"They said 'have a look at this, it's a triple yolker'. We couldn't believe it, we've never seen one of those before.\n\"I took a snap on my phone and then once the ham, egg and chips was plated up I took it out to the table.\n\"The old boy was so excited as he'd never seen one before.\"\n\"He was shouting over to his kids to tell them to come and have a look at it. He actually bought all the staff a drink later on.\"\nThe pictures were posted on the pub's Facebook on Sunday, attracting hundreds of likes.\nThe Cotswold Legbar blue eggs were from Le Chasse in Zeals, Wiltshire.", "summary": "A diner who was served both a triple and a double yolker at a Bristol pub bought all the staff a drink to celebrate his egg surprise." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Work to bring down the building on Kingsway started in October 2015 and was due to take six months.\nBut the outer structure of the building is still standing as there was more asbestos than first thought.\nThe council bought the site as part of plans to transform Kingsway into a business district.\nAll internal works at the building have now been completed, with scaffolding in place to support the exterior's demolition.\nThe work is scheduled to finish by the spring.", "summary": "The former Oceana nightclub in Swansea city centre will soon disappear from view, as final demolition work gets under way." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Company boss Ronald Karauri said the 35% increase would negatively affect its business operations.\nKPL's top official Jack Oguda told the BBC that the news was devastating for Kenyan football.\nSportPesa's sponsorship of teams outside Kenya will not be affected.\nIt currently sponsors English teams Everton and Hull City.\nSportPesa is one of East Africa's major gambling companies.\nThe tax was imposed to deter minors from betting.\nKenyans are the biggest gamblers in sub-Saharan Africa. Three-quarters of 17-to-35 year olds in Kenya admit to having placed a bet, according to a recent survey.\nYoung men use mobile phone apps to predict local and international football matches.\nThere have been concerns about its negative effects on young people with parents and religious leader saying it is harmful and urging the government to act.\nParliament had initially slapped a 50% tax on bookmakers, lottery companies and sports betting sites, which was lowered to 35% before the president signed it to law.\nMr Karauri told the BBC that the tax hike was likely to drive betting underground.\nIn another statement he said that regulation and not taxation was the best way to deal with the concern about betting effects on minors.\nThe decision is a huge blow to Kenyan sport in general because SportPesa also supports rugby and boxing in Kenya.\nIt sponsors two of the biggest Kenyan football teams - Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards - and the Kenyan Premier League and the Kenya Football Federation.\nEarlier this year, it bankrolled a trip by the national team to England where it camped and played a friendly match with the then premier league side Hull City.\nIt also sponsors clubs in the Tanzania football league, as well as in England, but Mr Karauri told the BBC that deals in these two countries won't be affected by the announcement.\nMr Karauri said that the company would in the next few days officially inform the affected clubs and organisations of its decision to end support.\nMr Oguda said the decision was devastating because SportPesa had been \"uplifting football in the country\" and urged the government to resolve the impasse.\nA joint statement by The Association of Gaming Operators-Kenya (AGOK) said that the tax on the betting industry would force many businesses in the industry to close.\nIt also said that the new tax will lead to job losses and also affect other industries like hotels, banks and telephone companies.", "summary": "Sport betting company SportPesa has announced it will end sponsorship of the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) after the government imposed a hefty tax increase on gaming revenue." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A spokesman for the GMB union, which represents 63 firefighters at the site, said the action would be 24-hour strikes starting in July.\nHe said members felt they were not getting the right pay and were doing work above their role.\nSellafield Ltd said further talks are planned for 30 June but \"arrangements are in place\" to cope with action.\nThe Sellafield nuclear reprocessing and decommissioning site employs about 10,000 people.\nGMB senior organiser for Sellafield, Chris Jukes, said almost all of the site's firefighters, who voted two to one in favour of industrial action, are part of the union.\nHe said: \"The firefighters do a vitally important job and they feel completely taken advantage of by management, relying on doing work over and above what they are paid for.\n\"It is sinful that this highly skilled group of workers have been put in this position.\"\nA spokesman for Sellafield Ltd said the firm was \"committed to resolving\" the issues.\nHe added: \"The safety and security of the Sellafield site are our overriding priorities.\n\"We have arrangements in place to ensure the site remains safe during any industrial action.\"", "summary": "Firefighters at the Sellafield nuclear site have agreed to take industrial action in a dispute over pay." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Eaton Place surgery closed its doors for the last time at lunchtime because its two partners are retiring.\nLocal Conservative MP Simon Kirby, who had campaigned for it to remain open, said he was very disappointed.\nNHS England said patients would be able to register with other nearby practices at a drop-in event next week.\nAt least half the patients have already registered with one of the 13 surgeries closest to Eaton Place.\nNHS England has offered the surgeries a payment of £25 per head for every patient they take.\nMr Kirby, the MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, had hoped another GP would take on the practice and said discussions had been so advanced that the recruitment process for new staff had already begun.\n\"It is particularly saddening that the final discussions between these various groups have not been successful,\" he said.\nPatients wishing to register with another GP can visit the Wellsbourne Health Centre, in Whitehawk, on 4 March between 10:00 and 14:00 GMT.", "summary": "Six thousand patients in Brighton have been left trying to find a new doctor after talks to safeguard the future of their surgery broke down." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Xiao Li Shan and Wu Jiu Hua said the workers' behaviour, at the Collum coal mine in October, had been threatening. The shooting left at least 11 injured.\nChina has invested more than $400m (£250m) in the copper-rich country.\nBut companies have faced regular opposition from workers and union leaders over abuses and low wages.\nMr Xiao and Mr Wu had opened fire indiscriminately on their employees at the mine in Sinazongwe to break up a protest, according to police.\nFollowing the decision to drop the charges, their defence lawyer, George Chisanga, said Zambian law meant the state did not have to give an explanation and the pair could still be called back to court by the director of public prosecutions.\nReuben Lifuka, the president of anti-corruption group Transparency International Zambia, warned the move could damage confidence in Zambia's judicial system.\n\"The trauma and injustice that the mine workers suffered is public knowledge and the government itself has on several occasion reprimanded the managers of coal mine on the poor working conditions,\" he said.", "summary": "The Zambian government has dropped charges against two Chinese managers accused of attempted murder after firing on miners during a pay dispute." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Connect Assist will take on 12 staff to run the £2m Veterans' Gateway at Nantgarw, near Cardiff.\nAdvice on housing, finance and health will be on offer, pointing veterans to the relevant charities and support.\nVeterans Minister Tobias Ellwood said it drew together \"all facets of support\" for veterans and families.\nConnect Assist already runs a helpline for the Royal British Legion, which led the consortium launching the new service.\nThe Ministry of Defence, armed forces charity SSAFA, Combat Stress and Poppyscotland are also involved.\nVeterans are among the people being hired to offer support to those contacting the service.\n\"The vast majority of our people make a smooth transition from military to civilian life,\" Mr Ellwood said.\n\"But the Veterans' Gateway provides extra support in the form of a staffed, 24-hour, one-stop-shop offering guidance on housing and employment, finance, mental and physical health.\n\"Our £2 million investment honours the nation's Armed Forces Covenant and draws all facets of support for our Armed Forces community together for the first time.\"\nThe service has been set up in response to Lord Ashcroft's 2014 Veterans' Transition Review, which reported people's confusion about who they should turn to for help.\nCharles Byrne, director general of the Royal British Legion, said: \"Veterans' Gateway will make it easier for them to get the support they need, from whoever is best able to provide it.\n\"No matter how complex their needs, working together we can do more.\"", "summary": "South Wales has been chosen as the base for a new 24-hour helpline for armed forces veterans from across the UK returning to civilian life." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "19 August 2015 Last updated at 08:34 BST\nIt's after Newsround raised a complaint, in November 2014, with the Advertising Standards Authority which makes the rules for adverts in the UK.\nNewsround highlighted a group of UK vloggers who were paid to say good things about Oreo biscuits, but none of the videos were labelled as adverts.\nNow if a vlogger is being paid to say something good about a particular product or service then they must clearly say that it's an advert.", "summary": "New guidelines have come out telling vloggers that they need to be clear and honest with their followers if they're being paid to say something is good." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "BrightBus runs bus services to 35 schools but will cease trading in July.\nThe news has caused concern among some parents while a group of drivers say they would be keen to buy the firm.\nManaging director Mick Strafford said he was confident the \"vast majority\" of children would not be badly affected by his decision to close the business.\nMore stories from across Yorkshire\nHe said he had made the decision due to health reasons.\n\"We are trying to place some of the school services with other operators and we've had one or two encouraging conversations.\n\"[Winding down the business rather than selling it] gives the staff the opportunity to move on and choose where they want to go rather than have someone else come in, and that's how we want to work it.\n\"We will do things in as structured way as possible to cause the minimum disruption possible.\n\"By no means does it mean the children will not have a direct service to school, perhaps in quite a few cases they will, it just won't be us operating it.\"\nDriver Neil Roberts, who is part of a group called Save BrightBus, said he believed a buyout by staff was the best solution.\n\"More than anything else it's the best solution for the kids,\" he said.\n\"Some of us would be willing to sacrifice our redundancy pay to keep the company going.\"\nMr Strafford said he had not been approached by the drivers but was happy to listen to any proposal.\nBen Gilligan, from the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, said: \"We are already working closely with schools and local authorities to help minimise the impact of BrightBus' announced closure.\"", "summary": "The future of school bus services used by more than 12,000 pupils in South Yorkshire is in doubt after plans to wind up the operator were announced." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The suspects, said to be mainly in their fifties and known to police, were detained in co-ordinated raids in the Paris region and elsewhere.\nThe American reality TV star was held at gunpoint by men dressed as police officers.\nThey escaped with an estimated €10m (£8.7m; $10.5m) in jewellery.\nPolice said at the time a €4m ring and a jewellery box with pieces worth some €6m were taken. A diamond cross pendant was found the next day in a nearby street, apparently dropped by the gang as they made their getaway by bicycle and on foot.\nFive men took part in the attack. Three held up the night porter while the other two entered Kardashian West's luxury apartment, tied her up and locked her in the bathroom.\nFrench police said that traces of DNA had led to the arrests which had been left at the scene on the material used to tie up the TV star as well as the pendant dropped by the gang.\nThe police organised crime brigade (BRB) carried out dawn raids on Monday in the Paris area, in Rouen in the north and in Nice in the south. Those detained ranged in age from 23 to 73, French media said, and investigators now have 96 hours to question them.\n\"One of the DNA samples matched an individual known to police for robbery and criminal offences,\" police said.\nFollowing the discovery, a team of six BRB detectives tapped the phones of suspects and even tracked a meeting involving a member of the gang and potential buyers of Kardashian West's jewels.\nKardashian West, who is married to the rapper Kanye West, said she feared she was going to be killed at the time. She was left badly shaken but unhurt.\n\"They're going to shoot me in the back,\" she is heard telling her sisters in a promotional clip for the new season of the US show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.\nThe 36-year-old mother-of-two, who became a household name thanks to the reality TV series, was attending Paris Fashion Week at the time of the robbery, along with her mother Kris Jenner and her sister Kendall Jenner.\nHowever, there was criticism of the security detail surrounding the star, when it emerged that a bodyguard decided to accompany Kardashian West's sister to a nightclub rather than keep watch on her.\nKanye West was performing at the Meadows Music and Arts Festival in New York when the robbery happened on 3 October. He abruptly ended his set, telling fans: \"I'm sorry, family emergency. I have to stop the show.\"\nThe robbery came as a high-profile embarrassment for a Paris police force that has seen a string of armed thefts in recent years.", "summary": "Seventeen people have been arrested by police hunting an armed gang who robbed Kim Kardashian West in Paris in October, reports say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But the rail firm said it was not prepared to talk unless the RMT was willing to discuss an eight-point plan, rejected last Friday.\nSouthern has cancelled 946 services each day since action began on Monday.\nIt has called the strike \"pointless, needless and senseless\".\nThe RMT is fighting plans by Southern owner Govia Thameslink (GTR) to turn conductors into \"on-board supervisors\" from 21 August, with drivers taking over responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors.\nLive updates on Southern strike\n620,000\nJourneys per day on Southern\n946 services cancelled per day\n2,242 services would normally have run on a weekday\n15 routes have no Southern service in either direction during the strike\n5 further routes have limited services from 07:30 BST to 18:00 BST\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said: \"The company [GTR] knows that prescriptive pre-conditions would not allow genuine talks to take place.\n\"In an effort to break the deadlock and get the talks process moving, RMT is prepared to suspend strike action set for Thursday and Friday if Southern agree to urgent talks without pre-conditions. The ball is now in their court.\"\nBut a Southern spokesman said: \"We have made the RMT a fair and comprehensive eight-point offer and we'll meet them any time, any place, anywhere to talk about our offer on our network to settle this dispute.\n\"This strike has to stop and has to stop now.\"\nShadow transport secretary Andy McDonald urged Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to persuade GTR to accept the RMT's offer.\n\"All he needs to do is pick up the phone to GTR and rail services can be restored in time for tomorrow's rush hour,\" he said.\n\"The long-suffering passengers will not understand why a government minister would do anything other than encourage all parties to embrace this opportunity.\"\nMr Grayling said on Tuesday that there was \"absolutely no excuse\" for the strikes, which he said were designed to stop essential improvements of passengers' journeys.\nConservative MPs in two of the areas worst hit by the strike appealed to the government, GTR and RMT to end their constituents' suffering.\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd, who represents Hastings and Rye, which has no trains during the strike, said she had told GTR boss Charles Horton passengers had \"suffered enormous disruption for far too long\".\nShe said: \"I hope the union will consider that it has been given a better deal than many of its passengers enjoy, many of whom are struggling to get to their places of employment.\"\nHuw Merriman, MP for Bexhill and Battle, which has been similarly hit, has urged rail minister Paul Maynard to \"bring his influence to the table\" to resolve the outstanding issues.\nPassengers are expected to join a protest march from London's Victoria station to the Department for Transport in central London on Wednesday evening.\nThe Campaign for Better Transport and the Association of British Commuters will present a 6ft-tall letter to Mr Maynard calling on him to attend a \"passenger assembly\" to answer questions and arrange better compensation for customers affected by the dispute.\nSummer Dean, from Brighton, spokeswoman for the recently formed association, told BBC Sussex: \"I would like to see some respect. Passengers are being held to ransom in this dispute and it's about time government stepped in.\"\nBefore the latest strike, Southern cut 341 services a day from its weekday timetable to improve reliability.\nBut Ms Dean said travellers were still \"spending hours getting home, missing out on seeing family and friends and putting children to bed\" and there was no date for the regular timetable to resume.\n34.8%\nSouthern Mainline and Coast trains at terminus at least 5 minutes late\n12.6%\nTotal trains late for England and Wales\n12% Govia Thameslink Railway services cancelled or significantly late\n4.4% Total England and Wales trains cancelled or significantly late\nA rail users group in east Surrey has accused Southern of a \"criminal, epic fail\" by running eight trains an hour through Redhill each evening during the strike without any stopping.\nThe Reigate, Redhill and District Rail Users' Association said passengers were \"forced to travel to Gatwick Airport then catch taxis, costing £15 to £20, back to Redhill\".\nSouthern said routing a train to call at Redhill would take \"enough extra time to cause a detrimental knock-on effect to the whole timetable\" but said it would now \"review what might be able to be done\".", "summary": "A five-day strike on Southern trains will be suspended on Thursday and Friday if the company agrees to new talks without pre-conditions, the RMT union has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The text, from Party Treasurer Philip Higginson to another senior party figure, said it would be a \"huge win\" to \"negotiate the removal of Credlin\".\nThe leak to ABC follows criticism last month of Ms Credlin by Mr Higginson.\nForeign Minister Julie Bishop has backed Ms Credlin and called for unity.\nIn the message published by ABC, Mr Higginson said Ms Credlin had harmed the party through her \"non understanding of team harmony\".\nMr Higginson said he anticipated a \"hatchet job\" against him for criticising Ms Credlin, adding that he thought he was \"watching the party committing suicide\".\nMs Credlin is Mr Abbott's closest and most senior adviser and is seen as a huge influence on the prime minister.\nDubbed \"the boss\" by some Liberal MPs, she has been accused by some of heavy-handed and centralised party control.\nA leadership challenge and poor polling have led Liberal Party backbenchers unsympathetic to the prime minister to call for her resignation.\nMs Bishop called the leaked text \"deeply unfortunate\".\n\"It's very colourful language,\" she told Sky News. \"It's deeply unfortunate it has been said and been made public. The less the internal workings of the Liberal Party are made public, the better off for everybody.\"\nThe message is a further embarrassment for the Liberal Party following a leaked letter from Mr Higginson to the party's federal executive in February, in which he criticised the party over the positions held by Ms Credlin and her husband, party director Brian Loughnane.\nHe wrote: \"How this party ever let a husband-and-wife team into those two key roles, where collegiate competitive tension is mandatory and private consultations between colleagues to see that each side is served well, is a complete mystery,\" the letter said.", "summary": "Peta Credlin, chief of staff to the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, was described as a \"horsewoman of the apocalypse\" by a senior party member, a leaked text message revealed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "George Adam took up the post in 2012.\nThe councillor for Hilton, Stockethill and Woodside said: \"Next May, I will have been an elected member of the council for 18 years and lord provost for the last five.\n\"It has been the greatest honour of my life and I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in the role. Each and every day in this job, I have been humbled.\"", "summary": "Aberdeen's Lord Provost is to stand down at the next elections in May, he has announced." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "North Yorkshire Police said a report was made of a woman being attacked as she walked along a riverside path between Bridge Street and the Park Inn, York, in the early hours of 15 July.\nOfficers continue to investigate a second alleged attack on a woman who left a nightclub in the city on 13 July.\nThe man is due to appear at York Magistrates' Court later.", "summary": "A 32-year-old man from York has been charged with sexual assault." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Anas al-Basha, 24, was a centre director for the civil society group, Space of Hope.\nGovernment forces have been pounding rebel-held eastern districts of Aleppo as they continue an all-out assault to regain full control the city.\nAbout 250,000 people are living under siege, among them 100,000 children.\nThere are no functioning hospitals left, and official food stocks are exhausted.\nMr Basha died in an air strike on Tuesday in the Mashhad neighbourhood, the Associated Press news agency reports.\n\"He lived to make children laugh and happy in the darkest most dangerous place,\" Mahmoud al-Basha, who identified himself as Anas' brother, wrote on Facebook.\n\"Anas who refused to leave Aleppo and decided to stay there to continue his work as a volunteer, to help the civilians and give gifts for the children in the streets to bring hope for them.\"\nMr Basha's parents left the city before the government began its siege of eastern Aleppo in July, according to AP. He married just two months ago, and his wife remains trapped in the rebel enclave.\nThe government offensive has brought unprecedented shelling and bombardment in recent weeks, reportedly leaving hundreds of civilians dead and prompting more than 25,000 to flee their homes.\nOn Wednesday, a top UN official warned that the city risked becoming \"one giant graveyard\".\nMr Basha's supervisor, Samar Hijazi, told AP she would remember him as a friend who loved to work with children.\n\"He would act out skits for the children to break the walls between them.\"\n\"All of us in this field are exhausted, and we have to find strength to provide psychological support and continue with our work,\" Ms Hijazi added.", "summary": "A Syrian man who worked as a clown to bring comfort to children in a rebel-held part of Aleppo is reported to have been killed in an air strike." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Now the survival of the Irish Red and White Setter is explored in 'A Very Noble Breed' which is broadcast on Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle on Sunday.\nClassified as a \"vulnerable\" breed, last year just 64 were registered with the Irish Kennel Club.\nAnd were it not for the post-war determination of an Ulster cleric, the breed could very easily have been lost.\nOne of nine native Irish breeds, Red and White Setter numbers began to dwindle in the late 1800s when the fashion for the now much more recognisable Red Setters became prevalent.\nBy the time former Army chaplain, the Reverend Noble Houston, returned home from the Great War, so alarmed was he by the dwindling numbers of the Red and Whites, he set about \"single-handedly\" saving the breed form the \"jaws of extinction\".\nPresenter Dáithí Murray said the minister was \"a fascinating character\" now widely regarded as the saviour of the breed.\n\"In the programme we spend some time with the congregation of First Presbyterian Church in Ballynahinch, County Down, where he ministered until his death in 1949.\n\"They explain to us the significance of this very special individual who kept the Irish Setter bloodline going.\"\nA wholly dependable gun dog, highly skilled in sniffing out, and pointing to the hiding spots of grouse and game birds, Red and White Setters were granted favour by 18th Century landed gentry who came to see the breed as the working dog of choice.\nOver the centuries however, they lost that favour as their Red cousins became increasingly popular - anyone who has taken a bus in the Republic of Ireland will know the place Red Setters have in the national psyche.\nAnd while both the Red and the Red and White Steers hail from the same canine family, it is the latter that can lay claim to being the original native breed.\nNumbers registered with the Kennel Cub have fluctuated over recent years. In 2011 there were 119, but only 64 last year.\nAn outcross programme involving Red and Whites and Red Setters has recently been approved by the Irish Kennel Club.\nOutcrossing involves widening a breed's gene pool to increase genetic diversity and combat complications from inbreeding.\nBut as Dáithí Murray finds out, that has not been met with universal approval.\nIn northern Europe the breed is seen as a working dog, he said, while across the Atlantic it is viewed as a show dog.\n'A Very Noble Breed' will be broadcast on Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle on Sunday at 12.30 BST and is repeated next Thursday at 19.30 BST.", "summary": "They date back to the days of the Roman Empire, and were once the companion of choice for the Irish landed gentry." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He and a 13-year-old boy were also acquitted of sexually assaulting the woman in Liverpool in September 2014, when she was 43.\nA jury at the trial in July failed to agree a verdict and prosecutors said on Thursday that the woman did not want to give evidence again.\nJudge Brian Cummings QC accepted their decision and recorded not guilty verdicts at Liverpool Crown Court.\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it was not in the public interest to summons her and therefore offered no evidence.\nAt the July trial, the woman said: \"I was saying 'don't do this, you're going to regret this for the rest of your lives.' I was trying to talk them out of doing it.\"\nA relative of one of the boys clapped in the public gallery as they left court on Thursday.", "summary": "A 14-year-old boy has been cleared of raping a vulnerable woman in her flat." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 14-year-old is to be carried from her home to Our Lady, Star of the Sea, in Castlebay, for the funeral mass on Monday morning.\nEilidh's friend, Laura MacIntyre, 15, was injured in the terrorist attack.\nThe girls, from the Castlebay Community School in Castlebay, Barra, were attending an Ariana Grande concert.\nThey had travelled to Manchester for the event with members of their family.\nLast week, Eilidh's parents, Roddy and Marion, said in a statement their daughter had been \"beautiful, popular and talented\".\nThey described her as \"a loving sister\" who loved socialising with friends, and who had an \"unsurpassed\" love of music.\n\"Eilidh and Laura were so excited about going to the concert together but what should have been the perfect ending to a fantastic trip ended so tragically,\" they said.\n\"We continue to have Laura and her family in our thoughts and pray that she makes a full recovery.\"", "summary": "A funeral is to be held next week for Barra teenager Eilidh MacLeod who was among the 22 people killed in the Manchester Arena bomb attack." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The bird - dubbed \"Debbie\", after the cyclone - was rescued among broken twigs in Queensland on Tuesday.\nA photograph of the cockatoo, by the Townsville Bulletin's Alix Sweeney, became a ubiquitous image of the storm.\nThe newspaper reported that the bird had been found dead in its box on Thursday and was returned to the forest where it had been buried.\nThe cockatoo had probably suffered injuries during the cyclone, a wildlife carer said.\nOn Tuesday, Ms Sweeney said she \"couldn't miss\" the white bird among the greenery.\n\"There was a whole group of cockatoos sitting way up in the trees just clinging on during the gale force winds,\" she said.", "summary": "A bedraggled cockatoo that was pictured stripped of its feathers in a cyclone-hit Australian forest has died." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The owner of the dance music club David Vincent said he is closing its doors indefinitely to concentrate on his club in Ibiza.\nHe said he wants to make the Ibiza club the best in the world and cannot keep both clubs open at the same time as he needs his staff from Manchester.\nThe club which was originally called Sankeys Soap will shut its doors with a 12-hour \"spectacular party\" on 6 May.\nMr Vincent said he has \"truly amazing memories\" of Manchester.\nHe said: \"Brilliant highs include being recognised for contributing significant culture to the city of Manchester at a national museum and also quite a few challenging lows.\n\"We have made our name in Manchester as the world's best club in the DJ Mag Awards 2010, and the Sankeys spirit will live on there.\"\nDJ Krysko, who was a resident at Sankeys for six years, said on his Twitter account it was a \"sad day\".\nSankeys is based in Beehive Mill, Northern Quarter, Manchester. It opened in 1994.", "summary": "Manchester nightclub Sankeys is closing." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Two men suffered serious head and face injuries in an incident on Monday on a footpath between Millgate Road and Westwood Crescent in the town.\nA 25-year-old man is expected to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Monday.\nOne of the injured men, aged 26, was being treated in hospital in East Kilbride. The other, a 27-year-old, was in hospital in Glasgow.", "summary": "A man has been arrested in connection with a shooting in Hamilton in South Lanarkshire." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Parker, 35, signed for the Whites in 2013 and has made 99 appearances for the club in all competitions.\nThe midfielder said he was \"delighted\" to sign an extension and is \"confident next season will be a better one\".\nThe former England international missed the first 17 games of the season because of injury, while Fulham finished 20th in the Championship.", "summary": "Fulham captain Scott Parker has agreed a one-year contract extension to remain at Craven Cottage until 2017." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Daniel Climance was struck by the vehicle while out riding his bike at about 19:20 BST on Wednesday on Station Road in Purton, near Swindon.\nHe died at the scene. Wiltshire Police described it as a \"tragic accident\".\nIn a statement issued through the force, Daniel's family said he would be \"sadly missed\" by his brothers.\n\"Daniel was a local Wiltshire lad who divided his time equally between his mum in north Swindon and his Dad in Purton,\" the statement continued.\nIt said he was in his final year at Bridlewood Primary School and was looking forward to starting Bradon Forest School in September, joining his older brother Robbie.\n\"Daniel was a beautiful, loving child, with a fantastic sense of humour, caring and loving with a wide circle of friends,\" it said.\n\"He will be sadly missed by his brothers Robbie, George and Noah, and all of the extended family.\"\nDaniel, who \"loved\" playing football for the Wootton Bassett under-11 team, had just completed his second-degree black belt in Taekwondo, of which he was \"immensely proud\", his family added.\nPolice said the roadsweeper was travelling towards Hook and was not believed to have been operating at the time.", "summary": "The family of an 11-year-old boy who died after being hit by a roadsweeper in a Wiltshire town have paid tribute to their \"beautiful, loving child\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 24-year-old joined City for a fee understood to be about £32m and signed a five-year deal.\nThe France international's move is being looked into to see if it breached third party ownership rules at the time, according to Bloomberg,\nThe report added that Porto's role in the transfer is under scrutiny rather than City's actions.\nCity are not aware of any investigation and Premier League rules forbid the involvement of third parties in transfers.\nMangala began his career with Standard Liege in 2008, winning the league in his first season, before joining Porto in 2011.\nHe won two Portuguese titles and made his France debut in a 1-0 defeat by Uruguay in June 2013.", "summary": "Fifa is investigating the transfer of Eliaquim Mangala from Porto to Manchester City in August 2014." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Disney and Marvel film, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, took $43m (£34.3m) between Friday and Sunday.\nDisney has already secured its best year on record at the global box office, which now tops $6bn (£4.7bn).\nIt has set a domestic box office annual record of $2.3bn (£1.8bn), beating last year's high of $2.27bn (£1.81bn).\nIn second position, Fox and Dreamworks' Trolls took an estimated $35m (£27.9m), only dropping by 24.8% in its second week.\nArrival, a sci-fi drama starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, debuted in third place on $24m (£19.1m).\nThe top five was rounded out by Almost Christmas with $15.6m (£12.4m) and Hacksaw Ridge on $10.8m (£8.6m).\nNext week's box office figures will reveal how the highly anticipated Harry Potter prequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them has performed on its opening weekend.\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Dr Strange has kept its place at the top of the US box office for a second week, cementing Disney's record-breaking year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Shinnie helped the Dons secure a Scottish Cup final against Celtic with a 3-2 victory over holders Hibernian.\nBut he toned down his post-match celebrations out of respect for his brother, Andrew, who came off the bench for Hibs.\n\"We've got a bit of respect there that I will comfort him,\" the Aberdeen player said.\n\"He will obviously be hurting because they have been knocked out, so I will keep the celebrations on hold.\n\"We have supported each other in our careers since we started. We have never really had an experience like this before.\n\"He will be disappointed that they have lost but now he will be hoping that we obviously go on and lift the cup.\n\"I saw him a little bit after the game at the final whistle and he congratulated me, but we didn't properly speak. I saw him afterwards and we had a chat about it.\"\nIt could easily have been the elder Shinnie who was celebrating after Hibs staged a dramatic comeback, clawing back a two-goal deficit before Jonny Hayes' deflected strike settled the tie with five minutes remaining.\nEven then there was a scare for the Dons when Hibs goalkeeper Ofir Marciano went up for a last-gasp corner and forced a good save from Joe Lewis.\n\"We made it hard for ourselves with the start we had,\" Graeme Shinnie added. \"But it shows the character that the team's got. I'm sure we would have definitely been questioned at the time when they came back to two-all.\n\"But the boys always had it in them and always had the belief that they could go on to win it.\n\"Our bottle and everything else would probably have been in question and we answered up.\n\"When you're 2-0 up and a team comes back to two-all everyone just expects the team with the momentum to go on and win it. We dug in, luckily we got the goal, albeit through a deflection, but we will take it.\n\"They were just launching balls into the box and we did well to defend it. I would have been devastated if the keeper had scored at the end but it was a good save from Joe.\"\nAberdeen have the chance to atone for a disappointing League Cup final display against Celtic when they face Brendan Rodgers' treble-chasers again at Hampden on 27 May.\nBut Shinnie insists that is not the team's top priority. With a nine-point lead over third-placed Rangers, he says the focus for the Dons is to wrap up second place in the Scottish Premiership over the remaining five league games.\n\"We need to put this on the back-burner now because we have a lot of big games coming up in the league and we're looking to cement second spot as quickly as we can,\" he said.\n\"We had a good win last week in the league against St Johnstone - that was probably one of the biggest wins of the season after the Rangers game - and we have carried it on.\n\"It was scrappy, it was hard work at times, and I don't think we played to our full potential. But winning and getting through to the cup final was the main thing.\"", "summary": "Aberdeen midfielder Graeme Shinnie admits his Hampden Park joy on Saturday was tempered by brotherly concern." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The musician had gone to a US court, seeking to regain the rights to 267 of the band's classic tracks.\nHe has been trying to get them back since the 1980s, when Michael Jackson famously out-bid him for the rights.\nJackson's debt-ridden estate sold the songs to Sony last year, along with others including New York, New York.\nSir Paul's legal case, filed in a Manhattan court in January, was over what is known as copyright termination - the right of authors to reclaim ownership of their works from music publishers after a specific length of time has passed.\nHe claimed that he was set to reacquire the Beatles songs in 2018, but said Sony had not confirmed that it would transfer the copyrights to him.\n\"The parties have resolved this matter by entering into a confidential settlement agreement,\" Sir Paul's attorney Michael Jacobs wrote in a letter to US District Judge Edgardo Ramos.\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Sir Paul McCartney and Sony have a reached a deal in a battle over who owns publishing rights to The Beatles' songs, The Hollywood Reporter says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The pair are both available for Saturday's FA Cup quarter-final against 12-times winners Arsenal.\nCalder, 21, spent the first half of the season on loan at Doncaster, scoring once in 20 appearances.\nEtheridge, 22, started his career at Derby and has made eight appearances for the League Two leaders this season.", "summary": "Lincoln City have signed Aston Villa midfielder Riccardo Calder and Doncaster goalkeeper Ross Etheridge on loan until the end of the season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "After a 22-hour journey to Baikonur in Kazakhstan, we had a 4am start. We were escorted into the cosmodrome, a collection of scruffy, space buildings in the desert.\nThen the hangar door opened, revealing the huge, red booster rockets looming in dark.\nThe sun started to rise, and it was like a curtain had lifted, showing the incredible vast landscape of the desert steppe with the Space rocket crawling through it.\nWe filmed the astronauts as they emerged in their spacesuits in the dark, holding the Olympic torch. They climbed onto the same bus that Yuri Gagarin used on the day he became the first man to launch into space.\nThen, with every cameraman looking for the perfect spot, there was a last dash to the platform overlooking the launch pad.\nThe Soyuz rocket stood glistening in the sunrise.\nFifteen minutes before launch, I had two cameras set up. One for the live position and my main camera for our correspondent.\nOne minute to go\nDaniel Sandford stepped in front of the main camera and we had one last rehearsal. This \"piece to camera\" had to be a \"one-take wonder\" with perfect timing.\nBlast off. I saw a huge amount of smoke and flames, but there was no sound. We were 1 km away. The rocket started to move. Boom! The sound had finally reached us, and Daniel started talking. I zoomed out to bring him into the picture.\nThe rocket was moving fast out of shot so I panned up off Daniel, chasing the flaming rocket up into the blue sky. A perfect take. That was what we came for.\nIn less than a minute, the rocket was just a burning speck. The torch, strapped inside the capsule on top of the rocket was heading out of the atmosphere.", "summary": "I have been a camerawoman for 10 years, but the chance to film a rocket going into space was a once in a lifetime opportunity." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the train would link Mumbai and Ahmedabad, cutting travel time on the route from eight hours to two.\nThe deal was one of a raft of agreements reached after talks between the two sides in Delhi.\nThe leaders of Asia's second and third largest economies also announced other areas of co-operation.\nThese include working on defence technology, and agreeing a memorandum of understanding on the peaceful use of nuclear energy.\nThe latter agreement is expected to allow Japan to export nuclear plant technologies to India.\nLast week Mr Modi's cabinet cleared the $14.7bn (£9.6bn) cost of building the bullet train system.\nThe agreements with Japan came during a three-day visit to India by the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, which began on Friday.\nBoth countries are in territorial disputes with China, and their new accords may be seen by some as a reaction against China's growing influence in the region.", "summary": "India has agreed to buy a high-speed bullet train from Japan, in an attempt to transform its creaking rail system." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "South Western Ambulance Service's systems for \"caring\" were rated as outstanding but other areas required improvements.\nThese included emergency and urgent care provision and patient transport.\nThe inspection was carried out in June after a previous CQC report which found the trust's 111 service was inadequate.\nIn the latest findings inspectors also raised concerns about call centre staff being too busy to report verbal abuse from the public.\nMore on the ambulance story, plus other Devon and Cornwall news\nAmong the areas requiring improvement, the report said the trust had to ensure \"work intensity and fatigue\" was monitored to mitigate risks to staff.\nIt also said controlled medicines had to be stored securely in ambulances and cars when crews were not present.\nThe ambulance service covers the greater South West of England, including include Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.\nChief Executive Ken Wenman said the report, which rated the service overall as \"requires improvement\", was fair.", "summary": "Improvements must be made to the ambulance service in the South West, following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 25-year-old Samoa international joined Salford on a two-year deal this week after leaving Brisbane Broncos.\nVidot has previously spoken about considering a career in wrestling.\n\"We'd actually spoke about him and then three weeks later we were told that he was going to be signing for the WWE,\" Salford head coach Ian Watson told BBC Radio Manchester.\nSalford's director of rugby, Tim Sheens, then looked into it further to see if Vidot was definitely going to be joining the world's biggest wrestling company.\n\"Tim said he was going to do a little bit more digging and find out how true everything was with that,\" Watson added.\n\"Tim's gone back there and said he's hoping to be looking at a contract so that's when we moved forward with our plans.\"\nWith Watson and Sheens planning for next season there could be more arrivals at the AJ Bell Stadium ahead of the new season.\n\"There's a couple at the moment that we're speaking to and in negotiations with but we'll have to see whether they come off,\" added Watson.\n\"At the moment we're building a good, solid squad here with people who are going to be competitive and work hard for each other.\"", "summary": "New Salford Red Devils signing Daniel Vidot nearly moved to WWE wrestling before joining the Super League side." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Leicester City Council closed a lane on Welford Road last month to test the lane.\nMotorists claimed it was causing traffic chaos and a petition against it has been signed by 1,200 people.\nCyclists said the trials will help to improve Leicester's air quality, which is one of the worst in Europe.\nOne lane on Welford Road, one of the busiest routes in and out of the city centre, was closed last month in a scheme called Connecting Leicester.\nMark Radymski, who set up the petition, said: \"I'd love to see some new cycle provisions to get to places safely, however I don't think the situation is as bad as people make out.\n\"The petition is to remove the test. We're asking for it to be reviewed - is it in the correct place or not? I'm not the expert.\"\nElizabeth Barner, from Leicester Cycling Campaign Group, said the protest had strong support from Healthy Air Leicester and Leicestershire, the Green Party and national cycle groups.\n\"The scheme has improved Leicester,\" she said.\n\"People who are new to cycling say I will not cycle on the roads as they are now and what I'm beginning to hear is, 'Yes, I could go out and commute other than in my car'.\"\nThe council admitted there were congestion problems during rush hour but said it is an experiment needed as it tries to make the roads \"fit for all\".", "summary": "Cyclists held a mass protest in support of a cycle lane along a busy city commuter route after a petition opposing the scheme was set up." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Black Cats are the second Premier League club to take the step after West Ham did so as a result of the record television rights deal.\n\"Keeping the cost of watching football at a realistic level is something that is very topical at present,\" said chief executive Margaret Byrne.\nLiverpool scrapped plans for a £77 matchday ticket after protests by fans.\nThe Anfield club's dearest ticket will now stay at £59 and the highest season-ticket price is also frozen, after thousands of fans left 77 minutes into the draw with 19th-placed Sunderland on 6 February.\nAdult season tickets at the Stadium of Light will start at £350, down by £20, and would compare favourably even if they were relegated to the Championship, where Hull's cheapest season ticket is £531.\nSee BBC Sport's Price of Football survey on ticket prices here", "summary": "Relegation-threatened Sunderland have announced reductions to their season-ticket prices for the 2016-17 campaign." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Recurrent attacks up to 3 November flooded the cable link with data, making net access intermittent.\nResearchers said the attacks showed hackers trying different ways to use massive networks of hijacked machines to overwhelm high-value targets.\nExperts said Liberia was attacked by the same group that caused web-wide disruption on 21 October.\nThose attacks were among the biggest ever seen and made it hard to reach big web firms such as Twitter, Spotify and Reddit.\nThe attacks were the first to send overwhelming amounts of data from weakly protected devices, such as webcams and digital video recorders, that had been enrolled into what is known as a botnet.\nA botnet variant called Mirai was identified by security firms as being the tool used to find and compromise the insecure devices.\nThe source code for Mirai has been widely shared and many malicious hacker groups have used it to seek out vulnerable devices they can take over and use to mount what are known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.\n\"There're multiple different botnets, each with a different owner,\" security researcher Kevin Beaumont told the BBC. \"Many are very low-skilled. Some are much better.\"\n'This feels serious' - BBC Africa's Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Liberia\nFor more than two weeks, my internet has not been working properly. At first I thought it was a problem with my internet provider, which often suffers from slow speeds. But this feels more serious.\nEven when you do get online, the connection repeatedly cuts out. I've spent the past week trying to upload some photos and audio to send to London, without success.\nA woman who runs a computer club for young people in the capital, Monrovia, tells me that they have been having trouble getting on to Facebook and that their connection has slowed in recent weeks.\nThe hotel I am staying at in the north-eastern town of Ganta is right next to the network tower of a company that provides my internet service, but the connection is still coming in and out.\nThe hackers behind the \"huge\" network that attacked Liberia, dubbed botnet#14, were \"much more skilled\", Mr Beaumont said.\n\"The attacks are extremely worrying because they suggest a Mirai operator who has enough capacity to seriously impact systems in a nation state,\" he wrote in a blogpost.\nNetwork firm Level 3 confirmed to tech news site ZDNet that it had seen attacks on telecoms firms in Liberia making access to the web spotty. Other reports suggested mobile net access was affected too.\nThe attacks varied in length with some lasting only 30 seconds and the longest being sustained for a few minutes. At times the amount of data being funnelled towards Liberia exceeded 600 gigabits per second.\nNet access in Liberia comes via an undersea cable whose capacity is shared with many other nations in West Africa.\n\"They're trying a number of different techniques for short bursts, against the companies who own the submarine cable to Liberia,\" said Mr Beaumont, adding that commands to botnet#14 seemed to originate in the Ukraine.\nMr Beaumont said the controllers of botnet#14 were refining their control of the attack system but it was not yet clear who it would be turned against next.\nA Twitter account, called #Miraiattacks has been set up by a security company to monitor the many different attack targets hit by Mirai botnets. Earlier targets included computer security firms, schools, food-ordering services and gaming sites.", "summary": "Liberia has been repeatedly cut off from the internet by hackers targeting its only link to the global network." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "West Bay's east and west beaches, in Dorset, were affected by flooding earlier this year and in 2014.\nWaves overtop the seawall and flood the road and properties behind West Beach, and East Beach is at risk of being \"significantly lost\", the Environment Agency said.\nOptions for new defences have gone on display at Bridport Town Council.\nA public consultation on the Environment Agency and West Dorset District Council plans will run throughout the winter.\nOptions at West Beach - where the beach is narrowing towards the eastern end - include rebuilding the existing seawall wall as a \"strong flood wall\", constructing a new groyne to the east and extending the existing groyne, the Environment Agency said.\nA rock structure could be constructed and buried under the sand at East Beach, as well as a new sea wall, set back from the seafront.\nThe proposals also aim to protect Park Dean Embankment, George Street Pumping Station and the Harbour Sluices, as well as the area along the River Bride from Freshwater to Burton Bradstock.\nDetailed design and construction is expected to take place between next year and 2019.", "summary": "Plans to protect two storm-hit beaches on the Jurassic Coast from future flooding have gone on display." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Using a large set of recordings of North Atlantic right whales, they found that detailed analysis of one particular type of call allowed them to single out individual whales.\nThe biologists want to explore whether acoustic identification could be useful for monitoring whales in the wild.\nPractically, however, this idea remains very difficult to put into practice.\nThe findings were presented at the spring conference of the Acoustical Society of America, in Pittsburgh.\nCurrent estimates suggest there are only around 450 North Atlantic right whales left in the wild. They feed on plankton off the east coast of the US and Canada, which is where the recordings were made that were used in the new study.\nSuction-cap sensors were attached to the backs of 13 right whales and used to record their vocalisations, over a period of more than a decade.\nMasters student Jessica McCordic and her supervisor Prof Susan Parks analysed these recordings in various ways to see if they could identify sonic signatures of the individual animals.\nThey concentrated on \"upcalls\", one of the most common noises made by this species. These are fairly low-pitched vocalisations that rise over about one or two seconds.\nBecause they are one of the most useful signatures for differentiating human voices, the researchers first looked at whether different whales made upcalls with obviously different \"formants\". Formants are the loudest frequencies in the stack of harmonics within a sound. It is formants that create the different vowel sounds in human speech.\n\"What I found was that there actually wasn't much difference in the formants, but one of the variables that came out as most important in discriminating the individuals was the duration of the call,\" Ms McCordic said.\nIt was a combined analysis of several properties, including the rate that the upcalls went up in pitch, their duration, as well as their formants, that eventually allowed successful identification.\n\"The analysis classified the whales well above chance levels, so that was really exciting,\" Ms McCordic added.\nShe and Prof Parks want to see if they can achieve the same feat using fixed microphones to record whale noises at a distance, in the wild. That could be a great help to conservationists monitoring this critically endangered species.\nDr Denise Risch, a postdoctoral researcher at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, was impressed by the findings. She said the work was \"very valuable and interesting\" but that it was limited in terms of application - for now.\n\"I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that we'll be able to apply this to passive acoustic monitoring,\" Dr Risch told the BBC.\n\"It would be great, but the problem is noise. You need really clear and close recordings in order to use data from stationary acoustics to tell individuals.\n\"We're still working on really good detectors, just to hear the calls themselves - our detectors are not that great yet.\n\"So in the future, it's definitely something that would be good to aim for. But it's difficult.\"", "summary": "US researchers say that they can distinguish individual whales based on the sound of the animals' voices." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 25-year-old Italian suffered a torn ligament taking a free-kick in the 1-1 draw with Southampton last Saturday and had to be replaced.\nIt leaves the club with Jermain Defoe, 33, as the only recognised striker alongside 17-year-old Swede Joel Asoro.\nSunderland missed out on the signing of Norwich forward Steven Naismith, 29, on transfer deadline day.\nManager David Moyes' other forward options are 22-year-old winger Duncan Watmore and Manchester United's on-loan winger Adnan Januzaj, after Jeremain Lens was loaned to Fenerbahce.\nThe Black Cats also missed out on re-signing midfielder Yann M'Vila from Russian side Rubin Kazan, who spent last season on loan at Wearside.\nBut they have a pre-contract agreement in place allowing the two clubs to negotiate again in January.\nM'Vila posted on social media that he was at Heathrow on transfer deadline day, but the two sides could not agree on a fee for a permanent transfer, with Kazan wanting 10m euros (£8.4m).\n\"We worked incredibly hard to try to get a striker in all through the window,\" Moyes told the Sunderland Echo. \"We didn't get anything late on, which we thought we would do.\n\"We may have to go and look into somebody who could give us an alternative for coming off the bench or a wee bit of back-up through the season.\"\nFree agents are still able to sign for clubs outside the transfer windows.\nSunderland confirmed a move for Boavista goalkeeper Mika was also unable to be completed before the transfer deadline on Wednesday.\nThey have appealed to football's world governing body Fifa after the paperwork was held up at the Portuguese end.\nMeanwhile, first-choice keeper Vito Mannone was scheduled to be out for three months after tearing elbow ligaments, but tweeted on Wednesday that he had had an operation and would be back \"sooner than expected\".\nMannone's deputy, Jordan Pickford, has returned from international duty with England's Under-21s with a slight thigh strain, although he is expected to be fit for the home league match against Everton on 12 September.\nSebastian Larsson is also injured, alongside key midfielders Lee Cattermole and Jan Kirchhoff.\nMoyes was only appointed Sunderland manager on 23 July - after Sam Allardyce left to take charge of England - and lost his first two Premier League games, including the 2-1 defeat by Middlesbrough.\nHe bought in defenders Donald Love and Paddy McNair from Manchester United for a combined £5.5m, Papy Djilobodji from Chelsea for £8m, midfielder Didier Ndong from Lorient for £13.6m, free agent Steven Pienaar, and completed the loan signings of Jason Denayer and Javier Manquillo.", "summary": "Sunderland striker Fabio Borini has been ruled out for three months with a groin injury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nOnly a heavy defeat will deny them a first Six Nations title since 2011 despite a dramatic finale that so nearly cost them dear at Twickenham.\nA first-half try from Anthony Watson and three penalties from Owen Farrell established a 16-0 half-time lead as the hosts took control.\nA charge-down try from Dan Biggar gave Wales hope but, with Maro Itoje outstanding, Farrell's boot appeared to have calmed any nerves left from the infamous collapse from a similar position in the World Cup last autumn.\nTwo tries in four minutes from George North and Talupe Faletau changed all that, and in the final moments North almost powered free again.\nBut England escaped, and Eddie Jones' first season in charge may yet end in triumph.\nNot since 2003 have England won the Grand Slam, and while they have been hammered in their past two deciding matches, they will start as favourites against a struggling France.\nThey could even be crowned Six Nations champions on Sunday, with France needing to beat Scotland at Murrayfield (15:00 GMT) to take the title race to the final weekend.\nAnd France will need to beat Scotland and England with a cumulative 59-point swing in order to deny England the title - although a win of any margin in Paris would prevent England from claiming the Grand Slam.\nEngland had begun at pace, the Welsh defensive line getting stretched and both Mike Brown and George Ford failing to make the most of scything breaks.\nFarrell slotted two quick penalties but with Dan Cole held up over the line they could and perhaps should have led by more.\nWales were being starved of the ball, Itoje disrupting their line-out and handling errors sucking away their momentum on the rare occasions they did have the ball.\nAnd it was Itoje's power with ball in hand that led to the game's first try, the young lock smashing through Biggar and Scott Baldwin before releasing Brown to send Watson in down the left for his 10th try in 19 Tests.\nWales had missed 19 tackles in the first half and shipped eight penalties, and after Brown and Jack Nowell cut further lines Farrell landed his fourth penalty to make it 19-0.\nAt last Warren Gatland's men won some territory, opting for a series of scrums from penalties in front of the posts, but each drive was absorbed by a white wall of defenders.\nIt took a pair of mistakes from England's half-backs to open the door - Youngs with a long inaccurate pass, Ford's clearing kick charged down by Biggar and the fly-half diving on the loose ball as it rolled under the posts.\nGatland threw on a replacement front row and then Justin Tipuric when his skipper Sam Warburton was carried off on a stretcher, and suddenly it was a different game.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nNorth went over in the left corner, only for referee Craig Joubert to rule it out for a questionable knock-on from Jonathan Davies,\nJones responded - Danny Care on for Youngs, Manu Tuilagi back in midfield, Farrell in to 10 in place of the struggling Ford.\nIt seemed to have worked, only for Wales to strike twice in the last seven minutes and cut the lead from 25-7 to within a single try.\nBut North was shoved into touch as he sprinted for the left-hand corner, and a comeback that would have outdone even the victories of last September and 2008 was just about denied.\nMaro Itoje was compared to a Vauxhall Viva by his coach at the start of this tournament, and to an Astra after the win over Ireland, but this was a Rolls-Royce of a display from the the young Saracens second row.\nEngland boss Eddie Jones: \"We made a number of changes on purpose to test players and to test the strength of the team [later in the game] and maybe those changes didn't work. If you look at our first 60 minutes there was some fantastic rugby. The Grand Slam is a reality and we can't wait to get to Paris and to do the business.\"\nRead more: Grand Slam is on for England - Jones\nWales boss Warren Gatland: \"I'm very disappointed with the first half. We looked tired and didn't look enthusiastic. I told the players they needed to come up with answers themselves. We wonder what could have been. We outscored them 3-1 in terms of tries but the best team won and I take my hat off to them.\"\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson: \"The two benches were going to be important and Wales had the better bench. Thankfully, the clock won for England.\"\nFormer Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies: \"England choked a bit towards the end and it was a delight to see Wales play a different game and show what they're capable of. England deserved the win, they were the better side for 70 minutes.\"\nEngland: Brown; Watson, Joseph, Farrell, Nowell; Ford, Youngs; Marler, Hartley, Cole, Itoje, Kruis, Robshaw, Haskell, B Vunipola.\nReplacements: Tuilagi for Ford (64), Daly for Joseph (74), Care for Youngs (63), M Vunipola for Marler (56), Cowan-Dickie for Hartley (71), Launchbury for Kruis (78), Brookes for Robshaw (71), Clifford for Haskell (67).\nSin Bin: Cole (72).\nWales: Williams, Cuthbert, J. Davies, Roberts, North, Biggar, G. Davies, Evans, Baldwin, Lee, B. Davies, Jones, Lydiate, Warburton, Faletau.\nReplacements: Priestland for Biggar (74), Webb for G. Davies (63), James for Evans (53), Owens for Baldwin (53), Francis for Lee (53), Charteris for Jones (63), Tipuric for Warburton (56).\nNot Used: Anscombe.\nRef: Craig Joubert (South Africa).", "summary": "England will go to Paris next weekend with a Grand Slam in their sights after hanging on against a resurgent Wales to secure the Triple Crown in an epic encounter." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Belgian coach Paul Put, who led Burkina Faso to the final of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, is being considered.\nAlso on the list is German Gernot Rohr, who has been in change of Gabon and Niger as well as Burkina Faso.\nThe other names are local coach Kanfory Lape Bangoura and French duo Jean Marc Nobilo and Bernard Simondi.\nBangoura is currently the caretaker coach of the Syli Nationale after Frenchman Luis Fernandez left the post in May.\nNobilo also has experience in Africa including a stint in charge of Benin and most recently with Algeria's under-20 team.\nSimondi, as well as Put and Rohr, has spent time in charge of Burkina Faso he has also coached at club level in Africa at Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia and Algerian sides Entente Setif and most recently CS Consntantine.\nThe five candidates are set for a final interview in Conakry on 13 July.\nGuinea are unable to qualify for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Gabon but have one final match to play against Zimbabwe in September.\nThe new coaches main task will be to lead the team in the 2018 World Cup campaign where they will play Tunisia, DR Congo and Libya with only the group winners to progress to the finals in Russia,", "summary": "The normalisation committee of the Guinea Football Federation has named a shortlist of five to be the new national team coach." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sergei Shoigu said radiation monitoring would also now go back to normal after being stepped up when the blaze started on wood decking near the Yekaterinburg.\nOfficials said there was no risk as its two reactors had been shut down. Nine people were hurt fighting the fire.\nPresident Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an investigation into the incident.\nOne of his deputy prime ministers has promised that the Yekaterinburg, a Delta-IV-class nuclear submarine, will be repaired within several months.\n\"According to preliminary information, the damage caused by the fire will not affect the ship's combat characteristics,\" Dmitriy Rogozin said.\nThe Yekaterinburg had been inside a dry dock at the Roslyakovo shipyard - on the Barents Sea coast, 1,500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow - on Thursday when wooden scaffolding around it caught fire.\nThe blaze soon spread to the submarine's rubber-coated outer hull.\nTelevision pictures showed thick smoke billowing from the top of the vessel as 11 fire crews doused the flames with water from helicopters and tug boats. The submarine was later partially submerged in an effort to extinguish the blaze.\nThe fire was contained at 01:40 on Friday (21:40 GMT on Thursday), according to the emergency situations ministry, but by the morning, the submarine was still smouldering, and firefighters were still working at the scene, pouring water over the outer hull as well as the space between it and the inner hull, reports said.\nA law enforcement source told Russian news agencies that seven servicemen at the shipyard and two emergency ministry personnel had suffered from smoke inhalation.\nOn Friday afternoon, Mr Shoigu told a meeting of officials the fire had been \"put out completely\", and that there was \"no open burning\".\nHe said that the cooling of the submarine's hull would continue.\n29 Dec: Blaze engulfs hull of Delta-IV-class nuclear submarine, Yekaterinburg, during repair work at Roslyakovo shipyard, north of Murmansk\n14 Dec: Fire in living quarters of nuclear-powered icebreaker, Vaygach, in Kara Sea. Two crew-members were reportedly killed\nFeb 2010: Blaze on partially-decommissioned nuclear submarine, Ak Bars, at Severodvinsk, near Archangel, on Barents Sea coast\nOct 2009: Fire during decommissioning work on nuclear submarine, Kazan, at Severodvinsk\nMar 2009: Blaze on hull of partially-decommissioned nuclear submarine, Orenburg, at Severodvinsk\nMr Shoigu also said that \"the heightened regime of monitoring the radiation situation\" on board and in the surrounding area would be lifted.\nEarlier, officials insisted the submarine's two nuclear reactors had already been shut down and that radiation levels on board and in the area were normal.\n\"These parameters are within the limits of natural radiation fluctuation levels. There is no threat to the population,\" the emergency ministry said.\nThe vessel's 16 inter-continental ballistic missiles, each with four warheads, had also been removed when the repair work began, officials said.\nSome of the crew remained on board the submarine during the fire to monitor temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, they added.\nThe Russian Navy's Commander-in-Chief, Adm Vladimir Vysotskiy, and Chief of the Navy Staff Adm Aleksandr Tatarinov are at Roslyakovo to oversee the operation.\nSafety on Russian navy submarines is a sensitive issue for the military following the Kursk disaster in August 2000.\nThe Kursk nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea off north-west Russia, killing all 118 seamen on board. Investigators concluded that an explosion of fuel from one of its torpedoes caused the sinking.", "summary": "The huge fire that engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk region has been put out, the emergency minister says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Olive Cooke, 92, joined the Royal British Legion when she was 16 and still sells poppies from the cathedral ahead of every remembrance week.\nMrs Cooke, of Fishponds, will receive the honour from Bristol's Lord Mayor, Councillor Alistair Watson.\nShe is thought to be one of the UK's longest-serving poppy sellers.\nThe Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, Sarah Watson, have invited Mrs Cooke for afternoon tea at the Mansion House where she will be presented with her medal.\nThe honour recognises people in Bristol whose voluntary and community work or charitable acts serve the city.\nMrs Cooke has already received a Points of Light award from the prime minister and a Gold Star award from the Bristol Post in recognition of her tireless efforts.\nShe was originally inspired by her father who helped to set up the Bedminster branch of the Royal British Legion.\nHer first husband Leslie Hussey-Yeo was a sailor in the Royal Navy who had just returned from two-and-a-half years in Hong Kong when they met.\nHe was planning to leave the service and settle down but the outbreak of World War Two meant he had to continue serving on the submarines.\nMrs Cooke became a war widow at the age of 21 when he was killed during the Sicily invasion in March 1943.\nHis death led Mrs Cooke to fully commit herself to the Royal British Legion.", "summary": "A woman who has sold poppies every November for 76 years is to be presented with the Bristol Lord Mayor's Medal to thank her for her service." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary after the incident during an under-19s match.\nHis family said they acknowledged \"that this was a tragic accident\".\n\"We are absolutely devastated to lose Ronan so tragically and suddenly. He was a loving and caring 17-year-old lad,\" they added in a statement.\n\"He was dedicated to his family and friends and was a credit to all of his family. We are so proud of him and his achievements.\n\"We are all truly heartbroken and Ronan will be missed and forever in our hearts.\"\nRugby Football League (RFL) chief executive Nigel Wood said: \"We are all incredibly saddened by news of the death of Huddersfield Giants academy player Ronan Costello.\n\"It is a terrible tragedy and our thoughts and prayers are with Ronan's family and friends at this time.\n\"We will work with both clubs involved in the game to ensure that the players, their families and friends are fully supported by the RFL Benevolent Fund and through Sporting Chance.\"\nThe Huddersfield Examiner reported it was believed the young player \"sustained a serious head or neck injury during an unremarkable challenge\".\nThe Giants have not disclosed how the teenager was injured but said in a statement: \"It is with regret that Huddersfield Giants wish to inform everyone of the passing of 17-year-old academy player Ronan Costello.\n\"The club have been asked by the family to send their thanks for the messages of support they have received to date and have requested that all well-wishers now allow them to grieve and respect their privacy.\n\"The Huddersfield Giants are collating all messages, cards and tweets that they receive to pass to the family at the appropriate time.\"\nSalford Red Devils posted this statement on their website: \"The players, staff and fans of Salford Red Devils wish to extend their deepest sympathy to the family of Huddersfield Giants academy player Ronan Costello who passed away today after being injured in the under-19s game against us on Saturday.\n\"Our thoughts are with his family, friends and team-mates at this tragic time.\"\nEngland internationals Sam Tomkins and Josh Charnley, plus Castleford's New Zealand international Denny Solomona were among those to pay tribute.\nHuddersfield's Super League rivals sent messages of support to friends and family of the young player, who had yet to feature in a first-team game.\nWarrington Wolves tweeted: \"All at the Wolves send our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Ronan Costello.\"\nWakefield Trinity Wildcats, who beat Huddersfield 10-2 on Sunday, said: \"Our sincere condolences go out to Ronan's family, friends and team-mates at Huddersfield Giants.\"\nWigan Warriors posted this message on Twitter: \"Our thoughts go out to the family, team-mates and friends of Huddersfield Giants under-19s player Ronan Costello.\"", "summary": "Huddersfield Giants academy player Ronan Costello has died at the age of 17 after being injured during a game against Salford on Saturday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The comments came after it emerged the company had successfully appealed some large penalties.\nFriends of the Earth said the government-owned company had reduced some pollution fines by more than 50%.\nNI Water said it appeals in less than one in 10 cases and had a duty to \"safeguard public money\".\nIt only appealed when it felt it was appropriate, it said.\nA Freedom of Information request revealed that NI Water had successfully appealed five cases out of 65 since 2008.\nIn 2014, a £10,000 fine for polluting the Cusher River from a sewage treatment plant at Tandragee, County Armagh was reduced to £5,000.\nAnd in 2012, fines for two separate pollution incidents at Moneyreagh in County Down were cut from a combined figure of £12,000 to £3,000.\nIn the most recent case, a fine of £7,500 handed down earlier this year after an discharge from a facility in Saintfield, County Down, was cut to £2,000 on appeal.\nThe maximum fine for a pollution offence in Northern Ireland is £20,000.\nDirector of Friends of the Earth James Orr said the company seemed to have made a \"strategic decision to manage the risk to itself by appealing certain fines\".\n\"We would prefer to see the strategic effort of a publicly-owned company to act in the public interest by managing the risk to rivers and lakes.\"\nNI Water was recently involved in a serious pollution incident from a treatment works at Annsborough near Castlewellan.\nLast week, it was fined £13,000 for polluting the Blackwater River near Balloo in County Down.\nMr Orr said the level of fines in Northern Ireland was not a deterrent.\nIn Great Britain, the fines for pollution by what are privately-owned utility companies are much higher.\nA spokesman for NI Water said a decision on appeals was taken \"on the merits of each individual case\".\nHe said it had invested £500m in the last three years upgrading the sewerage network and treatment facilities.\n\"Over the years, our work across the waste water network has done more to improve the quality of our water courses than it has ever done to harm them,\" he said.\nEvery year, the company returns 1.3bn litres of waste water from more than 1,000 treatment plants into 2,500 rivers.\nLast year, it was responsible for 21 high or medium severity pollution incidents.", "summary": "NI Water is \"more interested in avoiding heavy fines than avoiding serious pollution\", according to an environmental group." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In a first for immunisation, the animals rapidly produced special types of antibody that can neutralise HIV.\nIt is thought cows evolved a supreme immune defence due to their complex and bacteria-packed digestive system.\nThe US National Institutes of Health said the findings were of \"great interest\".\nHIV is a slippery and nefarious opponent. It mutates so readily that every time a patient's immune system finds a way of attacking the virus, HIV shifts its appearance.\nHowever, a small proportion of patients eventually develop \"broadly neutralising antibodies\" after years of infection. These attack parts the virus cannot change.\nA vaccine that could train the immune system to make broadly neutralising antibodies should help prevent people being infected in the first place.\nBut no jab can do the job.\nThen researchers at the International Aids Vaccine Initiative and the Scripps Research Institute tried immunising cows.\n\"The response blew our minds,\" Dr Devin Sok, one of the researchers, told the BBC News website.\nThe required antibodies were being produced by the cow's immune system in a matter of weeks.\nDr Sok added: \"It was just insane how good it looked, in humans it takes three-to-five years to develop the antibodies we're talking about.\n\"This is really important because we hadn't been able to do it period.\n\"Who would have thought cow biology was making a significant contribution to HIV.\"\nThe results, published in the journal Nature, showed the cow's antibodies could neutralise 20% of HIV strains within 42 days.\nBy 381 days, they could neutralise 96% of strains tested in the lab.\nDr Dennis Burton, a fellow researcher, said: \"The potent responses in this study are remarkable.\n\"Unlike human antibodies, cattle antibodies are more likely to bear unique features and gain an edge over HIV.\"\nUnusually for human antibodies, the broadly neutralising ones have a long and loopy structure. Cow antibodies are inherently more long and loopy.\nSo the cow immune system finds making the antibodies easily.\nIt is thought the cow's \"ruminant\" digestive system which ferments grass in order to digest it is a Wild West of hostile bacteria. So the animals have developed the antibodies needed to keep them in check.\nIt means cattle could eventually become a source of drugs to make more effective vaginal microbicides to prevent HIV infection.\nHowever, the real goal is to develop a vaccine that encourages the human immune system to make the antibodies it currently finds a struggle.\nThat remains a significant challenge, but the cattle study could help point the way.\nDr Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said: \"From the early days of the epidemic, we have recognized that HIV is very good at evading immunity, so exceptional immune systems that naturally produce broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV are of great interest - whether they belong to humans or cattle.\"\nFollow James on Twitter.", "summary": "Cows have shown an \"insane\" and \"mind-blowing\" ability to tackle HIV which will help develop a vaccine, say US researchers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Signals recorded from boats' electronic \"black boxes\" show a large presence inside Libyan waters, a major spawning ground for the endangered bluefin tuna.\nSeveral strands of evidence, including a letter from a former industry source, suggest the involvement of EU boats.\nThe issue will be aired this week at the annual meeting of Iccat, which regulates tuna fishing in the region.\nThe European Commission believes any fishing in Libyan waters this year could be judged illegal.\nEU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki told BBC News that she is also investigating whether Italian authorities made bilateral deals with Libya on tuna-fishing, which would contravene EU regulations.\nThe annual meeting of Iccat - the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas - opens in Istanbul on Friday, preceded by two days of talks within its Compliance Committee, which will begin to assess whether rules have been broken.\nAfter the Libyan civil conflict began in February, Ms Damanaki's office was set to request a suspension of all tuna fishing in Libyan waters, given that the breakdown in governance made regulation difficult.\nOn 7 April, Libyan authorities, in one of a series of letters obtained by BBC News, told Iccat that because of the \"recent and exceptional circumstances\" they were going to suspend all tuna fishing in their waters voluntarily.\nThree weeks later, Libya sent another letter to Iccat cancelling the suspension, without citing its reasons.\nIccat chairman Fabio Hazin asked Libya to reconsider. It was too late to procure international observers for the vessels, as regulations require, he said; and Iccat members did not have the time needed to discuss and approve Libya's proposed fishing plan.\nIn response to further correspondence, Dr Hazin and Compliance Committee chairman Christopher Rogers told Libyan official Nuredin Esarbout that \"fishing by the Libyan fleet... in 2011 might be in contravention\" of Iccat rules.\nMs Damanaki further warned that any catches would be \"well on track to be deemed illegal\".\nShe asked EU member states to \"monitor the activities of your national operators\" to make sure they were not catching or trading potentially illegal fish.\nShe also warned that she stood ready to use recently adopted EU rules on illegal fishing against anyone involved in such activities.\nUnder Iccat rules, all purse seine boats - the type most common in bluefin operations - have to be equipped with a Vessel Monitoring System (VMS), an electronic gadget that transmits information including the boat's location every six hours.\nThe statistical report prepared for the forthcoming meeting - also obtained by BBC News - includes a map showing the number of VMS signals received from various locations in the Mediterranean during the 2011 fishing season.\nThe biggest bursts of activity are in the spawning grounds where bluefin gather in the early summer; and this includes the waters off the Libyan coast.\nThis map does not show which vessels were operating there, although Iccat is believed to have this information.\nAccording to environmental groups that monitor tuna-fishing ports, vessels authorised to fish in Libyan waters did not do so, remaining in French and Maltese ports all season.\nIf that is correct, it implies that boats from other Iccat member states were operating there, which would be illegal.\nAs well as the area extending 12 nautical miles off the coast which is the Mediterranean standard for territorial waters, Libya claims the whole of the Gulf of Sirte covering 57,000 sq km (22,000 sq miles) and a further \"exclusive fishing zone\" extending 62 nautical miles into the Med.\nIt is one of six main spawning grounds that purse seine vessels target. The nets are drawn around the roiling shoals like a basket, and the fish are subsequently transferred to cages that are slowly towed to \"ranches\" or \"farms\" for fattening before death and sale.\nA letter recently sent to WWF and Greenpeace - which work closely together on the bluefin issue - by an experienced hand in the bluefin tuna fishery says illegal operations have been rife in the southern part of the Mediterranean for years.\nAt different times, he says, operators based in Spain, France, Malta and Italy have been involved.\nIn 2010, Italy voluntarily closed tuna fishing in its own waters. But, the informant writes, Italian fishermen were transported to Libya by means that evaded border controls, and fished there instead.\nHe also accuses EU fleets of using planes to spot aggregations of spawning tuna, which has been banned since 2006; catching undersized fish; and operating with such little regard for bad weather that entire hauls of fish ended up dead in the water.\n\"Would you like to know where all these dead fish are? They are on the sea floor!\", he writes.\nGovernment inspectors, he says, \"can be bought for a cigarette packet\".\nThe letter has been forwarded to Iccat.\nAlthough reports from fisheries academics and environment groups have regularly condemned aspects of the Mediterranean bluefin industry down the years, first-hand reports from people this close to the industry are rare, partly because of intimidation.\nBut, the source says, he is moved to \"repentance\" because of the \"incredible things\" he has seen.\nHis letter is very specific, naming companies, locations, activities, time periods and catch sizes.\nHow closely the source's claims are related to the European Commission investigation of possible bilateral deals between Italy and Libya is not clear, as Ms Damanaki preferred not to elaborate on the nature of that investigation.\nFrom an ecological point of view, a plunder in Libyan waters would be disturbing.\nThe northern bluefin was classified as endangered on the internationally accepted Red List earlier this year.\nEnvironment groups are urging Iccat and the EU to act swiftly.\n\"The real plundering of the bluefin tuna population in Libyan waters by local and foreign fleets makes a strong case for a ban of the fishery in those waters from 2012,\" said Sergi Tudela, head of WWF's Mediterranean fisheries operation.\n\"Actually, this area must be turned into a bluefin tuna sanctuary protecting one of the most important breeding grounds for this iconic species,\" he told BBC News.\nWWF and the other environment groups involved in the issue continue to warn that the basic problem across the region is over-capacity - there are simply too many boats that need to exceed their catch quotas in order to turn a profit.\nLast month, a report from the Pew Environment Group calculated that 140% more bluefin flesh entered the market from the Mediterranean than was declared by fishing boat skippers.\n\"Fifteen years after tuna farming started in the Mediterranean, it's still impossible to know the biomass of tuna originally caged in every farm, which prevents achieving traceability in this fishery,\" said Dr Tudela.\n\"The moment has come for Iccat Parties to ban tuna farming.\"\nFollow Richard on Twitter", "summary": "Evidence is emerging of unregulated and probably illegal tuna fishing in Libyan waters during this year's conflict." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "St Benet's Hall trustees have decided female students will be able to apply from this autumn.\nProf Werner Jeanrond, master of St Benet's, said it was \"self evident\" both women and men should be admitted.\nLast week Oxford University announced its first female vice-chancellor, Louise Richardson.\nAll-male and all-female colleges have been switching to admitting both men and women since the early 1970s.\nThis process of colleges for undergraduates becoming co-educational is now complete.\nSt Benet's is one of Oxford's \"private permanent halls\", which tend to be smaller, specialist institutions.\nIt has links to the Catholic Benedictine religious order, but admits students of all faiths.\nProf Jeanrond said the barrier to admitting women had been practical, with the hall needing to find extra space for accommodation, but a suitable building had now been found.\n\"Some people would love Oxford to be a museum - but I don't,\" said Prof Jeanrond.\n\"It depends on how you view tradition. Is it something that you contribute to or something that is an exhibit in a museum?\"", "summary": "The last all-male academic institution at Oxford University admitting undergraduates has voted unanimously to admit female undergraduate students." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Benigno Aquino told the New York Times that the world must learn a lesson from 1938, when the UK and France allowed Hitler his claims to Czech territory.\nChina claims parts of the South China Sea which the Philippines disputes.\nThe spat is the latest in a war of words between China and its neighbours.\nMr Aquino called on the world to do more to support his country against China's claims to its nearby seas.\n\"At what point do you say: 'Enough is enough'? Well, the world has to say it. Remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War II,\" Mr Aquino said.\nThe Sudetenland was part of what was then called Czechoslovakia before the UK and France agreed to allow Hitler to take it.\nThe comments quickly drew the ire of China's official state news agency Xinhua, which published an article calling Mr Aquino \"ignorant\".\nThe remarks \"exposed his true colours as an amateurish politician, who was ignorant both of history and reality\", the article said.\nChina claims ownership of large parts of the South China Sea, including the Spratly Islands and the Scarborough Shoal, which lie off the coast of the Philippines.\nChina says its claim stems from 2,000 years of historical convention, but the Philippines and Vietnam, among others, dispute this.\nThe remarks are the latest in a war of words between China and the other countries in the region with which it has territorial disputes.\nJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe caused controversy at the economic forum in Davos last month, when he said that China and Japan were \"in a similar situation\" to Germany and Britain just before the outbreak of World War I.\nHe said that strong trade ties did not in themselves preclude the outbreak of war.\nMr Abe went on to criticise China's annual double-digit increase in military spending, saying it was a major source of instability in the region.\nIn response, Xinhua referred to Mr Abe as the \"disgraced Japanese prime minister\".", "summary": "China's state news agency has branded Philippine President Benigno Aquino a \"disgrace\" for his comments warning the world not to appease China like Europe once appeased Nazi Germany." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Three days after breaking the British indoor 5,000m record, the 23-year-old Scot will run the anchor leg for GB in the 4 x 1km race in Holyrood Park.\n\"I've ran here many times before in the inter district events as a kid.\n\"I think it makes you that bit tougher, especially Scottish cross county,\" she told BBC Scotland.\n\"They are a bit challenging so it's great to get out there across the mud and the different terrain and hopefully stay on two feet.\"\nMuir is relishing the added responsibility of being named GB captain for the Edinburgh event, with the likes of Steph Twell, Beth Potter and Jessica Judd running the women's 6km race, and Sir Mo Farah and Callum Hawkins competing in the men's 8km event.\n\"It's my first time as GB captain so it's a great honour,\" she added. \"I was really, really proud to be selected considering the athletes in the team.\n\"To have a GB cap is also a big thing, but to be team captain is very special and where else better to do it than on home soil in Edinburgh.\"\nMuir, who is also studying to be a vet at Glasgow University, will fly to South Africa for winter training after Saturday's race as she prepares for two major events this year.\nShe hopes to win medals at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade in early March, and outdoors at the World Championships in London in August, after finishing seventh in the 1500m Olympic final in Rio last summer.\n\"I am pretty hopeful,\" she said. \"The girls that were in front of me, I have beaten them on quite a few occasions. So it is just a matter of getting a good race on the day.\n\"I think it is definitely within my capabilities of placing higher than I have done previously and hopefully getting up into the medals. I think I am capable of achieving that.\"\nOne observer who agrees is BBC athletics commentator Brendan Foster, a former European and Commonwealth champion and Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist.\nFoster hailed Muir's 5,000m indoor record - which took almost 15 seconds off fellow Scot Liz McColgan-Nuttall's previous mark - as a \"phenomenal performance\".\n\"I've watched her in action and I know her strength and her speed combined would give her that sort of time,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\"Laura is extremely well respected as an international athlete. The spectators coming to this event will be looking at a real champion.\"\nFoster tips Muir to become one of Britain's headline acts on the track, with Sir Mo Farah concentrating on the marathon after this summer.\n\"Muir is one of a few who can fill the boots of Mo,\" he added. \"She is phenomenal. The next step for her is to win a title and the European Indoors gives her that chance.\n\"She's ran at the World Championships [finishing fifth in 2015], she ran the Olympics and at the Commonwealth Games, so she's done her apprenticeship. The thing now is can she go to the next stage and win something?\n\"The medals will definitely come. There will definitely be a picture on your website where you see Laura Muir with a gold medal.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device", "summary": "Record-breaking Laura Muir is braced for a different challenge on Saturday when she competes in the relay event at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Santos called the development \"a great step towards peace\".\nThe ELN, or National Liberation Army, is not part of the peace talks with Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc, but its leaders have expressed interest in joining the negotiations.\nThe government has insisted that the ELN must first release its hostages.\nThe left-wing group has around 1,500 members, officials say.\nThe 30-strong group surrendered their arms in the south-eastern region of Cauca.\nSpeaking in Cali, Mr Santos personally greeted the rebels, among them three pregnant women, who surrendered their arms and equipment.\n\"This is what the [peace] process is about. So every member of the ELN and the Farc follows their path fighting for their ideals, but without violence and without arms,\" he said.\nThis is the biggest single ELN contingent to surrender, Mr Santos said.\nOn Monday, Farc's chief peace negotiator said the armed conflict that has lasted nearly five decades was nearing its end.\nIvan Marquez, who is taking part in talks with the Colombian government in Cuba, called on left-wing parties and unions to join the effort to achieve peace.\nThe government wants to sign a peace accord by November.\nBut Mr Marquez warned against rushing into a settlement.\n\"It is possible [to reach an agreement by November]. But to achieve peace you need time. A bad peace deal is worse than war,\" he said in an interview with Colombian network RCN.\nThe first direct talks between Colombia's largest rebel group and the government were launched in November last year.\nSo far, however, the ELN has been left out of the talks.\nLast month, in what was seen as an attempt to get the rival rebels to join the talks, the Farc issued a statement saying the two groups were discussing \"unification\".\nQ&A: Colombia peace talks\nBut the government insists that the rebels must first lay down their arms and surrender all hostages.\nThe group recently released a Colombian soldier but is believed to be holding other hostages.\nChief government negotiator Humberto de la Calle said the aim of the Cuban peace talks was to get the rebels to give up their armed struggle and join the political process.\nAgreement has already been achieved on land reform, but the negotiations are continuing on five other items on the agenda.\nThe Farc negotiator said recently that a Constitutional Assembly should be called to endorse the agreements reached in Cuba.\nThe Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) are thought to have some 8,000 fighters, down from about 16,000 in 2001.\nThis is the fourth attempt at a negotiated peace deal since the beginning of the conflict in the 1960s.", "summary": "Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has met 30 rebels of the ELN, the country's second largest armed group, who laid down their arms." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 20-year-old, who joined City for £49m from Liverpool on 14 July, ran through on goal before finishing.\nSterling started on the left side of a front three that included David Silva and teenage forward Kelechi Iheanacho before being substituted at half-time.\nIheanacho also scored in a game City won 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw.\nThe game was City's first in the International Champions Cup tournament in which they face Real Madrid on Friday.\nSterling, who became the most expensive English player ever when he made the move from Liverpool to City, slipped on the ball after 49 seconds of the game and later had a strong call for a penalty turned down.\nHe appeared to be fouled inside the area by Alessandro Florenzi, but the referee waved play on.\nMiralem Pjanic equalised for Roma with a stunning long-range strike before Iheanacho pounced on a poor Ashley Cole back pass to regain the lead for City early in the second half.\nRoma's Adem Ljajic curled home a free-kick with three minutes remaining to take the game to penalties, where Joe Hart made two saves and also scored to give City the win.", "summary": "New Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling scored three minutes into his debut in a friendly against Roma at the MCG in Melbourne on Tuesday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The April 2018 goal to protect under-18s was revealed as digital minister Matt Hancock signed the commencement order for the Digital Economy Act, which introduces the requirement.\nBut details as to how the scheme will work have yet to be finalised.\nExperts who advised ministers said the targeted date seemed \"unrealistic\".\nThe act also sets out other new laws including punishing the use of bots to snatch up scores of concert tickets, and mandating the provision of subtitles on catch-up TV.\nThe age-check requirement applies to any website or other online platform that provides pornography \"on a commercial basis\" to people in the UK.\nIt allows a regulator to fine any business that refuses to comply and to ask third-party payment services to withdraw support.\nThe watchdog will also be able to force internet providers to block access to non-compliant services.\nMinisters have suggested one of several ways this might work would be for pornographic sites to demand credit card details before providing any access, since in the UK consumers typically have to be over 18 to have a card of their own.\nBut the specifics are being left to the as-yet unappointed regulator to determine.\nWhile it has been proposed that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) will assume this role, a spokesman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport said the appointment would not be formalised until the autumn.\n\"We are already working closely with DCMS to ensure the effective implementation of the act,\" a spokeswoman for the BBFC told the BBC, but added that it was too early to say more about what guidance it might issue.\nThe measure has been welcomed by child protection charities including Childnet.\n\"Protecting children from exposure, including accidental exposure, to adult content is incredibly important, given the effect it can have on young people,\" said its chief executive Will Gardner.\n\"Steps like this help restrict access.\"\nMindgeek, which operates several of the world's most popular porn sites, has also previously indicated support.\nBut two experts who advised the government on its plans have expressed reservations about both how quickly the scheme is being rolled out and its wider implications.\n\"It seems to me to be a very premature date,\" commented Dr Victoria Nash, lead author of a report commissioned in the run-up to the law being drafted.\n\"The idea you can get a regulatory body up and running in that timeframe seems extraordinary to me.\n\"And while I don't have a problem with asking these companies to act responsibly, I don't see it as a solution to stopping minors seeing pornography.\"\nThis, she explained, was because the act does not tackle the fact that services including Twitter and Tumblr contain hardcore pornography but will not be required to introduce age-checks. Nor, she added, would teens be prevented from sharing copied photos and clips among themselves.\n\"It may make it harder for children to stumble across pornography, especially in the younger age range, but it will do nothing to stop determined teenagers,\" Dr Nash concluded.\nOne cyber-security expert on the same advisory panel was more critical.\n\"The timeline is unrealistic - but beyond that, this is one of the worst proposals I have seen on digital strategy,\" said Dr Joss Wright from the Oxford Internet Institute.\n\"There are hundreds of thousands of websites where this material can be accessed and you are not going to catch all of those.\n\"There's privacy issues - you're requiring people to effectively announce the fact they are looking at this material to the credit card authorities.\n\"And there's serious security issues from requiring people to enter their credit card details into untrusted sites.\n\"They may well say there will be other magical ways to do the age check, but I very much doubt they will be non-discriminatory [against adults without credit cards], transparent, privacy-preserving and secure for end-users.\"\nOther topics covered by the act on which work can now formally begin include:\nSome provisions set out by the act have already come into force, including the introduction of a \"broadband universal service obligation\" to give households the right to request download speeds of at least 10 megabits per second, and increased fines for firms behind nuisance calls.\n\"The Digital Economy Act is about building a strong, safe and connected economy,\" said Mr Hancock.\n\"It will secure better support for consumers, better protection for children on the internet, and underpin a radical transformation of government services.\"", "summary": "A nine-month countdown to the introduction of compulsory age checks on online pornography seen from the UK has begun." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay has said the volunteers will not replace any of its 400 workers.\nThe arts centre said volunteers would be given travel expenses.\nIts volunteer programme was inspired by last year's Roald Dahl's City of the Unexpected, when 5,000 people pitched in to help with events around Cardiff celebrating the author's centenary.\nManaging director Mathew Milsom said many arts organisations ran successful volunteer schemes which helped \"to increase access to art, culture and creativity in an innovative and rewarding way\".\nThey will receive training, a uniform and will be able to watch shows.", "summary": "Wales' biggest performing arts centre has launched an appeal for up to 200 unpaid workers to help run the venue." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mobile phone footage showing the woman, the footballers and another woman in bed on Saturday night has been played to jurors at Hull Crown Court.\nCabral, whose real name is Adilson Tavares Varela, is accused of raping the 21-year-old at his flat in Gateshead in January 2015.\nHe denies two counts of rape.\nMr Varela's barrister Kitty Taylor asked the woman: \"What on earth were you thinking?\n\"Preparing for this event by going out on Saturday night and ending up in bed with two professional footballers in the early hours of the morning?\" she asked.\nThe woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she \"didn't class them as footballers\" and had been in bed with her best friend.\nShe denied she had sex with either of the men in the video.\nShe had only had a relationship with one other player in the past, she said.\nMs Taylor asked whether she \"liked and sought out the company of\" black, professional footballers, which the woman repeatedly said was not the case.\nThe woman rejected Ms Taylor's contention that she was attracted to men \"who have money, who can flash the cash on a Saturday night\".\nWhen the woman said she always paid her way, Ms Taylor asked if she could afford £1,200 magnums of vodka, such as the one bought by Mr Varela in a nightclub they visited.\nThe complainant said she had a lot of money for her birthday.\nShe also denied accusing the 27-year-old midfielder of rape to get compensation and said she had not known he was a footballer until last month.\nCrying, she said she only wanted \"this man to go to jail for what he's done\".\nCabral, from the island of Cape Verde, only made one Premier League appearance for Sunderland in 2013-14 and now plays for Swiss club FC Zurich.\nSunderland announced on 2 February 2015 that the player had left the club by mutual consent.", "summary": "A woman accusing a former Sunderland footballer of rape went to bed with two other players just a day before his trial began, a jury has heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Paul Crowther told Holyrood's justice committee of a \"real challenge\" in replacing officers amid a \"significant outflow of expertise\".\nHe told MSPs of the bomb threats, fatalities and near-death incidents officers often have to deal with.\nPolice Scotland has called the merger plan \"complex but not insurmountable\".\nHolyrood is currently considering a bill which would pave the way to absorbing the functions of the British Transport Police (BTP) into Police Scotland north of the border by April 2019.\nThe Scottish government has long wanted to integrate the service into Police Scotland, seeing it as the most \"efficient and effective\" way of delivering policing across the country.\nThe Railway Policing (Scotland) Bill confers extra policing powers on the Scottish Police Authority and the Police Service of Scotland, but further legislation would be needed at Holyrood and Westminster to transfer staff, properties and cross-border policing functions.\nMr Crowther told the justice committee that that railway policing is \"substantially different\" to that undertaken in geographic forces.\nHe noted that BTP officers dealt with \"25 to 30 bomb threats a month\" due to abandoned baggage, and hundreds of incidents where people are either \"restrained from jumping or removed from the tracks, in close proximity to death\". Some officers could deal with 12 to 15 fatalities each per year, he added.\nThe committee has received written evidence from BTP officers warning of a \"dilution\" of skills, with some officers choosing to transfer to other areas or forces rather than join Police Scotland.\nNoting that several experienced senior staff are due to retire in the two years leading up to the proposed merger, Mr Crowther said it might potentially be difficult to replace them in a non-specialist force like Police Scotland.\nHe said: \"There is an interesting and significant outflow of expertise and transport policing ethos, and that then needs to be replenished.\n\"It's replenished in an organisation that has that as its sole focus. I think it would be a real challenge to replenish that in an organisation whose focus is in many other areas of policing rather than transport policing.\"\nPolice Scotland's Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins acknowledged there was a \"risk that the skill base will be diluted\", but added that \"it's my job to make sure that doesn't happen\".\nHe said railway training will eventually form part of the basic training for all Police Scotland officers, saying this would result in \"17,000 officers with the skills to operate within the railway environment\", alongside a smaller number with \"bespoke\" specialist skills.\nMr Higgins said that while officers could \"potentially\" be redeployed in the case of a major incident, there would \"absolutely\" be a specialist transport policing unit and those transferring in from BTP would have the right to remain policing only the railways until they retire.\nAsked by Conservative MSP Douglas Ross if two years was enough time to carry out the merger, Mr Higgins said that was \"frankly a luxury, based on what we've had to do previously\".\nMeanwhile, committee convener Margaret Mitchell pointed out that railway policing officers elsewhere in the UK are trained to carry tasers, while in Scotland only specialist firearms officers are armed with them.\nMr Higgins said he would have to \"assess the threat within the wider rail network\" to see if it was \"appropriate\" to continue to allow railway policing staff in Scotland to carry tasers after the merger, while finding \"the best way to mitigate threat\".\nThe committee received written evidence from twoanonymous officers who both warned that some BTP staff will seek to transfer to other forces rather than move to Police Scotland.\nOne told the committee that some officers had already left for BTP units in England and Wales, while some in Scotland had left \"due to the uncertainty over the proposed merger\", as they \"do not want to join Police Scotland for a variety of reasons\".\nThese officers also said cross-border train services would \"notice a poorer quality of service\" and that \"criminals that travel across the border could potentially be missed\" due to the different BTP and Police Scotland computer systems.\nThe BTP submission also noted the \"specialist approach\" and \"seamless\" coverage across the border, which \"avoids the need for officers to disembark\" between Scotland and England.\nPolice Scotland's submission highlighted the intention to \"retain the current specialist skills and knowledge built up by BTP officers to ensure a smooth transition into Police Scotland\", adding a training programme would be developed to \"upskill\" current frontline Police Scotland officers.\nThe force added: \"Devolution of railway policing will have no detrimental impact on cross-border security arrangements.\n\"BTP and Police Scotland currently work together on a number of cross-border operations and this close working relationship would be expected to continue with BTP colleagues south of the border, following April 2019.\"", "summary": "The chief constable of British Transport Police has warned plans for a merger with Police Scotland could lead to a loss of specialist skills." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He also announced sanctions on over 400 people and 90 legal entities held responsible for Russia's annexation of Crimea and the conflict in the east.\nThe leader of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic earlier confirmed the elections would be held on 18 October.\nThe neighbouring Luhansk rebel region wants to stage elections on 1 November.\nThe government in Kiev - backed by the EU and the US - says such votes would be in violation of the peace deal signed in Minsk, Belarus, in February.\nThe agreement envisages that elections in the rebel-held parts can only be held according to Ukrainian law.\nThe dates of the rebel elections also conflict with Ukraine's plan to hold local polls in the government-controlled regions on 25 October.\nFor their part, the pro-Russian separatists and Moscow accuse Ukraine of not adhering to the deal.\n\"I want to stress on the great danger posed by the decision to hold fake elections on 18 October and 1 November,\" President Poroshenko said on Wednesday.\nHe also said the rebel move required a \"firm\" response, signing a decree to apply sanctions for one year against more than 400 individuals and 90 companies.\nMr Poroshenko stressed that the sanctions decision was taken \"in co-ordination with our partners from the European Union, the United States of America and other countries\".\nThe blacklist includes top Russian government officials and separatist leaders in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.\nA number of foreign journalists - including some from the BBC - are also on the list.\nIn response, BBC's foreign editor Andrew Roy said: \"This is a shameful attack on media freedom. These sanctions are completely inappropriate and inexplicable measures to take against BBC journalists who are reporting the situation in Ukraine impartially and objectively and we call on the Ukrainian government to remove their names from this list immediately.\"\nAlmost 8,000 people have been killed since fighting erupted in eastern Ukraine in April 2014, a month after Russia annexed the southern Crimea peninsula.\nUkraine and the West accuse Russia of arming the separatists and also sending its regular troops in eastern Ukraine.\nMoscow denies this, but admits that Russian \"volunteers\" fight alongside the rebels.\nThe EU and the US have imposed their own sanctions against Russian officials and top allies of President Vladimir Putin.\nA ceasefire in eastern Ukraine has been holding in the last two weeks, although there have been reports of occasional shelling.", "summary": "A decision by rebels in eastern Ukraine to hold elections poses a \"great danger\" to the peace process, President Petro Poroshenko has warned." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Three kidnappers took Ogere Siasia from the family home in Bayelsa state in the oil-rich Niger Delta.\nHer son appealed for her release, and said the gunmen's motive was unclear.\nThe BBC's Chris Ewokor in the capital, Abuja, says kidnapping, often for ransom, is common in parts of Nigeria and footballers' families are increasingly becoming targets.\nNigeria international Christian Obodo was abducted in Warri, southern Nigeria in June 2012.\nA year earlier, the father of Nigerian footballer and Chelsea player John Obi Mikel was kidnapped in Jos, central Nigeria.\n\"I only beg them to please release her unhurt. I was told they shot sporadically into the air before taking her away on a motorcycle,\" Samson Siasia told BBC Sport.\n\"We've not heard from them to know their motive, but right now I'm only concerned about her safety,\" he added.\nMr Siasia was in The Gambia at the time of the attack as the coach of the Nigerian Under-23 team, preparing for the Confederation of African Football Under-23 Championship in Senegal later this month month.\nThe Nigerian Football Federation's president Amaju Pinnick also appealed for the kidnappers to release Mrs Siasia.\n\"Samson is on a critical national assignment presently and the last he needs is this kind of distraction,\" he said.", "summary": "Gunmen have kidnapped the 72-year-old mother of ex-international Nigerian footballer Samson Siasia." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The brewing giant said the move would create about 150 jobs in its leased pubs division north of the border.\nA total of £2.8m will be invested in \"transformational projects\" at 17 of Heineken's 109 Scottish pubs.\nMore than a third of the overall investment will go towards community \"locals\", where food and coffee will be introduced.\nThe company said it was spending twice as much on its Scottish estate than last year.\nStar Pubs and Bars managing director Lawson Mountstevens said: \"We regularly read about pubs closing down, but what people don't always appreciate is that well-run, invested pubs are thriving.\n\"Heineken is passionate about creating great pubs and supporting the licensees that run them.\"\nHe added: \"Our investment is creating pubs that people want and use, enhancing local communities and benefiting local economies.\"\nEarlier this year, Heineken was criticised by the Scottish Licensed Trade Association (SLTA) over its bid to acquire part of Punch Taverns' pubs portfolio.\nThe SLTA alleged that Heineken was not committed to supporting smaller, community-based pubs.\nMr Mountstevens responded then by saying that the company had invested millions of pounds in its Scottish pubs over the past three years.\nHe said that had helped licensees to significantly improve their food offer, with new kitchens and flexible areas within pubs to cater for a wider range of events.\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the proposed deal, and is due to make an initial decision next month.", "summary": "Heineken has announced plans to invest £4m in upgrading its Star Pubs and Bars estate in Scotland this year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The two-storey building at Winkleigh Airfield, Devon, along with 9.5 acres of land and disused outbuildings, will go under the hammer next month.\nThe airbase was built in 1940 on remote moorland to defend Britain's western approaches from the Luftwaffe.\nIt was so strategically important that its existence was officially denied.\nThe watch tower and land is being sold on behalf of the official receiver at Clive Emson Auctioneers on 22 September at St Mellion in Cornwall and has a freehold guide price of between £35,000 and £50,000.\nThe tower is listed by English Heritage as a Scheduled Monument.", "summary": "A former aircraft watch tower at one of the RAF's most secret World War Two bases has been put up for sale." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Alison Howe, 45, from Royton, was among 22 people who died in the suicide bombing at Manchester Arena on 22 May.\nShe was killed while waiting in the foyer with her friend, Lisa Lees, who also died.\nHer husband Steve told the congregation at St Anne's Church in Oldham his wife was \"beautiful inside and out\".\nShe was \"loyal, calm but also fiery and just perfect\", he added.\nMourners sang the hymn The Lord of the Dance as the service began.\nThe couple had two daughters, Sasha and Darcy, who had gone to the Ariana Grande concert. Ms Howe also had four stepsons.\nStepson Harry told the congregation they were Mrs Howe's \"Super Six\".\nTo warm applause, he said: \"We will love you forever.\"\nSimon and Garfunkel songs from the Bridge over Troubled Water album were played as mourners gathered, many clutching pink roses.\nMrs Howe's friend Sam read out a tribute on behalf of the victim's mother Sue, saying: \"You were the reason why my heart beat, you were my world, my everything.\n\"I don't know how I will go on without you.\n\"I will love you for all eternity.\"\nOne of her friends of 30 years recalled her love of custard creams, dancing, kebabs, and cucumber and salad cream sandwiches.\nThe Rev James Read said: \"Follow the example of Alison to build a better world, a world of peace.\"\nAlison Howe's husband, mother and children comforted each other outside the church as the funeral came to a close.\nHer stepsons, one wearing a suit, helped carry her coffin from the church to the hearse.\nHusband Steve and daughters Sasha and Darcy wept as it was placed next to a red heart of flowers and white roses spelling \"ALI\".\nSpontaneous applause broke out among the hundreds of mourners who lined the route outside the church.\nSome well-wishers shook the hand of a man who wore a black T-shirt to 'Remember the 22' in reference to the victims of the Manchester Arena bomb victims.\nDozens of single pink carnations were thrown on to the bonnet of the hearse as it was driven away.", "summary": "Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of a mother who was killed in the Manchester terror attack while waiting for her daughters." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been accused of intercepting emails and messages from Ms Rousseff, her aides and state oil company, Petrobras.\nThe allegations were based on documents leaked by fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.\nPresident Barack Obama had promised to investigate the incident.\nThe White House said he had telephoned Ms Rousseff on Monday to discuss the matter.\nThe allegations of widespread espionage against Brazilian citizens were first published in July by Rio de Janeiro-based journalist Glenn Greenwald, a reporter for the British Guardian newspaper.\nMr Greenwald alleged that the NSA accessed all internet content that Ms Rousseff had visited online.\nBy Wyre DaviesBBC News, Rio de Janeiro\nThe Brazilian president was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Her decision to cancel (or officially, to postpone) the Washington visit will be seized upon by some as an act of petty nationalism.\nSome Brazilian business leaders, worried by the precarious economic climate, will question the wisdom of antagonising such an important business ally as the US.\nBut the political pressure was greater still. There was fury in Brazil, not only at the revelation that the president's own conversations and communications may have been spied upon by the NSA but that US interests were allegedly involved in blatant economic espionage against major Brazilian interests, including Petrobras.\nDilma Rousseff will have been wary of feelings of ordinary Brazilians had her Washington trip gone ahead. The perception here in Brazil is that the Obama administration has yet to give an adequate response or an apology.\nThe documents, according to the report, were part of an NSA case study showing how data could be intelligently filtered.\nEarlier this month, another report by Mr Greenwald on Globo Television alleged that the NSA had illegally accessed data from Petrobras.\nThe company is due next month to carry out an important auction for exploration rights of an oil field off the Rio de Janeiro state coast.\nMs Rousseff has said that if the accusations are proven it means the NSA was involved in \"industrial espionage\".\nMs Rousseff's state visit was to have started on 23 October and would have been the first by a Brazilian president since 1995.\nBut in a statement on Tuesday, the Brazilian government said that \"given the proximity of the scheduled state visit to Washington - and in the absence of a timely investigation of the incident, with corresponding explanations and the commitment to cease the interception activities\" it could not go ahead as planned.\nThe statement said Brazil hoped the visit would take place \"as soon as possible\", once the issue had been \"resolved properly\".\nWhite House spokesman Jay Carney said the postponement had been a joint decision between Ms Rousseff and Mr Obama, who agreed it \"should not be overshadowed by any bilateral issue\".\nThe White House said in a statement: \"The president has said that he understands and regrets the concerns [that] disclosures of alleged US intelligence activities have generated in Brazil and made clear that he is committed to working together with President Rousseff and her government in diplomatic channels to move beyond this issue as a source of tension in our bilateral relationship.\"\nThe BBC's Wyre Davies, in Rio de Janeiro, says the decision to halt the trip will not have been easy as Dilma Rousseff is respected in Washington and was to have been the only world leader afforded the honour of a US state visit this year.\nTurning that opportunity down, he says, will be interpreted in some diplomatic circles as a snub.\nBut our correspondent says that by standing up to unacceptable practices she may well have enhanced her own chances of re-election next year.\nThe NSA has been accused of looking into electronic communications from what the US sees as hostile Latin American governments, such as Venezuela and Ecuador, as well as traditional allies, including Mexico.\nAt the G20 meeting in Russia earlier this month, Mr Obama promised to investigate the allegations of espionage against Ms Rousseff and her Mexican counterpart, Enrique Pena Nieto.\n\"What I got from President Obama was a commitment to a full investigation... and if they turn out to be true to impose corresponding sanctions,\" Mr Pena Nieto told the BBC.\nEdward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, began providing caches of sensitive government documents to media outlets four months ago.\nIn June, the 30-year-old fled his home in Hawaii, where he worked at a small NSA installation, to Hong Kong, and subsequently to Russia.\nA US federal court has since filed espionage charges against Mr Snowden and is seeking his extradition.\nMr Snowden, however, remains in Russia where he has been granted temporary asylum.", "summary": "Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called off a state visit to Washington next month in a row over allegations of US espionage." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The lechwe antelope escaped its enclosure at the Devon wildlife park at about 08:10 BST.\nA spokesman said: \"The escape was triggered by fighting between the males in the lechwe herd.\n\"We have decided to put the animal 'to sleep' as it would have been impossible to return the escapee to the herd, or find a suitable new home for him.\"\nMore on the antelope and other news from Devon and Cornwall\nThe Kafue Flats lechwe was tranquillised and recaptured in a garden on Brantwood Drive in Paignton at about 10:15.\nThe antelopes, which are classed as vulnerable and threatened by hunting and habitat destruction, live and feed in and around flood plains and swamps.\nMike Langman was leaving his house at about 08:30 when he saw the antelope \"come around the corner from behind the trees\".\nThe keen wildlife enthusiast said he approached the animal in a bid to stop it running into the road and followed it into Brantwood Drive. Having seen a van from the zoo, he was able to direct the staff in it to the animal.\n\"Not many people actually saw it - only a few of us that live here,\" he said.\nThe zoo spokesman said: \"We are grateful to Devon and Cornwall Police for their prompt response and support during the recapture; and to our neighbours for their patience.\"\nIt is not yet clear how the animal escaped its enclosure.", "summary": "An antelope that escaped from Paignton Zoo has been put down, staff have confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "20 July 2016 Last updated at 19:22 BST\n\"If Mr Trump asked me to come back and sweep the floors in the White House, or open the mail, I'd do whatever he asked,\" he told BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in a rare interview with UK media.\nMr Lewandowski was fired from his role last month.", "summary": "Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski says he we would love to work for Trump again." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Five told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend they would do so if asked by Mr Corbyn; others said they would stand if shadow cabinet elections were revived.\nIn June, 20 members of the shadow cabinet resigned, and one was sacked, over differences with Mr Corbyn.\nThe party's vote concludes on Saturday.\nMr Corbyn is being challenged for the leadership by Owen Smith, a former shadow work and pensions secretary.\nThe contest was sparked by a vote among Labour MPs, in which 172 expressed no confidence in Mr Corbyn's leadership and just 40 backed him.\nGuide to the Labour leadership election\nClive Efford, who resigned as shadow sports minister, said MPs who opposed Mr Corbyn had to serve under him.\n\"I've spoken to many members of the party who understand that Jeremy Corbyn is not seen by many people as a prime minister in waiting but are still going to vote for him because they felt there were parts of the parliamentary Labour Party that never gave him a chance, that we never really respected the vote that was given by party members and we don't deserve to be rewarded as a consequence of that,\" he said.\n\"Whoever wins, they want to see the party back as an effective opposition so if there's a role for me in that, I would consider it.\"\nMr Efford said he had not changed his views on Mr Corbyn's leadership but \"the party has spoken\".\nThe party's national executive committee meets on Tuesday and will consider a plan put forward by MPs to allow the parliamentary party - its MPs and peers currently serving in Westminster - to elect the shadow cabinet, as part of efforts to reunite the party as a whole.\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, shadow defence secretary Clive Lewis, an ally of Mr Corbyn, confirmed that the party was considering allowing both Labour MPs and party members to vote on who should be in the shadow cabinet.\nShadow cabinet elections were discontinued during Ed Miliband's leadership.\nNewspaper reports suggested that, under the new plan, a third of Labour's top team could be elected by the parliamentary party, another third by the party membership, and the final third chosen by the leader.\nMr Corbyn has not given his support to the proposal but has indicated he would back members having a say.\nIan Murray, who resigned as shadow Scottish secretary, described the plan for MPs to elect the shadow cabinet as a sign that Mr Corbyn's opponents \"are willing to meet the leader halfway if he is serious about uniting the party\".\n\"He has to take that olive branch, he has to grab it with both hands and he has to try to unite the parliamentary party and the entire Labour movement.\"\nMr Murray said that - if elections for the cabinet were held - he \"would be thinking about putting my name forward\".\nBut he said there had to be \"some kind of conditions attached\".\n\"One of them is no deselection [of MPs]. The second one I think is clarity about what the party within a party, Momentum, is there for.\"\nWhat is Momentum and why is it worrying Labour MPs\nHowever, Lucy Powell, who resigned as shadow education secretary, said that allowing members to vote \"misses the point\".\n\"The issue is not that we have a competition for places, and therefore we need a very lengthy and competitive process,\" she told the World This Weekend.\n\"We've got vacancies so it's about how we can persuade people to come back to the table.\"\nShe said allowing MPs to elect some members of the shadow cabinet in exchange for accepting collective responsibility would be a compromise on both sides.\nAsked if she would stand for election, Ms Powell said: \"I will take soundings from colleagues as things move forward.\"\nWith just six days to go before the leadership contests ends, Owen Smith accused Mr Corbyn of seeking to \"deepen divisions\" between the party's membership - seen as overwhelmingly in favour of the leader - and its MPs - who are largely opposed to Mr Corbyn.\nSpeaking to Sky News, he said reports that party members could be given a role in electing the shadow cabinet and shaping policy \"isn't a conciliatory gesture\".\n\"It's an attempt to further cement his position and to use the membership as a means of driving a wedge between the MPs and his leadership.\"\nBy John Pienaar, BBC deputy political editor\nAn extraordinary olive branch to hostile Labour MPs, after the rebellion of the summer and the failed attempt to force the leader's resignation, has emerged.\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell - Jeremy Corbyn's closest friend and chief lieutenant at Westminster - said the Labour leader and himself were willing to take lessons in leadership.\n\"Tutorials\" from former senior ministers and shadow ministers would answer accusations of incompetence, improve their performance in the House of Commons and improve relations with Labour colleagues at Westminster.\n\"A bit of tutoring from some old hands?\" I asked him.\n\"Well, why not?\" he replied. \"Why not?\"\nMore here\nEarlier, Mr Corbyn told ITV's Peston on Sunday Labour under his leadership was reaching out to voters across the UK.\nAsked how he could appeal to centre-ground voters, he said: \"Do we want an education service that works for all or works for the few?\n\"Do we want a health service that works for everybody, or a health service of last resort for those that can't afford to go private?\n\"Do we want an investment strategy that builds railways and broadband communication over the whole of the country?\n\"Do we want a government that actually works for the whole country and reaches out to those places that have been left behind? That's what we're offering.\"\nEx-party leader Lord Kinnock told the BBC the party faced a \"lifetime\" out of power if Mr Corbyn won the leadership contest.\nSpeaking to the BBC's Panorama programme, Lord Kinnock said: \"Unless things change radically, and rapidly, it's very doubtful I'll see another Labour government in my lifetime.\"\nPanorama's investigation Labour: Is The Party Over? - including the full interview with Lord Kinnock - is on BBC One on Monday at 2030 BST and will be available on the iPlayer afterwards.", "summary": "Fourteen Labour MPs who quit frontbench posts this summer in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership have said they could return if the party re-elected him in the current leadership election." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Not only has his divorce from Paula Patton been granted, but the family of Marvin Gaye also wants to put a stop to Blurred Lines.\nGaye's children filed a court injunction on Tuesday to prevent the song being copied, distributed or performed.\nOn the same day he was told his divorce would go ahead, with the final stage of the legal split happening on 14 April.\n\"With the digital age upon us, the threat of greater infringement looms for every artist,\" the family said in a statement released on Wednesday.\n\"It is our wish that our dad's legacy, and all great music, past, present, and future, be enjoyed and protected, with the knowledge that adhering to copyright standards assures our musical treasures will always be valued.\"\nLast week Thicke and Pharrell, who features on Blurred Lines, were told they had to pay $7.3m (??4.8m) to three of Gaye's children after a jury decided they had copied elements of his hit track Got To Give It Up.\nThe family is also looking to get the verdict to include TI, who also appears on Blurred Lines and whose real name is Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.\nThey want it amended so that it also names labels Universal Music, Interscope and Star Trak Entertainment.\nTheir injunction against Blurred Lines could give the family a chance to negotiate for royalties and songwriting credits.\nThe song was the biggest hit of 2013, selling more than seven million copies in the US.\nLast year Thicke revealed he and his wife, who have a four-year-old son together, were separating after nine years of marriage.\nShe had previously featured in a number of his videos and his latest album was named after her.\nFollow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "summary": "There's a lot going on for Robin Thicke at the moment." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Wildlife officers said algae growing in the salt crust at the bottom of Westgate Park's lake produce a red pigment.\n\"Enjoy the views, but we recommend you don't come into contact with the water,\" Parks Victoria said.\nThe phenomenon also occurs in Spain's Salina de Torrevieja, Canada's Dusty Rose Lake and Senegal's Lake Retba.\nIn Australia, the natural occurring sight can be seen in Victoria's Murray-Sunset National Park and Western Australia's Lake Hillier.\nYou might also be interested in:\nDr Mark Norman, Parks Victoria chief conservation scientist, said the colouration was caused by a harmless, single-cell alga known as Dunalliela.\n\"It's completely natural,\" he said. \"We often get comments that it looks like an industrial accident of pink paint.\"\nDr Norman said that even though the water is not dangerous, he would not recommend taking a swim.\n\"It's so salty and muddy on the bottom that you would come out looking like a frosted rum ball, especially when you dried,\" he said.\nParks Victoria said the lake is expected to return to blue when the weather cooled and the rainfall increased.", "summary": "A salt lake in Melbourne has turned pink due to a combination of sunlight, warm temperatures and low rainfall." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr O'Brien, 33, was reported missing from his Dublin home on 15 January.\nHis torso was found the following day in the canal near Ardclough in Kildare and other remains were later found in other locations in Kildare and Dublin.\nPaul Wells, 48, of Barnamore Park in Finglas, was charged with his murder at Dublin District Court on Friday night.\nA sergeant told the court that he had arrested Mr Wells and charged him with murder at Naas police (Garda) station in County Kildare at about 17:15 local time on Friday.\nThe judge remanded the accused in custody until 18 February.", "summary": "A man has been charged with the murder of Kenneth O'Brien, whose dismembered body parts were found in the Grand Canal in the Republic of Ireland." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A report by bodies, including Alcohol Focus Scotland and the BMA, examined the \"devastating effect\" alcohol has on drinkers, families and communities.\nIt urged ministers to set a new target to cut the amount of alcohol Scots drink by at least 10% over a decade.\nHealth Secretary Shona Robison welcomed the report and said the government would consider the recommendations.\nCampaigners said the number of Scots dying from alcohol-related illness has doubled since the 1980s.\nTheir report warned that one million people in Scotland drink more than the recommended amount, with 22 per week dying as a result of their consumption.\nThe document has been described by those behind it as a \"blueprint\" for the Scottish government which will \"improve the lives of millions of Scots, make our communities better and safer places to live, and reduce demand on our over-burdened public services\".\nIt made more than 40 suggestions, including the \"overarching recommendation\" that the Scottish government should adopt a national target to reduce alcohol consumption by \"at least 10% over the next 10 years\".\nThe report said: \"Such a target would provide a clear goal for all of those with an interest in preventing and reducing alcohol consumption and harm in Scotland, at both national and local levels, helping to ensure that efforts are focused and co-ordinated on delivering real impact.\"\nReducing drinking by this level could \"potentially deliver a 20% reduction in deaths and hospital admissions after 20 years\", it added.\nThe report, which was also backed by Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol & Drugs, and Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP), called for a 50p minimum unit price for alcohol to be implemented \"as soon as legally possible\".\nHolyrood has passed legislation to bring in minimum pricing but a legal challenge to the policy has so far prevented ministers from implementing it, with the case now set to call at the UK Supreme Court.\nOther recommendations included:\nOn pricing, the report urged the Scottish government to press UK ministers to create a new tax band for strong ciders and similar drinks \"significantly increasing the rate at which these drinks are taxed to reflect their alcohol content\".\nThe government's ambition to impose minimum pricing was part of a wide-ranging strategy to cut alcohol abuse, which was launched in 2009.\nAlison Douglas, the chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that the plan was \"very welcome\".\nBut she added: \"We are now eight years on and the reality is that we are not seeing the reduction in harm that we need to.\n\"So we are really calling on government to redouble its efforts and to show the leadership that it has shown before in trying to progress on this issue.\"\nShe said she wanted to see a reduction in the number of outlets that sold alcohol, following a \"proliferation\" in recent years.\n\"We now have 16 times as many places where you can buy alcohol as we have GP surgeries,\" she said.\n\"It shouldn't be the case that every corner shop is licensed,\" she added.\nAnd she called for more nutritional information on bottles of alcohol. \"Consumers have the right to know what they're drinking and what it contains.\n\"At the moment there's less information on a bottle of beer or a bottle of wine than there is on a pint of milk.\"\nSpeaking on the same programme, Health Secretary Shona Robsion denied the government's alcohol strategy was a failure.\nShe listed a series of measures, including a lower drink-drive limit and a multi-buy discount ban, which she said had led to a 2.6% reduction in alcohol consumption.\n\"I would say that those measures taken together have had a major impact but I would be the first to acknowledge there's more to be done,\" she said.\nMs Robison added: \"This is a really difficult problem... and I think we are beginning to see the recognition that the impact of alcohol on families and communities being recognised far more than it was 10 years ago.\n\"We have put alcohol up there as a major public health issue and we have backed that up with investment - over £630m to tackle problem alcohol and drug use since 2008 - that is a major investment.\n\"But there is more to be done and I certainly welcome the input of Alcohol Focus Scotland, the BMA and others in pushing us to go further.\"\nShe added that the government was \"refreshing\" its alcohol framework, which was due to be published in the summer. She said they would consider all of the recommendations of the new report.", "summary": "Health campaigners have called on the Scottish government to take bold steps to tackle Scotland's alcohol problem." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The province's Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti said unidentified militants boarded the vehicles travelling to Karachi on Friday evening.\nPassengers were then ordered off and shot dead, officials said.\nBalochistan has seen a long-running conflict between separatists and security forces.\nNo group has yet said it carried out the attack on the two buses, which happened near the town of Mastung, south of the provincial capital, Quetta.\n\"The armed men were wearing the uniforms of the security forces,\" Mr Bugti told Reuters.\nAn operation was launched after reports of the incident emerged, and at least five people have been rescued, officials say.\nHowever, the number of passengers abducted from on board remains unclear, Dawn newspaper reports.\nFighting is ongoing in the area between the attackers and security forces.\nThose killed were mostly ethnic Pashtuns, a local official told the BBC. They are natives of northern Balochistan.\nWhile separatists have regularly attacked government and military targets, attacks on Pashtuns are a rarity, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says.\nHe says officials believe this may be a tactical move by insurgents to put pressure on security forces who have recently carried out several \"search and kill\" operations against insurgents in the region.\nRebels in Balochistan have been fighting for greater autonomy from Islamabad, and a bigger share of the region's natural resources.\nAre you in Balochistan? Have you been affected by the issues in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\nIf you are available to speak to a BBC journalist, please include a telephone number.", "summary": "Gunmen in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province have attacked two buses, killing at least 19 passengers, officials have said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Simon Harris was convicted of eight charges of indecent and sexual assault on youngsters in Gilgil, and four of possessing indecent images of children.\nBirmingham Crown Court heard he would lure boys to his house in Kenya by offering them food, shelter and money.\nHarris, 55, of Pudleston, near Leominster, Herefordshire was cleared of 10 further charges, including rape.\nThe jury failed to reach a verdict on one remaining rape charge. He will be sentenced in the new year.\nIt was the first prosecution to use legislation that allows British citizens to be tried for sex offences committed abroad against children if it is also an offence in that country.\nBefore the trial, Harris also admitted six offences of indecent assault against three boys aged between 13 and 14, when he was a teacher at Shebbear College, Devon in the 1980s.\nDet Ch Insp Damian Barratt, of West Mercia Police, said Harris used his work to exploit some of the most vulnerable children on the planet.\n\"He was a predatory sex offender who, over a number of years, groomed and exploited children and those around him in order to perpetrate his abuse,\" he said.\nHarris had faced 23 charges in total, including 18 allegations relating to assaults.\nThe offences in Kenya were committed while Harris was running a gap year charity he set up in the East African country, in the 1990s.\nDuring his trial prosecutors said he lured homeless boys to his home, known locally as \"The Green House\", by offering them food and shelter.\nThe court heard he would drive into Gilgil and encourage them to get into his Land Rover, with food and money.\nOne man who claimed he had been raped by Harris as a child, committed suicide shortly after giving evidence.\nMichael Kamondia was among several boys to testify across a live video link from Kenya but died on 7 December, days before the jury retired to consider its verdicts.\nThe abuse came to light when a Channel 4 documentary team making a film about the plight of Gilgil's street children was given information about his activities.\nThe offences at Shebbear College in Devon, where Harris taught Latin, all happened between 1982 and 1989.\nCurrent head teacher Simon Weale said the school acted promptly at the time to report the allegations to police after the victims made complaints.\nHarris was suspended and left \"during the course of the investigations\", the college said.\n\"Even though these offences took place more than 25 years ago, we utterly deplore these crimes and our overwhelming sympathies are with Harris' victims,\" said Mr Weale.\nIt also emerged during the trial Harris had spent 15 months in a British jail for possession of indecent images of children following a 2009 conviction.\nHe had originally faced 22 charges relating to assaults in Kenya, but Judge Philip Parker QC told jurors four had been removed from the indictment mid-trial.\nThe case was nearly thrown out after Channel 4 published a news item wrongly stating he had already been convicted, only hours after jurors began deliberating.\nJudge Philip Parker QC said he regarded the broadcaster's mistake as \"beyond unfortunate\".\nThe matter has been referred to the Attorney General to consider possible action under contempt of court procedures.", "summary": "A British charity boss who preyed on vulnerable Kenyan street children has been found guilty of sexual abuse." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A report by the CfBT Education Trust and the British Council highlights low uptakes of language GCSEs and A-levels as particular concerns.\nIt found that language teachers felt attracting pupils to study languages after the age of 16 was a \"challenge\".\nThe Department for Education said the number of pupils taking languages at GCSE was increasing.\nThis year's Language Trends Survey is the 13th annual research exercise to measure the condition of language teaching and learning in schools in England.\nIt is based on an online survey completed by teachers in more than 500 state secondary schools, 600 state primary schools and 120 independent secondary schools across the country.\nIt does find some positive developments, including the fact that almost half of primary schools are introducing pupils in Key Stage 1 to a language, even though this is not a statutory requirement, and that 99% of primary schools now offer languages.\nThere has been an increase in the number of pupils studying Spanish at GCSE and A-level - but this increase has not fully compensated for declines in French, German and other languages.\nThere has also been a \"modest increase\" - from a low base - in the number of schools offering Mandarin Chinese, a language the report says is \"recognised as crucial to the UK's long-term competitiveness\".\nThe report's co-author, Teresa Tinsley, said it was encouraging to see how primary schools were \"warmly embracing\" statutory language teaching, making sure that \"discovering the delight of new languages and cultures is firmly anchored into everything that children learn in primary schools\".\n\"But our survey shows that secondary teachers are under increasing pressure with exams and performance measures that don't work well for languages,\" she said.\nThe report concludes that the prioritisation of maths and science is hitting languages in secondary schools.\nIt says that, in spite of calls for a greater knowledge of language skills from the the business sector, there is a persistent and widely held belief that languages are not as important as maths and science subjects.\n\"We need to give both teachers and pupils more credit for tackling languages and focus on the long-term benefits of being able to speak another language,\" Ms Tinsley said.\nAnother factor is \"a growing trend\" - particularly in state schools - to excuse pupils from the study of a language for reasons which include extra tuition in literacy and numeracy, a trend the report says is linked to \"socio-economic disadvantage\".\nThe study found marked regional variations across England in the take-up of languages.\nIn Middlesbrough only a quarter of pupils take a language GCSE, while three-quarters do so in the London Borough of Barnet.\nNine of the 10 local authorities with the highest proportions of pupils taking a language at GCSE are in London.\nThe researchers also found doubts among secondary teachers about the ability of primary schools to deliver \"a worthwhile level\" of language knowledge that pupils could apply when they moved on to study for GCSEs.\nThe research is backed by the British Council.\nIts chief executive, Ciaran Devane, believes the UK's \"current lack of language skills\" is a serious impediment to future prosperity.\n\"Language learning in schools is not doomed,\" he said, \"but it will require a combined and concerted effort to give language learning back the respect and prominence it deserves within society as a whole.\n\"No-one ever says that they regret having learned a language.\"\nThe Department for Education said the ability to speak foreign languages was valued by employers and helped pupils to understand different cultures and countries.\nA spokeswoman added: \"We have made languages a compulsory part of the national curriculum at primary school to lay the foundation for further language study in secondary school and we are pleased the report recognises the wider, positive impacts of this reform.\n\"We want to see that trend continue into secondary school and are already seeing encouraging signs following the introduction of the Ebacc, with thousands more pupils studying languages to GCSE, a number we expect to rise.\"", "summary": "Language teaching is facing a \"difficult climate\" in England's schools, researchers say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sharon Edwards, 42, denies murdering solicitor David Edwards, 51, with a kitchen knife at their home in Chorley, Lancashire, in August 2015.\nMr Edwards was found dead two months after the pair married in Las Vegas, Manchester Crown Court heard.\nA police officer heard the defendant make the threat, the jury was told.\nMrs Edwards was witnessed grabbing her husband's shirt and saying she was going kill him during the early hours of 23 August, shortly after they returned from a Spanish holiday.\nThe jury was shown police body-cam footage of the couple outside the Duke of York pub, before they were escorted home \"worse for wear\" in a police vehicle.\nIn the footage, Pc Michelle Davies was heard telling a colleague how Mrs Edwards was \"screaming\" at her husband, and \"swinging off his shirt\".\nDuring the journey the defendant was heard telling him: \"I swear David, when I wake up tomorrow I don't know what mood I'm going to be in.\"\nLater that day Mr Edwards was pronounced dead, having suffered a stab wound to the chest, the court was told.\nA black handled kitchen knife measuring 13in (34cm) in length and stained with blood was found at their home.\nThe court has previously heard how Mrs Edwards was said to have \"quite liked the idea of being a solicitor's wife\", but they began to argue after he was told he was losing his job.\nDuring a police interview after her arrest on suspicion of murder, Mrs Edwards said her husband had walked into the knife, and refused to accept that he was dead.\nShe said he had been drinking a lot since he lost his job and had been \"really depressed\", adding that he had taken the knife and pointed it in her direction.\nShe said: \"I took the knife from David and he walked into it. But he's not dead. I'm not being rude but he's not dead.\n\"I have not murdered my husband and my husband is certainly not dead.\"", "summary": "A newlywed was overheard telling her husband she was going to kill him hours before he was found dead with a stab wound to the heart, a court has heard." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The historic Brexit vote, terror attacks across Europe, the attempted coup in Turkey, the ongoing war in Syria. There has certainly been no shortage of news in 2016.\nBut what else should we have reported this year? Is there a story we missed that you'd like to see investigated?\nWe'd like you to tell us what stories in 2016 you think we should have covered.\nIt could be a personal experience you had. Or the story of someone you know. Perhaps there's an issue you'd like us to investigate that we haven't looked into already.\nOr is there a different angle of a major news story that you think we should have tackled but didn't?\nSend us your suggestions using the form below and we will select four of your stories, then you can choose the one you'd like BBC News to investigate.\nWe'll publish the story at the end of the year.\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "summary": "From David Bowie's death at the start of January to the election of Donald Trump in November - a great deal happened this year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Thousands wearing Guy Fawkes masks gathered in London and Washington DC, joined by similar protests across the globe - from Canada to Guatemala to the Netherlands. Marchers carried placards with sayings such as \"One solution, revolution\" and \"A for anarchy\". Most were peaceful - some were not.\nPromoted by Anonymous, an international group of hacking activists, the march is a protest against corruption in power. It coincides with Bonfire Night in the UK, which commemorates the date Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605.\nTheir goal, as stated on a UK Million Mask March Facebook page, is to see positive change in the world.\n\"We have seen the abuses and malpractice of this government, and governments before it, we have seen the encroaching destruction of many civil liberties we hold dear, we have seen the pushes to make the internet yet another part of the surveillance state, we have seen the government's disregard for migrants, for the poor, the elderly and the Disabled, we have seen the capital, profit and greed of the few put before the well-being of the many and we say enough is enough,\" the page says.\nIn the 1980s comic strip V for Vendetta, the main character wears a Guy Fawkes mask to battle the fascist state. In 2006, the comic was made into a film and the plastic masks marketed to the public. Two years later, Anonymous published a list of protest instructions, including \"Cover your face. This will prevent your identification from videos taken by hostiles, other protesters or security\". The Economist explains, taking inspiration from the film, \"the V for Vendetta mask provided just the cover that Anonymous needed.\"\nThe first Million Mask March, on 5 November 2013, was a \"day of civil disobedience\" as Anonymous \"step[ped] out of the internet and on to the streets\". The annual event follows Million Mask Marches during Occupy Wall Street, protesting against perceived power imbalance in the establishment.", "summary": "Organisers of the 5 November Million Mask March predicted the \"largest global protest\" in history." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Three years ago Cambridgeshire County and Peterborough City councils were looking after just six children.\nThey are now responsible for 138 and are having to house them as far away as Nottingham. It is one of the biggest increases in the country.\nPeterborough council said the rise was putting a \"strain\" on its services.\nAnd both Peterborough and Cambridgeshire warn the numbers will rise to help ease pressures in Kent, where about 900 unaccompanied child migrants are currently housed.\nCathy Smith, first response and emergency duty officer at Cambridgeshire County Council, said the county council was only coping with the influx by using out-of-county placements more than 100 miles (160km) away.\n\"Social workers are often scouring the country trying to find placements for these young people.\"\nWali, now 18, arrived on his own in the UK on the back of a lorry from Iran aged 17.\n\"I was living in Iran and I left because I was having some problems with smugglers who wanted me to work with them.\n\"I went to Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, Austria, Italy and then to France and then to England. There was no-one here for me.\n\"They gave us clothes and accommodation and I have gone to college. If they did not help we would be homeless people living in the street.\"\nHe said he was very grateful for the support he had been given by the authorities since arriving and said without it he would not have been able to cope.\nNicola Curly, assistant director of children's services at Peterborough City Council, said about one in 11 of its children in care was now a migrant.\n\"These are very traumatised young children,\" she said. \"They have had long and difficult journeys and they need a lot of support when they arrive.\"\nShe added: \"We have no option when a young person arrives.\n\"If they need accommodation and support then we have to provide that. It is starting to place a strain on our placement capacity. We are anticipating more children and young people. We have no idea how many.\"", "summary": "The number of lone child asylum-seekers has risen 22-fold in Cambridgeshire, leaving local authorities struggling to cope, it has emerged." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Labour Party decided the candidate to replace Ms Clwyd when she retires at the next general election would be chosen from a list of women.\nBut the local party in Cynon Valley has now insisted it will not select a candidate using this method.\nWelsh Labour says the party will not be backing down and it could run the selection process.\nThe decision to impose an all-women shortlist on the Cynon Valley branch was taken after Ms Clwyd announced she planned to stand down as an MP at next year's election.\nOnly 13 women have ever been MPs in Wales, an issue many senior people in the party want to address.\nCardiff North AM and former MP Julie Morgan has said the shortlists should be considered by Labour for every Westminster seat that comes up in Wales.\nBut while an all-women shortlist is being used by Labour in Cynon Valley, in Aberavon the party has chosen Stephen Kinnock, son of the former Labour leader Lord Kinnock, to stand as its candidate as Hywel Francis stands down.\nLocal constituency officials in Cynon Valley said they would like the best candidate regardless of gender.\nConstituency secretary Alun Williams said: \"We feel that we have been badly let down. Our concerns have not been addressed.\n\"The consultation process was a sham and there has been no reasonable explanation given for the decision to give an open selection to Aberavon while imposing an all-women shortlist on Cynon Valley.\n\"While the party is talking about politics from the grassroots up they are ignoring the genuine concerns of their members in Cynon Valley.\n\"We have therefore decided to 'go on strike'. We will not provide a procedures secretary, a selection committee or arrange the hustings meetings or correspondence to members for an all-women shortlist selection. We are still deeply disturbed at the failure to respond to our concerns.\"\nThe Labour Party has confirmed in a letter to the constituency party that its decision to impose an all-women shortlist would not change.\nLabour's decisions on which constituencies adopt the shortlists are made by its National Executive Committee (NEC), the governing body of the party as a whole.\nThe shortlists are Labour Party policy and First Minister Carwyn Jones has spoken out in support of the decision in Cynon Valley.\nMs Clwyd has said she did not want to influence the process but added it was \"up to the people in the party locally to make their own decision on it\".\nA Welsh Labour spokesman said: \"We make absolutely no apology for seeking to increase the number of women in parliament or for all-women shortlists.\n\"The selection in Cynon Valley will be from an all-women shortlist, as decided by Labour's NEC.\n\"In the absence of a procedural secretary and selection committee, Welsh Labour will administer the selection process on behalf of the NEC, in which local members will select a candidate on a one-member-one-vote basis.\"\nALL-WOMEN SHORTLISTS Q&A:\nWhy is Labour imposing all-women shortlists?\nSince 1918 just 7% of MPs elected to parliament have been women - 368.\nWales has had 13 female MPs since women won the vote.\nLabour says it is committed to ensuring its candidates reflect the people they seek to represent, and all women-shortlists are the best way to ensure a better gender balance.\nHow long have they been used?\nIn 1995 the then Labour leader Tony Blair announced all-women shortlists would be used for the 1997 election.\nThey were judged to breach sex discrimination laws in the year before the poll.\nCandidates already in place remained and a record 101 female Labour MPs arrived at Westminster at the election.\nThe Sex Discrimination Act 2002 allowed political parties to use all-women shortlists for future elections.\nWhat happened in Blaenau Gwent?\nLabour's imposition of an all-women shortlist for the 2005 general election prompted a huge fight with the local party, where the late Peter Law, then the constituency's assembly member and an ex-Welsh minister, wanted to stand.\nIn the end he stood as an independent, roundly defeating the official Labour candidate. The party later apologised for over-riding local wishes.\nWhat is the current situation?\nThere are six female Labour MPs, and all-women shortlists in Cynon Valley and Swansea East would mean a minimum of half the party's 18 new candidates would be women.\nAll-women shortlists were used in Aberconwy, Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Monmouth and Gower.\nHow well are women represented in Cardiff Bay?\n42% of AMs are women, with half of the 30-strong Labour contingent in the Senedd chamber being female.\nWhat about the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats?\nPlaid Cymru said local parties would decide council, assembly and parliamentary candidates but gender balance is needed for the top two positions on its assembly regional list.\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats rejected all-women shortlists, but ruled out all-male shortlists for Westminster and assembly elections.\nThe Welsh Conservatives have no specific mechanisms in place to increase the number of women selected.", "summary": "A row over an enforced all-women shortlist in the Labour seat being vacated by MP Ann Clwyd has escalated." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The situation is worsening each day as water levels are rising because of poor drainage, the head of Pakistan's disaster management body said.\nThe UN has begun relief work but more rain has been forecast for the area.\nMeanwhile, in India's eastern Orissa state more than one million have been displaced and 16 killed in floods.\nAbout 2,600 villages have been submerged across 19 districts. The army and navy have been called in to help as many villagers are still stranded and dependent on food drops from helicopters.\nHeavy monsoon rains have been battering South Asia for days but southern Pakistan has borne the brunt of the bad weather in recent weeks.\nAlmost one million houses there have been destroyed or damaged and floods have affected nearly 4.2m acres of land, the UN says.\nThe BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan in Karachi says that the rain is heaping misery on the hundreds of thousands living out in the open. Many people remain stranded on high ground and rooftops surrounded by flood waters, our correspondent says.\nThe United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef, said up to 2.5 million children had been affected.\nOne official said children and families, many of them still recovering from last year's devastating floods, are in urgent need of help before the situation worsens.\nMore rain has been forecast for the coming days.\n\"The situation in Sindh is already serious and there will be more flooding and more problems because of these rains,\" Arif Mehmood, a meteorology official, is quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.\nIn other developments:\nOfficials in Orissa, India, said at least 61,000 people had been evacuated to safety and relief and rescue operations had begun.\nSeveral rivers, including the Mahanadi, are overflowing and flood waters have severed a number of key road links.\nSome areas had been cut off due to breaches in river banks and embankments and helicopters were the only way to bring food and water to people stranded there, Mr Mohapatra said.\nOrissa's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that the authorities were taking all measures to bring aid to those affected, adding that the state might seek help from central government.\nOfficials said the situation was expected to get better soon as rains had stopped and the water level in the Mahanadi and other rivers had begun to recede.", "summary": "More than 200 people have died and millions remain affected after two weeks of flooding in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, officials say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The NIHF says the UK VAT rate of 20% puts Northern Ireland at a major disadvantage.\nThe rate in the Republic of Ireland is just 9%.\nLast month the Treasury said it did not accept the case for a UK-wide VAT rate cut for restaurants and catering.\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"A 5% reduced rate on catering services is estimated to cost around £9bn to the Exchequer.\"\nJanice Gault, NIHF chief executive, said as the matter is not devolved the executive should \"make the issue a staple\" in communication with the Treasury.\nThe NIHF has launched a new report called Tourism 2020 that also calls on the Northern Ireland Executive to bring forward \"an updated and more cohesive\" tourism strategy.\nJames McGinn, the NIHF president, said that while the industry had benefited from events and campaigns such as NI2012 and UK City of Culture, there needed to be \"movement around the marketing of Northern Ireland\".\nA DETI spokeswoman said: \"The tourism minister met with outgoing and incoming chairs of NIHF on Tuesday and discussed the issues raised in the Tourism 2020 document.\n\"The minister notes that many of the points highlighted in the report fit with the overarching objectives of the Programme for Government and NI Economic Strategy and our specific commitment to grow tourism into a £1bn industry by 2020.\n\"Our focus more recently has been on delivering the necessary tourism product, key events and global marketing campaigns to ensure that 2012 and 2013, which are crucial years for Northern Ireland tourism, are successful and bring maximum economic benefit to the local economy.\"", "summary": "The Northern Ireland Hotels Federation (NIHF) has called for VAT on the hospitality industry to be slashed to just 5%." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The students claim a document called \"Considerations for Increasing Participation in Women and Girls' Football\", written by the FA treated girls like \"brainless baby Barbies.\"\nThe document was being studied as part of a school writing project about equality in football and they were less than impressed with some of its content.\nThe pupils were so shocked about some of the suggestions that at first they thought it was fake.\nMany of them wrote letters to the FA to complain about the content.\nOne of the pupils, Grace, wrote: \"We are not afraid to get hit by a ball so why would we need light ones; in case we break a nail?\"\nThe school has a girls' and a boys' football team and play football together at lunchtime\nThe teaching staff sent off a selection of the pupils' letters to the FA at Wembley in November but are yet to receive a reply.\nThe FA have now given a statement on the issue saying:\n\"The document is aimed at engaging young women who don't currently play football.\"\n\"It was created following research into women and girls playing football, with feedback from both participants and non-participants, and encourages a creative approach to increasing participation numbers.\"", "summary": "A group of students have written to the Football Association to complain about the FA's suggestions to encourage more girls to play football." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Vidot joined the Super League side this winter on a two-year contract from Brisbane Broncos, but damaged a shoulder in pre-season training.\nThe Samoa international has undergone surgery and the Red Devils expect him to be out for two to three months.\nMeanwhile, owner Marwan Koukash has taken on the chief executive role after Martin Vickers' exit.", "summary": "Salford Red Devils winger Daniel Vidot could miss up to three months of the new season because of injury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "But events at Yanhuang Chunqiu - a distinguished, if somewhat dry, history magazine - are evidence of a watershed moment, its former staff believe.\n\"I've not seen this kind of thing since the Cultural Revolution,\" the recently dismissed - some might say purged - founder and director Du Daozheng tells me.\nIn July, the magazine's offices were taken over by strangers, who changed the computer passwords, began to open the mail as if it was their own and took over the running of the magazine.\n\"It was a co-ordinated effort to block us and to contain and control us,\" Mr Du says.\nAt 93 years old, he does not look like your usual target of Chinese government oppression.\nGranted, his magazine - whose title loosely translates as China Through the Ages - has long been offering a mild critique of the official Communist version of history.\nBut it is hardly a radical voice of opposition. Mr Du himself has been a card-carrying member of the Party for almost eight decades and was, for a long time, a senior editor at Xinhua, the state-run news agency.\n\"All other newspapers only speak with the same voice,\" he says.\n\"We offered something different, but we were still a force within the system, using our voice to advocate moderate reform.\"\nThere have been attempts to clip the magazine's wings in the past.\nIn 2008 it broke a longstanding taboo by publishing a series of articles about Zhao Ziyang, the former party leader ousted in 1989 who spent the rest of his days under house arrest.\nAnd one of the magazine's senior editors, Hu Dehua, is himself the son of another reform-minded former leader, Hu Yaobang.\nBut the magazine has managed to stay in business, partly because of the backing of influential sympathisers. In recent years it boasted a readership of some 200,000 a month.\nAnother series of articles, published in 2013, ruffled feathers by questioning the details of a well-known story about Communist soldiers fighting against the Japanese in World War Two.\nThe heroic tale has the five Chinese soldiers jumping off a cliff so they would not be captured alive, but the article expressed doubts about key aspects, including how many Japanese soldiers were supposed to have been killed in the preceding battle.\n\"There have been many times when they want to say that we cannot have a different opinion,\" Mr Du tells me.\n\"But this time it's serious. They really do want to shut us down.\"\nSo, he says, in the face of the appointment of new editorial staff by the authorities, the original staff had no choice but to issue a notice announcing that any future editions of the magazine would have nothing to do with them.\nBut they are not giving up.\nThis week they went to court to try to challenge what they see as an illegal attempt to stifle their voice, although few observers would give them much chance of success.\nThe plight of Yanhuang Chunqiu is seen as symbolic of the tightening of control over freedom of expression under President Xi Jinping.\nLawyers, activists and religious groups are all feeling the pressure as his government moves against what it sees as the dangers of pluralist, Western ideals.\nBut that a history magazine should be in the firing line has shocked many observers.\nThe past has always been a sensitive subject in China but Yanhuang Chunqiu was at least one place where China's often dark and difficult history could be openly discussed as a way of illuminating the future.\nEven that opportunity has now gone.\n\"I had high expectations for Xi Jinping,\" Mr Du says.\n\"But in general I think he is going backwards. The consequences of this clampdown is not only about our magazine but it will harm the party and the country.\"", "summary": "\"China gets tough on media freedom\" isn't much of a shock headline these days." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Eliza Samudio, 25, was a former girlfriend of Bruno Fernandes, goalkeeper for Flamengo, Brazil's most popular club.\nHe handed himself into police after a warrant was issued for his arrest over her disappearance nearly a month ago.\nMr Fernandes, 25, has denied any wrongdoing, and said he has a \"clear conscience\".\nBut police say a teenage cousin of Mr Fernandes has given evidence that the goalkeeper was involved in her kidnap and suspected murder.\nMs Samudio had said that the married footballer was the father of her baby.\nPolice say Ms Samudio was taken by force from a hotel in Rio de Janeiro on the day of her disappearance and was strangled in the city of Belo Horizonte.\nThey say her body was cut up and parts were fed to dogs, while the rest was buried under concrete.\nPolice are still searching for her remains, but say her death is \"materially proven\".\nPolice have also arrested Mr Fernandes's wife, Dayane Souza, and several of his friends.\nThey say interrogation of the other suspects has backed up the account given by Mr Fernandes's teenage cousin.\nFlamengo have suspended Mr Fernandes's contract and say the club lawyer will no longer be acting in his defence.\nHe had been goalkeeper of the Rio de Janeiro club since 2006, and captained them to the Brazilian championship last year.\nMr Fernandes has expressed regret that the allegations could damage his chances of playing for Brazil in the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals.", "summary": "The missing former lover of a top Brazilian football star was strangled and then fed to dogs, police say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In 2014, he lasted just 70 days as Leeds boss and has worked for Swindon Supermarine and Coventry since then.\nHockaday, 57, claims he set up England's first football academy in Cirencester in the 1990s.\n\"After 20 years I've returned to it and will set up a super football academy,\" he told BBC Wiltshire.\n\"Twenty years ago I established the first football academy in this country, long before the academies we see in the pro game today. They followed my blueprint.\"\nAfter leaving Leeds in August 2014 following just six games in charge, Hockaday joined non-league Swindon Supermarine as assistant manager on a temporary basis before becoming professional development coach at Coventry City in February until the end of last season.\nNow he is turning his attention to developing young players in Wiltshire, an area he calls a \"black hole\" of talent.\n\"If you are an Under-16 player and think you are an exceptional, or you know someone who fits that description, then my academy will be the place for you,\" he said.\n\"The academy I had 20 years ago was the best and won everything. I don't shy away from the words elite and excellent and winning.\nSo I am going to set up the best academy in the area and then the country and I want the best local talent to come to my trials and see if they can get into my academy.\"\nHe added: \"I believe massively in the talent in this country.\n\"We go wrong from the 15 to 19 age group which I call the twilight zone, I want to fill that gap.\n\"I had great success at Cirencester 20 years ago. People develop at different time scales, I believe there is a lot of talent in this country but there is no patience.\"", "summary": "Former Leeds United head coach David Hockaday is to open a new talent academy in Wiltshire to train and develop Under-16 players." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Royal Mint, based in Llantrisant, said the silver coin was designed to be a collectable.\nIt has been created to celebrate \"the Welsh spirit\", it added.\nThe coin has been designed by sculptor Norman Sillman, who received his first commission from the Royal Mint back in 1958.\nDirector of commemorative coin, Anne Jessopp, said: \"This Welsh Dragon £20 coin portrays the Welsh spirit and the excellence and craftsmanship of our workforce - something of which we are all so proud.\"\nThe organisation opened its new \"Royal Mint Experience\" to visitors in May.", "summary": "A commemorative £20 coin featuring the Welsh dragon has been revealed by the Royal Mint in Rhondda Cynon Taff." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lynton Crosby, a Australian strategist who was a key aide to David Cameron, said UKIP was a \"voice of discontent\" and \"too reliant\" on Nigel Farage.\nUKIP got nearly four million votes in May, more than 12% of the overall vote, but won only one parliamentary seat.\nMr Farage has said the party is well placed to do even better in 2020.\nUKIP had been hoping to win a handful of seats in May after coming top in the 2014 European elections and winning two seats in subsequent Westminster by-elections.\nHowever, it was left with only one MP - Douglas Carswell in Clacton - as Mark Reckless lost his seat and Mr Farage failed in his bid to get elected.\nSpeaking at an event in Sydney organised by the Australian-British Chamber of Commerce, Mr Crosby was dismissive of UKIP's future electoral prospects.\n\"Despite all the noise about how they were on a march...they ended up with one seat, one seat fewer than they had before the election,\" he said.\n\"Ultimately competence and the capacity to deliver is the measure by which people judge political parties and UKIP failed in that fundamental test.\n\"At one stage, they were talking about 30 to 70 seats and they ended up with one. I don't think they have got a long-term future.\n\"You should never write anyone off but they will be a voice of discontent. They are very reliant on the performance of their leader Nigel Farage and even he couldn't win a seat.\"\nUKIP, which came second in 120 seats in May's election, has said it will play a major role in the Out campaign in the forthcoming referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.\nMr Farage quit in the aftermath of the election but his resignation was turned down by the party's national executive committee and he has insisted the party is united behind him.\nDuring the event, Mr Crosby cast doubt on suggestions that the election - which opinion polls beforehand suggested was too close to call - was decided by a last minute swing to the Tories, motivated by voters' concerns about the prospect of a Labour government propped up by the SNP.\nWhile voters were clearly worried about such a scenario, he said he had picked up their concerns more than six months before the general election - a fact not reflected in the polls.\n\"The first time we picked this up was in November 2014 when in discussions in focus groups, people said 'Ed Miliband is a very weak man and if the SNP do very well and if he relies on them to govern, they will push him around'.\n\"That was from the mouth of voters well before anyone had picked up that sense. We started building on that then. It wasn't something that came late in the campaign. It came late in a lot of people's realisation, perhaps, as an element of the campaign.\"\nThe pollster has been a controversial figure in British politics for nearly a decade, with critics accusing him of negative campaigning based on so-called \"wedge\" issues.\nHe worked for former Australian prime minister John Howard on a number of successful re-election campaigns before spearheading Boris Johnson' mayoral triumphs in 2008 and 2012.", "summary": "UKIP has no \"long-term future\" and will always remain a protest group, the man who masterminded the Conservatives' general election victory has claimed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The case against Steven Thomson, 29, took a jury just under three hours to return a not proven verdict by majority at the High Court in Livingston.\nHe had denied killing Duncan Banks by repeatedly hitting him on the head with a blunt object and robbing him of a money, heroin, a wallet and a key.\nMr Banks was found dead on 28 September 2015 in Skye Road, Dunfermline.\nHe had suffered horrific head injuries including \"extensive fracturing\" to his skull and deep cuts and tears in his scalp which caused \"traumatic\" damage to his brain. The court heard him described as a likeable character who \"wouldn't hurt a fly\".\nJudge Lady Rae told father-of-three Mr Thomson that he was free to leave the dock.\nDuring the 14-day trial the jury heard that the murder weapon, thought to be a rusty claw hammer, was never found.\nA spare key to Mr Banks' flat and the heroin and cash the dead man had from selling drugs to addicts in the Abbeyview area of Dunfermline were also missing.\nThe court heard that Mr Thomson, 39, was one of a select few people who Mr Banks allowed into his council flat in Skye Road.\nThe accused had even stayed over at Mr Banks' flat in the week leading up to his death in September 2015.\nGiving evidence in his own defence, he told the jury he had been taking heroin in the flat less than two hours before police believe Mr Banks was murdered.\nMr Thomson's DNA was found on cigarette ends in an ashtray in Mr Banks' living room.\nHowever, he insisted he was not guilty of murder and lodged a special defence blaming another man, Jamie Curtis, 44, for the crime.\nHe said the large sum of money seen on CCTV stuffed in his wallet later that morning was the proceeds from his own heroin dealing.\nHe said a fellow inmate at Perth Prison who claimed Mr Thomson confessed to him and another drug user - who gave evidence Mr Thomson had told him he was going to \"rob\" Mr Banks - were both lying.\nMr Banks' mother Dorothy Banks, 73, had told the jury her son had been in the grip of a drug habit for more than 20 years before his death and said heroin had changed his personality.\nShe said was being \"threatened\" over a drugs debt in the week before he was murdered and she last saw him four days before she learned he was dead.", "summary": "A self-confessed heroin addict has been cleared of murdering a Fife man and robbing him of drugs and money." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A report to councillors next week has said the signs are not legally enforceable.\nIt also claims they are a deterrent to outdoor play.\nThe communities and housing committee will be asked to approve a plan to remove them when it meets next Thursday.", "summary": "Aberdeen could become the first city in Scotland to remove all of its \"no ball games\" signs from public areas." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It's one of those fun facts that fascinates people about life in space.\nRobyn Gatens, deputy division director for Nasa's International Space Station (ISS) programme, has seen plenty of negative reactions to the practice in her 30 years at the US space agency.\n\"It's a mental thing, it sounds yucky,\" she says.\nThe ISS recycles about 90% of all its water - as well as astronauts' urine, this includes their sweat, the moisture from their breath and their washing water.\n\"Yesterday's pee is this morning's coffee basically,\" is how British astronaut Tim Peake summed up the process.\nIt may sound unappetising, but the ability to reuse the same water over and over again has enabled people to stay in space longer without refuelling. Ultimately it could help astronauts become self sufficient on a planet such as Mars, a two-year trip Nasa says it is planning for the mid-2030s.\nIt is just one example of the many ways in which Nasa exploits limited resources. And it's exactly the kind of practice that makes the space agency a role model for those on earth trying to eliminate waste by reusing and repurposing things.\nNasa works with businesses on a lot of its research and has a Technology Transfer Program aimed at making sure its scientific know-how is applied on Earth as well as in space.\n\"We're working across industries, not just traditional space companies,\" says Ms Gatens.\nUS firm Water Security Corporation, for example, bought the rights to Nasa's water recycling tech and now uses a simpler version of it on earth.\nThe firm's filters are used to supply clean water in remote areas in countries such as Mexico and India, or disaster relief areas.\nIn Nasa's case, recycling almost all the water on the ISS has meant that since 2009 the space station has been able to host six astronauts, rather than three. This expansion has been \"critical\", says Ms Gatens, because it has enabled the crew to carry out more scientific research.\nIt's also saved a huge amount of money. Nasa last year estimated sending water to the space station, instead of reusing it, would have cost it more than $225m (£180m) due to the high cost of transporting such a heavy item.\nBut the space agency isn't stopping there. It's now working to recover even more water from the concentrated urine left behind by the current process. What's left after this will be solid waste that, Ms Gatens says, could potentially be used as radiation protection.\nNasa also recycles air on the ISS. Currently the space station's system recovers about half of the oxygen contained in the CO2 breathed out by the crew, a percentage it's actively trying to increase.\nStart-up Skytree arose out of working on this technology. The firm's founders met at the European Space Agency (ESA) where they were working on recapturing CO2 to make longer space missions possible.\nThey secured funding from the ESA's technology transfer programme - which helps entrepreneurs starting businesses using space tech in a different field.\nNow the firm is working with different companies on a variety of commercial uses for its technology, including using the CO2 captured to increase the yields derived from plant crops for purifying water and to create a clean domestic energy source.\n\"We hope to initiate a positive shift in people's perception: from CO2 as a potential problem to CO2 as an essential and incredibly versatile resource,\" Skytree says.\nJust like in recent film The Martian where stranded astronaut Mark Watney grew potatoes, Nasa is also working on growing its own fresh vegetables in space. The project is aimed at eventually providing those on longer missions, such as to Mars, with a sustainable food source.\nTo grow the lettuce - eaten by US crew for the first time last year - Nasa used a collapsible unit packed with rooting \"pillows\", essentially mini grow bags, which contained the seeds, and coloured LED lights to enhance plant growth.\nSimilar farming systems where plants are stacked up on shelves to save space and grown from seeds are already common in Asia, and are beginning to become more popular in the US and UK.\nDr Gioia Massa, a Nasa scientist working on food production, says many of the lessons the space agency is learning could be applied in urban plant factories and other agriculture settings, with the potential to increase the amount of food grown in less space. Such skills will be vital as the world's population increases.\nBut sustainable solutions are not always hi-tech. Currently, space farers enviably never have to wash their clothes, but simply throw them away at the end of their usable life.\nISS crew are now testing exercise clothing, which has been treated with an antimicrobial compound, enabling them to be worn longer without smelling.\nThe other solution being considered is a simple ozone washing machine which, as Ms Gatens notes, nurseries often use to wash toys.\nBut in other areas of sustainability Nasa still has a long way to go. For example, as well as used clothing, astronauts still throw away things such as empty containers and the material used to cushion cargo from vibrations.\nThe items are stored in cargo resupply ships, which then burn up upon re-entry to Earth's atmosphere, incinerating everything.\nThe space agency is now considering making the cargo cushioning material out of 3D printer stock so that once in space, it can be used to create things such as tools.\nAnother option is heating and compacting its rubbish. After hiving off the additional water, the process creates big plastic dishes, which Ms Gatens likens to \"a huge coaster\". She says this could then be used as additional radiation protection, for example, in crew sleeping areas.\n\"The mindset is, with limited resources, whatever you can use, you want to be able to repurpose that,\" says Mary Hummerick, a Qinetiq North America microbiologist at Kennedy working on the project.", "summary": "If you want to get a laugh out of a five-year-old, telling them that astronauts drink their own wee is bound to do the trick." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sharp, who has been named scottishathletics Athlete of the Year, believes her European silver medal this year is a sign of her ability.\nBut she admits poor training facilities could see her leave Scotland.\n\"Unfortunately, I have to fight a bit of a battle to use the track at Meadowbank and we only have one in Edinburgh,\" she told BBC Scotland.\nSharp, who failed to qualify for the women's 800m Olympic final, said that in terms of training facilities she felt the country was split in two.\n\"I feel like the country is split into two: Glasgow is great. The've got the new indoor arena and the've done up Scotstoun. Then there's the Scottish Institute in Stirling but, apart from that, there's not much in Edinburgh.\n\"So, it's not always easy but I love being based in Scotland and hopefully can continue to be.\"\nSharp said she had enjoyed a \"whirlwind\" time on the track with silver at the European Championships and featuring at the London Olympics.\nThe Olympics was still an amazing experience\nOn the Olympics, she said: \"It was an unbelievable experience and I'm so glad I was part of it.\n\"I didn't perform as well as I wanted to in my semi-final but it was still an amazing experience and I'll use that experience at other major championships in future.\"\nSharp's selection in the 800m for Team GB's athletics squad for the Olympics proved controversial, as she was chosen ahead of four women who had recorded faster times.\n\"At the time I didn't let it bother me but looking back on it it took a lot out of me,\" she said. \"Followng my heat (at the Olympics) I had to do a lot of media interviews and a lot of the questions were \"do you think you've justified your selection\".\n\"Without realising it, I was quite mentally tired from my semi-final and a huge weight had been removed from my shoulders by getting through.\n\"Maybe I didn't realise how tired I was.\"\nSharp aims to clock a time below two minutes for the 800m, adding: \"Everyone says that if you keep that number in your head then it's not going to happen.\n\"If you just forget about it and run, then it'll come. I thought I would've done it this year but unfortunately, I had six weeks out in January so I was a wee bit behind in my training.\n\"But I've still had a great year; I've got half a second to go.\"", "summary": "Scotland's 800m runner Lynsey Sharp is targeting a gold medal at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "NHS Tayside said the source of the initial outbreak has still not been identified but \"rigorous action\" has been taken to minimise further risk.\nA small number of children were affected by the bug and were quarantined in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, according to the health board.\nThe outbreak centred on a playgroup and a primary school in the town.\nPublic health medicine consultant Dr Jackie Hyland said: \"The incident management team have formally declared the incident as over.\n\"Investigations have not identified a source of the initial outbreak but rigorous action has been taken to minimise any further potential risk before a playgroup in Angus, which closed on a precautionary basis, reopens.\n\"We would like to thank parents and the local community for their tremendous support throughout this investigation, which has helped us manage this incident and ensure the prevention of the spread of infection.\"\nA possible link with a national outbreak in which a three-year-old girl from Dunbartonshire died and 21 other people were infected formed part of the investigation.\nNHS Tayside has refused to disclose the number of children affected, citing patient confidentiality.", "summary": "An outbreak of E.coli O157 which affected children in the Carnoustie area has been officially declared over." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Taylor's 7-4 loss at Birmingham's Barclaycard Arena was followed by an impressive 7-1 win for world number one Van Gerwen over James Wade.\nFour players - Gary Anderson, Adrian Lewis, Wade and Wright - can still claim one of the remaining two spots.\nAnderson needs one point from his final two games to qualify for the last four.\nA win over Wright would have booked the defending champion's place in London on 19 May, but he was held to a 6-6 draw by Wright.\nLewis is three points clear of fifth-placed Wade and requires one more win to seal a play-off place following his 7-2 success against Robert Thornton, while Anderson's 7-5 defeat of Raymond van Barneveld ended the Dutchman's hopes of qualification.\nPeter Wright 7-4 Phil Taylor\nRaymond van Barneveld 5-7 Gary Anderson\nAdrian Lewis 7-2 Robert Thornton\nJames Wade 1-7 Michael van Gerwen\nPeter Wright 6-6 Gary Anderson", "summary": "Michael van Gerwen secured a Premier League play-off place and went top of the table as Phil Taylor slipped to a surprise defeat by Peter Wright." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Officers had been investigating the possibility Shaun Cole, 22, had been a victim of crime when his body was found on a Florida pavement in March.\nThe Royal Scots Borderer had been on holiday at the Ultra Music festival in Miami with two friends when he died.\nPte Cole had recently returned from serving in Sierra Leone, where he was helping with the fight against Ebola.\nPolice in America had earlier said the former Tynecastle High School pupil had suffered a blunt force trauma to the head. It has now judged this to have been from an accident.", "summary": "The death of a soldier from Edinburgh has been deemed ''accidental'' by police in North America." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Last month, the DUP negotiated an extra £1bn in spending in exchange for backing the Tories at Westminster.\nOn Wednesday, Mr Brokenshire stopped short of ruling out that it could be dependent on restoring devolution.\nThe DUP has always insisted the money is not subject to that condition.\nMr Wilson accused the secretary of state of not being able to \"give a straight answer\", and said it had been made clear to his party that the money was available to Northern Ireland as long as the DUP support the government on certain measures at Westminster.\nUnder the 'confidence and supply' arrangement the two parties reached last month, the DUP guarantees that its 10 MPs will vote with the government on the Queen's Speech, the Budget, and legislation relating to Brexit and national security.\n\"As long as we do that, the money is there,\" said the East Antrim MP, adding that Mr Brokenshire was \"pussyfooting around\" on the issue.\n\"If the assembly isn't up and running, then assembly members will not have a decision on how it is spent, it will be direct rule ministers,\" he added.\n\"I'd prefer the assembly would have input but if that's not going to happen then why can't he just say it rather than trying to speak on both sides of his mouth?\"\nThe East Antrim MP said the secretary of state needed to make his position clear and said if direct rule is implemented, the DUP will be in a \"major position for consultation then\" about how the extra funding is spent.\nOn Wednesday, the secretary of state allocated an extra £131m to health and education in Northern Ireland, as part of a reallocation of funds known as a monitoring round.\nIt was his second intervention in Stormont's finances in the absence of a functioning executive.\nSpeaking to BBC Newsline, Mr Brokenshire said the latest funding allocation was not a long-term solution.\n\"What we're saying is that this money is for a new executive to see that we get local politicians making decisions, there will be a whole host of decisions to take should that not happen,\" he said.\n\"I recognise the specific financial needs Northern Ireland has, but the point is that things like infrastructure, roads, investment in hospitals - that requires political decision-making and that why we need to see the parties coming back together again and getting an executive in place.\"\nAsked if the money would be available if there is no restoration of power-sharing at Stormont by 2018, Mr Brokenshire said he would not \"hypothesise or speculate\" as to what would happen.\nThe region has been without a functioning executive since January, when the coalition led by the DUP and Sinn Féin collapsed over a green energy scandal.\nTalks in both the spring and summer aimed at restoring power-sharing at Stormont failed, with the parties remaining deadlocked over a number of issues.", "summary": "DUP MP Sammy Wilson has criticised James Brokenshire for a lack of clarity about how money secured for Northern Ireland through a DUP deal with the Conservatives can be spent." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Chastain received a special honour at the 2015 Critics' Choice Awards in Hollywood last week.\nPicking up her award on what was the birthday of civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King, the Zero Dark Thirty and Interstellar star used her acceptance speech to urge those in the room to \"stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas\".\nHours earlier the Oscar nominations had been announced, with the Academy facing criticism that all 20 contenders in the main acting categories were white and there were no female nominees in the directing or writing categories.\nA few days later, Chastain is in London promoting her latest film, JC Chandor's 1980s-set crime drama A Most Violent Year, and happy to expand on the issue.\n\"The industry has a diversity problem, absolutely,\" she says. \"I don't see it as a situation where there are some bad guys over there and you need to fix this.\n\"I'm part of the industry so I'm part of the problem.\"\nShe points out that only 3% of directors of photography are women. \"That's insane to me. Asian-American actors aren't being represented in films. There are a lot of problems in the industry.\"\nAfter several years working in mainly TV roles, Chastain came to global attention in a string of high-profile films released around 2011-12.\nThey included Terrence Malick's epic The Tree of Life, opposite Brad Pitt, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes; spy thriller The Debt, and drama The Help which earned the actress her first Oscar nomination.\nIn 2013, she earned a second Oscar nomination for Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller Zero Dark Thirty.\n\"I know I'm very lucky,\" says Chastain. \"I get sent incredible scripts. I'm reading the best material that there is, but when I go to the movies as an audience member I'm longing for many colours. I like a palette that I can learn about life.\n\"Sometimes I only get one point of view. I'm sad that when I go to a movie I see 20 male characters to every two female. So I would like that to change.\"\nShe adds: \"I do not think that people in the industry are sexist and racist and homophobic. But there still is this status quo - the stories haven't changed - so the more we in the industry talk about it and say, 'This isn't right,' and do what we can to bring in more female points of view - that's the way to go.\"\nIn A Most Violent Year, Chastain plays Anna, a gangster's daughter married to businessman Abel Morales, played by Oscar Isaac, who comes under pressure when his oil trucks keep being hijacked on the streets of New York.\nChastain and Isaac trained together as students at Juilliard School in New York City, but this is the first time they have worked together.\nIn one of the film's key scenes their car strikes a deer on a road and Anna takes control as they decide how to deal with the injured animal.\n\"That's when she breaks free from the role she's been playing,\" explains Chastain. \"Anna has a capacity for violence unlike anybody else in the film. I think she gets turned on by violence and probably grew up in a violent household.\"\nSome have compared the character of Anna to Lady Macbeth.\nChastain agrees up to a point: \"The difference between Lady Macbeth and Anna is that Lady Macbeth goes mad. She's a lot colder. She doesn't have the vulnerability that Lady Macbeth has.\"\nWith almost 20 films on her CV since she stepped into the spotlight in 2011, what's been the biggest change she's had to deal with?\n\"There's been no real big change in terms of fame,\" admits Chastain. \"Since Interstellar more people recognise me. Now when I go to a restaurant sometimes one person from each table will look at me and then they go on with their dinner. So not that much of a deal.\"\nBut she does identify one problem in her professional life. \"The one thing I need to work on is that I have a capacity to overwork. I have an affinity for work - I love it.\n\"I've been given so many opportunities to work that it's very difficult for me to say no. I need to figure out how I can see my family and my friends and be healthy and work where it doesn't shadow my other life.\"\nA Most Violent Year is out in the UK on 23 January.", "summary": "Actress Jessica Chastain talks about Hollywood's need to address the issue of diversity, and admits: \"I have a capacity to overwork.\"" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 51-year-old, who suffered a near-fatal brain injury in 1991 WBO super-middleweight title fight with Chris Eubank, was in a car which was hit from behind in east London on Thursday.\nHis spokesman said Mr Watson was hurt when he was dragged from the car while a friend had had a substance sprayed in his eyes. Both are recovering at home.\nPolice have appealed for information.\nMr Watson, who was left partially disabled after the injury which ended his boxing career, had been travelling along the Ridgeway in Chingford, with his friend Lennard Ballack when the incident happened.\nHis spokesman said: \"Lennard got out to speak to the people in the car behind them. From what I understand, the guys wound down their window and sprayed something in his eyes.\n\"The men then went to the car that Michael was in - he had his seatbelt half off by this point, and they dragged him out the car and along the floor. The men then sprayed Lennard in the eyes again and drove away.\"\nMr Watson's spokesman said they were assuming it was an attempted carjacking and that they were hoping police would catch the people involved.\n\"Lennard's suffering a bit - his eyes are not good,\" he said. \"Michael is OK. I think he is very, very sore though. He got dragged along the road so some of the skin has broken badly.\"\nThe Metropolitan Police said officers had been called to the scene shortly before 17:00 GMT to reports of attempted robbery.\nA police spokesman said: \"Two men, aged in their 50s, informed officers that they had been sprayed in the face with a suspected noxious substance by two suspects who attempted to steal the car.\n\"The male suspects fled the scene in a different vehicle.\n\"The victims were assessed at the scene by the London Ambulance Service before being taken to an east London hospital for further treatment - their injuries are not life-threatening.\"\nMr Watson spent 40 days in a coma and had six brain operations after a WBO super-middleweight bout against Mr Eubank.\nIn 2003, he completed the London Marathon over six days, defying doctors' predictions that he would never walk again.", "summary": "Former boxer Michael Watson was hurt in a suspected carjacking attempt last week, his spokesman has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Renfrewshire town, which is bidding to become UK City of Culture in 2021, will host this year's event at Paisley Town Hall on Wednesday 29 June.\nThe award was developed in 2012 by the Scottish Music Industry Association in partnership with Creative Scotland.\nPrevious winners include Kathryn Joseph, Young Fathers, RM Hubbert and Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat.\nCaroline Cooper, from the Say awards, said: \"We are thrilled to be bringing the Say Award to Paisley for the next two years.\n\"The award celebrates the very best of Scottish music and what better place to hold the ceremony than in a town so steeped in cultural history.\"\nMembers of the public can nominate albums on the Say website.\nA shortlist will be announced later this year ahead of the ceremony in June.\nLeonie Bell, director of arts and engagement at Creative Scotland, said: \"We are delighted to be able to support the fifth year of the award and are looking forward to the 2016 ceremony hosted in Paisley Town Hall.\n\"It is fitting that the ceremony is hosted in Paisley, home to musical talent of Paolo Nutini and the late Gerry Rafferty, as it makes its bid to be UK City of Culture 2021.\"\nJean Cameron, director of Paisley's bid for UK City of Culture 2021, added: \"We are all very excited that Paisley will be home to one of the most prestigious events in the Scottish musical calendar.\n\"The Say award and Paisley are a great fit - the town has a wonderful musical heritage and continues to be a cultural hotspot for creative talent to this day.\"", "summary": "Paisley has been selected to host the Scottish Album of the Year (Say) Awards ceremony in 2016 and 2017." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Second-half substitute Murphy's late point helped an experimental Donegal side hold off a committed Down outfit.\nFrank McGlynn's early goal contributed to Donegal's 1-3 to 0-4 half-time lead.\nCiaran Thompson's third point helped Donegal move five ahead but Down kept battling and Donegal needed late Murphy and McGlynn points to stay clear.\nDonegal boss Rory Gallagher named five debutants Jack O'Brien, Eoghan Ban Gallagher, Ciaran Thompson, Stephen McBrearty and Michael Carroll while Cathal Doyle, Joe McDermott, Joe Murphy and Gareth Johnson made their first Down appearances as Eamonn Burns took charge of the Mourne County for the first time.\nMcGlynn lobbed in Donegal's goal in the opening minute after being found by Odhran MacNiallais.\nPeter Turley had an immediate chance to level from a Down goal chance but fired over the bar and two Thompson points helped Donegal lead by two at half-time with debutant Johnson and Aidan Carr among the Down first-half scorers.\nJohnson added another Down point immediately after the restart but the visitors missed other scoring chances and Donegal increased their advantage to three with Martin O'Reilly, Hugh McFadden and man of the match Thompson all on target.\nDonegal went close to notching a second goal as a fierce Jack O'Brien shot hit the underside of the crossbar with suggestions the ball may have bounced over the line before being cleared.\nAs Paddy McGrath hit what is believed to be his first ever inter-county point, Donegal appeared to be in command as they moved five clear but a Shane Dolan point started a Down revival as Donegal needed the late Murphy and McGlynn scores to keep the Mourne men at bay.\nMurphy received a big cheer from the home crowd as he was introduced with 16 minutes remaining.\nBank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup results\nSection A\nDerry 4-16 2-12 Antrim\nTyrone 3-17 0-11 Queen's\nSection B\nDonegal 1-11 0-11 Down\nFermanagh P-P St Mary's College\nSection C\nArmagh 0-11 2-08 Cavan\nMonaghan 1-09 2-16 Ulster University", "summary": "Michael Murphy's made his 100th Donegal appearance as Rory Gallagher's side edged out Down 1-11 to 0-11 in the Dr McKenna Cup opener at Ballybofey." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The inquiry, which began its work in 2009, has said its final report will not be published before May's election.\nIn a Commons debate, former Attorney General Dominic Grieve said the delays were \"very regrettable\" as MPs of all parties criticised the process.\nSir John Chilcot, the former civil servant who heads the inquiry, is to be questioned by MPs next week.\nBetween 2003 and 2009, when foreign troops left Iraq, 179 UK military personnel lost their lives while thousands of Iraqi civilians are believed to have died over the period.\nOpening the debate, which was organised by the Commons Backbench Committee, former shadow home secretary David Davis said the invasion had done \"untold damage to the reputation of the West\" and \"destroyed the integrity of the Iraqi state and triggered a persistent civil war\" in the country.\nHe said lessons from the conflict would have been beneficial in subsequent \"major foreign policy decisions\" relating to Libya, Syria and again in Iraq.\nMr Grieve said the drawn-out process would lead to a public \"unease\", adding that he believed Sir John was \"trying to produce an extremely thorough report\".\nLabour MP Jack Straw, who was foreign secretary at the time of the invasion, said criticism of the delays could prompt inquiry members to change their conclusions.\nAs the months go past, he said, \"wholly unfounded suspicions fall on the inquiry about a whitewash.\n\"And in equal and opposite concern that they may feel obliged to respond to these pressures by conclusions more starkly drawn than the evidence would allow.\"\nLib Dem former minister Norman Baker said delaying the report until after the election was \"an insult to the British people\".\nReplying for the government, Cabinet Office Minister Rob Wilson said it would be \"very helpful\" for Sir John to indicate when the report might be completed.\nAt the end of the debate, MPs agreed to a motion asking the inquiry to set out a timetable for publication and an explanation of the causes of the delay by 12 February 2015.\nThe Scottish Parliament also held a debate on the Iraq Inquiry on the same day. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the failure to publish the report before the election was \"scandalous\", saying it was \"time for the truth\" on the events leading up to the 2003 invasion.\nPrime Minister David Cameron has said he is frustrated at the length of time the inquiry is taking to publish its conclusions but that it is independent of government and it would be wrong of him to intervene.\nSir John recently said there was \"no realistic prospect\" of the report, likely to be more than a million words long, being released before the general election on 7 May.\nAppearing before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, the UK's top civil servant, Sir Jeremy Heywood, urged MPs not to try to subpoena the report or try to compel the inquiry to publish some of its findings before 7 May.\nHe said he understood public anxiety but it would be wrong to \"rush\" its publication at such a crucial juncture.\nWhile agreeing to appear at the Foreign Affairs Committee on 4 February, Sir John has said he will not disclose anything about the substance of the inquiry's work, anticipate the eventual date of publication or comment on the current process in which those provisionally criticised in the report are being contacted to give them a right to respond.\nIn a statement, the inquiry said \"it had worked in strict confidence in the course of drafting its report\" and reiterated the longstanding position \"that it would not give a running commentary on its work\".", "summary": "MPs have expressed their frustration at the time being taken to publish the official inquiry into the Iraq War." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Recorded cases rose 31% between 2013 and 2015, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) said.\nIt said this had led to \"excessive\" workloads and affected the quality and speed of investigations in some forces.\nMeanwhile, a separate HMIC report found 31 out of 43 forces must improve their protection of vulnerable people.\nHM Inspector of Constabulary Zoe Billingham issued the warning that police were close to being overwhelmed by the \"staggering\" increase in domestic abuse cases.\nHer report is a follow-up to one published by HMIC in March 2014, which highlighted \"significant weaknesses\" in the service police gave domestic abuse victims.\nThe new report notes improvements since then, including a 31% increase in \"domestic abuse related crimes\" recorded by police - from 269,700 in the year to August 2013, to 353,100 in the year to March 2015.\nExplaining why this is an improvement, the report says the rise could be partly due to better recording by police and forces \"actively encouraging\" victims to come forward.\nThere has also been a \"determined effort\" by police to make domestic abuse a priority, the report adds.\nBut it highlights problems including:\nThe report notes the \"enormous\" number of people affected by domestic abuse - with 900,000 calls to police in England and Wales in the 12 months to March 2015.\nViolent, physical, sexual, psychological or emotional abuse - including threats and intimidation - in your home or elsewhere by your current or former partner, or any other adult family member.\nIt can also include financial abuse, such as a partner controlling your use of money or running up debts in your name.\nMen and women can both be perpetrators and victims of domestic abuse, and victims are encouraged to call the police.\nSources: Met Police, Money Advice Service\nIn its separate report on protection of vulnerable people, HMIC graded all 43 forces in England and Wales, rating 12 \"good\", 27 \"requires improvement\" and four \"inadequate\". No force was rated \"outstanding\".\nThe four forces rated \"inadequate\" were Bedfordshire, Essex, Staffordshire, Surrey.\nForces use different definitions of \"vulnerable\", but criteria can include age, disability and being a victim of repeated offences.\nMs Billingham said: \"We witnessed a clear commitment from forces to improve the service they provide to vulnerable people generally. This determination now needs to translate into effective and consistent support and protection.\"\nMark Castle, chief executive of charity Victim Support, said: \"This report makes disturbing reading, highlighting widespread failure by the police to identify, assess or support the most vulnerable victims of crime, in particular children.\"", "summary": "Police in England and Wales are on the verge of being \"overwhelmed\" by \"staggering\" increases in reports of domestic abuse, inspectors say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sharon Wilson and Ian Ferguson were elected to seats in the Rosyth and Dunfermline North wards.\nMr Ferguson won 1,056 votes, ahead of Labour candidate Joe Long on 719, while Ms Wilson won 1,214, ahead of Labour's Vikki Fairweather on 926.\nThe elections were triggered by the resignation of two SNP councillors, one of whom, Douglas Chapman, became MP for Dunfermline and Fife West in May.\nTurnout in each ward was just over 24%.", "summary": "The SNP has held two seats on Fife Council following by-elections." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The match at Hove started on time at 14:00 BST after the visitors won the toss and elected to field first.\nSussex had reached 154-3, with George Bailey unbeaten on 48 and Callum Jackson 34 not out, when the players were taken off at 16:00 BST.\nWith no prospect of the weather improving after a three hour delay, the umpires called the game off.\nEssex will play Yorkshire at Chelmsford in the last eight on Thursday, 27 August, at 14:00 BST.\nSussex finish the group stage without a win.", "summary": "Essex qualified for the One-Day Cup quarter-finals after their game against Sussex was abandoned because of rain." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It is the 56-year-old's first job since he was sacked as manager of UAE side Al Wasl in July 2012.\nAl-Fujairah tweeted a picture of Maradona holding the club's shirt.\n\"I want to tell you that I am the new coach of Al-Fujairah SC, in the second division of the United Arab Emirates,\" Maradona added on his Facebook page.\nMaradona helped Argentina win the World Cup as a player in 1986 and managed his country between 2008-10.", "summary": "Argentina legend Diego Maradona has been appointed head coach of Al-Fujairah FC, the United Arab Emirates second-tier club say." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 29-year-old is the reigning European Cross-Country champion.\nShe told BBC Radio Leicester: \"I am sort of borderline going for marathon or 10,000m on the track, so that's the big question at the minute.\n\"We have now just got to have a chat with my coach and see where I am going with that.\"\nSteel, who recently finished second at half-marathon distance in the Great North Run and was third at Sunday's Great Scottish Run, is yet to represent GB at an Olympics but sees marathon running as a long-term aim.\n\"I think the marathon is, in the future, where I could win a medal, but 10,000m on the track I am more comfortable with the distance.\n\"My coach is training me for the marathon, so I am prepared for it.\n\"I have only been going up to 15 miles in my training, but once I get comfortable with that and 17 miles, then 20, I think I will get more confidence.\"", "summary": "Leicestershire runner Gemma Steel says she is yet to decide whether she will compete in the 10,000m or the marathon at the Rio 2016 Olympics." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "John Smith, who competes in the T54 classification, said the chair was taken from his van outside his home in Kent.\nMr Smith posted an appeal on his Facebook page for its return.\nKent Police said it was investigating the theft, outside the house in West Kingsdown near Sevenoaks.\n\"The wheelchair had been stored inside a locked van,\" the force said.\n\"There was no reported damage to the van and enquiries into the theft are ongoing.\"\nMr Smith said that unless the chair is returned he will not be able to compete in the games in September, as there is no time for a replacement to be built.\n\"The chair has no scrap value and cannot be used by other people as it was custom built for me,\" he said.\nThe chair is said to be worth £5,000.", "summary": "A para-athlete fears his chance to race in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games is over after his specialist wheelchair was stolen." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Two are said to be linked to the Honduran military.\nMs Caceres was killed in March by gunmen who broke into her house in her home town of La Esperanza.\nHer death sparked international condemnation and led to mass protests in Honduras, a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world.\nThe four suspects have been named as Douglas Bustillo, Mariano Chavez, Sergio Ramon Orellana and Edilson Duarte Meza.\nMr Chavez is a member of the Honduran Armed Forces and Mr Duarte Meza is a former military man, La Prensa newspaper reported.\nThe four men are \"the presumed perpetrators of the crime,\" says the Prosecutor's Office in a note.\nThe arrest warrants were issued \"based on scientific evidence that support the allegation presented,\" it adds.\nMs Caceres was killed on 3 March, on the eve of her 45th birthday.\nA member of the Lenca indigenous group, she was one of the founders in 1993 of the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH).\nShe successfully campaigned against the construction of a hydroelectric dam that would have flooded large areas where the Lenca lived.\nIt would also have cut off the supply of water, food and medicine for hundreds of Lenca people.\nIn 2015, she was awarded the Goldman Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for grassroots environmentalism.\nPolice initially said that she could have been killed in a robbery that went wrong.", "summary": "Police in Honduras have arrested four people in connection with the murder of leading indigenous and environmental campaigner Berta Caceres." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "BBC Radio 5 live will have commentaries of the big Aintree races climaxing with the National on 9 April (17:15 BST).\nThe BBC Sport website will have reports, a pinstickers' guide, sweepstake kit and live text commentary from 13:30 GMT on Saturday.\nCorrespondent Cornelius Lysaght and website racing reporter Frank Keogh will be in Liverpool throughout the meeting, posting updates on Twitter and giving updates via the live text service.\nFull race schedule: (Time, race, status, distance)\n13.40 The Merseyrail Manifesto Novices' Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 2m 4f\n14.15 The Anniversary 4YO Juvenile Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m 1f\n14.50 The Betfred Bowl Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 3m 1f\n15.25 The Doom Bar Aintree Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m 4f\n16.05 The Crabbie's Fox Hunters' Steeple Chase (Class 2) 2m 5f\n16.40 The Red Rum Handicap Steeple Chase (Grade 3)2m\n17.15 The Goffs Nickel Coin Mares' Standard Open NH Flat (Grade 2) 2m 1f\nFull race schedule: (Time, race, status, distance)\n13.40 The Alder Hey Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3) 2m 4f\n14.15 The Top Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m ½f\n14.50 The Betfred Mildmay Novices' Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 3m 1f\n15.25 The JLT Melling Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 2m 4f\n16.05 The Crabbie's Topham Steeple Chase (Grade 3) 2m 5f\n16.40 The Doom Bar Sefton Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1)3m ½f\n17.15 The Weatherbys Champion Standard Open NH Flat (Grade 2) 2m 1f\nFull race schedule: (Time, race, status, distance)\n13.40 The Aintree Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3) 3m ½f\n14.25 The EZ Trader Mersey Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m 4f\n15.00 The Doom Bar Maghull Novices' Steeple Chase (Grade 1)2m\n15.40 The Liverpool Stayers' Hurdle (Grade 1) 3m ½f\n16.20 The Betfred Handicap Steeple Chase (Listed) 3m 1f\n17.15 The Crabbie's Grand National Steeple Chase (Grade 3) 4m 2½f\n18.10 The Pinsent Masons Handicap Hurdle (cond' and amat') (Class 2) 2m ½f", "summary": "You can follow all the action from the three-day Grand National meeting at Aintree on BBC radio, online, mobile and the BBC Sport app." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Deutsche See, which leases 500 vehicles from VW, said it had been unable to reach an out-of-court settlement, Reuters news agency reported.\nVW is involved in numerous lawsuits from individual owners, regulators, states and dealers, many of them class-action cases in the US.\nDeutsche See is one of Germany's major fish and seafood producers.\nThe business promotes itself as environmentally friendly, and in 2010 won an award for being Germany's \"most sustainable company\".\n\"Deutsche See only went into partnership with VW because VW promised the most environmentally friendly, sustainable mobility concept,\" said a statement from the company.\nGerman media reported that Deutsche See filed its complaint for \"malicious deception\" at the regional court in Braunschweig, near Volkswagen's Wolfsburg headquarters.\nVW on Sunday declined to comment on the reports.\nVolkswagen admitted in September 2015 that it had used software to cheat diesel-emissions tests in the US.\nThe company is now embroiled in investigations across the world, and will have to spend a huge amount of money to settle claims and put the engines right.\nThe cost of settlements and fines in the US alone are approaching $20bn.", "summary": "Volkswagen faces its first legal action in Germany from a big corporate client over the diesel emissions scandal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "That's how JP Fitzgerald described his feelings after checking his balance and finding financial rewards for helping his boss win the Tour Championship and with it the lucrative FedEx Cup last September.\nFitzgerald earned around $1.5m (£1.2m) that week. He performs an invaluable role - but remember he is a caddie not a player.\nThe traditional Florida swing was interrupted by this month's WGC in Mexico City and next week matchplay is introduced when players want to hone scoring skills for their tilts at a Green Jacket. The schedule needs shaking up\nBy contrast, back in the 1950s and '60s it took the great Palmer around 15 years of swashbuckling, captivating competition to come anywhere close to amassing that figure.\nOf course, we are talking vastly different eras and inflationary forces have abounded since Palmer's heyday. But no-one did more to popularise professional golf than the man still referred to as 'The King'.\nArnie's Army, as his support base was known, was a global following attracted by this most charismatic of characters.\nPalmer brought attention and money and became one of the world's most famous people. He made golf sexy and laid the foundations for the riches enjoyed by today's players, their caddies and the rest of their entourages.\nThis week, the PGA Tour stages the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill for the first time since golf lost one of its greatest figures. Palmer died awaiting heart surgery at the age of 87 on 25 September last year.\nThe great man will never be far from the minds of those competing in Orlando this week and, despite a ludicrously congested schedule, a fitting field has been assembled.\nThere were worries that the biggest names would be under-represented and last week former FedEx Cup winner Billy Horschel tweeted his concern.\n\"Disappointing. Totally understand schedule issues. But 1st year without AP. Honor an icon! Without him wouldn't be in position we are today.\"\nAnd yes, world number one Dustin Johnson along with major winners Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth and Adam Scott are absent, but 14 of the world's top 25 will tee it up in Florida this week.\nIt is a respectable field headlined by numbers two and three in the rankings - Jason Day and McIlroy - along with Open champion Henrik Stenson.\nThe Swedish winner at Royal Troon last year agrees there was a responsibility on the biggest names to turn up to honour Palmer. \"Absolutely, you can definitely argue for that,\" he said.\n\"There's going to be some special tributes to his life. We're putting some umbrellas [Palmer's trademark] on our bags and things like that. So I'm sure it's going to be a great week, and we're going to do our best to honour him.\"\nFormer Open winner Louis Oosthuizen went further. \"I just think it's a tournament that, if you can, you should play it every year,\" he said.\n\"And I'm going to try to do that from now on.\"\nBut it is never that straightforward, especially with the overly congested nature of the PGA Tour's schedule in the build-up to next month's first major, the Masters.\nAs Rickie Fowler, another top 10 star playing at Bay Hill this week, commented: \"The biggest thing is you want to make sure you're ready to go at Augusta.\"\nThis is why Stenson and his Ryder Cup team-mate Justin Rose are skipping next week's WGC Matchplay, a tournament for the world's top 64 players and worth $9.75m prize money.\nRose does not like the idea of playing head-to-head matchplay so close to the Masters but the wider point is that shoehorning in two elite World Golf Championships before Augusta creates tough scheduling choices.\nFirst-world problems they may be, but the current set-up is a mess that made it harder for leading players to honour Palmer this week.\nThe traditional Florida swing was interrupted by this month's WGC in Mexico City and next week matchplay is introduced when players want to hone scoring skills for their tilts at gaining a Green Jacket.\nIt is clear the schedule needs shaking up, especially if plans to move back the Players Championship to March come to fruition.\nThe idea under consideration is to shift the tournament, known as the fifth major, so that an actual major, the US PGA Championship, can move from August to a date in May.\nThis, in turn, would allow the late summer PGA Tour play-offs an earlier start, with the FedEx Cup being completed before the start of the American football season.\nCurrently the cash-rich season-ender goes unnoticed in the US because of the sporting behemoth that is the NFL.\nThese are radical and fascinating schedule proposals under active consideration. Each of the events concerned carries vast prize funds and every stakeholder inevitably wants a slice of maximised exposure.\nThis is foremost in the minds of Tour bosses - but for this week, at least, they will be better served remembering the man who did most to make possible such multi-million dollar chatter.\nConversations, by the way, that are no longer the sole preserve of players.", "summary": "On the day Arnold Palmer passed away, Rory McIlroy collected such riches in prize money that the knock-on effect was a \"tsunami\" of cash tumbling into the bank account of his caddie." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "On the day of Holi, people throw coloured powder and liquids at each other.\nSome of the biggest celebrations take place in the temples of Vrindavan, a town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where, according to legend, the Hindu god Krishna played Holi with his consort Radha.\nThe festival is celebrated over two days.\nThe festival also symbolises a new beginning for Hindus to end conflicts and let go of emotional impurities from the past.", "summary": "Indians are celebrating Holi, the Hindu festival of colours which comes at the end of the winter season and marks the beginning of spring." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Police said they were held because their action was unauthorised.\nThe activists said more than two million people had signed the petition to investigate alleged torture and detentions of gay people in the Russian region of Chechnya.\nChechen officials have denied that gay people even exist in the republic.\nLast week, Russian President Vladimir Putin backed an inquiry into the reported crackdown on gay people in Chechnya, in the North Caucasus.\nEarlier this month German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the Russian authorities to help protect gay rights.\nOn Thursday, four Russians and an Italian national were held as they tried to deliver a printout of the petition to the prosecutor general's office.\nThey also carried huge empty boxes, symbolising online signatures they had collected in protest against the alleged crackdown, a BBC Russian reporter says.\nThe petition was signed \"by more than two million people around the world, more than the entire population of the Chechen republic,\" the Russian LGBT Network said.\nIt said they were demanding \"an unbiased investigation of illegal detentions of hundreds of people in Chechnya because of their homosexuality\".\nChechnya's strongman leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, said last week he was ready to co-operate with Russia's federal authorities on the issue.\nBut Mr Kadyrov repeated recent assertions that there were no \"people of non-traditional orientation\" (a term sometimes used to describe LGBT people in Russia) in the predominantly Muslim republic.\nChechen officials also say the local police have not received any official complaints from alleged victims.\nJust a few weeks ago, \"Ruslan\" was with his wife and children in Chechnya. Now he's in a safe house for men fleeing detention and torture for being gay.\nReports of a campaign against gay men by Chechen security forces have been trickling through since early April when they first appeared in a Russian newspaper. Now some of the alleged victims are starting to speak out.\n\"When they brought me in, I denied everything,\" says Ruslan - not his real name. Even now, he is frightened of being identified.\nRead more of his story\nHomophobia is widespread in Chechnya. Last month, Natalia Poplevskaya of the Russian LGBT Network said there was \"an organised campaign to detain gay men\" in Chechnya.\nVictims of the crackdown - who were either gay or just perceived to be gay - were being held at a detention centre near Argun, 20km (13 miles) from the city of Grozny, she said.\n\"Torture is going on with electric shocks, beatings with cables,\" she told the BBC, adding that three deaths had been reported. \"All the people arrested are homosexual men or perceived as being gay.\"\nA Chechen government spokesman, Alvi Karimov, denied the allegations. \"You can't detain and repress people who simply don't exist in the republic,\" he said.\nHomosexuality was decriminalised in the Russian Federation in 1993 but concern about homophobia remains high.\nIn 2013, parliament passed a law imposing heavy fines for providing information about homosexuality to people under 18, sparking international controversy.", "summary": "Five gay rights activists have been detained in Moscow as they tried to deliver a petition to the office of Russia's prosecutor general." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "She was discussing their treatment of Britain's ambassador to China with a senior police officer at a Buckingham Palace garden party on Tuesday.\nIt came after David Cameron was overheard saying Afghanistan and Nigeria were \"fantastically corrupt\".\nBuckingham Palace said the Chinese visit had been \"extremely successful\".\nChinese officials in both London and Beijing also recalled the visit's \"success\".\nThe invitation to President Xi was part of the government's policy of courting Chinese investment.\nThe Queen's remarks were filmed as she was introduced to Metropolitan Police Commander Lucy D'Orsi, who the monarch is told had overseen security during President Xi's visit to the UK in October.\nShe is heard to respond: \"Oh, bad luck.\"\nAn official went on to tell the Queen that Commander D'Orsi had been \"seriously, seriously undermined by the Chinese, but she managed to hold her own and remain in command\".\nCommander D'Orsi told the Queen: \"I was the Gold Commander so I'm not sure whether you knew, but it was quite a testing time for...\"\n\"I did,\" the Queen said.\nCommander D'Orsi continued: \"It was at the point they walked out of Lancaster House and told me that the trip was off, that I felt...\"\nThe Queen said: \"They were very rude to the ambassador.\"\nCommander D'Orsi replied: \"They were... it was very rude and undiplomatic I thought.\"\nThe Queen described it as \"extraordinary\".\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman later said: \"We do not comment on the Queen's private conversations.\n\"However, the Chinese State Visit was extremely successful and all parties worked closely to ensure it proceeded smoothly.\"\nRoyal garden parties are filmed by the cameraman who covers the palace for UK broadcasters.\nForeign Secretary Philip Hammond said that \"at times it got a bit stressful on both sides\" but that state visits were big logistical challenges.\nAt the palace, Ms D'Orsi told reporters it had been \"rewarding\" to be thanked by the Queen for her work during the state visit.\nShe said the Queen and her own mother had chatted about the benefits of being grandmothers.\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman has said it was not prepared to discuss a private conversation.\nIn Beijing, a government spokesperson described the trip as very successful, starting a \"Golden Era\" of relations.\nAsked several times if that era continued today he neither confirmed nor denied it.\nThe Chinese Embassy in London said both sides at \"the working level\" had made great efforts towards the visit's success.\nAt the time of the visit, the Queen hailed it as a \"milestone\" and declared Anglo-Chinese ties were being taken to \"ambitious\" new heights.\nPresident Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan were honoured with a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, hosted by the Queen.\nBy Peter Hunt, BBC royal correspondent\nLast year, the official talk was of a trade focused state visit ushering in a \"golden time\" for relations between the two countries.\nWe now know, thanks to a conversation in the Queen's palace garden, that it was a testing time behind the scenes.\nBlunt talking, in public, is normally the preserve of the Queen's husband.\nIn the 80s, Prince Philip warned some British students in China that they'd get \"slitty eyes\" if they stayed there too long.\nAnd Prince Charles - who's avoided two Chinese state banquets in the UK - described some officials in a leaked journal as \"appalling old waxworks\".\nBuckingham Palace - while not commenting on what they call a private conversation - have stressed all parties worked closely to ensure an extremely successful Chinese state visit proceeded smoothly.\nCoverage of the comments has been censored in China where a report on BBC World News was blanked out.\nInstead, state media outlets have dedicated their coverage to the Queen's dress sense and notable party attendees.\nSocial media users have been keen to comment, but many appear to have had their posts removed by online censors.\nSome managed to bypass filters by using English rather than Chinese to repeat the Queen's comments.\nThe Queen has largely avoided making political statements in her 64-year reign but it is not the first time her comments on controversial areas have been reported.\nIn the build-up to Scotland's 2014 referendum on independence, Buckingham Palace denied suggestions that the Queen would wish to influence the result, following reports that she was concerned.\nShortly before the vote she was heard saying she hoped people would \"think very carefully about the future\".\nAnd in March this year, there were claims by the Sun newspaper that the Queen told former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in 2011 she was in favour of the UK leaving the European Union.\nBuckingham Palace said it would not comment on \"spurious\" claims and complained to the press watchdog, while Mr Clegg called the story \"nonsense\".\nEarlier on Tuesday, the prime minister was filmed at a Buckingham Palace event to mark the Queen's 90th birthday also making unguarded comments.\nTalking about this week's anti-corruption summit in London, he said: \"We've got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain. Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world.\"\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby intervened to say: \"But this particular president is not corrupt. He's trying very hard.\" before Speaker John Bercow said: \"They are coming at their own expense, one assumes?\"\nBBC political correspondent James Landale said the prime minister's remarks were outspoken, unguarded and ostensibly embarrassing, but they were not untrue.\nIn Transparency International's 2015 corruption perception index, Afghanistan was ranked at 167, ahead of only Somalia and North Korea, Nigeria was at 136.\nWith his remark, the archbishop was believed to have been referring to Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, who won elections last year promising to fight widespread corruption.\nMr Buhari said he was \"shocked\" by the prime minister's comments, while a senior Afghan official said the characterisation was \"unfair\".\nNo 10 said the presidents of Nigeria and Afghanistan had \"acknowledged the scale of the corruption challenge they face in their countries\".", "summary": "The Queen has been filmed saying Chinese officials were \"very rude\" during last year's state visit by President Xi Jinping." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dan Gardner's fabulous 30-yard strike put the Spireites ahead and Leon Barnett's own goal put them in control.\nBut Barnett's fine low shot and a Craig Davies penalty levelled things.\nAnd, as the Wigan pressure grew, Hiwula stole the points when he scored with a coolly-taken right-foot strike.\nThe victory, which puts Wigan level with their hosts on 10 points, looked a near impossibility as the hosts seized control after a goalless first half.\nThe Latics were on top before the interval but trailed when Gardner cut in from the left flank and crashed a superb shot high into the net.\nBarnett's bizarre headed own goal looked like deciding the match, but he made amends when he netted at the right end on 81 minutes.\nAnd, after Davies scored from the spot following Sam Hird's foul on Chris McCann, Hiwula's strike ensured a first away league win of the season for Wigan.\nWigan manager Gary Caldwell told BBC Radio Manchester:\n\"Crazy game. I thought we deserved to be in front before they scored but in the second half we just had a crazy 10 minutes.\n\"Character and desire is something you need in any successful football team. The way they played in the last 15 to 20 minutes was phenomenal and we deserved to win at the end.\n\"I'd look like Graham Barrow, with grey hair, if we keep doing that so that's not how we want to win games.\n\"But at times you need to have the desire to keep going. We're going to need that throughout the season.\"\nMatch ends, Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 3.\nSecond Half ends, Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 3.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Richard O'Donnell (Wigan Athletic) because of an injury.\nAttempt saved. Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\nCorner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Jason Pearce.\nGoal! Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 3. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\nAttempt blocked. Armand Gnanduillet (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nGoal! Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 2. Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\nPenalty conceded by Sam Hird (Chesterfield) after a foul in the penalty area.\nPenalty Wigan Athletic. Chris McCann draws a foul in the penalty area.\nJordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Wigan Athletic) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.\nAttempt saved. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nFoul by Ritchie Humphreys (Chesterfield).\nAndy Kellett (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nSam Hird (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic).\nSubstitution, Chesterfield. Ritchie Humphreys replaces Gboly Ariyibi.\nGoal! Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 1. Leon Barnett (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.\nCorner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Sam Hird.\nAttempt saved. Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\nSubstitution, Wigan Athletic. Andy Kellett replaces Sean Murray.\nAttempt saved. Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nSam Hird (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Reece James (Wigan Athletic).\nCorner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Max Power.\nOwn Goal by Leon Barnett, Wigan Athletic. Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 0.\nGboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by David Perkins (Wigan Athletic).\nAttempt missed. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\nGoal! Chesterfield 1, Wigan Athletic 0. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Armand Gnanduillet following a set piece situation.\nArmand Gnanduillet (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic).\nAttempt missed. Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from very close range is just a bit too high.\nSubstitution, Wigan Athletic. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila replaces Haris Vuckic.\nSubstitution, Wigan Athletic. Chris McCann replaces Donervon Daniels.\nSubstitution, Chesterfield. Armand Gnanduillet replaces Lee Novak.\nAttempt missed. Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.\nAttempt missed. Sam Morsy (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.\nAttempt blocked. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.", "summary": "Substitute Jordy Hiwula grabbed a 90th-minute winner as Wigan Athletic scored three goals in the final nine minutes to fight back from 2-0 down and beat Chesterfield in a compelling match." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The scale drawings of the Mackintosh were made by Queensland University of Technology professor George Cairns in the 1990s as part of a Phd at GSA.\nHe has now donated them to the art school in the hope they can aid efforts to restore the iconic building.\nGSA is still engaged in a bid to raise £20m to restore the Mackintosh.\nProf Cairns said: \"I am delighted to be able to return to Glasgow today after so many years and to be able to donate this set of drawings which I made as part of my doctoral thesis to the GSA.\n\"I hope very much that they will prove of interest and use to the teams working on the restoration of the Mack and to generations of students who have the privilege to study Mackintosh's masterpiece.\"\nGSA said it would add the drawings to its \"significant archive of material relating to Mackintosh's masterpiece\".\nThey will be digitised and accessible for academic and public research through the GSA's online archives in the coming months.\nLiz Davidson, senior project manager for the Mackintosh Building restoration project, said: \"We are keen to continue to access as much information as possible about the building in planning our approach to the restoration.\n\"Professor Cairns has already been generous in his time in liaising with the design team and these particularly detailed drawings are going to be an invaluable source of information.\"", "summary": "The project to restore Glasgow School of Art's (GSA) fire-damaged Mackintosh building has been boosted by a donation of detailed architectural drawings." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Family members confirmed to local media that Obdulia Sanchez, 18, is the driver seen in the social media video.\nThe woman identified as Ms Sanchez is seen singing before the crash and then turns the camera on her sister to record her severe injuries.\nShe is suspected of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.\n\"Jacqueline, please wake up,\" the woman can be heard saying in the video as she films the victim's bloodied face.\n\"I f****** killed my sister, OK? I know I'm going to jail for life,\" she says after positioning the camera to film both herself and her sister.\nOfficials say Jacqueline Sanchez, 14, was thrown through the back windscreen of the 2003 Buick when Ms Sanchez over corrected after swerving nearly off the edge of the road.\nThe car then swerved to the opposite site of the road, crashed through a barbed wire fence and overturned in a field.\nAn unidentified teenage passenger was also ejected from the back seat, suffering a serious injury to her right leg.\nNeither passenger was wearing a seatbelt, officials say.\n\"I killed my sister, but I don't care,\" the woman says in the video as the other passenger is seen trying to wave down cars along the rural road.\n\"This is the last thing I wanted to happen to us, but it just did.\"\nThe footage was originally posted on Instagram but a copy was recorded by a friend of a friend of Obdulia Sanchez and shared on a Facebook account.\nRelatives told local media that Jacqueline was about to celebrate her Quinceanera, a Hispanic coming-of-age tradition celebrated on a girl's 15th birthday.", "summary": "Police have arrested a woman who appears to have recorded an Instagram live video both during and after a car accident which killed her sister." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has written to firms including Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar-Land Rover and Tesla to ask which of their models use the Takata parts.\nAbout 23.4 million Takata airbag inflators have been recalled in the US.\nThe airbags have been linked to eight deaths and more than 100 injuries around the world.\nIt was found they can inflate with excessive force, spraying metal shrapnel at the drivers.\nThe driver and passenger airbags were in more than 19 million cars sold by 11 different companies such as Honda in the US.\nIn the letters sent last week, the NHTSA said the recall \"will likely grow to include vehicles that are outside the scope of the current recalls\".\nThe agency will attend a public meeting in Washington on 22 October to discuss the Takata investigation and whether it will take over management of the recalls to speed up the repairs.\nCarmakers are struggling to get parts with only 4.4 million airbag inflators replaced since the start of this month.\nThe other automakers that received the letters include Suzuki, Volvo Trucks, Volkswagen and Spartan Motors.\nSo far Mercedes, Jaguar-Land Rover and Tesla have all said the air bags they used from Takata are not part of current recalls, according to the Associated Press.", "summary": "US regulators have told seven carmakers the recall of airbags made by Japanese firm Takata is likely to expand." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 60 Minutes team hired agents to grab the children from a street in Lebanon, where their mother said they had been moved without her permission.\nProducer Stephen Rice will leave Channel Nine immediately.\nAn inquiry by the station concluded that \"inexcusable errors\" were made in the planning of the documentary.\nOther staff have been given formal warnings.\nThe mother and four members of the TV team were arrested and imprisoned after the incident. They were released on bail, but two British men and two Lebanese men continue to be detained.\nThe Australian mother of the children, Sally Faulkner, says her estranged husband Ali Elamine moved their six-year-old daughter Lahala and four-year-old son Noah to Lebanon from Australia last year without her permission, something he denies.\nIn April, Ms Faulkner and a TV crew from 60 Minutes went to Lebanon to cover her story.\nThe crew allegedly filmed the children being seized as they headed to school in southern Beirut on 6 April with a domestic worker and their paternal grandmother, who says she was knocked to the ground.\nEthical cloud hangs over freed 60 Minutes Australia crew\nMr Rice, cameraman Benjamin Williamson, sound recorder David Ballment and reporter Tara Brown were charged with kidnapping, physical assault, hiding information and criminal conspiracy.\nMs Faulkner was charged with kidnapping and belonging to a criminal gang.\nA judge allowed them to leave Lebanon after Mr Elamine agreed to drop all \"personal\" charges against them.\nThey could face trial in absentia if the \"public\" charges are not dropped.\nThe founder of 60 Minutes, Gerald Stone, said on Thursday that the case was \"the gravest misadventure in the programme's history\".\nChannel Nine's CEO, Hugh Marks, said: \"We got too close to the story and suffered damaging consequences.\"\nLebanon, unlike Australia, is not party to the Hague Convention, a treaty designed to ensure the swift return of children abducted internationally by a relative.", "summary": "The producer of an Australian TV programme has lost his job after his team was accused of kidnapping two children involved in a custody dispute." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Nottinghamshire Police has also started reviewing future events for potential threats and has called in specialist security advisers.\nThe force's chief constable said people can expect to see extra officers - armed and unarmed - on the streets.\nHe said they are there as \"a message of reassurance to the local community\".\n\"We will defeat this vile evil if we stand together,\" Chief Constable Craig Guildford said.\n\"The police play a key part in that and I would reassure the public there are no links back to Nottinghamshire at this stage.\n\"What I am absolutely sending is a message of reassurance to the communities of Nottinghamshire, including those businesses that run these types of venues, and that is as a community, we stand together.\"\nThe force has also sent officers to Manchester to relieve police who have been working through the night.\nA man set off a bomb in the foyer of Manchester Arena at 22:33 BST on Monday, at the end of a concert by Ariana Grande.\nThe 22 people who died include eight-year-old Saffie Roussos and teenager Georgina Callander.\nThe explosion also injured 59 people.", "summary": "Armed police patrols are being increased in Nottinghamshire following the suicide attack in Manchester that killed 22 people." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Officers in Rhondda tweeted a photograph of the vehicle with the caption \"the owner of this vehicle was a little optimistic thinking this would fit on the bus\".\nThe car had been left on the pavement underneath the shelter.\nPolice have used the photograph to urge drivers to park responsibly.", "summary": "A motorist who left their car in a bus stop has been given parking advice by South Wales Police." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The wheelchair can be directed by brain signals detected using a cap fitted to the user and is the work of scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland (EPFL).\nIt is part of efforts to control machines directly via brain signals, which could lead to new devices for the paralysed and disabled.\nNerve surgery\nThe main focus of bionics to date has been on providing prosthetics for amputees. Prosthetic arms can now be controlled by nerve signals in the remaining arm, which can be picked up by electric sensors on the skin.\nThose with arms amputated above the elbow, where important nerves have been severed, can also potentially control such devices, thanks to what is called \"Targeted Muscle Reinnervation\" surgery (TMR).\nThe surgery involves repositioning of nerves into unused muscles around the remaining arm or shoulder so that clear signals can be generated to drive the prosthetic via sensors on the skin surface.\nSpeaking at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, Professor Todd Kuiken of The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, which pioneered TMR surgery, told the BBC the next innovation may be bionic limbs which are able to \"feel\".\n\"If you touch the person on this 'reinnervated' skin, they feel their missing hand. Normal hot and cold, they feel it in their missing hand,\" he said. \"So this is an exciting pathway for us to give sensory feedback; imagine putting sensors in their prosthetic hand to measure force.\"\nResearchers are also looking to devise bionic limbs that can respond to multiple signals from the body - what is called \"pattern recognition\" - with some suggesting these could lead to bionic hands with individually controllable fingers.\nBut there is also now the prospect of devices for paralysed or severely disabled individuals with the arrival of brain-controlled devices, of which the thought-controlled wheelchair is just one example.\nProfessor Jose del R Millan and colleagues from EPFL, who have developed the wheelchair, brought with them to Washington a thought-controlled robot that a paralysed individual could control with brain signals.\n\"It could help disabled people by substituting some of those lost motor capabilities,\" said Professor Millan. \"People could be 'virtually elsewhere' because they can see what the robot sees.\"\nSuch is the pace of progress with bionics that there are now patients choosing bionic limbs over real ones.\nLast year, a young Austrian man named \"Patrick\", who sustained traumatic injuries after being electrocuted at work, opted for the elective amputation of his left hand, which no longer had any function. He has now been fitted with a prosthetic arm with which he can grasp and lift objects using nerve signals in his amputated arm.\nHis surgeon, Professor Oskar Aszmann of the Medical University of Vienna, says the use of a hybrid bionic hand attached to his dysfunctional hand convinced him of the benefits of the amputation.\n\"By then he realised he'd probably be better off with a bionic hand rather than his own flesh and blood hand,\" Professor Aszmann told the BBC after a recent lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.\n\"For him the most important thing is not really the loss of his non-functional piece of anatomy but the gain of functionality. He could see after two hours that he could do tasks that he hadn't done for two or three years.\"\nLater this year, a second of Professor Aszmann's patients will undergo elective amputation in favour of a bionic replacement.", "summary": "Thought-controlled wheelchairs and nerve-controlled prosthetic arms are some of the latest innovations in bionics being discussed at a science conference in Washington." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A spokesman said average weekly attendances overall fell by 0.3%, to about 1.1 million in 2011, representing a \"stabilising\" of attendance figures.\nThe figures also suggested a continuing large presence of \"nominal\" Anglicans - those who believe in God but only go to church occasionally.\nChristmas churchgoing rose by 14% and the number of baptisms also rose.\nThe annual Church of England statistics also showed an increase in cathedral attendances.\nThe diocese where the Archbishop of Canterbury, the leader of the Church of England, presides saw the biggest drop in average weekly and Sunday worship figures.\nCanterbury had a 9.5% drop in average weekly church service attendance between 2010 and 2011, closely followed by Portsmouth with an 8.2% drop and Durham with an 8% decline.\nThe Canterbury diocese also saw a fall of 8.3% for average Sunday attendance, followed by Portsmouth with a 7.8% fall and Durham with a 7.1% fall over the same period.\nThe previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Williams of Oystermouth, left his post at the end of last year to become Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. His successor, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, was enthroned in March.\nThe top three dioceses for growth in average weekly attendance during the same period were Southwell and Nottingham with a 10.7% increase, Norwich - identified in the 2011 Census as the least religious local authority in England and Wales - with attendence up 9.1% and Ripon and Leeds with a 7.4% rise.\nThe top dioceses to register a rise in average Sunday attendance were Southwell and Nottingham, up by 8.8%, Lincoln, up by 4.8% and Blackburn, up by 4.4%.\nThe figures showed a 14.5% increase in Christmas attendance between 2010 and 2011, reaching a total of more than 2.6 million.\nA spokesman for the Church of England said the rise was partly attributable to poor weather on Christmas Day in 2010.\nBut he added that figures from last year suggested another increase in Christmas attendance, indicating that churchgoing at Christmas was growing in popularity.\nThe number of christenings increased by 4.3% and was accompanied by a rise of just over 5% in adult baptisms, the figures showed.\nThanksgivings for the birth of a child also rose by 11.9%.\nWeddings saw a slight decrease of 3.6% in 2011, to 51,880, whilst the number of wedding blessings - services of prayer and thanksgiving following a civil ceremony - was up by 4.5%.\nChurch of England clergy and lay ministers conducted 162,526 funerals in 2011, a fall of 2.8% on the previous year.\nThe Rt Rev Graham James, the Bishop of Norwich, said: \"These figures are a welcome reminder of the work and service undertaken by the Church of England annually - 1,000 couples married, 2,600 baptisms celebrated and over 3,000 funerals conducted every week of the year.\n\"The attendance figures are heartening, especially the very strong growth in Christmas Day attendance.\n\"The encouraging news of further growth to come even on these high figures is very welcome and points to a growing trend.\n\"Also welcome is the stabilising of the numbers of those who attend church services on a weekly basis.\n\"With almost half of our dioceses showing growth, there is a quiet confidence underlying these figures.\"", "summary": "The long decline in Anglican churchgoing is levelling off, the Church of England has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The ruling comes after BBC Scotland sought a copy of the report under Freedom of Information legislation.\nThe report was kept secret by Aberdeen City Council because it contained details of senior managers' conduct.\nIt was commissioned after the revelation that babies were being cremated with unrelated adults.\nThe ashes of both were being handed to relatives of the adult for scattering.\nThe report's remit included the role of the director responsible for the crematorium, Pete Leonard, who resigned.\nHe had been quoted as referring to \"slow cooking\" babies - comments for which he was heavily criticised.\nBBC Scotland understands the conduct of Mr Leonard and his senior team was investigated, but not that of chief executive Angela Scott.\nPersonal details and the views of the report's author on the conduct of individuals can still be redacted because of the potential influence on any disciplinary actions.\nBut the local authority has been told it must publish the majority of the report by 1 September.\nIn a decision notice, the acting Information Commissioner Margaret Keyse is critical of the council which repeatedly changed its reasons for not making the report public.\nShe said: \"The council's actions suggest it was intentionally trying to prevent [BBC Scotland] accessing information it could quite readily provide.\"\nAberdeen City Council had argued that some of the information contained within the report was already in the public domain but that the same information should be withheld because of the risk of prejudicing future investigations.\nThe ruling said the justifications for withholding the report were \"wholly inadequate\".\nIt went on to express concern that \"disclosure of the information in full... would allow members of the public to draw their own (and possibly incorrect) conclusions regarding an individual's involvement in, or responsibility for, any failings at Hazlehead, in advance of any further investigations being carried out\".\nAberdeen City Council further argued the level of intrusion into the private lives of individuals mentioned in the report was \"unwarranted\".\nThe commissioner accepted there was a public interest in publication because of the senior posts held by those who were being investigated.\nShe also dismissed a claim that publishing the report would \"cause harm\" to the council as \"somewhat over-stated\".\nA spokesperson for the council said: \"We have received initial notification from the Scottish Information Commissioner and the full decision will be considered in due course.\n\"We are committed to complying with the requirements in the timeframe specified by the SIC.\"\nThe council's internal inquiry followed an investigation by Dame Elish Angiolini into practices at crematoriums across Scotland.\nThe former Lord Advocate said the process of cremating bodies together may have been going on from 1967 until a change of management in 2011.\nHer report said there was no overall strategic management of the crematorium by Aberdeen City Council and that the focus among officials was on budget rather than policy.\nIt said an Infant Cremation Commission led by Lord Bonomy was misled about practices taking place there.\nThe council has since apologised and compensation has been paid to dozens of affected parents.", "summary": "An internal report into \"abhorrent practices\" at Hazlehead Crematorium in Aberdeen must be published, Scotland's Information Commissioner has ruled." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Lewis Faulkner, 25, collided with Tereasa Cutler's car on the A31 near Wimborne, Dorset, on 10 June last year.\nMs Cutler died at the scene. Her two children and her nephew, who she had recently adopted following her sister's death, were seriously injured.\nFaulkner was jailed for four years and four months after admitting causing death by dangerous driving.\nHe also admitted causing death while uninsured and three counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\nMs Cutler, 49, from Ringwood, Hampshire, had just been to the funeral of her sister, Patricia, and was driving to the wake with her two children, Daniel, then 16, and Alice, 18, and her nephew, Joe Woodland, aged 19.\nAccording to police, Faulkner's BMW 3 Series hit Ms Cutler's Fiesta head-on at a bend.\nBoth he and his male passenger, 22, were also seriously injured in the crash.\nAppearing at Bournemouth Crown Court, Faulkner was told he would serve half his sentence on licence.\nHe was also banned from driving for four years and eight months.\nFaulkner, of Coburg Road, Dorchester, previously denied the charges but changed his plea to guilty on Monday morning.\nJudge Peter Crabtree described it as a tragic case with catastrophic consequences.\nA victim impact statement by Ms Cutler's daughter, Alice, said: \"I feel vulnerable because I do not have my mum to comfort and guide me. Instead, all I have is a grave which provides me with little comfort. An accident like this changes you - you see the world differently.\"\nFollowing the hearing, Sgt Lee Savage of Dorset Police said: \"Alice and Daniel lost their much-loved mother and Joe lost an auntie who had just taken on parental responsibility for him following his own mother's death.\n\"This is one of the most heart-breaking cases I have dealt with and I would like to pay tribute to them for the strength they have shown throughout this tragic time.\"", "summary": "A man has been jailed for causing a crash in which a mother was killed as she returned from her sister's funeral." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 26-year-old Bath back-rower has not played since Christmas Eve after suffering a knee injury.\nGeorge North and Dan Biggar will be given time to prove their fitness after suffering injuries during the 33-7 win in Italy.\nBiggar injured ribs and North played on after taking an early blow to the thigh in Sunday's win in Rome.\nLock Luke Charteris is also a doubt for Saturday's game at the Principality Stadium having missed the opening match because of a slight fracture to his hand.\n\"We are giving Dan Biggar and George North as long as possible to make the game,\" defence coach Shaun Edwards said.\n\"They're two vital players for us, it's no pulled muscles or anything, just bruising so it's whether they can handle the pain.\n\"There's really bad bruising on George's leg and the flight home didn't help. We are worried about both of them.\"\nBiggar's replacement, Ospreys team-mate Sam Davies, played a part in two of Wales' second-half tries.\nIt was his adventure deep in Wales' own 22 which set up North's score and took Howley's team within touching distance of the tournament's first try bonus point.\n\"We had the ball when he came on,\" Edwards added.\n\"He put in some lovely sublime touches that contributed to creating tries. Sometimes the best attacking players are best in the last 20 minutes.\"\nWales will announce the team to face England on Thursday at 13:00 GMT.", "summary": "Wales number eight Taulupe Faletau is available for Saturday's Six Nations match against England in Cardiff." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Andrew Green QC, representing club president Valeri Belokon, said owner Owen and chairman Karl Oyston took millions of pounds from the club after Premier League promotion in 2010.\nMr Belokon's company is pursuing a claim against the Oyston family for \"unfair prejudice\" against shareholders.\nThe Oystons vigorously deny the claims.\nMr Belokon's company, VB Football Assets, a minor shareholder in the club, was excluded from key decisions, information and any share of profits, claimed Mr Green.\nVB Football is also pursing a claim against Blackpool FC Ltd and Blackpool FC (Properties) Ltd, a company with family links formerly known as Segesta, for \"unfair prejudice\" against shareholders.\nMr Green told Mr Justice Marcus Smith, sitting in London, that as a result of the Seasiders reaching the Premier League, the club received £106m ($134m), which included £48m for the 2010-11 season and £58m of \"parachute payments\" following Blackpool's relegation at the end of the season.\nMr Green said the Oyston family's case was that at all times they had been transparent and open in relations to payments made out of the club, which he disputed.\n\"There was, in fact, the adoption of a deliberate strategy by the Oyston family to take cash out of Blackpool Football Club, and do so in a way VB Football Assets and its nominated directors could do nothing to stop that was the antithesis of transparency.\"\nHe added: \"Owen and Karl Oyston have treated Blackpool Football Club as the Oystons' personal cash machine.\"\nThe hearing is listed for five weeks.\nMr Belokon won a court case in February in a dispute with the Oyston family over his share of profits after he provided £4.7m in July 2008 to develop the south stand and south-west corner of the club's stadium.\nIn March, the club announced Mr Belokon was being suspended from its board as a result of a judgement in the Paris Court of Appeal related to disputed allegations of money laundering involving two banks founded or owned by him.", "summary": "The family which own and run Blackpool FC have been accused at the High Court of treating the club as \"the family's personal cash machine\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It happened at the Penmaenbach tunnel eastbound between junction 16 and junction 17 at about 07:30 GMT.\nCongestion has backed up to junction 15 Llanfairfechan causing an estimated one hour delay.\nIt comes as tunnel works have been causing frustration for motorists.\nCheck if this is affecting your journey", "summary": "Motorists have been hit by long delays on the A55 in Conwy county after a lorry collided with a tunnel wall, causing its temporary closure for safety checks and clear-up work." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Chaleo rose from humble origins to become one of Thailand's richest men, with a wealth estimated at $5bn (£3.2bn) last year.\nHis pharmaceutical company produced a tonic drink in the 1970s, but it became popular worldwide in the next decade when he went into partnership with an Austrian entrepreneur.\nRed Bull also owns two football clubs and a Formula 1 team.\nMr Chaleo was born of poor Chinese immigrant parents in the northern province of Phichit, reportedly in 1932, local media say.\nHe worked as a salesman before setting up TC Pharmaceuticals in 1962.\nIt introduced the drink Krating Daeng, which became popular with shift workers and lorry drivers.\nIn 1984 he launched it as Red Bull with the Austrian marketing expert Dietrich Mateschitz, and three years later began selling it in Austria.\nRed Bull is now sold in 70 countries throughout the world.\nForbes Magazineput him equal 205th in its March 2012 world billionaire list.", "summary": "The creator of the energy drink Red Bull, Chaleo Yoovidhya, has died." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The victim, aged in his early 50s, was found at Latchford Place at the junction with Romford Road, in Redbridge, at 02:55 GMT on Saturday.\nParamedics and London Air Ambulance attended the scene and the man was pronounced dead at about 03:45 GMT.\nThe Met Police have appealed for any mechanics who had seen a car with windscreen damage to come forward.\nNo arrests have been made and officers from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit based at Chadwell Heath are investigating.\nDet Sgt Helen Lambert said: \"I would also like to hear from anyone who saw a Volkswagen, possibly a Touareg in the area.\n\"Whilst this vehicle may not have been involved in the collision, I am eager to speak with the driver.\n\"I would also like to speak with anyone in the repair industry who has recently been approached by the owner of a vehicle that has frontal or windscreen damage.\"\nThe victim's next of kin have been informed and a post-mortem examination will be held in due course, police said.", "summary": "A man's death in a suspected hit-and-run in north-east London has prompted a police appeal." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Currently gay men have to wait 12 months after their last sexual activity to give blood, while sex workers are barred from donating.\nEngland and Scotland are relaxing the rules so both groups can donate three-months after their last sex act.\nThe Welsh Government has said it will carefully consider advice on whether to follow suit.\nOfficials in Cardiff will work with the Welsh Blood Service to consider recommendations in a UK report, which have led to the rule changes in England and Scotland.\nThe Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs - which advises UK health departments - made the recommendations after concluding new testing systems were accurate and donors were good at following the rules.\nAll blood that is donated in the UK undergoes a mandatory test for Hepatitis B and C, and HIV, plus a couple of other viruses.\nThe committee said men who have sex with men should be able to give blood three months after their last sexual activity instead of 12. Sex workers, who are banned from giving blood, should also be subject to the same three-month rule.\nThe UK government is also considering relaxing the rules for people who have undergone acupuncture, piercing, tattooing and endoscopies, and for those with a history of non-prescribed injecting drug use.\nBut these also need changes to current EU legislation.\nThe changes in Scotland take effect in November, and in early 2018 in England.\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We will now be working closely with the Welsh Blood Service to carefully consider the new recommendations and the implementation of changes to blood donor section criteria.\"", "summary": "Blood donation rules for gay men and sex workers could be relaxed in Wales, the Welsh Government has said." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The main race started at 09:00 BST and closures were in place until 14:00.\nAmong the competitors were Swansea Harriers' runner Matthew Rees, who stopped close to the end of April's London Marathon to help David Wyeth, who was struggling with exhaustion, over the line.\nThe reunited pair completed the Swansea race within minutes of each other.", "summary": "Several roads were closed for the Swansea Half Marathon with more than 6,000 runners taking part on Sunday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Employment and Learning minister, Dr Stephen Farry, has decided to remove a special premium payment of £1.1m which it has been getting to compensate for its small scale and specialist status. It has fewer than 1,000 students and an income of £4.7m a year.\nProtesters have said that the removal of the small institution premium, coupled with a general cutback in Department of Employment and Learning (DEL) funding, would mean the college loses 31% of its budget.\nHowever, an extra £32m for the DEL, revealed in this week's overall budget improves the situation somewhat.\nThe college says the addition of extra money means it would be asked to manage on a budget reduced by 26.5%.\nThat's a slightly better prediction but the principal, Prof Peter Finn, says that is still far too challenging.\nHe accuses Stephen Farry of a blatantly opportunistic decision to force the college to agree to one of the solutions he proposes for the future streamlining of teacher training in Northern Ireland.\nNone of the four options includes St Mary's keeping its current autonomy. It says it is determined to retain its character and Catholic ethos, however, Prof Finn says he is keen for what he called \"very deep sharing\" between the various teacher training institutions. That could involve students from each being taught in other university colleges from time to time.\nProf Finn strongly objects to the notion that the small scale and specialist premia only exist in Northern Ireland and therefore should be removed.\nHe agrees the payments were removed from similar institutions in England but says those bodies, in return, were allowed to charge much higher tuition fees and were not restricted in how many students they could accept. St Mary's was not permitted that freedom.\nStranmillis University College, which has mainly trained teachers for schools other than Catholic, has similar problems but has been in negotiations to merge completely with Queen's University.\nThat process began in 2008 but has met some opposition and has not yet been approved. The reduction in funding and the removal of the premia would also affect that college.", "summary": "St Mary's University College and its supporters are protesting about the scale of cuts which, because of its small size, would impact very heavily on its finances." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Shares in Royal Mail have dropped by 5% after it said letter volumes were down 6% in the nine months to 25 December.\nIts UK parcels business, however, grew, helped by a better Christmas than the previous year.\nIt said the number of marketing items - or \"junk mail\" - was also falling.\nOverall revenues from its UK business fell in the final nine months of 2016 but its international business largely offset the decline.\n\"We are seeing the impact of overall business uncertainty in the UK on letter volumes, in particular advertising and business letters,\" the company said.\nRoyal Mail said it had delivered 2% more parcels in the nine months to Christmas day, boosting revenues from its parcels business by 3%. The company said it was on track to meet its cost-saving targets.\nBut total letter revenue was down 5% compared with 2015.\nThe company is also in the process of negotiating with labour unions over pensions and delivering a \"cost avoidance\" programme.", "summary": "The fashion for electronic Christmas cards took its toll on Royal Mail this Christmas, with the number of letters being posted in the UK continuing to fall." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Cycling charity CTC made the accusation after the cross-Channel service said it would be storing bikes from 1 November in what is known as a \"bike box\" - meaning the bike has to be dismantled.\nThe change would discourage cyclists from using Eurostar, the charity said.\nBut Eurostar said the new storage method used space more efficiently.\n\"The only change is that bikes will now need to be carried in a bike box, which we are happy to provide,\" a Eurostar spokesman said.\n\"When packaging bikes in this way, they take up less space which means that we can carry more bikes, or any other type of luggage.\"\nCurrently cyclists can take a bicycle on board and pay a £30 fee for it to be carried via a registered luggage system. The bike is hung on a storage rack by its tyres, and Eurostar estimates that at the moment they have the capacity to take around eight bikes per train.\nBut from 1 November cyclists will have to dismantle their bikes to put them into a box and reassemble them when they reach their destination.\nEurostar said its staff would be on hand to help cyclists getting bikes into the boxes, and it would accommodate any size bike box if cyclists wanted to bring their own.\nTransport for London (TfL) allows folding bikes on all of its London Tube services but only permits non-folded bikes at some stations.\nOn its buses, folded bikes are allowed at the \"driver's discretion\".\nTrain companies' policies on bikes vary: Virgin Trains requires customers to reserve a space for non-folded bikes, while Southern prohibits non-folding bikes on some of its rush-hour services.\nCoach companies National Express and Megabus only allow folded bikes, while Stagecoach allows non-folding bikes on a limited number of services.\nAirlines tend to permit bikes but usually require them to be packaged in a box or bag and often charge a fee.\nBut CTC chief executive Paul Tuohy argued dismantling the bike - including taking wheels off - would be \"too difficult\" for some riders.\nHe said: \"There is nothing sustainable about this policy, as it actively discourages the people we want to see cycling more from using what is otherwise a fantastic service.\n\"For the new cyclist, or those who rely on cycling as a mobility aid, dismantling and reassembling a bike for transit is too difficult.\n\"With London, Paris and Brussels each vying to be top cycling cities, and Amsterdam, arguably Europe's cycling capital, due to join the Eurostar network in 2016, now is not the time to take a step back in cycle rail policy.\n\"Cyclists should not be treated as third-class passengers, and we urge Eurostar to reverse their planned policy.\"\nThe European Cyclists' Federation (ECF), which represents cycling bodies across the continent, described the new policy as \"extremely inconvenient\" in a letter to Eurostar chief executive Nicolas Petrovic.\nThe ECF added: \"We understand that there is a limited space for baggage on the trains but it should be allocated on a first come, first served basis. We would therefore request that the current policy of allowing the carriage of complete bicycles is retained.\"\nRosemary Dooley, 68, from Kendal, Cumbria, who recently went to Portugal for a cycle holiday, said: \"I have to take my own bike everywhere due to arthritis in my hands - hence small adaptations.\n\"I am also not mechanical but it seems now that I will have to learn to remove and replace the front wheel. I just hope it doesn't involve strong fingers.\"\nCTC is urging members of the public concerned about the planned changes to write to the train operator.\nA study commissioned by the European Parliament in 2012 found that there are 2.3 million cycle tourism trips in the EU every year.", "summary": "A planned change in the way Eurostar stores bikes for travel has led to claims it is treating cyclists like \"third-class passengers\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Manchester City denied United another Premier League crown on the final day of last season, but Monday's 3-0 win over Aston Villa earned the Old Trafford club a remarkable 13th title in 21 seasons.\n\"They focused on the challenge of City and came up trumps,\" said Ferguson. \"Our consistency for the last 20 years is unbelievable.\"\nOn Robin van Persie: \"Robin has been unbelievable. The second goal reminded me of myself, but I can't remember when!\"\nOn Ryan Giggs: \"Deary me, he is a freak, a unique freak. A phenomenal man.\"\nOn Rafael Da Silva: \"I think Rafael will eventually be comparable to Gary Neville.\"\nOn his own future plans: \"Look at me - it's taken 10 years off me today. It's these tablets, they're great!\"\nThe win over struggling Aston Villa, inspired by Robin van Persie's hat-trick, handed United the points they required to wrap up the league with four games to spare.\nIt made up for the despair of last May, when Ferguson's side were denied the title by City on goal difference.\n\"This club never gives in,\" the Scot, 71, added. \"From Sir Matt Busby, the Munich Disaster, to rebuilding and to win the European Cup, that tells you the history of United.\n\"Every player who comes to this club has to have that engrained. We have lived up to the expectation.\n\"What the players had to do was focus on how we lost the league last year and make no mistakes. The focus was good.\n\"The one thing I said to them was don't lose on inferior goal difference. We'd never had that before at this club and this season we have corrected that.\"\nAsked if his current squad was the best of his 26-year reign at Old Trafford, Ferguson responded: \"This could arguably be. There is a lot of youth and a lot will get better, we expect that.\n\"It is sweet, it doesn't matter when you win the title, the consistency has been phenomenal.\"\nUnited are 16 points clear of nearest rivals City and could finish the campaign with a record-breaking 96, eclipsing the Premier League points total of 95 set by Jose Mourinho's Chelsea side in 2004-05.\nUnited's four remaining games are against Arsenal, Chelsea, Swansea and West Brom.\nBut even on their way to the title, Ferguson's team have had to face the criticism that they lack the quality of United teams of the recent past.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"It's dead easy to say that, nostalgia plays tricks on people's minds,\" said Ferguson.\n\"Put it in context, we've now got 84 points with four games left. We've never done that.\"\nOn City's title failure, Ferguson added: \"The games between the two of us there was nothing in it, but in the rest of them we were far better.\n\"We were a far better team than Man City in beating other teams.\"\nVan Persie's second goal against relegation-threatened Villa - a left-foot volley hit first time from Wayne Rooney's 35-yard pass - was singled out for particular praise by Ferguson.\n\"All the great goals we've scored over the years, from David Beckham through Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Eric Cantona, that goal has joined that,\" said the manager.\n\"Robin has been unbelievable. Tonight he was unstoppable. The second goal reminded me of myself, but I can't remember when!\n\"He scored exactly the same goal for Arsenal.\"\nOn Ryan Giggs securing a 13th Premier League title, Ferguson added: \"Deary me, he is a freak, a unique freak. A phenomenal man. We are lucky to have him and Paul Scholes, you are blessed as a manager.\n\"You have to look at how lucky you have been and that I have been. Other ingredients come into it but I am lucky to have them.\"", "summary": "Sir Alex Ferguson says his Manchester United players \"came up trumps\" by battling back from last season's disappointment to claim a 20th title." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Newspaper headlines also reflected the uncertainty over the future of the Farc and the peace agreement.\nColombian daily El Tiempo wrote: \"After the victory of the 'No', Santos calls for political dialogue and peace\".\n\"The president summoned all political parties. Uribe is willing to cooperate in favour of a national pact,\" El Tiempo said.\nEl Espectador carried a simple but dramatic headline \"Noooooooo\", alongside a graphic showing how tight the result was.\n\"The rejection of the peace agreement almost kills the possibility of the Nobel peace prize,\" said El Espectador.\nThe newspaper also carried a story under the headline: \"Colombians backing the 'Yes' vote heard the result of the plebiscite in tears\".\nEl Pais asked: \"And now what?\"\nThe Cali-based paper also asked if a Nobel Peace Prize for President Juan Manuel Santos and Farc leader Timochenko was now out of the question: \"Does the result kill off the chances of Nobel Peace prize for Colombia?\"\nEl Pais also quoted analysts who the paper said \"foresee a gloomy panorama for Colombia after the plebiscite\".\n\"No to the accord,\" was El Colombiano's banner headline, with a picture of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his sombre-faced cabinet reacting to the vote. It reported that the president was seeking a \"national dialogue\" to tackle the political crisis triggered by the rejection of the peace accord.\nOn its front page, El Heraldo wrote: \"The Agreement with the Farc rejected by a divided Colombia\".\nThe papers also carried a quote from President Juan Manuel Santos saying: \"I will not give up; I will keep searching for peace until the last minute of my administration.\"\nOther front pages voiced the deep uncertainty left by the vote. \"And what comes now?\" asked El Universal. \"Now what?\" wondered El Diario/La Tarde on its front page.\nDespite the uncertainty and frustration reflected in the headlines, some outlets were more positive, focussing on the possibility that a national consensus could still be reached.\n\"Opportunity to seek national unity,\" was newspaper La Republica's headline. The business daily Portafolio took a similar view: \"The option of a great national accord emerges.\"\nIndependent news website La Silla Vacia meanwhile concentrated on the power of the man behind the \"no\" campaign: \"Uribe is still king\".\nRCN Noticias said on its website: \"Santos: 'the bilateral and definitive cease fire continues in place\", while Noticias Caracol ran a story quoting former Vice-President and \"no\" campaigner Francisco Santos saying: \"The process should continue and the Farc should be given guarantees.\"\nCaracol Radio's main story on its webpage said: \"Santos and the Unity [National Unity party] are looking for reconciliation with Uribe supporters.\"\nColombian radio network W Radio took a different approach on its website by quoting Farc leader Timochenko saying \"peace is still possible\".\nNational radio network La FM said: \"Colombia enters uncertainty after \"no\" wins the vote.\"\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "summary": "Colombian media expressed surprise that voters rejected a peace agreement with the rebel Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) rebel group on Sunday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Llanfyllin High School was found to be subsidising transport to almost 200 pupils from outside the catchment area.\nAn investigation revealed it had spent more than £460,000 over five years - money which should have gone on education.\nPowys council said the two-year offer was to protect parents and pupils.\nInitially, the school was told it would have to repay £17,000 into the school budget and comply with the council's transport policy by this September.\nThe council's deputy leader, Cllr Wynne Jones said the cabinet had thought \"long and hard\" about the situation, and that the school's failure to comply with policy placed parents and pupils \"in an impossible position.\"\nHe said: \"Parents who use our vacant seat scheme to transport pupils to schools outside of their catchment know that the scheme is limited and could be withdrawn at any time.\"\nBut he said parents at Llanfyllin were not given the same information and were \"misled,\" and that it was in the \"interest of fairness to pupils\" that the council allowed the school two years to comply.\nIn the meantime Llanfyllin High School is required to make sure its transport charges match those of the Powys vacant seat scheme.\nCllr Jones added they understood the decision may anger schools which followed the rules, but it had been taken to protect pupils at a crucial time in their education.", "summary": "A school in Powys has been given two years to comply with council rules which ban the use of school funds to transport pupils." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In the six months to June, net income fell by 11% from a year earlier to 1.07bn yuan (£123m; $160m), its weakest first-half profit since 2012.\nAn economic slowdown has hit consumer spending in China and beers sales were also dampened by unfavourable weather including severe flooding.\nTsingtao also faced rising competition from foreign beer brands.\nChina is an attractive market for overseas firms as the nation drinks a quarter of the world's beer output.\nBut brewers have struggled to make profits in China.\nThe situation has not been helped by the sluggish Chinese economy, which has caused consumers to rein back on their spending.\nGrowth in retails sales fell in July to 10.2% from a 10.6% increase in June.", "summary": "Tsingtao Brewery, China's second-biggest beer maker, has reported a sharp fall in profits." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The British Team Sky lead rider was sent for an X-ray following a fall just five kilometres into the 163.5km stage.\nFroome, 29, quickly got back on his bike and rejoined the peloton after receiving medical attention.\nTeam Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford said: \"Chris is a fighter, he's not someone who gives up just like that.\"\nFroome later tweeted: \"Took quite a tumble today but I'll definitely be starting tomorrow with no serious damage. It'll be a tough one for everyone on the cobbles!\"\n\"Chris Froome's team-mates will really need to look after him after he went down.\n\"The next stage, with 15km of cobbles, has the potential to play havoc with his wrist.\"\nBrailsford added: \"We've done the tests and we're relieved. He will start tomorrow and I hope it will be a great day.\n\"We took precautions, you're always concerned when you see your leader on the ground but that's part of sport.\n\"I think we've had quite a few crashes, so it's normal to be worried but we're going on.\"\nFroome suffered a grazed left hip and sore wrist in the fall, and the road rash on his upper left leg was clearly visible through his shredded shorts when he rejoined the race.\nHe is in seventh place overall, two seconds behind race leader Vincenzo Nibali, after stage four was won by Marcel Kittel.\nThe Briton, who suffered cuts to his left shoulder and elbow in the Criterium du Dauphine last month, faces a major test on Wednesday's stage five.\nIt is a 155.5km route from Ypres to Arenberg Porte du Hinaut, which features nine cobbled sections totalling more than 15km.\nImmediately following the crash, Brailsford had said: \"It's racing. These things happen.\n\"We would have preferred if Chris hadn't crashed but he felt fine in the final [part of the stage].\"", "summary": "Chris Froome has been given the all-clear to continue the defence of his Tour de France title after a crash in the fourth stage." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sportswear firm O'Neills employs more than 500 people in County Tyrone, and is best known for making jerseys for Gaelic Athletic Association teams.\nManaging director Kieran Kennedy said uncertainty about the Irish border is not good for business.\n\"We knit our own fabric. The fabric is then sent to our sister company in Dublin on a daily basis for dyeing.\n\"Then it comes back here (to Strabane) again.\n\"If there are tariffs and duties it will cause us major problems, importing and exporting our own fabric.\n\"I also think if there's tariffs and duties, we'll have to increase our prices and I would just be concerned about how that would affect our customers and our sales going forward.\"\nThe Strabane factory is only a mile from the border with the Irish Republic.\nO'Neills has 200,000 sq ft (18580 sq m) of manufacturing space on a 12-acre site.\nThey employ 550 people, and about half of them live across the border in neighbouring County Donegal towns and villages, such as Raphoe, Lifford and Ballybofey.\nAt present, they pass through the border every morning without having to stop, but the future is unclear.\nMr Kennedy said: \"Uncertainty is a big problem, especially in business.\"\nHowever, he said he was encouraged by recent developments in the Brexit negotiations:\n\"It seems in the last few days that the approach is softening and there may be a soft Brexit.\n\"A soft Brexit would do us no harm really.\"\nThe UK-EU negotiations will be watched carefully right across Europe, but the people living in Irish border areas will be following events particularly closely.", "summary": "One of Strabane's biggest employers has expressed concerns over the impact Brexit could have on its business." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "British Transport Police said the incident happened at about 22:30 on Friday.\nCCTV shows the 45-year-old being tripped up at the top of the escalators as she entered the station at Waverley Steps.\nShe spent a night in hospital with \"substantial\" cuts to her head and lip.", "summary": "A 14-year-old girl has been reported to the Children's Panel after a woman was deliberately tripped as she ran in to Edinburgh Waverley station." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Flt Sgt William Gordon Radcliffe also took the mascot on 60 operational flights over Germany, his daughter Dorothy Bailey said.\nShe took the mascot, which she said \"kept my father safe throughout the war\", to a special Antiques Roadshow held at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire.\nMilitaria expert Mark Smith said the panda \"belonged to the nation\".\nMs Bailey said the panda flew on the Dambuster raids tucked into her father's boot, \"which is why one ear is not as good as the other, all worn down\".\n\"The pilot knew about him [panda] as well, so he was a mascot for everybody I think,\" she said.\n\"He kept them all safe... he's priceless to me and my family.\n\"He's been everywhere where I haven't been, and now I get to keep him safe.\"\nMr Smith, who also looked at photographs and items of Sgt Radcliffe's RAF uniform, said: \"He is priceless.\"\nHe added: \"He was priceless to your dad, he is priceless to you, he is priceless to the RAF as a member of the Dams crews.\"\nOther items belonging to Flt Sgt Radcliffe included his RAF tunic, featuring his Distinguished Flying Cross.\nThe BBC Antiques Roadshow was held at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, based at RAF Coningsby, to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle.\nAlso featured in the programme are an American Civil War coat found in a skip and a pair of earrings bought in an Australian charity shop.\nBBC Antiques Roadshow at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire can be seen on Sunday at 20:00 BST on BBC One.", "summary": "A toy panda which flew on World War Two Dambusters raids has been described as \"priceless\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Brechin had the better of a quiet first half, but Cameron Belford brilliantly denied Andrew Jackson.\nThe visitors had a double chance before half-time, Steven Bell unable to steer a corner on target and Scott Robertson having an effort blocked.\nRobert Thomson went close before setting up Jamie Robson's late winner.", "summary": "Stranraer missed the chance to seal the last remaining promotion play-off place after losing to Brechin City in Scottish League One." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Kazakh Golovkin was ringside as Alvarez won 120-108 on all three scorecards.\nAlvarez, 26, announced his next fight immediately, with promoter Oscar De La Hoya confirming the bout is \"signed, sealed and delivered\" for 16 September.\nGolovkin will put his WBA, WBC and IBF middleweight titles on the line against the WBO light-middleweight champion.\nThe Kazakh has won all 37 of his fights with 33 by knockout, while Alvarez has just one defeat against Floyd Mayweather on his record in a 51-fight career.\n\"I feel excited to be part of this big drama show,\" said Golovkin, 35.\nSix-time world champion Sugar Ray Leonard said he expects \"one hell of a fight\" when the pair meet.\nThere was no title on the line at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas as Alvarez stepped up in weight to fight the much bigger Chavez at a catchweight of 164lbs.\nHe dominated to win every round, landing 228 punches to just 71 for Chavez, who was booed at times.\nAlvarez, who had his first professional fight aged 15, stayed standing between every round and showed accuracy with his jab throughout, adding eye-catching combinations.\n\"I showed I can move, box and do all those things against a fighter who was bigger,\" Alvarez said. \"He wouldn't throw punches.\"\nThis content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser", "summary": "Mexican Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez will meet Gennady Golovkin in a Las Vegas super-fight after easing to a points win over compatriot Julio Chavez Jr." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Local TV showed images of officers beating a handcuffed protester on Wednesday in some of the worst clashes since the street demonstrations began.\nThe protester's lawyer told the BBC his client had suffered serious injuries.\nHong Kong's security chief said the officers had been \"temporarily removed from their current duties\".\nThe incident occurred as police cleared an underpass near government buildings.\nIn a separate development, the BBC's English-language news website has been blocked in mainland China.\nIt was unclear whether the blackout was connected with the Hong Kong situation.\nThe police advance came when protesters blockaded the underpass after being cleared out of other areas of the city late on Tuesday.\nOvernight, police used pepper spray and batons to remove protesters from Lung Wo Road, which they said had to be cleared as it was a major thoroughfare.\nThey also arrested 45 people for \"unlawful assembly\" and \"obstructing police officers in the execution of duties\".\nLocal TV network TVB aired footage showing a group of plainclothes policeman dragging a handcuffed and unarmed protester and placing him on the ground.\nThey then assault him, kicking and beating him for minutes.\nThe man was named as Ken Tsang, a social worker and member of the opposition Civic Party. He was later taken to hospital.\nMr Tsang's lawyer, Dennis Kwok, told the BBC the protester had serious injuries and the beatings had continued while he was in custody.\n\"My understanding from Ken Tsang is that when he was taken away by the police officer they have already immediately put plastic strip across his arms to cuff him basically,\" the lawyer said.\n\"But after they took him to that corner... they punched him, they pushed him down on the floor and they repeatedly kicked him for about four minutes.\n\"And then - when he was taken to the police station - he was abused again by the police officers present.\"\nSecretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok said there was \"concern\" over a video clip \"showing police officers who used inappropriate force against an arrested person\".\nHe said the officers seen on the video would be removed from their current duties and an investigation would be carried out.\nThe footage shot by broadcaster TVB has been widely shared on social media.\nAccusations of police using excessive force were made when authorities fired tear gas as the protests first erupted in late September. But this incident, which took place at around 03:00 on Wednesday (19:00 GMT Tuesday), was different. Ken Tsang had already been detained and no longer posed any threat to law enforcement.\nHong Kong's police force has for years prided itself on its professionalism, political neutrality and experience with crowd control. Now, citizens are asking, why did officers appear to behave with impunity toward a protester who had been subdued?\nPolice spokesman Hui Chun-tak later said the officers \"repeatedly gave advice and warnings\" before the operation began.\nHe said the officers had to act after the protesters \"advanced forward in an aggressive manner, kicked our officers\".\nIn all, 37 men and eight women were arrested, Mr Hui added. Five police officers were injured.\nThe protesters are now in their third week of occupying key parts of the city in a bid to put pressure on China and Hong Kong's authorities to answer their calls for political reform.\nThousands of people took to the streets at the beginning of the demonstrations but the numbers have dwindled in recent days.\nThey are demanding fully free elections in a vote for the territory's leader in 2017. China, which has control over Hong Kong, says residents can vote - but it will vet which candidates are eligible to stand.\nOccupy Central and the Hong Kong Federation of Students, the two main groups behind the protests, have condemned the violence and asked authorities to investigate.\nOn Wednesday, China's People's Daily, the Communist Party's official newspaper, said the protests were \"doomed to fail\" in a front-page editorial.\nQ&A: Hong Kong's democracy controversy", "summary": "The Hong Kong police department is investigating reports that officers used excessive force against pro-democracy protesters." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "\"Team deviant\" Adrian Pogmore admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office. He was jailed for a year.\nTwo other officers and two pilots were cleared of misconduct following a three-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court.\nPogmore, 51, from Whiston in Rotherham, was described as \"a swinging and sex-obsessed air observer\".\nSentencing him, Judge Peter Kelson QC told Pogmore: \"You spied on and recorded these naked people from a height of 1,000ft.\n\"You quite literally considered yourself above the law.\"\nRead more about this and other stories from across Yorkshire\nThe judge described Pogmore as a \"rogue police officer\" whose actions had been \"offensive and invasive\".\n\"In short, you used a £2m helicopter which costs something like 1,000 dollars (sic) an hour to run to advance your own sexual curiosities when it should have been detecting crime,\" he said.\n\"Instead of deterring and detecting crime, you were committing crime.\n\"So strong were your sexual urges that you were willing to take, and did take, substantial risks of being detected by your colleagues in the helicopter at the time.\"\nThe intrusive filming took place on four occasions between 2007 and 2012 when Pogmore was part of the South Yorkshire Police Air Support Unit.\nThe footage included a couple sitting naked by a caravan and a woman sunbathing naked with her daughters.\nA couple who Pogmore knew were also filmed having sex on their patio.\nThe judge said his actions had severely damaged public confidence in the police.\nOne of the women filmed by Pogmore said in her victim statement: \"If you can't trust the police, who can you trust?\"\nPogmore had been described in court by other members of the air support unit as the \"team deviant\".\nIn mitigation, John Ryder QC, said there was a macho culture in the air support unit which he categorised as \"coarse locker room humour rather than anything more sinister\".\nHe said the defendant had admitted what he had done and felt a \"strong sense of shame\".\n\"He fully appreciates the seriousness of his behaviour,\" he said.\n\"It was utterly irresponsible. It was thoughtless and foolish. But it was not motivated by anything more sinister than that.\"\nThe judge said he took account of Pogmore's 22-year police service, which included a number of commendations, and said he found it an \"immensely difficult\" sentencing exercise.\nBut he said Pogmore's actions were a \"gross abuse\" of trust and he had to impose a prison term.\nHe had already been sacked by South Yorkshire Police in 2015 following an internal misconduct hearing.", "summary": "A \"sex-obsessed\" police officer who used his force helicopter to film people having sex has been jailed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The 38-year-old won the 2010 race but was later suspended for 38 months.\nThe judgement to recover her appearance fees and prize money for the 2010 and 2011 races needs enforcing by Russia.\n\"Cheats should not benefit,\" said London Marathon Events Ltd chief Nick Bitel. \"It will be a long and difficult process but we will pursue it.\"\nEthiopian Aselefech Mergia was named the winner of the 2010 London Marathon after Shobukhova was stripped of her win. The Russian was runner-up in 2011.\nBitel said any money returned by Shobukhova will be redistributed to athletes that were \"cheated out of their rightful dues\".\nShobukhova also had her results from 2009 annulled and was also stripped of Chicago Marathon wins in 2009, 2010 and 2011.\nHer ban was reduced by seven months, for assisting a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation.\nShobukhova is banned for life from taking part in the London Marathon and in any of the five other marathons that make up the World Marathon Majors.", "summary": "Russia's Liliya Shobukhova has been ordered to repay more than £377,000 to London Marathon organisers after being banned for doping." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Officers found a body in a river in west London on Tuesday night.\nThe 14-year-old schoolgirl was last seen on CCTV walking along the towpath next to a canal near her home.\nNewsbeat reporter Tamsyn Kent lives in Hanwell, in Ealing, west London, and she explains what it's like to live there now.\n\"I live just around the corner from Alice's family. I don't know them. Until a few weeks ago, I'd never heard of her.\n\"But a few days after she went missing, I tied a yellow ribbon to a lamp post outside my house.\n\"Like everyone else in Hanwell I was showing support for the Find Alice campaign.\n\"Now the whole town's covered with yellow ribbons.\n\"On the high street at the end of the road, you can see them in the trees, on the railings, the bins, on people's cars.\n\"Her photo is up in every shop window and on the bus stops.\n\"Now through the Facebook page her friends and family have set up they're asking people to take them down.\n\"Last Sunday, 6,000 people and I ran through this bit of Hanwell in the Ealing half-marathon.\n\"It was amazing to see most of the runners wearing the Find Alice yellow ribbon.\n\"It's had a huge impact on the town. It's everywhere you go and all people do is talk about the investigation and when she'll be found.\n\"But this morning, everyone I've spoken to is devastated that there's a body.\n\"It's what no-one wanted to hear, but as the weeks went by it seemed sadly inevitable.\n\"On the local Facebook group, Hanwell Friends, someone posted, 'I think Hanwell's collective heart just broke.'\"\n\"About a 10-minutes walk away is the local park.\n\"The River Brent, where the body's been found, runs right through it. It's not deep.\n\"The kids paddle here in the summer. And two miles from here is where the police's main suspect, a Latvian, Arnis Zalkalns, lived before he disappeared.\n\"Walking back past the golf course, which has become the makeshift police headquarters, I think everyone feels so deeply for Alice and her family.\n\"And also devastated that this should happen to our town.\"\nFollow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "summary": "Police investigating the disappearance of teenager Alice Gross have started a murder investigation." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Bears appeared to have bounced back well when Surrey, 405-4 at lunch, were bowled out in mid-afternoon for 454.\nBut left-arm paceman Footitt took 6-14 in nine overs either side of tea to bowl out the Bears for 91.\nSecond time around, the shattered Bears reached 29-0 in their second innings, still 334 runs behind.\nEngland contender Footitt finished off last season in spectacular form after a season of injury troubles, claiming five wickets in an innings in all of Surrey's last three matches - two of them at The Oval.\nThis time, after Sam Curran had removed opener Alex Mellor for 18, his fiery initial burst of 3-0 in nine balls just before the interval sent back Jonathan Trott, Bears captain Ian Bell and Sam Hain all for ducks.\nFootitt then removed the Bears' other opener Will Porterfield caught behind for 18, before adding Rikki Clarke and Keith Barker to his personal haul of five Bears ducks.\nOnly a last-wicket partnership of 30 between Chris Wright, who made an unbeaten 28, and Oliver Hannon-Dalby spared Warwickshire the embarrassment of being dismissed for their lowest Championship total for almost four decades.\nEarlier former Bears and Sri Lanka Test batsman Kumar Sangakkara's carefully-constructed 71 from 161 balls had helped push Surrey on before Wright weighed in with a late burst to finish with 5-113.\nSurrey fast bowler Mark Footitt told BBC Radio London:\n\"To take so many wickets for so few runs was fantastic. It was helped by the pressure developed by the other bowlers. We bowled back-to-back maidens, which helped me attack a little more.\n\"We've worked hard on our fitness and its paying off now. It feels like it's easy to run in and bowl - like I was a couple of years ago - it's really pleasing.\n\"I never write off playing for England. There are a lot of good bowlers around who are probably in front of me. But, if I keep taking wickets, hopefully they'll recognise it.\n\"Gareth Batty got a call-up last winter and he was 38! Would I like to go to Australia this winter? I've never even been there, so it would be nice! But let's see what happens.\"\nWarwickshire first team coach Jim Troughton told BBC WM:\n\"I've seen some good bowling spells over my time and that's right up there.\n\"Nobody gave their wicket away, but Mark Footitt bowled with pace, shape and bounce and we weren't up to it.\n\"It was an incredible spell and he ripped us apart. He's going to be a handful against any team.\n\"We know what we need to do. The nets are open at nine o'clock tomorrow morning and we'll be in there.\"", "summary": "Surrey's Mark Footitt took six wickets in 32 balls as Warwickshire were made to follow on in their opening County Championship game of the season." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "We've seen that with the imposition of a higher minimum wage, rebranded as his National Living Wage, and his stumbling attempt to cut state top-ups to the low paid through the tax-credit system.\nWe are seeing it today with what one of his colleagues describes as the government \"raising the affordable housing budget but also redirecting it to homes for sale rather than rent\".\nSo one of the centrepieces of today's Autumn Statement and Spending Review is what the Treasury describes as the \"biggest affordable housebuilding programme since the 1970s\".\nThere will be a substantial £2.3bn of government funding for the construction of so-called starter homes - or homes up to a value of £250,000, or £450,000 in London, which will be sold at a 20% discount to those under 40 buying their first home.\nAnd there will be a big push on semi-privatisation of social housing, with £4bn of finance for shared ownership of residential properties - which will also include a big push on encouraging private developers to promote his Help-to-Buy scheme.\nIt's bonanza time for mass housebuilders, especially if the chancellor succeeds in loosening planning constraints, as he wants to do.\nAnd it's thin gruel - again - for housing associations, which are being obliged to shrink by selling properties at big discounts to tenants and which are having difficulty building even what they had planned to do following the Treasury's decision to force them to cut rents.\nThat imposed rental cut was an attempt to shrink the housing benefit bill.\nAnd here perhaps is the best way of seeing Osborne's British vision: slash tax credits by forcing the cost of providing decent wages on businesses; reduce housing benefit, by spurring a boom in cheap housing, cutting rents and stimulating private ownership,\nIt is a shrinking of the state, that - in theory, and over the medium term - should not impoverish the working poor.\nBut there may well be pain for what MPs perhaps patronisingly call \"strivers\" in the period of transition,\nAnd whether in practice too many vulnerable people will fall through shrunken and lowered state safety nets will be one of the big political questions in this parliament - and which may decide whether George Osborne achieves his ambition of relocating to Number 10.", "summary": "If George Osborne has a big idea, it is to transfer the costs of and responsibility for building a better, fairer Britain from the public sector to the private sector." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The two presidents will meet at the White House on Thursday.\n\"Part of the conversation with President Obama is how can they help us in the post-conflict,\" he told the BBC.\nThe Farc says it is willing to lay down its weapons after more than five decades of conflict.\nPeace negotiations were launched in Cuba in November 2012.\nThe Colombian government and the left-wing rebels have set a 23 March deadline to reach an agreement.\nThe post-conflict period \"is more difficult than the process itself\", said Mr Santos.\nWhite House officials told Reuters news agency earlier that Mr Obama was willing to increase aid to Colombia to secure the success of the accord.\nThe Farc, which was founded in 1964, will give up its armed struggle and join the legal political process.\nLast week, the United Nations Security Council voted to accept a request from the Farc and the Colombian government to appoint a mission to oversee the end of the conflict.\n\"This is really a step that makes the process irreversible,\" said Mr Santos.\nHe added the rebels also agreed to \"cut every link that they have with drug trafficking\", as part of the accord.\n\"They recognise that they have financed themselves through drug trafficking, or taxing the drug traffickers. That's what they say.\n\"And they will in a way help us, especially in those remote areas, to convince the peasants to switch to legal crops,\" he told the BBC.\nColombia is the world's top producer of cocaine.\nMr Santos and Mr Obama are also expected to discuss ways of combating the spread of the Zika virus.\nColombia is the second most affected country by the current outbreak, after Brazil. It has more than 20,000 reported cases.\n\"We in a way are expecting a rapid increase. We expect this to go, reach a plateau and come down,\" he said.\n\"The problem with Zika is nobody knows a lot about what it is.\"", "summary": "Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has said he will ask President Obama to help implement a peace accord that his government expects to sign with the Farc rebel group next month." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is unsupported on your device\n19 June 2015 Last updated at 13:10 BST\nThousands of people left their homes earlier in the week for safety but many have decided to stay within what authorities consider to be the volcano's danger zone.\nFarmers in villages close to the volcano have had to harvest their crops . They were worried that the vegetables and crops left in the fields would be destroyed by any eruption.\nUntil 2010 the volcano had been dormant for more than 400 years.", "summary": "Mount Sinabung, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is continuing to throw gas and volcanic ash high into the air." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The incident happened on the River Dee near Gray's School of Art at about 18:20 on Monday.\nPolice Scotland said a 64-year-old man had been charged with culpable and reckless conduct.\nHe was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary but his injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.", "summary": "A man who had to be rescued from a river in Aberdeen by the emergency services after crashing his mobility scooter has been charged." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Democratic Republic of Congo international, 28, arrived on an initial two-year deal last summer and will now stay at St Andrew's until at least 2018.\nEx-Sheffield Wednesday man Maghoma scored six goals in 44 games as Blues finished 10th in the table this season.\nThe new deal includes an option for a further year in the club's favour.", "summary": "Birmingham City midfielder Jacques Maghoma has signed a contract extension with the Championship club." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Debt payments totalling just over $2bn were due on Friday.\nGovernor Alejandro Garcia Padilla said Puerto Rico did not have the money to pay. The island has just $200m in its operating accounts.\nUS President Barack Obama signed a bill into law on Thursday giving the island access to a debt restructuring process and halting any litigation arising from defaults.\nAs part of the US law, the island's finances will soon come under a US federal oversight board.\nPuerto Rico has been struggling to make payments on its $70bn debt load.\nMr Padilla signed an executive order Thursday declaring a moratorium on a portion of that debt.\n\"Even if I had shut down the government, we wouldn't have had enough money to make the payment,\" Mr Padilla said.\n\"Puerto Rico will now govern itself like an adult country, responsibly, spending only what it can afford,\" the governor said.\n\"Today, the island starts belonging to us again, and not to Wall Street,\" he added.", "summary": "Puerto Rico announced on Friday that it would default on $779m (£588m) of debt." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The tutor, whose face cannot be seen, appears to be a family member - she's either the child's mother or aunt or another relative.\nShe's teaching the child to recognise numbers from one to five.\nTears streaming down her face, the little girl is seen begging with her tutor to spare her, show a bit of leniency, \"teach with a bit of love\".\nAt one point, frustration takes over, she says her head is aching. Put under more pressure, she's angry, and continues to sob as she repeats the numbers through clenched teeth.\nThe video ends with her getting slapped across the face.\nIn many countries, if a video surfaced of parents treating their children with such cruelty, it would be treated as a serious case of child abuse and she would possibly be removed from the parents' custody.\nAbusing and hitting children is a crime in many parts of the world and corporal punishment in schools is banned in India too. But it's still an accepted way of disciplining children within homes.\nMany middle class Indian parents believe education is the key that opens the door to a better life and put tremendous importance on education of their children.\nIn India, where WhatsApp has 200 million monthly active users, the video of the three-year-old spread within hours and soon went viral on social media sites. Watching a three-year-old being treated so badly made many people angry.\nVirat Kohli, the captain of India's cricket team, and several of his team-mates were among those who took to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to express their outrage.\n\"The fact that the pain and anger of the child is ignored and one's own ego to make the child learn is so massive that compassion has totally gone out of the window. This is shocking and saddening to another dimension. A child can never learn if intimidated. This is hurtful,\" Kohli posted on Instagram.\nCricketer Shikhar Dhawan wrote that it was \"one of the most disturbing videos\" he had seen.\nMany others too said they were distressed by the video.\n\"When I saw this video on Whatsapp it was heart wrenching... And no matter how many excuses the parents or family give in support of their behaviour it cannot be justified,\" commented Nidhi (nid048).\n\"This is pretty sad, I mean that kid at that age shouldn't be taught that way,\" commented egadwiprasetya.\n\"Can anyone in India help to save this little girl's life from her lunatic Mum please ? Media, police please? I am broke,\" Sudhi Pooniyil wrote on Twitter.\nFor several days, the identity of the little girl remained a mystery, but on Wednesday, it was reported that she was Bollywood singer-composer Toshi Sabri's niece.\nIn an interview with the Hindustan Times newspaper, Sabri said the video was made for their family's WhatsApp group and defended the family's treatment of the child.\n\"Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan don't know about us. We know about our child better,\" he said. \"Her nature is such that after being scolded, the next minute she runs off to play. But, because of her nature if we don't push her, she won't study.\"\nHe said the video was made by the child's mother, who wanted to show her brother and husband that the child had become very stubborn. \"But she is very dear to us,\" he added.\nExperts, however, insist this is \"abusive behaviour\" and in many countries, it would be \"treated as a crime against a child\".\nPsychiatrist Achal Bhagat says he cannot comment on this particular case because he hasn't examined the child, but warns that treated in such a way, a child can be \"harmed permanently\".\n\"It can result in the child developing a mistrust of people because those who are supposed to be loving her are mistreating her. It can either make her too cautious or too impulsive in forming relationships later in life. She can also start developing self-harm behaviour.\"\nAlso, he says, focusing on a child's limitations are not going to help her learn anything.\n\"This is likely to be very damaging. The child is crying for help. She needs immediate help. And so do her parents,\" he adds.", "summary": "A few days ago a school friend sent me a very disturbing video on WhatsApp of a three-year-old being taught maths at home." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Glasgow's Emirates Arena is now expected to stage Team GB's meeting with Australia from 18-20 September.\nThe LTA also looked into holding the tie at the Hydro in Glasgow but found the roof would not be high enough.\nAndy Murray helped Team GB beat France in the quarter-final at Queen's Club.\nThe LTA's chief executive Michael Downey has had \"several conversations\" with Florence's agent, but was told her gig at Manchester Arena - which has a capacity of over 20,000 - on the Friday of Britain's Davis Cup semi-final must go ahead as planned.\nThe LTA has been granted an extra five days to nominate a venue for the tie, with Glasgow now expected to be confirmed before next Wednesday's deadline.\nThe Emirates staged Britain's first-round victory over the United States, and a plan is in place to expand the capacity of the arena to 9,000 in time for the semi-final.", "summary": "The Lawn Tennis Association has failed to persuade Florence and the Machine to change the date of their show at the Manchester Arena so the venue could host Britain's Davis Cup semi-final." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Five households in Dawlish have complained of the \"stench of fetid sewage\" and debris being flung into gardens by passing traffic.\nRoger Anderson said they were \"fed-up\" with the lack of action by South West Water, despite constant complaints.\nSouth West Water said it was working to resolve the issues \"urgently\".\nResident Margaret Cloke said she arrived home to a pool of sewage in her garden and the smell made her feel \"very nauseous\".\nShe said: \"We've had a lot of problems with sewerage. We've had sewage in the lane coming out of manholes, and people are walking through it and then obviously going back indoors, or going into the shops, and the stench is absolutely awful.\"\nHowever, the company said there was no \"quick fix\" because the problems at Secmaton Lane and Secmaton Rise were complex and the site had seen \"considerable new development\".", "summary": "Sewage floods have affected properties in Devon more than 50 times in the past three years, according to residents." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Having already secured their place at a first major tournament since the 1958 World Cup, Chris Coleman's side were dominant but frustrated by diligent Andorran defending in a goalless first half.\nThe breakthrough finally came five minutes after the interval, as Aaron Ramsey fired in a rebound after Ashley Williams's header was saved.\nGareth Bale struck his seventh goal of the campaign with five minutes left as Wales finished second in Group B following Belgium's win against Israel.\nWales had ended their long and painful absence from major tournaments in strange circumstances on Saturday, losing 2-0 in Bosnia-Herzegovina but qualifying thanks to Israel's 2-1 defeat by Cyprus.\nThe Welsh players, coaches and fans in Zenica did not care how they reached Euro 2016, so deprived of success had they been over the past half a century.\nBut after the initial celebrations had subsided, attention turned to Andorra's visit and the opportunity to toast their achievement with their home crowd at a sold-out Cardiff City Stadium.\nWith Welsh band Super Furry Animals playing a three-song set before kick-off and the home fans rattling through their repertoire of chants at full volume, the match almost seemed secondary to the jamboree in the stands.\nIt is just as well the atmosphere was so charged - because the action on the pitch offered little excitement in the first half.\nThere was a lengthy stoppage early on as Andorra's Victor Moreira departed on a stretcher following a clash of heads with James Chester.\nAlthough Wales monopolised possession, they were thwarted by the dogged determination of an Andorran side who had never won a competitive game away from home.\nThe home fans did not seem overly concerned, however, as they continued to bask in the glory of qualification - and the opening goal arrived five minutes into the second half.\nCaptain Williams' header was palmed away by Andorra goalkeeper Ferran Pol, but Ramsey was on hand to fire the rebound into the net from a tight angle.\nWales continued to exert total control and doubled their lead late on as Bale collected Ben Davies's low cross and shot into the bottom corner.\nEven with the slow start, this was a far cry from Wales's opening match of the campaign in Andorra.\nIn that fraught fixture, Wales fell behind to the minnows' first competitive goal for four years and were in danger of becoming only the second team in history to lose a qualifier against the Catalan principality.\nColeman was booed at half-time but, thanks to Gareth Bale's two goals, Wales escaped with a precious three points which laid the foundation for their campaign.\nAlthough Andorra proved resolute once again, the match in Cardiff was in stark contrast as the home crowd stayed inside the stadium en masse after the final whistle to pay tribute to Coleman and his players.\nWales started the final round of games second in Group B and would have finished top if Belgium had slipped up.\nThey didn't. A team including Manchester City pair Vincent Kompany and Kevin De Bruyne ran out 3-1 winners at home to Israel.\nBelgium ended the 10-match campaign with 23 points, Wales on 21. Bosnia-Herzegovina advance to the play-offs after winning 3-2 away to Cyprus.\nWales have already started their preparations for Euro 2016, twice visiting France in recent months to look at potential training bases.\nAlthough Coleman's side recently rose to an all-time world ranking high of eighth, the nature of Uefa's coefficient ratings mean they will be among the bottom group of fourth seeds for the tournament, potentially leading to a difficult draw.\nThis Welsh side will not be fazed by illustrious opponents, though. Coleman and captain Williams have described their team as fearless, ready to embrace the pressures and challenges which come with their newfound success.\nWales boss Chris Coleman on the crowd: \"These supporters have been absolutely incredible. I've never seen anything like it. I played for Wales for some time, managing for some time, but the support we've had this campaign - home and away - has been absolutely fantastic. They've helped us get over the line.\"\nWales captain Ashley Williams on Chris Coleman: \"I can assure you whenever we've gone out on the field he's got us right up for the game. We enjoy the camps, he makes them enjoyable.\n\"If you ask any of the guys in there we always try and perform for him. We feel disappointed for him when we lose. He deserves all the credit he gets.\"\nBest of social media\nMatch ends, Wales 2, Andorra 0.\nSecond Half ends, Wales 2, Andorra 0.\nAttempt saved. Sam Vokes (Wales) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ashley Williams with a cross.\nCorner, Wales. Conceded by Marcio Vieira.\nFoul by Simon Church (Wales).\nMarc García (Andorra) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Simon Church (Wales).\nMarc García (Andorra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nGoal! Wales 2, Andorra 0. Gareth Bale (Wales) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.\nSubstitution, Wales. Simon Church replaces Jonathan Williams.\nAttempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Wales) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ben Davies with a cross.\nJosep Ayala (Andorra) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nDavid Vaughan (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Josep Ayala (Andorra).\nSubstitution, Andorra. Marc García replaces Iván Lorenzo.\nAttempt saved. Tom Lawrence (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by James Chester.\nAttempt saved. Sam Vokes (Wales) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.\nAttempt saved. Ashley Williams (Wales) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey with a cross.\nAdrián Rodrigues (Andorra) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nBen Davies (Wales) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Adrián Rodrigues (Andorra).\nAaron Ramsey (Wales) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Josep Ayala (Andorra).\nAttempt missed. Gareth Bale (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\nJonathan Williams (Wales) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Ildefonso Lima (Andorra).\nAttempt missed. Gabriel Riera (Andorra) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Iván Lorenzo with a headed pass.\nFoul by Ben Davies (Wales).\nGabriel Riera (Andorra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nAttempt missed. Sam Vokes (Wales) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Chris Gunter with a cross.\nSubstitution, Andorra. Josep Ayala replaces Oscar Sonejee.\nAshley Williams (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Iván Lorenzo (Andorra).\nAttempt blocked. Aaron Ramsey (Wales) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ben Davies.\nFerran Pol (Andorra) is shown the yellow card.\nAttempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\nFoul by Ashley Williams (Wales).\nAdrián Rodrigues (Andorra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nCorner, Wales. Conceded by Ildefonso Lima.\nAttempt blocked. David Vaughan (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.", "summary": "Wales finished their historic Euro 2016 qualifying campaign with a patchy win against Andorra - but that did not detract from the party atmosphere at a delirious Cardiff City Stadium." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Men paid an average annual premium of £812 for comprehensive car insurance in the final quarter of 2016 compared with £711 for women, according to Confused.com.\nIts research suggested that the gap had widened compared with a year earlier.\nInsurers are banned from considering gender when setting premiums but can consider wider risks.\nAmanda Stretton, of Confused.com, said that insurers were \"becoming more astute\" in identifying particular accident risks, and would price premiums accordingly.\nShe said that, in general, men drove more miles, in more advanced cars, and were more likely to drive for work - all of which would increase the probability of accidents or increase the repair bill.\nEuropean rules, introduced at the end of 2012, mean insurers cannot take the gender of their customers into account when setting their insurance premiums.\nOther factors can be considered but, after the new rules were introduced, men only paid £27 more on average on an annual premium, Confused.com calculated.\nThis widened to £51 two years ago, before going above £100 for the first time in the final quarter of last year.\nIn general, the typical comprehensive car insurance premium stood at £767, rising by 14% - or £95 - in a year, it said.\nJames Dalton, director of general insurance policy at the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said: \"Motor insurance remains a highly competitive market, with motorists shopping around for the best deals. But pressure is growing on premiums.\n\"Cold callers and ambulance-chasing lawyers are still finding ways to exploit the system, with government data suggesting a 5% increase in whiplash style claims. This is driving up costs for honest motorists.\n\"In addition, the government has doubled Insurance Premium Tax in just over a year, and repair bills are going up as cars get more sophisticated. So while insurers are doing all they can to control costs, these pressures show how important it is that the government's latest proposals to tackle low value whiplash style claims are implemented fully and as quickly as possible, and that there is no rise in Insurance Premium Tax.\"", "summary": "Male motorists typically pay £101 more a year for their car insurance than women, a comparison site has suggested." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Since Theresa May became Prime Minister in July 2016, there has been a lot of talk about grammar schools in the news, because she wants to allow more of them to open. Other people think this is a bad idea.\nTomorrow, the government will make announcements about how it plans to spend the country's money, in an important speech called the Budget.\nIt is expected that the Chancellor Philip Hammond, who will give this speech, will announce extra money to be spent on grammar schools - amongst other things.\nSometimes all of the different names of schools can be a bit confusing! So what do they mean?\nYour time at school is divided into three chunks - pre-school, primary and secondary education.\nPre-school is when you first start spending days away from home as a toddler at nursery.\nYour primary education is generally from the age of around 5 to 11. Secondary education is usually from the age of 11 to 16, although you may decide to stay in school until you are 18.\nThe way you are taught in schools is slightly different depending whether you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Other things like the dates of school holidays may also be different.\nThere are two main types of school - ones that are paid for by the government and ones which aren't.\nThe ones which aren't, need to get the money to pay for themselves from somewhere else, like school fees.\nThe way schools are set up and run is \"devolved\": that means that rather than having the same rules as England, leaders in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can decide their own rules for how their schools are run. That is why schools may be slightly different across the UK.\nThe national curriculum is what the government says that children should have to learn when they are at schools paid for by them\nThis is a school which is paid for by the government, so your parents will not have to pay school fees. The majority of children go to this kind of school.\nGenerally, schools that are paid for by the government have to follow the national curriculum.\nA comprehensive school is the name for a school which anyone can go to - regardless of how well they do in exams - and where everybody is taught together.\nThese are schools which have a focused on a particular religion. They generally have to follow the national curriculum, but may have more freedom when it comes to what is taught about religion or over which children go to them.\nGrammar schools are schools which children can go to from the age of 11, which the government pays for.\nBut they are different to comprehensives because they select their pupils using an exam known as the \"11-plus\", which kids sit at the age of 10 or 11.\nThe test often involves things like maths, verbal reasoning, comprehension and creative writing.\nThere used to be hundreds of grammar schools in England and Wales, but in the 1960s, the government said that everybody should be accepted into schools and taught in the same way - regardless of how well they could do in an exam.\nAs a result, the number of grammar schools went down.\nThere are now no state grammar schools in Wales and Scotland, but they still exist in parts of England and Northern Ireland.\nThese are types of school that are paid for by the government but are allowed more freedom over their own curriculum, timetables and the students they let in.\nThese schools, also called private schools, have more say over how they run themselves, as they are not paid for by the government.\nTo go to one of these schools, your parents would have to pay school fees, which are used to pay to run the school.\nIf you go to an independent school, you may not study the same things as children at state schools, because the teachers can make more decisions about what they would like to teach.\nThis is a type of pre-school, which you will tend to go to between the ages of around three and five. You might also hear it being called kindergarten.\nThis is the first school you went to at about the age of five. You stay there until you finish Year Six, when you are about 11.\nYou may be able to remember your first day at primary school!\nThis is a school you go to after you finish primary school, usually at the age of 11.\nThe most famous school of Witchcraft and Wizardry is of course Hogwarts. In order to go here, you will receive your letter by owl at the age of 11. If you are a muggle though, it might not be possible to go this kind of school.\n...of course we're joking! This school doesn't exist, unfortunately!", "summary": "Children all over the country go to many different kinds of schools." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Natalia Doherty was last seen on 15 April 2003 in Eastbourne, where she was living at the time.\nOn Wednesday a Luton man, aged 66, was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and preventing a lawful burial\nLast week a 71-year-old man from Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, was arrested on suspicion of the same offences.\nA house in Icknield Way in Luton has been searched as part of the investigation.\nWhen Ms Doherty disappeared she was thought to have travelled to Luton to stay with her ex-husband, Gerald Doherty, who has since died.\nOfficers from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire major crime unit launched an investigation in January 2014 into the case, which has led them to believe Ms Doherty was murdered in 2003.\nA police spokesman said: \"Proof-of-life enquiries have since failed to show any sign she is alive.\n\"Investigators are keen to trace Natalia's final movements and anyone who recognises her or Gerald from their time at the now-demolished pub, the Regents Arms in Hastings Street, Luton, or has any information relating to her disappearance, is asked to contact the police.\"", "summary": "A second man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 50-year-old woman police now believe was murdered." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "And while Zara is the grand-daughter of the monarch, niece of the next king and cousin to the king after that - she is not someone of royal rank.\nShe is of course, part of the family that is royal and which we know as the Windsors - even though in her case she took the surname of her father, Capt Mark Phillips, the cavalry officer whom Princess Anne married at Westminster Abbey in November 1973 (and from whom she separated in August 1989).\nBut as the child of a daughter of the monarch, Zara was never entitled to the rank of \"Her Royal Highness\". At the time of her birth in 1981 much was made of the fact that her parents had declined to give their daughter a title (just as they had when Zara's elder brother, Peter, the Queen's first grandchild, was born in 1977).\nBut formal royal rank was never offered for the simple reason that under the ancient and, many may feel, somewhat arcane or even outdated customs and practices of the British royal family, being the child of a daughter simply doesn't automatically cut the mustard when it comes to royal styles and titles.\nIn the case of the daughter of the famously no-nonsense Princess Anne, (or \"Princess Royal\" as she became in June 1987), Zara Tindall probably regarded her relatively unencumbered status as a considerable asset and advantage.\nIt allowed her to get on with her life with a degree of freedom that a good many of her cousins must often have envied.\nBoth Zara's parents were champion horse riders: the Princess Royal competed in the British three-day-event team at the Montreal Olympics in 1976; Capt Phillips had competed in the same event at the Munich Olympics four years earlier and had been a member of the team which won the World Championship for Britain in 1970.\nLittle surprise then, when Zara started to show the same passion for equestrian sport and demonstrated that she had her parents' aptitude for it, that another champion began to take shape.\nShe was helped, of course, by the ready availability of advice and support from her family and she had access to the horses and training grounds without which it would have been very much more difficult to translate a natural ability into a world-beating skill.\nBut Zara showed that she had her mother's single-minded focus and determination to prove herself at the very highest levels of equestrian competition.\nIt culminated in the silver medal which she won with the other members of the British three-day event team at the London Olympics in 2012 - a victory which brought joy to her parents and grandparents.\nZara Tindall has navigated a careful path. She's the least royal of the Queen's grand-daughters. Compare her, for example, to Prince Andrew's daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, both of whom do have royal rank as children of the son of a monarch.\nNeither of them has yet fully resolved the challenging dilemma of what you do with your life when you're a princess and a \"Her Royal Highness\" at a time when there's no great demand for you to be a full-time functioning younger royal.\nZara hasn't always got it right. There have been moments when her critics would say she's been too attracted to the blandishments of the commercial world or the trappings of the celebrity magazine circuit. Such temptations are never far from someone with her family pedigree.\nThere were also some well-publicised ups and downs in her earlier romantic life - but given her forthright personality and her unsolicited newsworthiness, who could have imagined that it would be otherwise?\nIn the summer of 2011 she married the former England rugby player Mike Tindall. He's certainly not the archetypal royal bridegroom or husband but then Zara has never wanted, or needed, to conform fully to whatever it might be that's expected of a grand-daughter of the Queen.\nAnd that, almost certainly, has been the secret of both her success and her happiness.", "summary": "Zara Tindall has given birth to a girl, the Queen's fourth great-grandchild." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "At just over a month old Fatima has already lived through a lot.\nHer life began, and could have ended, on a rubbish dump in the sprawling megacity of Karachi. Instead, Fatima was rescued by a charity and placed in the loving care of a childless couple.\nIt looks like a happy ending but it came about in the full glare of television cameras. The sleeping infant was one of two abandoned girls handed over during live broadcasts of \"Amaan Ramzan\", a blend of Islam and entertainment, which runs during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.\nThe dapper host Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain is already famous for giving away cars, motorbikes and household electronics.\nNow the controversial showman has added babies to the list, calling it \"a noble cause\". He insists he is saving abandoned infants, not using them to boost his ratings.\n\"We were already top of the ratings before we gave away a baby,\" said Dr Aamir, who describes himself as \"truly a legend\" on his website.\n\"These children are not a part of garbage, are not a part of trash, so we took these children from the garbage, from the trash, and delivered them to the needy people, the needy parents.\"\nHis show is broadcast from a packed studio, where the audience sits beneath glittering lanterns and a huge chandelier, and fish swim under glass panels in the floor. This is where the sleeping baby Fatima was handed over to her adoptive parents, who embraced her and wept.\nHer new father Riaz, a bearded civil engineer, told us Fatima was the answer to his mother's prayers. She died the day before the broadcast.\nHe and his wife Tanzeem waited 14 long years for a child. He refused to divorce her, as many advised, when she could not produce a child.\n\"When the baby came into my arms on the show,\" he said, \"it felt like another soul had entered my body, like an angel came. She has brought us so much peace. She means more to me than my own soul.\"\nAs he spoke, his wife tenderly cradled Fatima in her lap. \"I adopted her,\" said Tanzeem, who wore a black chador, a full-body robe. \"But it doesn't feel like an adoption. It feels as if she is my own child, as if I gave birth to her. She is a gift from God.\"\nSeated alongside her was another chador-clad woman now savouring motherhood - Soraya Bilquis. She and her husband waited even longer - 17 years - before getting a child of their own.\n\"My life is complete now because of her,\" she said, gazing down at baby Sayeda Zeinab. \"I can't describe how happy I am because someone will grow up and call me mother. She is the light of my home.\"\nBoth couples said they saw nothing wrong with being given their daughters on live TV. Tanzeem said she hoped it would encourage others to adopt.\nBut child welfare advocates fear that other TV shows will copy the baby giveaway. They also worry that the lack of confidentiality could expose the children and their families to teasing and stigma in the future.\n\"The baby was given away the same way as a gift,\" said Seema Jamali, assistant director of child welfare for the Sindh provincial government.\n\"Though it was good to find parents for her, the baby was given like a car, laptop, or motorcycle. It's an insult to the baby and the parents. It should have been done quietly.\"\nIt was far from quiet, but it was quick. Both couples were vetted by a private charity, the Chhipa Welfare Association, in less than two weeks. That's a typical time frame here. Checks were carried out on their incomes, medical records, and homes, and there were investigations with the police, and in their communities.\nBut the babies were handed over in a legal vacuum, with no regulation by the state. Experts say that's how most children are given new homes here. Adoption does not exist under Islamic law, but couples can apply to the courts to become legal guardians of unwanted babies. Few do.\nIt's time for a proper legal framework, according to Sharjeel Memon, information minister for Sindh. \"We want to make this process more transparent,\" he told us, \"and there must be some legislation that people should go through.\"\nBut here in Pakistan there has been no public outcry about the fact that babies were given away on a TV show. Many are glad that they have a new start in life.\nTheir stories could have ended very differently. More than 300 dead babies are found every year in Karachi alone by Pakistan's largest welfare organisation, the Edhi Foundation. In a 10-day period in July they found 23 tiny bodies. Some had been suffocated.\nAt their spotless and welcoming home, Fatima's parents keep watch over their precious gift. They take turns to kiss her forehead and arrange her blanket.\n\"I have hardly had more than two hours' sleep a night since she came,\" said Riaz, smiling broadly. \"We hope she will grow up to be a religious scholar, or maybe an engineer like me.\" As he spoke Fatima yawned, stirred, and clenched a little fist.", "summary": "Two baby girls who were abandoned in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi have been allocated new parents during a live television broadcast, the BBC's Orla Guerin reports." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Steven Mullaney (78) hit 12 boundaries and two sixes in an aggressive start before England's Alex Hales went for 36 on his return to county cricket.\nHowever Brooks (4-74) and England's Adil Rashid (3-29) stifled the middle order as Notts lost wickets regularly.\nA late cameo from Stuart Broad (36) helped the home side reach 261 all out before bad light halted play early.\nYorkshire struggled to make early inroads after Mullaney raced to 78 from just 80 balls but, having edged Steve Patterson to slip, Notts struggled to build on his start.\nHales, rested from Nottinghamshire's opening two games, needed to impress in the wake of England rivals Sam Robson, Adam Lyth and Moeen Ali all making hundreds.\nHe started in lively fashion, hitting eight boundaries from 53 deliveries before chipping Brooks to Joe Root at extra cover.\nMichael Lumb (49) was the only member of the middle-order to get to grips with the Yorkshire bowlers before being trapped lbw by Brooks.\nIt was left to the tail, with Broad hitting seven boundaries before being run out by Brooks, to help Notts rescue their innings.\nNottinghamshire batsman Steven Mullaney told BBC Radio Nottingham:\n\"Myself and Alex Hales got us off to a bit of a flyer and gave us a decent platform but then we lost Alex, Greg Smith and myself before lunch, which was disappointing.\n\"We've probably given them six or seven of the wickets but we will find out how good that score is tomorrow when we have a bowl on it.\n\"They have been champions for the past two years for a reason but it could still be a good score if we bowl well.\"\nYorkshire head coach Jason Gillespie told BBC Radio Nottingham:\n\"I'm incredibly satisfied with that, from where we were after the first hour.\n\"Andrew Gale said a few things at lunch - not ranting or raving, just quiet authority, and the guys were well aware of where we had gone wrong.\n\"Steve Patterson played a big part in getting things back. He's a very important performer for us who just gets the job done.\"", "summary": "Jack Brooks led Yorkshire's fightback with four wickets as Nottinghamshire's middle order struggled at Trent Bridge." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Fazal Sajjad Younis Khan pleaded guilty in May to possessing a weapon for the discharge of a noxious substance.\nProsecutors said Khan, 40, was a \"prepper\" which was \"someone preparing to survive doomsday scenarios\".\nThe private hire driver was given a six-week jail term suspended for a year by Birmingham magistrates.\nKhan, of Whitmore Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, who was initially arrested under anti-terror laws, told officers he had bought four canisters of the spray online.\nHe was held in custody for seven days after the cans were found in a locked bedroom at his home.\nThe court heard last month he had previous convictions for robbery and wounding dating back to 1994.\nKhan's solicitor Aftab Zahoor, told magistrates the defendant was unaware the canisters were illegal in the UK and there were \"no warnings\" about this when he bought them from a website.\n\"There is no evidence that he put anybody in fear or that he was participating in any form of violence,\" he said.\n\"At least two of these items were still in their packaging unopened and one item was used by the defendant upon himself.\"", "summary": "A taxi driver who claimed to have used an illegal canister of pepper spray on himself to test his pain threshold has been handed a suspended jail term." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe striker, who scored 36 goals in 95 international appearances, has been without a club since leaving Bury at the end of last season.\n\"I don't think too many people will be surprised. I have been without a club for five months,\" said Healy, 34.\n\"It's dawned on me that it's time for a new challenge. The career is over and it's time to move on.\"\nHealy scored twice on his international debut against Luxembourg in 2000 and played his final game for his country when coming on as a late substitute in the defeat by Israel at Windsor Park in March of this year.\nAfter an unhappy one-year spell at Bury ended last summer, Healy still harboured hopes of prolonging his playing career and achieving his great ambition of reaching 100 Northern Ireland caps.\nHowever, he was unable to find a new club and Healy has now accepted that his playing career is over.\n\"I didn't enjoy my last six months at Bury because of a number of circumstances.\n\"I still thought in the summer that I was capable and would be fit enough if I got a good pre-season under my belt.\n\"But that didn't happen and it's hard going down to the gym and doing 20 or 30 minutes of aerobic stuff on your own.\n\"It would have been great to have achieved 100 caps but at the same time I didn't want to be getting token caps.\"\nHealy's place in Northern Ireland sporting folklore was immediately assured after he blasted in his country's winner in the shock World Cup qualifier win over England at Windsor Park in September 2005.\nThe County Down man went on to score a record 13 goals in the following European Championship qualifying campaign as Northern Ireland narrowly missed progressing to the finals in Austria and Switzerland after wins over Spain, Sweden and Denmark.\n\"At the time, the England goal was just another goal,\" added the Killyleagh man.\n\"But as the months went on, people were stopping you in the street and asking me about that goal. I was very lucky, honoured and proud to have been the one to score the goal that night.\n\"In the following European Championship campaign, everything just went in.\"\nPeople always say, 'he found it difficult (in the Premier League)' and yes I probably did\nHealy began his club career at Manchester United as a youth player but made only three appearances for the Old Trafford giants before signing for Championship club Preston North End in 2001.\nHis three-year spell at Deepdale saw him scoring 45 goals in 139 appearances in what was his most successful period in club football.\nA further three-year stint at Leeds United was followed by a move to Premier League club Fulham as he was signed by his previous Northern Ireland manager Lawrie Sanchez.\nHealy scored four goals in 30 appearances for the Cottagers before transferring to another Premier League outfit Sunderland in 2008.\nHowever, Healy only managed 13 appearances and one goal in his stint with the Black Cats and after loan spells with Ipswich and Doncaster, the striker fulfilled a boyhood dream when he signed for Rangers in 2011.\nHealy did help Rangers win the Scottish League Cup but he was released by the Ibrox club before signing for Bury in 2012.\n\"People always say, 'he found it difficult (in the Premier League)' and yes I probably did because people find their level.\n\"When I was at Preston, I was scoring a lot of goals and at Leeds I was leading scorer nearly every year even though I was playing in various positions.\n\"Sunderland and Fulham were different because it's a different standard altogether.\"", "summary": "Northern Ireland's all-time leading goal-scorer David Healy has announced his retirement." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Dubbed Athena, the satellite will be some 12m in length and weigh about five tonnes when launched in 2028.\nThe European Space Agency's (Esa) Science Programme Committee selected the project at a meeting in Toulouse.\nDesign work now will confirm the technologies and industrial capability needed to construct the mission, which is costed at over one billion euros.\n\"It's a tremendously exciting moment for the team; it's not every day you have a billion-euro decision go in your favour,\" said Prof Paul Nandra, the chairman of the Athena Coordination Group.\n\"We've just got to build it and get it up there, and as long as we do our job right, there's nothing that should stop that,\" he told BBC News.\nThe SPC will meet again, probably in 2019, to give a full and final approval to the telescope project.\nThis should be a rubber stamping exercise - provided costs can be contained and no technical showstoppers are identified.\nIn truth, there should be no surprises. The Athena concept has been under study for a number of years already by leading scientists and industrial partners.\nAthena is regarded as a next-generation observatory - an X-ray equivalent to the giant machines such as the Square Kilometre Array and the European Extremely Large Telescope that will view the cosmos at longer wavelengths.\nAthena will have a survey capability and sensitivity a hundred times better than today's best X-ray space telescopes - America's Chandra mission, and Esa's XMM-Newton telescope.\nAthena will use its advanced optics and detectors to look deep into the Universe and far back in time.\nThe key objectives are twofold - to understand how gas was assembled into the galaxies and galactic clusters we see around us today, and to study the origin and evolution of the monstrous black holes that reside at the centres of galaxies.\nAn Athena-like telescope is needed to do this because the processes being investigated are extremely hot, and radiate at high energies - in the X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.\nThe telescope will carry some novel mirrors for the purpose, incorporating \"silicon pore optics\". These use stacks of silicon material to corral the X-ray photons towards the telescope's two big instruments.\n\"The Wide Field Imager does what it says - it maps X-rays over a wide field, and that's what you need to discover black holes in the distant cosmos, to count them, and to see how they formed in the early Universe when the first stars and galaxies were also forming,\" explained Prof Nandra, who is affiliated to the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany.\n\"The X-ray Integral Field Unit will do spectroscopy, measuring very accurately the energy of the X-ray photons. The XIFU enables you to do lots of very interesting astrophysics, mostly regarding hot gas structures in the Universe.\"\nOne interesting question for the forthcoming design study concerns Athena's launcher.\nOrdinarily, the choice would be a heavy-lifting Ariane 5, but there is no certainty that this rocket will still be in production by 2028.\nEurope would hope by then to have a new vehicle, Ariane 6. However, its specifications are currently under review and the ability to loft a telescope the size of Athena has yet to be confirmed.\nAthena is what Esa terms a \"Large Class\" mission - its biggest and most expensive space science ventures.\nIt likes to launch one of these every few years.\nGaia, a star mapper, has just gone into orbit. This will be followed in 2016 by BepiColombo, a joint project with Japan to go study the planet Mercury.\nJuice, a mission to Jupiter and its moons, is taking the 2022 launch opportunity.\nAnd with Athena targeted for 2028, it is likely the 2034 slot will go to a trio of satellites known as Lisa, which will aim to detect gravitational waves in space.\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "summary": "Europe has initiated the process that should lead to the biggest X-ray space telescope ever built." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The walkout forms part of a week of rolling strikes throughout the UK affecting HM Revenue and Customs.\nThe Public and Commercial Services union said years of successive job cuts had left the organisation unable to cope.\nThe union said there were also plans to close a number of offices, including some in Northern Ireland.\nThere is currently an ongoing consultation about the closure of the Newry office and both Foyle House in Derry and Abbey House in Enniskillen are partially closed.\nA number of enquiry centres will also close on 30 June.\nThe union said HMRC was continuing to close more of its offices - including all 281 walk-in tax enquiry centres, with a further 23 large sites across the UK facing imminent closure - and is planning to privatise more of its debt collection and post handling.\nIt also said the HMRC was making more than 2,000 fixed-term workers compulsory redundant despite its own business planning revealing a huge staffing shortfall.\nThe union claimed the cuts have led to delays on telephone lines and huge backlogs of post.\nIt said private debt collectors have also had to be brought in to chase up tax credits overpayments.\nThe union said it was also considering other shorter duration walkouts and \"good work strikes\" to highlight the gaps in services, as well as other forms of industrial action.\nThe action comes as the union is holding a national consultative ballot of all its quarter of a million civil and public service members with a view to taking part in joint union industrial action over pay, expected to start in July.\nBarney Lawn, from the Public and Commercial Services union, said: \"Members are extremely angry that staffing numbers in HMRC have fallen from 104,000 in 2005 to a projected 60,000 next year.\n\"The latest plans to sack another 22,000 on top of this will lead to the kind of backlogs we've seen in other parts of the civil service, such as the delays in the processing of passports, leading to an unacceptable level of customer service and further hardship for our undervalued, overworked and underpaid members.\"", "summary": "More than 1,500 tax workers in Northern Ireland are to strike on Thursday in a dispute over job cuts." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The abstract human form looks out over the Kilbrannan Sound to Arran from the rocks below Saddell Castle in Kintyre.\nGormley, who is most famous for the Angel of the North, made the sculpture in 2015 to celebrate 50 years of the Landmark Trust.\nIt was one of five placed at trust properties around the UK.\nThe life-sized figures, together known as Land, were originally to have remained in place until May 2016.\nThe other four were removed as planned last year. They have been returned to the artist who will use them for future projects.\nThe Kintyre sculpture, called Grip, is the only one to get a permanent home.\nIt has been purchased for the trust by an anonymous private donor for an undisclosed sum.\nIt has been granted planning permission by Argyll and Bute Council.\nGormley said: \"There is an excitement about making a sculpture that can live out here amongst the waves and the wind, the rain and snow, in night and day.\n\"The sculpture is like a standing stone, a marker in space and time, linking with a specific place and its history but also looking out towards the horizon, having a conversation with a future that hasn't yet happened.\"\nCaroline Stanford, who managed the Land installation, said: \"Grip's human scale and magical setting make it a deeply moving work by one of this generation's finest artists.\n\"We are so grateful to our wonderful donor for enabling it to stay in Scotland for good.\"\nThe Landmark Trust has owned Saddell Bay since 1975. It has restored each of the six buildings on the bay and they are available for self-catering holidays.\nThe five locations for the Land sculptures were:", "summary": "A cast-iron sculpture by renowned artist Antony Gormley is to remain in place permanently after it was bought and granted planning permission." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It follows a 2-0 defeat by Bulgaria on Saturday that leaves the Netherlands fourth in their World Cup qualifying group at the halfway stage.\nBlind, 55, took over as coach from Guus Hiddink in 2015, but his side failed to qualify for the European Championships in France last summer.\nThe Dutch FA said recent results left the team \"with difficulty qualifying for the World Cup in Russia\".\nFred Grim will take charge as interim coach when the Netherlands face Italy on Tuesday.\nThis content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser", "summary": "The Netherlands have sacked head coach Danny Blind after two years in charge." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Mr Kirby had been seen as a future chief executive of American Airlines, but instead will move straight into his new job at United.\nAmerican Airlines is giving him more than $13m (£10m) in severance pay.\nUnited's financial performance has been lagging behind competitors and Mr Kirby's appointment will bring extra experience to the management team.\nLast summer, United chief executive Jeff Smisek stepped down amid a corruption investigation.\nA few months later, United's board faced a leadership challenge from two activist hedge funds.\nUnited's current chief executive Oscar Munoz is also considered an industry newcomer and has been struggling with health issues following a heart attack last year.\n\"Scott is a proven leader, whose deep airline experience and expertise will further accelerate our efforts to build the best airline in the industry,\" Mr Munoz said in a statement.\n\"Scott's appointment, along with other recent leadership announcements, is the culmination of the formation of my senior leadership team\".\nMr Kirby played a key part in the 2005 combination of America West and US Airways, as well as the 2013 merger of American and US Airways.", "summary": "American Airlines president Scott Kirby is moving to rival United Continental to take up the same job." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "However, in the three months to 1 March it recorded a smaller-than-expected loss of $423m, compared with a loss of $4.4bn in the previous quarter.\nThe company said it was pleased with its fourth quarter performance, and that it was on \"a path to returning to growth and profitability\".\nBoss John Chen said the firm was moving to a \"sounder financial footing\".\nBlackberry devices have recently lost out in the high-end smartphone market to Apple's iPhone and phones powered by Google Android operating system.\nDuring the financial year, the company's losses included $934m on unsold Z10 smartphones, and restructuring costs of $512m.\nFourth quarter revenues fell to $976m, below analysts' expectations of $1.1bn.\nAs part of its turnaround plan the firm is focusing on its services arm, and is also putting renewed emphasis on its keyboard devices.\nMr Chen was appointed as interim chief executive in November 2013.\n\"The guy is on the move fast,\" said Colin Gillis, an analyst at BGC Partners. \"He can control expenses but you can't magically make revenue happen.\"\nBlackberry's shares fell nearly 5% on Friday, reversing initial gains of over 5%.", "summary": "Troubled smartphone maker Blackberry has reported a net loss of $5.9bn (£3.5bn) for its latest financial year." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) figure for December fell to 54, down from November's figure of 54.2, according to Markit.\nAny figure above 50 indicates growth.\nEurozone inflation was also revised up to 0.2% in November, down from the previous month, and down 7.3% compared with the same period the year before.\nThe greatest price increase in November was for unprocessed food, which rose 2.7% - however, that is lower than October's rise of 3.2%.\nDespite eurozone economic growth dipping in December, the last three months of 2015 saw the strongest quarterly growth in more than four years, Markit said, with the services sector showing its largest monthly gain since November 2010.\nThe pace of growth in the manufacturing industry sped up at the fastest rate in 20 months, outpacing the growth in the services sector for the first time in more than a year - although costs and wages in manufacturing continued to rise.\nGrowth in employment in manufacturing was reported to be \"stuck at a modest pace\".\nGermany enjoyed \"ongoing solid growth\", while France \"slowed closer to stagnation\".\nMarkit's chief economist Chris Williamson said: \"Most encouraging of all is the upturn in the rate of job creation, which will hopefully pave the way for unemployment to start falling in earnest as we move into 2016.\n\"The survey is signalling a quarterly GDP rise of 0.4%, meaning the region grew 1.5% in 2015,\" Mr Williamson wrote, adding that the growth in hiring indicated growing business confidence.", "summary": "Growth in the eurozone economy slowed slightly in December from the previous month, new monthly figures suggest." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Coatbridge College principal John Doyle, chairman John Gray and five other staff shared £850,000 in pay offs when it merged with two other colleges.\nThe payments are being investigated by MSPs on the Public Audit Committee.\nMr Doyle told the committee that the seven managers had been \"absolutely trashed when we have done nothing wrong\".\nIn June, the Auditor General Caroline Gardner issued a highly-critical report of the severance deals paid out by Coatbridge College, which she said were overly-generous.\nMs Gardner told a previous meeting of the Public Audit Committee that she believed Mr Doyle and Mr Gray had colluded in order to \"achieve a certain outcome\" by withholding important information from the remuneration committee.\nMs Gardner stated that a total of 39 staff left the college at a cost of £1.7m during the merger process.\nOf this, £849,842 went on seven senior managers, including Mr Doyle and Mr Gray - payments which Ms Gardner said \"exceeded the terms of the college's severance scheme\".\nBut Mr Doyle told the committee that Ms Gardner's report was \"incomplete, inaccurate and vexatious\".\nHe added: \"There was no collusion in terms of my voluntary severance. It was based on a scheme for all colleges in Lanarkshire.\"\nMr Doyle said he had enjoyed an \"unblemished career and reputation\" during almost 40 years of public service up until the publication of the auditor general's report.\nThis included nine years as principal and chief executive of Coatbridge College, where Mr Doyle said he had been very proud to have been leading and working with a \"professional and highly motivated team of managers, lecturers and support staff\".\nHe added: \"I take great exception to the conclusions reached and vexatious statements made by the auditor general about myself, John Gray and the senior team\".\nMr Doyle said he appointed law firm Biggart Baillie to act on his behalf at board meetings when it emerged there could be a conflict of interest.\nIn his evidence to the committee, Mr Gray said he too \"totally rejects\" the auditor general's conclusions, and questioned why she had made such \"emphatic and terse conclusions without at least the courtesy of discussing the situation with the two people being criticised\".\nHe added: \"The minutes of the board of the remuneration committee on 23 October 2013, which happened to be the day I demitted office, and subsequent correspondence show quite clearly that all involved were fully informed of the situation and which together correctly stated the final position.\"\nMr Gray denied a suggestion from Conservative MSP Mary Scanlon that he had \"withheld and concealed information\" from the remuneration committee, adding: \"I can say categorically that I never withheld anything from any of the committees that I was involved with.\"\nMs Scanlon responded: \"That's not what the committee members are saying.\"\nScottish Funding Council (SFC) chief executive Lawrence Howells had earlier denied a suggestion from Ms Scanlon that officials had wanted Mr Doyle out of the way to clear a path for a successful merger and so turned a blind eye to the severance payments.\nThe SFC is responsible for distributing about £1.5bn in funding each year to Scotland's colleges and universities.\nMr Howells said he had urged Coatbridge College at the time not to commit to the severance deals that were being proposed.\nAnd he said he had been \"very concerned\" that the payments were not within the guidance that had been provided, and that the college board had not produced evidence that the deals provided value for money.\nMr Howells said the SFC had been given legal advice that the chances of clawing back the money paid to Coatbridge College managers was \"very slim\".\nAnd he said withholding funds would only have damaged New College Lanarkshire, which was created by the merger between Coatbridge, Cumbernauld and Motherwell colleges.\nBut Mr Howells acknowledged that he could have emphasised the severance payments guidance \"even more strongly\" to the college.\nEmails have shown that the SFC repeatedly advised Mr Doyle and Mr Gray that any severance package equivalent to more than a year's pay would be unreasonable.\nHowever, Mr Doyle, who earned £116,000 a year by the end of his service, was given a 21-month lump sum, plus three months for completing the merger and a further six months' pay in lieu of notice, totalling 30 months' pay.\nWhen Ms Gardner's report was discussed by the Public Audit Committee last month, MSP Nigel Don said the case was a \"particularly bad example of misuse of funds, deliberate withholding of information and of feathering one's own nest\".\nAfter the committee meeting, Mr Doyle was asked by journalists whether he would repay the money.\nHe said: \"You have heard the evidence given. Why would I pay money that is not due to anyone? I was only given the amount of money that I was contracted to be paid.\n\"I haven't done anything wrong, as you have quite rightly heard. I don't think it appropriate to apologise for something I have not done.\n\"It's not taxpayers' money. The evidence that I gave today, that the committee now has, quite clearly demonstrates that I have done absolutely nothing wrong.\"", "summary": "A former college principal at the centre of a row over severance payments has denied doing anything wrong." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Tyson Frizell and Joel Thompson gave the Australian side a 12-10 half-time lead, Gareth O'Brien and Ryan Atkins replying for Warrington.\nO'Brien's penalty levelled the scores but Dugan's try 16 minutes from time settled the game in St George's favour.\nWigan face Brisbane and St Helens host South Sydney in the remaining ties.\nAnd it will be left to the two sides that contested Super League's Grand Final last October to defend England's honour in the new-look competition, which has been expanded to six teams in 2015, after Tony Smith's Wolves were beaten by a team that finished 11th in Australia's National Rugby League last season.\nSt George, winners of the 2011 World Club Challenge, crossed inside 90 seconds through Wales second-rower Frizell after Warrington's Ashton Sims had spilled the ball during the first set of six.\nThe hosts levelled courtesy of a moment of magic from O'Brien, who flew through a gap in the St George backline 40 metres out and, with half-back partner Richie Myler screaming for a pass in support, dummied his way past the last defender to cruise over the line.\nParity did not last long, though, Thompson grounding Gareth Widdop's grubber kick to restore the Dragons' advantage.\nSt George winger Eto Nabuli, who had earlier denied Wire captain Joel Monaghan with a wonderful last-ditch intervention, somehow escaped further punishment for a mistimed high tackle on Kevin Penny, referee Ben Thaler choosing to award just a penalty.\nWarrington centre Atkins went over from the resulting set to close the deficit to two points at the interval.\nThe Dragons edged an attritional start to the second period, Dugan and Dylan Farrell both held up in goal.\nWarrington's defensive effort was rewarded when Benji Marshall was penalised for a high shot on O'Brien, who kicked the goal from 15 metres to make it 12-12 with 20 minutes to play, only for Dragons full-back Dugan to expertly gather Marshall's reverse kick and put St George back in front.\nWarrington threatened the try line from another close-range penalty late on, but when Monaghan failed to grasp a fired pass out wide, their hopes of victory on a bitterly cold night disappeared.\nWarrington head coach Tony Smith:\n\"It was the right result. They deserved to win but there wasn't much between us.\n\"We were a bit sloppy with some aspects of our game. Within our group we had some absolutely outstanding performers and we had some down the other end as well. We just didn't quite get it all together unfortunately.\"\nOn Eto Nabuli's high shot on Kevin Penny: \"We played a lot of different rules tonight. Our man in the middle didn't want to blow for a penalty in the game and was forced into it in the latter stages, but I don't think he wanted to give that as a penalty. I think he wanted to have a clean sheet at half-time.\"\nSt George head coach Paul McGregor:\n\"The physicality of the game was good for everyone to see and the crowd enjoyed it. The whole nine days here has been fantastic.\n\"The intensity that the boys trained at and the energy they found, in sometimes trying conditions, was good.\n\"The environment they played in tonight - it won't get much tougher than that back home.\"\nOn Nabuli's tackle: \"It was a reflex action and the bloke [Penny] jumped to his feet quicker than anyone. I don't think there was too much in it.\"\nWarrington Wolves: Wheeler; Evans, Monaghan, Atkins, Penny; O'Brien, Myler; Hill, Clark, Sims, Currie, Laithwaite, Westwood.\nReplacements: Bridge, Harrison, Higham, England.\nSt George Illawarra: Dugan; Nabuli, Nielsen, Farrell, Nightingale; Widdop, Marshall; O'Brien, Rein, Ah Mau, Frizell, Thompson, Creagh.\nReplacements: Merrin, De Belin, Marketo, Rose.\nAtt: 13,080\nRef: Ben Thaler (England).", "summary": "A second-half try from Josh Dugan consigned Warrington Wolves to defeat by St George Illawarra in the first match of the 2015 World Club Series." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The man in charge of assessing the leaks' damage, Richard Ledgett, said he could be open to an amnesty deal.\nDisclosures by the former intelligence worker have revealed the extent of the NSA's spying activity.\nBut NSA Director Gen Keith Alexander has dismissed the idea.\nMr Ledgett spoke to US television channel CBS about the possibility of an amnesty deal: \"So my personal view is, yes it's worth having a conversation about.\n\"I would need assurances that the remainder of the data could be secured, and my bar for those assurances would be very high, would be more than just an assertion on his part.\"\nBy Jonny DymondWashington correspondent\nAn amnesty for Edward Snowden is an intriguing prospect. But don't hold your breath. Richard Ledgett's boss, General Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, poured very cold water on the idea when he spoke to CBS News.\nAnd much of Congress, which gave every indication of wanting to see Mr Snowden torn limb from limb when the leaks started, would be apoplectic; it would be an unimaginably hard-sell politically.\nBut the talk of an amnesty is an indication of the NSA's deepest fears: that Mr Snowden really has got what Rick Ledgett called \"the keys to the kingdom\", and is prepared to make it public.\nAuthoritative reports suggest that the agency is finding it very difficult to work out what Mr Snowden did and didn't take. Talk of an amnesty from the agency suggests it is deeply concerned about what comes next from Edward Snowden.\nBut Gen Alexander, who is retiring early next year, rejected the idea of any amnesty for Mr Snowden.\n\"This is analogous to a hostage taker taking 50 people hostage, shooting 10, and then say, 'if you give me full amnesty, I'll let the other 40 go'. What do you do?\"\nIn an earlier interview with the Reuters news agency, Mr Ledgett said he was deeply worried about highly classified documents not yet public that are among the 1.7 million files Mr Snowden is believed to have accessed.\nMr Snowden's disclosures have been \"cataclysmic\" for the agency, Mr Ledgett told Reuters.\nEarlier this month, a UK newspaper editor told UK MPs only 1% of files leaked by Mr Snowden had been published by the newspaper.\nThe state department says its position has not changed and that Mr Snowden must return to the US to face charges, says the BBC's Suzanne Kianpour.\nThe US has charged Mr Snowden with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence.\nEach of the charges carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.\nAt the weekend, the NSA allowed a CBS television crew into their headquarters for the first time in its history, in an effort to be more open about what the agency does with the data it collects.", "summary": "A top NSA official has raised the possibility of an amnesty for fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden if he agrees to stop leaking documents." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The biomass plant would generate energy from burning forestry and saw-mill residues and recycled wood.\nThe Valley (Pembrokeshire) Ltd say about 45 full-time jobs could be created by the development, along with 250 construction jobs.\nIt is expected to take 30 months to build the plant.\nThe original depot was used to store explosives and munitions at Trecwn, employing about 500 people.\nBuilt at the start of the World War Two, it was the largest and most secret arms depot in Europe.\nThe sprawling former military site is around 445 hectares (1,100 acres) in size - an area covering over 600 football pitches - and includes 58 tunnels and chambers, which cut into the hillsides. It closed in 1995.\nControversial plans to store nuclear waste at Trecwn by previous owners Omega Pacific were shelved after public opposition.\nThe Valley Ltd plan to use by-products of forestry and recycled wood from UK local authorities and businesses.\nIt is likely that the fuel will be delivered to the site by road and this will amount to 53 HGV deliveries per day.\nPlanning officers have recommended approval despite objections from Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth who claim that the new plant will be inefficient, and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales who say there will be an impact from pollution.", "summary": "Plans to build a power station at the former Royal Navy armaments depot at Trecwn look set to be approved by Pembrokeshire County Council." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The ground at which Cardiff Blues and Cardiff RFC play is physically attached to Wales' Principality Stadium home.\n\"Dialogue is taking place with many parties regarding the project, including the WRU, as we consider the best way forward,\" said Holland.\nRecent reports have linked Blues with a takeover by the WRU.\nThe rugby region has a lease from Cardiff Athletic Club (Cac) which ends in January 2022, and it wants a long-term extension so it can redevelop the city centre site.\nIt wants a 15,000-capacity stadium with a retractable pitch and sliding roof so it can be used as a concert venue, as well as building an exhibition centre, a hotel and flats.\nCac's agreement is needed to allow the redevelopment to go ahead.\nIt is a body made up of Cardiff tennis, bowls, hockey and cricket clubs which has a clubhouse at the Arms Park.\nHolland said that an extraordinary meeting of Cac to discuss the plan is \"imminent\".\nHe added: \"The whole drive behind this project is to secure the playing of rugby at Cardiff Arms Park and for it to remain the home of Cardiff Blues and Cardiff RFC for generations to come.\"", "summary": "Cardiff Blues are in talks with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) over plans to redevelop Cardiff Arms Park, says chief executive Richard Holland." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Tredwell, who is out of contract in October, was reportedly frustrated about a lack of playing time.\nThe 35-year-old former England spinner has played six first-class games for the Division Two county this season.\n\"As far as James is concerned, he's pretty happy and wants to be at Kent,\" Walker told BBC Radio Kent.\n\"He's put his 28 days' in, which is fine with a player out of contract, that's not unusual.\"\nFormer captain Tredwell has spent his entire career with Kent, apart from a one-month loan spell with Sussex in 2014.", "summary": "Kent head coach Matt Walker says James Tredwell is \"very committed\" to the county despite handing in 28 days' notice to talk to other clubs." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "That is the central mystery behind France's possible president-to-be, Francois Fillon.\nDetractors say that behind the mask of taciturnity lies a retiring personality ill-suited for the task of head-of-state.\nMr Fillon, they say, is one of nature's lieutenants, a born second-in-command, a would-be leader without the guts to lead.\nFar from it, reply his supporters.\nIf the former prime minister is reserved, they say, that is because he has a rich interior life - and personal convictions that do not need the reflected affirmation of the media machine.\nAnd his path to the top may have been slow. But along the journey he has acquired a wealth of experience. The bid for the presidency, they say, comes from a man finally ready to assume the responsibilities of the office.\nMr Fillon's political career has certainly been a long one.\nIt was in 1981, aged 27, that he was first elected as a member of parliament, becoming the National Assembly's youngest member.\nHis party was the Gaullist RPR of Jacques Chirac. Gaullism features a strong centralised state with conservative and nationalist policies.\nMr Fillon's parents, a history professor mother and lawyer father, were also Gaullists, and he was brought up in comfortable circumstances near the western city of Le Mans.\nHe studied journalism and then law. In 1974 he met his future wife Penelope Clarke. She is Welsh and they have five children, the last born in 2001. They live near Le Mans, in the Sarthe department which remains Fillon's powerbase.\nMr Fillon's first ministerial post, higher education, came in 1993 under Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. He went on to hold five other cabinet posts, before serving as prime minister for five years until 2012 under Nicolas Sarkozy.\nFor nearly all of this time, Mr Fillon was identified with the movement known as \"social Gaullism\".\nHis friend and mentor was the late Philippe Seguin, who believed in strong state intervention in the economy and society. Mr Fillon also shared Seguin's Euroscepticism, and in 1992 both men voted against the Maastricht Treaty that ushered in the euro.\nLater as social affairs minister under Jacques Chirac, Mr Fillon had the image of an honest dealer prepared to put in the hours during long negotiations with trade unions.\nAll of which sits rather oddly, some would say, with the policies of Francois Fillon the presidential candidate, which are avowedly those of a radical economic liberal.\nIn speech after speech in recent weeks, Mr Fillon has spoken in cataclysmic terms of France's \"broken\" social model, and the need for drastic cuts in state spending.\n\"Sometimes you need to tear the whole thing down,\" he says.\nFor Gaspard Koenig, of the free-market think tank Generation Libre, the explanation is that since leaving office in 2012 Mr Fillon underwent \"a Damascene conversion\".\n\"He spent the last three years travelling up and down the country. He came to see the exasperation of ordinary people and how they wanted more than anything to get the state off their backs,\" he says.\nMr Fillon's \"virage liberal\" (liberal U-turn) is a bold strategy in a country where fans of Margaret Thatcher, as he says he is, are not exactly thick on the ground.\nAnd as his opponents seek to portray Mr Fillon as a dangerous right-winger, another weapon will also be to hand: his Catholicism.\nHe is a practising Catholic. He is personally opposed to abortion, but says he would never seek to repeal the law. Nor would he seek to ban adoption by gay male couples - though he wants the law changed so that a child can trace its birth mother.\nFor the left, these are signs of worrying ambiguity on matters that are central to a progressive society. The left-wing newspaper Liberation headlined last week on fears of a return of clerical power.\nBut it is not just left-wingers who see a link between Mr Fillon's Catholicism, his character, and his policies.\nFor Henri Guaino, a former Sarkozy adviser, Mr Fillon \"believes in redemption through pain, the idea that you need to suffer in order to be saved. He believes the country has lived too luxuriously for too long.\n\"So now it needs to make sacrifices. It's like a purge.\"\nThe same Catholic conviction could explain Mr Fillon's famous taciturnity, a refusal to be ruffled, that can come across as either old-world courtesy or a cold reluctance to engage.\nAnd it might also shed light on one of the big questions over his career: why for five years as prime minister he suffered the constant humiliations inflicted by his boss, the man he came to loathe, Nicolas Sarkozy.\nBut whoever seeks to caricature Mr Fillon as an emotionless masochist must accept that that is at best only part of the picture.\nThis is a man who fell in love with motor-racing as a child when the Austin Healey team stayed in his village during the Le Mans 24-hour race. He could have become a professional driver.\nHe says he has \"always had a problem with authority\" and as a boy was briefly expelled from school for leading a demonstration against a teacher.\nHe despises politicians who \"think of nothing but politics day and night: they are obsessed and unbalanced\". Among his other hobbies are mountaineering and piloting drones.\nHis friend and ally, former minister Roselyine Bachelot, admits the frigid exterior. But she says: \"Under the ice there is fire.\"", "summary": "How can a man whose hobbies include motor-racing, mountaineering and the bullfight be so impassive, impeccable and grave?" }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The world number two has not played since missing the cut in the defence of her Women's PGA Championship in June.\nThe seven-time major-winning South Korean, 28, will now concentrate on getting fit for the Rio Olympics.\n\"This has been an incredibly hard decision to make and the reason I've left it to the last minute,\" she said.\n\"Winning the British Open last year at Turnberry meant so much to me in more ways than you could imagine.\n\"Since the PGA I've been resting and rehabilitating my left thumb in the hope that I would be right to defend my title next week but it just needs a little bit more time.\"\nWe've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.", "summary": "Last year's British Women's Open winner Inbee Park has been ruled out of this year's tournament at Woburn with a thumb injury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The researchers, at the University of Dundee, analysed medical records from more than half a million British women.\nThey argue the operations could directly affect fertility or there may be a \"behavioural\" explanation.\nExperts said the findings might lead to new treatments, but advised women not to have their tonsils and appendix taken out unnecessarily.\nThe study found that for every 100 pregnancies in women who had had no procedures there were:\nOne of the researchers, Dr Sami Shimi, said most doctors were wrongly taught that having an appendix removed damaged fertility.\nHe told BBC News: \"This [study] is very important in reassuring young women that appendicectomy will not reduce their chances of future pregnancy.\n\"More importantly, looking at both the appendix and tonsils together, this study confirms beyond doubt that removal of inflamed organs or organs likely to suffer from repeated inflammation, in women, improves their chances of pregnancy.\"\nExplaining the findings, published in Fertility and Sterility, is more of a challenge.\nOne biological possibility is that regularly infected tonsils or appendixes raise levels of inflammation in the body, which affects the ovaries and womb.\nThe Dundee team favour a behavioural explanation such as women enjoying more \"liberal sexual activity\", being both more likely to get pregnant and have pelvic inflammatory disease, which could lead to an appendix being removed.\nMore research is needed to figure this out.\nProf Allan Pacey, from the University of Sheffield, told the BBC: \"This is an interesting paper which suggests that surgical removal of the appendix or tonsils (or both) in young women is associated with an increase in their fertility later in life.\n\"There are several explanations which may account for these observations, one of which is that the removal of these tissues makes an alteration to their immune system which has an impact to some aspect of the reproductive process (such as how their embryos implant in the womb).\n\"If true, this may ultimately give doctors and scientists some new ideas for novel drugs or therapies to enhance women's fertility.\n\"But to suggest that infertile women have their tonsils or appendix removed as a way of improving their chances is a step too far at this stage.\"\nFollow James on Twitter.", "summary": "Women who have had their appendix or tonsils removed appear to be more fertile, a 15-year study suggests." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In the 10 days leading up to their trip to Sixfields to face the League One side, Jose Mourinho's United have lost three matches, beaten by Manchester City, Feyenoord and Watford.\n\"He'll be working hard to put things right,\" Page said of Mourinho.\n\"There's no crisis, it's three defeats. That will be the message.\"\nTalking to BBC Radio Northampton, Page continued: \"They're expected to win the game and if they don't they'll be criticised.\"\nThe Cobblers, who are 11th in English football's third tier, set up the tie against United when they beat West Bromwich Albion 4-3 on penalties.\n\"It's been a long time coming since the draw was made,\" Page said. \"We've banned the players from talking about it just so we can focus on the league.\n\"When we scored the winning penalty I thought the atmosphere was terrific and that's why you're in the game, you want to create more moments like that.\"\nNorthampton Town have never won a competitive game against Manchester United, with their last match against the Red Devils - an FA Cup tie in 2004 - ending in a 3-0 defeat.\n\"We know we're going to be in for a tough game, so it's about us focussing on what we can do and recreating what we did against Premier League opposition in West Brom,\" Page said.", "summary": "Manchester United are not a club in crisis, says Northampton Town boss Rob Page ahead of their EFL Cup third-round tie on Wednesday." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In the year to March, 6,179 teachers who qualified elsewhere had their qualifications recognised in England, suggests Department for Education data.\nThis amounts to 16% of 38,746 teachers who gained qualified status that year.\nEngland faces a \"major shortage\" of teachers, said a head teachers' leader.\n\"Schools will recruit anybody who meets the standards and has the relevant qualifications,\" explained Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, which represents secondary heads.\nThe overall figures on the number of overseas teachers who achieved qualified status in England last year are from the annual report of the National College of Teaching and Leadership.\nThe TES also obtained Freedom of Information figures on the countries from which these teachers came.\nAlmost a third (1,851) qualified in Spain, 10% (610) in Canada and 9% (574) in Poland.\nThe figures also include small numbers who qualified in Scotland (250) and Northern Ireland (99).\nThe government allows teachers who qualified in the European Economic Area, as well as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US to register their qualifications to obtain qualified teacher status in England.\nA Department for Education spokesman explained: \"Outstanding teachers are in demand across the globe and where schools wish to recruit from overseas we want to ensure they are able to do so from those countries whose education standards are as high as our own.\"\nTo be awarded qualified teacher status in England, applicants must have been fully qualified and trained in countries that are recognised as comparable teaching standards, said the spokesman.\nTeacher recruitment expert, Prof John Howson, a visiting research fellow at Oxford University's department of education said the UK's shortage of teachers was \"beginning to suck in people from other countries where there's a surplus of teachers\".\nProf Howson suggested high unemployment in Spain and the need for Spanish language teachers in England could explain the large numbers of teachers from Spain in the figures.\n\"Given the high level of unemployment in Spain, it's not surprising that someone has sussed out there's a way you can get a job as a teacher in England if you trained in Spain, since Spanish is a popular language\", he told the TES.", "summary": "Nearly one in six teachers starting in England's schools last year qualified overseas, according to official figures obtained by the Times Educational Supplement (TES)." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "They hope to carry out the procedure - as part of a clinical trial - launching in the spring of 2016\nBut what would the operation involve and how long before patients can expect to see results?\nAround one in 7,000 women are born without a functioning womb.\nIn some conditions such as Mayer Rokitansky Küster Hauser syndrome for example, people may not have a vagina, cervix or womb.\nIn other cases women may have wombs removed after surgery for cancer.\nNot all will be eligible or will want this procedure.\nBut Womb Transplant UK, the organisation set to carry out the operations in the UK, says it could provide an alternative to adoption or surrogacy.\nThe team say women involved in the research should be under 38, of a healthy weight and in a long-term relationship.\nWomen must also have healthy ovaries, capable of producing eggs.\nExperts in the UK say wombs will be donated from women who are \"brain-dead\" but whose hearts are kept beating.\nThis is different to procedures that have already taken place in Sweden where live donors have been involved.\nSpecialists say this decision has been taken in the UK because the operation to remove a womb carries its own risks.\nBut the details of exactly how donors will be identified or can volunteer are still to be ironed out.\nNHS Blood and Transplant, the UK organ donation organisation, says it will work with the Womb Transplant UK team, to ensure appropriate protocols are in place for identifying potential donors and approaching their families to gain consent for womb donation.\nAny woman considering this procedure will need to weigh up the risks of complex surgery and the anaesthetic. IVF is not risk-free either.\nShe will also need to think about the potential side-effects of taking immunosuppressant drugs, for instance.\nThese have been linked to an increased chance of infections, osteoporosis and in some cases cancer.\nExperts say they can minimise this by removing the womb once it is no longer needed.\nAnother question is whether the drugs could be harmful to the developing foetus.\nSpecialists at Womb Transplant UK say when used at the right doses this is unlikely to be a problem, building on the success of pregnancies involving anti-rejection drugs for other reasons.\nBut of course this is still a trial - the results, including information on safety, will be watched closely.\nDr Richard Smith, a consultant gynaecologist at the Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London, will lead the transplant team.\nHis team estimates each procedure costs between £40,000 and £50,000 but women will not be expected to pay for this themselves.\nWhether it would ever be available on the NHS is unclear.\nCurrently there is only have approval for a research trial - the results of this will be keenly awaited.\nAnd the potential risks, benefits and costs of a potentially life-enhancing rather than life-saving procedure will need to weighed up.\nSome say the costs involved currently makes an NHS procedure unlikely.\nThe first well-documented human attempt took place in 2000 when doctors in Saudi Arabia transplanted a womb from a living donor to a young woman.\nInitially it was hailed as a medical breakthrough but the success was short-lived.\nLess than four months later the organ had to be removed when the transplanted tissue began to die as a result of a blood supply failure. The next challenge - a pregnancy - was never attempted.\nWomb transplants have also been attempted in Turkey and other countries.\nIt was in 2014 that a major turning point came - in a medical first, a woman in Sweden gave birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb.\nThe 36-year-old, who was born without a uterus, gave birth by Caesarean section to a boy named Vincent after receiving a womb donated by a family friend.\nA further three babies have since been born in Sweden using transplanted wombs.", "summary": "Doctors have been granted approval to carry out the first 10 womb transplants in the UK." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The two-time French Open finalist has not played competitively since July 2011 because of severe glandular fever, but has told BBC Radio 5 live of his optimism he still has \"some good years\" ahead.\n\"I'm actually finally doing a lot better,\" says the 30-year-old Swede.\n\"I wouldn't say I'm 100%, but not very far from it, which is a great feeling.\"\nHe added: \"Hopefully - if it continues to progress the way it has been - then maybe, it's tough to say, but maybe six months or a year from now I can hopefully start to train 100%.\n\"My goal was to play a long career and to play until I was way over 30. If I can become healthy, I still feel that I have some good years in me. Look at the way the players on the tour are performing now at a high age - that gives me a little bit of hope.\"\nSoderling famously beat Nadal in four sets in the fourth round of the 2009 French Open and went on to finish as the runner-up to Roger Federer. He again reached the final in Paris 12 months later, where Nadal took the opportunity to exact his revenge.\nThe Swede says he started to develop a light fever and a sore throat during the 2011 Wimbledon Championships but rallied a couple of weeks later to beat David Ferrer in a final in Bastad, Sweden. That was the 10th title of a burgeoning career, and yet it remains his most recent appearance on the ATP Tour.\nSoderling was just 26 at the time and admits to feeling bitter about the illness which has robbed him of arguably the best years of his career.\n\"In the beginning I didn't think so much about it because I was feeling so bad: I had problems going from my bed to the bathroom,\" he said.\n\"But then after a while, as I started to feel physically better, it was tough of course mentally: all [manner of] thoughts started going through my head about maybe I cannot ever play tennis again. But I did some other stuff. I had a kid and I learnt that tennis is a big part of my life but it's not my whole life as I thought it was before.\"\n\"Other stuff\" includes setting up RS Tennis, a company that sells tennis products, and spending almost a year trying to develop the perfect tennis ball. Soderling's creation - which he says is light yet durable and offers plenty of control - will be used at this year's Stockholm Open, where the Swede is now in his second year as tournament director.\nThat role has really opened his eyes to life on the other side of the fence. He is now having to negotiate appearance fees with players' agents, some of whom are \"very nice and easy to talk to - but some are totally the opposite\".\nAnd if Soderling does return to the tour in 2016, we should expect to see a man whose illness has given him a different perspective on professional life.\n\"Sometimes I wish I had been a little bit more humble as a player, because sometimes you could complain about really small things like there's no water on the court.\"", "summary": "Robin Soderling - who remains the only man ever to have beaten Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros - is hoping he will be able to return to the ATP Tour in 2016." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "More than half of the 105 children who were found to have been trafficked in the past five years were Vietnamese, brought in to work on cannabis farms and in the sex industry.\nSeven of the children have since disappeared from care, thought to have been taken by their traffickers.\nOne service provider said the figures were \"just the tip of the iceberg\".\nUnder the 1989 Children Act, it is a council's legal responsibility to care for under-18s who arrive in their local authority area from abroad, placing them into foster care or \"semi-independent living\" situations with funding from the Home Office.\nThe Scottish Guardianship Service (SGS), funded by the Scottish government, then helps them to navigate the complex asylum, trafficking, and welfare processes.\nThe bulk of unaccompanied children are in the care of English counties such as Kent which encapsulates the port of Dover and the London borough of Hillingdon where Heathrow Airport is situated.\nBut there has still been a year-on-year increase in numbers in Scotland.\nNine children were trafficked in 2011. This rose to 32 in 2015, and 20 new cases have already been reported to the SGS this year.\nMany children who arrive in Scotland alone have come actively seeking asylum from conflict and persecution in their home countries.\nHowever, the latest figures from the SGS reveal that 40% of the 262 unaccompanied children it has registered since 2011 were brought to Scotland by traffickers.\nSang was just 10 years old when he was taken in by a Vietnamese gang.\nHis parents had recently died and he had no other way to fend for himself.\nForced to beg and shine shoes on streets by the gang, he was also regularly beaten by its members.\nThen one day, a few years later, Sang was ordered to get into the back of a truck.\n\"I was told I had to get in, otherwise they'd beat me to death,\" he recalls.\nThe following months were a blur for Sang as he was transported like cattle in the back of lorries - often without food or water - between halfway houses in countries including Russia and France.\nBut at least he wasn't alone - he remembers there being many other Vietnamese and African children being held there.\nWhen Sang's long journey finally ended in Glasgow, he was locked in a secluded house.\n\"One of the men showed me his gun to threaten me - he said if I tried to escape from the house he would kill me.\"\nOnly when the police finally raided the house a few months later did he know he was in Scotland.\nSang is now getting support from Migrant Help.\nA quarter of those trafficked over the five-year period were forced to work in the illegal cultivation of cannabis, another quarter in the sex industry.\nMany become domestic slaves behind closed doors. Others turned up on the high streets, being used as force labour in establishments such as nail bars.\nA freedom of information request also revealed that a quarter of the unaccompanied children in Glasgow City Council's care since 2011 were under 16 years of age.\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Those who take part in the trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable people bring misery and long-term harm to their victims.\n\"New legislation came into force this year that makes it more straightforward for our law enforcement agencies to take action.\n\"However, we know legislation alone won't stop trafficking which is why we are working with others including Police Scotland and the Crown Office to raise awareness of these appalling crimes, and to identify perpetrators and disrupt their activity.\"\nCatriona MacSween, a service manager at SGS, doubts that their figures on child trafficking provide an accurate picture of the situation.\nShe said: \"[These figures] are really just the tip of the iceberg because we only see the kids that are lucky enough to escape or be rescued from their situation.\n\"There's probably a lot of children that we still don't know about, that are still being exploited.\n\"Quite often the children we work with have been sexually exploited, and then moved on to work in a nail bar, moved on to work on a cannabis farm - so there's a lot of movement there.\"\nBut for the young Vietnamese in Scotland, their nightmare does not always end when they escape.\nSeven children - all of them Vietnamese - have disappeared from council care since 2011, including 15-year-old Thanh Van Bui, and are feared to be back with the gangs that trafficked them.\nA 2008 Scottish government report noted that some traffickers insisted a child apply for asylum to give them a legitimate right of temporary leave to remain in the UK - essentially treating council accommodation as holding pens for trafficking victims.\nMs MacSween said the main reason for these disappearances was that the children were \"debt-bonded to the trafficker so they still owe them money\".\nShe added: \"They're maybe still getting threatened by the trafficker to pay that debt, maybe threatening their family back home.\n\"The trafficker may tell them they're going to get deported if they come across the authorities in this country, that nobody's going to help them, nobody's going to believe them.\"\nBut Ms MacSween said another contributory factor was that many councils lack suitable accommodation in which to place unaccompanied children.\nShe said they were often placed in bed and breakfasts - increasing the chances of them absconding, and also leaving them open to being re-taken by traffickers.\nJohn Powell, from the charity Migrant Help UK, said it was important for the public to recognise the signs.\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"One of the great tragedies of this whole area is that many of the people that have been trafficked are hidden in plain sight.\n\"Part of the criminal success in doing that is the ignorance of the public at large as to what's in front of them.\n\"We haven't been good as a nation at ensuring that people understand what trafficking's about - the numbers involved across the whole of the UK, we estimate about 13,000 or probably more - and understanding what the signs are.\n\"As a charity, we always say that the victim is the most unlikely person to present themselves to the police or anyone else. It's really the public that are going to spot it and report it. But if they don't know what they're looking at, then how can they determine that there's something not quite right?\"", "summary": "The trafficking of vulnerable children into Scotland has risen threefold since 2011, according to new figures." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nKelmendi, 25, overpowered Italy's Odette Giuffrida with a yuko to claim victory at her second Games, having represented Albania at London 2012.\nThere was a surprise in the men's -66kg as Fabio Basile of Italy beat South Korea's An Baul in emphatic fashion.\nThe unseeded Basile dominated his opponent to win Italy's first gold medal of these Games.\nJapan's Misato Nakamura and Russia's Natalia Kuziutina won bronze in the women's event, while Masashi Ebinuma of Japan and Uzbekistan's Rishod Sobirov also secured bronze in the men's.\nKosovo's Olympic Committee was established in 1992 but only recognised by the International Olympic Committee in 2014. The disputed territory declared independence from Serbia in 2008.\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "summary": "Majlinda Kelmendi became Kosovo's first Olympic medallist as she took gold in the women's -52kg judo in Rio." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A search was launched for Jacqueline Hudson in Brixham, south Devon early on Sunday.\nPolice say an air and sea search with coastguards of the area around Berry Head resulted in the discovery of a body.\nOfficers said they were no longer looking Ms Hudson and although formal identification has not yet happened, her next of kin have been informed.", "summary": "Police searching for a missing 27-year-old woman have found a body in the sea." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The test was a message to the South days after a new president took office, she told ABC News.\nThe US would continue to \"tighten the screws\" on North Korea, Ms Haley said.\nJapanese officials say the missile, which launched from north-western Kusong, reached an altitude of 2,000km.\nSouth Korea's newly elected President Moon Jae-in, who is seeking deeper engagement with the North, said it was a \"reckless provocation\".\nUS President Donald Trump has called for \"stronger sanctions\" against North Korea, while China is urging restraint.\nA series of North Korean missile tests this year - which are banned by the UN - has sparked international alarm and raised tensions with the US.\nTwo missile launches last month both failed, with the rockets exploding just minutes into flight.\nNorth Korea recently said it would hold talks with the US \"if the conditions were right\", after President Trump said he would be \"honoured\" to meet Kim Jong-un under the right circumstances.\nBut Ms Haley said launching missiles was not the way to get a meeting. \"Until he meets our conditions, we're not sitting down with him,\" she said.\nStephen Evans: Is Kim Jong-un rational?\nThe nature of the launch is still being determined, but analysts have said the test could suggest a longer range than previously tested devices.\nThe Japanese defence minister said it flew for about 30 minutes before falling in the Sea of Japan and could be a new type of missile.\nTomomi Inada said it covered a distance of about 700km (435 miles), reaching an altitude of more than 2,000km (1,245 miles) - higher than that reached by an intermediate-range missile North Korea fired in February.\nIntercontinental ballistic missiles [ICBMs] can potentially reach altitudes of hundreds of kilometres, taking them well outside the Earth's atmosphere.\nExperts quoted by Reuters say the altitude meant the missile was launched at a high trajectory, limiting the lateral distance it travelled. They say if it had been fired at a standard trajectory, it would have had a range of at least 4,000km.\nThe US Pacific Command said in a statement the type was being assessed but that its flight was not consistent with that of an ICBM, which would have the range to reach the US mainland (more than 6,000km).\nNorth Korea is believed to be developing two types of ICBM, but neither has so far been flight tested.\nIf the Japanese analysis of the trajectory is right (that the missile reached an altitude of 2,000km), North Korea appears to have advanced its technology markedly.\nThe previous two tests failed, so reliability is not there yet. But last month some experts reckoned that a seemingly new missile on parade in Pyongyang may have been an ICBM (the type President Trump said \"won't happen\").\nJeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California thought at the time that the new missiles on show might be ICBMs. Is this that missile?\nOne thing is certain: North Korea will certainly trumpet its success if it does now have the capability to strike the US military bases on Guam, 3,400km from Pyongyang in the Western Pacific. Mr Trump would ponder what to do with even greater urgency.\nMr Moon hosted an emergency meeting of his security council in the wake of the launch.\n\"The president said while South Korea remains open to the possibility of dialogue with North Korea, it is only possible when the North shows a change in attitude,\" his spokesman said.\nMeanwhile, a member of South Korea's ruling party attending a major summit in China reportedly told the North Korean delegation directly that they \"strongly condemned\" the launch.\nThe White House said President Donald Trump \"cannot imagine Russia is pleased\" because the missile did not land far from Russian territory.\nA Kremlin spokesperson later said Russian President Vladimir Putin was concerned by the test.\nChina, North Korea's only major ally, called for restraint by \"all relevant parties\" in the wake of the latest test.\nThe North has conducted five nuclear tests despite UN sanctions and is also developing long-range missiles.\nIt is reported to be continuing efforts to miniaturise nuclear warheads and fit them on missiles capable of reaching the US.\nWashington has accused other UN Security Council members of not fully enforcing existing sanctions against the North, and has urged China in particular to use its trade links as influence.", "summary": "The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has accused North Korean leader Kim Jong-un of being in a \"state of paranoia\", following another ballistic missile test." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "US-supported fighters have been airlifted by the American military in a bid to retake Tabqa dam.\nThe development came as a US-led coalition met in Washington to discuss the battle against IS.\nSecretary of State Rex Tillerson said it was \"only a matter of time\" until IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed.\nWednesday's gathering at the State Department was the first summit of the full 68-member group since December 2014.\nThe Pentagon said US aircraft had dropped allied Syrian rebel infantry forces near Tabqa, 45km (28 miles) west of Raqqa, on the Euphrates River.\nIt said the aim was to seize the dam, which provides regional electricity. There is also a military airfield and a prison holding IS hostages there.\nSpokesman Eric Pohan would not say how many US personnel were involved, but told the Associated Press that no American troops were engaged in front-line fighting.\nHe said the dam was \"significant as a strategic target'' whose capture would \"basically cut IS off'' from western approaches to Raqqa city.\nThe US allies, the Syrian Democratic Forces, said their fighters had seized four villages south of the Euphrates. The aim was both to capture Tabqa and to curb advances by Syrian government advances in the area.\nThe use of a US-provided airlift and fire support to facilitate an operation by its Syrian allies marks a small but significant stepping up of Washington's military role on the ground in Syria.\nSo far President Trump has sought to reinforce the previous administration's approach on Syria - putting in artillery and more troops on the ground and expanding what US forces can actually do.\nUS advisers, for example, are now much closer to the frontline and better able to help co-ordinate operations. It's still not clear what the full extent of US involvement in the Tabqa dam assault may be.\nBut news of the mission comes on the day that the Trump administration is setting out its approach to countering and destroying IS - the clear implication being that Mr Trump plans to do more.\nMeanwhile, Mr Tillerson told the coalition that the US was \"ready to grow stronger and stay aggressive in this battle\" against so-called Islamic State.\nIt was the \"policy of the US to demolish and destroy this barbaric terrorist organisation\", he said.\nMr Tillerson told the summit that the coalition should be encouraged by the progress it was making.\nHe said the flow of foreign fighters into Syria and Iraq was down by 90% over the past year.\n\"It is harder for terrorists to get in and more importantly harder for them to get out to threaten our homelands,\" Mr Tillerson said.\nUnravelling the Syrian puzzle\nInside 'Islamic State': A Raqqa diary\nIslamic State group: The full story\nHe said that \"nearly all\" of the deputies of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were now dead.\n\"It is only a matter of time before Baghdadi himself meets this same fate,\" Mr Tillerson said.\nMr Tillerson admitted that \"a more defined course of action in Syria is still coming together\" but he spoke of working to \"establish interim zones of stability, through ceasefires, to allow refugees to return home\".\nThe BBC's Barbara Plett Usher, in Washington, says the secretary of state did not specify whether that would mean safe zones protected by coalition forces.\nMr Tillerson also told the summit: \"The United States will do its part, but the circumstances on the ground require more from all of you.\n\"I ask each country to examine how it can best support these vital stabilisation efforts.\"\nSeparately, at least 33 people were killed in an air strike on a school in a village west of Raqqa on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.\nIt believed the raid was carried out US-led coalition jets. The coalition has made no immediate comment.\nIt did say there had been 19 air strikes near Raqqa on Monday, including three that destroyed IS \"headquarters\", and that there were another 18 on Tuesday.", "summary": "US forces are helping coalition allies in a new assault on a key area in the IS stronghold of Raqqa province in Syria, the Pentagon has confirmed." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Liz Saville Roberts used her 22 years' work \"as a teacher, college director and local authority education leader\" to highlight the importance of education.\n\"Plaid Cymru is committed to public services for all,\" she said. \"The reason we will oppose the [Education and Adoption] Bill if there is a vote, even though education is a devolved matter, is that the growing privatisation by stealth of education in England through the increased number of academies has implications for the funding of Wales via the Barnett formula.\"*\nHer speech also focused on the challenges of the rural economy. The Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP said that although unemployment in her constituency was only 1.7%, more than 50% of those in work earned less than the living wage.\n\"Education gives our young people a ticket to hope and a career, but the lack of decent salaries and affordable housing closes the door on their return. Work and the means to buy a home are essential.\n\"Rural hinterlands are at risk of becoming a low-income combination of conservation museum and adventure playground, to be serviced by the locals on the minimum wage and enjoyed by those who have made their money elsewhere.\"\nIn keeping with the traditions of maiden speeches, Ms Roberts talked about her constituency - home to \"the greatest mountain of Wales and England, Yr Wyddfa\" - and her predecessor, Elfyn Llwyd.\n\"From my first day here, it has been evident that members and officers of the House alike held him in the highest regard. Elfyn contributed extensively to improving legislation for victims of domestic violence and stalking. He was an advocate of the rights of veteran soldiers.\n\"He will be remembered as a foremost critic of the Iraq war, who called for the impeachment of Tony Blair. That role continued in his scrutiny of the Chilcot inquiry, which, disgracefully, we still await.\"\nYou can read her speech here.\n* I wonder if the Bill would be subject to new restrictions on MPs from outside England under the government's \"English votes for English laws\" plan.", "summary": "Plaid Cymru's newest MP has made her maiden speech in the House of Commons - in a debate on English education." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Sites such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have been inundated with posts seeking to win the hearts and minds of people in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.\nThe Israeli military and the military wing of Hamas, the Islamist movement that dominates Gaza, have employed increasingly sophisticated methods and techniques to try to build their respective support bases.\nSince launching \"Operation Protective Edge\" on 8 July, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has posted dozens of updates each day on its Twitter account, which it says provides \"real-time information and updates\".\nThis seems to serve a number of purposes, from live-blogging events on the ground to telling its side of the story.\nThe IDF provides updates on rocket fire from Gaza and the activity of Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system, with tweets such as: \"BREAKING: Iron Dome just intercepted 7 rockets above Ashkelon\".\nIt also posts what it calls the \"Rocket Counter\", giving the total number of rockets fired since the start of Operation Protective Edge.\nThe English-language Twitter account of Hamas' military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, provides updates on casualties resulting from Israeli air strikes and reports on its own rocket activity, mirroring the IDF's account.\nThe Qassam Brigades operate several Twitter accounts in different languages, including Arabic and Hebrew, some of which have, at times, been suspended.\nUsing the hashtags #GazaUnderAttack, #Gaza, #StopIsrael, and #PrayForGaza, the accounts defend the Qassam Brigades' actions and highlight the plight of Palestinian civilians. In a tweet that appeared to be aimed at the international community, the group said Palestinian casualties were \"not just numbers\".\nBoth sides have increasingly turned to graphics to demonstrate their version of events in numbers and, at times, they have actively engaged with one another in an attempt to disprove a claim.\nIn its tweets, the IDF asks hypothetical \"what if\" questions with accompanying graphics to try to broadcast its message to the international community.\nThe IDF has even created an app, available on its blog, asking people to \"imagine\" if Hamas lived in their country and fired rockets at their hometown.\nIt offers a series of maps that superimposes the Gaza Strip on other countries, including the US or UK, as a way to demonstrate the security threats it faces.\nThe IDF has also referred to popular international events to frame its version of events in the current conflict.\nAhead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup final between Germany and Argentina, the IDF tweeted the number of Hamas rockets fired since the start of the tournament and urged people to \"retweet so that all enjoying #GERvsARG will know\".\nThe use of the football hashtag would have doubtless broadcast this message to a much wider Twitter audience.\nPhilip Howard, professor of communication at Central European University and University of Washington, says Hamas and the IDF both know that they have a wide audience, but that the bulk of their online followers come from overseas.\n\"The most strategically important part of the audience are the journalists who follow their accounts. They know that a well-placed tweet can help spin news coverage,\" he adds.\nHamas has become more sophisticated in its use of social media for two reasons, says Mr Howard.\nThey want to reach out to journalists and leaders in the West and also try to remain engaged with young Palestinian supporters who may no longer see Hamas or the Palestinian Authority \"as their best or only option\", he continues.\nThe IDF and Hamas both post images and videos of the destruction and casualties caused by latest violence.\nHamas tends to post more graphic images on its Twitter feed, including the bloodied corpses of children whom they say were killed in Israeli air strikes. Doubts have been cast over the accuracy of some images that went viral on Twitter under the hashtag #GazaUnderAttack .\nLike Hamas, the IDF is active on several platforms, including the photo-sharing site Flickr. Recent images show Israeli civilians sheltering from rockets launched from Gaza, as well as military personnel.\nVideos and counter videos have also surfaced, aimed at spinning the same events to each side's advantage.\nOne video posted by the IDF on its YouTube account, entitled 15 Seconds: Not Enough Time, compares the time it takes for athletes to run around a track and the time Israeli civilians have to take cover from incoming rocket fire.\nThe video caption reads: \"During a rocket attack, Israelis living near Gaza only have 15 seconds to reach a bomb shelter. Even the world's fastest man wouldn't make it on time.\"\nHamas has meanwhile targeted the Israeli audience for the first time with the release of a music video sung in Hebrew and Arabic, the AFP news agency reports.\nThe video, Shake Israel's Security, shows Hamas militants making, transporting and firing rockets at Israel in a bid to turn Israelis against the government.\nThere are also reports that hackers belonging to Hamas took over control of the Facebook page of Israel's Domino Pizza and published warnings in English, Arabic and Hebrew.\nThe hackers wrote in one Facebook status: \"Today will strike deep in Israel, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Ashkelon, Ashdod more than 2000 rockets. We'll start at 7. Counting back towards the end of Israel…Be warned!\"\nThe IDF has also frequently issued warnings to Gazans online.\nIn one recent tweet, it wrote: \"To warn civilians of an impending strike, the IDF drops leaflets, makes personalized phone calls & sends SMSes. How many militaries do that?\"\nMeanwhile, Hamas officials have offered guidelines on social media use by civilians in Gaza in a video posted online.\nIn it, civilians are told not to publish images of rockets or missiles in central Gaza and to always mention \"innocent civilians\" when writing about casualties.\n\"There is nothing wrong with publishing images of the injured,\" it adds.", "summary": "The latest surge in fighting between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip has seen both sides revive the intense social media battle that was seen during the last Israeli offensive on the coastal territory, \"Operation Pillar of Defence\", in November 2012." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It has been caught up in the current crisis in the industry with cheap Chinese steel and the costs of energy and business rates in the UK making it very difficult to compete.\nIt takes scrap metal and recycles it into steel and it operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\nCelsa's a high energy user, in fact it uses about 40% of Cardiff's energy.\nThe scrap becomes liquid then goes through a cooling process to be made into bars and coil used in construction projects including Vattenfall's Pen y Cymoedd wind development.\nIn January, I went round Celsa's Cardiff site to see it in operation from the scrap arriving to the new steel bars rolling off the line. Safety was paramount throughout the tour.\nSteel production is an inherently dangerous business by its nature and companies go to great lengths to try to ensure safety.\nBut three workers from Celsa were taken to hospital by ambulance suffering from burns last July.\nCelsa UK had sales of almost £500m in the last year and made losses of almost £17m before tax.\nIt contributes more than £105m a year to the Welsh economy and supports about 3,000 jobs indirectly.\nThere has been steelmaking on site since late Victorian times but the current plant dates back 80 years.\nThe one-time GKN operation - including the Castle Works rod mill in East Moors Road - closed in 1978 but was taken over and re-opened by Allied Steel and Wire (ASW) in the early 1980s.\nASW went into receivership in 2002 with 800 job losses, but less than a year later Spanish steel company Celsa came in to re-start the mothballed plant.", "summary": "Celsa is a major employer in Wales with about 1,000 workers, 725 of them at its Cardiff site." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nVan Persie scored two goals along with Arjen Robben, while Stefan de Vrij also netted as Spain were humiliated at Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nBut Van Persie attributed the emphatic win to the tactics of Van Gaal, his new manager at Manchester United.\n\"This is definitely down to him,\" said the 30-year-old.\nSpain, who are also the European champions, were humiliated as the Netherlands came from behind to thrash their opponents.\nVan Persie cancelled out Xabi Alonso's penalty with a sublime header before goals by Bayern Munich's Robben and Feyenoord defender De Vrij made it 3-1.\nTwo goals in the space of eight minutes by Van Persie and Robben completed Spain's embarrassment.\n\"If you see how he prepared us, and how he predicted the game would go, and you see how it went - unbelievable,\" added Van Persie about Van Gaal.\n\"For the whole Netherlands, this is a dream come true.''\nVan Gaal, who will take over at Old Trafford after the tournament, was delighted with his team's win.\n\"The Netherlands were sensational. It should have been seven or eight. Some of the performances - Arjen Robben, Robin van Persie and Daley Blind down that wing, they were absolutely brilliant. I have never seen that Spain back four pulled around as much as they were.\"\nThe 62-year-old returned Van Persie's compliment, praising the striker along with the rest of the side.\n\"With strikers like Van Persie, Robben and Wesley Sneijder behind them, things like this can happen,'' he said.\nVan Gaal's side face Australia next on 18 June in Porto Alegre and the former Barcelona boss urged caution despite getting their campaign off to a flying start.\n\"We don't have anything yet,\" he added. \"We've made a pretty start. If you beat Australia [on Wednesday], then you've made a good start.''\nSpain's experienced goalkeeper Iker Casillas says he was responsible for the reigning champions' disastrous defeat.\n\"I wasn't at the level I needed to be. I have to accept all criticism.\n\"I didn't do things like I should have, especially to start a World Cup,\" said Casillas, who was dispossessed by Van Persie for the fourth goal.", "summary": "Robin van Persie praised Netherlands boss Louis van Gaal for masterminding the team's crushing 5-1 win over reigning world champions Spain." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Community Heritage Access Centre, in Yeovil, holds thousands of items such as coins, glassware, fine art, textiles and archaeological finds.\nEach of them relates to the history and heritage of south Somerset.\nAs well as national recognition for the centre, the accreditation opens up new opportunities for obtaining grants and funding for future projects.", "summary": "A local history collection in Somerset has been awarded full museum accreditation by the Arts Council." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The acrobat also broke her arm and briefly lost consciousness, her mother told a Brisbane radio station.\nSkinner was performing during the Kooza show at Brisbane's Skygate venue.\n\"It will take six to 12 weeks to heal, but her arms and legs work, which is the main thing,\" Anne Skinner said.\nShe was speaking to radio station River 94.9.\nA spokesperson for the Cirque du Soleil show said: \"A Kooza performer, Lisa Skinner, was injured during a performance in Brisbane on Sunday afternoon.\n\"She was transported to a local hospital, where she is receiving the medical care she needs. We are happy to report that Lisa is currently stable and in good condition.\n\"At this time, our priority is on supporting Lisa and her family so they can focus on her recovery. The thoughts and love from the cast and crew of Kooza are with her.\"\nSkinner, who has toured previously with Cirque du Soleil, was a member of the Australian gymnastics team in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics.\nShe won gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.\nSunday's performance was halted while Skinner was taken to hospital but the show later resumed.\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "Cirque du Soleil star and Australian Olympic gymnast Lisa Skinner has been fitted with a head brace after fracturing a vertebra in a fall during an aerial hoop routine." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The petition, which has been signed by over 1,000 people, was delivered to Chief Minister Howard Quayle this week.\nThe MHK said it showed a \"clear desire... to help\", but it was \"not simply a case of opening our doors\".\nThe government had previously stated the island could not provide the \"level of support\" needed to help refugees.\nCampaigners want the Manx government to reconsider taking in refugees through the UK's Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.\nThe scheme has helped around 4,500 of those in the \"greatest need\" resettle in the UK.\nThe petition calls for the new government, which has taken up power since the last decision on refugees was made, to reconsider and take in 25 Syrians by 2020.\nMr Quayle said the Council of Ministers would revisit the \"complex and highly emotive\" issue, but said \"nothing has changed\" in terms of the island's \"constitutional position\".\n\"There is a clear desire within our community to help Syrian people and this is reflected in the number of people who have signed the petition,\" he said.\n\"However, it is not simply a case of opening our doors to accept a relatively small number of refugees - there are many factors to consider.\"\nA government spokesman added that as a Crown Dependency, the Isle of Man \"cannot act on its own and must adhere to UK policy on refugees\".\nSince the outbreak of the conflict in Syria, the Manx government has donated more than £500,000 through the International Development Committee.", "summary": "The Manx government will review its position on Syrian refugees after receiving a petition calling for the island to take its \"fair share\"." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "A man believed to have known the victims was arrested at the house in Dickens Avenue shortly after 19:30 BST on Tuesday.\nKent Police said two people had suffered fatal wounds and two others were taken to hospital.\nNeighbour Rab Hendry told the BBC he helped treat one man, aged in his 20s, who had been stabbed in the stomach.\n\"I saw two lads, I believe they were brothers, and the oldest one said his brother's been stabbed in the stomach.\n\"I got him to the ground and saw the wound was opened right up. I put tea towels on him and put pressure on it until [paramedics] came.\"\nMr Hendry said the \"boy was panicking\" and \"white as a sheet\" so he kept talking to him to try to calm him down.\nAnother resident, who gave his name only as Jamie, said he saw a woman lying in the doorway of the house and what looked like the body of a man further inside.\nHe said police carried out CPR to try to revive them but he understood they had died.\nThe man being held by police was arrested at the scene in Dickens Avenue. Kent Police said it was thought he and the victims knew each other.\nResidents described their shock at the killings taking place in such a \"quiet area\".\nCharlotte Bunn, 83, who lives opposite the house where the killing took place, said people often lived there for \"one or two years then move on\".\n\"I only knew the people who lived there to say hello to when out in the garden or walking in the street. They seem all right. I can't find any fault.\n\"It's a quiet area. All the time I have lived here I have only had trouble once,\" said Ms Bunn.\nAnother neighbour, who did not want to be named, thought the property may have had people placed there by the authorities.\nThe area around the house was cordoned off and serious crime officers were called to the scene.\nExperts in forensic investigation visited the property in Dickens Avenue, with a forensic tent being set up outside the front door.\nKent Police said they were in the process of contacting the next of kin of the victims but formal identification had not yet taken place.\nDetectives are currently trying to \"establish the circumstances\" of the incident, according to a spokesman.", "summary": "Two people have been killed and two others injured in a \"stabbing\" in a house in Canterbury." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Doctors have known for some time that loneliness is bad for the mind. It leads to mental health problems like depression, stress, anxiety, and a lack of confidence.\nBut there's growing evidence that social isolation is connected with an increased risk of physical ill health as well.\nThere are suggestions it can make some diseases both more likely to occur and more likely to be fatal.\nIn 2006, a study of 2,800 women who had breast cancer showed those who saw few friends or family were as much as five times more likely to die of their disease than women with many social contacts.\nResearchers are trying to figure out what loneliness does to the body which can lead to illness and death.\nPsychologists at University of Chicago and Ohio State University have shown that people who are socially isolated develop changes in their immune system, which leads to a condition called chronic inflammation.\nShort term inflammation is necessary for us to heal after a cut or an infection, but if the inflammation persists in the long-term it can contribute towards cardiovascular disease and cancer.\nAt the University of Chicago, scientists found that lonely people find everyday activities more stressful than those who are not socially isolated.\nThey measured levels of cortisol, a hormone that's produced when we are stressed, in a wide range of healthy people in the morning and evening.\nLonely people released more cortisol. The scientists suggest that too much of the hormone causes inflammation and disease.\nThe latest work from Ohio State University looked at levels of inflammation in response to stress in lonely people. Dr Lisa Jaremka compared women who have survived breast cancer with healthy volunteers.\nShe gave the participants a well-known stress test, called the Trier Social Stress Test, in which they had to give an impromptu speech explaining why they were the best candidate for a job, in front of a stony-faced panel.\nThey then had to perform a mental arithmetic task before the same panel.\nLoneliness tests and blood samples showed that in both groups, the lonelier people had higher levels of inflammation.\nDr Jaremka said: \"If you're lonely you can have raised inflammation regardless of having a chronic medical condition.\n\"It was a struggle for a long time for physicians to recognise the importance of loneliness in health. We now know how important it is to understand patients' social worlds.\"\nThe number of people who are likely to be lonely is rising all over the world. Many of these are elderly, left by themselves after their partners have died or their families have moved away.\nHalf of over 75 year olds in the UK live alone, and one in 10 suffer intense loneliness.\nDr Jaremka said: \"Being lonely means not feeling connected or cared for, it's not about being physically alone.\n\"We need to find ways to help lonely people. Unfortunately we can't tell anyone to go out and find someone to love you. We need to create support networks.\"", "summary": "Loneliness is thought to be rising around the world and how often you see friends and family could have a significant effect on health." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Exeter Crown Court heard Chay Roberts-Jones, of Preston Street, \"accidentally hit\" one girl \"somewhere around the chest\" during a camping trip.\nThe 29-year-old denies three counts of sexual assault.\nHe was suspended from Blundells School in Tiverton in 2014 over the allegations.\nThe prosecution alleges Mr Roberts-Jones ran his fingers over the 16-year-old girl's breasts during the camping trip.\nFrederick Morris told the jury he was on the trip and said the girl was wearing a zip-up onesie, which she opened herself to reveal a t-shirt.\n\"There was a conversation and Mr Roberts-Jones was telling a story,\" he said.\n\"He was in the middle of a circle and as he turned around during the story he accidentally hit the girl.\n\"It was completely by accident and he apologised straight away.\"\nMr Morris said Mr Roberts-Jones \"hit her somewhere around the chest\" and \"apologised and nothing was made of it\".\nThe court heard he was living in a cottage in the school grounds and was engaged to a female teaching assistant at the time the alleged offences took place in 2011, 2013 and 2014.\nThe trial continues.", "summary": "A public school teacher accused of sexually assaulting three teenagers touched one girl's breasts by accident, a jury has been told." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment and the Department of Health and Social Services would get more money next year under the proposals.\nThe biggest losers would be the Departments of Culture, Arts and Leisure; Employment and Learning; and Environment.\nEach is facing budget reductions of almost 13%.\nEmployment Minister Stephen Farry said the impact of the proposed cut to his department would be \"severe\".\nHe said it would amount to a \"four figure reduction\" in places in each of the Northern Ireland universities under the current proposals and \"many thousands of places being lost within further education\".\n\"It will seriously limit our ability to invest in skills, that is the key driver of the transformation of our economy,\" he added.\n\"We will see cuts in the number of university places, we will see reductions in terms of what we can offer through further education.\n\"That will mean restricted life opportunities for young people.\"\nMr Hamilton has said next year's budget is \"the most challenging task this executive has ever faced\".\nHe has suggested the Department of Health receives an additional £200m for front line services. However, other areas within the department's responsibilities, such as the Fire Service, would be subject to cuts.\nSinn Féin has said it will have further discussions on the budget paper circulated by the finance minister.\nThe paper includes proposals to reduce the size of the public sector wage bill, through a voluntary redundancy scheme and \"pay constraint\".\nOverall, the budget, if agreed by Sinn Féin, would see the health budget increase by 3% and the enterprise budget by 5%.\nHowever, education would see a 1% cut.\nOn Monday, Mr Hamilton said he felt education should no longer be protected from cuts.\nIf next year's draft budget is not agreed by Friday, Stormont will lose out on a £100m loan from the Treasury.\nSinn Féin said the executive is facing \"very difficult decisions\".\nA spokesman for the party said \"the Tory cuts to public services\" were an \"ideologically driven assault on the welfare state\" and were at the heart of the financial crisis the Northern Ireland Executive is facing.\nHowever, despite the reduced funding, he said the party would continue to work to reach an agreement on a budget \"which defends core public services, particularly health and education\".\nEarlier, Mr Hamilton said he believed the education budget could no longer be protected from cuts.\nThe education ministry is held by Sinn Féin, but ,so far, the party has given no indication it is prepared to accept the proposals contained in Mr Hamilton's paper.\nWithout agreement between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party the budget could not be passed.\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has said the job of resolving budget questions would be taken from the Stormont parties, unless they agree a draft budget by the end of the month.\nMs Villiers said that while there was some flexibility in the process of consultation, it was crucial the parties stuck to the timetable.", "summary": "Northern Ireland Finance Minister Simon Hamilton has proposed cuts of up to £872m in his draft budget paper." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Newcastle Falcons player Rob Hawkins has completed his first shift as a volunteer officer for Northumbria Police.\nThe 32-year-old hooker, who previously played for Bath and Leicester Tigers, said he is considering a career in the force when he retires from rugby.\nNorthumbria Police said they hope he will inspire others to volunteer.\nCh Insp Sarah Pitt, said: \"We're really pleased that Rob has joined us as a special constable and we hope it encourages other people to think about getting involved.\n\"Our volunteers are a vital link between us and the communities we serve and we welcome the different skills they bring from their own professions.\"\n85\nAppearances for Bath Rugby, Leicester Tigers and Newcastle Falcons\n5ft 11 in (1.8m) tall\n15.7 stone (100kg) weight\n32 Years old\n2 Trophies won, the Aviva Premiership in 2011 and LV= Cup in 2012\nSC Hawkins said: \"I'm probably in my twilight years with my rugby career, so I'm starting to think heavily about the transition into the real world and I've always been interested in the police.\n\"Whilst I've got the opportunity to give it a whirl as a volunteer I decided to try it.\n\"I've played in front of 80,000 people before but I don't think I was as nervous then as I was starting my first shift.\n\"I've been getting a bit of a ribbing. I'm not looking forward to seeing a few of the boys in town when they've had a couple of jars as I'm sure they will probably try to steal my hat and other pranks, but I've told them they'll be in trouble.\"", "summary": "A professional rugby player will try to tackle crime in his new role as a special constable." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The EU says the sanctions, targeting more Russian individuals, will come in on Monday but could be later suspended if Russia withdraws troops from eastern Ukraine and observes a current truce.\nFriday's ceasefire appears to be largely holding - but there were reports of shootings by both sides.\nSome 2,600 people have died since a pro-Russian rebellion began in April.\nThe Russian foreign ministry said in a statement: \"As for the new list of sanctions from the European Union, if they are passed, there will undoubtedly be a reaction from our side.\"\nThe fresh sanctions would add another 24 people to the list of people barred from entering the EU and whose assets have been frozen.\nAmong them would be the rebel leadership in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, officials in Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in March, and Russian \"decision-makers and oligarchs\", European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said in a statement.\nAnalysis: BBC business correspondent Theo Leggett\nThe new sanctions are intended to ramp up economic pressure on Russia. They are designed to make it much harder for state-owned energy and defence companies to borrow money on European financial markets, building on existing measures which target Russian banks.\nA ban on selling so-called dual use goods, such as machinery or computing equipment which can be used for both civilian and military purposes is to be extended, while a further 24 people will be added to a list of individuals who are banned from travel within Europe and whose assets in the region are frozen.\nThe Russian foreign ministry said the EU was \"practically sending a signal of direct support to the 'party of war' in Kiev\".\nIts statement added: \"Instead of feverishly searching for ways to hurt the economies of its own countries and Russia, the European Union would do better to work on supporting the economic revival of the Donbas region.\"\nThere were no reports of major fighting in the east overnight.\nHowever, the spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, Andriy Lysenko, said the rebels had fired 10 times on Ukrainian troops since the truce.\nUnconfirmed reports also say a number of fighters from Ukraine's Aydar battalion were ambushed and killed after the ceasefire.\nThe BBC's Richard Galpin in Donetsk said he had not heard any of the heavy artillery barrages that took place before the truce while the BBC's Fergal Keane tweeted from Mariupol, further south, that the ceasefire was holding there.\nA BBC crew that travelled to Donetsk airport on Saturday morning heard a few gunshots and small explosions but residents said the night had been quiet.\nMeanwhile, the rebel leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Aleksandr Zakharchenko, said the truce was \"not being fully observed\".\nUnder the terms of the ceasefire, both sides pledge to withdraw heavy weapons from the eastern battlefields as soon as possible.\nRussia also agreed with Ukraine to restart humanitarian assistance to the eastern region.\nUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the deal was based on a 12-point peace plan that included the release of \"hostages\".\nHe said there should also be talks about a long-term solution to the conflict.\nUkrainian forces had until recently been making gains against the rebels but in the past few weeks the pro-Russian fighters have struck back.\nUkraine and the West reported military columns crossing from the Russian border.\nMeanwhile, Malaysian PM Najib Razak said he wanted to send a search team to eastern Ukraine \"before winter sets in\" to gather evidence about the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.\nA total of 298 people died when the plane came down over eastern Ukraine on 17 July, amid reports it was shot down by pro-Russian rebels.\nMr Najib called it an \"atrocious crime\".", "summary": "Russia has vowed to respond if the European Union imposes new sanctions over the Ukraine crisis." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nRangers, with caretaker Graeme Murty in charge for the last time and new manager Pedro Caixinha in the stand, started the game impressively.\nBut Stuart Armstrong fired Celtic into a first-half lead.\nBoth sides had chances before Hill prodded in with three minutes left to deny Celtic an 18th straight win.\nAnother win would have made it 23 in succession in the league for Brendan Rodgers' side, but Rangers become the first side to deny them victory since Manchester City in a Champions League game in December.\nAnd, with Aberdeen having beaten Motherwell on Saturday, third-placed Rangers are eight points adrift of the Dons, who themselves are 25 behind the champions.\nArmstrong's goal - his 11th of the season - was a combination of resourcefulness and power.\nJason Holt contributed to Celtic's opening, since he clumsily failed to clear with his weaker left foot, but when the ball was worked to Armstrong on the edge of the area, it was not a clear scoring opportunity.\nHe has been dismissing expectations all season though - and, after turning towards goal, he rifled a low, hard shot into the near corner of the net.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nMore illustrious players - Moussa Dembele, Scott Sinclair, Scott Brown - have hogged attention for Celtic this season, but Armstrong has purposefully and, with growing assurance, built a growing reputation.\nRodgers urged him to play at a higher tempo, to understand the need to forage and hustle as well as being accomplished on the ball.\nArmstrong responded and he has become an integral figure for Celtic - and likely a fixture now in the Scotland squad.\nHe might have scored at other moments in the game, with his first-half free-kick tipped on to the upright by the diving Wes Foderingham and the goalkeeper pushing away two fiercely struck efforts after the break.\nThe visitors did not have an individual player to match the calibre of Celtic's various potential match-winners - and the Rangers bench contained only one player, Josh Windass, who has impressed this season.\nYet their positional discipline and work-rate was designed to limit Celtic and provide the means for Rangers to try to be proactive.\nThe shape was 4-4-1-1 when Rangers were without the ball, as Kenny Miller dropped off the front to close down Nir Bitton, Celtic's holding midfielder.\nJames Tavernier tucked into a central midfield role when Rangers had possession, allowing Miller to join Waghorn and the ineffectual Barrie McKay up front.\nWith passing angles closed down and a disciplined press, Rangers earned a foothold in the game.\nIt also delivered a breakthrough when Miller flicked a high ball on to Waghorn, who was left one-on-one with Gordon.\nThe striker was not clinical enough, though, and the Scotland goalkeeper saved with his legs.\nThe scoreline was 0-0 at the time and there was a key moment after the break also.\nHaving been caught by Gordon as the goalkeeper punched a cross clear, Waghorn was left upfield unmarked as he recovered.\nWhen a counter-attack broke upfield, Waghorn found himself onside and in the penalty area, but Gordon blocked his first-time shot.\nCeltic have been more dominant in games this season, but they would have felt that their command of the scoreline was enough in this game.\nDembele, who was otherwise unusually quiet, almost scored late on, but his left-foot effort flashed across the face of goal.\nThe closing stages, though, were mostly about Rangers pushing and probing for an equaliser.\nThat told of their determination, and Holt caused a flash of alarm for the home side when his curled effort bounced just wide.\nThe pressure eventually paid off, though, when Hill was the first to react after Gordon pushed Hyndman's shot away and the defender turned the ball into the net at the back post.\nThe drama was not over though as, moments later, Leigh Griffiths felt he should have been awarded a penalty under a Hill challenge inside the area and then had a shot headed off the line.\nMatch ends, Celtic 1, Rangers 1.\nSecond Half ends, Celtic 1, Rangers 1.\nAttempt blocked. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\nHand ball by Josh Windass (Rangers).\nMoussa Dembele (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Danny Wilson (Rangers).\nHand ball by Michael O'Halloran (Rangers).\nFoul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).\nJames Tavernier (Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nGoal! Celtic 1, Rangers 1. Clint Hill (Rangers) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.\nFoul by Scott Brown (Celtic).\nEmerson Hyndman (Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nAttempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.\nSubstitution, Rangers. Michael O'Halloran replaces Martyn Waghorn.\nCraig Gordon (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Harry Forrester (Rangers).\nSubstitution, Rangers. Harry Forrester replaces Jason Holt.\nMikael Lustig (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.\nAttempt missed. Jason Holt (Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.\nAttempt missed. James Tavernier (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.\nScott Brown (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nFoul by Scott Brown (Celtic).\nMartyn Waghorn (Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nSubstitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Stuart Armstrong.\nAttempt saved. Martyn Waghorn (Rangers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\nCorner, Rangers. Conceded by Erik Sviatchenko.\nScott Sinclair (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Lee Hodson (Rangers).\nSubstitution, Celtic. Patrick Roberts replaces James Forrest.\nAttempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.\nFoul by Moussa Dembele (Celtic).\nLee Hodson (Rangers) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Moussa Dembele (Celtic).\nLee Hodson (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nSubstitution, Rangers. Josh Windass replaces Barrie McKay.\nKieran Tierney (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by James Tavernier (Rangers).\nAttempt saved. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nAttempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nCorner, Celtic. Conceded by Wes Foderingham.", "summary": "Clint Hill's late equaliser denied runaway Scottish Premiership leaders Celtic a fourth victory of the season over city rivals Rangers." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Ahmed al-Gizawi was convicted of drug trafficking by a court in Jeddah, in a case which sparked a diplomatic row between the two countries.\nMr Gizawi was arrested in April with more than 20,000 anti-anxiety drugs, which are banned in Saudi Arabia.\nEgyptians protested at his arrest, and the Saudis recalled their ambassador.\nThe fallout was the worst between the two countries since Saudi Arabia severed ties when Egypt signed a peace deal with Israel in 1979. The two powers restored relations in 1987.\nAnother Egyptian who was arrested in connection with the same case was sentenced to four years in prison and 400 lashes, and a Saudi national jailed for two years and sentenced to 100 lashes, AFP news agency reports.\nEgyptian activists say Mr Gizawi was held after lodging a complaint against Saudi Arabia for its treatment of Egyptians in its prisons.\nHis family said he had gone to perform a pilgrimage.\nBut Saudi authorities doubted this account, saying Mr Gizawi was not wearing white pilgrims' clothes when he was arrested.\nHe was detained at Jeddah Airport after officials found the anti-anxiety medication Xanax in his luggage.\n\"These verdicts are lenient\" given the defendants' \"good morals... and the lack of judicial precedents\" the judge at the hearing said, according to AFP.", "summary": "An Egyptian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to five years in jail and 300 lashes by a court in Saudi Arabia, his former lawyer says." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Argentine forward curled home both of his goals before the break, the first from an angle inside the box and the second from a central position on the edge.\nJuve turned a dominant lead into one that should see them go on and win the tie when Giorgio Chiellini showed strength and guile to steer home a header from a corner.\nFor the second European round running, Barca - who were as defensively suspect as they were in losing 4-0 to Paris St-Germain in the first leg of their last-16 tie - must come back from a heavy away defeat to progress.\nHowever, after their record-breaking achievement to overturn that deficit against PSG, they will retain hope heading into the return leg at the Nou Camp on 19 April.\nThe last time these two sides met in the Champions League was in the 2015 final, when Barcelona secured the trophy courtesy of a 3-1 win.\nThe Italians are a much-changed side, with only goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and defender Leonardo Bonucci starting both the game in Berlin and Tuesday's in Turin, but they played like a side with a score to settle.\nThe opening 20 minutes were a lesson in high-pressing, aggressive play that created a clear headed opening for Gonzalo Higuain to spurn before paying off through Dybala's two strikes.\nThe remaining 70 minutes saw Juve retain a high work-rate but with the luxury of strategically selecting their moments to counter attack.\nThis approach twice set up Higuain for shots that were saved by Marc-Andre ter Stegen before more lax defending - this time from Javier Mascherano, who had been moved to centre-back from midfield at half-time - allowed Chiellini to head home from a corner.\nThe win means Juve, who have won their last 32 Serie A home games, are now undefeated in 18 European games in Turin.\nWith the second-best defence of any side in Europe's top-five leagues and having gone 441 Champions League minutes without conceding, the Italians are well-equipped to avoid wilting under second-leg pressure in Spain.\nBarcelona's heroics in the return leg against PSG papered over the cracks of what was a truly terrible first-leg display in the French capital.\nAfter another heavy away defeat - their third in four Champions League games on the road and a second in succession after Saturday's La Liga loss at Malaga - there is no escaping the feeling that this is a team in decline.\nThey are often shambolic at the back, with Samuel Umtiti and Jeremy Mathieu error-prone and Mascherano a fading force.\nAndres Iniesta is a class act in midfield and the attacking unit of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar is unrivalled in Europe, but only the talismanic Messi proved a threat in Turin.\nHe had a goal rightly ruled out for offside, curled a shot just past the post, laid on a defence-splitting pass for Suarez to shoot wide and another to send Iniesta clear only to see Buffon superbly claw his shot past the post.\nBuffon's instinctive save not only denied Barcelona a vital away goal, but came just 76 seconds before Dybala made it 2-0.\nLuis Enrique's side have come back from a seemingly inevitable exit once in this season's Champions League. They will need all 11 players at the very top of their game if they are to have any chance of repeating the feat.\nJuventus coach Massimiliano Allegri: \"I want to congratulate the lads because, as a team, they did great.\n\"It isn't easy overcoming a team like Barcelona, but we also dug deep to keep a clean sheet. That was fundamental for us.\n\"But we have to remain humble, keep our heads down and keep working. PSG scored four, and look what happened.\n\"In Barcelona, it will be different and we have to try and score a goal.\"\nBarcelona coach Luis Enrique: \"We basically gifted two goals to Juventus in the opening half. As coach, for me it's inexplicable how they were so much better than us.\n\"It's like a nightmare. We've had very little luck of late, and now I can only hope that from tomorrow we get back on our feet.\n\"In the first half the players were determined, but we made the same mistakes from Paris, and that's a problem. Our second half was much better. But I still have the opening half in my head, like a nightmare.\n\"Maybe it wasn't [a repeat of] Paris, but it was like the third half from Paris.\n\"I'm an optimistic person. But I take responsibility for this. I'm the coach and the buck stops at me.\n\"If we play as well as we can, we can score four goals against anyone.\"\nBarcelona host Real Sociedad in La Liga on Saturday before the home leg with Juve. The Italian side travel to Pescara this Saturday and then to Spain four days later.\nMatch ends, Juventus 3, Barcelona 0.\nSecond Half ends, Juventus 3, Barcelona 0.\nAttempt saved. Sergi Roberto (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Neymar with a cross.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) because of an injury.\nIvan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Alex Sandro (Juventus).\nHand ball by Neymar (Barcelona).\nAttempt blocked. Dani Alves (Juventus) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gonzalo Higuaín.\nMario Lemina (Juventus) is shown the yellow card.\nSamuel Umtiti (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card.\nFoul by André Gomes (Barcelona).\nDani Alves (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nSubstitution, Juventus. Andrea Barzagli replaces Miralem Pjanic.\nIvan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Mario Mandzukic (Juventus).\nAttempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Javier Mascherano.\nCorner, Barcelona. Conceded by Giorgio Chiellini.\nAttempt blocked. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\nLionel Messi (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Tomás Rincón (Juventus).\nFoul by Neymar (Barcelona).\nDani Alves (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Lionel Messi (Barcelona).\nAlex Sandro (Juventus) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nCorner, Juventus. Conceded by Sergi Roberto.\nSubstitution, Juventus. Tomás Rincón replaces Paulo Dybala.\nCorner, Barcelona. Conceded by Alex Sandro.\nFoul by Gerard Piqué (Barcelona).\nGiorgio Chiellini (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nCorner, Barcelona. Conceded by Giorgio Chiellini.\nAttempt missed. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Sergi Roberto.\nSami Khedira (Juventus) is shown the yellow card.\nSami Khedira (Juventus) has gone down, but that's a dive.\nSubstitution, Juventus. Mario Lemina replaces Juan Cuadrado.\nOffside, Juventus. Miralem Pjanic tries a through ball, but Sami Khedira is caught offside.\nFoul by André Gomes (Barcelona).\nGonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nDelay over. They are ready to continue.\nDelay in match Juan Cuadrado (Juventus) because of an injury.", "summary": "Paulo Dybala scored twice as Juventus took charge of their Champions League quarter-final tie with Barcelona courtesy of a commanding home-leg display in Turin." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Westminster City Council told developer CTLX, which owns Carlton Tavern, it must rebuild the pub \"brick by brick\", after it was unexpectedly demolished.\nCTLX had refused to do this and appealed the council's decision.\nBut a five-day inquiry by the Planning Inspectorate found in favour of the council.\nWestminster councillor Robert Davis said he was looking forward to the Carlton Tavern being turned back into a \"thriving community pub\".\n\"This sends a clear message to developers across the country that they cannot ride roughshod over the views of local communities,\" he said.\nThe Carlton Tavern was demolished in April 2015, in breach of planning laws and in spite of the fact it was being considered for Grade II listing.\nThe council was given no prior warning of the demolition, which was not approved, and was done without proper health and safety procedures in place.\nThe Planning Inspector agreed that it was \"highly likely that it would have been listed had it not been demolished\", calling it a \"rare public house\", with \"considerable importance for the community\".\nHistoric England said they \"intended to recommend the site for listing\" because it was \"remarkably well-preserved\" from its interwar days.\nWestminster council had rejected an application for redevelopment on the site in January of the same year, which was also upheld by the inspector.", "summary": "Developers who knocked down a 1920s west London pub shortly before it was to be given listed status must rebuild it, an inquiry has ruled." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Vocalink is being bought by America's Mastercard for up to £869m.\nThe company controls Link, the country's network of ATM machines, as well as Bacs, the automated clearing house which processes direct debits.\nIt comes after Japanese firm Softbank said it had made a £24.3bn offer for Cambridge chip designer Arm Holdings.\nThe proposed deal from telecoms giant Softbank sparked concerns that British companies were now takeover targets following the post-Brexit slump in the pound to a 31-year low.\nVocalink is owned by a number of major banks including Barclays, Lloyds and HSBC and chaired by the Bank of England's former deputy governor Sir John Gieve.\nA Vocalink spokesperson said the payment technology system operator had been in talks with Mastercard for eight months.\nShe denied it was an opportunistic move because of the falling value of sterling.\nThe new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, said the Vocalink deal \"shows that Britain remains an attractive destination for international investors\".\nEarlier this year, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) recommended that the banks should loosen their grip on the country's payment systems because their ownership was hampering competition and innovation.\nMr Hammond said: \"The Payment Systems Regulator recommended the UK's biggest banks sell their stakes in Vocalink to improve banking competition in the UK which will deliver clear benefits for challenger banks, fintechs (financial technology companies), UK consumers and small businesses.\"\nMastercard is buying 92.4% of Vocalink and the remaining stake will be held by the banks for at least three years.\nMastercard will pay £700m and an additional payment of up to £169m, depending on whether certain performance targets are met. Vocalink's spokesperson declined to detail what the targets were.\nShe added that it had been in touch with the Treasury, the Bank of England and the PSR about the deal.", "summary": "The business that controls Britain's cash points has been sold, in the second major UK company takeover by an overseas buyer this week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The BBC cancelled the show in December due to poor ratings, but Amazon has now commissioned a third season for its Prime Instant Video service - formerly known as Lovefilm Instant.\nThe show will premiere on Amazon and screen on the BBC a few months later.\nAmazon has also acquired the UK subscription streaming rights of the first two series of the show.\nThe BBC will continue to make a contribution to production costs of the new season, while other broadcast partners - including BBC America and the Irish Film Board - will remain on board as part of the new arrangement.\nFilming on the new series - which will continue to be produced by Tiger Aspect and Lookout Point - will begin in May.\nA date for its premiere on Amazon Prime has yet to be determined.\nThe programme's makers said the third series would go ahead as originally planned with eight episodes, the same budget and \"slightly more bells and whistles\" than the previous two series.\nThe existing principal cast - including Matthew Macfayden and Jerome Flynn - will return to the show's purpose-built set in Dublin, with some filming in the UK for the first time.\nMacfadyen, who plays Det Insp Edmund Reid in the drama, said he was \"delighted\" Ripper Street had been saved.\n\"We all thought that it had legs,\" he said. \"We didn't feel like it was petering out.\"\nThe actor joked he was looking forward to wearing his bowler hat again - the defining feature of his character.\nExecutive producer Will Gould said the show's cancellation \"shocked\" him and it felt like \"unfinished work\".\n\"We had more to do, It feels right to be going back. There are stories left to tell,\" he added.\nSeries creator and writer Richard Warlow said the story would pick up four years after the drama's last outing in December, adding he would continue to work with creatives at the BBC on the project.\nHe said there was scope for more series of the drama, set in the sharp-edged streets of 19th Century east London.\n\"It feels that the potential of what I can do is broader than it was,\" added the writer, in reference to the new deal with Amazon.\nBen Stephenson, the BBC's controller of drama commissioning, said: \"This is an exceptional opportunity to bring back Ripper Street for a third series by working with the right partners.\n\"This deal gives fans another series of the show they love at excellent value to the licence fee payer.\"\nSimilar deals of its kind are not expected to follow.\nHowever, Amazon's Tim Leslie said if audiences loved a cancelled show and wanted to bring it back, they would consider it.\nThe first series of Ripper Street, set in Whitechapel following the notorious killings of Jack the Ripper, attracted nearly eight million viewers when it launched in 2012.\nHowever the second series averaged 4.8 million viewers across the eight episodes, struggling to compete against ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! which attracted a series average of 11.1 million viewers.\nThe cancellation triggered a social media campaign to have the drama reinstated.\nResponding to the show's reprieve, the Save Ripper Street team tweeted: \"We #SaveRipperStreet fans may have been little more than a flea in the ear of BBC One in the greater scheme of things. But what a flea!\"\nActress MyAnna Buring, who plays Long Susan, said fan reaction was \"incredibly moving\" in response to the BBC's decision not to recommission the show.\n\"I don't think without that kind of response everyone would have been inspired to create a deal like this,\" she added.", "summary": "Victorian crime drama Ripper Street is to return to screens via Amazon's video on demand service." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "Marie Farrell made the claims in a case where former journalist Ian Bailey is suing the Irish state for wrongful arrest.\nMr Bailey, 57, a former journalist from Manchester, denies any involvement in the killing of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier and was never charged.\nHe moved to Ireland 23 years ago.\nMs Toscan Du Plantier, a 39-year-old film producer, was found beaten to death on a hillside near her remote holiday home in west Cork on 23 December 1996.\nThe court previously heard Ms Farrell claim the police officer asked her to change her description of a man she saw in Schull in the days before the murder of Ms Toscan Du Plantier.\nShe said she was told by Det Garda Jim Fitzgerald that they needed to \"do something to tidy up\" the file for the DPP because the description did not fit.\nOn Wednesday, Ms Farrell said that Det Fitzgerald had called to a house she was cleaning in Schull and she went upstairs.\nShe said when she returned downstairs, he was standing in one of the bedrooms and had stripped naked and asked her for sex.\nShe said that she swore at him and ordered him out of the house.\nShe said the incident with Det Fitzgerald happened in the summer of either 1997 or 1998, but that she did not tell anyone until years later.\nMs Farrell denied telling lies, in exchanges with the counsel for the state.\nShe said she had seen a growth low down on Det Fitzgerald's stomach. \"How would I know that was there if I had not seen him naked?\"\nMs Farrell said she had only told her husband about this and then told a solicitor about it in recent weeks. She said she did not want to tell anyone about it.\nThe senior counsel for the state said Ms Farrell was \"no shrinking violet when it came to making allegations of extraordinary lewd behaviour by gardaí [police]\".\nHe said the incident would be denied by Det Fitzgerald as would another incident she referred to last week involving an encounter with Det Sgt Maurice Walsh in the toilets of a golf club.\nMs Farrell claimed Det Sgt Walsh exposed himself to her and said he was turned on by fitting up Mr Bailey.\nThe case continues.", "summary": "A witness has told the High Court in Dublin that a police officer stripped naked in a house in Schull, County Cork, and asked her for sex." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "At 36, Venus is the oldest quarter-finalist in the ladies' singles at SW19 for 22 years, while Serena, 34, found her form on Monday to reach the last eight.\nThey are in opposite sides of the draw so could only play each other if they were to reach the final.\nHere is what you should not miss on day eight at Wimbledon.\nHer match against Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will be defending champion Serena's third in as many days.\nThere were straight-set wins on Sunday and Monday and the top seed - who hit 43 winners and made just 14 unforced errors in beating Svetlana Kuznetsova in the last 16 - will be confident of more of the same on Tuesday.\nSix-time champion Williams has beaten Russia's Pavlyuchenkova, the world number 23, in all five of their previous encounters and finished her match against two-time Grand Slam champion Kuznetsova in style, winning nine games on the trot.\nThe world number one, in her 12th Wimbledon quarter-final, will take on Pavlyuchenkova on Centre Court at about 15:00 BST.\nAt 3-0 down in the first set against Carla Suarez Navarro, Venus looked in trouble but the five-time champion dug deep to win in straight sets, reaching the last eight for the first time since 2010.\nIn beating Spain's Suarez Navarro Venus, at 36, also becomes the oldest quarter-finalist in the ladies' singles at Wimbledon for 22 years.\nBlocking the eighth seed's path to the semi-finals is Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan - a player 88 places below her in the world rankings and one whom she has never played before.\nWhen it was put to her that some people would not expect her to be at this stage at Wimbledon, Venus said: \"I think the toughest critic is always yourself in any case. If anyone's hard on me, I'm harder than anyone out there.\n\"But I don't really care. How about that? I have a job to do on the court. There are very few people that can get out here and play at this level.\"\nWilliams and Shvedova start the day on Court One at 13:00 BST.\nDominika Cibulkova thrilled court three on Monday as she beat 2012 finalist Agnieszka Radwanska 6-3 5-7 9-7 in a brilliant duel which lasted three hours.\nHas the 19th seed enough left in the tank to overcome Russia's Elena Vesnina?\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nShould the Slovakian win she will have to postpone her wedding, which is due to take place the day of the Wimbledon final.\n\"If I would win then we will change it,\" said the 27-year-old, who is due to marry her fiance, Michal Navara, in Bratislava.\nCibulkova's wedding guests will be watching closely when she takes on Vesnina on Court One at about 15:00 BST.\nAustralian Open champion Angelique Kerber should be fresh after needing just 64 minutes to see off Japan's Misaki Doi 6-3 6-1 in the last 16.\nGermany's Kerber, the fourth seed, has already won a Grand Slam this year, but has only beaten her last-eight opponent Simona Halep once in four attempts. The pair kick off proceedings on Centre Court at 13:00 BST.\nLindsay Davenport, the 1999 Wimbledon champion, believes Pavlyuchenkova will be up against it on Tuesday.\n\"If you had asked Serena before the tournament that to get to a Wimbledon final she'd have to beat Pavlyuchenkova, and then either Cibulkova or Vesnina, she would have said 'sign me up',\" the American told BBC Sport.\n\"She knows she still has to play the matches but if you look at those players, and Serena's game on grass, they don't add up.\n\"Pavlyuchenkova doesn't move well enough to be able to get any balls back. You have to play a nice mix of offence and defence against Serena and defence is Pavlyuchenkova's biggest weakness.\n\"Simona Halep versus Angelique Kerber will be an amazing match. Neither one may be that comfortable on grass but they both play streetfighter tennis. Both get a lot of balls back into play and move well.\n\"Serve isn't a weapon for either player so both will have to work hard. Halep had to work much harder on Monday in beating Madison Keys, while Kerber spent an hour in her match. We'll see if that is a factor.\"\nYou can now add tennis alerts in the BBC Sport app - simply head to the menu and My Alerts section", "summary": "Sisters Venus and Serena Williams have once again proven that age is no barrier as the pair remain the headline acts in the women's game, especially at Wimbledon on women's quarter-finals day." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The LCR Honda rider, 31, crashed at Turn 10 during Saturday's practice session because of oil on the track.\nCrutchlow said he was advised by MotoGP medical director Angel Charte to pull out of the qualifying session.\n\"I am a racer and I want to race,\" said the Briton after earning his grid place for Sunday's race in Brno.\n\"I respect Dr Charte and all the doctors in the clinic a lot, but the decision was mine and that's why they got angry.\n\"Now I have to go back to the hospital because they saw there was something [wrong] with the vertebrae.\"\nCrutchlow went for further examinations after qualifying, but the hospital checks did not reveal any significant injury and he is expected to be fit to race on Sunday.\nMeanwhile Honda's world championship leader Marc Marquez will start on pole for the fourth time this season.\nThe three-time world MotoGP champion finished ahead of Italian veteran Valentino Rossi, of Yamaha, and Spain's Dani Pedrosa, of Honda.", "summary": "Cal Crutchlow says he defied medical advice to qualify fifth at MotoGP's Czech round amid concerns he had suffered a back injury in a crash." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "It comes after a two-year-old girl was left for dead after being run over by a van - and then ignored by 18 passers-by.\nShe is currently in hospital fighting for her life.\nThe law might never be enacted - but even discussing such a measure shows the level of anger generated in China by this case.\nThe fallout from this incident, which happened in the city of Foshan in southern Guangdong Province, continues.\nProvincial groups from the ruling Communist Party, government departments and associations are talking about a new law.\nThis could make it illegal for people to ignore those in need of help.\n\"Many laws, including forbidding drunken driving, in China have been passed after high-profile individual cases,\" said lawyer Zhu Yongping, according to a report in the English-language China Daily.\nOther media outlets report that the introduction of a law will be debated at a meeting of lawyers next month.\nInitial online polls, though, suggest most people are against it.\n\"Talk about being civilised first. Is anyone paying attention to that?\" read one posting.\nOrganisations in Guangdong are also looking at other ways to encourage people to act with compassion when faced with an emergency.\nThe provincial government's political and legal affairs committee is using its micro-blog site to gather opinions about how to \"guide brave acts for just causes\" and promote \"socialist morals\".\nThis debate has been sparked by an accident last week involving the toddler Wang Yue.\nShe was knocked down by a van while wandering through a market, where her parents run a shop. The driver sped off without checking on the girl's condition.\nOver the following minutes, 18 people went past the bleeding toddler - and another van ran over her legs - but no one stopped to help.\nIt was all recorded by a surveillance camera, with the distressing footage shown on television.\nThere have been millions of internet comments about how to encourage good Samaritans - and many more expressing outrage that so many people refused to help.", "summary": "A Chinese province is debating the introduction of a law to force people to help others in obvious distress." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "His name is John McFarlane, the man who took over as chairman of Barclays earlier this year and, from 17 July, will also be the bank's chief executive.\nMr McFarlane will ostensibly use his position to lead the hunt for a new chief executive following the defenestration of Antony Jenkins - also known as \"The Saint\".\nBut, make no mistake, Mr McFarlane will use his lofty position to take a long hard look at the structures at Barclays and see where he can cut costs and make the bank run more efficiently.\nIt was exactly what he did in his previous role as chairman of Aviva, where Andrew Moss, the chief executive, soon found himself surplus to requirements.\nFor Barclays, the gimlet eye of Mr McFarlane could mean more job losses and more branch closures.\n\"Yes, of course that is happening right across the industry and that's quite natural,\" he told me.\n\"Of course automation and use of mobile technology is bringing that to bear anyway.\n\"Inevitably over the medium term banks are going to have [fewer] branches than they have now because people are just not using them to the extent they used to. They are exponentially using other means.\"\nAnd anyone sitting in what might be described as a \"cumbersome\" management role better watch out as well.\nWhen I spoke to Mr McFarlane earlier this morning, he was clear where the problems lay.\n\"Barclays is not efficient, we are not productive, we are cumbersome,\" he told me.\n\"We have [a] very large bureaucracy and personal accountability is not as high as we need it to be.\n\"And so it's not just a reduction in costs, it's a change in the way we do things that's required here.\"\nClearly, although Mr McFarlane insists the strategy remains the same for Barclays, there could be some major structural changes.\nThe board appears to have come to the conclusion that Mr Jenkins, the \"safe pair of hands\" after the trials and tribulations of the Bob Diamond era, was not the man for the next stage of Barclays' development.\n\"His skill set was suited to what we needed to get done and he did that superbly well,\" Mr McFarlane said of Mr Jenkins who settled the bank down, attempted to change the hard-ball culture and started reining in the investment bank during his three years in charge.\n\"He is a tremendously successful retail banker. That has been his strength and in the values creation.\n\"What we really need is profit improvement and returns improvement and that is a different skill.\"\nI asked, pretty bluntly, if Mr Jenkins was fired.\n\"Yes, he was definitely asked to leave and it was a board decision, fully endorsed by me.\n\"I was approached by the senior independent director, who convened a session of the non-execs, who came to me and said 'I think we need new leadership and we need it quickly, would you prepared to step in?'.\n\"I considered it and endorsed thoroughly what had happened. There had been some rumbling over this for some weeks in the non-executive camp and so we brought it to a head and we made a decision.\"\nI am told that Sir Mike Rake, the deputy chairman of Barclays, led the delegation which spoke to Mr McFarlane about their concerns.\nSir Mike has always been more positive than Mr Jenkins about the role of the investment bank in Barclays' future. He was, after all, a close colleague and friend of Mr Diamond who revamped the bank's investment arm.\nI asked Mr McFarlane if the global investment bank would now grow.\n\"None of the investment banks are producing superior returns at the moment,\" he said.\n\"It's a very difficult marketplace, everyone is tightening their belts and so that is in parallel with us.\n\"When you look at where we are in investment banking - we're very strong in Europe and in North America and we have satellites elsewhere to feed that.\n\"So I would not use the word global, I would use the word international. We are very committed to that.\n\"We are pro investment banking.\n\"But having been through this over four decades, this area can be quite volatile, you don't want it to be an unusually large percentage of your profits.\n\"It needs to be balanced. We do want it to grow but we want the other parts of the organisation to grow faster so that proportionately it does not increase as a percentage of the total.\"\nBarclays' era of safety first appears to be over. Expect a bank now rather more aggressive about looking for growth and cutting its own cloth.", "summary": "In terms of power, there is now one man in charge of Barclays." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "He was born in Inverness and grew up in a remote crofter's cottage in the Highlands. He was educated at Lochaber High School - where at 15 he joined the Labour Party - and at Glasgow University.\nA young Mr Kennedy had political ambitions, joining the Dialectic Society, a debating society; becoming president of the union in 1980; and joining the Social Democratic Party (SDP).\nHe became the youngest MP of the time, at the age of 23, when he won the Ross, Cromarty and Skye seat in 1983.\nHe was at the forefront of the calls for a merger with the Liberal Party and negotiated much of the successful deal.\nLater, Mr Kennedy supported Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown's attempts to form an alliance with the Labour Party, based around a shared commitment to electoral reform and Europe.\nBut as soon as he became leader, Mr Kennedy set about uncoupling from Labour.\nHe was elected leader of the party in 1999, aged just 39. He said he wanted to make the Liberal Democrats a party of government, by building its strength on local councils and in the devolved administrations of Scotland and Wales.\nMr Kennedy was a witty figure, more than capable of holding his own on television panel games such as Have I Got News for You. He was even nicknamed \"Chatshow Charlie\".\nHe married public relations executive Sarah Gurling in 2002, with this seen by many in the party as a sign he was \"settling down\".\nHis son Donald was born during the 2005 general election campaign. He took a few days off then returned to the campaign trail with \"a song in my heart and a spring in my step\".\nIn 2005, Mr Kennedy took the deliberate decision to campaign against the war in Iraq when both Tony Blair and Conservative leader Michael Howard were saying it was right to go to war.\nAfter the 2005 election, Mr Kennedy's leadership came under increased criticism from those who felt the party could have surged forward.\nMr Kennedy announced his resignation as party leader in January 2006, two days after admitting he had a drink problem.\nIn his resignation speech he said he did not expect to remain on the Liberal Democrat frontbench team and pledged his loyalty to a new leader \"as a backbencher\".\nDuring the 2015 general election campaign in May, Mr Kennedy was on the campaign trail, here with Jo Swinson, the candidate for East Dunbartonshire.\nHowever, Mr Kennedy lost his Ross, Skye and Lochaber seat - which he had held for 32 years - to the SNP. He described the defeat as \"the night of long skean dhus\".", "summary": "Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has died at his home in Scotland aged 55." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "In the big-screen version of the novel, which arrives in cinemas on Wednesday, the action has moved from London to New York.\nBritish actress Emily Blunt plays alcoholic Rachel, who gets involved in the mystery of a missing woman whom she had been observing from the train on her daily commute to Manhattan.\nSo what did the critics have to say?\nEmily Blunt does her considerable best with this exasperating and plaintive role. In movies from The Devil Wears Prada to Sicario, she has shown that she can look good while being ill or messed up: strong, believable, human, vulnerable. But this part doesn't give her any scope for recovery, for the all-important mastery and survival: she just always looks under the weather. This doesn't give her half the juice and outrageous fun that Rosamund Pike had from Gone Girl. Fans of Paula Hawkins's thriller might find themselves sticking to the book.\nRead the full review.\nErin Cressida Wilson (script) and her director, The Help's Tate Taylor, haven't figured out how to tighten their noose: we cycle flaccidly between the three guys (Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Edgar Ramirez) trying to guess which will claim the gold medal for most thuggish misogynist.\nBlunt's Rachel might be a soused and broken bit of human wreckage, but she's better than all this: there are too many moments when you wish this raddled stalker had simply been allowed to direct her own film.\nRead the full review.\nBeing faithful isn't always a virtue, especially when it comes to adapting a novel as widely read as Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train. You need to add a little something extra.\nDirector Tate Taylor (The Help) has created a very neat (if rather too tidy) domestic thriller, but he hasn't exploited the medium to bring anything fresh to the story, riding instead on the solid track the book provides.\nAn annoying, overblown finale disturbs the balance just as Rachel is beginning to come to terms with the person she has become - or always was. She reckons that, \"I'm not the girl I used to be,\" and it's that particular jigsaw puzzle, made up of Rachel's bad choices and deepest insecurities that, however disturbing at times, draws you along on the winding journey.\nRead the full review.\nTate Taylor's single biggest asset is Blunt. Even though we now know she was pregnant at the time of filming, the actress bears little resemblance to the overweight, puffy-faced Rachel of the book. Nonetheless, she makes a thoroughly convincing drunk, a self-loathing shell of the woman we can just about imagine her once to have been.\nBut you have to care about such a pivotal character in a film, or at least about somebody. Here, just about everyone is either messed up, brutish, smarmy, selfish, over-sexed, or all of the above, so that by the time The Girl On The Train eventually gets to its destination, you wish either that it had taken a different route, or that you hadn't bothered to go along for the ride.\nRead the full review.\nDirector Tate Taylor, who previously adapted Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help into a hit film, brings Hawkins' mystery to life hauntingly with flashbacks and constant shifts back and forward in time. Snobs will probably call The Girl On The Train a popcorn potboiler, but it's a gripping and smart-looking one which keeps us guessing how and why Megan went missing: though Rachel is even more troubled than she initially seems, Megan's husband Scott (The Hobbit's Luke Evans) and psychiatrist Kamal (Zero Dark Thirty's Edgar Ramirez) also have credible motives for wanting rid of her. But the film is driven by Blunt's powerful central performance.\nRead the full review.\nEmily Blunt excels as the broken-down heroine of Paula Hawkins' bestseller: a fragmented thriller soap opera of sex, booze, violence, and post-feminist empathy.\nThe Girl on the Train is sexy, brutal, diary-of-a-mad-housewife trash made with a distinctive creamy classy empathy.\nBlunt, who plays half her scenes looking like she's holding back tears (or maybe screams), is a luminous actress who's been in need of a role that allows her to get past her slight decorousness, and this is that role. It should, at last, elevate her star.\nThe Girl on the Train gets less convincing as it goes along - the climax... is borderline camp - yet the movie has just enough intrigue, and has been made with enough craft, to disguise (for a while) the late-night cable-thriller mechanics it ultimately succumbs to.\nRead the full review.\nA morose, grim and intensely one-dimensional thriller about an alcoholic's struggle to make sense of a close-to-home murder as well as her own mind, this major fall release from Universal can count on a panting public to pack multiplexes upon its October 7 opening. But this train may hit a yellow commercial light sooner than expected down the line.\nThe lone creative element to command coercive interest here is Elfman's score, which employs sonic currents of tonal irregularities, pulsations and mood instigators rather than melodies, typical tension tropes or any of his trademark gambits from the Tim Burton collaborations. He almost makes the film seem good from time to time.\nRead the full review.\nWhile transposing the action from London to New York's outskirts doesn't jar as much as some readers feared, what does distract is Taylor's direction. The biggest sticking point? A key scene set in a tunnel, where repeated use of slow motion feels like an amateurish attempt to replicate the workings of a befuddled mind.\nFortunately, Blunt keeps the film anchored. Playing drunk convincingly is no mean feat, but she cracks it, maintaining our sympathy for a character who has gradually slipped towards becoming a functioning alcoholic. Looking blotchy and unsteady on her feet, she never plays it for laughs but with an air of desperation, as if solving this mystery may be her last chance. But this year's Gone Girl? Not a chance.\nRead the full review.\nA typical thriller in its set-up, the film also has the added depths of Rachel's alcoholism (and the misery that can bring) to tackle, which director Tate Taylor does with unflinching honesty. Although her blackouts are also used as a plot device, there to serve the mystery by positioning her as an unreliable narrator. Still, it's the thriller aspect that most lets the film down, failing to truly engage or offer enough plausible red herrings to send your mind whirring through different theories as to what could have happened. The twists rarely, if ever, have the impact that were intended.\nAt the centre of this is Emily Blunt, who despite the recognisable cast around her, is rarely off screen. She's a fine actress, but obviously miscast here. It's not her fault particularly - she simply fails to adequately escape her star power to believably portray such a damaged character.\nRead the full review.\nBlunt gives Rachel multiple dimensions - we could never view her as just a stewy mess. But the movie's surprise (or perhaps not-so-surprising) twist doesn't serve its lead character well, at best merely justifying her stalkerish behaviour. The revenge she ultimately wreaks is supposed to be grim and sweet, but it comes off more as a plot calculation than something you feel in your gut. For a supposedly dark thriller, The Girl on the Train is just so damn reasonable. Rachel, drunk and sad and fiercely jealous, is allowed to be just a little bit bad. But not nearly bad enough.\nRead the full review.\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "summary": "The Girl on the Train, the film adaptation of Paula Hawkins' best-selling psychological thriller, has received poor reviews ahead of its release this week." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The blaze last Tuesday destroyed gorse, heather and bilberry over 70,000 sq m (753,470 sq ft) - about the size of 10 football pitches.\nThe fire prompted more than 200 calls to Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service and was dealt with by five fire crews.\nA disposable barbecue caused the blaze, the fire service said.\nJon James, environment manager at Cornwall Council, said it was the \"worst time of year\" for the fire to happen with nesting birds, small mammals and reptiles among the casualties.\n\"With the ground being relatively dry at this time of year the fire has burned quite deeply in places and the ground will take many years to recover,\" he said.\nNathaniel Hooton, from the fire service, said the blaze highlighted the dangers of disposable barbecues.\nA 90 ft (27m) granite cross built in 1826 stands at the peak of Carn Brea and a chapel built in 1379 has been converted into a restaurant further down the hill.", "summary": "Land damaged by a massive gorse fire at Carn Brea in Cornwall will take \"many years to recover\", according to local council environment bosses." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The Canadian, Norwegian and Filipino hostages are being held by Abu Sayyaf, Islamist militant separatists who last week beheaded Canadian John Ridsdel.\nIn the video, the hostages say if the demands are not met \"we will be executed like our friend John\".\nAbu Sayyaf has previously demanded a multi-million dollar ransom.\nThe Philippines and Canadian government have said they will not give in to ransom demands. The Philippines has also launched a military operation against the militant group.\nWho are the Abu Sayyaf group?\nCanadian PM's outrage over hostage killing\nMr Ridsdel was kidnapped from a marina near the city of Davao last September along with another Canadian, Robert Hall, his Filipina partner Marites Flor, and Kjartan Sekkingstad, a Norwegian.\nThey were taken to an Abu Sayyaf stronghold of the remote island of Jolo where Mr Ridsdel was killed on 25 April after a ransom deadline passed.\nFounded in 1991, the Islamist terrorist and separatist group Abu Sayyaf is believed to have only a few hundred armed followers but it has managed to survive numerous assaults by the Philippine army, aided by US military trainers.\nSince 2014, when its commanders started swearing allegiance to so-called Islamic State, Abu Sayyaf has intensified its drive to kidnap hostages for multi-million dollar ransoms, mimicking the practices of Islamist terror groups in the Middle East by issuing hostage plea videos with threats of beheading.\nIn the past, one of the most successful, if controversial, hostage mediations was carried out in 2000 by the late Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, when he bought the freedom of six western hostages for a reported million dollars a head.\nThe large sums of money involved both then and since have led to accusations that Abu Sayyaf are really more interested in money than religion but their link to IS, however tenuous, appears to have only increased their fanaticism.\nThe new video, reported on Tuesday by the SITE Intelligence Group which monitors jihadist media, showed the three hostages with six gunmen standing behind them.\nA masked militant warns Canada and the Philippines that the three remaining hostages would be killed \"if you procrastinate once again\".\nMr Hall is shown saying the governments were being ordered to \"meet the demand\" of the kidnappers, without giving further details.\nHe also asked the Philippines government to \"stop shooting at us and trying to kill us. These guys are going to do a good job of that.\"\nMr Sekkingstad says that \"if the demand is not met we will be executed like our friend John was a few days ago\".\nMs Flor is seen pleading with several Philippines officials and candidates in the upcoming national election, saying \"we want to be freed alive\", the AFP news agency reports.\nAbu Sayyaf is a fragmented but violent militant group with its roots in the Islamist separatist insurgency in the southern Philippines. Several of its factions have aligned themselves with the so-called Islamic State.\nIt has repeatedly taken hostages over the years but has often released them in exchange for ransoms.\nOn Sunday, the group released 10 Indonesian sailors they had been holding for five weeks.\nIt is still holding several captives, including a group of eight Malaysians and Indonesians seized from boats and a Dutch birdwatcher taken in 2012.", "summary": "Three hostages being held by militants in the Philippines have appeared in a video pleading for their governments to meet the captors' demands." }, { "dataset": "xsum", "text": "The British number one lost eight consecutive games to drop the second and then the third sets to the inspired 22-year-old Grand Slam debutant.\nBut Murray, 29, used all his experience to seal a 6-2 2-6 4-6 6-2 6-3 win over the world number 164 from France.\nFellow Briton Kyle Edmund lost 6-4 6-4 6-4 to American 15th seed John Isner.\nAljaz Bedene, who plays on Thursday, is the only other British player left in the singles tournaments in Paris.\nMurray was also taken to five sets in the first round by veteran Czech Radek Stepanek.\nThe Scot's inconsistent form has been perplexing considering he beat Novak Djokovic in the Italian Open final in his last match on clay.\nHe now goes on to face 27th seed Ivo Karlovic from Croatia in the third round on Friday.\n\"Mathias was excellent and made me run a lot. He's got a fantastic future for sure.\n\"I led 6-2 2-0 then he started playing unbelievably and I was finding it hard to win points, let alone games. I've played matches like this before and just tried to fight through to the end.\n\"You can't play too many matches like this if you want to go far in this tournament. I hope to win the next one a little bit faster.\"\nMurray told BBC Sport he could not explain his inconsistent form, adding: \"I just lost my way\".\nHe has already been on court for more than seven hours with back-to-back five-set matches across three consecutive days.\nMurray looked in complete control at 2-0 up in the second set, but his game collapsed in spectacular fashion.\nBourgue, who had never played a Tour-level match before this week, broke Murray three times and won six games in a row, including 16 unanswered points, to take the set and level the match.\nThe pattern continued as Murray double-faulted twice and made further unforced errors in the opening game of the next set.\nMurray finally broke Bourgue's eight-game winning run by taking the third game of the set.\nBourgue was also dominant on his own serve, holding to love six times out of seven, as a subdued Murray, having now lost 28 out of the last 32 points, continued to make mistakes.\nThe Frenchman had three break points in the next game but Murray - yet to show any of the passion evident during his tussle with Stepanek - battled back to hold serve.\nBourgue continued to produce an array of winners, including the deftest of drop shots, and secured the set with a stunning backhand down the line to leave Murray facing an almighty battle to stay in the tournament.\nThe Frenchman had three chances to break Murray in the opening game of the fourth but crucially the Scot held on, and celebrated with his trademark roar and a fist-pump.\nAt last Murray broke Bourgue's serve and followed that by holding his own to love, as confidence slowly returned to his game.\nWith Bourgue perhaps struggling with his fitness, Murray started to make his opponent work harder and clinched the set with a break to love to level the match.\nMurray sensed his opportunity and took advantage of some rare errors to break the Frenchman in the fourth game of the decider.\nThe Briton served for the match at 5-1 but failed to close it out before finally sealing victory after three hours and 34 minutes on court.\nBourgue hit more winners (55 to Murray's 46), produced fewer unforced errors (44 to Murray's 45) and won 138 points compared to Murray's tally of 137.\n\"I'd been waiting for this for a long time, that's what I play tennis for. I'm happy even if I lost,\" Bourgue said. \"It will remain a great memory.\"\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller\n\"The tennis played by Mathias Bourgue, who had never even contested a match on the ATP Tour before making his Grand Slam debut in Paris, was remarkable and uplifting. Yet Andy Murray knows he is currently a poor imitation of the man who won the Rome Masters just 10 days ago.\n\"At one stage, Bourgue won 16 points in a row in his run of eight consecutive games. Murray was flat, missing regularly and perplexed at his poor ball striking, but able again to work his way into a position in which he could make his experience and physical superiority tell.\n\"His fighting spirit burns as brightly as ever, but the seven and a quarter hours he has already spent on court could well take its toll. Murray says he is hitting the ball well in practice, but not yet for long enough periods on the match court to justify his pre-tournament billing.\"\nDefending champion Stan Wawrinka, the third-seeded Swiss, went through with a 7-6 (9-7) 6-3 6-4 win over Japan's Taro Daniel.\nWawrinka, 31, found himself in trouble in the first set when he had to save two set points.\nHe dominated the second set but was a break down in the third before finishing with a flourish to secure a third-round meeting with French 30th seed Jeremy Chardy.\nFifth seed Kei Nishikori of Japan coasted into the third round with a 6-3 6-3 6-3 victory over Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov.\nIvo Karlovic, 37, beat Australia's Jordan Thompson 12-10 in the final set to become the oldest man to make the third round since Jimmy Connors in 1991.\nThe 27th seed from Croatia fired 41 aces and 102 winners in a marathon match.\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "summary": "World number two Andy Murray had to fight back to beat wildcard Mathias Bourgue in five sets and secure his place in the French Open third round." } ]